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What if the hokie pokie is what it’s all about!
She/her, Treaty 6 Territory, 🇨🇦
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📢Take action to Protect + Rebuild Alberta's health care! rebuildourhealthcare.ca
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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"This is not what Albertans asked for, and it’s certainly not what Danielle Smith promised when she was running for Premier."

NDP leader Naheed Nenshi calls out Bill 11, arguing it's steering Alberta towards for-profit American-style health care to the province.
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Tiny group turns out for Jumpin Jack Jamil Jivani’s “Liberal Racism” conclave, including 22 of petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre’s clapping seal MP’s.
Says it all: the Conservative Party of Canada once again missing the political sweet spot by a country mile.
🤭
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Conservative MPs denounce ‘Liberal racism’ and DEI during Jamil Jivani event
Bowmanville—Oshawa North MP Jamil Jivani said “a repackaged form of old bigotry, old discrimination” is eroding meritocracy, eradicating diversity of thought and tearing Canadians apart.
www.thestar.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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More essential reporting:

What Alberta's plan to permit public *and* private billing by doctors could impact access to/quality of care.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The "hybrid" system exists nowhere in Canada. A doctor can practice privately -exclusively- anywhere.
The most do so in Quebec.
What Alberta's public-private doctor plan could mean for insurance, physician burnout, nurses and more | CBC News
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s plan to allow physicians to dabble both in the public and private systems at the same time would be a Canadian first, and has drawn mixed reaction from critics and sup...
www.cbc.ca
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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“A government does not reach for the notwithstanding clause four times in a month unless something is deeply wrong. This isn’t normal. It isn’t safe. And it isn’t democracy. Each time rights are pushed aside, a warning siren is blaring: Power is being placed above people.”

~ Stephanie Shostak
Thursday's letters: UCP hiding from accountability
Edmonton Journal readers speak out on on Alberta invoking the notwithstanding clause and CFL rule changes.
edmontonjournal.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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"The greatest danger now facing the system is the absence of qualified leadership. Critical decisions about surgical prioritization, staffing, and funding are being made by individuals lacking clinical training."

edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

#Alberta #Canada #abpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare
Opinion: Ideology over expertise putting health care at risk
The greatest danger now facing the system is the absence of qualified leadership.
edmontonjournal.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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This cartoon is from the Calgary Herald…November 21…reflects our premier’s decision to have drs work in public and private care 🙁
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Help to #RecallNicolaides. You don't have to live in his riding! #Calgary #recall #abpoli #Ableg #ucp
🙋‍♀️ Who wants to help RecallNicolaides.ca deliver these?
Saturdays
November 29 & December 6
12-3 pm
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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If you live in Airdrie East riding you can sign the recall petition for Angela Pitt
Go to the link below to find a location
#ableg #abpoli
pitt-recall.ca
Angela Pitt Recall
Sign the petition to recall the MLA for Airdrie-East, Angela Pitt. Help us grow the recall movement and make our government accountable!
pitt-recall.ca
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Sunday morning in Edmonton. Stand up for human rights before the Alberta government takes away yours.
November 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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If you live in Calgary-Bow you can sign the Demetrios Nicolaides recall petition
Go to the link below to find a location
#ableg #abpoli
recallnicolaides.ca
Recall Nicolaides
recallnicolaides.ca
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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This is what is happening.
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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26 Alberta counties have been collecting tax $ from renewables and there is the potential for much more across the province.
And yet Smith has forced the entire to province to funnel their electricity $ into a few natural gas companies.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Rural Alberta's $70-million question: Will renewable energy revenue keep growing?
Rural Alberta's $70 million question: Will renewable energy revenue keep growing?
calgaryherald.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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We honestly can’t afford another ignorant and ill-informed experimentation with our HC system.
12/12
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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The OAG’s report on the failed DynaLIFE lab contract should alarm every Albertan.
www.oag.ab.ca/report...
But this isn’t just about labs.
It exposes political interference, broken governance, and decisions that directly worsen access to care for all ABs.
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An Examination of Community Laboratory Services (Contract with DynaLIFE) - Office of the Auditor General, Alberta
Examination Overview  In late 2019, Alberta Health Services (AHS) began the process to outsource community laboratory services for the provincial healthcare system. This led to a $4.8 billion contract signed with DynaLIFE Dx (DynaLIFE) in May 2022, with service delivery scheduled to begin in December 2022. Eight months later, in August 2023, AHS terminated the agreement at the request of DynaLIFE’s owners.  Given the significance … Continued
www.oag.ab.ca
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Picket lines for Alberta's nursing care staff strike go up tomorrow morning. Looks like nearly every major hospital across the province will be impacted. If you'd like to see if there will be a picket line in your area, AUPE's website is searchable by location:
Queue-it
www.aupe.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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A large rally against Bill 9 and the use of the Notwithstanding Clause by the Alberta government is being organized by community groups in Edmonton.

Sunday, November 23
10:30 AM
Alberta Legislature, Edmonton

Make plans to be there on Sunday morning!
www.instagram.com/p/DRVCQZ6AVob/
#ableg #abpoli
Public Interest Alberta on Instagram: "Join us this Sunday, November 23 at 10:30 AM at the Alberta Legislature for a Transgender Day of Remembrance rally. We gather to honour those we’ve lost, to upli...
This Sunday, November 23, Public Interest Alberta invites you to join the Transgender Day of Remembrance rally at the Alberta Legislature. We honor those we've lost, uplift our trans community, and re...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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MacEACHERN: “You’ve got the Vice President talking about this, mentioning the CBC. You wonder who he talks to—Jamil Jivani and he are supposedly old friends… I am curious about the level of detail… Who are you talking to in Canada that would give you that impression?”
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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as long as their party is a member of Harper's IDU any new leader will be the same as PP
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I wrote this two years ago. Felt inspired to post it again today. Tomorrow, it may be more relevant than ever. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #cdnpoli #Alberta @albertaviews.bsky.social
albertaviews.ca
November 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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🔴 “Restore the North” is a sordid tour of Canadian universities and colleges that is part of the MAGA “Project 2025” playbook to attempt right-wing brainwashing of young Canadians

Canada is not the USA though, and so far the movement has been a total flop ...

open.substack.com/pub/funtomwr...
FEED THE KIDS! 🇨🇦
🔴 “Restore the North” is a sordid tour of Canadian universities and colleges that is part of the MAGA “Project 2025” playbook to attempt right-wing brainwashing of young Canadians
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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The most tone deaf and hypocritical statement you wouldn’t believe until you actually saw it.

You cannot recognize a day of mourning when your government’s anti-trans discriminatory legislation is causing the incredible harm.

The duplicitous double speak is so Orwellian.
November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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'First of all, the idea of a government being this focused on “preserving” the sexual maturity of kids is... gross."
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Danielle Smith Goes Nuclear on Trans Rights | The Tyee
Alberta’s premier is overriding Charter protections. Here’s a fact check on her claims.
thetyee.ca
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Alberta’s decision to invoke the Notwithstanding Clause for the 2nd time in just a month, this time to override the rights of transgender children, endangers transgender and gender-diverse Albertans and violates the spirit of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

amnesty.ca/press-releas...
Amnesty International Canada condemns Alberta's use of Notwithstanding Clause to prop up anti-trans policies
In response to the Government of Alberta’s use of notwithstanding clause for the second time in a span of one month to protect a trio of laws that affect
amnesty.ca
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM