Susan Ruddick

I signed on Mastodon Canada and it was easy Sruddick2@mstdn.ca mstdn.ca

Looks like some folks with the Metis Nation of Alberta have some concerns… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli change.org/p/subject-peti…

Not exactly a strong signal for Smiths confidence either… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

@GeoffyPJohnston 🎉🎉🎉

Toronto Maple Leafs win Game 6 with a disciplined defensive effort. Leafs win 2-0 over Florida. Game 7 will be played on Sunday in Toronto.

@LabsandMAbs So infuriating and wrong!

Ivermectin is being touted as a cure for COVID and cancer. Here’s what science says fortune.com/well/non-us/99…

@slav_metalurges It is glorious, a true work of art! 😉😍

It’s not installed yet but my take away is. “Making public art is fucking hard, but it’s so glorious” #abarts

@YEGwindshield You too!

Have a great long weekend everyone

Edmonton's last new all ages hospital opened in 1988, when the city's population was 580k. An @EZMSA2 survey found 1 in 4 recent hospital patients was treated in a hallway, etc as a canceled hospital and delayed action have pushed system to the brink. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the…

Everybody gets a Minister title! To anyone curious, when you get that title you get $65,000 more per year than the $125,000 base salary. Which means 50% pay increase for useless titles. Danielle is buying silence, loyalists, and muddying AHS procurement behind multiple ministries

@WillyGrant 💪

@TheRealDKGray I hate them too, judgemental morons who you owe nothing to.

For the fiftieth time in my career, “You can’t call yourself an economist. You don’t have a PhD.” It’s true. I have a BA in economics, and two business masters degrees. But, I did all the typical post grad maths in undergrad. Linear programming was a favourite. Sadly underutilized as a talent. Writing proofs in linear algebra of BLUE remains entirely useless. I’ve spent a career multiplying matrices, squashing variances, deseasonalizing and testing dummy variables. I’ve done spectral analysis on years worth of customer data, forecast economic data out 50 years, and worked with a Cray Supercomputer in 1988. I saved our company’s regulatory ass by writing an algorithm to calculate revenue lag days for all customers. Through my career, I’ve done every type of engineering and regulatory economics related to electric and gas utilities. The natural gas rate I helped devise while at the AEUB is still in use. See Decision 2001-75. At the Utilities Consumer Advocate, I did less hands on economics and more strategic direction of teams of lawyers, regulatory accountants, engineers, economists and expert witnesses. And do you know who never questioned my qualifications as an economist? Any of the people that I worked for, with or over. If you can’t tell, I’m not a big fan of pedantic morons.

@CailinasEirinn @muroej @GarnettGenuis @MarkJCarney @PierrePoilievre Sadly. He has nothing to sign because they did not win. They have nothing to offer.

@muroej @GarnettGenuis @MarkJCarney @PierrePoilievre MP from Alberta. 🙄

Am I doing this right @MarkJCarney?

@cspotweet SHE & UCP are promoting separation and still believes Ottawa will work WITH her ? She must pick her lane separation or TOGETHER with Canada. She has never tried working WITH others for what is best for Alberta & Canada. She & UCP are now working with separatists for referendum?

@cspotweet Residents of Edmonton Strathcona have to wait 6 months for a byelection, but Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills will have one ASAP. No partisan shenanigans whatsoever.

@babiak Exactly! It was a very sad parade.

@BradenMannsYYC They like silos. 🙄 We just got rid of all the silos and finally had a more cohesive system.

Major cabinet shuffle.  Alberta now has 4 health ministers. That should be good for integrated care - good luck figuring out who’s responsible for problems in the ‘system’. I thought Conservative governments were about small government

The legislature opposition that most hurts the UCP is the two guys they kicked out. They both ardently oppose separatism. Column. calgaryherald.com/opinion/column… #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #carney #yyc #yeg #Alberta

Holy hell! This is what an Alberta Conservative is supposed to sound like! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

@TheBreakdownAB 👏👏👏💪

Opinion: Medicare patients getting emergency surgery in private-equity hospitals are 42% more likely to die in the next 30 days. What’s going on? - MarketWatch ⁦@unusual_whales⁩ marketwatch.com/story/medicare…

Jet carrying 200 passengers flies for ten minutes with NO PILOT when first officer collapses Totally normal stuff here folks dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…