Liz Simpson

Retired RN, Evaluator, Counsellor, grandma, avid gardener, appreciate real food, nature lover

[Melanie Behm, she/her @lovelylibrary]

Albertans, we can’t continue to accept the gaslighting from the UCP. This is impacting lives & leading to unnecessary suffering & deaths. This failure is on @ABDanielleSmith & @AdrianaLaGrange & the unfair burden is on our HC workers. Demand accountability. @albertaNDP

[Taking Alberta Forward, We Stand With #Canada! @sytsema_andy]

Meanwhile in #Alberta?
The problem with any data breach is that once the dataset is out, it's out forever. Even if you demand the files be returned, copies have already spread far beyond control. That’s what makes this crime so serious — it’s a permanent compromise of Canadians’ private information.

In today’s AI-driven world, we may never fully recover our privacy. Those responsible must be held to account: they need to be properly charged and brought to trial.

No federal criminal charges have been laid yet in the massive Alberta voter data breach — but the RCMP is investigating.

Once that dataset of 2.9 million Albertans was released, it was out forever. Copies are already everywhere. This is a permanent loss of privacy in an AI-driven world.

Here are the potential federal Criminal Code charges under investigation:
·        Unauthorized use of a computer (s. 342.1) — up to 10 years.
·        Mischief to computer data (s. 430(1.1)) — up to 10 years.
·        Fraud (s. 380) — up to 14 years.
·        Identity theft/fraud provisions.
This wasn’t a simple mistake. It was the willful release of our personal information. Those responsible must be charged, tried, and held fully accountable.
Our privacy is gone. The rule of law must not be. Demand real consequences.

What do you think should happen?

[Parksy @PfParks]

If the govt wants to pretend that’s an avg… that means more than HALF will wait longer.

Our ED system is broken and our govt just doesn’t care

Nothing, nada, radio silence from the Premier

(Keep in mind: posted 16hr wait time means Covenant Health CEO isn’t even trying!)

[Katy E 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MargTokar]

Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing | The Tyee

This is a MUST READ. If you don’t read anything else today? PLEASE READ THIS. Our Public HC Drs are being forced to work in this govt’s private system which is costing us MORE. https://t.co/sz9arbHjPx

[Katy E 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MargTokar]

@ABDanielleSmith hears big donors. Charter school owners. Sole sourced contract holders. American HC insurance companies. O&G big money.

She doesn’t give a damn about you. Never did.

Right @UCPCaucus @nateglubish

[Katy E 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MargTokar]

Ask @ABDanielleSmith what she & her @UCPCaucus have done about the largest theft of data in Canada’s history.

Have they fired the 2 staffers who witnessed the theft & did not report to the @RCMPAlberta? No.

Have they retracted amendments that made it easier? No.

NOTHING.

[AJ Punk @SilentSnow89]

Danielle Smith claims she cares about regular Albertans.

Then, at a time when many Albertans are struggling to get by, she holds cash-for-access dinners with a minimum charge of $525 per head.

@ABDanielleSmith doesn't give a fuck about us. She only cares about herself.

[Wenda Ismay Toews🇨🇦 @ToewsWenda]

Resign Danielle Smith!

[Wenda Ismay Toews🇨🇦 @ToewsWenda]

It took 12 hours for me to get admitted at Peter Lougheed Hospital a couple of weeks ago.

Emergency departments are definitely drowning in Alberta.

Nurses in the department where I was were working 16 hour shifts because of an insufficient amount of nurses to cover the shift. The doctors who saw me had been working for over 24 hours straight.

Hiding the amount of people waiting by adding waiting rooms and adding recliners in rooms off the original waiting room aren’t speeding up treatment, they’re hiding the underfunding and under staffing problems.

UCP is underfunding public health care!

[Parksy @PfParks]

https://t.co/Lp690TK3OG

Excellent summary of the integration and then disintegration of our HC system.

It's purely political... except this time the disintegration was like napalm on a a chaos fire...

take the time to give this a read!

[JB 🇨🇦 @JackieBee_16]

This is what the gov’t doesn’t get.
You can open all the private surgery clinics you want, but it’s still going to tie up the public systems.

Our emerg depts are drowning, EMS is drowning. Stop with the rebrand distractions and open your eyes UCP.
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[Mimi Williams (she/her) @MimiProbably]

"“For the first couple days, they sent out their PR people to actually gaslight and say we were ‘misguided,’ that we didn’t know what we were talking about,” said Parks.

To date, no meeting has taken place ... "

#ABPoli #ABHealth
https://t.co/FlKkVqu5mi

[Peggy Wright @PeggyBevClare]

Public health inspectors keep Albertans safe — in restaurants, childcare centres, long-term care, and during outbreaks & emergencies.

They shouldn’t lose pay, benefits or job security because the UCP is forcing through their chaotic health restructure.

Protecting these workers is protecting public health.

https://t.co/axe6axp4Fo

[Jason YYC @Jason___YYC]

JFC 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[Gerry Varty @gerryvarty]

@TheBreakdownAB Deep Red states make it incredibly difficult for unprivileged voters to even GET voter ID, restrict polling stations and times to make it difficult for them to vote, and gerrymander districts to pre-ordain outcomes.

All things Alberta wants to do.
#ableg #canpoli #abpoli

[Katy E 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MargTokar]

@ABDanielleSmith: the next 90 days will be “bumpy”. Like the last 3 years? Dead Albertans. Bumpy.

That’s ok. We know damn well that her family, MLA’s families? Theyll never have to wait 6 hrs for an ambulance.

Let them eat cake…or die…whstever…@UCPCaucus

[Charles Prepolec 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @sherlockeditor]

@natnewswatch @markusoff What a shock that this guy won't won't say if he supports keeping Alberta in Canada. It doesn't get much more Maple MAGA than having gone to the USA to work on Trump's first campaign in 2016. The UCP is a 5th column working to break up Canada.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Worth remembering, prior to Smith when there was a proposal to use existing space, the UCP rejected it for…

Not having a business case.

Now that it’s totally from scratch?

We’re gonna guess that doesn’t help the business case.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[MandelaMushroom 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 NEVER VOTE CONSERVATIVE @SpeakUp407]

Facts vs Claims: Smith and Nally's Untruths about Alberta's New ID Cards
For “Untruths” read LIES. Danielle Smith is the Queen of Lies.
Privacy Commissioner warns her about these new ID cards, but she doesn’t care. 3 million Albertans learned that lesson.

https://t.co/djfwQ1qxIs