TreesAreNice

A Canadian living in Alberta.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Here it is, my occasional reminder that balloons don't get up to grandma in heaven. They come back to Earth as trash.

Sometimes stuck in a tree. Sometimes floating in a river. Sometimes wrapped around the neck of an animal.

Keep the celebration of life, but lose the balloon release.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Trump has not given any evidence of humanity or compassion.
He displays the worst features of the ugly american.
Do Americans really want to be seen as such monsters?
The whole world sees the monstrosity of Trump & you elected him.

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

The point of a referendum is to gauge public opinion on a subject, not shape it. As usual, Smith is not interested in what Albertans want.

"She looked me in the eye and said 'Well, we have a particular outcome we want for these questions so we frame them a certain way.'"

[Larry Dallas @BartFurley]

Look at these un fuckable freaks. My God.

So before they are even a Country they are going to invade The NWT?

What a fucking joke. Is Alberta an insane asylum?

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Hate him

[Fred Stenson @fstenson]

Amazing how often a govt's doing a wrong thing is defended by saying the same wrong thing is done in another province. BC's coal miners being allowed to pollute local, regional and international waterways is not a sound defence for allowing Alberta miners to do the same.

[Naheed Nenshi @nenshi]

So the Premier lied to Corb Lund, and to all of us, when she claimed she didn't change the law to benefit her separatist friends.

This is a must-listen, especially for anyone who still believes the Premier cares about democracy or letting Albertans decide anything that falls outside her own political agenda.

[Ron wright @ronsterd89]

Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number.
When the UN replied saying 6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end Famine for the year he never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for 44 Billion.

You struggle and suffer because people like him are allowed to exist, not because your neighbor is an immigrant.

[AJ Punk 🇨🇦 @SilentSnow89]

Alberta has the fastest-rising auto insurance prices in Canada.

Alberta also has by far the fastest-rising electricity prices in Canada.

Alberta is about to introduce pay for play healthcare.

Dear separatists: it isn't Ottawa making your life more expensive.

It's Edmonton.

[Larry Dallas @BartFurley]

If you watched CTV Calgary this morning you have seen what The Calgary Chamber Of Commerce has said about separation.

Half of all businesses would LEAVE Alberta.

They call it insanity to be even discussing leaving Canada.

Danielle Smith in a now a confirmed lunatic.

[Larry Dallas @BartFurley]

Half of the people living in Alberta will leave too. The seppies will tell you this a good thing. They will say good let the liberals leave. They will not tell your house will be worthless when everyone flees.

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Funny how the loudest “Canada is broken” voices keep coming from the provinces with the worst premiers running the show.

Here’s the part people skip: your daily life is run by your province, not Ottawa. Healthcare, schools, hospitals, highways, policing, housing approvals, electricity rates. All provincial jurisdiction. The premier you voted for controls almost everything that actually touches your day to day.

Alberta’s economy gets mismanaged by Smith, healthcare gets gutted, and somehow it’s Ottawa’s fault. Saskatchewan posts some of the worst outcomes on healthcare wait times and education funding in the country, then blames “the Laurentian elite.”

These are the same people who vote for cuts, then complain when the cuts hurt. Vote for underfunded hospitals, then post about ER wait times like it’s a national betrayal. Vote against federal transfers and equalization fixes, then act shocked when their own province can’t deliver services.

If your premier controls your hospital wait time, your kid’s classroom size, and your power bill, and all three are getting worse, that’s not a “Canada is broken” problem. That’s a “you elected this” problem.

The data is right there. Most of the “Canada is failing” energy isn’t coming from a place of national decline. It’s coming from provincial governance failures, dressed up as a federal crisis.

[Alberta Fact Checker 🌈 @North_Resists]

Combine this with the actual price of electricity, and you start to understand just how badly you're getting screwed in Alberta with privatized markets.

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

Who called who liars? Whatever side of any issue you're on in Alberta, surely we all agree that Premier Danielle Smith cannot be taken at her word? About anything. She lies. She's good at lying. 50/50 chance that what she's saying at any time is a lie. Albertans deserve better.

[Naheed Nenshi @nenshi]

A new Calgary Chamber of Commerce survey found that 63% of businesses say Danielle Smith's separation referendum is already having a negative impact on their business, while 74% see no tangible benefit from it.

And if separatists get their way, the consequences could be even worse. Nearly half of businesses surveyed said they would leave Alberta.

Albertans don't need more uncertainty. We need investment, jobs, and an economy that gives people confidence in the future.

Instead, Danielle Smith is putting our economy at risk to appease her separatist friends.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

“parallel private-payment systems do not reduce public wait times. They increase them by diverting scarce resources away from public systems.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli https://t.co/GhMDBxBxiI

[Parksy @PfParks]

Not only a disaster… it likely may be the straw that breaks the ED’s back…

Already hospital specialists-on-call are refusing to see and help private clinic CSF pt’s who have surgical complications, stating “we didn’t do the surgery, call the doc who did!”

[Energi Media @EnergiMedia]

Thomas Lukaszuk says Forever Canada’s 456,000 signatures were not for separatism.

They were gathered, he says, to push for a legislature vote and block separatists from forcing a referendum.

#Alberta #Canada #cdnpoli #abpoli

[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!!!

[Rorschach.Tested🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇳🌊NATO @Rorschached99]

Albertans are complaining about a +40% increase in auto insurance the past three years. Wait until Smith & Anderson marry American insurance to Alberta healthcare. That's real pain.

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