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Jill Konkin 🇨🇦 🍁

@djillk.bsky.social
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Health equity. Social justice. Rural generalist physician — recently ceased active clinical practice. Professor, Family Medicine Views are my own. Live on Treaty 6 territory. She/Her

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The Alberta and Ontario environment ministers sent a letter to the federal government, asking it to 'refrain' from reintroducing Bill C-61/
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Alberta, Ontario don't want feds to reintroduce First Nations safe drinking water law
Environment ministers in Alberta and Ontario don't want the federal government to reintroduce the safe drinking water law for First Nations.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"Tombe acknowledges the government survey is nothing but a “push poll” designed to give Smith the answers she wants." So even the experts working on the governments panel are calling out the "survey" for what it is. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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Why Join Danielle Smith’s ‘Alberta Next’ Road Show? | The Tyee
A highly respected economist is participating in the premier’s propaganda stunt. I asked him why.
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Jill Konkin 🇨🇦 🍁 @djillk.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Thoughtful 🧵On Smith’s new panel. Same old misinformation. Same old policy ideas.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 25/06/2025
Earlier today, Premier Smith announced plans to tour the province and hear from Albertans about how to improve the province's place in Confederation. Some thoughts.🧵
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
And if we DON’T want this bitter hate-mongering xenophobia to define us? We’d better all speak up. I am proud to represent Albertans and the Alberta I love in the Senate of Canada, as an independent nonpartisan Senator. This is not a partisan issue. This is about who we are - and who we want to be.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Alberta needs immigrants - their drive, their entrepreneurial spirit, their artistic and creative talent, their hard work, their skills, their investment capital. And we’ve been proud to welcome refugees - from Ukraine and Eritrea, South Sudan and Myanmar and Syria. This hateful racism is not us.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Alberta as we know it today simply would not exist without the millions of immigrants and refugees who built it, who loved it, and who were proud to call it home - including my grandparents and my mum. This bitter xenophobia is as unAlbertan as it’s possible to be. I’m ashamed. I’m disgusted.
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Adam MacVicar @adammacvicar.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
NEW: Premier Danielle Smith announces Alberta Next panel that she will chair. Town halls begin next month.
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
"On Friday, the province said the survey results showed 'strong support' for a school library policy". The results said, in fact, the opposite. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
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Survey shows most Albertans don’t want province setting standards for school library books, province going ahead
Survey results from the Alberta government show the majority of respondents don't support the province setting standards for school library books.
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@KatyET www.abresistance.ca @katyet.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/alb... You paid $2M for an anti science panel whose report culminates in the majority of Albertans paying for Covid vaccinations…if they can. Can’t? Too bad.
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‘She created that result’: Friends of Medicare blames Alta premier for drop in vaccination rates
Friends of Medicare executive director Chris Gallaway speaks with Alberta Primetime host Michael Higgins about changes to COVID-19 vaccine policies.
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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Danielle Smith doesn’t have a plan—never did. Her “hospital-based leadership” scheme is spin: no mandate, no local control, and a roadmap to privatization. More chaos, more cost—and Albertans will pay. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #UCPCorruption #CorruptCare #DanielleSmith
    nfographic titled “What’s Really Going On with Alberta’s ‘Hospital-Based Leadership’ Plan?”
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    Decentralized in Name
    What they say: Local hospitals will decide staffing & resources.
    What they’re not saying: All still report to central agencies.
    Why it matters: Local control doesn’t exist if HQ pulls the strings.

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2. No Proof of Public Support
What they say: Albertans asked for this.
What they’re not saying: No data or public input has been shown.
Why it matters: “We heard you” isn’t consultation.

Box 3:
3. Where’s Public Health?
What they say: It will improve acute care.
What they’re not saying: Nothing on prevention or workforce crisis.
Why it matters: If we skip public health, hospitals will stay overwhelmed.

Box 4:
4. Same Bureaucracy, New Labels
What they say: Less red tape, more freedom.
What they’re not saying: More layers and stricter oversight.
Why it matters: Reshuffling isn’t reform — it’s branding.

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5. Privatization Pathway
What they say: This is about care, not ideology.
What they’re not saying: Laws now allow private hospital operators.
Why it matters: These changes make privatization easier.

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6. Rushed Rollout, Few Details
What they say: We must act fast.
What they’re not saying: No full plan, one pilot site, total rollout by 2026.
Why it matters: Speed plus secrecy equals costly mistakes. Albertans will pay the price.

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Sources: Alberta Government announcement (June 17, 2025), Friends of Medicare (June 17, 2025), David Climenhaga commentary (June 18, 2025)
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
If you watch one clip and share one clip, please make it this one. If you don’t understand what it means, please ask questions.
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David J. Climenhaga @djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Danielle Smith doesn’t have a plan yet for running public health care, but just like Donald Trump she’s got a concept of a plan. albertapolitics.ca/2025/06/dani...
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Danielle Smith doesn’t have a plan yet for running public health care, but just like Donald Trump she’s got a concept of a plan - Alberta Politics
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith doesn’t have a coherent plan for running public health care yet, but yesterday she revealed that, just like her hero Donald J. Trump, she has a concept of a plan. In a n...
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Indigenous leaders appeared before a Senate committee and opposed Bill C-5 in its current iteration. Thanks to @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social for this news in his "Biidaajimowin" newsletter. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
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Indigenous leaders tell prime minister to start again on Bill C-5
Indigenous leaders appearing before the Senate encourage Prime Minister Mark Carney to rewrite Bill C-5 to include Indigenous rights.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
16 cases away from 1000. Because Berta. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
"She is absolutely wrong about how effective the vaccine is. And her own Ministry of Health has the data to prove it," said Talbot, who is also an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta government faces mounting pushback to new COVID-19 vaccine policy | CBC News
The Alberta government continues to face fierce opposition to plans that will reduce access to publicly funded COVID-19 vaccines in the province.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 18/06/2025
“We now suffer the moral distress of being medical experts in this field who are essentially forced to be handmaidens to a government policy that will cause more death. And not just death in the abstract — death of people we personally know and have cared for for years.”
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When Politicians Play Doctor, People Die | The Tyee
BC’s new rules on prescribed substitutes for toxic drugs open a dangerous door.
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Cougsta, Mean & Nasty Edition @cougsta.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The UCP can afford to hand over millions of our tax dollars to O&G (again) but refuse to pay for vaccines. 🤦🏼‍♀️
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Danielle Smith has quietly announced major changes to how spending and procurement will be working in Alberta Health Care. But she’s moving in a direction to have fewer safeguards in place. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli youtu.be/FftIBBy4-iI?...
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Hospital-Based Leadership
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
LIVE: Leaders of the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Manitoba Métis Federation are speaking at a Senate committee to bring forward Indigenous concerns over Bill C-5, the One Canadian Economy Act.
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Indigenous leaders share their concerns over Bill C-5 at Senate committee | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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cm 🍁 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic... #Alberta #abpoli
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Take Back Alberta facing collection notice as it appeals $112K in Elections Alberta fines
The Take Back Alberta activist group has refused to the pay fines incurred over election advertising violations, and has been referred to Crown debt collection
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Blake Murdoch @blakemurdoch.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
My latest in @edmontonjournal.com . The Journal of the American Medical Association recently advised Long COVID in kids may have now surpassed asthma as the leading paediatric chronic illness. Danielle Smith's response: start charging for and limiting vaccines. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: UCP's COVID vaccine cuts put children at serious risk
A policy of ending pediatric COVID vaccination will disable, hospitalize and even kill Albertan children, leaving blood on Smith’s hands.
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CTV News Calgary @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Health-care union calls for Alberta government to halt plan to limit free vaccines www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
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Health-care union calls for Alberta government to halt plan to limit free vaccines
A union representing 30,000 health-care workers in Alberta is calling on Premier Danielle Smith’s government to reverse course and provide free COVID-19 vaccines to all front-line workers and any othe...
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
“This will drive even more health care workers out of Alberta.” United Nurses of Alberta president Heather Smith says UCP must drop plan to make health care workers pay for COVID vaccine, calling it "outrageous."
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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Two strikes against carbon capture. First, even if it works, it's more expensive than switching to clean renewables. And second, it doesn't work at scale. Those pushing carbon capture as a panacea for Canada's fossil fuel cartel are greenwashing. #EnergyTransition #CleanEnergy
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Sum: NOT experts Members of RFK Jr’s new vaccine committee have published little on vaccines www.science.org/content/arti... "...new panel members have been authors on about 78% fewer vaccine-related papers than the ousted members. 4 new members have published no such papers at all"
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The members of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine committee have published little on vaccines
Purge at immunization panel represents a major loss of expertise, as measured by scientific papers
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
A former grand chief of the Confederacy of Treaty 6 Nations feels Alberta should be focused on making the province stronger within Canada than sowing discord with separation talk.
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Alberta ‘wasting time’ on separation question: Willie Littlechild
Willie Littlechild says separation isn't possible and Alberta should be focusing on building partnerships and building on its strengths
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𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧 (𝐬𝐡𝐞/𝐡𝐞𝐫) 🇨🇦🇮🇹 @susanincanada.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The UCP is fast-tracking plans against the will of the majority of Albertans to allow new coal mining projects in the Eastern Slopes. We need to act now. Send a direct message to Brian Jean, Energy Minister; it only takes 5 minutes. #UCP #Coal #AbPoli #SaveOurSlopes
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URGENT: Send a Direct Message to Alberta's Energy Minister Now
Against the overwhelming will of the people, the Alberta government has quietly lifted the coal moratorium, once again exposing these critical headwaters to exploration and destruction.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Canadian Manuel Tapial, who is leading a delegation of the March to Gaza, is still missing after being dragged away by Egyptian police. Latest update from @yipengge.bsky.social: “Manuel Tapial’s whereabouts are currently unknown. It’s been almost 24 hours since he’s been detained.”
Screenshot of a message from Yipeng Ge: “More info I’ve confirmed.
Yesterday, on June 14 at 2:30pm, there was a meeting between a few delegates of the Canadian group on the 11th floor terrace of Hotel Amin where Manuel Tapial was a guest and staying at. Around 3:24pm when the meeting wrapped up, and people began to leave the meeting, Baya who is Manuel’s wife was the first one to leave and shrieked, followed by both of them being dragged away by Egyptian police. This took place on the 11th floor of Hotel Amin. For the other witnesses who saw this happen and tried to take photos/videos with their phones, their phones were confiscated by the Egyptian police. The phones were eventually returned but factory reset and not working properly. Manuel Tapial’s whereabouts are currently unknown. It’s been almost 24 hours since he’s been detained. His wife Baya was deported and put on a plane and is now already outside of the country.
4:07 AM”
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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Policies like this are red meat to a constituency that cannot be sated. It makes no sense from a fiscal perspective: the money saved in requiring payment for vaccines will be outweighed by the costs of caring for vulnerable people who get sicker than they would have. It’s only political.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The Grizzlies have a right to defend themselves.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Excited and hopeful to be at the @calgaryclimatehub.ca and Keepers of the Water G7 protest for indigenous water security, including to be free of toxic tailing ponds.
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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Lisa is a Canadian treasure Entire video: vm.tiktok.com/ZMSPdM8Av/
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@KatyET www.abresistance.ca @katyet.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... This is Dr. Parks, speaking truth to power, protecting us, risking his career. This is Danielle Smith warning him. Danielle Smith: We are warning you…threaten Dr. Parks? You deal with us. Signed, Albertans.
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Opinion: Premier, government lack credibility, accountability on health care
Opinion:
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
'I'm so appalled that a bill this anti-democratic and potentially devastating to the environment and Indigenous rights was just tabled,' Elizabeth May tells @karynpugliese.bsky.social
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Federal legislation on projects threat to Indigenous rights: May
Elizabeth May, the head of the Green Party says the proposed national project legislation is a threat to Indigenous rights, the environment.
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Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
UCP kneecaps wind and solar...again Danielle Smith won't collect security at the beginning of an oil well's lifecycle, but she demands it up front for wind and solar. #ABleg #canada youtu.be/_AIDTYC-q8g
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UCP kneecaps wind and solar...again
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Alberta Medical Association @albertadoctors.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Alberta has broken a 1985 record of 843 measles cases with yesterday's 868 cases, including 75 hospitalizations. This is not normal. We must advocate for immunization, resources and public health policies to prevent this severe illness and strain in acute care. www.albertadoctors.org/news/publica...
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A measles record - Report your story! | AMA
Yesterday Alberta broke a long-standing record and it is one we neither wanted nor expected to break. We surpassed the ...
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Alberta’s new COVID vaccine policy preserves access for seniors, those on AISH, the immunocompromised and a few other specialized groups. All other Albertans… Including healthcare workers… will have to pay the full cost out of pocket. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Andrea DeKeseredy @andiewinnipeg.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The Alberta Government is framing their abdication of public health measures as fiscal responsibility. It is far cheaper to give someone a vaccine than to keep them on a ventilator. Denying vaccines is one of the most most financially reckless things a government can do.
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Diane McLeod @dimcl2.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I wish Alberta would pick one story and stick with it. Highest incomes and lowest taxes in the country and they're "the economic engine of Canada". In the next breath, they can't afford to pay for vaccines. So tired of the bragadoccio and then the subsequent victimhood. #abpoli
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Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean @womenofabpoli.ca · 14/06/2025
Wow. This must be how it feels to be a USian — lifesaving preventative treatment available but only if you can afford it. I wish the UCP shared Canadian values.
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Alberta announces shift in COVID vaccine coverage, including having the general public outside of higher risk groups pay for their dose. www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
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A new approach to COVID-19 immunizations
Alberta’s government is transitioning its COVID-19 immunization program to a targeted program that prioritizes higher-risk Albertans first and reduces waste.
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Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean @womenofabpoli.ca · 13/06/2025
“Although Smith will sue Ottawa at the drop of a hat, she apparently can’t lift a legal finger to defend the Rockies, Alberta’s iconic backbone.” 💥 #ableg #abpoli @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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The Stink of BS at Premier Smith’s Coal Town Hall | The Tyee
The rowdy meeting’s air reeked of government deception. Locals were having none of it.
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Jasper Fitzhugh @jasperfitzhugh.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
BEYOND LOCAL: EDITORIAL: Rural postal service must remain government priority
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EDITORIAL: Rural postal service must remain government priority
As Canada Post grapples with financial challenges, the potential closure of rural post offices has emerged as a contentious issue, highlighting the vital role these institutions play in rural communities.
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David Shepherd @dshepyeg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Danielle Smith tries to claim she’s helpless - bound by decisions she & her Ministers didn’t make. The truth? 11 of her current Ministers were at the Cabinet table as the UCP made their disastrous decisions on coal mining in the eastern slopes. They own this. They’re responsible. #ableg
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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Full details here from BRC Canada. Danielle Smith and the UCP are far, far more concerned with the entirely hypothetical damage a solar farm might leave behind than with the extensively documented impacts of an orphaned well or oil sands tailings pond businessrenewables.ca/resource/rec...
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Reclamation Security Comparative Analysis: How Alberta Compares
The Alberta government introduced new reclamation security rules for the renewable energy industry in June 2025. In this report, we compared Alberta's new...
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
“The premier and her ministers of energy, environment and agriculture took questions and were shouted down on several occasions by attendees as they defended changes to the province’s coal policy.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.thealbertan.com/alberta-news...
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Alberta premier faces raucous, angry town hall on province's coal policy
FORT MACLEOD — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and three of her ministers got an earful from southern Alberta locals at a rowdy, hours-long town hall to discuss the province's coal policy.
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College of Family Physicians | Collège des médecins de famille @cfpc-cmfc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Forcing regulations governing how many patients a family doctor has attached to a practice (this is also called “panel size”) ignores patient complexity and physician capacity. This won’t fix access—it pushes towards collapse. Canada must support, not strain, family doctors. www.cfpc.ca/en/news-...
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Avis Favaro @avisfavaro.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Troubling story from Allberta by the Investigative Journalism Foundation on how a secret deal replaced a public hospital proposal with one that brings in a for profit company www.friendsofmedicare.org/government_c... #healthcare
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Government continues secretive approach to health care deal in Airdrie
The Minister needs to put a halt to this secretive health care deal in Airdrie until she can give Albertans the transparency and accountability that we deserve. @FriendsofMedicare
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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
EGREGIOUS Alberta’s tax dollars are being shovelled into the private system …even as it -Starves the public system of much needed funding -Increases public wait times -Duplicates costs, paying for expensive private surgical suites as public ones sit idle Please share
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