Will Fred
@illyoppe.bsky.social
Canadian. Just became a senior citizen. Married to a wonderful woman for 37 years. I like to keep tabs of world events, politics and religion, particularily the christian religion.
**Not interested in a new relationship or crypto currency.
**Not interested in a new relationship or crypto currency.
And Alberta is working to get rid of it. #albertaucp
Every Fucking progressive Democracy in the World
Has universal or Single Payer Healthcare
Canada
New Zealand
Australia
Germany
France
Sweden
Denmark
Finland
Spain
Japan
UK
Taiwan
And the Richest Nation in the World, the good old USA?
Shit
Why?
Republicans are shit people
Has universal or Single Payer Healthcare
Canada
New Zealand
Australia
Germany
France
Sweden
Denmark
Finland
Spain
Japan
UK
Taiwan
And the Richest Nation in the World, the good old USA?
Shit
Why?
Republicans are shit people
December 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
And Alberta is working to get rid of it. #albertaucp
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Keep it real by fighting disinformation every day. That is The Tyee’s mission statement for 2026.
And it comes with a new initiative we’re eager to tell you about: The Tyee’s Reality Check Project. 🤖🔥🧵 (1/6) #CdnMedia
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The Tyee’s keeping it real with the support of our readers. And now we offer tax deduction receipts.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Keep it real by fighting disinformation every day. That is The Tyee’s mission statement for 2026.
And it comes with a new initiative we’re eager to tell you about: The Tyee’s Reality Check Project. 🤖🔥🧵 (1/6) #CdnMedia
And it comes with a new initiative we’re eager to tell you about: The Tyee’s Reality Check Project. 🤖🔥🧵 (1/6) #CdnMedia
An excellent breakdown of the stats.
The latest news story I wrote for @abworker.bsky.social
Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social
Alberta gained nearly 29,000 jobs last month
Most of them were full-time jobs; although full-time jobs, as a percentage of total jobs, are still lower than they were in June 2019.
albertaworker.ca/news/ab-gain...
Alberta gained nearly 29,000 jobs last month
Most of them were full-time jobs; although full-time jobs, as a percentage of total jobs, are still lower than they were in June 2019.
albertaworker.ca/news/ab-gain...
December 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
An excellent breakdown of the stats.
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Half a million in sole sourced contracts to a company with multiple former government staffers?
Is that what they mean by brand consistency?
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.townandcountrytoday.com/beyond-local...
Is that what they mean by brand consistency?
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Half a million in sole sourced contracts to a company with multiple former government staffers?
Is that what they mean by brand consistency?
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.townandcountrytoday.com/beyond-local...
Is that what they mean by brand consistency?
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.townandcountrytoday.com/beyond-local...
The nice folks at Loblaws.
Loblaws #cdnpoli 👇
Their meat is priced _per package_ now, not per kilogram.
The photo above shows a 649 g tray (left) and a 733 g tray (right), both for $15.
So, if you're not careful, you're paying over 10% extra for chicken thighs!
This packaging change is hiding price inflation & gouging.
Their meat is priced _per package_ now, not per kilogram.
The photo above shows a 649 g tray (left) and a 733 g tray (right), both for $15.
So, if you're not careful, you're paying over 10% extra for chicken thighs!
This packaging change is hiding price inflation & gouging.
November 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The nice folks at Loblaws.
Such nice people those UCPers.
“Albertans who fail to renew their health card on time will lose AHCIP coverage.
“Insured services may be declined until coverage is reinstated. Emergency services are still provided, but the patient may be billed if uninsured,”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...
“Insured services may be declined until coverage is reinstated. Emergency services are still provided, but the patient may be billed if uninsured,”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...
Renewing health cards won't cost money, but failing to do so will cost coverage - Medicine Hat News
zmason@medicinehatnews.com The UCP government is proposing a set of changes to the Alberta health card under Bill 11, sweeping health-care legislation tabled Monday. Amendments to the Health Insurance...
medicinehatnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Such nice people those UCPers.
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New report from @policyalternatives.ca and @iris-recherche.bsky.social shows a clear link between greater privatization in health care services and higher mortality rates—just as multiple Canadian provinces work actively to privatize those services www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Mortality and health care privatization: A comparison between countries - CCPA
Privatization is deadly. Canada needs to learn from other countries and focus on public health care instead.
www.policyalternatives.ca
November 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
New report from @policyalternatives.ca and @iris-recherche.bsky.social shows a clear link between greater privatization in health care services and higher mortality rates—just as multiple Canadian provinces work actively to privatize those services www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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As always, send tips in confidence to journalismtips@protonmail.com.
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
November 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
As always, send tips in confidence to journalismtips@protonmail.com.
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Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
The doctor shortage isn’t an accident. It was policy. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
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The Future Is Electric - a free online training course that explains the global energy transition.
5 videos = ~1 hour of watch time.
Watch for future modules:
*The Future of Oil
*The Future of Canadian Oil and Gas
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
5 videos = ~1 hour of watch time.
Watch for future modules:
*The Future of Oil
*The Future of Canadian Oil and Gas
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The Future Is Electric - YouTube
Explore how electrification is reshaping the global economy. The Future Is Electric from Energi Media examines how the rapid shift toward electricity is tran...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The Future Is Electric - a free online training course that explains the global energy transition.
5 videos = ~1 hour of watch time.
Watch for future modules:
*The Future of Oil
*The Future of Canadian Oil and Gas
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
5 videos = ~1 hour of watch time.
Watch for future modules:
*The Future of Oil
*The Future of Canadian Oil and Gas
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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“An anecdote about RCMP in the region used by Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA Justin Wright in the legislature to discuss a bill this week has been proven to be false”
So MLA’s just reading inaccurate, fabricated stories into the legislature now.
#abpoli #ableg
medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...
So MLA’s just reading inaccurate, fabricated stories into the legislature now.
#abpoli #ableg
medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...
MLA Wright wrong about damning RCMP story - Medicine Hat News
zmason@medicinehatnews.com An anecdote about RCMP in the region used by Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA Justin Wright in the legislature to discuss a bill this week has been proven to be false. Wright rose i...
medicinehatnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“An anecdote about RCMP in the region used by Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA Justin Wright in the legislature to discuss a bill this week has been proven to be false”
So MLA’s just reading inaccurate, fabricated stories into the legislature now.
#abpoli #ableg
medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...
So MLA’s just reading inaccurate, fabricated stories into the legislature now.
#abpoli #ableg
medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...
Smart move.
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Smart move.
Big surprise.
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Big surprise.
It’s always the little details that matter.
So, school board will have enough money to either hire 3,000 teachers and education assistants
OR
to fund for complex needs?
www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
OR
to fund for complex needs?
www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
November 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
It’s always the little details that matter.
Get you vacines folks. You don't want to get sick.
#UCPDeathCult
Steven Lewis is a Vancouver-based health policy expert who has worked extensively as a consultant and academic in various Canadian provinces, including Alberta. He is unaware of any other jurisdiction that has implemented a pillared or siloed system like the one in Alberta.
Steven Lewis is a Vancouver-based health policy expert who has worked extensively as a consultant and academic in various Canadian provinces, including Alberta. He is unaware of any other jurisdiction that has implemented a pillared or siloed system like the one in Alberta.
Medicine Hat emergency room physician Dr. Paul Parks is warning the public about what he asserts is a looming crisis in Alberta’s health-care system that will overwhelm the province’s already over-capacity and understaffed hospitals and lead to unnecessary deaths. #abpoli
October 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Get you vacines folks. You don't want to get sick.
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“This is the largest increase since modern measurements started in 1957 and is well in excess of the 2022–2023 increase of 2.3 ppm.”
Global carbon sinks buckling as pollution overwhelms Earth’s capacity to absorb our impacts. ☠️
www.newscientist.com/article/2500...
Global carbon sinks buckling as pollution overwhelms Earth’s capacity to absorb our impacts. ☠️
www.newscientist.com/article/2500...
CO2 levels in Earth's atmosphere jumped by a record amount in 2024
The global average concentration of CO2 surged by 3.5 parts per million to reach 423.9 ppm last year, fuelling worries that the planet’s ability to soak up excess carbon is weakening
www.newscientist.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
“This is the largest increase since modern measurements started in 1957 and is well in excess of the 2022–2023 increase of 2.3 ppm.”
Global carbon sinks buckling as pollution overwhelms Earth’s capacity to absorb our impacts. ☠️
www.newscientist.com/article/2500...
Global carbon sinks buckling as pollution overwhelms Earth’s capacity to absorb our impacts. ☠️
www.newscientist.com/article/2500...
This is the theme here in Alberta Canada right now as well.
The government strategy to drive a wedge between:
- unions and their members
- the public and the unions
is essentially pitting the public against the public, and we aren't that naive because we have personal contact with teachers, nurses, and senior doctors, and we admire them and their work.
- unions and their members
- the public and the unions
is essentially pitting the public against the public, and we aren't that naive because we have personal contact with teachers, nurses, and senior doctors, and we admire them and their work.
October 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is the theme here in Alberta Canada right now as well.
What?
October 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
What?
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www.youtube.com/shorts/fSu3q...
Rachel Gilmore explains how the CONservative Party is just re-spewing Trump's racist attacks.
Rachel Gilmore explains how the CONservative Party is just re-spewing Trump's racist attacks.
Canada's conservatives are importing Trump's attacks on DEI and birthright citizenship
YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
www.youtube.com/shorts/fSu3q...
Rachel Gilmore explains how the CONservative Party is just re-spewing Trump's racist attacks.
Rachel Gilmore explains how the CONservative Party is just re-spewing Trump's racist attacks.
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Sean Fraser 🇨🇦
This year marks 150 years of the Supreme Court of Canada helping to shape this country, standing in ardent defence of Canadian democracy and in defence of our freedoms.
May its work continue so that 150 years from now, Canada remains the true North, strong, and free. #cdnpoli
This year marks 150 years of the Supreme Court of Canada helping to shape this country, standing in ardent defence of Canadian democracy and in defence of our freedoms.
May its work continue so that 150 years from now, Canada remains the true North, strong, and free. #cdnpoli
October 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Sean Fraser 🇨🇦
This year marks 150 years of the Supreme Court of Canada helping to shape this country, standing in ardent defence of Canadian democracy and in defence of our freedoms.
May its work continue so that 150 years from now, Canada remains the true North, strong, and free. #cdnpoli
This year marks 150 years of the Supreme Court of Canada helping to shape this country, standing in ardent defence of Canadian democracy and in defence of our freedoms.
May its work continue so that 150 years from now, Canada remains the true North, strong, and free. #cdnpoli
If you have a subscription this looks good.
This is great investigative journalism.
They desperately want Albertans to forget the very well-documented ‘hustle in the oil patch’: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
October 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
If you have a subscription this looks good.
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Blaming immigrants is not new in Alberta. My latest for The Tyee.
'Shameless': How the Alberta Next Panel Blamed Immigrants via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
'Shameless': How the Alberta Next Panel Blamed Immigrants via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
‘Shameless’: How the Alberta Next Panel Blamed Immigrants | The Tyee
Divisive scapegoating, including showing a slanted video, fits the populist playbook, says an expert.
thetyee.ca
October 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Blaming immigrants is not new in Alberta. My latest for The Tyee.
'Shameless': How the Alberta Next Panel Blamed Immigrants via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
'Shameless': How the Alberta Next Panel Blamed Immigrants via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
Conservatives being conservatives.
Ontario’s Auditor General says Ford’s Skills Development Fund process was “not fair, transparent or accountable.”
800,000 Ontarians are looking for jobs—and Ford has turned the Skills Development Fund into a personal slush fund. #cdnpoli
800,000 Ontarians are looking for jobs—and Ford has turned the Skills Development Fund into a personal slush fund. #cdnpoli
October 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Conservatives being conservatives.
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The latest news story I wrote for @abworker.bsky.social
Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social
Safeway wants to roll back worker benefits
Remember, this is the same company that wanted to take back raises last year that they had already paid their workers.
albertaworker.ca/news/safeway...
Safeway wants to roll back worker benefits
Remember, this is the same company that wanted to take back raises last year that they had already paid their workers.
albertaworker.ca/news/safeway...
Safeway wants to roll back worker benefits
Remember, this is the same company that wanted to take back raises last year that they had already paid their workers.
albertaworker.ca
October 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The latest news story I wrote for @abworker.bsky.social
So good.
Life in Alberta:
"Have you considered what role a pipeline could play in your personal salvation?"
“Have you accepted Bitumen into your heart?”
“Peace be upon the pipeline, for it delivereth eternal GDP.”
“Brothers and sisters, let us pray for continued throughput.”
"Have you considered what role a pipeline could play in your personal salvation?"
“Have you accepted Bitumen into your heart?”
“Peace be upon the pipeline, for it delivereth eternal GDP.”
“Brothers and sisters, let us pray for continued throughput.”
October 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
So good.