Reposted by MagicHummingBirdplanetmoon.bsky.social @planetmoon.bsky.social · 16hIf you agree, join me and Canadian Doctors for Medicare in calling the federal government to take action in defending the Canada Health Act. 0138
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdParksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 2hwww.ctvnews.ca/calga... Anybody think about who's going to work in our meat processing plants down in Brooks when the govt implements its genius TFW tax of $1900? Do we think Canadian teens are going to take on those jobs? Did the UCP govt even ask employers for their input?ctvnews.caWhat would charging temporary residents for health care and education mean for Alberta?When Albertans vote in the province’s referendum this fall, they will be asked whether people legally living and working in Alberta without permanent resident status should pay extra to use two of the province’s most important public services. 65740
Reposted by MagicHummingBird@KatyET www.abresistance.ca @katyet.bsky.social · 8hI have some great AB friends here. I really need you all to SHARE this. Alberta deserves better. You deserve better. 21512
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdHazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 15hThis is a complete waste of public funds. These trips and extended hotel stays look like nothing more than taxpayer-funded vacations. If leadership refuses to listen to our frontline workers, why would they listen to outside experts? #abpoli 12410
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdParksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 15h1 Minister + 2 CEOs out of the province on a trip to Sweden on the taxpayer dime... Who's running our HC system while those on the frontlines are drowning? They couldn't have sent ONE of them... to maybe come back with a PowerPoint presentation to update the teams back home? 36030
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdPat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Danielle Smith appearing at an event with Tamara Lich. Because when you’re trying to project “responsible provincial leadership,” obviously the next step is contributing to convoy nostalgia and supporting criminals. Every day Smith shows us who she really is❕ Vote NO to the 9️⃣Smith must RESIGN 3117584
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdParksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 18hWrite to your federal MP. Let them know that Canadian Medicare is threatened by physician dual practice. Our healthcare system may be broken, but two-tier healthcare will not fix it. 3/3 26430
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdParksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 18hAccess to medically necessary care should be based on need and not your ability to pay. If you agree, join me and Canadian Doctors for Medicare in calling the federal government to take action in defending the Canada Health Act. 2/3 17129
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdParksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 18hLet me be clear: we know from evidence in countries around the world that physician dual practice drains resources away from the public system and, in many cases, increases wait times for public patients. This goes directly against the spirit of the Canada Health Act. 1/3 4266143
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdAlberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 19hNothing says “fighting for Canada” like sharing the stage with some separatists and a convicted criminal. 810749
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdMax Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 22hPlease share this with every "send a message" Alberta voter in your life. #abpoli #cdnpoli www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...readtheline.caJen Gerson: Oh, so you want to send Ottawa a message, eh?Vote to stay and send Washington the right message. Namely, don’t fuck with us. 16247134
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdJeromy Farkas @jeromyyyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We need to talk about the separatists selling out our city and province. MAGA operatives came to Calgary to help carve up our country. Meanwhile, separatist leaders went to Washington promising our water, our oil, and our land. If you want to live in the United States, move to the United States. 1824085
Reposted by MagicHummingBird🇨🇦MapleZero @maplezero.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If she was interested in helping Albertans, Danielle Smith would lose the extreme-right criminal clique, shut her pie-hole, ditch the extreme right panels, & fix healthcare like she said she would how many years ago? But she’s not interested in helping Albertans. She‘a just profiting from them. 0105
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdLeeta 🇨🇦 @micropainter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Voting to leave — even just voting in favour of maybe voting later to leave — is not sending a message to Ottawa. It’s sending a message to Washington[:] Canada is weak, regionally divided, and can be turned on itself for America’s benefit." --Jen Gerson #Canada #cdnpoli #Alberta #abpoli #yyc #yeg 02510
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdMondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Health insurance changes that threaten higher costs for medications; • A private surgery system that will bleed doctors from the public system; • Explosive and controversial expansion of private surgery clinics;" Why do we pay taxes? Where is that money going if we now have to pay again? 15731
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdMondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Who voted for this? "All of it — every step — is fully in line with Premier Danielle Smith’s determination to make Albertans pay for more of their own health care. .. Health care now pays last, not first. Every analysis shows the government will pay less, the patients more." 03519
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdParksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026calgaryherald.com/ne... Some might think the govt created referendum distraction is prospectively designed to avert Albertan's attention from our govt privatizing and dismantling HC?!calgaryherald.comBraid: All-consuming referendum noise masks move to patient-pay health careAlberta's referendum drive is so all-consuming that it masks big move toward patient-pay health care 68850
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdAmanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Just reflecting on the reality that the most consistent and invasive messaging Albertans are getting from our provincial government is about separating from Canada and joining gambling apps. 69035
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdDuane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Every time @carrietait.bsky.social goes quiet for a whole, you know she is working on something big. Here it is www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...theglobeandmail.comThe elephant in the roomAlberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province 717050
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdCarrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Howdy! Alberta separatists + American Republicans. Read all about it. --> www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By Nathan VanderKlippe, Grant Robertson, and friend.theglobeandmail.comThe elephant in the roomAlberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province 26271130
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdHon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Canadians never shied away from challenges. We answered the call in wars, stood with allies through the Cold War, and confronted tough questions about our past. Today, Canada faces a defining moment. Our future will be shaped by those who show up. Do your part. Cast your ballot. 8307115
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdJason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Stephen Harper has, as we've long awaited, weighed in against Alberta separatism. But man oh man, do I have to strongly quibble with him claiming sentiment was zero when he was PM. Here's a 2014 poll putting belief in separation at 23%, which is where it sits now. nationalpost.com/opinion/step... 35359142
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdThe Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Nenshi ended his comments at today's presser with a call for Albertans to not only vote themselves, but to make sure that all Albertans who can vote, do. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli 415046
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdNaheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Have you received Danielle Smith and the UCP’s $4 million propaganda brochure? It’s full of lies, and taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for it, never mind the $200 million referendum. 28253102
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdThe Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"What an intensely weak leader she has been, both in her caucus and in her now separatist party, and for the province of Alberta" Nenshi on Smith's refusal to address MLA's who are public separatists. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli 1020370
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdThe Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"She won't tell you to vote for Canada, it's your taxpayer money doing that" #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli 211140
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdThe Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today, Alberta NDP leader Nenshi called out the flyer sent by the UCP telling Albertans how to vote on the upcoming referendum (except the separatist question) as "propaganda" and "garbage". #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli 1624396
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdThe Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Danielle Smith's first priority has always been Danielle Smith" While raising the alarm on the slow motion separatism of Smith's 9 questions and her expected gerrymandering, Nenshi pulled few punches today. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli 513955
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdFriends of Medicare @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This Calgary anesthesiologist hits the nail on the head re: Bill 11!🎯 "All physicians take an oath to 'do no harm.' Yet under dual practice, those with money will be treated before those who are very sick and need it most." edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...edmontonjournal.comOpinion: Who pays for Alberta’s dual-practice health care?Who pays for the system required to make dual practice possible, and who bears the risks when it fails? 35933
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdCourt Ellingson @courtellingson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Alberta stands alone with the lowest min-wage in #Canada. AB is the only province that hasn't raised min-wage in the past 8 years. In 2018, the Alberta NDP government increased the min-wage. The UCP has refused to keep pace You deserve better: albertandp.ca/savemoney #abpoli 02714
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdMondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My kind of Nation Building! For the people, disabled, elderly, you! "Our public health-care system is also our economic advantage. It’s our best competitive asset compared to our neighbours to the south — creating jobs, saving businesses money, and ensuring a healthier workforce that lives longer." 02715
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdThe Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“It is clear that the Alberta government is not going to change course and, therefore, we strongly request that you and the federal government step in and defend the principles of the Canada Health Act” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...theglobeandmail.comFormer deans of medicine call on Ottawa to intervene in Alberta’s dual-practice health care modelLetter to Carney argues public-private model violates federal law 14261103
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdAlanna Smith @alannasmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Four former deans of medicine in Alberta have joined a growing chorus of critics asking Ottawa to intervene in the province’s dual-practice health care model, which allows eligible doctors to toggle between the public and private systems. #ableg #abpoli @theglobeandmail.comtheglobeandmail.comFormer deans of medicine call on Ottawa to intervene in Alberta’s dual-practice health care modelIn a letter to Carney, deans from the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta assert public-private model violates the Canada Health Act 16131
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdAlberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 01/10/2026Clearly, the UCP does not support Canada. Danielle Smith is running a separatist party. How many other UCP MLAs are voting to rip our country apart? Smith must be clear with Albertans on this. We've already done just that. Every NDP MLA has signed a pledge to oppose separatism. 26526
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdAndrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Four former deans of medicine in Alberta have joined a growing chorus of critics asking Ottawa to intervene in the province’s dual-practice health care model, which allows eligible doctors to toggle between the public and private systems. #abpoli #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...theglobeandmail.comFormer deans of medicine call on Ottawa to intervene in Alberta’s dual-practice health care modelIn a letter to Carney, deans from the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta assert public-private model violates the Canada Health Act 19752
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdNaheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Danielle Smith claims she’s a proud Canadian, but panders to separatists and puts us all through this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caUCP MLA says he’s voted in favour of Alberta holding binding referendum on independence | CBC NewsRed Deer-South MLA Jason Stephan says he has voted in favour of Alberta’s government proceeding with a legally binding referendum on separation, but adds he hopes to see Canada united if Alberta is “t... 713949
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdParksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026edmontonjournal.com/... "Albertans should worry about their access to health care. As a physician in the public system, listening to the conversations among my colleagues, I fear my children will not have the care they will actually need." Please take a moment to read 👇edmontonjournal.comOpinion: Who pays for Alberta’s dual-practice health care? Who pays for the system required to make dual practice possible, and who bears the risks when it fails? 48045
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdParksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Problem is: dual billing sets up an approved system that will tempt all surgeons to go that route… it will be harder and harder to resist it. The govt is creating and strengthening the Dark Side and tempting physicians to come to the dark side! Some will resist. Most won’t. 011
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdParksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026edmontonjournal.com/... Excellent Op-Ed - All Albertans and Canadians should read it 👇 "When my time matters most, will my place in line be determined by how urgently I need care — or by how much I can afford to pay for it? That is a question worth our time."edmontonjournal.comOpinion: Will Alberta's dual-practice model cut surgery wait times — or only for the rich?When my time matters most, will my place in line be determined by how urgently I need care — or by how much I can afford to pay for it? 410657
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdParksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026NDP should go stand in the same field and announce they are building a full scale hospital in the same spot! 3/4 1217
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdParksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.cbc.ca/news/cana... is laughable City of Airdrie need: HOSPITAL with beds TEN YEARS AGOUCP Gimmick: stand in an empty field and announce a non-hospital to maybe plan to be planned 1/4 24419
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdThe Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is fantastic news for Ben and his family! But it's also another example of how badly the UCP have screwed up AISH. Ben was forced onto ADAP, a social media outcry caused a re-evaluation and then Ben was approved AISH after they found out about a press conference. /1 412850
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdThe Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“faster care for one patient isn’t a system-wide reduction in waiting if someone else simply waits longer. Choice is not the same as capacity. And activity is not the same as progress.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...edmontonjournal.comOpinion: Will Alberta's dual-practice model cut surgery wait times — or only for the rich?When my time matters most, will my place in line be determined by how urgently I need care — or by how much I can afford to pay for it? 713366
Reposted by MagicHummingBirdTimothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026🚨 Got this Alberta UPC propaganda in the mail yesterday. It is mostly anti-immigrant hate-mongering noise. Deeply misleading. Our tax dollars paid for this rage farming? Sum: WTF⁉️ ⚠️ VOTE NO TO THE NINE ⚠️ 2318856
Reposted by MagicHummingBird🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is a really important report, and our OHS leaders need to make changes to ensure this never happens again. 1/2 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...theglobeandmail.comAlberta’s response to COVID-19 outbreak at Cargill plant was ‘catastrophic failure,’ report saysMore than 950 workers at High River plant were infected in 2020, leaving two workers dead and spreading to the community 27935
Reposted by MagicHummingBird🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“We can say that political pressure, deference to public health, negligence, and incompetence all contributed to the tragedy. Further evidence suggests that government officials prioritized the interests of the meat-processing industry over the health and safety of meat-packing workers."albertapolitics.caPolitical pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report says - Alberta PoliticsOne of the most disgraceful episodes of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta took place on April 18, 2020, when Devin Dreeshen, Jason Copping and Deena Hinshaw assured employees of Cargill Inc.’s meat pac... 314167