Mark Lehman 🇨🇦⚾️🏒🐕‍🦺

This morning at the Standing Committee on Legislative Offices...UCP majority introduces a motion starting a search committee for a new auditor general.

NDP MLA David Sheppard says Doug Wylie wants to stay on two more years. Wylie is reviewing the allegations of inappropriate health contracting.

Everyone is vulnerable to severe illness/death from a covid infection. Regardless of their underlying health conditions. Long COVID isn’t mentioned at all. Right now in the US Long Covid is the most common chronic condition impacting kids. Plus Covid is far more deadly than flu/rsv combined.

Covid forecast courtesy of Tara- 20K cases of Long Covid/wk in 🇨🇦. 2500 people hospitalized. The pandemic isn’t over- limiting covid vaccines goes into the UCP cruelty Hall of Fame (it’s getting crowded in there)

4 teachers in my school alone reporting new onset of heart problems. All likely due to COVID infections because cardiologists cannot diagnose the cause.
And gov't, school boards, unions continue to look away😓
More people will die due to their negligence.

Ignorance and lies is what the UCP is all about. The panels are a platform for MAGA propaganda. Still surprised chem trails havent made the agenda.

Ditto

This image shows gauges with the Aug 16-Aug 29, 2025 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right: Canada: 4.2 - MODERATE Alberta: 7.0 - HIGH British Columbia: 3.5 - MODERATE Manitoba: 3.7 - MODERATE New Brunswick: 3.5 - MODERATE Newfoundland and Labrador: 3.4 - MODERATE North: 4.2 - MODERATE Nova Scotia: 3.4 - MODERATE Ontario: 4.1 - MODERATE Prince Edward Island: 3.7 - MODERATE Quebec: 4.2 - MODERATE Saskatchewan: 3.6 - MODERATE A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red).

Canadian COVID Forecast: Aug 16-Aug 29, 2025

SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: none
HIGH: AB
MODERATE: CAN, BC, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, ON, PEI, QC, SK

About 1 in 121 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Excellent note! Please add the importance of masking in all medical settings- because Covid is airborne and N95 masks are an excellent way to protect one’s health and for their patients/families.

Canada’s Travel Boycott Grows: Car Travel To U.S. Drops 37% Steep year-over-year drop in car and air travel solidifies steep economic losses for U.S. tourism this year.

The volume of Canadians taking road trips into the U.S.—the way most Canadians visit—dropped by 37% last month compared to July 2024, according to new data from Statistics Canada, following a 33% drop in June.
There was also a 26% decline in air travelers from Canada year-over-year.

🇺🇸 economy moving in the wrong directions…

Signing!

The British trade deal wasn't what they said it was, the Vietnamese are still yet to confirm Trump's announcement, and the Japanese say they're not signing a binding agreement. The White House has released the text of ZERO (0) deals, and maybe it's all just social media posts all the way down.

Sobering details on access to emergency care in Edmonton and northern Alberta. This government proves again and again that they can't be trusted to make informed, rational decisions about our healthcare system.

Alberta is reporting 21 more measles cases today
Total to date = 1,267
In hospital = 2

Cumulative hospitalizations = 102 (including 15 icu) as of July 5
(at that time total case counts = 1,214)

More here:
www.alberta.ca/measles

Sum: Harmful, bleak, and grim.

Dark Age 2.0

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I’m worried for Jonathan- big risk and no evidence of taking precautions. Long COVID is complex and not well understood- the NHL/Jets are operating in past tense mode- like the pandemic is over.

Note to @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social @coreyhogan.ca if you haven’t seen Tara’s Covid dashboard before-please review. Clearly we remain in a pandemic and our health/welfare are in jeopardy w backwards Prov govt anti vax/science policies. We need your help! #covidisnotover

Thank you for this important information! Coming at a time in AB when there is major amount of indoor events (stampede) and a very uncertain vaccination program we need all the info we can get!

Agree- what I meant was a month ago we messaged back and forth about the Jays finding their footing and the fact they were so close in the WC standings. And look what happened! I hope we see Fluharty back soon- so important for the pen! Go Jays - also agree on Verdugo

Cmon Alberta- this is beyond acceptable- money for a new police force, that nobody wants. Yet no money for proper health care/education and charging us for meds/vax/eye exams. The united clueless party #firetheucp #resignsmith

Just the crown she believes she’s entitled to

Look what we did!!

So happy for the Jays to resurrect their season after that bad spot in the early spring. Go Jays!!

Hey Alberta! Heads up!
Rising COVID hospitalizations in Alberta.
Although gov't is no longer publicly reporting hospital outbreaks (last report April 16, 2025), there are now 4 hospitals on outbreak.
Rockyview, Royal Alex, Leduc, and Miseracordia.
Haven't this many outbreaks in a long time. 1/

Too many vaccines in the first year?Your child is 44% more likely to survive to one year if they are vaccinated than if they are unvaccinated.

Thank you Edm Zone MSA for this strong 💉support. I suggest a couple of edits- not referring to Covid as endemic-it isn’t, the virus continues to mutate. Covid isn’t similar to the flu- it literally infects every organ in the body and is 10-30X more deadly than flu. Appreciate the support!

@coreyhogan.ca this isn’t public health- this is an ongoing drive to privatized med- it will cost more and not improve the health of AB. We need the Fed Govt to stop this in its tracks

Don’t agree- I see him/NDP every day. They’ve challenged the UCP on all the major issues- in particular -Health care, separation, corruption, coal mining,eduction. The fact the NDP/Nenshi ran road shows on the stupidity of the APP- and now the revealed support at just 10% is a big credibility win.

Masks too? You know in case of Covid infections.

Agree- plus HCW need to mask in health care settings. It’s mind boggling that a nurse and/or dr is not taking precautions against an airborne virus. If vax rates fall even more-masking is a critical precaution step.