Fantastic news to see new Medical Laboratory Technologist (MLT) and Medical Laboratory Assistant (MLA) programs launch Okanagan College BC has a severe shortage of lab science professionals Hospitals can't function without these professions educationnewscanada.com/article/educ...

Hint: it doesn’t include building more pipelines

CCPA Manitoba office is hiring a senior researcher! It’s a great job and you’d be part of an amazing organization focused on progressive policy solutions. Please share widely! ccpa.bamboohr.com/careers/51

But pipelines!

"SecondStreet.org [is] trying to rile people up and make them, I think, blame people who are migrants, people who are of colour, people who are trying to make a better life,” said @policyalternatives.ca senior researcher @alonghurst.bsky.social #mbpoli www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Here in Canada, the federal government has committed billions of spending to AI infrastructure (aka data centres), which the @policyalternatives.ca says is concerning without a plan to meaningfully regulate the industry. #cdnpoli rabble.ca/technology/e...

We commissioned a new legal opinion to determine whether Alberta's Bill 11 regulations comply with the Canada Health Act. The conclusion is clear: they do not. We're calling on the federal government to enforce the Canada Health Act before Bill 11 takes effect on September 1.

"Friends of Medicare executive director Chris Gallaway noted that Carney’s quiescence 'has been interpreted purposely by those seeking to privatize and profit off of our health in Alberta as consent for what is being implemented in Alberta.'” www.readtheorchard.org/p/regulation...

The Onion? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The tell with all of this is your kids can be taught by sex bots dressed up like John Oliver, but the tech barons send their kids to schools where they don't allow phones and there is an art AND music teacher.

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830 wildfires burning across Canada right now. And you know what’s going to make it worse in the future? More oil pipelines. This is why our voice and our vote matters.

Tomorrow! I’m excited to be part of this important discussion! @policyalternatives.ca

tinyurl.com/yhr9hf2h The @bcfamilydocs.bsky.social rightfully calls out the political interference in our important area of practice. @davidebybc.bsky.social and the @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social have forced us to choose between doing what is clinically indicated for our patients and their moralizing.

“Over 90 per cent of serious adverse reaction reports coming from paid plasma centres is deeply concerning, said @alonghurst.bsky.social, a senior researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives” @policyalternatives.ca

Carney calling Lindsey Graham a defender of democracy and freedom when the man made jokes on his official X account about taking over Canada is just the last straw of many last straws for me.

Ebola and other diseases gaining a foothold abroad, widespread skepticism of medical science at home with measles and other preventable diseases making a comeback, and now an epidemic of explosive diarrhea. Going great.

Bill by bill, Alberta’s political landscape has shifted. Writer Patrick Lennox considers how a little-known strategy document helped guide that transformation—and what it could mean for Confederation itself: https://thewalrus.ca/the-blueprint-behind-danielle-smiths-plan-to-break-up-with-canada/

“This study suggests a reduction in dopamine-releasing neurons in the brain of people with long COVID.

NEW from me: I took a deep dive for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social into the American hedge fund-owned Canadian newspaper chain that’s pushing anti-trans, pro-genocide and climate science denial narratives down our throats. ricochet.media/media/dumpst...

The research evidence doesn’t support forced treatment Weight of the evidence shows it does not have a high rate of success and can cause significant harm This is a poor use of public dollars The province should be funding voluntary services, which have long waits and remain inaccessible

We are in the timeline where Taco Bell is leading the response to stop the diarrhea-causing parasite outbreak

NEW: I went through Elections Alberta donation data and found that sitting public appointees to university boards of governors have donated about $107K to the UCP. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

UCP referendum questions on immigration are illogical, deceptively worded and tainted by racism. albertapolitics.ca/2026/07/ucp-...

This is gross and appalling behaviour by health employers No wonder BC health authorities have a retention crisis—they are the problem #bcpoli

Plans for more pipelines to export Canadian oil — and emissions — as planet keeps getting hotter www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

Devastating to hear of the loss of one of BC’s labour leaders Stephanie Smith fought to advance working people in BC Rest in power ✊

British Columbia’s nurses say they are expanding job action in their labour dispute with the province, citing reports of employer intimidation at job sites #bcpoli www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Cutting healthcare for vulnerable asylum seekers signals a dangerous shift towards anti-migrant policy—and will lower the standard of healthcare for all. By Hana Sherafati Zanganeh @policyalternatives.ca #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Nurses in B.C. will picket the province’s largest hospital next week

"The realization is yet to set in with the public that 90 per cent of the cost of this multibillion-dollar project — we don’t know how many multiples of billions yet — is going to be paid by Alberta and Canadian taxpayers, just as we were promised would never happen." thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

World leaders are increasingly saying the postwar liberal world order is dead. And, the ruling classes in the Global North have an answer for what will replace it: fascism. Will they be able to implement their vision? Check out the latest Monitor now: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

The Eby/Carney parallels are remarkable and not subtle. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Two-tier health care system is not the answer to long wait times and other challenges that patients in #Alberta currently face. @policyalternatives.ca @alonghurst.bsky.social #PublicHealthCare #HealthcareForAll www.westernwheel.ca/opinion/opin...

Under Carney, is Medicare still a Canadian value? American dark money-backed think tanks are applauding the PM’s hands-off approach to Alberta’s health care privatization canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Fight it like hell. It sucks in sooo many ways.

We are now at the point where right-wing interests are explicitly pushing a US-style private health insurance market for medically necessary care already covered by provincial health plans Literally a US-style mixed-payer health care system #cdnpoli nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

Bill 11 undermines the foundation of public health care Two-tier health care system is not the answer to long wait times and other challenges that patients in Alberta currently face. www.westernwheel.ca/opinion/opin...

BC Nurses are starting job action today, refusing to perform non-nursing duties and to work overtime hours. BCNU president Adriane Gear says this is designed to pressure the government while minimizing patient disruption. More about the strike notice here, for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

BC has significant spatial health inequities But it’s rarely discussed as a health policy problem in BC Kudos to Tyler Olsen and @thetyee.ca for raising this important issue Reducing health inequities should be at the top of #bcpoli agenda These disparities are preventable and expensive

People Are Living Shorter Lives in the Cariboo via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...

When pressed on why there wasn't enough private interest in the pipeline & why taxpayers money is required... Smith responded by basically saying that neither she nor the Feds could convince private equity that the project wouldn't be cancelled, so taxpayers are picking it up.

Lebanon's Health Ministry says at least 4,298 people have been killed and 12,196 injured in Israeli attacks since March.

Danielle Smith's UCP supports staying in Canada and yet they're funding The Western Standard, which is actively promoting, and campaigning for, separation. Why is the tax money of the vast majority of Albertans who oppose separation funding an avowed separatist organ?

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘it is important to examine some of the underlying system-level issues that have led B.C. nurses to reject the tentative agreement and begin job action.’ @policyalternatives.ca @alonghurst.bsky.social

As pressures build for BC’s nurses, it is not surprising that they want conditions to change. A strike is one of the most powerful tools to demand public health care improvements. My latest @policyalternatives.ca analysis: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #bcpoli #cdnpoli #canlab

As we consider what it means to be Canadian this July 1st, a new commentary from Dr Paul Parks and me #cdnpoli

On July 1, let's reflect on how to build the country we can be—equitable, fair, accessible and sustainable. For everyone who calls Canada home.

Happy Canada Day! Except to those who seek to dismantle the most Canadian thing we share as a people: public Medicare!