Gary Teare

UCP to Teachers 2021: AIMCo is vastly superior to ATRF and we are taking your pensions and giving it to them. UCP to Albertan's 2023: AIMCo is vastly superior to CPP and we'll be taking your pensions to them. UCP 2024: AimCo is vastly incompetent and we need to fire them all.

Smith was asked today if she had consulted with Indigenous people or 2 Spirited individuals before making her police. Smiths response essentially? "Well as long as they live on reserve our policies can't get at them" Thus spoke the "Metis"/"Cherokee". #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

This feels like an important one to reshare again today. #ableg #abhealth cc: @Albertadoctors @PfParks @drslmd @picardonhealth @CMA_Docs

Why did the AMA have to release a statement debunking the premier today? Because Smith equated Puberty Blockers to the overprescription of opiates and laid the opioid epidemic at the feet of physicians. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

AMA Physicians' response to comments made by the Premier today in media availability regarding the opioid crisis.

@elonmusk No

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@gilmcgowan Outright sabotage

Alberta’s anti-vax UCP government won’t be distributing COVID and flu vaccines to family doctors this fall. This is a big deal because family doctors usually play a central role in seasonal vaccine campaigns. Incompetence or outright sabotage?#abpoli cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

President of AB Medical association speaking about AB’s government: “They are spending an inordinate amount of their energy disintegrating the system, adding chaos and making it harder for us to do our job,” he said.

@UCalgary_CHP @OBrien_IPH @UCalgaryMed @UAlbertaSPH Looking forward to this series!

Exciting news! We are launching a new Health Policy & Public Health seminar series! Please join us in person or on Zoom for our inaugural seminar on September 24, noon - 1 PM. More details here: obrieniph.ucalgary.ca/centre/health-…

Pete Buttigieg is one of the smartest and most capable political communicators on the planet. This is extremely insightful on Trump.

I’m crying 😭

nytimes.com/2024/09/12/opi… via @NYTOpinion

The most persecuted group of people in Alberta is smart people. They are completely unrepresented in Government.

It’s clear that the UCP government does not care about the needs of Calgarians. Just 34 days ago, the UCP promised that funding for the Green Line was “100 per cent” secure, even for the new shorter version. Now they've decided to pull their funding. This reckless decision could mean the end of a badly needed transit project and a massive waste of over $1 billion that has already been spent as construction is well underway. The UCP has chosen to give up 20,000 jobs directly associated with this project, including 1,000 people employed today who will be thrown out of work by this decision. Not to mention all the private sector jobs that will come from the redevelopment and densification of lands surrounding the future stations. Let’s be clear. This decision will drive both public and private sector investment out of Calgary and Alberta because there is no certainty. Who will ever bid on projects if the province’s signature is no longer worth anything and they can pull funding at will? They are pretending they are looking at new options, but we’ve seen this movie before. Minister Dreeshen’s proposed alignment has been studied. And studied. And studied. It won’t work. It dumps SE commuters nowhere near where they need to be and expects them to trudge to a red or blue line station to get on a train that is already packed. It’s a dream from someone who has clearly never taken transit in Calgary. The UCP government has chosen to make this a political issue. The UCP wants to make this about me. It’s not about me — it’s about doing the right thing for the tens of thousands of Calgarians that will be hurt by this decision. As always, the UCP would rather pick a fight than win for citizens. The Green Line is a required investment for the future of Calgary. It’s an investment in ending the congestion on Deerfoot and Stoney Trails, and the Centre Street corridor.  It’s an investment in the environment, in quality of life, in getting people to and from work, and kids to and from school. We simply have to look at the congestion nightmare that is Toronto today because that city didn’t invest in transit when they should have. This is untenable and the people of Calgary deserve better than to be used as a political football. The premier needs to intervene directly, take control of this file from her minister and advisors and work with the city to find a way forward.

Did you hear Danielle Smith wants to privatize your local hospital? She wants to take hospitals away from AHS and hand them over to other people to run. Maybe Covenant Health, maybe someone else. Nobody knows. Remember, the UCP privatized lab services in 2020 and it was a disaster. Endless waits to get an appointment, even longer waits to get results, and doctors sounding the alarm about mistakes in tests. Eventually the UCP had to reverse the whole thing at a massive cost. It was a dangerous and expensive failure, and that’s what Smith wants to try with hospitals. Let me tell you why I'm concerned. The Premier doesn’t understand healthcare, hospitals, or how competition works. She’s barely said a word about her plans for AHS since announcing that she's going to break it up. Instead, we hear these drips and drabs at members-only meetings in the lead-up to Smith’s UCP leadership review. Second, she said she wants a health care system that is ruled by “competition and fear.” This is bizarre, and it’s not going to work. Systems that are based on fear will inevitably collapse and those incentives don’t work in public service delivery. The folks at Covenant Health do amazing work right across the province every day, but we must recognize that Covenant facilities do not offer the full range of healthcare that Albertans expect, particularly in reproductive health and end of life issues. And despite what the Premier said, Covenant has been forced to shutter some of their emergency rooms, just as AHS has, because they have the same problem – a UCP government that is hostile to healthcare professionals. Changing the sign outside doesn’t create new doctors. Even if Tyler Shandro is on the board. Maybe Smith is just musing and saying the first thing that she thinks will please the person she’s talking to. Again. The problem is when you’re Premier, people work to turn your musings into reality. I’m concerned Smith is taking us down a path she hasn’t thought through at all. We need a government that is competent. That is not ideological, that does not make up its plans on the fly to save itself. We need better, and that’s what Alberta’s New Democrats promise.

@WaskoDr @AntibioticDoc @dryiu_verna @shoffmanAB Those were the “good old days” Kevin. 🤨

Time capsule: back in the before times (2019), Alberta Health Services (AHS) was envied, ranked among the best in world for integrated care (a quality measure and goal!) Breaking up an integrated system is a major setback. We can feel it. search.app/qfMa3bLqJHrswv…

Ha! He accused Harris of using AI to fake a crowd (proven false) and now doesn’t hesitate to use AI generated fakes himself! cbc.ca/news/world/tru…