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HCW in AB, quite exasperated. Trying not to believe everything I think.
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No big deal, but the Alberta government just increased the fee to submit a citizen initiated petition from $500 to $25, 000. After the separatism initiative was approved, but before Corb Lund's coal mining petition gets re-approved. No political shenanigans going on here.
December 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
No big deal, but the Alberta government just increased the fee to submit a citizen initiated petition from $500 to $25, 000. After the separatism initiative was approved, but before Corb Lund's coal mining petition gets re-approved. No political shenanigans going on here.
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“So Albertans who don’t want to see their country destroyed, their pensions looted, their streets flooded with firearms and their province eventually absorbed by the shit show to the south had better wake up and smell the coffee.”
#ForeverCanadian
#AbLeg
www.thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
#ForeverCanadian
#AbLeg
www.thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
The UCP Separatist Wing Is Winning. Here’s What Comes Next | The Tyee
Be ready for a Brexit-style disinformation campaign, weak opposition and turmoil.
www.thetyee.ca
December 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“So Albertans who don’t want to see their country destroyed, their pensions looted, their streets flooded with firearms and their province eventually absorbed by the shit show to the south had better wake up and smell the coffee.”
#ForeverCanadian
#AbLeg
www.thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
#ForeverCanadian
#AbLeg
www.thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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Remember this photo op by UCP Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen?
December 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Remember this photo op by UCP Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen?
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One in five households cannot guarantee their next meal.
And the Premier’s response: let’s give more TAXPAYER MONEY to rich for-profit businesses, and let the charities sort out the rest…
foodbankscanada.ca/h...
proof.utoronto.ca/20...
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And the Premier’s response: let’s give more TAXPAYER MONEY to rich for-profit businesses, and let the charities sort out the rest…
foodbankscanada.ca/h...
proof.utoronto.ca/20...
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HungerCount
OVERALL FINDINGS Every year, food banks across the country are setting new records. This year, they recorded nearly 2.2 million visits in a single month. That’s double the monthly usage recorded just six years ago. It took decades to reach one million visits in a month, and it has now taken half a decade to...
foodbankscanada.ca
December 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
One in five households cannot guarantee their next meal.
And the Premier’s response: let’s give more TAXPAYER MONEY to rich for-profit businesses, and let the charities sort out the rest…
foodbankscanada.ca/h...
proof.utoronto.ca/20...
9/10
And the Premier’s response: let’s give more TAXPAYER MONEY to rich for-profit businesses, and let the charities sort out the rest…
foodbankscanada.ca/h...
proof.utoronto.ca/20...
9/10
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Big Surge: This represents a 21.8% increase from 2024 = second-highest jump in the entire country (only behind the territories).
Since 2019, food bank usage in Alberta has exploded by 134.4%.
(Who's been governing since then?)
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Since 2019, food bank usage in Alberta has exploded by 134.4%.
(Who's been governing since then?)
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December 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Big Surge: This represents a 21.8% increase from 2024 = second-highest jump in the entire country (only behind the territories).
Since 2019, food bank usage in Alberta has exploded by 134.4%.
(Who's been governing since then?)
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Since 2019, food bank usage in Alberta has exploded by 134.4%.
(Who's been governing since then?)
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She is such an awful person
December 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
She is such an awful person
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Parents died in a car crash? Go find a church to take care of you, little girl. Disabled and can't find work? Maybe a mosque will house & feed you. Lost your high-paying job and can't afford food? Find a Sikh temple.
To Dani, vulnerable human beings are just inconvenient money pits 🤬.
#ableg
To Dani, vulnerable human beings are just inconvenient money pits 🤬.
#ableg
December 14, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Parents died in a car crash? Go find a church to take care of you, little girl. Disabled and can't find work? Maybe a mosque will house & feed you. Lost your high-paying job and can't afford food? Find a Sikh temple.
To Dani, vulnerable human beings are just inconvenient money pits 🤬.
#ableg
To Dani, vulnerable human beings are just inconvenient money pits 🤬.
#ableg
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This woman is just completely full of shit. Health care, education, and post-secondary education do have oversight. They are called boards, and many members of those boards are placed there by government. There are also government ministries for each of those areas, along with laws.
December 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This woman is just completely full of shit. Health care, education, and post-secondary education do have oversight. They are called boards, and many members of those boards are placed there by government. There are also government ministries for each of those areas, along with laws.
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Smith sees her role as doling out contracts to her friends and then buying them back when they fail. Smith's UCP is the largest government in Alberta's history. Their attempts to privatize have been an abysmal failure, wasting hundreds of millions in public funds. We deserve better.
December 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Smith sees her role as doling out contracts to her friends and then buying them back when they fail. Smith's UCP is the largest government in Alberta's history. Their attempts to privatize have been an abysmal failure, wasting hundreds of millions in public funds. We deserve better.
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“It is no exaggeration to say that the passing of Bill 11 through the Alberta legislature is the biggest threat to our single-payer, universal Medicare system that we’ve ever seen. Not just for Albertans, but for all Canadians,” said Chris Gallaway executive director of Friends of Medicare.
December 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“It is no exaggeration to say that the passing of Bill 11 through the Alberta legislature is the biggest threat to our single-payer, universal Medicare system that we’ve ever seen. Not just for Albertans, but for all Canadians,” said Chris Gallaway executive director of Friends of Medicare.
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medicinehatnews.com/...
"Wright also pointed inquiries to Parliamentary Secretary for Health Workforce Engagement Chelsae Petrovic. Petrovic told the News she couldn’t identify any persons responsible for province-wide workforce planning, and pointed to...
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"Wright also pointed inquiries to Parliamentary Secretary for Health Workforce Engagement Chelsae Petrovic. Petrovic told the News she couldn’t identify any persons responsible for province-wide workforce planning, and pointed to...
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Workforce shortages made worse by poor workforce planning, health professionals say - Medicine Hat News
zmason@medicinehatnews.com Throughout the province’s health-care refocusing, stakeholders have continued to raise alarms about a lack of co-ordinated workforce planning. Amid all the changes currently affecting the province’s health-care delivery, it is difficult to discern where responsibility for ensuring that staffing needs are met across the province lies. In an interview with the News last month,
medicinehatnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
medicinehatnews.com/...
"Wright also pointed inquiries to Parliamentary Secretary for Health Workforce Engagement Chelsae Petrovic. Petrovic told the News she couldn’t identify any persons responsible for province-wide workforce planning, and pointed to...
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"Wright also pointed inquiries to Parliamentary Secretary for Health Workforce Engagement Chelsae Petrovic. Petrovic told the News she couldn’t identify any persons responsible for province-wide workforce planning, and pointed to...
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It strips regulators of tools to stop discriminatory conduct on-the-job, putting a professional’s “right” to offend ahead of our right to safe, respectful care.
Alberta needs to ask whose freedom this really protects.
Alberta needs to ask whose freedom this really protects.
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It strips regulators of tools to stop discriminatory conduct on-the-job, putting a professional’s “right” to offend ahead of our right to safe, respectful care.
Alberta needs to ask whose freedom this really protects.
Alberta needs to ask whose freedom this really protects.
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New CHW Perspective:
an Alberta pediatrician describes how structural gaps in care are shaping families' lives, and argues that the province’s new “dual-practice” model risks making things worse.
Full analysis:
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
an Alberta pediatrician describes how structural gaps in care are shaping families' lives, and argues that the province’s new “dual-practice” model risks making things worse.
Full analysis:
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
Alberta isn’t fixing healthcare. It’s abandoning it.
“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.”
canadahealthwatch.ca
December 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
New CHW Perspective:
an Alberta pediatrician describes how structural gaps in care are shaping families' lives, and argues that the province’s new “dual-practice” model risks making things worse.
Full analysis:
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
an Alberta pediatrician describes how structural gaps in care are shaping families' lives, and argues that the province’s new “dual-practice” model risks making things worse.
Full analysis:
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
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I have been given the shiny and very real War Stopper Award by
USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.
USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I have been given the shiny and very real War Stopper Award by
USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.
USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.
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A “Dressbarn” in Muncie, Indiana had been named the inaugural winner of the FIFA “Most Super Glamorous Parisian Haute Couture” award.
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
A “Dressbarn” in Muncie, Indiana had been named the inaugural winner of the FIFA “Most Super Glamorous Parisian Haute Couture” award.
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SCOOP: Elections Alberta investigated Sam Mraiche over allegations he made illegal political donations in 2023
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social
Sam Mraiche was investigated by Elections Alberta over alleged illegal political donations
Regulator says Mraiche was being investigated this year in connection to an alleged straw donor scheme
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
SCOOP: Elections Alberta investigated Sam Mraiche over allegations he made illegal political donations in 2023
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social
This (also) screams just how corrupt and power hungry the UCP are.
There is a LOT in this legislation, to the point that big changes for Alberta's legal regulator are all the way at the bottom, including:
-Law Society of Alberta can't mandate training/education beyond a specific scope
-Conduct decision appeals go to Court of King's Bench
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
-Law Society of Alberta can't mandate training/education beyond a specific scope
-Conduct decision appeals go to Court of King's Bench
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta legislation would change citizen referendum rules, restrict political party names | CBC News
Bill 14, introduced Thursday by Justice Minister Mickey Amery, transfers powers from the chief electoral officer to the minister when deciding whether citizen petition initiatives should proceed. It a...
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This (also) screams just how corrupt and power hungry the UCP are.
No money for education, but the UCP always have money to put down teachers.
Alberta government awarded PR firm sole-source $200K contract to run education campaign to sway public opinion during teachers' battle
www.townandcountrytoday.com/beyond-local...
www.townandcountrytoday.com/beyond-local...
Alberta government hires PR firm during teacher strike! 🤯
Read the full story and comment on TownAndCountryToday.com
www.townandcountrytoday.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
No money for education, but the UCP always have money to put down teachers.
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I concluded this weeks ago. They didn't hide it.
The UCP didn't have to use the notwithstanding clause. They wanted to, in order to avoid an arbitration process they knew they'd lose.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
The UCP didn't have to use the notwithstanding clause. They wanted to, in order to avoid an arbitration process they knew they'd lose.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
Alberta used notwithstanding clause to avoid costly arbitration with teachers, infrastructure minister says
Alberta infrastructure minister says the province invoked the notwithstanding clause to force teachers back was due to cost.
edmontonjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I concluded this weeks ago. They didn't hide it.
The UCP didn't have to use the notwithstanding clause. They wanted to, in order to avoid an arbitration process they knew they'd lose.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
The UCP didn't have to use the notwithstanding clause. They wanted to, in order to avoid an arbitration process they knew they'd lose.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
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No. You misunderstood. They hire consultants to fix the problems created by the Health minister refusing to listen to advice from experienced AHS execs or belief data. This is from the last story I published.
December 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
No. You misunderstood. They hire consultants to fix the problems created by the Health minister refusing to listen to advice from experienced AHS execs or belief data. This is from the last story I published.
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So, Northback is proposing an open-pit metallurgical coal mine at Grassy Mountain. If you’d like to comment on the environmental assessment you have until January 16. Please folks, we don’t have the water.
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So, Northback is proposing an open-pit metallurgical coal mine at Grassy Mountain. If you’d like to comment on the environmental assessment you have until January 16. Please folks, we don’t have the water.
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Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show reut.rs/4rCQsMz
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show
The regulator in charge of environmental enforcement in Canada's main oil-producing province bent to pressure from the provincial government and oil companies to eliminate a limit on natural gas flaring as Canadian oil production increased, according to documents seen by Reuters.
reut.rs
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show reut.rs/4rCQsMz