#Ableg 🔥 🧵 Alberta is on fire. Alberta had one of the BEST wildfire programs in the world until 2019. Despite MULTIPLE warnings, the United Conservative Party of Alberta cut TENS of MILLIONS from firefighting programs. We’re now seeing the consequences Let’s review 6 MAJOR UCP wildfire cuts!

#Ableg 🔥🧵 2. The UCP killed 30 of Alberta’s 127 Wildfire Lookout Towers The UCP cut 23% of Alberta’s early detection and wildfire monitoring system. Each tower covered 5,000sq km and reports wildfire activity within five mins of the 40-km radius. There was no replacement

Phenomenal opinion piece on hospital capacity in Edmonton zone. Is our province really prioritizing a hockey arena over a desperately needed hospital? Access Block and hospital overcrowding causes care delay, suffering, and preventable death. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/column…

Ireland’s Call. Happy St. Patrick’s Day from the west of Ireland ☘️

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️ Celebrating Irish-Canadian relations past, present and future theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

This post should required reading for politicians and health department deputy ministers

Finally…..! cbc.ca/news/health/ai…

Oncologists hired: Alberta UCP - 7.7 BC - 61 Doctors will not come to Alberta under the UCP. FULL STOP

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during COVID pandemic reuters.com/investigates/s… via Reuters Investigates

Thanks to….well you know who you are.

BREAKING | UCP withdraws from national dental plan, prefers Albertans pay for everyone else's coverage instead

This 🧵👇 1000% AB’s acute care system is about to implode, competing w other provinces for a HC workforce that doesn’t exist at the moment.

This is a great graph. Most of the data we need - MD's per capita and a comparison with other provinces. Despite increases everywhere else AB is dropping. Regardless of whether this is loss or increased population it represents a failure of government.

Holy Smokes, the Marsh Family has put out this parody song about J.D. Vance and not only is it catchy but it hits the nail on the head… “Anti Trump a few years ago,  Called him out as a ‘Hitler’ show.  Now you’re playing his sidekick,   Kissing Donald’s ring” I watched it 70

"The system is not going to hold much longer.” We have provided the solutions, we need to work together and act now.

Government has chosen not to act. If we are not being heard, it’s time to shout. There is strength in acting together, in determination and in a relentless focus on patients. Albertans are counting on us. Dr. Shelley Duggan's inaugural President's Letter: albertadoctors.org/news/publicati…

There have been so many good and reasonable suggestions to improve healthcare for Albertans. Our government is amazing in its ability to ignore almost all of them. We can't afford much more ignorance.

Coming later today, Issue 2 of Fact Checkup where we clear up misleading information spread in the past week. Here's a preview regarding the changes in physician registration numbers. CPSA's data is accurate, but context matters - Albertans need care NOW

Debunking Trump’s lies about Canada cnn.com/2025/01/13/pol…

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you President Wayne Gretzky wapo.st/4jTxmxE