Alternate take: Fifty-nine school authorities will continue to struggle to offer consistent mental health supports. This piecemeal approach to funding makes it hard for school boards to attract, train, and retain the quality staff needed to deliver effective programming.

🧵 Back in 2021, advocates in Alberta raised a stink about the UCP's plan to force supervised consumption site users to provide their personal health number on visits. Site users had a "fear of incrimination or stigma if visits are recorded" — correctly, given, um, history. 1/

Politicians should be supporting best practices. We need full spectrum of care for people with addictions. Yes we need recovery care but we need other options including prevention/ harm reduction. We do not all wear the same brand of jeans- different people often need a

Actual fact: the one zone in AB that has two health authorities is Edmonton Zone… and it has the largest Access Block and flow issues in the province. No comparison b/n EDM zone and Calgary Zone for objective pt oriented metrics ‘Competition” already doesn’t work in this zone!

As Gillian Steward states, AHS was a leader in Canada before the UCP demolition. Lets take a minute to remember what was working & what wasn't. The gutting of AHS was *absolutely* political but #healthcare crises are everywhere and crises have many determinants. 1/20🧵

Great point Paul. It is shockingly ironic to recall the privatization debacle of Dynalife only to see it being repeated in real time by our premier - but now with entire hospitals.... What is it about repeatedly making the same mistake....

We need a premier who doesn't pull plans out of her ass.

All hospitals struggling with GIM coverage, but interestingly the Covenant Health facilities have been doing the worst in EDM Zone But for some reason they are completely under the radar CH has restricted Access by “capping” in its facilities for yrs /1 edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new…

Re upping an older thread that explains a bit about E coli and how it causes disease (What is STEC???). This is all given today's report of STEC in a daycare centre once again.... We should not have to go through this monthly...

Thank you to everyone who came out to share your concerns and ideas with us.

The Province was told that funding top ups from the federal government would cease over a year ago. And yet no plans were made to address those funding changes from the Ministry knowing that thousands of students and staff would be affected. This is on top of the fact that

Albertans are lucky to have somebody like Dr. Parksy speaking on behalf of #healthcare practitioners. Link below to the Alberta Medical Association (AMA) president's thoughts on transferring hospitals from AHS to Covenant Health, surgical wait times, & that Covid vaccine class action. #abhealth

I had so much fun in Pride parade. Walking with compassionate colleagues, between Skipping Stone and TESA, to support an important issue was uplifting. But… why are LBGQ2S+ issues even something that needs support? I cannot understand why live and let live is not universally

Please look at this map of hosp service disruptions! This is NOT: "docs taking holidays at that same time" and will NOT be fixed by: "changing management" the govt of AB funds/owns/controls these hospitals... FULL STOP. google.com/maps/d/u/0/vie…

Students are reaching out to my office about their loans being delayed while rent & tuition are due. The UCP knew about these issues last year & that demand this year would be equally high. Students shouldn't have to pay the price for the gov't's failure t prepare. #ableg

It’s clear that the UCP government does not care about the needs of Calgarians. Just 34 days ago, the UCP promised that funding for the Green Line was “100 per cent” secure, even for the new shorter version. Now they've decided to pull their funding. This reckless decision could

Again. Read this (esp government). This is an informed observation. Alika has been the CMA president. He works in and knows healthcare. When he says that we have less capacity than a decade ago - believe him. The data supports it. Government, you have dropped the ball.

And the tear down is in full flight. This change should be studied closely, but sadly I’m not confident we’ll learn much. Provincial Governments aren’t too keen to put a microscope on this kind of reorganization edmontonjournal.com/news/recovery-…

"I want to ask government what does it improve? Have we improved access? Have we improved the level of programming? Can folks access mental health supports in the community in which they live?" Listen to my interview with @trending55_news here: kix.fm/concerns-from-… #ableg

Governments should provide stability and reliability. Danielle Smith and the UCP are anything but stable and reliable. They are killing our economy.