This is how a health system burns to the ground. How Alberta's dual practice plan would drain hospital staff and delay lifesaving care, by Dr. Paul Parks canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/28/t... via @canadahealthwatch.ca @nicktsergas.ca

As the UCP vote to adopt an anti-fluoride policy as a party... It's a good time to remember that this is the official government position on fluoride as of... (Checks notes) A whole 2.5 years ago. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

This is how a health system burns to the ground canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/28/t...

A🧵 This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds. The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful. THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die. 1/n

On Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Sam Mraiche www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w/ @tomcardoso.bsky.social @markmackinnon.bsky.social @hoserlibrarian.bsky.social

“Rather than reinvesting those profits in the Canadian economy, the four companies paid out $79.7 billion in dividends and share buybacks, nearly ¾ of which went to foreign shareholders, including 62% to American shareholders.” www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...

Back in school, I wrote an essay about how two-tier healthcare would improve access for everyone. It makes intuitive sense: create a second line and the original one gets shorter, right? A better look at the evidence and arguments like Picard's changed my mind. 🧵

Spoke to a room of lawyers and judges tonight. Told them: when many Albertans picture the UCP base, they picture you. They were shocked — most of them oppose the democratic backsliding. I reminded them: as long as they stay silent, that perception will stick. All pluralists need to speak out.

1/ The most absurd aspect of the UCP's entire game plan on parental rights, is supporting a parent's "right" to refuse effective vaccines that have proven effective, even in a pandemic, but completely trampling the rights of parents with children suffering serious sexual dysphoria #ableg

@melwoods.me: We must not overcomplicate what’s going on here. This is the Alberta government saying the rights of trans kids to receive life-saving health care, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams don’t matter as much as the Smith government’s right to dictate their lives.

New Post: The Nuclear Option: An Update on Alberta’s Legislation Targeting Trans and Gender Diverse Youth ablawg.ca/2025/11/19...…er-diverse-youth/

The UCP has invoked the notwithstanding clause pre-emptively. Again. This time to strip the Charter rights of trans children and adults. This is sadly and entirely predictable from a populist government bent on removing checks on its power. 🧵 drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/populism-f...

It’s worth remembering that the UCP aren’t just robbing Albertans of their charter rights… Amery openly conceded that these laws also violate the Alberta Human Rights Act and the Alberta Bill of Rights. That the UCP just rewrote. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

They could. They didn't have to. But they did it anyway. Why did the UCP use the notwithstanding clause to strip trans folks of their Charter rights? Laziness? Impatience? Vengence? Motives matter little. The impact is by design: maximal harm in minimal time. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

Let’s be clear on this: Danielle Smith is ripping up the Charter of Rights & Freedoms to take away rights from the most vulnerable people in Alberta. And she’s doing it to protect herself from the militant wing of her own party, nothing more. Hope it’s all she’s ever remembered for in the long run

Supported by all UCP members present (36) and independents Pete Guthrie and Scott Sinclair. Opposed by 35 NDP MLAs.

The UCP is widely expected to use the notwithstanding clause once again on Monday. Why? Not just because they can. And not because they have to. They're doing it deliberately, whether out of spite, laziness, or expediency. My latest: 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Anyways… This UCP Chief of Staff seems to believe that Canadian money shouldn’t be spent in the US… (It’s not like the NDP spent taxpayers dollars instead of paying with party money) Whoah! Where’d that second pic from from?!? #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

x.com/thebreakdownab... Everyone should listen to this excellent question – w excellent points that the Premier didn’t bother to answer... But let's break this down, shall we? TLDR: when Premier says “they” she is deflecting cuz “they” = GOVT 1/13

By using s33 pre-emptively, the UCP is not simply admitting that their laws are breaching Charter rights. (Governments have done that before.) By foregoing judicial review, they are further admitting that their laws cannot be justified in a democratic society. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

calgaryherald.com/op... Everybody should read this. The PREMEPTIVE use of the NWC is not what it was designed for, and it will have negative ramifications on ALL ABs/Canadians. You can be in favour of getting kids back to school, but this isn't the way...

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

Our license plates should read The Land of Syphilis & Measles” The New York Times 👇

And here it is. When the first instinct of a so-called independent regulator is to call the Minister’s office for their “input” you don’t have an independent regulator #abpoli #ableg

Just a thought: If UCP MLAs put half as much public effort into asking the premier's office hard questions about Bill 2 as they're putting into tone-policing critics of their own use of the notwithstanding clause, we wouldn't be in this spot in the first place.

What is the "Corrupt Care" scandal? Pete Guthrie, who left the UCP over their refusal to call a public inquiry, summed it up impressively today. And he called out the UCP MLA's and ministers who remain silent on it. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Real ED Case in AB 🧵 : Elderly couple 91 and 92yo, living in their own home caring for each other. Slowly declining, as one has worsening dementia, and they can no longer live on their own anymore. No beds to place them in continuing care from the community 1/5

Even the Bishops are speaking out. “The deeper implications of this action are sobering because when one fundamental freedom is denied, it is possible to imagine other fundamental freedoms being denied, including our own freedom of conscience and religion.” edmonton.anglican.ca/news/stateme...

Professor Lisa Young let's it rip with the jackboot edition of her newsletter. @jlisayoung.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lisayoun...

Who broke Alberta education. open.substack.com/pub/courtney...

Not even hiding the blatant entitlement anymore. The Premier's Office continues to remove all checks and balances on its power. The courts, the legislature, the Auditor General, independent agencies, the federal government, voters and candidates they don't like... This is getting ridiculous.

Shameful

As I’ve explained: one of the best ways to protect your heart health is to keep up with your Covid and flu vaccinations. Don’t listen to antivaccine activists they don’t care about you or your family www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

The UCP attack on teachers gets worse, as more details emerge. Two things heard today: 1. Schools have been told to take teacher attendance and report it to the government every single day. (Smith is MIA, but that’s different) 2. Teachers are only paid for about 200 contracted days per year (1/3)

“The government has invoked the notwithstanding clause before the Court has had an opportunity to examine the law and determine whether it constitutes a reasonable limit.” CBA Alberta Statement on the Use of the Notwithstanding Clause cba-alberta.org/news/cba-alb...

An Australian vulture company that funds lawsuits made a massive profit off the UCP government via Andrew Nikiforuk. Alberta's Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

ABlawg (Shaun Fluker and students in the Faculty's Public Interest Clinic) also weighing in on Bill 2. @ablawg.bsky.social ablawg.ca/2025/10/30/b...

Look we’re not saying that we just posted the most timely panel episode we’ve ever produced for our patreon supporters… But… We totes just did. For everyone else, look for it in two parts starting at 8 PM on Sunday! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Bill C 2 overrides the Charter. It also overrides Alberta's Bill of Rights. Here's what the GoA said about that less than a year ago. #abpoli #ableg www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

Link to the review: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

I see the problem, Alberta teachers didn't have a "DONT TREAD ON ME" Gadsden flag in their classrooms like Premier Danielle Smith does. /s Hypocrite. #ableg #abpoli

Just a 22-year-old who started the season in low-A ball mowing down the most expensive offence money can buy in the World Series

Vladimir Guerrero Jr taping a hockey stick lol!! www.youtube.com/shorts/IRTo0...

What the Alberta government just did should worry all Canadians. When they legislated striking teachers back to work, they went a step further: They used the notwithstanding clause. This is part of a worrying trend. @emmettmacfarlane.com helped me break it down:

Forever Canadian campaign delivers petition forms signed by 456,365 citizens to Elections Alberta. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/fore...

Without a trace of irony, eh Demetrios 🤦? #ableg #ABEd

i was all in on mamdani until i found out that he called his dad's cousin his "aunt" instead of using the term we all know and love, "cousin once removed"