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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

LOUDER!!! 👏 “Every dollar of public money spent to cover the unmet financial obligations of the oil and gas industry is a dollar not spent on essential public services such as education and healthcare,” Bryant wrote. #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli @cuym-alberta.bsky.social

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PacoOnPause @pacoonpause.bsky.social · 15h

It's 2026 and doctors are recommending handwashing as a way to prevent inhaling airborne viruses.

three panel comic:

panel 1: guy on bike with stick in his hand and the caption says: I'm a doctor

panel 2: guy on bike putting stick into his wheel spokes with the caption: Protect yourself from airborne viruses with lasting health consequences by washing your hands

panel 3: guy on ground in pain holding his knee because his bike crashed with the caption: Why is my ER full

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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Let 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

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

With the Cargill report making the rounds, it's worth remembering that infection control wasn't just incompetent in 2020 - this is that special, sustained, durable kind of incompetence that comes along with the refusal to ever admit a mistake. Let infection control screw up once, and it's forever.

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Ole @o2ole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This government needs to be recalled.

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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

edmontonjournal.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.com

Opinion: 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?

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“It should not be controversial to say: it is not okay that 3,200 children died in their schools. Without their families. It is not okay to bury children at school. Regardless off how they died.” ### orlaghokelly.substack.com/p/reclaiming...

orlaghokelly.substack.com

Reclaiming Truth before Reconciliation

Truth means zero tolerance for Residential School Denialism

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Ole @o2ole.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

this is what we're advertising for every time I listen to a podcast in Alberta?

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Ole @o2ole.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We need someone in Alberta government to say this stuff... it's not raising the bar to expect data centers to not negatively impact a community. evidence is so ample, and each one that gets proposed should be adjusted based on all of the impact issues already evident - or they shouldn't be built.

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Ole @o2ole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's public health: Doing health for the many is too dang hard now! Also: We no longer promote science or accountability as a powerful few have expressed discomfort with the idea of fallibility. Not mentioned: Sorry about your preventable airborne-contracted chronic health conditions!!

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is from 1994, and things have only gotten worse since. "The scandal of poor medical research", Altman writing in BMJ. Institutional medicine isn't suffering from a lack of trust - it's suffering from a lack of *trustworthiness*. #medsky #scisky www.bmj.com/content/308/...

What should we think about a doctor who uses the wrong treatment, either wilfully or through ignorance, or who uses the right treatment wrongly (such as by giving the wrong dose of a drug)? Most people would agree that such behaviour was unprofessional, arguably unethical, and certainly unacceptable.

What, then, should we think about researchers who use the wrong techniques (either wilfully or in ignorance), use the right techniques wrongly, misinterpret their results, report their results selectively, cite the literature selectively, and draw unjustified conclusions? We should be appalled. Yet numerous studies of the medical literature, in both general and specialist journals, have shown that all of the above phenomena are common.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 This is surely a scandal.

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

CEO of Inclusion Canada calls for basic income for disabled people to match basic income for seniors. Basic income already works for some -- let's build on it for all. Published in The Winnipeg Sun (which leans conservative).

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

CEO pay is up 1,316% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 28%. CEOs are now paid 325 TIMES as much as the typical worker in their industry, according to @epi.org Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spielberg is demonstrating he understands airborne infection and how to mitigate it! He’s outside at the opening of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and he’s wearing a KN95! A good respirator protects you and those around you. Covid is not over and a mask is a great way to stay healthy.

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Hazie @hazie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have read the same James Baldwin quote about our responsibilities to our collective children every week for as long as I’ve been on here (and before) but almost never, very, extremely, rarely in conjunction with protecting them from airborne pathogens. 🍅🍅🍅

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

CTV news coverage of the errors in health policy and guidance that leave the public unprotected from aerosol disease transmission and long COVID (with @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social and Kerri Bowser) is up. Great to see so much interest! Below is the UK inquiry cited: #medsky #scisky #cdnpoli #polisky

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COVID health policy still outdated: researchers

YouTube video by CTV News

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.

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Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Smith is using the power of #Petrocentric propaganda. “When proud, hardworking people feel their contribution is taken for granted, & their livelihood is treated as something to be phased out, some begin to ask a painful question — does this country actually want us?” #FossilFool #CoordinatedAttack

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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Systemic racism: Woman dies because Canadian Indigenous Affairs health benefits failed its treaty obligation to fund follow-up to open heart surgery. The program is bad- often pays less than normal medical rates, puts up so many barriers to patients & professionals. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

aptnnews.ca

NAN blames Ottawa for death of Miranda Mamakwa of Fort Severn

Advocates are demanding “immediate, public accountability” after the death of Fort Severn First Nation member Miranda Mamakwa.

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Ole @o2ole.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

much like researching female hormones by only researching men and therefore menstrual issues are non-existent, masks are designed to fit men and if they don't fit you that is certainly not the man's problem, and the research shows masks fit and no further development is needed.

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Ole @o2ole.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is an important step forward. The illusion of protection from infection while masking only during AGPs and not while sharing air was vibe-based, LONG undermined by mountains of replicated studies in aerosol transmission research, think since tuberculosis.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Alberta pays no money to Quebec, or to any other province. The Alberta government, like other provinces, receives huge transfers from Ottawa to help pay for health care and other programs.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

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No, Alberta Does Not ‘Subsidize’ the Rest of Canada | The Tyee

The vast majority of workers get more from federal programs than they give.

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thatgirlinsb @34thparallel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!

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Ole @o2ole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Now investigating: service people who died after receiving vaccine. Death not related to vaccine, just any time after. A handy figure to share with SC2 vaccine hesitant: "Adjusted figures showed myocarditis roughly twice as likely after vaccination and about 14 times as likely after infection."

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 11/09/2026

The Smith government's claim that immigrants are a drain on public coffers? Bullshit. Debunked. Vote No to the Nine to stop the scapegoating. Hold the government to account. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

thetyee.ca

Does Alberta Provide $10 in Services for Every $1 of ‘Guest Worker’ Taxes? | The Tyee

Ahead of a divisive referendum question, we fact checked Danielle Smith’s claims.

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

nobody complains about stock dividends discouraging work

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🇨🇦Merlin Ca🇨🇦 @merlinofcanada.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here we have a FFS Danielle Smith a friend of mine who needs a brain scan just received her booking for an MRI. It is in August 2028 two years from now. This is what Dani did by allowing the rich to book non referred Diagnostic appointments. Screwing over Albertans again www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Alberta moves to allow private diagnostic tests without a doctor’s referral | CBC News

Bill 29, if passed, would allow Albertans to self-refer to private clinics across the province, later this year.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BREAKING! "Saddle Lake Cree Nation is asserting its Treaty rights and jurisdiction to provide safe refuge for those seeking and providing gender-affirming care. Any Albertan will be able to access gender-affirming care on Saddle Lake Cree Nation reserved lands and territories"

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Ole @o2ole.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ermagad I love CS. This is a perfect statement that I think the majority understand, while the powerful few imagine it can't affect them (even as it does). Impenetrable entitlement doesn't dissuade disease, stop the system from collapsing, or the collective from rising.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 08/09/2026

So, it turns out today is actually the 20 year anniversary of the Facebook "newsfeed" Australia is putting forward legislation to create an "off switch" for algorithms, allowing users to opt-out of recommended content and targeted ads on social media platforms

niemanlab.org

Twenty years into the Facebook News Feed era, Australia wants to turn back the clock

Want your favorite social media platform to just show you your friends' posts — not a bunch of unrelated things it thinks you'll like? Australia wants to make that mandatory.

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 08/09/2026

Our latest Common Ground study finds support for separatism in Alberta remains low despite increased interest. Support for the government's other nine questions is less solid than polls suggest. Learn more: cground.substack.com/p/alberta-se... @cgroundpolitics.bsky.social

cground.substack.com

Alberta Separatism is Louder than it is Popular

New report gauges public opinion heading into the October referendum

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan

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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In a new pre-print, researchers identified a policy they estimate could save 114K lives + $1 Trillion per year: Medicare for All 📉 Saves administrative costs (+ time) 🩺 Improves access to care 💊 Reduces cost of meds 🌾 + Keeps rural & children’s hospitals open www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Graph depicting cost savings with Medicare for All, with full description in linked paper

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

On this day in 1926, George Klippert was born in Kindersley, SK. He was the last person in Canada to be convicted and imprisoned for gross indecency before the decriminalization of homosexual acts. His case helped lead Canada towards decriminalization. 📸 Klippert Family

George Klippert wearing black-rimmed glasses and a blue T-shirt sits in a home doorway, holding a corded telephone to his ear with an attentive expression.

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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

RED ALERT ALBERTANS! While UCP govt focus = dismantling and privatizing HC, safe and timely care may not be there for you or your loved ones in their time of need. NO matter how rich you might be, no amount of wealth will help you if you need to access emergency services! 1/9

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