Dan Chan Grover

Trying to live my best life. Nurse, occasional traveller, urban chicken enthusiast. Tweets my own.

[GDN Online @GDNonline]

The youngest member of New Zealand’s parliament, Māori Party MP Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, started a haka to protest the first vote on a contentious bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori.

The parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after the protest.

First signed in 1840 between the British Crown and more than 500 Maori chiefs, the Treaty of Waitangi lays down how the two parties agreed to govern. The interpretation of clauses in the document still guides legislation and policy today.

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Read: https://t.co/Pk5kyZjBFd

#NewZealand #NZ #Maori #Indigenous

[APTN News @APTNNews]

The police oversight agency in Alberta has released disturbing information about the fatal police arrest of Jonathon Lee Wells last week in Calgary.

https://t.co/gDTu6Ti4oQ

[Gabriel Fabreau MD, MPH, FRCPC @gabefabreau]

"We...are very concerned that having 4 pillars instead of one integrated system is NOT... good for patients... we know the [@Alberta_UCP] gov is spending... a lot of time & money... into reorganizing the system that is burning down"

@Albertadoctors @ableg https://t.co/K5kcTxtdGi

[Alberta Teachers' Association @albertateachers]

Check out the ATA's new campaign. Alberta spends THE LEAST on public education per student in all of Canada. #abed #ableg #StopTheExcuses #TheLeast #PublicEducation

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

“AHS has been running these facilities for a long time and has that expertise. For Covenant to take over those facilities is going to take time. It's going to take money. And it's not clear what the payoff is.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

https://t.co/BbZR0m90jc

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

Please refrain from politicizing <the current disaster>, otherwise we might have to do something to fix it.

[The Progress Report @ProgressAlberta]

Today the AUPE put out a release. "Members of the union who work in Alberta Wildfire have tried convincing the government to take their concerns seriously, but the government refused to prepare the province for another harsh wildfire season."

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

Maybe it's the exhaustion of seeing so many communities burn and residents fleeing and losing everything and smoke suffocating our summers with growing regularity, but it seems like we should probably have a grown-up talk about wildfires now.

[Dr Catherine Gray @cg_dr]

The docs I know prescribing Safer Supply include addiction doctors, emergency doctors, family doctors, internists and intensivists.

They are trying to protect pts from the high mortality and morbidity of the poisoned illicit drug supply.

Dr Sereda has our support @CPC_HQ

[Gillian Kolla, PhD @GillianKolla]

This is a very important point - while witnessing & responding to overdose and coping with overdose deaths was hard, the lack of action by governments to scale-up services to address the crisis of preventable overdose deaths was also traumatizing workers. They felt abandoned.

[Lorian Hardcastle @Lorian_H]

Today, the gov tabled bill 17, which furthers plans to reorganize the delivery of mental health & addiction services. As announced last week, Recovery Alberta will deliver the mental health & addictions services currently delivered by AHS. /1

[United Nurses of Alberta @UnitedNurses]

New provincial continuing-care regulations set to come into effect on April 1 will result in there being no legal requirement to provide nursing care for residents living in Alberta continuing care facilities.

Read UNA's statement: https://t.co/HbJ0DNsvWV

#NeedNursesAB #ableg

[Dan Chan Grover @DChanGro]

https://t.co/QalQgPdmU5

Our healthcare and housing systems are in dire straits. This kind of thing is how we don’t fix the problem.

[United Nurses of Alberta @UnitedNurses]

Nurses are naturally angered by the assault on human rights of a tiny minority of Albertans at the heart of this policy, and the hurt and damage to our fellow citizens it is bound to cause.

Read UNA's full statement: https://t.co/Vwmvm45zsF #ableg #abhealth

[Dr. Tehseen Ladha (she/her) @TehseenLadha]

Transgender youth:
- have 7x the risk of suicide attempt vs cisgender youth
- are incredibly anxious about reactions of friends/family
- when provided gender affirming care (including hormone therapy at ONSET of puberty and safe spaces) have improved mental health #Alberta 1/2

[Fae Johnstone 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @FaeJohnstone]

You can’t be for “bodily autonomy” around vaccines, and then ban parents from supporting their young people to access medically necessary healthcare.

[Fae Johnstone 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @FaeJohnstone]

I guess we are “for freedom” & “small government” except when it comes to trans people? Conservative hypocrisy.

You can’t be for freedom - but only in some cases.

You can’t be for small government - and then turn schools into private investigators reporting on trans students.