My latest in the @edmontonjournal.com on the province’s pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause to override the Charter rights to strike…. And to meaningful bargaining… of 50,000 teachers #ableg edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Proud to have co-authored this piece with amazing collaborators at the @thewhn.bsky.social. Let me know what you think. whn.global/whn-joins-in...

They came for the teachers. You know the rest, #abpoli

Last night the UCP made slaves of every worker in #Alberta You might think that's an exaggeration but it's what I see when I think it through Now any employer can double workers hours, cut their pay, no benefits, no time off If we complain we will be forced to work using the Notwithstanding clause

The Premier’s chair is empty. While she chases photo ops abroad, she’s leaving a mess: the attack on teachers' rights, healthcare gridlock, and a cost-of-living crisis. We demand accountability. We can use this time to tell the truth from the ground up. #ABpoli

'Forever Canadian' petition surpasses goal, collects 456K signatures #Alberta Thomas Lukaszuk needed 294,000 signatures for the 'Forever Canadian' petition www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Now we know that O&G Is more important to Smith students/teachers. THIS IS NOT LEADERSHIP

Let's be clear about what happened today. Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights, denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it, and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.

Danielle Smith is on her way to Saudi Arabia. She was not in the Legislature. She won’t be back until November. Danielle Smith is a coward

Question 🙋‍♀️: is this an appropriate use of Ministerial Order letterhead? For a man who wants us to forget he runs a ministry, he may simultaneously be misusing that seal here. 🤨 📣Calgary-Bow! Sign up today to have your canvass credentials by Halloween night 🎃 recallnicolaides.ca/canvasser-re...

Let’s go!

Expected 7 ... Got 9 youtu.be/VGBHM6JVbEE?...

Here we go with #2 Recall

Alberta Legislature yesterday

Alberta Teachers ‘ain’t going to take it anymore

Another petition campaign has launched: a recall petition targeting UCP Minister of Advanced Education Demetrios Nicolaides. To succeed, it will need to collect just over 16,000 signatures from residents of Calgary-Bow.

Our new Substack article is live! And it asks a very serious question... Should media be intimidated by people using the tools of lawfare to suppress opinions they disagree with? Because it looks like that might be what happened in Alberta! #abpoli open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...

IT'S ON! On the same day that teachers are rallying in record numbers on the steps of the legislature... Demetrios Nicolaides is officially the target of an approved recall petition! 16,006 signatures needed starting now! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Reminder not to take medical advice from that leery RFK Jr. guy www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Edmonton Legislature now

Sound familiar?

youtu.be/w7cAKm5EAwo Hey Danielle

Alberta’s students are brilliant. Some of these students will be able to vote in the next election They’ll remember this Danielle @UCP

The Premier of Alberta is up to her perpetually confused brow in scandals; the teachers are on strike and there’s no end to that in sight, we’re still waiting on the report about the procurement scandal … The pipeline is THEATRE. It’s not real. It’s a distraction, and it’s a cover - that’s it.

Oh, #ableg & #cdnpoli I hope you’ve all seen this. If not, you should. Eby is 💯 correct. This “pipeline” is more Danielle Theatre. It’s a means to eventually blame BC & Ottawa for her gov’ts failure. It’s a means to distract from the AHS scandal. It’s pandering to her base. IT. IS. NOT. REAL.

Danielle Smith keeps saying she wants a new pipeline. But her actions suggest what she's really after is a renewed fight with Canada -- even if it ends up costing her the pipeline she claims to care so much about. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/09/o...

This isn’t about Right or Left Politics, this is about the RIGHT CARE at the right place at the right time. Come out and discuss HC Access in your community. You Deserve Safe and Timely Health Care.

My colleagues and I are worried about the future of public education in Alberta. This year my smallest class is 36 students and, for the first time in 20 yrs of teaching, I have a class of more than 40. The speed limit around the school is 30. The class size limit should be 30 as well. #ableg #abed

Yup.

#DanielleSmith doesn't like it when we talk about the Alberta Prosperity Project ( #APP ) being the same as the #UCP. Same people, same policies, same goal on separation. So let's talk about it more. #ABleg #Abpoli youtu.be/jZFtK48teaY?...

A breathless Brian Jean has just announced that Alberta will be making oil and gas Alberta’s future for generations. Smith says that she’s going to use $14 million in taxpayers dollars to push forward planning a bitumen pipeline through northern BC. no money for teachers tho. #abpoli #cdnpoli

lol… even misspelled education there… Teachers taught me better!!! Obviously didn’t proofread what I wrote! Something else I recall being reinforced by great teachers!

Impressive quick turnaround on this.

“We cannot continue on hearing stories of people dying in the backs of ambulances“, so I guess we just plug our ears? #DoyourjobDanielle #FucktheUCP

The human heart is The size of a Fist Clenched. Indefatigable, and infallible On pain of death. And yet it skips At the most curious Times, To remind us of its finite Beats. And perhaps to attend us To use them both wisely And with abandon. — Darren Markland, August 2025

Like many of you, I never met Dr. Darren Markland, but I felt I knew him through his posts. He was a particularly valuable voice during the height of the pandemic, and reminded us all through his work in the ICU how important it was to take care of ourselves and each other in uncertain times.👇🏼

This is just awful news. A passionate cyclist, highly respected doctor and he was really a poet at heart.

PP's wife must take down her repost and apologize to Rachel Gilmore. vm.tiktok.com/ZMADx7VcR/

- there are 4 ministries, w 4 ministers, and numerous "acting" CEOs within the orgs and within the service providers within the orgs... it's a gongshow... pure choas - as each org struggles to recruit it will be less inclined to coordinate w the other orgs! 3/7

- there are so many orgs now, and all with "acting" appointed temporary leads, that one hand has no idea what the other is doing - HCWs can work in mulitple orgs in our siloed HC "system", and so the orgs are finding themselves competing against each other for same supply! 2/7

Let's talk about AB's HC workforce, a 🧵 : The graph is for all of Canada, but this trend continues and is getting worse in AB. Many reasons but key ones: - "refocusing" has eliminated any ability for our province to do workforce planning. NO COORDINATED work being done 1/7

#AvianFlu Strathcona County Beaver County Minburn County

Pierre Poilievere abandoned his BRC riding From Bonnie Critchley