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[Leanne Rein @KinderRein]

Time to make your voice heard - or at least recorded.
Hands off my CPP
https://t.co/AQNH0gWQ95

[Parksy @PfParks]

You know what’s Bananas?
1 NO ONE said 7 year olds should access porn (it wasn’t happening… not a real problem)

2 this govt spends more energy putting police in libraries than making sure your voting rights and data are safe… (a real problem for 3M ABs, they don’t care about)

[Dr. Raj Sherman @RajSherman]

Dear Fellow Albertans,

This letter is written not as a partisan, but as an emergency physician who has cared for more than 100,000 Albertans, a former MLA, and someone who has devoted a working life to this province.

Across Alberta, the strain is obvious. Housing is scarce. Emergency rooms are overcrowded. Schools are stretched. The cost of living weighs heavily on families. Anxiety about the future is real and justified. This is not anger. It is concern, because moments like this demand leadership.

When people are under pressure, leadership is not just about solutions, but about direction: an honest explanation of what is actually going wrong, and reassurance about who we are as a society while we fix it.

In recent weeks, Alberta’s challenges have been framed by the Premier, Danielle Smith, in a way that has left many people angry, not at systems or long-standing policy failures, but at immigrants and other governments. That is deeply troubling.

The frustration people feel is understandable. But much of that anger is being misdirected at immigrants. With the exception of Indigenous peoples, all Albertans come from families that arrived here seeking opportunity.

Immigrants did not break Alberta’s healthcare system or tear up family doctor contracts. They did not close hospital beds or cancel planned hospital capacity. They did not under build housing, assisted living, long-term care, or schools. They did not dismantle community care. Politicians did.

Every day in emergency departments, the consequences are visible: acute-care beds occupied by patients who should be at home or in long-term care; ERs functioning as inpatient wards; and population growth encouraged without matching investments in primary care, continuing care, and hospital capacity.

In 1992, Alberta had approximately 11,700 hospital beds. Today, with nearly double the population and a much older demographic, we have roughly 8,800. This is not an Ottawa or immigration problem. It is a planning and capacity problem.

Many of the people caring for seniors, staffing hospitals, and holding the healthcare system together today are newcomers themselves. Blaming them delays real solutions and divides communities.

That lesson is personal. Growing up as a newcomer involved violence, black eyes and broken bones, and learning early what happens when fear is tolerated and adults look away. Home was not always safe either, shaped by alcoholism and domestic violence. Those experiences leave marks.

What mattered most was a mother who taught that anger shrinks a life, while forgiveness, discipline, and service strengthen it, and that opportunity carries an obligation to give back. That belief led to decades in emergency medicine, the training of thousands of doctors, and public service at personal cost.

Those experiences lead to a clear conclusion. Albertans deserve leadership that lowers the temperature, not raises it. Leadership that fixes systems, not finds scapegoats. Leadership that takes responsibility for planning failures and invests in capacity to match growth.

For these reasons, Alberta needs a change in direction and ultimately, a change in leadership, so the province can unite around practical fixes rather than division.

This is not about racism. It is about judgment, competence, and the ability to govern responsibly during difficult times. Alberta needs leadership that brings people together and focuses on solutions, not blame.

Premiers Lougheed, Klein and Stelmach have led through very difficult times and would not take our province to this sharp edge.

Albertans are much better than this.

I am a Canadian, an Albertan and I am an immigrant.

God bless Alberta.

Dr. Raj Sherman
@ABDanielleSmith @nenshi @FreeAlbertaRob
@PfParks @NightShiftMD
@Alberta_UCP @UCPCaucus @albertaNDP @TheBreakdownAB @ryanjespersen @cspotweet
#yeg #yyc #ABleg #cdnpoli

[Leanne Rein @KinderRein]

@Donewithmorons_ @TheBreakdownAB … and would not listen even if presented with the facts

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents are now hitting unaccompanied minors with their vehicles, detaining and disappearing them, even after being shown a U.S. passport.

Yesterday, agents rear-ended a car being driven by a 16-year-old, with her 15-year-old brother in the passenger seat.

Instead of calling a guardian, agents photographed the 15-year-old… and then took him.

The 16-year-old showed agents her U.S. passport…. But, that did not matter, they still handcuffed her and threw her into their unmarked car.

Both minors.
Both unaccompanied.

Detaining children, ignoring proof of citizenship, and hauling minors away, after rear ending the car they were driving, is not immigration enforcement.

That is child trafficking.

And it’s happening in broad daylight by the Trump administration.

Share this.
Document everything.
Demand accountability.

Because if federal agents can do this to kids with a passport, no one is safe.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

This year, Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill gave:

Google an $18 billion tax break.

Amazon a $16 billion tax break.

Microsoft a $12 billion tax break.

Facebook an $11 billion tax break.

Now, they’re writing checks to Trump for his $300 million ballroom.

Gee, I wonder why?

[Leanne Rein @KinderRein]

@WBrettWilson @albertaNDP @WBrettWilson An outright LIE

[Jason Gregor @JasonGregor]

FYI... Alberta teacher's were offered 12% over four years, which is 3% each year, not 12% in one year.

For some background... teacher's have had a 0% increase in NINE of the past 12 years. And the few years they got a raise it was 1.8% and 2%.

But their main concern isn't money. It is class size, funding for curriculum, special needs and more.

Families should be aware how much lower our education bar is in Alberta now compared to the past, due to cuts in funding and grossly oversized classrooms. This makes learning more challenging for your children or grandchildren.

Education should be one of our top priorities.

[Leanne Rein @KinderRein]

@TheBreakdownAB You literally can’t make shit like this up. Good lord, this government is just plain unbelievable.

[Barbara Larochelle 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @BarbLarochelle]

UCP: Get rid of books with all the bad stuff we don’t want kids to see.

Teachers: Have you read any books in school libraries that have this?

UCP: We don’t read books

Teachers: Okay, well what kind of bad stuff? 1/6

[Leanne Rein @KinderRein]

@JasonPYYC 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Leanne Rein @KinderRein]

@TheBreakdownAB Canadian border agents doing their job! Awesome!

[Leanne Rein @KinderRein]

@SerenaCMah @AndrewKnack @doniveson @gilmcgowan @Marty_Chan @LukaszukAB @abpoli Can signatures be done online?

[Leanne Rein @KinderRein]

“Win a Date Night at KDays” #giveaway #win https://t.co/L8d3pi1ASr

[Leanne Rein @KinderRein]

@CliffStacey1 @TheBreakdownAB 🤣

[Leanne Rein @KinderRein]

https://t.co/zQ5atLbR5O

[Leanne Rein @KinderRein]

@educator4ever36 @ArugulaLeBitta Sadly, many parents would not “see” the true issue. It is all about blame someone else and take no accountability for one’s own actions.

[Leanne Rein @KinderRein]

@sage_stage Yes

[TeacherGoals @teachergoals]

PSA: 📣
🎤 @WeinsteinEdu

[Leanne Rein @KinderRein]

And … lowest amount spent per student in Education funding as well.

[Global Edmonton @GlobalEdmonton]

Effective Tuesday, Alberta is set to be tied for the lowest minimum wage in the country.

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