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Just a reminder…

While Smith and Lagrange are talking about the biggest factors influencing health outcomes and why they’re profitizing Alberta’s healthcare…

The #1 factor that determines health outcomes is made worse by the policy.

It’s poverty.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
October 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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calgaryoccupy.bsky.social
~AHS&LaGrange refuse to increase funding by a relatively small amount to a public facility meant to serve complex patients while paying inflated fees to chartered surgical facilities.

LaGrange is holding the line over $975,000 after the UCP wasted $70M on Turkish Tylenol

thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...
The Pain-Racked Patients Alberta’s Orthopedic Surgery Centre Won’t Take | The Tyee
Surgeons offered a $975,000 way to fix the public clinic’s backlog of 1,400 ‘complex’ cases. AHS said no.
thetyee.ca
April 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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venilia13.bsky.social
#cdnpoli #Canada
December 4, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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drugdatadecoded.ca
Raise the bar, stand with CUPW.
canadians.org/update/state...
CUPW members have been at the forefront of struggles for economic, social, and environmental justice for decades. In 1981, Canadian postal workers won 17 weeks of paid maternity leave after a 42-day strike. That victory soon spread to workplaces across the country, popularizing the view that all workers should benefit from paid parental leave. A fair contract for unionized postal workers raises the bar for all working people.
November 29, 2024 at 1:45 AM
anxiouscucumber.bsky.social
An utterly beautiful, honest, and heartbreaking read.
daniparadis.bsky.social Dani Paradis @daniparadis.bsky.social · Nov 28
A story of a bipolar homeless journalist. In better days I would have liked to have thought a piece like this would make change. I hope it does. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:22 AM