The Teacher’s strike would be over tomorrow if the UCP offered the same contract the United Nurses of Alberta signed or if they agreed to binding arbitration.
The Notwithstanding Clause is a nuclear level hammer with the long range consequence of saying the UCP doesn’t negotiate, they legislate.
🧵 Edmonton city council voted this week to give the Oilers another $350 million in public funding so they can keep pushing unhoused people out of the neighbourhood or let them die of overdose. No legal binding to build 2,500 housing units promised w/ the project. 1/
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When I say don’t mess with Texas women, I’m talking about State Rep. Jolanda Jones.
I was today-years-old when I realized that a VENN diagram of Canadians that don't support Palestine and those that voted for ##PierrePoilievre is a circle.
Happy Wednesday! Sorry for being quiet the last few days, had to take sometime to myself and get grounded.. Without further wait, here's the AHS Fuckery.. Errr Update of Closures & More!
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I’ve been in academic medicine for 45 years. This is the first time I’m seeing a perfect storm, as proposed federal funding cuts threaten our ability to provide patient care, train the next generation of doctors, and conduct life-saving research. More from my conversation with @cnn.com last week.
PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015.
THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Call your senators. This bill is heading to them next and they can stop it if the people speak out. (202) 224-3121
Ages 0-4 are the most important, emotionally & intellectually, in human development.
Yet, in the US, we have a very high rate of childhood poverty and a broken child care system.
Congratulations to New Mexico for leading the way forward for high quality, free child care. Other states must follow.
Danielle Smith is playing fast and loose with the future of the country. It seems like a long shot that Alberta would vote to leave, but who knows what happens once you start down this path. It’s a live-ammo outing now.
Utter insanity.
Things that have extended the average lifespan of working people:
Unions
Healthcare (through unions, Medicare and Medicaid)
Universal public education
Labor laws
Environmental regulations
Social Security
If you seek to undermine all of these,what is your underlying objective?
As a #Canadian, I have several feelings.
1) I feel deep relief that a good chunk of my fellow Canadians aren't complete disappointments.
2) Gratitude for voters that care about other humans showing up to vote for that.
3) danielle smith has lost some of her back up
“Rather than advancing evidence-based solutions, Mr. Poilievre recycles failed American imports such as a “three strikes” law and stacked life sentences – measures our courts have already rejected as cruel and unusual.”
Split image showing White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt wearing a red dress next to a screenshot of the same dress for sale online labeled as made in China, with a caption claiming the Chinese embassy mocked her for boycotting Chinese goods while wearing Chinese-made clothing.
Well played.
My favourite sports stories are the ones that aren't really about sports. This is good. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
You want to know why Danielle Smith is doing everything she can to distract you from the total FU of the #UCP.
Alberta’s unemployment rate saw the highest growth in the country, according to Statistics Canada’s (StatCan)
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Laura Loomer is a testament to how much further to the right Trump has moved since his first term, and how much further he may be open to going, writes @alibreland.bsky.social.
Smith was directly asked today if her new plan for surgeries in Alberta would gut the public system and allow access to public facilities for private for profit operators...
Her response?
"Mmmhm"
No.
For reals.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
More evidence that private for profit surgeries make things worse
“[Private surgical facilities] bled funding and a finite pool of critical staff from the public system, increasing wait times for cancer and other priority surgeries.”
@alonghurst.bsky.social
@thetyee.ca
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The "trust us, it's going to be great" isn't good enough for me with this government. Show me your work.
We don't even have basic quality and safety data for surgeries performed in for-profit CSFs. Physicians tell me that there is an active effort to prevent data collection in for-profits.
The picture comes into focus
AB gov took ownership of public hospitals from AHS so these public assets can be used by private surgeons’ corporations under new funding model
Public assets in the service of private profits
This will only destabilize hospitals further
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Is it general strike time in. #Alberta yet?
If I were Wab Kinew or David Eby, I'd be working very hard to recruit #Alberta HCWs. NONE of us signed up to practice the way @daniellesmithab.bsky.social is forcing acute care to be. She is 10000% ensuring hospitals fail but she is also actively about to cause a physician crisis. Greed is gross.
It’s well known that I was on The Apprentice. We were all covered by NDAs at the time, but mine has now expired. And do I ever have some tea to spill. I’ll post it later today after consulting once again with my attorneys.
The UCP is the most evil party Canada has ever seen.
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Not sure I’m cool with Poilievre’s new slogan:
Chicks Go Stale
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Stoppons Chicks Le Ticky Tocky
While Albertans continue to struggle to get any healthcare, I had a great time spending taxpayer money at the PragerU fundraiser with Ben Shapiro in my favourite U.S. state!
And I also cut funding for popsicles in children’s cancer wards!
#abpoli #abhealth #UCPCorruption
“The most troubling finding, I think, is that public operating room activity was actually lower in the most recent year than even pre-pandemic”
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I left an abusive marriage after 9 years. I lost both my parents in 18 months. I went through 4 years of family court..NOTHING has been harder than knowing my kiddo is in the U.S.A on "vacation" with her dad for a week.
