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shawnnfraser.bsky.social @shawnnfraser.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli
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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Quote: "Second Sons' leaders have welcomed neo-Nazis into their ranks, called for mass deportations "at gunpoint" of non-white people from Canada and said Canadian politicians should be executed as traitors." It's nothing, just a nice men's fellowship gathering, right Alberta RCMP & Minister Ellis?
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Three in four Canadians wouldn’t buy U.S. booze even if it returned to shelves--or 74 per cent, are not likely to buy the products if they are put back on the shelves. #Canada #Boycott #BuyCanadian #BuyLocal #NoThanks www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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Three in four Canadians wouldn’t buy U.S. booze if it returned to shelves: Nanos
Canadian sentiment against buying U.S. alcohol is higher than a year ago, with new polling done by Nanos exclusively for CTV News showing just under three-quarters of Canadians are likely not buying t...
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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
7/7 As the province shifts toward a two-tier model, the public system faces profound uncertainty regarding equal access to care. Source: Susan Zielinski, Red Deer Advocate reddeeradvocate.com/2026/07/28/a...
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Alberta ignores efforts to reduce unnecessary testing with preventative health testing initiative - Red Deer Advocate
The push in health care to reduce unnecessary medical testing may be an uphill battle in Alberta where citizens will be able forgo a doctor’s referral and opt to pay […]
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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
6/7 The timing of the initiative is particularly contentious. It arrives just a month before Alberta launches its controversial dual practice model, allowing physicians to simultaneously perform publicly funded and privately paid surgeries with few safeguards constraining referrals.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Seth Klein: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We need a wartime mindset to fight the threat of wildfires | Seth Klein
While many leaders compare the wildfire crisis to the second world war, governments fail to adopt the real lessons of pre-emptive wartime action
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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In parts of the country, rents are around 2.5k/mth, or 30k/year. At a max 30% rent-to-income ratio, you need to earn over 100K to make that work. Meanwhile, programs like the FHSA are criticized because they help "rich" people who earn 80k a year. Please make it make sense.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Ahem ahem thewalrus.ca/danielle-smi...
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Danielle and Doug Want a New Pipeline. Oil Companies Aren’t So Sure | The Walrus
There’s no evidence the industry is ready to bet billions on another eastbound project
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Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Soon Danielle Smith will start to spout about #sovereign data centers, & important protected trade agreements for the #energy they generate, natural gas they burn and the water they consume. #AIforAll
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“This direction entirely flies in the face of that clinical evidence and the movement among clinicians saying a significant amount of medical imaging is actually unnecessary and exposes people to radiation” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli reddeeradvocate.com/2026/07/28/a...
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Alberta ignores efforts to reduce unnecessary testing with preventative health testing initiative - Red Deer Advocate
The push in health care to reduce unnecessary medical testing may be an uphill battle in Alberta where citizens will be able forgo a doctor’s referral and opt to pay […]
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Sharon 🇨🇦🇺🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"It’s about importing American political grievances into Canada." As if we needed any further proof that the CPC are straight up #MapleMAGA. They keep showing us again and again who they are. ⬇️ #CanPoli #NeverPoilievre
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Dizzy ★ @tindizzy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Yeah. Sounds like a done deal already, doesn’t it? There isno way they’re not going to get what they want. They’ll do whatever it takes. #AbLeg #AbPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Today's must read for all Albertans
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In Alberta, Referendums Must Serve Smith’s Aims Only | The Tyee
Witness the battle over the Water Not Coal petition as Corb Lund leads a fight to keep it alive.
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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
10 years ago I debated Mr. Wonderful on CBC Radio on this very point. Check out the exchange at the 5:50 mark of the audio (at the bottom of this page www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...) wherein I ask him "how can we miss you if you won't leave? Why don't you go and live your money in your tax shelter."
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Offshore tax havens: Are they ethical? O'Leary and Yalnizyan face off | CBC News
Is the outrage around the revelations of the Panama Papers warranted? Former Dragons' Den star Kevin O'Leary and economist Armine Yalnizyan debated the issue on CBC's Metro Morning.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I spoke to CBC Edmonton AM about the Alberta govt bringing in two-tier diagnostic testing The evidence is clear: it will increase wait times for those in medical need while allowing the wealthy to get their treatment first. Albertans stand to lose #abpoli www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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© CBC/Radio-Canada 2026. All rights reserved.
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Clear-eyed assessment here via @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...
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Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ (Gift Article)
Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?
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Friends of Medicare @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The Alberta government keeps vaguely pointing to "European" health care to try to support their claim that a two-tier system will fix things. But Europe isn't a panacea & their privatization hasn't come without problems. Enough cherry-picking! Get the facts from @onthealthcoalition.bsky.social
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MYTH BUSTER: European Health Care Models - Ontario Health Coalition
(July 22, 2026) Pro-privatization groups, some of which are funded by or linked to right-wing American organizations and corporate interests, have turned
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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
1/8 🇨🇦 ONLY 75 REMAIN: ALBERTA PIPELINE THREATENS ORCAS 🇨🇦 Alberta's proposed pipeline could devastate B.C.'s endangered killer whales. Experts warn underwater noise or a spill could be fatal. Source: CBC News #EnergySky #CdnPoli #BcPoli #Orca #Whales
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Willy Skinner @willygrant.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🏥💙 Some psychiatric patients in Alberta are waiting days in ERs for a hospital bed — with one case reaching 16 days. New data is raising questions about mental health care capacity and what needs to change. 👀 Read the story. 👇 www.stalbertgazette.com/alberta-news...
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Data shows some psychiatric patients wait days in the ER for a hospital admission. Why?
TORONTO — A patient in Alberta waited 16 days in an emergency department for a psychiatric hospital admission last year. Another in British Columbia waited just over nine days.
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Palliser Friends Of Medicare @palliserfom.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“The Premier ran last election on a ‘Public Health Guarantee’ that her government would not de-list any medical procedures from public funding and that no Albertans would have to pay out of pocket to access care. Yet here we are.” @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...
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Albertans will be allowed to pay privately, self-refer for diagnostic testing as of Friday - Medicine Hat News
zmason@medicinehatnews.com Starting Friday, Albertans will have the option to self-refer for preventative tests consisting of X-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI scans if they agree to pay for those tests o...
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Erin Butler @eleighbutler.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Garbage people. Sports leagues know trans folks exist, and have already been working with them and various teams to ensure everyone's comfortable with it - or at least knows how to behave. There is zero - ZERO - reason for governments to get involved in anything outside protecting basic rights.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The latest "Team Pierre" email is Very Concerned about trans athletes. #cdnpoli
Friend,

We thought this issue was settled.

Canadians spoke up and provinces like Alberta stepped in to protect women’s sports, and the International Olympic Committee has introduced new gender-screening rules for female competition.

But the Liberal Secretary of State for Sport says these rules are “going back in time.”

Once again, the Liberals have it backwards.

Protecting fairness in women’s sports is not going back in time.

Pierre Poilievre has been clear: “Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males.”

Now we want to know what you think.

Do you agree that female sports should be exclusively for females, not biological males?

YES
NO
Take our quick one-question survey today.

Thank you,

Team Pierre
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ctvnewsedmonton.bsky.social @ctvnewsedmonton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The Alberta government has confirmed some Assured Disability Income Assistance (AISH) clients have not received their August payments on time. #yeg #ab #abpoli
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‘Technical issues’ impacting AISH payments: province
The Alberta government has confirmed some Assured Disability Income Assistance (AISH) clients have not received their August payments on time.
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Stephanie @einahpets1982.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
SH and the IDU shaking sh*t up?
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Stay Free Alberta: submitted 286, 593 signatures 222, 597 verified 177, 732 threshold 293, 976 old threshold (before UCP changed law) 404, 293 Forever Canada verified signatures
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Where have we seen "you do you" individualistic health policy before? A: The pandemic that we're still being asked to mitigate on our own without society-level precautions
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Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Anyone else feel like Danielle Smith is playing for Team Trump instead of Team Canada? Because that's certainly how it looks. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Alberta won’t retaliate against U.S. tariff with alcohol ban, Danielle Smith says
Major purchasing provinces like Ontario and Quebec still have not resumed stocking U.S. alcohol
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Angela Welz @heartforward.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The UCP says addiction is a health issue, yet it continues expanding and promoting gambling. These nonstop gambling ads are incredibly triggering for people who have struggled with gambling. Public health should reduce harm, not profit from it. #ableg #UCPfailingeverday
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glenda_aus🍁🦘 @glendaaus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
How is this even close to acceptable? Weekend closures/diversions not seen since covid 🤬 #Alberta open.substack.com/pub/frazzleh...
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AHS V049 - This was a weekend of a record number of closures/diversions not seen since COVID was flying around!
*NEW* AHS Update V049 (Of 2026!) - ICU - Not updated since March 24th- It’s been 1,375 Days since Danielle Smith said, “HEALTHCARE FIXED IN 90 DAYS!!” Highest number of closures seen in 2 years, More ...
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Alberta’s Referendum Puts Newcomers in the Crosshairs | By Richie Assaly
Forward Weekly feature for July 26, 2026.
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Colleen @collburns.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Ya think??
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Conservatives are only patriotic insofar as it serves them.
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Robert Cooper @robacooper.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The problem is the core identity of our current “conservatism” - policy and ideological was consumed by the forever campaign, identity politics, culture war, and simply “owning the Libs”… which inevitability led putting this be partisanship before country :-(
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PetrifiedPekka 👻🇨🇦🎃 @chinookbluenoser.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is a very insightful article. I’m not a conservative so I felt like it explained conservative nationalism or lack there of to me. It’s been amazing to watch the convoy people (originally yellow vesters) go from Canada flag waving to separatists in less than a decade. It’s truly strange.
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is the NEW NORM. Waiting DAYS in a chair for transfer to another hospital WHEN A BED opens up. We know this adds to MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY (makes them sicker and kills some seniors). Smith's plan to privatize won't help your parents/grandparents when they are sick! 2/2
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
AB - this is how we treat our seniors! Pt in late 60s, confused/delirious from an infection. Needs admission. INT med says admit to Fam Med bed, except no beds in hosp. Pt waiting >48hrs in a recliner CHAIR in the ED for transfer - no dignity, privacy, very little care. 1/2
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Calgary Canuck @calgarycanuck.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
bsky.app/profile/duan...
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GoogeliArt 🦋💙PD @googeliart.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Jay Gamble @drjaydrno.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This is utterly abhorrent. @athabascau.bsky.social better get this resolved ASAP. Disgusting behaviour. aufa.ca/blog/2026/7/...
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AU professor forced to choose between job and her child's legs — AUFA
Dr. Sabine Graf has been stripped of her faculty association membership and told she must abandon her family, relocate her child to Canada where his legs will be amputated, or lose her job.
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is what it sounds like when you have a cabal of completely ignorant absolute morons in the most powerful positions in the world. They know nothing and understand even less. Unleashing chaos and destruction upon the world. #TyrannyOfTheStupid
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Fact for today: Canada has zero dairy herds infected with #H5N1 bird flu. The US has approximately 1,000 herds infected across 16+ states.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“This could end Canadian medicare as we know it.” “That’s the chilling conclusion of a recent report on Alberta’s push to create a privatized, U.S.-style health care system in the province.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli breachmedia.ca/pandoras-box...
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‘Pandora’s box’: Danielle Smith and insurance giants unleash attack on healthcare ⋆ The Breach
Danielle Smith is working hand-in-glove with private insurers to push health privatization in Alberta—and it could spread across Canada
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Canucker🇨🇦 @thedude-iam.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Every single policy needs to be enacted through the lens of climate change.
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Davin - great hang @mosphotos.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I applied for mine. Still haven't got it. How can the government screw up their own initiative so thoroughly?! It's almost like there was no plan, but concepts of a plan.
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
World’s best political cartoonist is 🇨🇦Canadian: @deadder.bsky.social
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Too … 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"The emergency resolution formally calls upon all federal and provincial governments to uphold the honour of the Crown & implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples-ensuring" AFN has passed an emergency resolution opposing separatism. #cdnpoli
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Danielle Smith began talking about doubling Alberta's oil production as far back as 2024, when Trudeau was still PM. The ambition hits differently in the Carney era, where pipelines and climate policy rollbacks are on the federal agenda. By me: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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ANALYSIS | Danielle Smith wants to double Alberta oil production. Can she bring back the boom? | CBC News
A new West Coast pipeline is stoking industry excitement. But oilsands giants may be wary of spending big to grow, analysts say.
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