“Alberta has ORs sitting empty & unused every single day because this government would rather pursue convoluted schemes to subsidize private profits, even while their failed privatization strategy has already reduced public capacity," said FOM's Chris Gallaway. cochranenow.com/articles/new...

A smart city has nothing to do with artificial intelligence or sensors. A city is smart when children can walk and cycle freely and safely. Technology is only a bonus. 📸 Picture by @dutchcycling.nl

Ottawa calls it co-operation. Climate scientist Dr. Simon Donner calls it math that does not add up. “If this wasn’t going to affect the system outside Alberta, fine. But when you add it all up, the emissions math just doesn’t work.” 🔗 www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/202...

Seems we can’t maintain momentum. Had a great teachers protest then nothing. Had a great #DayOfProtest then quiet. The NDP say many of the right things & do well questioning the UCP but gain no traction with the broader public. Do we need to start shutting things down to be heard?

Why is the AB separation story line about listening to the “valid” concerns of separatist Albertans? What about the valid concerns of progressive & centrist Albertans? It’s not like there aren’t lot of us. #ABpoli #ABleg

A UCP appointees to the weird Round 2 riding boundary panel lobbied the actual boundary commission to impose a hyper-ruralized seat map for Calgary with more hybrid ridings than the widely criticized minority report. Darwin Durnie's submission, page 65-262: www.elections.ab.ca/uploads/EBC-...

"None of the next 5 top corporate donors appear to even have a website or single storefront location." Saskatchewan’s system “is a recipe for corruption, waste of the public's money, trading of favors and other abuses of power." #SaskParty #Saskatchewan #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The reality is that the CPC was founded on the political opportunism based on populist grievance of the Reform Party. It changed its clothes a couple times but remains at its core a party that cries they are the victim even as they dine on T-bone steaks.

If you are Albertan and cherish water over coal, you have fewer than 48 hours to sign Mr. Corb Lund's petition #DemocracyIsSomethingYouDo www.waternotcoal.ca

CBC found 14 overseas accounts posing as Albertans in separatist Facebook groups. Some copied real Albertans' posts. Others claimed to attend rallies or collect signatures. Some earned money through Meta. Is Facebook's algorithm becoming a liability for Canadian democracy?

31 MONTH wait for a PUBLIC MRI in Red Deer. And yet somehow the govt's plan to drive all of our techs and human resources out into private-pay clinics (so none are left in our hospitals) is going to fix this? Might be time for ABs to remind Danielle Smith of her own words: 1/2

Quick update: pt was in a WR chair for 13 hours, in a stretcher space for ONE hour, and then placed in another chair for 16 more hours while more tests run. Unable to sleep or get comfortable. Danielle Smith and our MLAa should try 29 hours in an ED chair It’s inhumane.

We used to have a cutting edge healthcare system in Alberta that was the envy of the world and other countries and jurisdictions modelled their own systems on. How far we’ve fallen. 😞

@gpatrick.bsky.social This is incredible and we were just talking about it!

Far right Alberta logic: OMG stop wind turbines, they spoil the view. But let’s build a hundred AI data centres that generate major noise pollution and skip the part where they suck up loads of water for cooling when climate change is expected to lead to more droughts and reduce Alberta water rscs.

From Alberta Doctors…

Tod Maffin has a suggestion for the United States of America... Let Canada run your midterms youtube.com/shorts/xrKrL...

Who is Athana Mentzelopoulos? The only AHS employee who refused to sign an NDA and be paid to “shut up”.

Yes

thetyee.ca/News/2025/11... This is a MUST READ. If you don’t read anything else today? PLEASE READ THIS. This govt is forcing our Drs to work in the private system, which is costing us more, & intentionally destroying our Public system. THEY ARE LYING. Please share.

Those who claim that Rebel News is out to destroy Canada are right. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/02/n...

youtube.com/shorts/HrF_V... #ableg

open.substack.com/pub/american... great analysis.

Our EDs are literally overflowing… w pts AND the endless rain now too! And our Premier and Minister hold a press conference to re-announce an old funding policy for surgeries!

So AB, if you’re calling an ambulance and getting sent to the one of our Edmonton EDs, bring a book or two… and now an umbrella. (Actual pictures shared w me!)

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This is it Alberta. Our “come to Jesus moment”. A moment in time that define us.

If PM @mark-carney.bsky.social wants to know what I am for, here it is: I want Canada to become a leader in the green energy transition. I want other countries to look at us with envy at how we can not only survive, but thrive on renewables. nationalpost.com/news/we-dont...

I don’t buy this. It’s a distraction & buying goodwill. What it is more likely to be is more corrupt allocation of public dollars.

Here's your sign!

Albertans waking up, paying attention. Maybe. Still might vote UCP tho'.

last year, the UCP introduced a legislation for citizenship markers & your personal health numbers on driver’s licenses. The Privacy Commissioner warned about the serious privacy risks. They are moving ahead with the rollout, yet the Commissioner is still sounding the alarm.

Manning can move to Texas. Besides, BC has demands too! Let us build our wind energy harvesting facilities!

This! 🪶 What is it with Premier Danielle Smith & Indigenous people? Once upon a time, Smith used to say she had Cherokee ancestry. (She doesn’t.) But if she did, why would she promote the violation of Indigenous treaty rights, including the duty to consult? Maybe her only ancestral trait is racism.

In hospitals, we need safe nursing levels, doctors and other HCW and low hospital budgets limit this hiring. In the community, shortages of family doctors and specialists leave patients without care. To keep patients safe, we need more than empty buildings. I hope funding for HCW increases.

In case you didn't know Kiefer Sutherland's grandfather, Tommy Douglas. He pioneered universal public healthcare in Canada, showing that access to medical care could be treated as a right and not a privilege. His vision and political leadership laid the foundation for Canada's healthcare system.

As Arlene Dickinson notes, we're drowning in headlines, algorithms, and online misinformation. That's why CBC matters more than ever. In a world of bot farms and disinformation, trusted journalism that provides facts, context, and accountability isn't a luxury. It's democratic infrastructure. 🍁📺📰

Curious why Albertans weren't engaged in any meaningful way on the risks of this change. #ableg #abpoli oipc.ab.ca/office-of-th...

What we don't need is another mishmash of propaganda like the #AlbertaNext panel. I don't know that this government is capable of anything but propaganda. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

This is why I dread her “campaigning for Canada”. At the same time she’ll be pumping her crap about her 9 abhorrent referendum questions. She just can’t help herself - she lies like most people breathe.

Jobs boom in cleanup?! New report from the @civicgovernance.bsky.social finds that cleaning up Western Canada’s backlog of unplugged and unremediated oil and gas wells could create approximately 11,000 full-time jobs over the next 25 years. ccg.eco/research/job... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

As well as: albertataxpayers.ca/referendum

"The federal government’s long-awaited AI strategy does not tackle the environmental and climate impacts of rapidly building AI infrastructure like data centres." www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/04/n...

A Vancouver-born actor is rebooting Canada‘s soul, and honestly the timing feels like a message.

Seems like a good day to note that prison workers in the US produce an estimated $11 billion worth of goods and services each year at $1/hr. In Alabama more than 500 businesses, including McDonald's, Burger King & Walmart, use prisoners as forced labor. www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...

We, the people have not asked for AI, nor data centers. Many of us are opposed, or at least uneasy. The fact is that governments and techno-feudalists are pushing this on us against our will. Seems we are heading into a dystopian surveillance state. AI and data centers are not for our benefit.