Al Benvin
@abenvin.bsky.social
I didn’t choose the skux life. The skux life chose me.
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ICYMI - A rare inside view of the UCP push to embed the private for-profit surgery industry in Alberta - no matter the cost, even to cancer patients.
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing | The Tyee
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation.
thetyee.ca
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
ICYMI - A rare inside view of the UCP push to embed the private for-profit surgery industry in Alberta - no matter the cost, even to cancer patients.
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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Keeping up with the UCP government's democratic transgressions can be difficult.
But not impossible.
Here’s a running list since Danielle Smith became premier. 🧵👇
But not impossible.
Here’s a running list since Danielle Smith became premier. 🧵👇
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Keeping up with the UCP government's democratic transgressions can be difficult.
But not impossible.
Here’s a running list since Danielle Smith became premier. 🧵👇
But not impossible.
Here’s a running list since Danielle Smith became premier. 🧵👇
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Welp.
Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:
October 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Welp.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Excellent article by Blake.
My latest in @edmontonjournal.com . The Journal of the American Medical Association recently advised Long COVID in kids may have now surpassed asthma as the leading paediatric chronic illness.
Danielle Smith's response: start charging for and limiting vaccines.
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Danielle Smith's response: start charging for and limiting vaccines.
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: UCP's COVID vaccine cuts put children at serious risk
A policy of ending pediatric COVID vaccination will disable, hospitalize and even kill Albertan children, leaving blood on Smith’s hands.
edmontonjournal.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Excellent article by Blake.
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This is honestly too much. The Premier talking about 135M HC dollars just wasted and acting like she has NOTHING to do with why we are here. Everything she and her govt has done has brought us to this point, a 🧵to recap:
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‘$135M worth of wasted products’: Alberta premier defends decision to charge for COVID vaccines
Danielle Smith defended her government’s decision to charge many Albertans for COVID vaccinations, which the province announced late Friday afternoon in a media release.
buff.ly
June 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This is honestly too much. The Premier talking about 135M HC dollars just wasted and acting like she has NOTHING to do with why we are here. Everything she and her govt has done has brought us to this point, a 🧵to recap:
buff.ly/HuESfWk
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buff.ly/HuESfWk
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Yes. Yes, it is.
#Canada #CanadaSky #cdnpoli #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg
www.westernwheel.ca/opinion/colu...
#Canada #CanadaSky #cdnpoli #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg
www.westernwheel.ca/opinion/colu...
Is Alberta's biggest problem coming from inside the house?
There is no province where real incomes and living standards have deteriorated more in the past decade than Alberta despite record oil industry profits.
www.westernwheel.ca
June 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Yes. Yes, it is.
#Canada #CanadaSky #cdnpoli #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg
www.westernwheel.ca/opinion/colu...
#Canada #CanadaSky #cdnpoli #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg
www.westernwheel.ca/opinion/colu...
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"While Calgarians face real challenges—rising costs, housing strain, and crumbling infrastructure—Danielle Smith is busy talking about banning books. Calgary needs leadership that focuses on solutions, not sideshows" - @briantyyc.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
May 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"While Calgarians face real challenges—rising costs, housing strain, and crumbling infrastructure—Danielle Smith is busy talking about banning books. Calgary needs leadership that focuses on solutions, not sideshows" - @briantyyc.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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It's the richest industry in the history of the world, most of the profit goes to its majority foreign owners & it's literally burning the world down. No responsible leader should be giving them one thin dime ever again. If anything they need to pay for their mess #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Busting the Myth That Ottawa Has Hurt Alberta’s Oil Industry | The Tyee
In fact, federal governments have promoted and protected it. Especially the oilsands.
thetyee.ca
May 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It's the richest industry in the history of the world, most of the profit goes to its majority foreign owners & it's literally burning the world down. No responsible leader should be giving them one thin dime ever again. If anything they need to pay for their mess #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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The UCP is facing 8 investigations into corruption, plus no fewer than 3 major public sector union strikes (all of their own making).
The affordability crisis looms, as does a trade war with the US.
Wildfires & measles are raging.
And the premier chose now to clear a path for a separation vote.
The affordability crisis looms, as does a trade war with the US.
Wildfires & measles are raging.
And the premier chose now to clear a path for a separation vote.
May 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The UCP is facing 8 investigations into corruption, plus no fewer than 3 major public sector union strikes (all of their own making).
The affordability crisis looms, as does a trade war with the US.
Wildfires & measles are raging.
And the premier chose now to clear a path for a separation vote.
The affordability crisis looms, as does a trade war with the US.
Wildfires & measles are raging.
And the premier chose now to clear a path for a separation vote.
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Oh wow, Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner has issued a report finding the Alberta government is broadly not complying with freedom of information laws
May 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Oh wow, Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner has issued a report finding the Alberta government is broadly not complying with freedom of information laws
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Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.
May 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.
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I went back on @thebulwark.com to break down where things are at on the campaign trail.
you will be SHOCKED. youtu.be/dX8hVzz10sw?...
you will be SHOCKED. youtu.be/dX8hVzz10sw?...
Trump’s Attack On Canada Did Something SHOCKING
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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April 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I went back on @thebulwark.com to break down where things are at on the campaign trail.
you will be SHOCKED. youtu.be/dX8hVzz10sw?...
you will be SHOCKED. youtu.be/dX8hVzz10sw?...
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China really upping their trolling game since the tariffs.
April 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
China really upping their trolling game since the tariffs.
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Veteran photographer describes how Poilievre's campaign staff treated the media, and the public, at a Newfoundland fishing village.
Poilievre Stop in Fish Plant Smells canadianjournalist.ca/poilievre-ca...
Poilievre Stop in Fish Plant Smells | Canadian Journalist
Conservative Party of Canada election campaign stop in a fishing village in Newfoundland turns into a spectacle of party animosity towards media coverage.
canadianjournalist.ca
April 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Veteran photographer describes how Poilievre's campaign staff treated the media, and the public, at a Newfoundland fishing village.
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Grift.
After pouring $154 million in public funding to pay investors to build the new surgical spaces while public operating rooms are sitting idle (public assets that Albertans have already paid for), the ASI only added 16,493 of the least-complex procedures
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
After pouring $154 million in public funding to pay investors to build the new surgical spaces while public operating rooms are sitting idle (public assets that Albertans have already paid for), the ASI only added 16,493 of the least-complex procedures
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: Attack on AHS reveals the failings of surgery privatization
While politically convenient to blame AHS, responsibility for surgical wait times sits squarely with the government.
edmontonjournal.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Grift.
After pouring $154 million in public funding to pay investors to build the new surgical spaces while public operating rooms are sitting idle (public assets that Albertans have already paid for), the ASI only added 16,493 of the least-complex procedures
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
After pouring $154 million in public funding to pay investors to build the new surgical spaces while public operating rooms are sitting idle (public assets that Albertans have already paid for), the ASI only added 16,493 of the least-complex procedures
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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How we use the internet is largely shaped by a handful of US-based tech giants.
US gov't surveillance laws allow them to demand access to your private data without your knowledge or a warrant.
Read the thread below for the list of European alternatives that put your privacy first.
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US gov't surveillance laws allow them to demand access to your private data without your knowledge or a warrant.
Read the thread below for the list of European alternatives that put your privacy first.
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March 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
How we use the internet is largely shaped by a handful of US-based tech giants.
US gov't surveillance laws allow them to demand access to your private data without your knowledge or a warrant.
Read the thread below for the list of European alternatives that put your privacy first.
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US gov't surveillance laws allow them to demand access to your private data without your knowledge or a warrant.
Read the thread below for the list of European alternatives that put your privacy first.
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The piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre and the Donald.
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March 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre and the Donald.
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Someone tell Mike waltz about Mike waltz
March 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Someone tell Mike waltz about Mike waltz
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SCOOP: Health Minister Adriana LaGrange dismissed the AHS board the same day the organization was scheduled to receive a report examining whether some of its
contracts were subject to "improper activity," according to docs.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... w @alannasmith.bsky.social
contracts were subject to "improper activity," according to docs.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... w @alannasmith.bsky.social
Board of Alberta Health Services fired on same day that investigation report was due
Health Minister dismissed board after directors forwarded a letter to the Auditor-General alleging that government officials meddled in AHS’s operations to the benefit of private companies
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
SCOOP: Health Minister Adriana LaGrange dismissed the AHS board the same day the organization was scheduled to receive a report examining whether some of its
contracts were subject to "improper activity," according to docs.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... w @alannasmith.bsky.social
contracts were subject to "improper activity," according to docs.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... w @alannasmith.bsky.social
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.