Jesse Kurtz

Grandfather, Star Trek follower, believe in Jesus Christ, love my family. My tweets are my own, no employer involved here! Retired Fire Chief.

[Adriana LaGrange @AdrianaLaGrange]

Today, I directed EHS Alberta to halt its current procurement strategy for integrated fire/EHS operators. We must deliver emergency health services in a consistent, fiscally responsible and patient‑focused way — and we need to get this right.

I’ve written the seven community leaders so that we can purse a more deliberate and effective path forward together. EHS Alberta will work with these communities to design a strategy that supports them and brings costs in line with provincially delivered EHS services by 2028-29.

This gives communities the time and support needed to plan, adapt and build sustainable services while ensuring emergency health services are always there when Albertans need them most.

[Jesse Kurtz @Fireguy2157]

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[Jesse Kurtz @Fireguy2157]

"For months and months, we've been pleading for help. And for the last three years, it's been constant reorganization, constant chaos."

Alberta doctors plead for state of emergency as hospitals overwhelmed
https://t.co/aFM75N6PrL

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

THE LEGACY OF TRUDEAU/CARNEY AND THE NDP/LIBERALS

Bill C-293: Canadian sovereignty
Bill C-63: Controlled speech, The censorship bill being passed off as Child harms bill
Bill S-210: Digital identification
Bill S-275: Bank of Canada reform
Bill C-223: Universal basic income
Bill C11 Censorship
Bill C21 Disarm Law Abiding Citizens
Bill C18 More Censorship
Bill C75 Bail reform - Soft on crime! R. vs Jordan (Jordan application = dismissal)
Bill C69. ‘No more pipelines act’
Bill C-372 Fossil Fuel Advertising Act
Bill C-59 Cancel Oil and Gas
Bill C48 ( No shipping Alberta oil from the BC coast)! tanker ban shutting down northern gateway pipeline
Bill C-5 Automatic bail for violent offenders
Bill C-16: "Gender Identity & Expression" destroyed women's sex-based protections guaranteed in the Charter
Bill C-4: "Anti-Conversion Therapy" destroyed parental right to help children feel comfortable in their natural bodies
Bill C-65 introduces a suite of amendments to the Canada Elections Act ??

-$60 Million ArriveScam
-Emergencies Act (War level Act) against peaceful protesters
-Hard Drugs called Safe drugs supplied in vending machines
-$258 Million in projects to GC Strategies;
-Winnipeg Labs
-SNC Scandal
-Aga Khan trip Scandal
-$84k Jamaican Vacation
-$6k/night for a single room for the Queen's Funeral
-$1.3 Million on 3 'Affordability Retreats'
-China Election Interference
-Chinese Police Stations in Canada
-Green Slush Fund Scandal
-Funding Islamic groups who are protesting in support of Hamas
-$1 Billion paid out for Hotels for Refugees/Asylum Seekers
-Additional Bell funding, $40 Million to fire staff
-A Billion Dollars to CBC to collapse their credibility
-Blocking Veterans Affairs Committee investigation
-$29 Billion in cost overruns on TMX
-Expanding MAiD into those with Mental Illness
-$2 Billion to invest in companies that don't exist
-$500 Million to fund abortions in other countries
-WE Scandal
-CPP increase and CPP2
-Highest inflation in 30 years
-Highest interest rates in 30 years
-Unsustainable immigration
-Forcing Untested Vaccinations
-Ignoring Vaccine Injured
-11 Million Canadians requiring Food Banks
-2 Million Canadians hitting the food banks per month, every month
-Tent Cities in every major city
-Housing and Rent prices skyrocketing
-Healthcare Collapsing
-Out of-control spending by the Governor General
-Overpayment of CERB payments to prisoners, people who don't qualify, people who don't live in Canada
-10k Ventilators, purchased from a Liberal Friend, that never got used because they were never needed
-$300 Million for storage of Mobile Hospitals that were never used
-$400 Million for Quarantine Hospitals
-Illegally using the Emergencies Act against Canadians
-Firing Federal workers and not paying them El based on Vaccination Status
-$30 Billion in making batteries for cars, while EV Manufacturers are divesting from EV Technology
-$9 Million in Cricket factory for Human consumption
-Accusing India of killing citizens on Canadian Soil
-Soiling relations with China
-Telling Germany and Japan that we don't want their business on LNG
-Violent protesters allowed to escalate without recourse
-Violated Canadian Charter of Rights
-Conflating "Climate Boiling" with ARSON
-2018 India Vacation Mr. Dressup
-Elbow gate in HoC
-2.9% inflation
-4.75% interest rate
-25% living in poverty
-Housing is unaffordable.
-Canadian forces made ineffective, out of date
-Rising crime rate
-Failed gun bans on lawful owners
-Tent cities in every city
-An opioid epidemic
-No progress on missing Aboriginal women
-A divided country
-Reduction of Canadian forestry management causing more forest fires “Climate”
-6 billion to the Philippines for gender equality and fight climate change
-5 million ice rink on Parliament Hill
-8.6 million reno on the Herington Lake cottage
-2.5 million for the additional cottage at Herington lake (rumored to be for Sophie and kids)
-Safe injection sites, not so safe around children
-Failed safe supply being sold for hard drugs
-Legalization of hard drugs
-Speaker Greg Fergus after partisan language appeared in an ad for an upcoming event in his riding
-Fergus was found to have violated the act by writing a letter of support for a television channel's application to the CRTC for mandatory carriage
-Freeland by-election at by-election
-Anthony Rota is thrown under the bus for the HoC Hunka clap-in. PMO’s office knew who he was before.
-Mary NG 17,000 ethical contract
-Failed UN Security seat campaign of over 8.6 million
-300 million on redesigning the Canadian passport (what was wrong with the old design, not WOKE enough?)
-220k on in-flight catering Indo-Pacific trip, total for the trip over 2 million
-Justin Trudeau bought his buddy Tom a $9 million condo in NYC
-28000$ to Randy Boissonnault’s former company
-25% of Canadians are living below the poverty line
-Steven Guilbeault $30 Billion coverup
-MP Joly’s husband top recipient of future entrepreneurs program
-Immigration minister Marc Miller importing terrorists
-$523K Mélanie Joly “Rush” Furnace order spending spree
-Bombardier scandal in here (2017)
-Apotex lobbying investigation
-General dynamics deal and human rights in 2018
-Carbon Tax x5 and to increase on April Fools day (pun clearly intended)
-??? Ukraine Funding
-$834,000 to kill 84 deer from a helicopter (not one that was intended to be hunted was killed)
-Gave 12M$ to Loblaws for new fridges
-Gave 50M$ to Mastercard (2020), a company that made 16B$ the year prior.
-Catherine McKenna and $30billion unaccounted for transportation funds
-Jodi Wilson Raybould, Jane Philpot.
-The scandal with Celina Caesar-Chavannes quitting.
-Fundraiser at Lobbyist home (Barry Sherman)
-Implicated in Sherman's murders
-Surfing on 1st Reconciliation Day
-10.5 million payout to Kadhr
-Reduce age of consent for sodomy
-100M on a useless gun ban that will eventually cost Canadian taxpayers 5-10B dollars & still will have zero impact on public safety
-4.5billion pipelines buy out
-MAID
-Railway blockcades
-Churches burning
-$121 million to the Clinton Foundation
-$11M renovation for Sussex but instead on Trudeau’s cottage
-16 tons of PPE to China
-Two billion trees
-Banned Plastic straws
-The Yaroslav Hunka debacle
-The inaction on PRC election interference in 2019-21
-The RCMP investigation interference allegations during the Nova Scotia MCC
-Catherine McKenna's missing billions
-$8 mil garage (bunker) at Harrington lk
-Gov funding to Telesat Canada (Market cap of $0.5 Billion
-Sold to Bell Canada 2007): 2024 $2.14 Billion and $400 million. 2021 $1.44 Billion. Earlier funding not disclosed.
-Lightspeed internet to citizens effort began 2010; 14 years and still no service commitment
- Freeland asking 2 billion of taxpayer money for a firm that doesn't exist
- Anita Anand giving hundreds of millions of dollars to her husband's company
- Patty Hadju's corruption
- Winnipeg lab leak story?
-The federal government spent $388.7 million on housing people who were forced to quarantine after returning from Canada between April 2020 and December 2022. This cost included lodging, meals, security, transportation, and traveler support.
-9 million to teach French in African countries
-As part of concrete commitments in Canada's renewed approach to engagement with Africa, Minister Joly announced $54.4 million in funding for flagship initiatives and projects in Africa in the following key focus areas: peace and security, good governance.
-Canada adds $15M to aid for Lebanon, says it will match $6M in donations. -Canada is adding another $15 million to its humanitarian aid package for -Lebanon after an escalation in the conflict between Israel and the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah
-$28,000 Archeological video game analysis
-$20,000 Gender Polictics Of Peruvian Rock Music
-$54 Million African Youth
-$34 Billion to Build $4 Billion Pipeline in Canada
-$10 Million + Mueslim African Nation for Gender Equality
-$600 Million LGBTQ2S+
-$50 Million design new Canadian Passport- no military, no Terry Fox, but a picture of Trudeau swimming as a child
-$2 Billion Project Gala
-$194 Million sexual reproduction rights for Ethiopia and Tanzania
-$200 million into cycle capital, Steven Guilbeaults company
-gas powered vehicles banned coming 2035
-67 million spent on the confiscation of firearms before a single gun has been collected
-$304 MILLION loan from taxpayers to AtkinsRealis, the scandal-ridden Quebec company formerly known as SNC-Lavalin

2015 “The Liberal Government of Canada will never by the F35 FighterJet.”
2023 “The Liberal Government of Canada is buying the F35 Fighter Jet.”

** WHAT HAVE I MISSED?

[JPMF @jpmf]

Today is National Donor Day. Organ donation is a life-giving gift.

Calgary Constable John Petropoulos was an organ donor.

After sustaining a catastrophic brain injury in a fall while investigating a B&E at an unsafe workplace, his loved ones made the selfless decision to donate

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

I had a heated discussion today with a teacher in Edmonton about the proposed transgender policies - she was rallying someone about taking action against the "devastating" policies being proposed in Alberta.

My initial, and only, comment was going to be: "I think she is doing the right thing" and walk away. But she insisted on telling me how wrong I was. I couldn't believe some of the nonsense she was saying.

She began by asking if I agreed with government overreach... Me! the one who has advocated against government overreach for years!

I explained that this is actually about parental rights, not government overreach and that some gay and trans individuals in fact support these policies. We set limits for children because they are not developmentally ready for certain responsibilities. She claimed that I was conflating the issues, but did not explain how.

What she and others who oppose these proposals fail to appreciate is that children do not have the same privileges and rights as adults - period.

Parents are legally and financially responsible for their children. If parents fail to provide a safe environment, the state can intervene and, in certain cases, even remove their children (now that's government overreach!).

She took offense when I referred to teachers as "temporary government agents." I don't understand why that is offensive; it's a fact. Some teachers (aka temporary government agents) are better than others, but they all come and go in a child's life without any financial or legal responsibility. Parents do not have this luxury. There's nothing offensive about this statement; it's simply a fact.

She continuously claimed that puberty blockers are reversible. I argued that this was likely incorrect and questioned why it's illegal for a man to obtain testosterone while a 12-year-old girl can take it. There are long-term health impacts to consider, if you'd only think about it for more than 10 seconds. Once again, she accused me of conflating the issues without providing any further explanation.

The most surprising display of her rigid ideology came when I mentioned the case of a BC father who was charged and jailed for opposing his daughter's gender reassignment. She questioned the validity of my source! Apparently, a police arrest and criminal court case weren't considered valid evidence because she hadn't heard about it through her news channels.

This brings me to the real problem: she kept asserting that social media is full of disinformation and when I suggested she needed to get out of her bubble, she denied being in a bubble. She exclusively listens to legacy media (which is increasingly biased and losing public credibility) and refuses to engage with people who hold different views. I believe this is the root of the problem in Canada.

I never expected to have this type of discussion after a yoga class on a Sunday afternoon. It was uncomfortable and difficult, but also very informative. It was disheartening to see her strong commitment to a specific narrative without acknowledging alternative facts and the diverse range of trans and gay individuals who support this policy.

We need to get outside of our echo chambers. I encourage everyone to engage in uncomfortable and difficult discussions rather than shying away. That's what it means to live in a democratic society. Every voice matters, and the loudest and most hysterical should not dominate the conversation.

[Jesse Kurtz @Fireguy2157]

@jordanbpeterson @CPOntario Ephesians 6:12. You are correct when you say you will lose in any case, because of who you are REALLY fighting. But keep running the race!

[Jesse Kurtz @Fireguy2157]

@EndWokeness If they are on my step and get filmed, I can post.

[Mark Bohaichuk @m_bohaichuk]

Took my wife into work today for safety sakes. It’s -45 this morning.

Saw a fellow sitting in his EV at a charging station. The businesses were still closed for him to stay warm and dawdle while his car charged.

I briefly spoke with him as he went into the store. He said he’s been sitting in the car running the heaters and it was taking about twice as long to charge. The car’s range was about 280km in the cold he said.

The fellow said his trip to Saskatoon from Kelowna takes about 3 times longer for charging time (sitting time).

His charges today were about $100 and two hours of sitting with heaters on and the battery was only 2/3 charged.

He said he liked his EV, but only in summer. But he said only if it’s not too hot, AC drains batteries very fast.

So, if you live in Canada, and are considering buying an EV, make sure your pockets are deep and you’re NEVER on a schedule. I wished him luck. His name was Jack (John) from Kelowna.

[Lethbridge News Now @lethnewsnow]

Both the City of Lethbridge and Lethbridge County have issued fire advisories due to the warm, dry and windy conditions. #FireAdvisory #Lethbridge #LethbridgeCounty #LNN #YQL https://t.co/WDGL1ExLRt

[JPMF @jpmf]

Today we pause to remember Calgary Cst, John Petropoulos who lost his life on-duty.

In 2000, John was investigating a break & enter complaint at a warehouse, when he stepped through a false ceiling because there was no safety railing in place to warn him of the danger.

[Jesse Kurtz @Fireguy2157]

@darcyropchan Too many outdoor enthusiasts who haul boats, trailers, and those who do their own yard work, renovations, picking up large items they purchased, moving friend and family, and many others. That sounds like a reason for Alberta to separate!

[CTV News @CTVNews]

BREAKING: Top doctors in Toronto, Peel and Ottawa call for provincewide stay-at-home order https://t.co/6qpFaie1Av

[Natalia Mangos @nataliamangos]

A story about COVID in Ontario because I feel like a lot of the younger people in my network might benefit from reading this:

A few weeks ago, my sister (19) caught one of the variants.

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[Get Prepared @Get_Prepared]

Spend the day in the great outdoors getting #FloodReady — it's simple and cost-effective! Here are some tips on how to get your home #FloodReady: https://t.co/uSaqxChDU2

[Ryan Jespersen @ryanjespersen]

Mayors & Fire Chiefs across Alberta have appeared on #RealTalkRJ w/ one consistent message: @jkenney & the @UCPCaucus just aren't listening.

Chiefs from @LethbridgeCity @CityofRedDeer & @ymmFireChief sounded the alarm over changes to 911 dispatch: https://t.co/gnEsP0ieEx #ableg

[Calgary Police @CalgaryPolice]

End of watch:

Final call for Sgt. Andrew Harnett #4601.💙

May he rest in peace. We will remember, it is our duty.

[Jesse Kurtz @Fireguy2157]

@allhazardscoach I agree. If it happened she needs to resign or be fired.

[Calgary Police @CalgaryPolice]

It is with profound sadness & heartbreak that we have to tell you that late yesterday evening we lost one of our police family.

While keeping our streets safe, an officer was struck by a vehicle fleeing a traffic stop & died as a result of his injuries https://t.co/ZYoYhSKhq5

[Jesse Kurtz @Fireguy2157]

@PJNorwood Congratulations!