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[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇺🇸Trump has stated 55 times that he defeated Iran.

🇺🇸Trump has stated 35 times that Iran is destroyed.

🇺🇸Trump has stated 38 times that a deal is imminent.

🇺🇸Trump has stated 25 times that the Strait of Hormuz is open.

Elect a clown, expect a circus.

[Dr. Brian Goldman @NightShiftMD]

A shortage of anesthesiologists in AB is being exacerbated by forcing them to work at chartered surgical facilities.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Charlie Angus on Alberta voter data leak: We cannot treat the theft of voter data as simply a privacy breach. It must be investigated through the larger lens of foreign threat.

[Redd @ReddCinema]

Wild commentary from Jennifer Welch on MSNBC.

"JD Vance is married to a woman of Indian descent. He has mixed race children. So to all of the MAGA voters out there, if this man will not defend his wife and will not defend his kids, do you think he gives a crap about you?"

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Rosie O’Donnell on Trump: “If you grew up in New York you knew he was an asshole and a liar from day one. He is a con man, he is a narcissist, and he is a psychopath if you ask me”

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

“Anesthesiologists, and in some cases surgeons, have been preferentially assigned to work in chartered surgical facilities over public hospitals, including in response to political influence exerted by CSF owners.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli https://t.co/wTDWqRi4wo

[Laurie Adkin @LaurieAdkin]

AHS managers confirm that UCP health policy is so ideologically driven, ministers refuse to consider evidence that contradicts their beliefs. #abpoli #cdnpoli @NDP
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[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

So Trump’s ambassador to Canada actively promoted an app built by a Michigan MAGA group called 10xVotes. That same app is now at the centre of one of the biggest privacy scandals in Canadian history.

The Centurion Project, Alberta’s separatist group, used it to scrape personal data on nearly 3 MILLION Albertan voters. Now Elections Alberta, the Privacy Commissioner, and the RCMP are all investigating.

Hoekstra says he “wasn’t aware” of the connection. But the guy running the Centurion Project said publicly, on a podcast, that 10xVotes has been advising him behind the scenes for over a year. Hoekstra personally knows the app’s founder.

So the US ambassador to Canada promoted a voter ID tool, that tool ended up in the hands of a group trying to break up Canada, and that group illegally obtained private data on millions of Canadians.

This isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s confirmed by PressProgress, CBC, and Elections Alberta’s own investigation.
Foreign interference in Canadian democracy!!

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

No other president in US History has ever been this rude, insulting or ignorant!

Repost if you agree

[Parksy @PfParks]

Quick update: pt was in a WR chair for 13 hours, in a stretcher space for ONE hour, and then placed in another chair for 16 more hours while more tests run.

Unable to sleep or get comfortable.

@ABDanielleSmith and our MLAa should try 29 hours in an ED chair

It’s inhumane.

[Parksy @PfParks]

@ToewsWenda @validmavericity We are drowning and begging for help…
Nothing from the Premier on our EDs and safe and timely emergency care.

https://t.co/NKrYq077Or

[Kristin Raworth 🇨🇦 @KristinRaworth]

A lot of you do not understand that a not guilty verdict simply means that the burden of proof was not met. It does not mean someone was found innocent. Also anyone who has survived sexual violence or been in the justice system knows what an uphill battle it is. What EM went through is well documented and even if it didn’t meet the burden of proof for rape, it was wrong and egregious behaviour, enough for Hockey Canada to try to cover it up, enough for those men to film not one but two “consent” videos, if you think any of that behaviour is ok or defensible I do not know what to say to you .

[Praise @tufpraise]

Because pedophiles are in power

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

So let me get this straight…
Doug Ford can take a 102-day summer break with full pay, taxpayer-funded pensions, benefits, travel budgets, and perks while classrooms are overcrowded, hospitals are understaffed, ERs are closing, and families are struggling to survive?
Teachers are being told there’s “not enough money” for smaller class sizes, educational assistants, special education supports, or properly funded public schools.
Healthcare workers are burning out.
Parents can’t find family doctors.
Students are falling through the cracks.
But Queen’s Park gets a 3+ month vacation?
How is this acceptable?
And before anyone says politicians still “work behind the scenes,” most Ontarians don’t get 102 days off with six-figure salaries and guaranteed pensions while the systems WE pay for collapse around us.
Public education and healthcare are not luxuries. They are the backbone of a functioning society.
Maybe if politicians had to live in overcrowded classrooms, wait 14 hours in ERs, or watch children lose supports because there aren’t enough EAs, they’d stop treating public services like a budget line to cut while protecting their own comfort.
Ontario deserves better than a government that always seems to find money for itself while telling everyone else to lower their expectations.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Massie almost connected the dots.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Dr. Oz saying Trump keeps going back for medical checkups because he "likes the results" is one of the laziest fucking lies I've ever heard from this administration.

The contempt they must have for the American people to think anyone would believe that is staggering.

[Dr. Raj Sherman @RajSherman]

Activity Based Funding Alone Will Not Fix Alberta's Healthcare Crisis:

Alberta is moving forward with Activity Based Funding (ABF), where hospitals and surgical facilities are paid according to the number and complexity of procedures they perform.

Let's start with an important point: this is not inherently a bad idea.

When properly designed, Activity Based Funding can improve efficiency, increase transparency, reward productivity, and reduce wait times for procedures such as cataracts, hip replacements, knee replacements, and day surgery.

High performing healthcare systems in Australia and Scandinavia have successfully incorporated versions of ABF into their funding models.

But those same jurisdictions teach us an important lesson.

They do not rely on Activity Based Funding in isolation. They pair it with robust investments in primary care, prevention, home care, rehabilitation, assisted living, long term care, community-based services, and significantly greater acute care capacity.

These countries maintain approximately 3.8 to 4.2 acute care beds per 1,000 population. Alberta has approximately 1.76 beds/1000, less than half.

This capacity gap, combined with blocked patient flow, is Alberta's fundamental healthcare challenge.

After 35 years in the front lines, I can say with confidence that once Albertans gain access to care, they generally receive world-class care. Access is the problem.

Every day, sick Albertans sit in crowded emergency department waiting rooms wondering why the system is failing them.

Many assume the problem starts in the emergency department. It does not.

The emergency department is where the failure becomes visible.

For decades, Alberta's population has grown faster than its healthcare capacity. Our population is aging, chronic disease is increasing, and medical care is becoming more complex.

At the same time, hundreds of patients who no longer require acute hospital care remain in hospital beds because they are waiting for home care, rehabilitation, transition units, assisted living, or long-term care.

Hospitals are designed to treat acute illness, not to house patients waiting for the next level of care.

Healthcare is fundamentally a flow system and we have a major flow problem, especially in the Edmonton zone.

Patients enter through primary care, emergency departments, and ambulance services. They move through hospitals and, when ready, back into the community through home care, rehabilitation, assisted living, and long-term care. When any part of that flow becomes blocked, the entire system slows down.

That is exactly what Albertans are experiencing today.

Hospitals function best at approximately 85% occupancy. Above that level, delays increase, flexibility disappears, and patient flow slows. When hospitals routinely operate at 100-110% capacity, they do not become more efficient, they become less safe.

The consequences are predictable and preventable.

Emergency departments back up. EMS crews wait to transfer patients into care. Admitted patients board on stretchers waiting for inpatient beds. Surgeries are delayed or cancelled. Patients may be discharged earlier than ideal because of bed pressures, increasing the risk of complications and readmissions.

Most concerning, the risk of medical errors rises when healthcare professionals are forced to work in overcrowded, high-pressure environments for prolonged periods.

Chronic overcrowding contributes to burnout, moral distress, absenteeism, staff turnover and less efficiency. Asking healthcare workers to function indefinitely in crisis mode is neither sustainable nor safe.

Public hospitals managing complex admissions, emergencies, and Alternate Level of Care patients cannot fairly compete in a pure activity-based funding model against facilities focused primarily on lower-complexity elective procedures.

Changing the funding formula will not solve these structural issues.

If Alberta is serious about improving access and reducing wait times, our priorities should be clear:
1. Retain, recruit, and support healthcare workers.
2. Expand acute care capacity, particularly in Edmonton, which serves a vast and underserved northern region.
3. Move Alternate Level of Care patients to the appropriate level of care within 24-48 hours whenever possible.
4. Expand home care, rehabilitation, transition units, assisted living, and long-term care.
5. Strengthen primary care, prevention, and community-based services.

The single most important performance measure in healthcare is not the number of procedures performed. It is how quickly patients receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time.

A patient who requires admission should move from the emergency department to an inpatient bed within six to eight hours, 90% of the time.

Even in the middle of summer, many Edmonton patients are waiting four to six hours simply to be assessed by a physician. Another respiratory virus season is only months away.

Activity Based Funding may improve surgical efficiency and deserves a fair evaluation. But Albertans should not mistake a funding reform for a healthcare solution.

Until we fix the bottlenecks at both the entry and exit doors of our hospitals, our emergency departments and inpatient wards will remain overcrowded and inefficient regardless of how hospitals are funded.

The biggest bottleneck in Alberta healthcare is not the operating room…It's patient flow…It's the hospital entry and exit door.

@ABDanielleSmith @nenshi @PfParks @JMeddings @raghu_venugopal @TheSGEM @TheBreakdownAB @RealTalkRJ @cspotweet @BradenMannsYYC @UCPCaucus @abndpcaucus

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Donald Trump cheated on his first wife, who said he raped her, with his second wife, who he cheated on with his third wife, who he cheated on with a playmate and a porn star.

So MAGA can take their performative pearl clutching act about fidelity and fuck all the way off.