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WOKE AF. Proud Canadian, less proud Albertan.

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The Teacher’s strike would be over tomorrow if the UCP offered the same contract the United Nurses of Alberta signed or if they agreed to binding arbitration. The Notwithstanding Clause is a nuclear level hammer with the long range consequence of saying the UCP doesn’t negotiate, they legislate.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 27/08/2025
🧵 Edmonton city council voted this week to give the Oilers another $350 million in public funding so they can keep pushing unhoused people out of the neighbourhood or let them die of overdose. No legal binding to build 2,500 housing units promised w/ the project. 1/ ca.news.yahoo.com/edmonton-cit...
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Edmonton city council approves contentious agreement on Oilers event park
Edmonton city council has approved a master agreement for a new event park by the Edmonton Oilers ownership.The approval is tied to other projects which include the construction of 2,500 housing units...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
When I say don’t mess with Texas women, I’m talking about State Rep. Jolanda Jones.
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exhaustedinalberta.bsky.social @exhaustedinalberta.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I was today-years-old when I realized that a VENN diagram of Canadians that don't support Palestine and those that voted for ##PierrePoilievre is a circle.
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YYCCowboy @yyccowboy.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Happy Wednesday! Sorry for being quiet the last few days, had to take sometime to myself and get grounded.. Without further wait, here's the AHS Fuckery.. Errr Update of Closures & More! open.substack.com/pub/frazzleh... /1
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AHS Update V208 (of 2025) ~ 2025-06-18
*NEW* AHS Update V208 (Of 2025!) - ICU - 187 (+19) of 224 beds occupied in Alberta - Occupancy - 83%.
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David J. Skorton @davidjskorton.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I’ve been in academic medicine for 45 years. This is the first time I’m seeing a perfect storm, as proposed federal funding cuts threaten our ability to provide patient care, train the next generation of doctors, and conduct life-saving research. More from my conversation with @cnn.com last week.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16/06/2025
PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015. THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Call your senators. This bill is heading to them next and they can stop it if the people speak out. (202) 224-3121
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11/05/2025
Ages 0-4 are the most important, emotionally & intellectually, in human development. Yet, in the US, we have a very high rate of childhood poverty and a broken child care system. Congratulations to New Mexico for leading the way forward for high quality, free child care. Other states must follow.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 05/05/2025
Danielle Smith is playing fast and loose with the future of the country. It seems like a long shot that Alberta would vote to leave, but who knows what happens once you start down this path. It’s a live-ammo outing now. Utter insanity.
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Dave Foley @davesfoley.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Things that have extended the average lifespan of working people: Unions Healthcare (through unions, Medicare and Medicaid) Universal public education Labor laws Environmental regulations Social Security If you seek to undermine all of these,what is your underlying objective?
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exhaustedinalberta.bsky.social @exhaustedinalberta.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
As a #Canadian, I have several feelings. 1) I feel deep relief that a good chunk of my fellow Canadians aren't complete disappointments. 2) Gratitude for voters that care about other humans showing up to vote for that. 3) danielle smith has lost some of her back up
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Don Cochrane 🇨🇦 @doncochraneyow.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
“Rather than advancing evidence-based solutions, Mr. Poilievre recycles failed American imports such as a “three strikes” law and stacked life sentences – measures our courts have already rejected as cruel and unusual.”
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Letters to the editor: ‘This career politician isn’t qualified to run a lemonade stand, never mind invoking the notwithstanding clause.’ Letters to the editor for April 16
In today’s letters to the editor: Trump-style buttons; notwithstanding clause; leaders’ debates; foreign interference; governance; Chris Simon
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Well played.
Split image showing White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt wearing a red dress next to a screenshot of the same dress for sale online labeled as made in China, with a caption claiming the Chinese embassy mocked her for boycotting Chinese goods while wearing Chinese-made clothing.
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Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My favourite sports stories are the ones that aren't really about sports. This is good. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Wayne Gretzky, Former Canadian Hero
His countrymen aren’t mourning the loss of his scoring record.
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🇨🇦Merlin Ca🇨🇦 @merlinofcanada.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
You want to know why Danielle Smith is doing everything she can to distract you from the total FU of the #UCP. Alberta’s unemployment rate saw the highest growth in the country, according to Statistics Canada’s (StatCan) calgary.citynews.ca/2025/04/06/a...
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Alberta’s 7.1% unemployment rate highest growth in Canada: StatCan
Alberta’s unemployment rate saw the highest growth in the country, according to Statistics Canada's March jobs report.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/04/2025
Laura Loomer is a testament to how much further to the right Trump has moved since his first term, and how much further he may be open to going, writes @alibreland.bsky.social.
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Laura Loomer Is a Warning
No one else with direct access to the president has been as outwardly bigoted.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Smith was directly asked today if her new plan for surgeries in Alberta would gut the public system and allow access to public facilities for private for profit operators... Her response? "Mmmhm" No. For reals. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
More evidence that private for profit surgeries make things worse “[Private surgical facilities] bled funding and a finite pool of critical staff from the public system, increasing wait times for cancer and other priority surgeries.” @alonghurst.bsky.social @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...
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Bleeding Money: Alberta’s Private Health Shift | The Tyee
The UCP’s surgical initiative has crimped care and raised costs, concludes a report. It’s not a new pattern.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The "trust us, it's going to be great" isn't good enough for me with this government. Show me your work. We don't even have basic quality and safety data for surgeries performed in for-profit CSFs. Physicians tell me that there is an active effort to prevent data collection in for-profits.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The picture comes into focus AB gov took ownership of public hospitals from AHS so these public assets can be used by private surgeons’ corporations under new funding model Public assets in the service of private profits This will only destabilize hospitals further www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta to tie hospital funding to number, type of procedures performed | CBC News
Alberta's government will soon tie public hospital funding to the number and type of procedures performed, a move critics warn won't improve the public system and will only accelerate private delivery...
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exhaustedinalberta.bsky.social @exhaustedinalberta.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Is it general strike time in. #Alberta yet?
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exhaustedinalberta.bsky.social @exhaustedinalberta.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
If I were Wab Kinew or David Eby, I'd be working very hard to recruit #Alberta HCWs. NONE of us signed up to practice the way @daniellesmithab.bsky.social is forcing acute care to be. She is 10000% ensuring hospitals fail but she is also actively about to cause a physician crisis. Greed is gross.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
It’s well known that I was on The Apprentice. We were all covered by NDAs at the time, but mine has now expired. And do I ever have some tea to spill. I’ll post it later today after consulting once again with my attorneys.
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Larry (BOB) Dallas @larrydallas1977.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The UCP is the most evil party Canada has ever seen. cpawsnab.org/all-news/pro...
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Proposed Alberta government plan would wipe out two southern mountain caribou populations - CPAWS Northern Alberta Chapter
The Government of Alberta released the draft Upper Smoky Sub-Regional plan which, if approved, would enable the U.S.A.-based timber company Weyerhaeuser to entirely clearcut the last winter range fore...
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exhaustedinalberta.bsky.social @exhaustedinalberta.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 01/04/2025
Not sure I’m cool with Poilievre’s new slogan: Chicks Go Stale - Stoppons Chicks Le Ticky Tocky
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Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎(Parody) @abdanielsmith.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
While Albertans continue to struggle to get any healthcare, I had a great time spending taxpayer money at the PragerU fundraiser with Ben Shapiro in my favourite U.S. state! And I also cut funding for popsicles in children’s cancer wards! #abpoli #abhealth #UCPCorruption
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“The most troubling finding, I think, is that public operating room activity was actually lower in the most recent year than even pre-pandemic” medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...
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Parkland report says privatized surgeries only making things worse - Medicine Hat News
asmith@medicinehatnews.com A report released by the Parkland Institute seeks to highlight how privatization of surgeries in Alberta is undermining public hospitals and prolonging wait times for critic...
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exhaustedinalberta.bsky.social @exhaustedinalberta.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I left an abusive marriage after 9 years. I lost both my parents in 18 months. I went through 4 years of family court..NOTHING has been harder than knowing my kiddo is in the U.S.A on "vacation" with her dad for a week.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 26/03/2025
@readtheorchard.org just got lit up by Chief Neufeld at Calgary Police Commission. (Appel was not present to respond.) Neufeld called Appel's story on UCP interference on the ASIRT investigation "an opinion piece, at best." Decide for yourself: 1/ www.readtheorchard.org/p/how-the-uc...
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How the UCP covered up police violence against the U of C Palestine encampment
The Orchard has obtained hundreds of pages of correspondence from the university's executive leadership team, campus security, Calgary police and the provincial government. Part II of II.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/03/2025
Contrary to what Trump wants us to believe—everything is NOT fine‼️ Retired General Anderson: “There are lives at risk right now because of what was in that strand… the Houthis know that we have somebody on the ground...” Take 2 minutes…
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YYCCowboy @yyccowboy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
*NEW* AHS Update V.174 - ICU & AHS Hospital Outbreaks - Not Updated - It's been 889 Days since Danielle Smith said HEALTHCARE FIXED IN 90 DAYS!! That was a lie! Closures, HIGH Ed Wait Times, Respiratory Outbreaks & More! /1
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 26/03/2025
It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 26/03/2025
Alberta public health system losing staff and funding as province increases spending on private facilities www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... @alannasmith.bsky.social @alonghurst.bsky.social 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
A treatment room in the emergency department at Peter Lougheed hospital in Calgary, Aug. 22, 2023.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Dear journalists: stop giving this administration the benefit of the doubt. Stop using old editorial standards and practices and norms. Assume that everything they say from the get-go is a lie because it always, always, is.
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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I said it at the top of the #CorruptCare scandal, I’ll say it again: If Alberta doesn’t get this Premier out of office on the backs of the Alberta Health scandal, this Premier will be far more trouble for this province - and possibly the country - than any of us can even begin to imagine. #ableg
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Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎(Parody) @abdanielsmith.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Albertans will be lucky to get a new Prime Minister in 37 days, but won't be getting a new Premier for another 2.5 years! Sorry Alberta, you're stuck with me and more emergency department closures! Good luck! #abpoli #ableg #abhealth #UCPCorruption #UCPPublicInquiryNOW
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YYCCowboy @yyccowboy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
@lanniechantelle.bsky.social @kinkykit02.bsky.social @lfinnegal.bsky.social @carrietait.bsky.social @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social @blueldc74.bsky.social @abdanielsmith.bsky.social @hope50.bsky.social @exhaustedinalberta.bsky.social @jlhaslip.bsky.social /26-End.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Join me for the launch of my new report “Operation Profit: Private Surgical Contracts Deliver Higher Costs and Longer Waits” The report evaluates the performance and costs of the Alberta Surgical Initiative after five years Registration: ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
Alberta's Surgical Crisis: Private Profits, Public Losses
Parkland Institute Report Launch Webinar
March 26, 2025, 12pm-12pm MST
Public launch of the report "Operation Profit: Private Surgical Contracts Deliver Higher Costs and Longer Waits"
Featuring report author Andrew Longhurst
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/03/2025
Police are investigating a report of fake ICE agents targeting a Ukrainian grocery store. An SUV with an “ICE” decal circled Sunday—then bolted when security showed up. These impostors are appearing nationwide,, preying on people already living in fear— in the shadows. It’s calculated and cruel.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This story is horrific and terrifying. Then, near the end, this: "The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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exhaustedinalberta.bsky.social @exhaustedinalberta.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Can we please talking about how corrupt and dishonest @abdanielsmith.bsky.social and the UCP are and how each day brings a new low. And thank you to the journalists who dig and being to light the layers of bullshit
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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
As Smith cavorts in the US, other Canadians are “housed together in a single concrete cell with no natural light, fluorescent lights that are never turned off, no mats, no blankets, and limited bathroom facilities.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli vancouversun.com/news/bc-woma...
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B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility in chains
Her mother says 35-year-old Jasmine Mooney has been detained in inhumane conditions since March 3, and is pleading for help. Read more.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 12/03/2025
"The person who made the University of Alberta campus unsafe was Bill Flanagan, in authorizing the use of police force against peaceful protestors... It is my fervid hope... that someone is going to bring a Charter challenge against the University of Alberta" cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2025/03...
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Jangling the Bells: The Report of the Third-Party Investigation of the Clearing of the Palestinian Solidarity Encampment at the University of Alberta | Centre for Free Expression
On 11 May 2024, in the predawn hours, members of the Edmonton Police Service walked onto the campus at the University of Alberta dressed in riot gear to execute the direction of the University of Albe...
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Occupy Calgary 🇨🇦 @calgaryoccupy.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
~"Regardless of what’s driving her decisions, though, one thing should be clear by now: Smith has no interest in actually playing for Team Canada. The rest of us should start acting accordingly." archive.ph/QFvXE
Pic of Danielle Smith and a few of her ministers

 Danielle Smith is auditioning for Team America
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“It's believed that they contracted the virus outside the community of about 700 people, located 750 kilometres north of Edmonton. The source of the outbreak is currently unknown” Berta. 2025. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Measles outbreak reported in northern Alberta community of John D'Or Prairie | CBC News
So far, according to the chief of Little Red River Cree Nation, one household of three people is confirmed to have contracted the virus. Contact tracing is currently underway, and the Nation is organi...
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