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@esmahan.bsky.social

Politics by day. Calgary, AB.

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Alberta—Always on Team Canada
YouTube video by Alberta NDP Alberta—Always on Team Canada

Greatness isn’t built by breaking apart — it’s built by working together.

We know better than to walk away.
Our place will always be on Team Canada. 🇨🇦

youtu.be/Kr4V2A8-7Zg

13.02.2026 01:00 — 👍 85    🔁 34    💬 1    📌 3

Just so everyone is clear: the valve here releases pressure that would otherwise build on her leadership from within her party.

She would rather lose the country than her own job.

01.02.2026 18:19 — 👍 584    🔁 207    💬 44    📌 11
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Smith says caucus members can sign any petition they want to, including on separation Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says members of her caucus can sign whatever petitions they want to, including one pushing for a referendum on the province’s independence from Canada.

Now we can confirm what we’ve always known: this is a separatist government.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

01.02.2026 19:56 — 👍 315    🔁 122    💬 28    📌 14
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My dad, 85 years old, suffering from the effects of a 2 year struggle with cancer, and chief of surgery at the Chinook Regional Hospital for decades, was moved from an already overcrowded space to an “overcapacity room” while he recovers from a stomach bleed and pneumonia. This is the room. 🧵🧵🧵

31.12.2025 19:51 — 👍 292    🔁 166    💬 5    📌 33

“I will never pander to separatists.”

Ok, I’m in.

The best way to send Danielle Smith packing is to send the NDP to the legislature. And while the best way to do that is to vote them in, they need our support in our time and our $$s to make it happen.

13.11.2025 15:18 — 👍 43    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1

You deserve better. Alberta’s New Democrats are ready.

Naheed Nenshi and Alberta’s New Democrats are fighting for more jobs and more money in your pocket.
Housing you can afford.

The best education system in the world.

Public health care that’s there for you and your family..

Join us. 👊🏽

13.11.2025 16:16 — 👍 25    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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We called Lauren, a high school social studies teacher, to say thank you.
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi We called Lauren, a high school social studies teacher, to say thank you.

Lauren, a high school social studies teacher, is putting it all on the line to demand better from the UCP.

Better classrooms.
Better support.
Better public education.

All for Alberta's kids.

Thank you, Lauren.

youtu.be/9rzo1jQC-VY

12.10.2025 19:26 — 👍 79    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 1

One of the more amazing parts of this interview is when Smith openly conflates Trump's agenda with not only her own, but Poilievre's.

23.03.2025 14:04 — 👍 83    🔁 46    💬 7    📌 5
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Opinion: Paging Danielle Smith: You have a growing crisis to deal with at home Serious allegations from the fired CEO of Alberta Health Services demand a serious response

Oh hey, I missed this one. Gary Mason's latest column on the controversy enveloping Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

14.02.2025 23:17 — 👍 64    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 0
Heritage Minutes: Flags
YouTube video by Historica Canada Heritage Minutes: Flags

American backpackers in Europe have owed him a debt of gratitude ever since.

Happy Flag Day!

15.02.2025 18:01 — 👍 94    🔁 27    💬 5    📌 2

Hunting mushrooms in a snowy forest, with special guest: my dog

14.02.2025 13:43 — 👍 8396    🔁 372    💬 188    📌 20

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

15.02.2025 04:10 — 👍 18077    🔁 5685    💬 478    📌 295
Naheed Nenshi in a Canadian flag shirt holding a Canadian flag in front of a lunar new year display.

Naheed Nenshi in a Canadian flag shirt holding a Canadian flag in front of a lunar new year display.

Happy National Flag Day! 60 years ago we raised our flag for the first time.

This flag stands for a place where everyone is welcome. Regardless of whether your family has been here thousands of years or whether you’ve just arrived, it’s a reminder that you belong here.

15.02.2025 19:59 — 👍 312    🔁 31    💬 2    📌 2
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Four days it took her to say anything. And then she says … she will do nothing. 

Not good enough. Her own office is implicated. The investigation can’t be delivered to the people being investigated. How dumb does she think Albertans are? /1

08.02.2025 18:06 — 👍 923    🔁 338    💬 58    📌 29
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Alberta auditor general probing procurement and contracting processes within health authority | CBC News Alberta’s auditor general has launched an investigation into procurement and contracting processes within the provinces’ health authority to address “concerns or allegations related to contracting and...

Amid new probe & turmoil at Alberta government/AHS, can't get this fact out of my head:
One man serves as CEO of Alberta's hospital super-agency, and he's also its one-man board of directors, and he still has his day job as deputy minister of Alberta Health. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

07.02.2025 00:36 — 👍 175    🔁 85    💬 12    📌 7
AHS CEO and Board were fired after looking into the legality of private contracts
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi AHS CEO and Board were fired after looking into the legality of private contracts

Danielle Smith's government allegedly fired the AHS CEO and the Board after they started looking into the legality of contracts for private surgeries that could enrich companies with strong ties to the UCP government and staff.

They did all of this with YOUR tax dollars.

07.02.2025 00:04 — 👍 644    🔁 281    💬 24    📌 13
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Alberta ousted health services CEO amid probe into medical contracts, document alleges Athana Mentzelopoulos was dismissed two days before a meeting with province’s auditor on her investigation, according to letter

This is shocking.
Stop everything and read this:

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

06.02.2025 04:45 — 👍 658    🔁 244    💬 65    📌 24
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There's sentence after sentence of wow in the latest @carrietait.bsky.social scoop on Danielle Smith and AHS. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

06.02.2025 05:07 — 👍 196    🔁 68    💬 8    📌 5
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Alberta ousted health services CEO amid probe into medical contracts, document alleges Athana Mentzelopoulos was dismissed two days before a meeting with province’s auditor on her investigation, according to letter

SCOOP: Danielle Smith's government fired the head of Alberta Health Services two days before she was to meet with the Auditor-General to discuss her internal investigation into procurement contracts and deals for private surgical facilities. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... #abpoli #ableg

06.02.2025 03:49 — 👍 920    🔁 550    💬 70    📌 86
Braid: NDP Leader Nenshi blasts Smith as a 'showboat' on tariff crisis

Braid: NDP Leader Nenshi blasts Smith as a 'showboat' on tariff crisis

This is absolutely the right word - at a time when Albertans need leadership Smith is too busy doing theatre to work in our interests. #AbLeg

06.02.2025 02:50 — 👍 58    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 1
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Coal Town Hall Join the Conversation on Alberta's 2025 Pre-Budget Priorities The Alberta NDP Caucus MLAs want to hear directly from you about the issues affecting Albertans that needs to be addressed in the 2025 bu...

If you don't want Danielle Smith to sell our mountains and our water to Australian coal billionaires, who will blow their tops off and threaten it with contaminants... then you should go to this:

www.albertasfuture.ca/events/coal-...

05.02.2025 02:12 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

CBC's wall-to-wall coverage of this crisis is another great example of why we should value Canada's public broadcaster

02.02.2025 02:05 — 👍 2463    🔁 491    💬 52    📌 25

As he has said all along, President Trump has issued tariffs that will wreak havoc on the Canadian economy, attacking the single most important trade relationship Canadians have with the world.

These tariffs will have a devastating impact on our jobs, our economy, and our way of life. /1

01.02.2025 20:33 — 👍 328    🔁 96    💬 10    📌 4

This is a shameful day for the province.

We are spending billions on a line that no one will ride, and admitting that their elevated alignment is impossible and never will be built.

29.01.2025 01:22 — 👍 308    🔁 72    💬 9    📌 3
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The citizens of Calgary-Lougheed deserve better.
Let’s get an Alberta NDP MLA elected there in 2027.

#vaccineswork #PublicHealthcare #Science

29.01.2025 00:00 — 👍 75    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 1

Louder this time for the Elon Musk stans at the back. Open your eyes.

25.01.2025 21:29 — 👍 169    🔁 53    💬 27    📌 3
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Rabbithorsing The tools and tactics of modern politics mean saying something once is enough for your opponent to make it look like you say it all the time. Pundits, journalists and voters need to be alert.

Where we explore the campaign practice of blowing up a rival’s opinion into the perception it’s their only priority and all they care about.👇

coreyhogan.substack.com/p/rabbithors...

26.01.2025 00:22 — 👍 31    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1
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Global News | Breaking, Latest News and Video for Canada Globalnews.ca – Watch and read Canada’s Breaking news plus Business, Health, Politics and World News

‘Potentially dangerous’: health experts call Alberta covid report ‘an attempt to rewrite history’ | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1097837...

27.01.2025 01:00 — 👍 187    🔁 73    💬 9    📌 9

The work of securing Canada’s relationship with the United States is critical, as is protecting all of our export industries, including energy and agriculture. The challenge to our economy and our sovereignty is very real. Canada is worth fighting for and it’s time for us all to take up that fight.

13.01.2025 15:09 — 👍 349    🔁 108    💬 17    📌 7