The Alberta and Ontario environment ministers sent a letter to the federal government, asking it to 'refrain' from reintroducing Bill C-61/
"Tombe acknowledges the government survey is nothing but a “push poll” designed to give Smith the answers she wants."
So even the experts working on the governments panel are calling out the "survey" for what it is.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Thoughtful 🧵On Smith’s new panel. Same old misinformation. Same old policy ideas.
Earlier today, Premier Smith announced plans to tour the province and hear from Albertans about how to improve the province's place in Confederation.
Some thoughts.🧵
And if we DON’T want this bitter hate-mongering xenophobia to define us? We’d better all speak up. I am proud to represent Albertans and the Alberta I love in the Senate of Canada, as an independent nonpartisan Senator. This is not a partisan issue. This is about who we are - and who we want to be.
Alberta needs immigrants - their drive, their entrepreneurial spirit, their artistic and creative talent, their hard work, their skills, their investment capital. And we’ve been proud to welcome refugees - from Ukraine and Eritrea, South Sudan and Myanmar and Syria. This hateful racism is not us.
Alberta as we know it today simply would not exist without the millions of immigrants and refugees who built it, who loved it, and who were proud to call it home - including my grandparents and my mum. This bitter xenophobia is as unAlbertan as it’s possible to be. I’m ashamed. I’m disgusted.
NEW: Premier Danielle Smith announces Alberta Next panel that she will chair.
Town halls begin next month.
"On Friday, the province said the survey results showed 'strong support' for a school library policy". The results said, in fact, the opposite. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
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You paid $2M for an anti science panel whose report culminates in the majority of Albertans paying for Covid vaccinations…if they can.
Can’t? Too bad.
Danielle Smith doesn’t have a plan—never did.
Her “hospital-based leadership” scheme is spin: no mandate, no local control, and a roadmap to privatization.
More chaos, more cost—and Albertans will pay.
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #UCPCorruption #CorruptCare #DanielleSmith
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Danielle Smith doesn’t have a plan yet for running public health care, but just like Donald Trump she’s got a concept of a plan. albertapolitics.ca/2025/06/dani...
Indigenous leaders appeared before a Senate committee and opposed Bill C-5 in its current iteration.
Thanks to @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social for this news in his "Biidaajimowin" newsletter.
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16 cases away from 1000.
Because Berta.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
"She is absolutely wrong about how effective the vaccine is. And her own Ministry of Health has the data to prove it," said Talbot, who is also an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
“We now suffer the moral distress of being medical experts in this field who are essentially forced to be handmaidens to a government policy that will cause more death. And not just death in the abstract — death of people we personally know and have cared for for years.”
The UCP can afford to hand over millions of our tax dollars to O&G (again) but refuse to pay for vaccines. 🤦🏼♀️
Danielle Smith has quietly announced major changes to how spending and procurement will be working in Alberta Health Care.
But she’s moving in a direction to have fewer safeguards in place.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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LIVE: Leaders of the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Manitoba Métis Federation are speaking at a Senate committee to bring forward Indigenous concerns over Bill C-5, the One Canadian Economy Act.
My latest in @edmontonjournal.com . The Journal of the American Medical Association recently advised Long COVID in kids may have now surpassed asthma as the leading paediatric chronic illness.
Danielle Smith's response: start charging for and limiting vaccines.
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Health-care union calls for Alberta government to halt plan to limit free vaccines
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“This will drive even more health care workers out of Alberta.”
United Nurses of Alberta president Heather Smith says UCP must drop plan to make health care workers pay for COVID vaccine, calling it "outrageous."
Two strikes against carbon capture. First, even if it works, it's more expensive than switching to clean renewables. And second, it doesn't work at scale. Those pushing carbon capture as a panacea for Canada's fossil fuel cartel are greenwashing. #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy
Sum: NOT experts
Members of RFK Jr’s new vaccine committee have published little on vaccines www.science.org/content/arti...
"...new panel members have been authors on about 78% fewer vaccine-related papers than the ousted members.
4 new members have published no such papers at all"
A former grand chief of the Confederacy of Treaty 6 Nations feels Alberta should be focused on making the province stronger within Canada than sowing discord with separation talk.
The UCP is fast-tracking plans against the will of the majority of Albertans to allow new coal mining projects in the Eastern Slopes.
We need to act now. Send a direct message to Brian Jean, Energy Minister; it only takes 5 minutes.
#UCP #Coal #AbPoli #SaveOurSlopes
Canadian Manuel Tapial, who is leading a delegation of the March to Gaza, is still missing after being dragged away by Egyptian police.
Latest update from @yipengge.bsky.social:
“Manuel Tapial’s whereabouts are currently unknown. It’s been almost 24 hours since he’s been detained.”
Policies like this are red meat to a constituency that cannot be sated.
It makes no sense from a fiscal perspective: the money saved in requiring payment for vaccines will be outweighed by the costs of caring for vulnerable people who get sicker than they would have.
It’s only political.
