“UNA is always proud to support new students as they start their nursing education in post-secondary institutions across the province. We always encourage recipients of the UNA Nursing Education Scholarship to remain in Alberta as they advance through their careers.” www.una.ca/1760/una-awa...

🚗 Today, we're on to Spruce Grove. Tomorrow, the U of A and South-East Edmonton. Will we see you there?? Details & RSVP: www.friendsofmedicare.org/urgentconver...

The CFNU is alarmed by the federal government’s decision to impose out-of-pocket co-payments on refugees and refugee claimants accessing care through the Interim Federal Health Program, effective May 1. Read more: nursesunions.ca/statement-on...

Another day, another incredible stop on FOM & @pfparks.bsky.social's Urgent Conversations townhall tour across Alberta! We spent yesterday evening in Drayton Valley, where we heard locals' pressing concerns about accessing health care in their community. People are worried about the direction ...

Do trade deals put public health care up for sale? Alberta’s promised two-tier transition comes with unacknowledged threats from trade and investment agreements. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

❌🛑 Bill 11 encourages the growth of a U.S.-style private health insurance market This is a decisive shift towards U.S. health care based on greed and profit-taking, not “European” health care based largely on principles of social solidarity and universality.

🇨🇦 🏥Alberta nurses showed up in Edmonton to call on Liberal MP @eleanorolszewski.bsky.social to enforce the Canada Health Act against Bill 11 and privatization of Alberta’s public health care system.

🛑🚨Bill 11: Important information about health care privatization in Alberta: www.una.ca/1759/bill11a...

🇨🇦🏥 Canada’s government must enforce the Canada Health Act. 📧Email PM Mark Carney and Health Minister Majorie Michel: actionnetwork.org/letters/cana...

🇨🇦🏥 Canada’s government must enforce the Canada Health Act. 📧Email PM Mark Carney and Health Minister Majorie Michel: actionnetwork.org/letters/cana...

🛑🚨Bill 11: Important information about health care privatization in Alberta: www.una.ca/1759/bill11a...

🇨🇦 🏥Alberta nurses showed up in Edmonton to call on Liberal MP @eleanorolszewski.bsky.social to enforce the Canada Health Act against Bill 11 and privatization of Alberta’s public health care system.

❌🛑 Bill 11 encourages the growth of a U.S.-style private health insurance market This is a decisive shift towards U.S. health care based on greed and profit-taking, not “European” health care based largely on principles of social solidarity and universality.

👀 Health professionals in B.C. rallied with others across Canada in support of public care. They're worried a law passed in Alberta will open the door to privatized care nationally. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

🛑 “We’re participating in a National Day of Action to stand up for public healthcare and to say no to two-tier, American-style healthcare, which is being pushed through right now in Alberta,” said Noah Schulz, director of the Manitoba health coalition. 🇨🇦 www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...

🇨🇦 “It’s not just an Alberta issue,” said Heather Smith, president of the United Nurses of Alberta. “Creating a two-tier health-care system, that is bad for not just Albertans but bad for Canadians. globalnews.ca/news/1173354...

“This is opening the door to insurance companies to come in and make money off of what has previously been, covered through the public health care system.” 😬 www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

🇨🇦Canada’s government must enforce the Canada Health Act. 📧Email PM Mark Carney and Health Minister Majorie Michel: actionnetwork.org/letters/cana...

Please sign!!! We NEED federal action to protect public healthcare. It’s the federal government’s responsibility to enforce the Canada Health Act. Bill 11 (now law) violates it.

🇨🇦 On Monday, March 16th, Canadians from coast to coast will hold a National Day of Action for Public Health Care, including events in Calgary and Edmonton: www.una.ca/1758/nationa...

🇨🇦Canada’s government must enforce the Canada Health Act. 📧Email PM Mark Carney and Health Minister Majorie Michel: actionnetwork.org/letters/cana...

💖🙏 Gratitude and thanks for Alberta's nurses and health care workers.

The public health care system needs to be strengthened so Alberta nurses and health care workers can deliver the best patient care possible to Albertans. That means increasing capacity so we have enough staff, space and resources for Albertans to access health care when and where they need it.

🇨🇦🇺🇸 Increased interest from American nurses was also confirmed by nursing associations in Ontario and Alberta, as well as by the nationwide Canadian Nurses Association. www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n...

💗 On February 25, many UNA members are marking Pink Shirt Day to stop bullying in schools, workplaces and residences. www.una.ca/1751/on-wedn...

Everyone in this province deserves timely access to quality public health care, not just those who can afford to pay for it. It's time to let this government know that Albertans value our public health care—& we're willing to fight for it! 🚨 TAKE ACTION 🚨 friendsofmedicare.org/notwotier

▶️ More urgent discussions about public health care are planned, including one in Grande Prairie on March 22. #albertanurses

🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️🏥 More than 400 Edmontonians joined ER physician Dr. Paul Parks and @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social for an urgent discussion about public health care. Dozens of Alberta nurses who shared their stories about what’s happening on the frontlines of the public health care system.

Tomorrow in Vegreville! 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️

👋 Tonight in Camrose!

Yesterday the AB government announced a new navigation portal for continuing care. But a portal can't fix the many structural problems in our system: short staffing, lack of capacity, degraded care standards... the list goes on! Seniors deserve real change. www.friendsofmedicare.org/change_neede...

"The rest of the country should pay attention. If Alberta’s efforts succeed, U.S. capital will follow, and we won’t have U.S.-style health care; we will have U.S. health care." @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca asianpacificpost.com/article/1053...

🚨🏥🚑 Urgent conversations about public health care in Alberta with ER physician Dr. Paul Parks and Friends of Medicare. Camrose: February 19 Vegreville: February 21 Edmonton: February 22 Grande Prairie: March 22 ➡ Location and time details: www.friendsofmedicare.org/urgentconver...

“Safe nurse-patient ratios are critical to solving the nursing shortage and addressing the moral distress plaguing nurses who are working chronically overcapacity.” www.una.ca/1747/cfnu-ho...

Alberta nurses are shocked and saddened by the terrible tragedy in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. United Nurses of Alberta members extend their deepest condolences to the families and community members impacted by this devastating loss of life.

"...It is by providing stable funding, stable staffing, respecting your health care workforce, providing pharmacare to everyone that needs it and by the list goes." When public health care is under attack, we fight back! Join the fight to protect public health care at buff.ly/c4sNYyM

As CFNU President Linda Silas said at today’s rally, "We know it's hard out there. If you are a patient, if you are a family member or a health care worker, it's a mess. And it is not by privatizing our system that we will fix it..."

Our public health care system was founded on the belief that every single person deserves care, regardless of where they come from or how much money they have. Today, creeping health care privatization threatens this promise. Nurses are standing up for a public health care system for all.

The CFNU condemns the violent repression of protests and strikes that began in Iran this January. CFNU calls for the immediate end to the ongoing crackdown on health care workers and civilians following the January protests. Read the full statement: nursesunions.ca/cfnu-stateme...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has mused about cutting or limiting public services for temporary residents. It turns out that already happened last month with public health insurance www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #AbLeg #AbHealth

Coming up February 18 at 12pm EST. Free Webinar about Alberta's Bill 11, which is opening the door to private, for-profit health and putting Canada’s universal public health care system at risk. Sign up below! @policyalternatives.ca us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Spread the word and encourage people to come out… all welcome. Let’s chat about HC in your community. Let’s talk facts and reality and what can be done to correct the trajectory.

Thank you to Canada’s Chief Nursing Officer, Dr. Leigh Chapman, for meeting with the CFNU National Executive Board for an insightful discussion about the impact of the federal government’s last budget on Canada’s health care systems. #Budget2025 #CFNULobbyDay

👉 Tonight in Beaumont.

The Alberta government is trying to downplay the dangers of Bill 11 But if we open the door to two-tier health care & the multi-trillion dollar American health care industry, it will be next to impossible to close again. Albertans deserve public health care! medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...

CFNU’s National Executive Board is off to Parliament Hill for a day of meetings with MPs & Senators. Nurse union leaders will advocate, propose solutions & demand action on 4 key priorities: violence & nurse safety, the nursing shortage crisis, health care privatization and Indigenous health equity.

👋 Tonight in Hinton. Tomorrow in Beaumont.

🙅‍♀️❌🏥 Violence against nurses and health care workers is never acceptable. That’s why UNA President Heather Smith and VP Danielle Larivee joined the leaders of other provincial nurses unions in Ottawa this week to bring the issue of workplace violence directly to MPs and Senators on Parliament Hill.

What to know about Alberta's Bill 11, which threatens public health care in Canada. Report by @alonghurst.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...