🌸Teresa🌸 retweeted
We desperately need beds in AB.
We don't need our premier trying to fool us that we have them.
If we could even get back to the bed number we had in 2000 it would be a massive improvement.
GoA: set a goal and then get it done!
🌸Teresa🌸 retweeted
Have we known her 20 seconds or 20 years? 🥹 Today we celebrate #20YearsOfTaylorSwift and the music, memories, and eras we grew up with. 💚💛💜♥️🩵🖤🩷🩶🤎💙🤍❤️🔥
🌸Teresa🌸 retweeted
The gerrymandering is coming tomorrow, folks.
Be ready, it will be the most aggressive attempt to cheat in Canadian history.
Together we saved Canada! But there is another threat brewing, and again it's coming from within the UCP.
Danielle Smith wants to gerrymander our riding maps because she's terrified she will lose. She wants politicians to pick their voters. No way, premier. In Alberta, voters pick their politicians.
🌸Teresa🌸 retweeted
As we head into early voting soon…
Let’s remember back in 2024 when Smith said she wanted Alberta to double in population by 2050…
Explicitly highlighting importing foreign workers from South Africa, India & China as well as international students.
She sold them out quick.
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk@LukaszukABOct 5
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The threat is real. Alberta separatists are working hand in hand with US Republicans to break our country apart.
Not voting is not an option. Canada needs your vote.
#ForeverCanadian #ableg #cdnpoli
🌸Teresa🌸 retweeted
Oh.
"A Globe and Mail investigation has found that Republican political operatives were on the ground in Alberta this year to assist the separatist campaign in its bid to leave Canada, while harbouring their own aspirations for the province to secede.
The Globe also found that when Alberta separatist leaders went to Washington to meet with the U.S. State Department, they offered up key assets from the province’s resource portfolio, including access to fresh water and royalties on crude oil, in exchange for help transitioning to independence."
theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk@LukaszukABOct 2
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Separatists will crawl across broken glass to vote. This is no time for apathy. We, proud Canadians, must be counted too. We must vote.
nationalpost.com/news/thomas…
🌸Teresa🌸 retweeted
Never forget that when universal healthcare is gone we will never get it back, and your children will curse your name!
🌸Teresa🌸 retweeted
NEWS RELEASE - Referendum information update. Read more: ow.ly/8gep50ZOVkY
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Data centre construction transforms Sturgeon County land
ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/…
🌸Teresa🌸 retweeted
Replying to @ABDanielleSmith
This is gold and I have it downloaded ❤️
It’s gold because you lie through your teeth on everything you claimed.
NDP debt? 31.9 Billion.. straight from Alberta’s Fiscal summaries.
Your lyin’ face gives me nothing but material to work with, it’s exhausting 😂
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YYC Calgary Airport@FlyYYCSep 8
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Beginning September 8, the Departures roadway will be temporarily closed to vehicle traffic from 11 p.m. – 5 a.m. nightly while we continue roof restoration work.
Please allow extra time and follow all signage if you’re heading to YYC overnight.
🌸Teresa🌸 retweeted
Thanks Premier Kenney. I am impressed by your unwavering patriotism and collaboration with Premier Notley. Allow me to correct you on some much-debunked fallacies. 👇👇👇
1) You can't queue jump to see me if you're wealthy. That's essentially what Alberta Conservatives have enacted. If you're homeless, intoxicated and with unstable vital signs I attend to you before a housed patient, with stable vitals and abdominal pain. That's the Canadian way. We put acuity and medical need over ability to pay. That's what we consider fair. That's what most Canadians want. That's the opposite direction of the Smith Conservative government.
Would you tell a farm hand they are less important than an oil executive, Premier Kenney?
2) Profiteering is different than profit. I apologize for nothing that I work and I profit.
Profiteering is taking undue advantage of people in need, and gouging them for additional fees. That's not what I do. You can't bribe me $500 extra in the ER to be seen faster when the waiting room is packed. That would be unprofessional, immoral and stupid. That's what the Smith Conservative government is doing.
3) Queue-jumping solves zero. Doctors are a fixed resource in Canada, as you know Premier. If you pull us doctors out of the public system for people willing to slip in extra money, you reduce the capability of the public system. That's not how I operate but that's what Alberta Conservatives are doing.
You're right that profit (also called a job) is fine. You do it, I do it, anyone with a mortgage or pays rent does it.
The difference is profiteering, queue-jumping and prioritizing those who can essentially bribe the doctors. I would hope you would agree those are fundamentally un-Canadian values.
Let me explain a medical corporation to you. It's legal. It was put in place by your Conservative Premier colleague Mike Harris in 2000.
The government put this in place in lieu of increasing physician compensation. It violates no Canadian or provincial laws. Most doctors in Ontario do it. It defers taxes to when you are earning nothing. I'm not apologizing for it because it's how most Ontario doctors are compensated for their services.
Unlike you Premier Kenney, I'm not getting a federal government generous pension when I grow old.
My savings are all I have for my family and I. A medical corporation doesn't violate in any way the Canada Health Act which is what the Alberta Conservative government is doing.
Let's now shift to Europe which I'm glad you raised. I agree with you, let's be more like Europe. Europe invests far, far more than we do in publicly funded healthcare and related social services. That's why multi-payer systems there is fine. Because they take care of the basics first, better than us. You negate to mention this crucial difference. I'm not against white-glove profiteering healthcare if we take care of the basics first.
I hope this clears this up. There's no hypocrisy. It's one thing to attend to patients based on need, not gouge them at their time of need, not pick favourites based on essentially a bribe, knee-cap the publicly funded system and bill the government for services rendered through a law-abiding corporation.
I'm ashamed of nothing Premier Kenney. Alberta Conservatives, on the other hand, have enacted policies that are frankly disgraceful to the average Albertan who make about $52,000/year after taxes. @jkenney
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Doctor who profits from health care protests the idea of people profiting from health care.👇
The vast majority of doctors in Canada are paid through their own professional corporations, ie businesses that profit from health care.
How did the Canada left become so enthralled to the bizarre idea that the universally insured multi payer systems of Europe’s social democracies are some kind of health care dystopia?
Why the religious devotion to one of the worst performing health care systems of any developed country, a system that is consistently in the bottom quartile of results and the the highest quartile of costs in the OECD?
Any why the hypocrisy? None of the doctors or unions who protest greater choice in health care work in the system for free. They all profit from their work. There is nothing shameful about that.
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Let me repeat. Danielle Smith has done nothing to campaign for Remain all summer, and when she does do anything at all, it is to undermine Team Canada and/or assure her donors she will call a full separation referendum as soon as possible, indigenous objections be damned.
🌸Teresa🌸 retweeted
Georgia audited its own data center tax breaks and found that the state gave up $474 million in sales taxes in one year—and got back just $41 million from the industry. At least 38 states have deals like this. (It's not clear whether all that money the state waived was needed to attract the construction: in Georgia's case, by the state's own estimate, 70% of the data center construction would have happened anyway.)
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"British Columbia’s landmark Cambie surgical case concluded that private clinics do not shorten public wait times. They divert limited health-care staff to for-profit facilities and increase wait times for everyone else."
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