Bren 🇨🇦
@brenda-j.bsky.social
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👍🏻 Democracy everywhere, even in Alberta if we can ever manage it again in my lifetime
👎🏻 Fascism
🙂 Recently retired from AHS. So glad to be OUT of the government induced chaos
🇨🇦 Forever Canadian. Elbows Up. I signed the petition
👍🏻 Democracy everywhere, even in Alberta if we can ever manage it again in my lifetime
👎🏻 Fascism
🙂 Recently retired from AHS. So glad to be OUT of the government induced chaos
🇨🇦 Forever Canadian. Elbows Up. I signed the petition
Can you even believe this UCP crap anymore??
So Alberta's latest proposed law would:
👉 Take power over citizen-led referendums from the chief electoral officer & give it to cabinet.
👉 Ban new political parties from using certain words in their names, including: 'conservative,' 'democratic,' 'liberal,' 'Republican,' and 'wild rose.'
👉 Take power over citizen-led referendums from the chief electoral officer & give it to cabinet.
👉 Ban new political parties from using certain words in their names, including: 'conservative,' 'democratic,' 'liberal,' 'Republican,' and 'wild rose.'
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 12:37 AM
Can you even believe this UCP crap anymore??
Danielle Smith is bound and determined to destroy public health care - please sign this petition. No more Maple MAGA
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URGENT – Stop Premier Danielle Smith’s Plan to End Universal Healthcare
Alberta Premier Smith has used the Notwithstanding Clause to pass laws that erase rights and silence the courts.
notwotier.ca
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Danielle Smith is bound and determined to destroy public health care - please sign this petition. No more Maple MAGA
notwotier.ca
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During the same week that the UCP is expanding privatization, the auditor general finds that government interference cost taxpayers over $100 million.
How can anyone deny it’s the government that’s the problem?
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
How can anyone deny it’s the government that’s the problem?
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
Alberta wasted more than $100M in lab privatization effort: Auditor general report
dynalifey
edmontonjournal.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
During the same week that the UCP is expanding privatization, the auditor general finds that government interference cost taxpayers over $100 million.
How can anyone deny it’s the government that’s the problem?
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
How can anyone deny it’s the government that’s the problem?
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
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Outing a kid to their abusive, intolerant parents endangers that kid.
Taking away the choice of parents to decide with medical professionals what’s best for their kid endangers that kid.
Removing gender/sexuality education endangers kids.
Stop pretending Alberta cares about the safety of kids.
Taking away the choice of parents to decide with medical professionals what’s best for their kid endangers that kid.
Removing gender/sexuality education endangers kids.
Stop pretending Alberta cares about the safety of kids.
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Outing a kid to their abusive, intolerant parents endangers that kid.
Taking away the choice of parents to decide with medical professionals what’s best for their kid endangers that kid.
Removing gender/sexuality education endangers kids.
Stop pretending Alberta cares about the safety of kids.
Taking away the choice of parents to decide with medical professionals what’s best for their kid endangers that kid.
Removing gender/sexuality education endangers kids.
Stop pretending Alberta cares about the safety of kids.
More trampling of human rights by the UCP. Makes one wonder what the hell they’re so afraid of!!
“We can’t make laws that respect human rights so we’ll pass shi**y laws using a loophole that was never meant for this and you need to suck it up for ~5years minimum and there ain’t nothing you can do about it.”
#cdnpoli #abpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#cdnpoli #abpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta government to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News
The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.
www.cbc.ca
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
More trampling of human rights by the UCP. Makes one wonder what the hell they’re so afraid of!!
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Pay more, get less - delay care to cancer patients and put rich people first.
(When it comes to cancer, care delayed is care denied.)
(When it comes to cancer, care delayed is care denied.)
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 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Pay more, get less - delay care to cancer patients and put rich people first.
(When it comes to cancer, care delayed is care denied.)
(When it comes to cancer, care delayed is care denied.)
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“the expansion of private surgery had siphoned funding & a scarce pool of critical staff, including anesthesiologists and operating room nurses, from the public system, increasing wait times for cancer and other priority surgeries”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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 3:28 AM
“the expansion of private surgery had siphoned funding & a scarce pool of critical staff, including anesthesiologists and operating room nurses, from the public system, increasing wait times for cancer and other priority surgeries”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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#RecallNicolaides: "I need your help IMMEDIATELY!" 🤡🤡🤡
That's the sound of them all being rattled as the Recall Games get real. He’s calling it a "political attack," but it's accountability. The reckoning is here. May the odds finally be in Alberta's favour! 🏹 #ABleg #Abpoli #RecallThemAll
That's the sound of them all being rattled as the Recall Games get real. He’s calling it a "political attack," but it's accountability. The reckoning is here. May the odds finally be in Alberta's favour! 🏹 #ABleg #Abpoli #RecallThemAll
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
#RecallNicolaides: "I need your help IMMEDIATELY!" 🤡🤡🤡
That's the sound of them all being rattled as the Recall Games get real. He’s calling it a "political attack," but it's accountability. The reckoning is here. May the odds finally be in Alberta's favour! 🏹 #ABleg #Abpoli #RecallThemAll
That's the sound of them all being rattled as the Recall Games get real. He’s calling it a "political attack," but it's accountability. The reckoning is here. May the odds finally be in Alberta's favour! 🏹 #ABleg #Abpoli #RecallThemAll
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@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: Trying to challenge the UCP government’s misuse of the Charter’s notorious notwithstanding clause may be a waste of time and money, but using the UCP’s ridiculous recall legislation as a strategy against the perpetrators is clearly rattling Premier Smith. #abpoli
Danielle Smith’s Party Conked by Its Own Boomerang | The Tyee
The Recall Act is bad law made for bad reasons. Now the UCP rues its invention.
thetyee.ca
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: Trying to challenge the UCP government’s misuse of the Charter’s notorious notwithstanding clause may be a waste of time and money, but using the UCP’s ridiculous recall legislation as a strategy against the perpetrators is clearly rattling Premier Smith. #abpoli
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Can you imagine Trump doing anything this awesome? I can’t
In an unforgettable Veterans Day moment, former President Barack Obama surprised dozens of Korean and Vietnam War veterans as their Honor Flight landed in Washington, D.C. The veterans, fresh off their flight from Madison, Wisconsin, were greeted by President Obama himself.
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Can you imagine Trump doing anything this awesome? I can’t
Right on!
Elizabeth May slams Poilievre on Project 2025! #cdnpoli
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Right on!
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RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #4
A male in his 20s with severe asthma, very short of breath and having trouble breathing.
Presents in distress to his local ED - but it is closed, and he didn't know.
He calls 911 for help, and there are no ambulances available to respond...
1/5
A male in his 20s with severe asthma, very short of breath and having trouble breathing.
Presents in distress to his local ED - but it is closed, and he didn't know.
He calls 911 for help, and there are no ambulances available to respond...
1/5
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #4
A male in his 20s with severe asthma, very short of breath and having trouble breathing.
Presents in distress to his local ED - but it is closed, and he didn't know.
He calls 911 for help, and there are no ambulances available to respond...
1/5
A male in his 20s with severe asthma, very short of breath and having trouble breathing.
Presents in distress to his local ED - but it is closed, and he didn't know.
He calls 911 for help, and there are no ambulances available to respond...
1/5
More labour unrest to come
“EMS in Alberta now relies on exhausted professionals who are routinely working long stretches, sometimes mandatory and without rest, to give everything they can without the support they need,”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
‘Pushed to their breaking point’: Paramedics working thousands of hours of overtime every month across Alberta
Alberta paramedics are working tens of thousands of hours of overtime every month.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
More labour unrest to come
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Chris d'Entremont on his decision to join the Liberal Party: "I wasn't feeling that I was aligned with the ideals of what the Leader of the Opposition had been talking about… It's time to actually try to lead a country to try to make it better,and not try to knock it down"
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Chris d'Entremont on his decision to join the Liberal Party: "I wasn't feeling that I was aligned with the ideals of what the Leader of the Opposition had been talking about… It's time to actually try to lead a country to try to make it better,and not try to knock it down"
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
Disgusting
November 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Disgusting
Wow! The UCP will do pretty much anything to ensure their corruption stays under the rug
Between a government-controlled third-party process, limitations, delays & now: the ousting of the Auditor General during his investigation, Albertans are STILL waiting for answers on major health care corruption allegations.
We need a public inquiry NOW!
www.friendsofmedicare.org/firing_audit...
We need a public inquiry NOW!
www.friendsofmedicare.org/firing_audit...
November 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Wow! The UCP will do pretty much anything to ensure their corruption stays under the rug
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Where's the premier while MLAs rush through an all-night debate on stripping Albertans of their Charter rights?
An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.
I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.
An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.
I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.
October 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Where's the premier while MLAs rush through an all-night debate on stripping Albertans of their Charter rights?
An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.
I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.
An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.
I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.
Fantastic news! Maybe we can defeat fascism in Alberta
Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
October 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Fantastic news! Maybe we can defeat fascism in Alberta
Voter suppression in Alberta
I'd like to speak to the manager!
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I'd like to speak to the manager!
Go ahead.
open.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Voter suppression in Alberta
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“Joseph Schow says the changes will ensure only those who, in his words, "truly care and are serious about representing a community” will be put on the ballot.”
The UCP are bringing purity tests to who can run in elections.
Huh.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.stalbertgazette.com/beyond-local...
The UCP are bringing purity tests to who can run in elections.
Huh.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.stalbertgazette.com/beyond-local...
Big changes ahead for Alberta's provincial elections
Government house leader Joseph Schow says the changes will ensure only those who, in his words, "truly care and are serious about representing a community” will be put on the ballot.
www.stalbertgazette.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“Joseph Schow says the changes will ensure only those who, in his words, "truly care and are serious about representing a community” will be put on the ballot.”
The UCP are bringing purity tests to who can run in elections.
Huh.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.stalbertgazette.com/beyond-local...
The UCP are bringing purity tests to who can run in elections.
Huh.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.stalbertgazette.com/beyond-local...