thetyee.ca/News/2026... Now our Recovery Alberta care delivery has been put at risk by sole source contracts and possible corruption. How far does this extend. How deep does the possible corruption go? And at the center of all of these deals is the same person... 1/4

I wish media would start making this the starting point of every story about Trump. Never beging with the assumption that he's trying to govern.

The UCP has been recklessly spending on contracts that line their friends' pockets, while everyday Albertans are spending more on everything from property taxes to fuel to groceries. We need a public inquiry. We need answers. We need a better government, and the Alberta NDP is ready.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says AHS is trying to get back some of the $49-million it paid to MHCare for drugs the company has not yet delivered. MHCare responds. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social

Welllllll... Uhm... Fuck... Influenza up... Measles Up... COVID outbreaks at Covenant Health.. and the rest of the disaster! Welcome to AHS V019 of 2026! open.substack.com/pub/frazzleh...

No words Latest from @charlesrusnell.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

Alberta's "Tax Advantage" has a structural dependency: when oil prices fall, property taxes rise to fill the gap. This has a name. It's called Texas. New post on Dead for Tax Reasons deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/albertas-fiscal-model-already-exists-its-called-texas/

“When Smith says Albertans wanted more schools and that is why the property tax went up, she is conflating two entirely separate budget streams to justify a recurring operating tax increase with a one-time capital investment story. “ We really are upstairs Texas.

Cheyanne was last seen at about 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, at CF Chinook Centre, located at 6455 Macleod Trail S. She was reported missing earlier this week. #Mmip #yyc www.aboriginalalert.ca/missingperso...

RCMP officers have been busy raiding offices across the province. That doesn't happen on a whim. Where there's smoke, there's fire. We can't ignore the alarm.

It’s six months today that we lost you. We still feel your gravity @drdagly.bsky.social

As the Globe breaks the story on Melewka… Let’s go back to November last year when Smith was asked about exactly this issue, Marshall Smith’s involvement & she not only denied it… She seemed to reference the podcasters who were allegedly hired to intimidate witnesses. Was she covering up then?

This is a MUST watch!!! Yesterday Nenshi said what everyone has known for a long time. Former AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopolous was right, she was fired for being right & Smith is wasting taxpayers money because she can’t admit those simple truths. #abpoli #ableg #Justice4Athana

“Despite the romanticized imagery of an idyllic “cowboy” life that is core to the separatist self-image, the crime rate is higher in rural Alberta (by 54%) than in urban settings, which is the most common destination for new immigrants.”

Smith skipped out on the vote taking away teachers’ right to strike to go on this trip. nationalnewswatch.com/2026/03/17/a...

🚨BREAKING!!!🚨 Danielle Smith was forced to admit to a secret trip she kept from the public! On her trip to the Middle East she and her staff accepted gifts of private flights and hotel rooms from the Saudi Government! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

@jeromyyyc.bsky.social I am just sick.

🤦‍♀️this province infuriates me.

It really hit me today how angry it makes me this is being redone. People spent a lot of their own time participating in the previous hearing… only to have it re-litigated. This honestly makes me want to not participate- why bother if it doesn’t matter?

If #yyccc can achieve a 50/50 split between building new homes on the edge of the city & building them within the city, taxpayers are projected to save $16B+ over 60 years. Last year, blanket rezoning brought that ratio closer to balance than ever. newsroom.calgary.ca/2025-marks-a...

Today #yyccc was told that a full repeal of blanket rezoning puts over $800 million in federal funding at risk, including $251 million in transit funding. In addition, it will jeopardize #yyc being awarded its share of $20 billion in transit funding. We quite literally can't afford to be NIMBYs.

"Some councillors say larger tax hikes will need to be on the table to pay for it" OR (hear me out) don't repeal blanket rezoning & density will help while preserving (or at least keeping at bay) current tax rates. #yyccc

The Sheldon Chumir supervised consumption site saw move than 300,000 visits and responded to nearly 8,000 overdoses while saving thousands of lives. So, Alberta Conservatives want it shut down and the City of Calgary council wants more information. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

A well written comment from Syd Boa on a post the other day re: shutting down the safe consumption site at the Sheldon Chumir. Post: www.facebook.com/share/p/15ax... (Can't link directly to the comment sorry) #Alberta #abpoli #harmreduction

It's not just UCP. "Though health advocates argue the province's $100 fee amounts to a treaty violation, the federal government rebuffed a request to step in, pointing out it's still free on reserves"

A National Day of Action for Public Health Care is scheduled for March 16, 2026, across Canada, to protest privatization and defend the Canada Health Act. Rally will be held outside Edmonton Centre MP Eleanor Olswewski's office at 12220 Stony Plain Road. #ABleg #ABpoli #CHA #SayNoToTwoTier

This is a must read. The study data is flawed, they appear to have deliberately overlooked established data and the people at the helm are UCP donors. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli drugdatadecoded.ca/centre-of-re...

It staggers me how fast the vast majority of people - including medical professionals - have normalised infection with a virus that can cause cognitive dysfunction / anosmia. SARS-2 is definitively not 'just another respiratory virus', yet society is just shoehorning it in there.

So the Alberta government is playing its hand pretty hard on this supervised consumption site study they manufactured, huh. Their research CEO was even sent as the provincial-territorial delegate to the ‘UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.’ Hope they don’t see this drugdatadecoded.ca/centre-of-re...

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.

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

$90 million for private schools Priorities…

Not Alberta Politics but… Too good to not share! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

The award for best press release goes to.... #canpoli #chillax

FOM wrote to provincial & federal ministers over Alberta’s decision to charge for COVID vaccines, & concerns that it breached Treaty 6 Medicine Chest Clause & the Treaty Right to Health. Everyone in this province deserves access to the care they need, yet both governments continue to pass the buck.

Opinion: I wrote a book about resistance movements in Iran. This is what Canada needs to do now, writes @maralkay.bsky.social

Here I’m criticizing the Alberta government’s ‘study’ on its own supervised consumption site closures by the merits of its *corruption alone* Someone more qualified should examine its methodology. Knowing this government, I expect it’s very bad. drugdatadecoded.ca/centre-of-re...

Dr Lorian Hardcastle told me the way the Alberta government is using personal data for ‘research’ on people who use drugs could cause real harm: “We're potentially targeting people for criminalization or involuntary treatment. The consequences are significant." drugdatadecoded.ca/centre-of-re...

We deserve for the decisions about our health care to be in our public interest, not the financial interests of for-profit corporations & their shareholders. 📢Sign the petition for Alberta's public hospitals!: www.rebuildourhealthcare.ca/hands-off-ou...

What if drug users in recovery had, like, a home? Has anybody thought about that?

From the DM’s… (And a confirmed source) #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Alberta’s Bill 11 opens the door to two-tier health care troymedia.com/health/alber...

Just before I left my job at CBC, I scraped more than 23,000 teacher email addresses from hundreds of Alberta school websites. The CBC's Elise Stolte then sent a questionnaire to each one. She got more than 6,000 responses! Those form the basis of a new series. The stories can be found here:

Lots of Alberta health news these days; here's one from me: First Nations leaders and advocates have been telling feds and provincial govts that Alberta UCP's $100 COVID vaccine fee is a treaty violation. Neither will step in to remove this access barrier. pressprogress.ca/alberta-char...

"Why was the insurance industry given a seat at the table to draft Alberta's two-tier health care legislation while doctors and patients were ignored?"

A whole mess of Order in Council appointments here but the one that really stands out for me is the reappointment of David Yager as a member of the board of directors of the Alberta Energy Regulator for a term to expire on April 25, 2031. Really? #abpoli #cdnpoli www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

This is the Alberta government’s vision for health care Profit-taking and corporate greed hardwired into its two-tier system The feds can’t remain silent #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Oh fun! We’ve reached the “thinly veiled threats to judges” part of the process! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Tehran after Israeli strikes 1 h ago (CNN)