Amber Sweks

Mom of 2 adorable kids. Wife of a Rockstar husband. Teacher #redfored.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

This woman is reciting Trump’s words exactly as he said them during the NATO summit.

We have become so inured to Trump’s incoherence that is sanewashed by the media 24/7 that we fail to recognize just how much he’s declined.

Reading a transcript of his words makes it SO CLEAR.

[Amber Sweks @ASweks]

@HugoMonster96 @validmavericity His MPs are all, and I mean all, smiling like their lives depend on it behind him. Weird.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

This is critically important to keep in mind.

The municipal tax increases that are about to be inflicted on Albertans will have may people blaming city councils, but it’s the provincial government that is mandating them.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Jeromy (Pathfinder) Farkas @JeromyYYC]

The provincial government has just imposed the largest property tax increase on Calgarians in history.

In 2026, Alberta is increasing its share of your property tax bill by 21.05%. Nearly 42% of every residential property tax dollar now goes directly to the Province, and the City is legally required to collect this massive tax increase.

For a typical $706,000 home:
🔺 Province: +$339
🔹 City: +$49

We did our work to restrain spending while focusing on safety and core infrastructure. The City’s increase is 1.81%.

The total increase is about $388, with the overwhelming majority driven by the Province.
Check your estimate at https://t.co/JT3t9Aptv3.

[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

[Amber Sweks @ASweks]

@Concern70732755 🤢

[Amber Sweks @ASweks]

@RealTalkRJ @LukaszukAB Agree

[Amber Sweks @ASweks]

@_ron847 @BertaProudDad No, they absolutely do not “make us” support one political opinion. I know plenty of conservative teachers, and just because they support the UCP doesn’t mean they don’t want a raise and better working conditions.

[Amber Sweks @ASweks]

@edmontonjournal Cool story! However, as teachers, we are burning out with such big class sizes. It is much easier to teach less kids than more kids as am sure you can understand.

This is important because we are bargaining, and striking, for our working conditions and our compensation.

[Amber Sweks @ASweks]

@MurrayOlexanPT @BertaProudDad The ATA can’t fire teachers in the first place. Teachers are more than able to speak up if they feel they need to. Berta dad, for some reason, says we can’t.

[Amber Sweks @ASweks]

@FringedCanuck Why do you care if we are on strike? We’re just fighting for better compensation and working conditions. Mind your own business.

[Amber Sweks @ASweks]

@kris_sims Gr9 38
Gr5 25

Edmonton

[Tom Flemming @tomflem]

If you are a #Liberal who hasn't yet voted, please be sure to get out on Monday & do it.

No matter what the polls say now, we need your support to ensure we get #CarneyForPM.

#Elxn2025 #CanadaStrong

[𝙰𝚟𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @AvalonResists]

A toss-up in Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge.

Vote strategically for the LPC and retire Marc Dalton. The guy who made disgusting comments about seniors living in LTC facilities.

You can do this.

#Election2025
#VoteStrategically
#CarneyForCanada

[G McThink @redsnoopy69]

If all progressive Canadians voted strategically, conservatives would be lucky to win ≈65 seats.

Vote strategically...

[True North Eager Beaver Media (he/him/Mr Beaver) @TrueEager]

I'm old enough to remember when. Melissa Lantsman went on CTV's Question Period around Christmas 2023 to contemptuously tell us that the CPC felt we had no fucking right to know what they planned to do to/for us until the campaign.

10 days from the vote and we still don't know.

[Jason YYC @Jason___YYC]

Everybody in Griesbach vote NDP!!!

[Amber Sweks @ASweks]

@SuburbanPolly Don’t threaten me with a good time!! 😆

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Whether you love or hate tariffs, you can't help but be impressed at the detailed policy planning, the transparency of the policy process, the credibility of Administration announcements, relentless attention to detail, flawless execution, and the thoughtful predictability that business demands.