My MIL was very sick, Stage 4 cancer, needed to be admitted for a blood infection. Couldn’t find a bed in Edm, where she was for treatment, sent to a hospital outside Edmonton, she waited overnight in emerg until they could find a bed, she was sick, dying, in pain. The worst 1/2
Jean Chrétien: "It looks like they don't know what to do. When your big thing is to change the name of a lake, it's because you're running out of arguments. It is a very weak gesture, to be cheap and nasty. Lake Ontario is not suffering. It's a lake."
Amen! All this money could be going into HC! I spent 15 hours in the ER yesterday with my teen. Those docs & nurses were damn exhausted!!!
I’m tired, upset & pissed off for our HC providers.
We keep voting in idiots who don’t give us more beds, docs & nurses!
Fellow Albertans,
It should come as no surprise that Ottawa is resisting any serious discussion of Alberta—and potentially Saskatchewan—leaving Confederation.
I work in resource extraction, with a particular focus on metals and minerals mining, and I follow industry developments closely. Recent assessments of Alberta’s lithium resources and Saskatchewan’s alumina resources are not speculative. They are documented, substantial, and commercially significant. Together with our established energy and fertilizer assets, they place both provinces in a position of unusual long-term advantage.
The scale of that endowment is worth stating plainly:
• Alberta holds one of the world’s largest oil and gas reserves. Canada’s proven oil reserves rank among the largest globally, and the overwhelming majority of those reserves are in Alberta.
• Alberta’s subsurface contains an estimated 82.5 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent in place—one of the largest known accumulations in the world.
• Saskatchewan’s Thor Project reports a measured and indicated resource of 49.5 billion tonnes of ore containing 6.8 billion tonnes of alumina.
• Saskatchewan is among the world’s leading uranium jurisdictions and is positioned to expand that role.
• Saskatchewan holds the world’s largest potash reserves.
Given that concentration of strategic resources, Ottawa’s interest in keeping things exactly as they are is not a mystery. The question for us is simpler: do we keep sending the value of what we produce east under the same rules, or do we take a greater share of that future into our own hands?
This fall’s referendum is the moment. Option 1 is the status quo.
Option 2 is a different course—one that puts Albertans first in the decisions that shape this province. Look at the resources. Look at the record. Then vote as if the next generation will live with the result. Because they will.
For those keeping score, if 🇨🇦 had 🇺🇸 dollar parity in 2025:
- 🇺🇸s would have paid $152B MORE for the 🇨🇦 goods they bought
- 🇨🇦s would have paid $133B LESS for the 🇺🇸 goods they bought
This idea would have COST 🇺🇸s $285B on swing in balance for the year.
Who will tell him?
Successive UCP governments actively recruited "millions" of people to move here. And now they're blaming *those same people* for the government's mismanagement of our health and social programs.
Count me out on scapegoating. Vote "no" to the nine so we can actually fix things.
I'll be voting NO to the 9 UCP referendum questions & voting to remain in #Canada.
Questions 1-5 ask about immigrant access to various provincial programs.
I find these questions racist, unjust & un-Canadian.
Let me explain my reasoning... (1/4) 🧵
#abpoli#ableg#cdnpoli
Heads up.
The deadline to apply for a mail-in special ballot for Alberta referendum has been moved up.
You now must apply by September 25th instead of October 9th.
https://t.co/6EhlE36aKN
In the midst of a hot war against a mortal enemy of the United States, the Secretary of War of the world’s only super power finds time to troll folks at a cadet camp for teenagers in Vernon, British Columbia.
To our many friends in the great United States of America: what’s going on?
The UCP is hoping for long lines and voter apathy on Oct 19
@DuaneBratt said at @TheBreakdownAB event on Saturday that he votes in person, but for the referendum, he is using a special ballot
You should too, as should all your friends and family!
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https://t.co/VZg6Z7E5Y1
No Danielle that is not what Justin Trudeau did to Alberta. PM Trudeau built you a frigging pipeline. The problem during PM Trudeau's time in office was YOU. YOU created the myth that Ottawa was attacking Alberta so YOU could gain power. You are an incompetent nuisance. Resign.