Jen Weekes

belongs near mountains 🏔️ or water 🛶

[Integrity @integritycdn]

Many more groups of Albertans who put their lives at risk for the Vulnerable have been put in harms way

Those working in Law Enforcement, Judicial system, Social Workers, Politicians…

The list is endless.

You should be furious Alberta

Fucking Furious🔥🔥🔥

#ableg #abpoli

[Jen Weekes @weeeeekes]

@integritycdn My dog had her tplo done at pulse. They’re fantastic. Have also heard amazing things about the surgeon at Boreal as well. Hopefully you’ll get a better treatment plan in place. Tplo rehab sucks enough without complications.

[Jen Weekes @weeeeekes]

@integritycdn Lots in Edmonton. If you want suggestions dm me. If you want dog rehab info DM me as well. My dog is 10mo post tplo and did fairly intensive rehab.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

So…

We’re spending 2.3 billion to replicate the services that were built into our former integrated system because Dani was committed to disintegrating it?

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli https://t.co/0PHSw2UkSL

[Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕‍🦺🦽 @servicerotties]

Maybe we should raise that far and have them do everything in a wheelchair for a week? Maybe then it wouldn't take three plus weeks for 311 reports about uncleared sidewalks to get dealt with? And we'd see more accessible taxis licensed. And they might quit telling us to use the bike lanes until they can ensure there's accessible routes to get to them.

[Jen Weekes @weeeeekes]

@servicerotties @CityofEdmonton @AndrewKnack @michaeljanz @aaronpaquette @AshleyASalvador @kprincipeyeg @JonMorganYEG @kerentangyeg @joannewrightyeg @michaelelliot

[Jen Weekes @weeeeekes]

@servicerotties Do better @CityofEdmonton You can’t claim Edmonton is a “winter city” and that you care about year round active transportation when a large portion of the population can’t safely access it. @AndrewKnack @michaeljanz @aaronpaquette @AshleyASalvador @kprincipeyeg @JonMorganYEG

[Team Servicerottie🇨🇦🐕‍🦺🦽 @servicerotties]

Admin Post:
Heavy snowfall warning—15-30 cm possible starting tonight. And I'm still trapped behind ice I can't cross from New Year's snow. My heart #&*%ing hurts. Gutted. Exhausted beyond words.

Weeks of great weather: no snow, above freezing, paths I could've used. Days to get out with my service dog or walk the puppy, feel alive, fight the darkness in my mind that grows and smothers me when I'm housebound. But it's bigger than mental health—it's total isolation from the world.

Two houses on my street never cleared their sidewalks. Thick, rutted ice like a wall. My power wheelchair can't cross. That blocks my route to the nearest bus stop. Impossible to reach transit. Parking a van with a ramp in winter in most areas? Forget it—"accessible" stalls too small, windrows piled high, street designs like snow covered boulevards that are hostile to anyone with mobility issues who needs to drive. No safe spot to deploy the ramp without risking the street or getting stuck.

So what does that mean? Cut off from doctor's appointments. Groceries. Pharmacy runs. Community resources that keep me going. Everything essential. My world shrinks to this house while the city claims "accessibility is a priority." I call BS. Priorities are the things that get done.

Reported to @CityofEdmonton via 311 two weeks ago. Screenshot attached: photo of the ice, report still "open." No update, no officer visit, no warning. Their process: investigate within 4 business days, then often a "courtesy" warning (not required) for voluntary compliance. This means a disabled persons right to access the community is less important than someone's opportunity to comply with a by-law. Weeks get wasted. Melt days gone. Beautiful weather I could've used—slipped away while I waited, trapped.

The bylaw requires sidewalks clear of snow/ice. Enforcement? Drags. Warnings first (even after weeks), $100 fine + cleanup only if ignored. No priority for accessibility complaints, even though blocked paths don't inconvenience—they disable. They isolate. They harm mental and physical health. Year after year, it's the same failures. No change.

I'm not just sad. I'm furious in a quiet, bone-deep way. My dog stares at the door, tail low, confused why we don't go. I choke out "not today" and it rips my heart out every time. This isn't living. This is surviving.

@CityofEdmonton @AndrewKnack: This system is failing disabled Edmontonians. Fix it now.

For accessibility-impacting cases (mobility/mental health/transit access at stake): skip courtesy warnings. Issue the fine immediately after confirming violation. Make it waivable—if homeowner proves cleared (photo/receipt), waive. If valid reason (illness, disability) and they contact the city within 2 days—waive if legit, connect to community shoveling resources. Escalate fines for second/third offenses to deter chronic neglect.

Benefits: One officer visit vs. multiple follow-ups. Faster compliance. Less burden on bylaw. Real priority for people who can't wait weeks/months to access their city.

The only real reason not to change this—to hold negligent homeowners more accountable—is that it would force the city to hold *itself* more accountable too. And let's be real: the city's own snow-clearing delays, windrows blocking paths, slow responses to complaints, and hostile designs have been huge accessibility fails for years. If we're serious about inclusion, everyone—including city operations—needs to step up.

This incoming weather buries paths deeper. Buries hope. More snow coming, and who knows when the next chance to successfully get anywhere will come.

If your sidewalk's blocked, or you've been stuck waiting on 311—reply, quote, share. Tag the city and mayor. Make them hear us.

We deserve access. Not excuses. Not "open" status while we're shut in.

#Edmonton #Accessibility # DisabledInYEG #WinterInYEG #BylawFail #MentalHealthMatters #311Fail #TransitAccess

[Jen Weekes @weeeeekes]

@NightShiftMD Important to note the C3 Molecular Testing Program has ended and currently the only way (that I know of) to access testing that should be publicly funded for all cholangiocarcinoma patients is through clinical trials.

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

Did you know Edmonton's proposed Southside hospital would have opened in 2026 if it wasn't canceled?

Chatted with @keithgerein about why government seems allergic to making real $$$ commitments to build capacity.
https://t.co/VUJ4MLfbvo

[Andrea Dekeseredy @AndieWinnipeg]

Screening is good, but the most effective way to prevent cervical cancer is the HPV vaccine which prevents 90% of it.

[Parksy @PfParks]

ABs should remember that the triage nurse, and the overwhelmed team that showed up that day are the only ones showing up...
Has the CH CEO, Minister of Health, or Premier stepped foot in that ED after this death? (or any EDs who are struggling with severe overcrowding TODAY)
5/9

[Andrea Dekeseredy @AndieWinnipeg]

I can't believe a few months after the Minister of Advanced Education called for the screening (and removal!) of federal research funding in Alberta, she was having meetings with Jordan Peterson to strategize getting his school accredited through bending rules.

Unbelievable.

[Parksy @PfParks]

Our current AB govt embraced, fostered and actively encouraged this horrendous trend…

This will impact ALL ABs as our hospitals overflow as well.

It is so sad, and so predictable.

[Jen Weekes @weeeeekes]

@CanadianKayMD I’m a big fan of private off leash dog parks paired with a holiday drink.

[Alberta MD War Room @AB_MD_WarRoom]

THE BEST THING ABOUT THIS TWEET IS HOW SHE'S GETTING [M]RATIOED
[ur damn right we just said Mraiche-oed and we don't care what anybody says, it's freaking hilarious]

[Jen Weekes @weeeeekes]

Hey @Shawhelp my parents have been loyal Shaw customers for 20+ years. Your equipment failed and they can’t access the services they pay for. They spent hours on the phone with you and you claim the earliest you can send a technician is a week from now.

[JEeEnEnAA @jennAA2014]

Every Canadian should be concerned about what’s happening with healthcare in Alberta.

[𝘾𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙖 𝙍𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙪𝙨𝙩🇨🇦 @ThisIsMeCassie]

Danielle Smith can stand in front of a camera and pretend this is about “protecting kids,” but I’m a parent of a transgender child who actually took puberty blockers — and my kid is perfectly healthy, safe, and thriving.
So spare us the fearmongering. Puberty blockers are reversible. They’ve been used on cis kids for decades without a single political pearl-clutching moment.

She knew a year ago that these bills were unconstitutional — she literally said she’d use the notwithstanding clause to bulldoze over the Charter if people fought her. And now that doctors, the CMA, and every credible medical expert are calling this legislation dangerous, unethical, and discriminatory, she hides behind that clause to dodge accountability.

This isn’t leadership.
It’s targeting a tiny, vulnerable population because she can’t defend her bill with facts, evidence, or basic human decency.

And I’m done watching her smear an entire group of kids to score political points. These kids deserve protection, they deserve care, and they deserve a government that doesn’t treat them like a wedge issue.
#ableg
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