Karen Berger
@pkrb.bsky.social
A Canadian living in Alberta.
Used to be American. Retired RN. #ElbowsUp #ForeverCanadian
Used to be American. Retired RN. #ElbowsUp #ForeverCanadian
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And know that the US President has accused the target of your aggression as being 'ungrateful'... again...
Can you imagine Roosevelt siding with Hitler during WWII calling all Jews ungrateful?
Can you imagine Roosevelt siding with Hitler during WWII calling all Jews ungrateful?
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
And know that the US President has accused the target of your aggression as being 'ungrateful'... again...
Can you imagine Roosevelt siding with Hitler during WWII calling all Jews ungrateful?
Can you imagine Roosevelt siding with Hitler during WWII calling all Jews ungrateful?
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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
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My latest investigation for @thetyee.ca details what the UCP government doesn't want the public to know about their private surgery push.
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 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
My latest investigation for @thetyee.ca details what the UCP government doesn't want the public to know about their private surgery push.
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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Good morning.
If you live in Alberta, you should know that today your government will invoke the notwithstanding clause to wage war against transgender Albertans.
Not because transgender persons are harmful, but because the UCP is distracting you from their mountain of failures.
#ableg
If you live in Alberta, you should know that today your government will invoke the notwithstanding clause to wage war against transgender Albertans.
Not because transgender persons are harmful, but because the UCP is distracting you from their mountain of failures.
#ableg
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Good morning.
If you live in Alberta, you should know that today your government will invoke the notwithstanding clause to wage war against transgender Albertans.
Not because transgender persons are harmful, but because the UCP is distracting you from their mountain of failures.
#ableg
If you live in Alberta, you should know that today your government will invoke the notwithstanding clause to wage war against transgender Albertans.
Not because transgender persons are harmful, but because the UCP is distracting you from their mountain of failures.
#ableg
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"The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure." — @stefanswartpet.bsky.social & @madhupai.bsky.social argue children have the right to be vaccinated. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers
Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.
www.statnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure." — @stefanswartpet.bsky.social & @madhupai.bsky.social argue children have the right to be vaccinated. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
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'Whatever This Is' is back, and we're starting with a doozy. We unpack Canada's fast lane to authoritarianism—The Notwithstanding Clause.
Follow @forwardcanada.bsky.social for more. #abpoli #ableg #canpoli
Follow @forwardcanada.bsky.social for more. #abpoli #ableg #canpoli
November 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
'Whatever This Is' is back, and we're starting with a doozy. We unpack Canada's fast lane to authoritarianism—The Notwithstanding Clause.
Follow @forwardcanada.bsky.social for more. #abpoli #ableg #canpoli
Follow @forwardcanada.bsky.social for more. #abpoli #ableg #canpoli
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The authoritarian UCP rammed this undemocratic bill though at 2:00am after premier Smith fled the country. Not even a joke, but this government sure is. Fuck the UCP.
#generalstrike
#abpoli
#generalstrike
#abpoli
“Under the legislation, teachers would be forced to accept the tentative agreement that 89.5 per cent of them voted against in late September.”
This should be fine.
Wild.
This should be fine.
Wild.
October 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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$500 a day fines to teachers? $500,000 a day to the union?
This is fucking insane. So much for the party of "Freedom" and "Choice" - what a bunch of asshats.
This is fucking insane. So much for the party of "Freedom" and "Choice" - what a bunch of asshats.
October 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
$500 a day fines to teachers? $500,000 a day to the union?
This is fucking insane. So much for the party of "Freedom" and "Choice" - what a bunch of asshats.
This is fucking insane. So much for the party of "Freedom" and "Choice" - what a bunch of asshats.
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Let's be clear about what happened today.
Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights,
denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it,
and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.
Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights,
denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it,
and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.
The UCP government has invoked time allocation and on a bill removing Albertans' Charter rights.
And they're using the notwithstanding clause to do it.
Here's why that is a dangerous precedent. And why real conservatives need to stand up against it.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
And they're using the notwithstanding clause to do it.
Here's why that is a dangerous precedent. And why real conservatives need to stand up against it.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Alberta Strong and Free, Notwithstanding
The UCP's Bill 2 skirts the legislature and the courts, leaving it up to the public to push back swiftly
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Let's be clear about what happened today.
Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights,
denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it,
and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.
Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights,
denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it,
and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.
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I'm the next few days, it would be a mistake to:
❌️ limit the resistance to the teachers' demands or saving public education
❌️ make labour/workers/unions the only faces of opposition
The UCP's pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause is much broader than one strike or one set of rights.
❌️ limit the resistance to the teachers' demands or saving public education
❌️ make labour/workers/unions the only faces of opposition
The UCP's pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause is much broader than one strike or one set of rights.
The days ahead will be crucial.
Not just in terms of public opinion, but in terms of political culture.
Champions of human rights and the constitution must not only outnumber the premier's supporters.
They must persuade Albertans that these positions are dominant, piercing the populist bubble.
Not just in terms of public opinion, but in terms of political culture.
Champions of human rights and the constitution must not only outnumber the premier's supporters.
They must persuade Albertans that these positions are dominant, piercing the populist bubble.
October 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I'm the next few days, it would be a mistake to:
❌️ limit the resistance to the teachers' demands or saving public education
❌️ make labour/workers/unions the only faces of opposition
The UCP's pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause is much broader than one strike or one set of rights.
❌️ limit the resistance to the teachers' demands or saving public education
❌️ make labour/workers/unions the only faces of opposition
The UCP's pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause is much broader than one strike or one set of rights.
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Remember that the Alberta government plans to use the Notwithstanding Clause AGAIN this week to erase the right of trans youth to seek life-saving, evidence-based medical care.
No rights are safe when the Clause is used for political expediency.
transactionalberta.ca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9V2...
No rights are safe when the Clause is used for political expediency.
transactionalberta.ca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9V2...
Alberta: Protect Trans Youth, Protect the Charter.
YouTube video by TransAction Alberta
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Remember that the Alberta government plans to use the Notwithstanding Clause AGAIN this week to erase the right of trans youth to seek life-saving, evidence-based medical care.
No rights are safe when the Clause is used for political expediency.
transactionalberta.ca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9V2...
No rights are safe when the Clause is used for political expediency.
transactionalberta.ca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9V2...
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Having burned $3B+ AB taxpayer dollars on the aborted Keystone pipeline & tank car sh*t, the UCP is pursuing additional pipeline opportunities. How many more of our taxpayer dollars need to go up in smoke while our health, education & social service systems all suffer under these ignorant rubes?
Alberta’s latest pipeline push dredges up ghosts of projects past
Few are as acquainted with Canada’s graveyard of defunct oil pipelines as Alex Pourbaix, a former executive at the company behind the Keystone XL and Energy East proposals.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Having burned $3B+ AB taxpayer dollars on the aborted Keystone pipeline & tank car sh*t, the UCP is pursuing additional pipeline opportunities. How many more of our taxpayer dollars need to go up in smoke while our health, education & social service systems all suffer under these ignorant rubes?
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In Alberta, having an eligible mental health disorder (like depression) qualifies you for free COVID-19 vaccine. There must be at least 2 million Albertans chronically depressed by the actions of this ridiculous, bumbling and pissy government. That sounds like free shots for most of us.
October 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
In Alberta, having an eligible mental health disorder (like depression) qualifies you for free COVID-19 vaccine. There must be at least 2 million Albertans chronically depressed by the actions of this ridiculous, bumbling and pissy government. That sounds like free shots for most of us.
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Weird thing is every physician I’ve been talking are shaking their heads and wondering who could possibly be advising this…
It is so poorly thought out and so obviously going to be disastrous…
It is so poorly thought out and so obviously going to be disastrous…
October 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Weird thing is every physician I’ve been talking are shaking their heads and wondering who could possibly be advising this…
It is so poorly thought out and so obviously going to be disastrous…
It is so poorly thought out and so obviously going to be disastrous…
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Danielle Smith's justification for charging Albertans for vaccines & requiring pre-orders, is that it's saving $$ due to less waste. But is it really?
No. The answer is no. Hospitalization is expensive. We'll have more sick & dead people, AND it'll cost more. Fiscal conservatives, my ass 🤬.
#ableg
No. The answer is no. Hospitalization is expensive. We'll have more sick & dead people, AND it'll cost more. Fiscal conservatives, my ass 🤬.
#ableg
The Government of Alberta has referred to COVID vaccines as “an expensive intervention,” to justify a vaccine policy based on pre-ordering, radically reducing community access and charging most Albertans to receive the vaccine. Here are the facts. www.albertadoctors.org/news/publica...
October 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Danielle Smith's justification for charging Albertans for vaccines & requiring pre-orders, is that it's saving $$ due to less waste. But is it really?
No. The answer is no. Hospitalization is expensive. We'll have more sick & dead people, AND it'll cost more. Fiscal conservatives, my ass 🤬.
#ableg
No. The answer is no. Hospitalization is expensive. We'll have more sick & dead people, AND it'll cost more. Fiscal conservatives, my ass 🤬.
#ableg
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This is absolutely insane. I had to make sure it wasn’t fake news.
🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them.
This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people ..
bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...
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This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people ..
bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...
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bookvaccine.alberta.ca
October 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
This is absolutely insane. I had to make sure it wasn’t fake news.
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Nearly a decade after Northern Gateway was killed by the courts, Alberta Conservatives like Danielle Smith still haven't bothered to learn the lessons it offered about BC's unique political and legal geography.
It's going to cost them — again. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/16/o...
It's going to cost them — again. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/16/o...
Alberta is forgetting the hard-won lessons of Northern Gateway
If Danielle Smith wants to build another pipeline across British Columbia, she might want to spend some time actually trying to understand what makes it tick first.
www.nationalobserver.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Nearly a decade after Northern Gateway was killed by the courts, Alberta Conservatives like Danielle Smith still haven't bothered to learn the lessons it offered about BC's unique political and legal geography.
It's going to cost them — again. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/16/o...
It's going to cost them — again. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/16/o...
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"The US, which has positioned itself as a major fossil fuel exporter, sold $80B in oil and gas abroad through July, the last month with data available. China exported $120B in green technology over the same period."
Like the man said, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. 🌬️
Like the man said, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. 🌬️
October 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"The US, which has positioned itself as a major fossil fuel exporter, sold $80B in oil and gas abroad through July, the last month with data available. China exported $120B in green technology over the same period."
Like the man said, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. 🌬️
Like the man said, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. 🌬️
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wake up, hosers
new petition just dropped
e-6818 is calling to strengthen the Canada Health Act to stop provinces from privatizing health care and to force provinces to account for how and where they used health transfer money
new petition just dropped
e-6818 is calling to strengthen the Canada Health Act to stop provinces from privatizing health care and to force provinces to account for how and where they used health transfer money
Sign this Petition - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
October 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
wake up, hosers
new petition just dropped
e-6818 is calling to strengthen the Canada Health Act to stop provinces from privatizing health care and to force provinces to account for how and where they used health transfer money
new petition just dropped
e-6818 is calling to strengthen the Canada Health Act to stop provinces from privatizing health care and to force provinces to account for how and where they used health transfer money
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The 14M dollars Smith has committed to a pipeline going nowhere would cover the entire cost of COVID vaccines.
Smith likes to day "saving taxpayer dollars" to justify her decision yet she never hesitate to spend huge amounts on pet projects: multiple panels, Dynalife fiasco, bloated govt, etc.
Smith likes to day "saving taxpayer dollars" to justify her decision yet she never hesitate to spend huge amounts on pet projects: multiple panels, Dynalife fiasco, bloated govt, etc.
“It’s economically perverse that the provincial government will spend public money on a project the private sector has balked at, while simultaneously sabotaging private investment in renewable energy projects the market is demanding.”
www.theenergymix.com/albertas-new...
www.theenergymix.com/albertas-new...
Alberta’s New Pipeline Pitch: Bad for Business, Disastrous for Climate, Analysts Say
Climate advocates and at least one policy analyst are taking Alberta Premier Danielle Smith back to business school after she promised to pitch a new westbound oil pipeline to the federal Major Projec...
www.theenergymix.com
October 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The 14M dollars Smith has committed to a pipeline going nowhere would cover the entire cost of COVID vaccines.
Smith likes to day "saving taxpayer dollars" to justify her decision yet she never hesitate to spend huge amounts on pet projects: multiple panels, Dynalife fiasco, bloated govt, etc.
Smith likes to day "saving taxpayer dollars" to justify her decision yet she never hesitate to spend huge amounts on pet projects: multiple panels, Dynalife fiasco, bloated govt, etc.
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40% of Alberta's children are food insecure
Read that again
That is a shameful indictment of the UCP
They have made life worse…way worse for Alberta's children
While the UCP are busy pushing Alberta separation children are going hungry
Disgusting
#ableg
Read that again
That is a shameful indictment of the UCP
They have made life worse…way worse for Alberta's children
While the UCP are busy pushing Alberta separation children are going hungry
Disgusting
#ableg
“Alberta leads the country in the number of students showing up to school hungry, according to the Breakfast Club of Canada.
Forty per cent of children in Alberta live in a food insecure household”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Forty per cent of children in Alberta live in a food insecure household”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Alberta leads Canada in number of students showing up to school hungry: organization
Alberta leads the country in the number of students showing up to school hungry, according to the Breakfast Club of Canada.
www.ctvnews.ca
September 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
40% of Alberta's children are food insecure
Read that again
That is a shameful indictment of the UCP
They have made life worse…way worse for Alberta's children
While the UCP are busy pushing Alberta separation children are going hungry
Disgusting
#ableg
Read that again
That is a shameful indictment of the UCP
They have made life worse…way worse for Alberta's children
While the UCP are busy pushing Alberta separation children are going hungry
Disgusting
#ableg
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Thread. But read these words. This is on the UCP.
patients "are suffering and dying"
Could be a loved one, could be you. For no other reason except ideology. Also partly due to COVID restrictions - actions taken to save lives and keep our health care workers from being even more overwhelmed.
patients "are suffering and dying"
Could be a loved one, could be you. For no other reason except ideology. Also partly due to COVID restrictions - actions taken to save lives and keep our health care workers from being even more overwhelmed.
As things get worse, and as pts are suffering and dying, there will be no ability for our system to work in a coordinated fashion to try to mitigate severe overcrowding...
There is ABSOLUTELY NO operational control of our entire HC system anymore...
Govt broke it...
There is ABSOLUTELY NO operational control of our entire HC system anymore...
Govt broke it...
September 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Thread. But read these words. This is on the UCP.
patients "are suffering and dying"
Could be a loved one, could be you. For no other reason except ideology. Also partly due to COVID restrictions - actions taken to save lives and keep our health care workers from being even more overwhelmed.
patients "are suffering and dying"
Could be a loved one, could be you. For no other reason except ideology. Also partly due to COVID restrictions - actions taken to save lives and keep our health care workers from being even more overwhelmed.