Anne Smith 🇨🇦

[Anne Smith 🇨🇦 @aescalgary]

Happy Canada Day, eh! 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Well done.

What we have allowed to happen to this historic residence is a national disgrace.

It is past time that we restore 24 Sussex Drive to being a suitable, dignified official residence for Canada’s head of government.

Let this be the beginning of a broader effort to recover, protect and renew Canada’s heritage.

But for goodness sake: let’s get on with it. Don’t let this project become yet another advertisement for our recent inability to get things done.

[Tony Lane 🇺🇸 @TonyLaneNV]

A woman hiking in Canada nearly became a grizzly’s next meal and the video circulating right now is genuinely one of the most intense wildlife encounters you will ever watch - her dog is with her, a massive grizzly is right there, and somehow she kept her head together long enough for both of them to walk away breathing.

That is not a small thing. Most people talk tough until nature is standing ten feet in front of them and every instinct in your body is screaming to run, and running is exactly the worst thing you can do.

Grizzlies are built to chase, they top out over 700 pounds and can cover ground faster than any human alive. The people who survive these moments are the ones who override pure fear with pure discipline and this woman did exactly that.

If you hike, camp, or spend any real time in the wilderness - bear spray is not optional, it is the difference between a story you tell and one somebody else tells about you.

Could you have kept your cool?

Hats off to her.

[Parksy @PfParks]

This👇
Take a listen…

Sometimes comedy pivots on the absurd… but in AB it is almost so absurd to not be comedy…

But this Albertan is bang on, and we need his voice and perspective.

[Parksy @PfParks]

Visited my colleagues at the UofA ED yesterday… truly a disaster zone. Only but for the amazing efforts of HCWs that show up is it barely functioning.

Challenge to Premier Smith: skip a day at the Calgary Stampede and spend 24 hours in the ED WR of this every day rodeo!!!

[Naheed Nenshi @nenshi]

Elections Alberta says the October referendum will require hiring at least 60,000 workers and printing 45 million ballots.

That will cost Albertans nearly five times what the last provincial election cost — up to $100 million — all so Danielle Smith can keep her deal with the separatists.

Imagine what that money could do for healthcare, education, or addressing the affordability crisis.

The UCP and Danielle Smith have the wrong priorities.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Can’t.

Even.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[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

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

This paragraph right here.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

WOW!

Rakhi Pancholi pulled zero punches in her response to Smith’s address last night!

“Cut the bullshit and call an election!”

(That’s a real quote)

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Fun Tom 🇨🇦 💂 @funtomvids]

🟥 Our great friend and former Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, will be featured on '22 Minutes' this Wednesday (New Year's Eve). 👍🏼

Looking young and refreshed, his STERLING sense of humour and comedic talent will once more be on display. ✅

No doubt some of our maple-MAGA friends will be overwrought with agony and ire.

I'm here for it. 😌

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

Now - right now - as Canada grapples with why an Alberta father died in ER of chest pain - now is the time to listen to Alberta ER doctors like Dr Raj Sherman - who before this death - advocated for governments like Alberta to focus on the basics that matter. ⁦@RajSherman⁩

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

An excellent fact checking of Smith’s recent alt right podcast appearance!

Watch this!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Nate Pike @NatePike]

Listening to Mickey Amery say that “no professional should fear losing their job over an opinion” after the premiers office allegedly tried to have me fired for my opinions not once but twice…

Is pretty wild.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Parksy @PfParks]

“Cos-play funeral directors”!

Sadly the real funeral directors will def get more work when govt moves anasthesia focus to low acuity surgery over life-threatening disease surgeries.

It’s NOT about the surgeons AB! It’s the nurses and anesthesiologists that are rare-limiting.

[Parksy @PfParks]

Wow… this is reporting. 👇
Take a moment to listen to these REAL HONEST questions!

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

Wouldn’t you prefer this license plate?

#ForeverCanadian #AbLeg

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

Want to sign up to collect #ForeverCanadian petition signatures?

Want to sign the petition?

Join us this morning, starting at 9 am, by the Strathcona Farmers’ Market at the Gazebo Park.

We need your help!!!

#Yeg #ableg #cdnpoli

[Naheed Nenshi @nenshi]

The more I think about the Premier's comments, the more shocked I am.

Public servants aren’t above criticism, and her behaviour was insensitive and unbelievably entitled.

Albertans deserve better.
The people of Jasper deserve better.

https://t.co/Ju4RA5unWB

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Anyways, as Smith pontificates on being the authority on all things Jasper...

Never forget this gem...

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli