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Danielle Smith needs to be investigated. There’s something sinister going on.

If a person in my house showed clear signs of a heart attack and begged me for help for 8 hrs and I just repeatedly told them to sit down and be quiet I’d be charged with failure to provide necessities of life or manslaughter So why can a 🇨🇦 ER do this with no charges laid?

Heartbreaking video revealing the reality of Canada’s emergency healthcare response. Indian-origin man Prashant Sreekumar dies after being made to wait 8 hours in an Edmonton hospital waiting room while lying on the floor pleading with chest pain.

The heart attack death of the 44yo Indo-Canadian man who received no care at an Edmonton hospital has become an international incident and may become a diplomatic one. His wife is a legend. Finally this ER bullshit is being called out for the criminal behaviour that it is

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It's not 8. How many birds are there? 🤔🤔

Can we start a petition to #RemoveSmith

Tomorrow, from 9 AM to noon, St. Albert students are organizing a walk-out and a march in support of Teachers. As a dad, former Teacher and education minister, I support this. Missing school is warranted in support of social justice and civil right. I’ll join them. #ableg #abed

With her decision to strip teachers of their fundamental democratic rights, Danielle Smith has awakened a sleeping giant. Alberta unions are now united in one purpose: topple the UCP. Organizing a towards a general strike will be part of our strategy to make it happen.

We are at the point where Danielle Smith would rather violate charter rights and create a constitutional crisis… Instead of paying teachers fairly and giving kids the classrooms they need. Read that again. Because this is where we are. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Danielle Smith is using the notwithstanding clause to protect herself while crushing individuals' rights and freedoms. That’s not freedom, that’s cowardice. And Albertans won’t stand for it.

The Alberta government just used the notwithstanding clause to shut teachers up and block Charter challenges. They’re literally overriding constitutional rights — to force educators back into overcrowded classrooms — instead of fixing the root problem. This isn’t democracy. It’s control. #abed #ableg #cdnpol #StandWithTeachers

My message to Alberta teachers is simple: you will not stand alone. Tomorrow all other Alberta unions will meet to finalize a plan for unprecedented collective action. The executive council of the Canadian Labour Congress will also meet in emergency session.

Workers Unite! United we can get rid of Danielle Smith & the UCP!

Every Albertan should be outraged. Our govt just rammed thru a full on attack on our constitutional rights. If they’ll do this to our teachers, nobody’s constitutional rights will be safe. This cannot be allowed to stand.

This has to be one of the darkest moments in Alberta’s history. Danielle Smith has revealed herself as the authoritarian dictator she is. No worker is safe, she no longer abides by the Canadian constitution. We have an outlier in our midst. It’s up to us now. UNITE!

Every Albertan should be absolutely enraged tonight. @ABDanielleSmith and the @Alberta_UCP just sent a loud message that our charter rights do not matter so long as they are in power. This is authoritarianism. This is a blatant disregard for all of our rights. #FireTheUCP

Make it make sense?

My heart is going out to Darren’s family this morning. I know the routine all too well. The visit with the funeral director, making choices that seem both perpetually important and totally meaningless. The lawyers, and bankers, the paper work. The endless details, done through tear brimmed eyes, and that knife through the Adam’s apple that only comes from sorrow. The condolences from family and friends, neighbours and strangers, the familiar and the distant. There’s a good month where that just happens, day after day, keeping you busy, occupied, distracted. But then it stops. People around you go back to their normal lives, while you can never go back to yours. Your life becomes a temporary encampment, tending a fire besides the hole where they used to live. The empty spaces where they used to be. The silences where they used to speak. They say that you need to complete those conversations for yourself, through work in therapy. But, you never really can. Time does not heal all wounds. You just have to hope the scaring isn’t debilitating, and work towards that. I know the Marklands are not alone grieving this week. Many other families lose loved ones every day. This week was no different. We don’t think about all those other families, because we don’t know them. But remember, that person who seems absent minded, the woman stuck at the green light, the man fumbling to pay for groceries, may be enduring a loss that should have them bawling on the ground. That will come, when they get home. So, in honour of our friend, let’s be kind to each other. Treat everyone like they are grieving a loved one. You will be correct more often than not.

Stop trying to make Charlie Kirk into something he wasn't. He was a fucking podcaster who was trying to indoctrinate younger generations with bigotry, racism, and hate - nothing more. He was a piece of shit. While he shouldn't have been killed for his hate speech, words matter.