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Kirensa
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She/her. Mother of three fabulous humans. NICU RN in Alberta. Please don’t send me DMs
I just booked my first riding lesson in about 35 years! I figured it was about time to get back in the saddle again…so excited! And nervous but mostly excited
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Such a huge loss
This is an unbelievable loss to Alberta. Dr. Markland was a powerful voice of compassion and integrity and he was loved and respected by so many.

My deepest condolences to his family and friends. 💔

www.reddeeradvocate.com/home/edmonto...
Edmonton mountain biker who died in crash near Nordegg mourned
Dr. Darren Markland was well respected ICU physician and health care advocate
www.reddeeradvocate.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
If this is what the drug companies are charging, why is the Alberta Government going to make people pay ~$100 per dose?

“Moderna and Pfizer were charging more affluent nations and the EU for their mRNA vaccines with prices ranging from $14.70 to $23.50 a dose.”

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The costs of coronavirus vaccines and their pricing
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
August 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Return, compensation and full apology. Anything less is unacceptable.

#cdnpoli / #polcan

Retour, indemnisation et excuses complètes. Toute offre inférieure à ces conditions est inacceptable.
A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
July 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The person destroying vaccines, clean water, pasteurization, and almost all public health accomplishment in the last century wants you to know it's your fault if you are unhealthy.
RFK Jr: "This administration wants to encourage Americans to take control of their health -- to eat right, to have lifestyle changes that save us all. And that's the patriotic thing to do, not only for our country but for every individual American. It's a patriotic duty to keep ourselves healthy."
July 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.

What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.

Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.

zurl.co/YBGNy
‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines
Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall
zurl.co
July 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
June 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
So angry at this decision

Albertans to start paying for COVID-19 vaccines after province changes immunization program
June 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
April 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Yet Alberta is going this route? Danielle Smith is so dangerous. #ableg #cdnpoli
“In a systematic review of studies on court-mandated treatment, authors found that forced treatment did not improve outcomes for substance use. Instead, findings showed higher levels of mental duress, homelessness, relapse and overdose among adults after discharge from mandated treatment.”
Secure care: more harm than good
KEY POINTS Many who overdose on drugs in British Columbia are youth under the age of 19 years,[1][1] and calls for “secure care” legislation have intensified. Secure care legislation would legitimize ...
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April 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Another turn for the worse in the CorruptCare scandal.

Demand a public inquiry now ➡️https://corruptcare.ca
A leaked email from Senior ADM Leann Wagner reveals that the UCP instructed employees to direct any inquiries from the Auditor General to a lawyer, aiming to control responses.

This is a gag order on public servants and yet another step in the UCP coverup of #CorruptCare.
April 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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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
April 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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If he really cared about these issues he wouldn’t have voted against solving them.
March 31, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Danielle Smith tries to turn tables on critics with diatribe defending plan to meet far-right Florida bloviator today. albertapolitics.ca/2025/03/dani...
Danielle Smith tries to turn tables on critics with diatribe defending plan to meet far-right Florida bloviator today - Alberta Politics
Under fierce attack for asking Trump Administration officials pause their tariff war on Canada until a friendlier Conservative government could be elected in Ottawa and anticipating more of the same w...
albertapolitics.ca
March 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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There’s some stunning info in the new @ParklandInst report on surgeries in Alberta…

And it seems pretty clear that private for profit surgeries are choking out the public system.

(Link will be in last post)

Thread!

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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
March 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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According to Meta’s Facebook ad library, Canada Proud has spent ~$15,000 on Carney-Epstein attack ads that have been viewed 2 million times

Friends of Canadian Media says these unregulated companies “make billions of dollars by allowing ads with disinformation … to be displayed on their platforms”
March 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Statement from Athana Mentzelopoulos, former AHS CEO.
March 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Some cuteness to break up my regular political posts
March 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Turns out abandoning harm reduction is bad. SHOCKER.
Still not a word from the Alberta Government or any public health or emergency response officials in Edmonton about the huge spike in EMS calls for drug poisoning. The week of Feb 24 we hit a record high -- 232 or 33 per day. #yeg #ableg
March 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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United Nurses of Alberta reaches Tentative Agreement in Bargaining with Employers for Provincial Collective Agreement. UNA’s Negotiating Committee recommends ratification of the Tentative Agreement.

Read UNA's full statement: www.una.ca/1631/tentati...

#AlbertaNurses #AbHealth
UNA reaches Tentative Agreement in Bargaining with Employers for Provincial Collective Agreement
United Nurses of Alberta has reached a Tentative Agreement on a Collective Agreement for more than 33,000 Registered Nurses and Registered Psychiatric Nurses employed by Alberta Health Services, Recov...
www.una.ca
March 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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“Congress has allowed Presidents to engage in temporary hostilities for up to 60 days without Congressional…President Trump’s reckless rhetoric on territorial expansion makes clear that he cannot be trusted with unchecked war powers.”

www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
U.S. Congress bill aims to prevent funding of invasion of Canada
A new bill introduced to the United States House of Representatives would withhold federal funding for any American "operations to invade or seize territory from" Canada, Panama or Greenland -- unless...
www.ctvnews.ca
March 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM