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Happy World Soil Day! In honour of the occasion, here’s a flashback to a speech I gave earlier this fall on the need for Canada to have a national soil health strategy. https://youtu.be/cwTJOKQcwW8 #WorldSoilDay #Soil #UnitedNations #cdnpoli #Canada #SenateofCanada
AUPE Media Release: Dual health-care system will cripple staffing levels in Alberta
Premier’s obsession with private profit will be paid in pain by Albertans
EDMONTON—Premier Smith’s plan for a dual public-private health system is doomed to fail for one simple reason: There are not enough workers, says the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE).
“There’s a shortage of health-care workers in Alberta, across Canda and around the world,” says Sandra Azocar, president of AUPE, which represents more than 60,000 health-care workers.
“Hospitals and health-care facilities are constantly running without appropriate numbers of staff. Many of them have endured temporary closures because there aren't enough workers to stay open,” she says.
The dual health-care system the provincial government proposes in the Health Statutes Amendment Act would allow physicians to practice in both private and public systems and to charge extra for private care.
“Albertans suffering while waiting for treatment will be forced to spend money they can’t afford to get the treatment they need. For those without that option, wait times will just get longer,” says Azocar.
“There is a finite number of physicians and other health-care workers. They will be pulled from the public system and into the private lane, leaving ordinary Albertans behind.”
Thanks to Smith’s ideological agenda, Albertans will face even longer wait times to get the treatment they need.
“The immense pressure already felt by front-line workers will increase as the staff shortages get worse. They’ll also be the people dealing face-to-face with angry Albertans in unnecessary pain who have waited years to get treatment,” says Azocar.
As treatments are delayed, health conditions will deteriorate. It will become more expensive to treat patients, leading to more Albertans turning up at already overcrowded Emergency Rooms.
“The premier’s obsession with corporate profit will be paid in pain by the people,” says Azocar.
She adds that the dual system is likely to face court challenges as a violation of the Canada Health Act.
“Albertans need to know if the premier will invoke the notwithstanding clause again to impose her vision of a U.S.-style system where people buy their way to the front of the line.”
#abpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare #privatization #union #Solidarity
Danielle Smith keeps stepping on her own rakes.
“Governments, it’s often said, end up defeating themselves. Even so, few seem poised to do it as spectacularly — or stupidly — as the one led by Danielle Smith”
#Canada #cdnpoli #ABpoli #Alberta
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/04/opinion/danielle-smith-ucp-separatism
🌱 Congratulations to Emily Lowan, newly elected leader of the BC Green Party!
She is now the first political party leader in Canada on Mastodon — a milestone for healthier, community-driven digital spaces.
I look forward to seeing Emily share more here about expanding Mastodon adoption and supporting her MLAs as they join the Fediverse. Perhaps also a friendly challenge to other party leaders.
@emilylowan @mlabotterell #yyj #Cdnpoli #Canpoli #GreenParty #BCPoli @Paulatics
Wednesday's Canadian debates on the 2-state solution featured four Israeli politicians but no Palestinians.
Debate chair Rudyard Griffiths said "Israel itself needs to figure out if, when, how, where a Palestinian state could & should exist."
Notably, the Hind Rajab Foundation filed a complaint in Canada against two of the four Israelis for war crimes in Gaza & called for their arrests.
"Assembly of First Nations chiefs voted unanimously on Tuesday to demand the withdrawal of a new pipeline deal between Canada and Alberta, while expressing full support for First Nations on the British Columbia coast that strongly oppose the initiative."
"The resolution also urges Canada, Alberta and B.C. to recognize the climate emergency and uphold the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/afn-assembly-major-projects-9.6999182
Israel is committing genocide, using weapons supplied by the U.S. — a moral stain that cannot be removed.
https://x.com/TrackAIPAC/status/1996114403310403918
@democracy
#Gaza #Palestine #warcrimes #Genocide #geopolitics #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #trump #maga #nokings #democrats
#palestina #StopAIPAC #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #StopGenocide #DismantleZionism
@thetyee This wording is concerning because covid never ended. Our governments just opted to go cognitive dissonance route/eugenics style of public health failures instead. We are still seeing too many covid & long covid patients in health care. I work in health care. Our government is lying to the public & I wish more media wasn't so willing to aid/abet these public health failures.
#CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafety #MasksSaveLives #LongCovidIsReal #BCpoli #CDNpoli #BCNDP #FireBonnieHenry #FailureToProtect #Eugenics #BCNewDeathParty
Happy World Soil Day! In honour of the occasion, here’s a flashback to a speech I gave earlier this fall on the need for Canada to have a national soil health strategy. https://youtu.be/cwTJOKQcwW8 #WorldSoilDay #Soil #UnitedNations #cdnpoli #Canada #SenateofCanada
Danielle Smith keeps stepping on her own rakes.
“Governments, it’s often said, end up defeating themselves. Even so, few seem poised to do it as spectacularly — or stupidly — as the one led by Danielle Smith”
#Canada #cdnpoli #ABpoli #Alberta
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/04/opinion/danielle-smith-ucp-separatism
It turns out that a lot of "impossible" things are really just fights you'd rather not have.
@pluralistic nails it. https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/disenshittification-nation/
#CDNPoli #Canada #copyright #enshittification #disenshittification
@pluralistic 's apt and dreamy call to arms:
We could be a disenshittification nation. We could seize the means of computation. We could have a new, good internet that respects our privacy and our wallets. We could make a goddamned fortune doing it.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/disenshittification-nation/
#CDNPoli #Canada #copyright #disenshittification #enshittification
Trudeau was criticized by some who thought his policies somehow acquiesced to every demand by any First Nation. But really what his Ministry did first was show that there was a way of communication of respect and dialogue.
Clearly the new Federal Minister of Energy has some learning to do if he wants the Federal government to have any chance at a relationship that results in them achieving any of the government's goals.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #FirstNations #Respect #FPIC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/energy-minister-hodgson-apologizes-zoom-comment-coastal-first-nations-9.6997207
1/10
Shout-out to Green Party of BC leader, @emilylowan
for mentioning “Mastodon” on Rachel Gilmore’s Bubble Pop show.
The quick laugh after said the obvious: this place is still seen as niche.
Maybe it is, and maybe that’s also an opening.
#BuildTheFediverse #cdnpoli #canpoli
Wednesday's Canadian debates on the 2-state solution featured four Israeli politicians but no Palestinians.
Debate chair Rudyard Griffiths said "Israel itself needs to figure out if, when, how, where a Palestinian state could & should exist."
Notably, the Hind Rajab Foundation filed a complaint in Canada against two of the four Israelis for war crimes in Gaza & called for their arrests.
Israel is committing genocide, using weapons supplied by the U.S. — a moral stain that cannot be removed.
https://x.com/TrackAIPAC/status/1996114403310403918
@democracy
#Gaza #Palestine #warcrimes #Genocide #geopolitics #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #trump #maga #nokings #democrats
#palestina #StopAIPAC #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #StopGenocide #DismantleZionism
The changes to the Water Act are flying under the radar because of everything else that is happening in Alberta.
But it is very bad legislation and it's being done for some nefarious purpose, I'm sure. Especially since the changes are supported by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.
And, of course there are data centres planned for all over the province.
“Bill 7 is not a technical amendment; it is a fundamental shift in how water is controlled, allocated, and transferred in Alberta. By advancing this legislation without First Nation involvement, Alberta is eroding the Treaty relationship and failing to uphold its legal and moral obligations,” says Grand Chief Trevor Mercredi.
"Assembly of First Nations chiefs voted unanimously on Tuesday to demand the withdrawal of a new pipeline deal between Canada and Alberta, while expressing full support for First Nations on the British Columbia coast that strongly oppose the initiative."
"The resolution also urges Canada, Alberta and B.C. to recognize the climate emergency and uphold the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/afn-assembly-major-projects-9.6999182
A state with a Department of War and itself being involved in some type of military conflict for over 90% of its own 250 year history, really has no place submitting a proposal for peace for anyone. In #Sudan. In Palestine. In the #HornofAfrica. Nor anywhere else
https://x.com/AAPRP/status/1994473421208502772
#Gaza #Palestine #law #oeace #iran #Genocide #geopolitics #tiktok #cdnpoli #trump #maga
#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa
#palestina #StopAIPAC #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #StopGenocide #DismantleZionism
" #BigOil is now lobbying to repeal federal laws for pipelines. What Industry wants is no regulation, no regulators. It's absurd because these very laws allow them to force their way onto our lands. We need a return to the #RuleOfLaw in all matters #OilAndGas, because we've gone so far from it."
https://www.podcastics.com/episode/389013/link/
#CleanUpYourMess #MakePollutersPay #PolluterPays #NoMAS #Conservation #ClimateChange #BigOil #cdnpoli #AER #yyc #abpoli #AlbertaEnergyRegulator #ClimateSky
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