Debbie Benson YEG

Debbie Benson YEG

@dbenson77.bsky.social

Progressive Canadian; Retired Teacher; Opinions are my own, willing to listen to other perspectives, open to learning! She/Her 🇨🇦 🌈 🌎

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It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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We have a Premier who tried to make you hate Canada And failed She tried to make you hate immigrants And failed So now she’s trying to make you hate transgender kids You know the assignment Alberta. #ableg

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Very keen to hear Mickey Amery explain how the hiring of his cousin Sam Mraiche's nephews would square with this DEI policy, and for Danielle Smith to explain what experience Michaela Frey, who stepped aside to give her a seat in Brooks, had to be hired in the premier's office as a policy advisor.

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From the DM’s… There’s reportedly been a massive cull of senior leadership at Acute Care Alberta with 8 senior leaders being shown the door suddenly! Just in time for flu season! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Hey Alberta: is this incompetence or a full on intentional lie? 9003 Acute Care Spaces is NOWHERE near a record number for our prov In the late 1980s we had 17,790 acute care spaces in hospitals (~12,000 acute care beds, +LTC beds) 1988: 7.4 beds/1000 2026: 1.5 beds/1000 1/2

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Canadian In Alberta@canadianinalberta.bsky.social

For 51 of the last 55 yrs conservatives have been in power in Alberta That's 51 years of underfunding healthcare & education But according to conservatives, 4 years of NDP government destroyed Alberta The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over & over & expecting a different result

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Alberta’s Minister of Health/Hospitals wants Albertans to know that the government is building everything they can to manage the incoming flu season… Except mention vaccines. In fact, the last time she tweeted about vaccines? Last year. But it was measles, not the flu.

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IT"S OFFICIALLY UNOFFICIAL! With 100% of the votes counted, 3 things are pretty clear! #1 - The overwhleming majority of Albertans are proud Canadians! #2 - Albertans are a lot less Xenophobic than Smith banked on #3 - Albertans know Smith needs federal oversight. #abpoli

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Alberta, you voted to save Canada. Albertans don’t want Danielle Smith’s maga-style gerrymandered map or two tiered American healthcare system. This is un-Canadian.

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“ @mark-ungrin.bsky.social believes N95 masks should be worn in all hospitals, the spaces where people are often the most vulnerable or have a higher chance of spreading disease. ‘why aren’t we doing more of this in health care facilities?If it doesn’t get inside you, it can’t make you sick””

ctvnews.caAdditional supports, spaces, on the way for hospitals for respiratory virus seasonAhead of respiratory virus season, the Alberta government announced several ways its preparing hospitals for an expected increase in patients.

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Albertans want a government working to Improve: - Healthcare - Education - Affordability Instead they're getting a government that: Spends $200 million taxpayer dollars on a referendum that the majority of Albertans didn't want & MAGA politics. #Alberta deserves better #abpoli #ableg

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It's time to take our power back! Doug Ford is allowing US tech billionaires to take our water, raise our bills and pollute our air. Join us in calling for a provincial moratorium on AI Data Centres in Ontario now.

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Danielle Smith... Who cited the Separatist APP in 2022 as her "or else" for Canada... Claims that separatism didn't start until April of 2025... And that folks that believe that kids are being secretly transitioned are her real base. So Dani hasn't hung up her tinfoil hat yet.

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Dear #BCpoli; Yes, Eby f-d up by calling this snap election. Huge unforced error, & he deserves political consequences for that. But take it from an Albertan: you don’t want the west coast version of UCP running your province. You don’t want an echo of our mess. Vote wisely. XOX 🫶

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Something for the #ableg folk to think about, at length: The Separatists didn’t even achieve 600k votes in this referendum. The threshold for their petition was originally 600k until Danielle Smith changed it to 177k. Had she not done so, there would’ve never been a referendum. 1/2