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Canadians don’t want U.S.-style health care. On Nov. 28, we’re taking that message to Parliament Hill with the @onthealthcoalition.bsky.social On to Ottawa Trek.
Free trains from Toronto, Kingston and Montreal.
Details and seats:
Excellent interview! So refreshing to hear @lukaszukab.bsky.social straight up tell the truth about Smith's lies.
Once again, sincere thanks to Thomas and his thousands of volunteers who stood up for Canada. 🇨🇦
Dire and frankly terrifying words from Edmonton emergency physician Dr. Warren Thirsk. The scenarios he describes are no doubt playing out in emergency departments all across Canada. Health care is in shambles, but we can still afford to subsidize oil and gas! 😠
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“I show up for a shift and I try not to look at all the pain and suffering around me,” he said. “Because it is unmanageable.”
100s of my Emerg docs across the province feel the same way...
Our govt refuses to declare the ED crisis or to act!
‘On Treason’ – an essential quick guide to the plots and politics of Alberta’s separation referendum. albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/on-t...#ableg#abpoli#cdnpoli
Dan Levy doing what more men should do -- calling out Shane Gillis's misogyny.
This is the top story on Variety right now, alongside a report on Russell Brand's rape trial beginning.
In case we're still wondering why women are angry
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The whole Shane Gillis SNL thing is just another reminder that it's so easy to be a shitty, lazy comedian if you're just willing to expose the fact that you a) hate women and b) haven't had an original joke idea since the Reagan administration
The timeline of western alienation may be long, but for so many Alberta separatists their trajectories really began in 2020 and 2021, with COVID.
New by me: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Bank of Canada security officers have been on strike for 100+ days. The Bank has been caught twice violating federal anti-scab law and even hired Pinkertons, a contractor notorious for violent strikebreaking. PM Carney says he stands with workers. Why won't he condemn this corporate lawbreaking?
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor.
This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why.
Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
The biggest lie told by Danielle Smith and the separatists debunked.
No, Alberta Does Not 'Subsidize' the Rest of Canada via @thetyee.cathetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
What will airport privatization mean for Canadians?
"Canada's currently non-profit airports will become for-profit, gouging travellers by increasing fees and making travel in Canada more expensive," says @davidmaccdn.bsky.social. #cdnpoliglobalnews.ca/video/120612...
BREAKING: Liberals plan to sell off airport operations in major cities.
Result? Higher costs for travellers, poorer service and foreign ownership of infrastructure critical to our national security.
That’s what happened in places like Heathrow.
Canadians did not vote for this.
“We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles and endangering pedestrians.
Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.”
Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.
The Executive Director of the Office of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is not only celebrating a far-right German extremist party’s election results
He’s also attacking Andrew Coyne for being a “Laurentian elite” for pointing out he’s “cheering on the AfD”
Olivia Rodrigo raised $20 million for women's well-being with a benefit show featuring a women-led lineup. Her show raised $10 million and Melinda French Gates pledged another $10 million. Rodrigo said the festival's artists and activists give her hope despite the “regression of women's rights."
It's despicable how this Manitoba "employer" treated foreign workers. Where is the government oversight to prevent this kind of abuse? Deep respect for the workers who wouldn't stand for it - and the court agreed with them.
Labour board rejects appeal by...
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Canadians aren’t clamouring for U.S.-style health care privatization. In fact, it’s the opposite. Canadians remain deeply committed to equal access to health care based on need and not wealth. By @alonghurst.bsky.socialcamrosevoice.ca/health/the-p...
Have your say on the future of AI. 🤖
The Government of Canada is looking for your input on AI transparency, accountability, and public understanding.
🗓️ Share your views by September 23, 2026.
🔗 Take the survey: bit.ly/4xaepfZ
🍁New poll from the Angus Reid Institute shows majority of Canadians in all regions and age groups siding with Mark Carney's decision to pull out of negotiations.
Excellent analysis by CBC. There is a lot to consider about AI data centres. And Canadians are right to question these centres.
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Why are there suddenly so many...
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People are smoking again because “modern life sucks?”
Collosally stupid.
You know what sucks? Dying of cancer in your mid-40s leaving behind 3 young kids because u smoked your whole adult life, like my older brother did.
Feels like yet another manipulative “big tobacco” marketing campaign to me.
Danielle Smith is breaking our health care system and Mark Carney is letting her.
The Canada Health Act is federal law. Carney has a responsibility to enforce it and protect universal, publicly funded health care.
Both Smith and Carney are betraying Albertans.
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Danielle Smith’s Bill 11 is the biggest attack on public health care in Canadian history, and Mark Carney is letting her. He and his Health Minister are refusing to enforce the Canada Health Act.
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"I went up there with my book, and I sat down with this dog named Auggie. I started to read to him, and after we had to leave, I started to cry, because I didn't want to leave the humane society," the 11-year-old said.
"Social media is near-universal for young people: 97% of those aged 10–21 in the main survey had a smartphone, and 96% used social media."
No to bans, "but nearly all agreed that something needs to change."
Study: What young people think about social media, safety and AI www.gov.uk/government/p...
$&#% your fascist pancakes! An Alberta moment. There’s just something about FYFP that perfectly encapsulates the current state of political affairs in Alberta. albertapolitics.ca/2026/07/your... #ableg#abpoli
Watters: Iran was never supposed to be a forever war. It was a precise and lethal operation. Trump took a shot, got the deal, and got out. Now we can book our next excursion. Cuba. Greenland, maybe. Or our 51st state, Canada.
As governments consult developers and landlords on the future of housing policy, tenants say they are being left out of the conversation — and they're no longer willing to wait quietly.
More from Alejandra Ruiz-Vargas:
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The Canada Health Act is clear: care is based on need, not on your ability to pay.
The UCP's healthcare scheme is breaking that fundamental promise to Albertans and creating a system where money talks louder than medical need.
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