Lover of travel, supporter of education and healthcare, and frequent consumer of coffee, all while living with metastatic lobular breast cancer #GoodTwitter
Calgary, Alberta
Joined November 2016
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If @cantaskforce guidelines were based on research and not a faulty study, my #breastcancer might have been caught before it spread. Asking @JasonCoppingAB to please give screening access to anyone age 40+ and help save lives (and health care costs)! #CancerScreening #abhealth
Calls grow for younger Alta. women to have access to mammograms @CTVchrisepp reports: #yyc calgary.ctvnews.ca/video?cli…
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Avi Lewis defends a wealth tax: "This is an idea that addresses the fundamental inequality and the danger of inequality in our society because if we don't do something, people are going to believe in this country that the economy just doesn't work for them."
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Page 54 of the report. The @Alberta_UCP is counting on no one actually reading it, so they can spew their lies. They’re losing Calgary, so they’ll lie to Albertans. It’s all about holding on to power. @UCPCaucus Right?
UCP MLAs & staffers crawling over themselves to post about Nenshi, like every post is an entry into a draw.
What’s the prize? Oilers tickets? A booze cruise? Get to bring Dani’s gold cat home for the weekend?
#FireTheUCP #Ableg #CorruptCare
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“Unfortunately, it appears the majority of Alberta’s new boundaries panel didn’t give much consideration to public input when drawing the latest boundaries.”
- Greg Clark, former Electoral Boundaries Commissioner
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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It's embarrassing that in Danielle Smith's UCP Alberta, the richest province in the country, we can't even take care of 22 injured Canadian Armed Forces members without help from the government of Canada. That's how badly Smith has broken healthcare in Alberta. We deserve better.
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Why are we doing homelessness policy without specific supports for Indigenous people and LGBTQ youth?
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Massive cuts at Parks Canada.
Meanwhile, surviving staff will have to deal with big demand since Carney renewed the pass to make these Parks free!!
Such a classic CEO-style move to think workers will just ~figure it out~ as you actively make their job WAY harder to save a buck
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The $1.2 million, taxpayer report clearly stated it was decades of management failure-no fault to individual councillor or mayors! Do better! UCP needs to to stop focusing on your base! Stop with the culture wars and work on improving public healthcare/education/affordability!
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When you see the speed the UCP acted on the water main investigation versus how little they've done on the MHCare procurement scandal while continually avoid the subject, it sure makes you wonder what a public inquiry would find 🤔 #ableg
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The UCP government tweeting attack ads and they don't have the balls to call an election.
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Reminder that oil and gas currently has record production and resources pricing, and is doing it with some of the lowest job number ever
Oil and gas doesn’t love you back
Alberta’s unemployment spikes in October, sitting at 7.3 per cent ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/a…
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We've seen this story countless times before. When governments fund private facilities to provide services to "shorten the wt list" it increases them.
Wait times increasing for some medical procedures outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario: report ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/w…
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In 2026, we’ll say that weakened immune systems can trigger viruses like shingles, but not that Covid has been weakening immune systems for 6 years. cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/…
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"We're three years in [to the government's health care restructuring], and the workforce is saying it's more chaotic than ever, and patients are saying they're more worried than ever about accessing care. To us, that is not a success," says Gallaway.
cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/… – at Alberta, Canada
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Avi Lewis on the investment mega-deduction: "There is no record that these tax breaks actually drive increased employment. They definitely drive increased profitability. And that is not the problem in Canada. These corporations are already super profitable."
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Avi Lewis: "One in five dollars spent by this government in this budget right now is going to the military, is going to weapons and war. That is not an agenda that deals with the cost of living crisis."
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We need to end this myth that the private sector runs things well, and the public sector runs things badly, before it is too late.
It is very easy to make the public sector look bad by starving it of money and resources over time. We must learn to see through this.
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There are three basic rules in our democracy.
1️⃣ Everyone plays by the same rules.
2️⃣ Governments make themselves accountable.
3️⃣ Governments govern for everyone.
The UCP is breaking all of them.
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/…
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Avi Lewis: "All of the affordability measures together amount to about $22b -- it's 50% more in one big business gift, the mega-deduction, which is $36b. The priorities are really clear. We should not be distracted by how much they talk about affordability. Look at what they actually do."