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3rd Stage Colon Cancer Survivor. My body clearly hates me and I am a bit cranky. Nothing I have is curable, so don't pester me with "Cures".

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If you support a petition that violates Treaty rights, then you support the violation of Treaty rights.

It’s that simple.

09.03.2026 23:08 πŸ‘ 113 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 5
Graph showing the number of deaths pending investigation from 2019 to 2024. In total, there were 3,244 deaths pending investigation as of January 2026 – without counting 2025. 2023 and 2024 contained the highest numbers at around 1,200 each.

Graph showing the number of deaths pending investigation from 2019 to 2024. In total, there were 3,244 deaths pending investigation as of January 2026 – without counting 2025. 2023 and 2024 contained the highest numbers at around 1,200 each.

Cause of death statistics are now missing 2024, which were available in the dashboard until recently.

Cause of death statistics are now missing 2024, which were available in the dashboard until recently.

The Alberta government has removed Cause of Death statistics for the entire year 2024 from its dashboard.

Fortunately, I reported on this in January, before the data were removed: drugdatadecoded.ca/up-to-89-per...

The government hadn't yet reported 2025. The latest year available is now 2023. 1/

09.03.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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Alberta separation talk already affecting more than a quarter of surveyed Calgary businesses | CBC News Ongoing discourse around the prospect of Alberta separation is emerging as a top concern for Calgary businesses, many of whom say the debate is already impacting the local economy, a new Calgary Chamb...

Alberta Chambers of Commerce warning that the separatism debate is already having a negative economic impact. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

09.03.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 114 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 7

From the DM’s…

Guess the healthcare worker shortage isn’t over after all?

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

09.03.2026 18:17 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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ANALYSIS | How good is Alberta 'tax advantage' when it requires deficit borrowing? | CBC News Alberta has a revenue problem, a spending problem and 'budget amnesia,' says a former senior UCP advisor and Finance official.

Tedds isn’t as sure that Alberta’s spending is the issue…. But she observes that the increases in health and education spending in this month’s budget show the UCP gets the message that Albertans expect government to keep funding quality services.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

09.03.2026 15:08 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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By the book: Alberta schools pull at least 160 titles from shelves to meet provincial order | CBC News Alberta school divisions complying with a provincial order have removed dozens of graphic novels from their shelves, from illustrated versions of literary classics to coming-of-age memoirs and dramati...

What books did Alberta schools *actually* pull off the shelves in response to a provincial order? It took a lot of work to find out. We still don't have a complete picture. And some schools are still pulling material.

Free speech advocates say it's ban unmatched in Canadian history. #AbLeg By me.

09.03.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 201 πŸ” 163 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 21

I literally went to school to learn about accommodations and training for those with disabilities but I never worked in that capacity bc that is not the reality of job places in Alberta. No one wants to pay for it, or do it.

09.03.2026 05:36 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Does the gov't even fund the site that was on St. Albert Trail (forgetting the name) that provided such accommodations and training. I know I was contracted about 10 years ago by a place on the Southside to write a behavioral contract with a client, who was volunteering in hopes of being employable.

09.03.2026 05:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This caused my uncle great turmoil bc he thought he was being denied a better life on purpose. He began soling himself on the regular, upset that he was living in a group home with disabled people. This went on for a year or more, my uncle never was happy after that. Smith is like this, selling shit

09.03.2026 05:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No disability expert would agree with her AT ALL. This reminds me of this psychologist who was working with my uncle (who had to pay this ahole) telling my uncle he could work, drive & have a family. My uncle had brain damage from dying as a child, developmentally 5 years old, he was in his 60s.

09.03.2026 05:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh but she declared on her radio show that we have enough Drs.& that healthcare is working perfectly fine. We have no crisis to worry about. She won't pay us, she will just continue to lie.

09.03.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Good news everyone!

According to Dani yesterday, there's no longer a shortage of healthcare workers!

And we don't need to give healthcare any more money for recruitment or retention!

(We still very much have a staffing shortage for the record)

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

08.03.2026 22:00 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5

High gas prices also promote working from home.

07.03.2026 06:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Alberta Fiscal Shell Game

The Alberta Fiscal Shell Game

TLDR

04.03.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Alberta’s Tax Advantage Is Being Paid For by Your Property Tax Bill I am sitting here running code to pull and process British Columbia property tax data for a project Gillian Petit and I are doing on property tax regressivity across Canadian provinces β€” work that …

Alberta Budget 2026 didn't raise taxes. It just raised your property taxes β€” the one tool the province left municipalities, then spent years criticizing them for using. Wrote about it.

deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/a...

04.03.2026 20:13 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

My 14 year old was lamenting the other day that I didn't keep the stove box long enough. I swear I kept it 6 months and then interest was lost.

04.03.2026 05:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Edmonton: no hope coming!
Govt has admitted they only have a Plan to plan new beds...
7M ear marked in the budget for "blue prints" to start thinking about building the promised 1000 new beds in the Mis and GNH!

Total nothing burger

Expect >10 YEARS for any relief...

02.03.2026 23:45 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 5
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Trust Betrayed... A separatist leader was found to have misappropriated over $1.2 million from family members suffering from dementia

New Substack!

Separatist Leader and Danielle Smith's "Plan B", Dennis Modry was found to have misappropriated over $1.2 million from family members suffering from dementia by a BC Supreme Court Judge.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...

01.03.2026 01:28 πŸ‘ 207 πŸ” 137 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 10
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Wherein Smith claims that "newcomers" are costing the province $9 Billion in social programs.

In order for that to be true, every single newcomer would have to be accessing social programs that many don't even have access to.

These are evil misrepresentations.

#abpoli #ableg

28.02.2026 22:28 πŸ‘ 454 πŸ” 171 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 31
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So…

The UCP is moving procurement, which is the core of the β€œcorrupt care” scandal into…

The premiers office.

Cool.

What could possibly go wrong?

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

28.02.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 175 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 7

Why does he seem like the farmer that crawled out the back end of his cow??? I never can understand his word salads.

27.02.2026 03:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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$2.3B allocated to new crown corporation supporting Alberta health agencies Alberta is creating a provincial corporation, Health Shared Services, to centralize corporate services between its four health agencies.

So…

We’re spending 2.3 billion to replicate the services that were built into our former integrated system because Dani was committed to disintegrating it?

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

27.02.2026 02:24 πŸ‘ 189 πŸ” 99 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 2
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One hundred accounts are behind the majority of conspiracy theory content in Canada Researchers analyzed more than 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada and found that 87 per cent of conspiratorial claims come from influencers, with just 100 users responsible for near...

The Media Ecosystem Observatory has found that just 100 accounts in Canada are responsible for 68% of posts promoting conspiracy theories. But they are having an outsized impact on local governments.

Read my latest:

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/n...

25.02.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 14
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24.02.2026 23:48 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Sober Look at Alberta’s Separatist Surge | The Tyee How did we get here? Is it treason? And five more key questions examined.

Michael Harris: Could Wild Rose Country go its own way, becoming a sovereign nation, or perhaps America’s 51st state?

As improbable as that sounds, the amber caution light is flashing in Alberta, where a premier may prove to be the best friend separatists in the oil-rich province have. #abpoli

24.02.2026 13:37 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 4

I have neighbor's that brag about not finishing school past grade six so I don't expect much from the people who didn't finish highschool so they could make bank from working an oil job. They live in a different reality, not the real one.

24.02.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Same gov't that was into letting the money that funds the people hired to find the drs. and nurses lapse out this summer.

24.02.2026 06:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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WOWZER folks… this is some Grade A Bullshit… Shall we put some facts out there?

1 - Premier has it reversed - the Section of Emergency Medicine (SEM) β€œhoped govt would work with us to get these positions in place”. They haven’t met w us...
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24.02.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 90 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 7
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Another Near Miss from an AB ED shared with government, to no response:
A female in her 50’s presented confused/altered in aΒ  wheelchair and couldn't walk

She was flagged for MD assessment after a check-in found her still confusedΒ 
after 4 hours in a wheelchair...
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24.02.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1