I'm just going to put it out there. If the COVID test positivity rate exceeds the Premier's approval rate, it should trigger an automatic election call.
Let's have a referendum on whether we should have a referendum on whether we should have a referendum on whether we should have a referendum on whether we should have a referendum on whether we should have a referendum on whether we should have a referendum on whether we should
Premier Smith asked what the point of the petition committee was if the Forever Canada question wasn't going to be on the ballot.
Smith disgarees, saying that the referendum question is the Forever Canada question.
If a separatist group wants to fight this in court, they can pay for their own appeal. It is not the responsibility of Alberta taxpayers to subsidize a political project the government claims it does not even support.
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Teachers are wrong about education.
Doctors are wrong about healthcare.
Judges are wrong about the law.
.....but, Danielle Smith knows best?
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“The premier should not wait for the RCMP. She should not wait for lawsuits. She should not defer to Elections Alberta. She should not send this to a partisan committee.
She should call a public inquiry now.”
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Carrie Tait of The Globe and Mail named NNA Journalist of the Year for coverage of Alberta’s dodgy contracts scandal. Well deserved. https://t.co/zDFXdxx6XG
Can someone teach Premier Smith how medicine works:
1 - a patient has symptoms. They feel something. Let's say there's a headache.
2 - a clinical history is taken. A story.
3 - a physical exam is done. Maybe that headache is shingles. 👇👇👇
4 - a differential diagnosis is generated. A list of ideas what could be the problem.
5 - treatment, testing or both are considered. Let's do a swab of that rash just above your hairline and treat with valacyclovir.
6 - a test or treatment is done and the situation is reassessed. Ah, I see the rash has crusted over now and the shingles swab is positive. You don't need an MRI.
7- at any point, a specialist opinion may be needed. The shingles has progressed close to your eye now, let's get ophthalmology to look at you.
The way medicine doesn't work is I have a headache and I book myself in for a private MRI which is normal because an MRI doesn't diagnose shingles, migraine headaches, temporal arteritis or acute angle closure glaucoma.
It's insane to think there is no one likely advising the Alberta government on how actual medicine is performed in 2026 - or for that matter in 2016, 2006, 1996 or 1986. The thing that should never happen is symptom leading to go get myself tested jumping the queue just because you have more money and jumping ahead of someone maybe with a new brain cancer on CT that really needs that MRI more than you for your shingles.
None of what Alberta is doing is for patient good. It's for something else. But not for patients.
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"And every consequence we absorb is one the system never has to face."
We spent the last 15yrs in Alberta "absorbing" in our EDs and in our hospital wards and hallways... we let sequential govt's avoid Workforce and Capacity Planning...
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Each time Alberta has established an Electoral Boundaries Commission to redraw election maps the government has accepted the commission’s majority report, so I was surprised and disappointed to learn that a committee of MLAs has instead been tasked with creating a new map. /1