Jerri Wilson

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Deputy Chief of Staff to Danielle Smith argues that Canada should have stayed at the table when the US was not only negotiating in bad faith…

But effectively demanding a veto over Canada’s economic sovereignty.

BTW has Pat come out against separatism yet?

#abpoli #cdnpoli

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

You know things are terrible in Alberta when downtrodden Alberta refugees in Mexico are forced to interrupt their happy hour, must leave their cabanas, drape their $120,000 F150 with a flag to collect petition signatures and protest poverty and loss of human rights…

#ableg

[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

[Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy]

I feel as though there should be a law that says if Pierre Poilievre gets turfed as CPC leader in January then he has to move to Battle River—Crowfoot and live there until the next election because I think this would teach everyone involved an invaluable lesson about shenanigans.

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

Attempting to pull cases, mid-trial, from Courts to benefit your party members doesn’t only smack of authoritarianism. It is fully blown authoritarianism.

#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

[Acyn @Acyn]

O’Leary: All the people who were really hurt by this were caught lying including a member of the Royal Family

Navarro: The people who were really hurt were the women

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

URGENT

The UCP government created and championed the Citizens Initiative Act as a fundamental part of our democracy - giving citizens the right to launch petitions and recall elected officials.
Now they're walking away from that commitment.

#ableg #cdnpoli

[Jon Meddings @JMeddings]

I want to paint a picture of how AB's "Pay for your own Screening" is likely going to go. A thread.

I'm going to use a fictional example from my own specialty that I've now just retired from. I'm positive that these discussions have already started. /1

[corblund @CorbLund]

After Ft McLeod Coal Town Hall fiasco I'll be discussing coal issues tmrw 8:30 AM on Real Talk w Ryan Jespersen. Will be joined by two serious experts. Bill Donahue, fmr AB Govt Exec Science Director & Cornelis Kolijn, career coal engineer. Please share. https://t.co/CDWKIn3tZP

[Marc Lévesque @MarcLevesqueEco]

After going after his wife they’re now going after his child. You people have no morals.

[Kevin Vuong 🇨🇦 @KevinVuongxMP]

I’m seeing attacks on PM Carney’s daughter, and I want to implore, as someone whose family has been indiscriminately targeted:

In 🇨🇦, members of our family are off limits — leave them out of it.

Attack the public office holder, attack our policies, but leave our families alone.

[corblund @CorbLund]

https://t.co/fS2ZyZ9dDE
Bill Trafford (AB Coal Policy Comm), Katie Morrison (CPAWS) & I challenge AB Prmr Smith, Mnstrs Schultz & Jean to a debate on coal in our Rockies.

No more doublespeak and deliberate confusion. 70%+ of ABns don't want this. Defend your position.

RT

[Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy]

Trump: We're going to tariff everything coming from Canada because reasons!

Trudeau: Okay, so here are YOUR new tariffs, buddy.

Ford: Good luck getting power from us!

Carney: Oh, you want to start a trade war, do you, Voldemort?

Poilievre: Eats apple loudly.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Just let this sink in. Trump took away Ukraine’s alert system that warned them of an incoming Russian missile.

Trump removed this lifesaving alarm system knowing fully well women, children and men would die. How is this acceptable?

[Darren Markland @drdagly]

When AHS was formed, it was intentionally designed to be apolitical and separated from Alberta Health. It had a board of diverse community minded people who oversaw the organization and moderated it. This is not the case now. All the safeguards have been intentionally removed.

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

You were appointed Premier - governing Alberta for a month before being an MLA. Governed for 6 months before calling an election.

Also you’re under RCMP investigation for defrauding taxpayers out of 600m. Probably a good idea to keep a low profile, sister.

[VisuallyBetter @Isuckatpicking]

Canadian Premier, who didn’t immediately call an election after becoming premier by a leadership vote, is demanding Mark Carney immediately call an election after winning a leadership vote.

[Akash Maniam @ManiamAkash]

"I won't provide air defense because I want to stop death"

Remember these words. A US president chose to enable russia's airstrikes to compel their victim into submission.