Angela Welz
@heartforward.bsky.social
#harmreduction #careisnotforced
#careisnotcoerced
Supporting others grieving a toxic drug poisoning loss, like me.
Treat everyone with kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.
Treaty 6 - Alberta
#careisnotcoerced
Supporting others grieving a toxic drug poisoning loss, like me.
Treat everyone with kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.
Treaty 6 - Alberta
Pinned
17Dec25 Update:
16: 688 (NDP)
17: 862 (NDP)
18: 956 (NDP)
19: 800 (NDP/UCP)
20: 1,413 (UCP Lethbridge SCS closed)
21: 1,889 (UCP)
22: 1,778 (UCP)
23: 2,135 (UCP Red Deer SCS closed)
24: 1,492 (UCP)
25: 911 Jan–Aug (UCP RAH Edmonton SCS closed in Dec)
Total: 12,924* preventable deaths since 2016
16: 688 (NDP)
17: 862 (NDP)
18: 956 (NDP)
19: 800 (NDP/UCP)
20: 1,413 (UCP Lethbridge SCS closed)
21: 1,889 (UCP)
22: 1,778 (UCP)
23: 2,135 (UCP Red Deer SCS closed)
24: 1,492 (UCP)
25: 911 Jan–Aug (UCP RAH Edmonton SCS closed in Dec)
Total: 12,924* preventable deaths since 2016
“No Visible Trauma” explores a troubled police force and the impact of unchecked brutality. Despite low crime, the Calgary Police Service has recently shot and killed more people than any other Canadian city and more than NYPD or Chicago PD in 2018. youtu.be/5ktKrNvJnuQ
No Visible Trauma: Police Brutality in Canada | Full Documentary - Marc Serpa Francoeur
YouTube video by The Documentary Channel
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
“No Visible Trauma” explores a troubled police force and the impact of unchecked brutality. Despite low crime, the Calgary Police Service has recently shot and killed more people than any other Canadian city and more than NYPD or Chicago PD in 2018. youtu.be/5ktKrNvJnuQ
Most people use their phones to call and text people or scroll.
I'm at the age where I use my phone to take pictures of labels I can't read and use my phone to enlarge the print so l can read it.
You lie if you say you haven’t done this.
I'm at the age where I use my phone to take pictures of labels I can't read and use my phone to enlarge the print so l can read it.
You lie if you say you haven’t done this.
December 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Most people use their phones to call and text people or scroll.
I'm at the age where I use my phone to take pictures of labels I can't read and use my phone to enlarge the print so l can read it.
You lie if you say you haven’t done this.
I'm at the age where I use my phone to take pictures of labels I can't read and use my phone to enlarge the print so l can read it.
You lie if you say you haven’t done this.
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🥶 Bundle up, grab your friends and neighbours, and come make history with us!🥶
🖊️ You can sign if you:
✅ Are 18+ years old
✅ Have lived in Calgary-Hays for more than 3 months
✅ Are an eligible voter in Alberta
#RecallMcIver #CalgaryHays #TakeAction #AlbertaPolitics #yyc #ableg #abpoli #yycevents
🖊️ You can sign if you:
✅ Are 18+ years old
✅ Have lived in Calgary-Hays for more than 3 months
✅ Are an eligible voter in Alberta
#RecallMcIver #CalgaryHays #TakeAction #AlbertaPolitics #yyc #ableg #abpoli #yycevents
December 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
🥶 Bundle up, grab your friends and neighbours, and come make history with us!🥶
🖊️ You can sign if you:
✅ Are 18+ years old
✅ Have lived in Calgary-Hays for more than 3 months
✅ Are an eligible voter in Alberta
#RecallMcIver #CalgaryHays #TakeAction #AlbertaPolitics #yyc #ableg #abpoli #yycevents
🖊️ You can sign if you:
✅ Are 18+ years old
✅ Have lived in Calgary-Hays for more than 3 months
✅ Are an eligible voter in Alberta
#RecallMcIver #CalgaryHays #TakeAction #AlbertaPolitics #yyc #ableg #abpoli #yycevents
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Alberta sees highest number of confirmed weekly flu cases since Swine Flu winter of 2009-10 https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/alberta-has-the-highest-number-of-confirmed-flu-cases-in-a-week-since-winter-of-2009-10/
More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
December 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Alberta sees highest number of confirmed weekly flu cases since Swine Flu winter of 2009-10 https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/alberta-has-the-highest-number-of-confirmed-flu-cases-in-a-week-since-winter-of-2009-10/
More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
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Anyone could have offered Tyler some food, clothes or a place to stay without filming him ....
SHAME on all of you for exploiting Tyler for clicks and likes. You're the problem. 😡🤬
SICKENING.
SHAME on all of you for exploiting Tyler for clicks and likes. You're the problem. 😡🤬
SICKENING.
December 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Anyone could have offered Tyler some food, clothes or a place to stay without filming him ....
SHAME on all of you for exploiting Tyler for clicks and likes. You're the problem. 😡🤬
SICKENING.
SHAME on all of you for exploiting Tyler for clicks and likes. You're the problem. 😡🤬
SICKENING.
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Merry Christmas, Canada.
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Merry Christmas, Canada.
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Best wishes and thanks to all the healthcare workers, first responders and support staff working on Christmas and during the holiday season. Here's to a happy, healthy 2026.
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Best wishes and thanks to all the healthcare workers, first responders and support staff working on Christmas and during the holiday season. Here's to a happy, healthy 2026.
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December 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Dec 24: Christmas Eve
Dec 25: Christmas Day
Dec 26: Boxing Day
Dec 27-30: The Void - No one knows what day it is.
Dec 31: New Year's Eve
Jan 1: New Year's Day
Jan 2: Reality hits...
Dec 25: Christmas Day
Dec 26: Boxing Day
Dec 27-30: The Void - No one knows what day it is.
Dec 31: New Year's Eve
Jan 1: New Year's Day
Jan 2: Reality hits...
December 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Dec 24: Christmas Eve
Dec 25: Christmas Day
Dec 26: Boxing Day
Dec 27-30: The Void - No one knows what day it is.
Dec 31: New Year's Eve
Jan 1: New Year's Day
Jan 2: Reality hits...
Dec 25: Christmas Day
Dec 26: Boxing Day
Dec 27-30: The Void - No one knows what day it is.
Dec 31: New Year's Eve
Jan 1: New Year's Day
Jan 2: Reality hits...
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Calgary emergency wards coping with 'extreme overcapacity' in flu season: AHS memo
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Calgary ERs face 'extreme overcapacity,' internal hospital memo says | CBC News
Hospitals are tightening policies to prevent patient bottlenecks, even if beds aren't available, according to a memo obtained by CBC News.
www.cbc.ca
December 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Calgary emergency wards coping with 'extreme overcapacity' in flu season: AHS memo
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Be safe over the holidays. You do not want to end up in an emergency room where you can't get treatment for days.
December 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Be safe over the holidays. You do not want to end up in an emergency room where you can't get treatment for days.
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Reposted by Angela Welz
New Article: When Celebration Meets Heavy Emotions: The Bittersweet Symphony of the Holidays
gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/emotional-...
gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/emotional-...
When Celebration Meets Heavy Emotions: The Bittersweet Symphony of the Holidays
The holidays arrive like a symphony—joyful crescendos for some, melancholic undertones for others.
gurdeeppandher.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New Article: When Celebration Meets Heavy Emotions: The Bittersweet Symphony of the Holidays
gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/emotional-...
gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/emotional-...
Regardless of what the man claims he did or didn't do .. he doesn't deserve to be beaten like that when he's down on the ground. @edmontonpolice.bsky.social
News: an Edmonton police officer has been acquitted of assaulting an Indigenous man who claims he stopped to help at a traffic accident and walked into the middle of stolen catalytic converter investigation. Third EPS assault acquittal this year that I know of edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/j...
Judge acquits Edmonton police officer of assaulting man during Whitemud Drive arrest
An Edmonton police officer accused of using excessive force against a man during an arrest has been found not guilty.
edmontonjournal.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Regardless of what the man claims he did or didn't do .. he doesn't deserve to be beaten like that when he's down on the ground. @edmontonpolice.bsky.social
Reposted by Angela Welz
News: an Edmonton police officer has been acquitted of assaulting an Indigenous man who claims he stopped to help at a traffic accident and walked into the middle of stolen catalytic converter investigation. Third EPS assault acquittal this year that I know of edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/j...
Judge acquits Edmonton police officer of assaulting man during Whitemud Drive arrest
An Edmonton police officer accused of using excessive force against a man during an arrest has been found not guilty.
edmontonjournal.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
News: an Edmonton police officer has been acquitted of assaulting an Indigenous man who claims he stopped to help at a traffic accident and walked into the middle of stolen catalytic converter investigation. Third EPS assault acquittal this year that I know of edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/j...
17Dec25 Update:
16: 688 (NDP)
17: 862 (NDP)
18: 956 (NDP)
19: 800 (NDP/UCP)
20: 1,413 (UCP Lethbridge SCS closed)
21: 1,889 (UCP)
22: 1,778 (UCP)
23: 2,135 (UCP Red Deer SCS closed)
24: 1,492 (UCP)
25: 911 Jan–Aug (UCP RAH Edmonton SCS closed in Dec)
Total: 12,924* preventable deaths since 2016
16: 688 (NDP)
17: 862 (NDP)
18: 956 (NDP)
19: 800 (NDP/UCP)
20: 1,413 (UCP Lethbridge SCS closed)
21: 1,889 (UCP)
22: 1,778 (UCP)
23: 2,135 (UCP Red Deer SCS closed)
24: 1,492 (UCP)
25: 911 Jan–Aug (UCP RAH Edmonton SCS closed in Dec)
Total: 12,924* preventable deaths since 2016
December 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
17Dec25 Update:
16: 688 (NDP)
17: 862 (NDP)
18: 956 (NDP)
19: 800 (NDP/UCP)
20: 1,413 (UCP Lethbridge SCS closed)
21: 1,889 (UCP)
22: 1,778 (UCP)
23: 2,135 (UCP Red Deer SCS closed)
24: 1,492 (UCP)
25: 911 Jan–Aug (UCP RAH Edmonton SCS closed in Dec)
Total: 12,924* preventable deaths since 2016
16: 688 (NDP)
17: 862 (NDP)
18: 956 (NDP)
19: 800 (NDP/UCP)
20: 1,413 (UCP Lethbridge SCS closed)
21: 1,889 (UCP)
22: 1,778 (UCP)
23: 2,135 (UCP Red Deer SCS closed)
24: 1,492 (UCP)
25: 911 Jan–Aug (UCP RAH Edmonton SCS closed in Dec)
Total: 12,924* preventable deaths since 2016
Interestink!
Former AHS director alleges he was under surveillance, harassed, because he is a potential witness in the lawsuit tied to Alberta's health care procurement controversy, according to court docs
Plus lots more -->
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tuthanhha.bsky.social
Plus lots more -->
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tuthanhha.bsky.social
Former AHS board member obtains rare court order, alleging intimidation by podcasters
The order allows Sandy Edmonstone to search and seize records and electronic devices from David Wallace and James Di Fiore
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Interestink!
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Signatures won’t get themselves #alberta #recall #mla #ucp #canvass #politics
YouTube video by Lisab0923
youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Reposted by Angela Welz
Phenomenal story
Merry Christmas, indeed!
🎄
Merry Christmas, indeed!
🎄
Ottawa lottery winner making sure neighbours don’t go hungry
After winning $70 million, an Ottawa woman is doing as much as possible to make sure families in her community don’t go without. CTV’s Leah Larocque reports.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Phenomenal story
Merry Christmas, indeed!
🎄
Merry Christmas, indeed!
🎄
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Hmmm... smells like intentional and orchestrated witness tampering and intimidation... but i'm no lawyer...
Wonder who could be funding this despicable type of behaviour? Wonder if the Premier and her govt knows?
Isn't it time for a Public Inquiry?
Wonder who could be funding this despicable type of behaviour? Wonder if the Premier and her govt knows?
Isn't it time for a Public Inquiry?
Former AHS board member claims podcasters paid to smear him ahead of Mentzelopoulos testimony
Lawyers for a former Alberta Health Services board member claim a political fixer and a publisher have been paid to smear their client.
edmontonjournal.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Hmmm... smells like intentional and orchestrated witness tampering and intimidation... but i'm no lawyer...
Wonder who could be funding this despicable type of behaviour? Wonder if the Premier and her govt knows?
Isn't it time for a Public Inquiry?
Wonder who could be funding this despicable type of behaviour? Wonder if the Premier and her govt knows?
Isn't it time for a Public Inquiry?
Absolutely horrifying!
December 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Absolutely horrifying!
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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December 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Reposted by Angela Welz
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A reader of The Alberta Worker sent in a $500 donation over the weekend.
This will go a long way to help keep independent labour journalism alive in Alberta.
You can help, too.
albertaworker.ca/support
This will go a long way to help keep independent labour journalism alive in Alberta.
You can help, too.
albertaworker.ca/support