Palliser Friends Of Medicare

One of the most valuable memberships you can get!

Hi Alberta Nurses👋 We're at @albertanurses.bsky.social AGM this week too! Come by our table to say hi, get a button or a sticker, and learn how we can say NO to two-tier, American style health care together! 🤝

Join us for our free, public AGM meeting to get involved in our work to protect & strengthen public care in the Medicine Hat region & beyond! See friendsofmedicare.org/palliser_cha... for details. #AbHealth #MedHat

Join us for our free, public AGM meeting to get involved in our work to protect & strengthen public care in the Medicine Hat region & beyond! See friendsofmedicare.org/palliser_cha... for details. #AbHealth #MedHat

This year's Parkland Institute conference focuses on "an emerging collective response to corporate oligarchy and right-wing autocracy" — exactly what Alberta needs right now! Join them at the U of A or online November 20 - 22! Details & tickets: www.parklandconference.ca

“Serious, ongoing safety concerns have been raised over Grifols’ paid plasma sites across the country, including at the Calgary collection site which was found to be non-compliant with federal safety regulations”: FOM's Chris Gallaway. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

👏👏👏"Canadians should have access to the care they need, not just the care they can afford." Canada's doctors are sending a message to our governments: protect our public health care! 📢Amplify their call: friendsofmedicare.org/EnforceTheCHA

The Palliser chapter of Friends of Medicare may be disbanding in the weeks to come, citing a lack of individuals ready to lead. Current co-chair Diane McNaughton, says it has been a struggle to find someone willing & able to chair the board. medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n... #AbHealth #MedHat

New Substack! Alberta has killed a critical program that previously supported homeless/houseless Albertans in accessing social services after medical or mental health treatment. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli thebreakdownab.substack.com/p/making-thi...

The Palliser chapter of Friends of Medicare may be disbanding in the weeks to come, citing a lack of individuals ready to lead. Current co-chair Diane McNaughton, says it has been a struggle to find someone willing & able to chair the board. medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n... #AbHealth #MedHat

Medicine Hat friends: Join your local chapter for the AGM Nov. 3 👇 Join the growing fight to defend Alberta's public healthcare!

Happy convention @aupe.org delegates! Come by our table to say hi, grab a button or sticker, and take action to protect and strengthen Alberta's public health care ✊ 💙

“We cannot allow another preventable tragedy like the tainted blood scandal to occur. It is past time for Health Canada to step in to protect patients and the integrity of our blood and blood plasma supply in Canada,” said Gallaway. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Join us for our free, public AGM meeting to get involved in our work to protect & strengthen public care in the Medicine Hat region & beyond! See www.friendsofmedicare.org/palliser_cha... for details. #AbHealth #MedHat

For-profit company Grifols has announced they are lifting their paid plasma collection pause—including reopening an Edmonton site. “Enough with the backroom deals & corporate takeover. Our governments need to step in to ensure safety": Chris Gallaway. www.friendsofmedicare.org/paid_plasma_...

💯 “Forcing one group of people to pay out-of-pocket for health care is the 1st step to making us all pay out-of-pocket for health care. On top of that, suggesting some people should be excluded from public services is incredibly cruel & un-Canadian."

Happy Birthday Tommy Douglas! "Father of Medicare" "Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world." 20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986 cdnmedhall.ca/laureates/th... #TommyDouglas #Medicare #MedicareForAll

What Chris wants more than anything this year is to fulfil Tommy's dream of truly universal public health care — Will you help? 💙Support Friends of Medicare's work by getting your 2027 membership TODAY: friendsofmedicare.org/join

Today is Tommy Douglas Day! Celebrating the contributions of Thomas Clement Douglas: the "Greatest Canadian" & the man who brought universal Medicare to Canada. It's also our executive director's 43rd birthday!🎂 Will you make Chris' bday wish come true? friendsofmedicare.org/tommy_douglas_day_2026

thetyee.ca/Culture/2... Please read! 17hr wait is NOT an abnormality... "We can’t lose sight of our humanity. A health-care system shouldn’t be judged only by whether care eventually arrives, but by what children and families are asked to endure to reach it." 1/2

Happy Birthday Tommy Douglas! "Father of Medicare" "Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world." 20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986 cdnmedhall.ca/laureates/th... #TommyDouglas #Medicare #MedicareForAll

edmontonjournal.com/... Minister's office: "Four separate reviews... to understand what happened and identify where improvements are needed" = bureaucratic BS! Frontline Emerg docs have been telling them for years: move sick admitted pts out of the ED within 8HRs max.

edmontonjournal.com/... Take a moment to read. The math is simple. We have double the population with less hospital beds then in the 1980s. It isn't immigrants. It's govt's ignoring our hospital and workforce planning and building. It's lack of HCWs and BEDs! 1/2

And join us for our free, public AGM meeting to get involved in our work to protect & strengthen public care in the Medicine Hat region & beyond! See the attached details. #AbHealth #MedHat

FOM's Chris Gallaway joined @cjsrfm.bsky.social's Pivot Points & Parkland Institute's @poliscirish.bsky.social on Wednesday for a (great) conversation about Alberta's (not great) moves towards two-tier, American-style health care! Listen here: www.cjsr.com/shows/pivotp...

Healthcare delivery is a provincial responsibility. Creating 2-tiered systems violates national standards & raises serious Charter of Rights & Freedoms concerns Federal leaders need to hold the province accountable. medicinehatnews.com/life/local-l... #AbHealth #MedHat @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social

Health care leaders raise concerns re: AB's Bill 11 ahead of BC's provincial election. With massive changes being imposed on our healthcare without a mandate, they're right to be worried! We deserve representatives who are committed to protecting public healthcare, and who aren't afraid to say so.

“We cannot allow another preventable tragedy like the tainted blood scandal to occur. It is past time for Health Canada to step in to protect patients and the integrity of our blood and blood plasma supply in Canada,” said FOM's Chris Gallaway. medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...

On November 3rd, at Taylor Hall (St. John’s Church) from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM, the Palliser Friends of Medicare will hold its Annual General Meeting. It may be the last one. We hope to see you there! owlnews.ca/news/2026/10... via @mhowlnews.bsky.social #MedHat

Canada's Health Ministers are meeting in Winnipeg this week. With mounting serious safety concerns in multiple for-profit Grifols-run paid plasma sites (incl. Calgary), FOM is joining health coalitions across Canada to demand urgent federal action. www.friendsofmedicare.org/feds_must_sh...

🎯 "Scapegoating Ottawa and immigrants for the government’s failures to appropriately fund education and health care cannot absolve Premier Danielle Smith and her government from accountability. Albertans deserve better," write these U of A Emergency Medicine professors.

Alberta's public healthcare is being destroyed💔 And we deserve to know what's in store for us as result of "dual practice," aka Bill 11:❌longer waits,❌greater costs,❌less equal access to the care we need. That's why FOM's Calgary Chapter is spreading the word! globalnews.ca/video/120987...

On November 3rd, at Taylor Hall (St. John’s Church) from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM, the Palliser Friends of Medicare will hold its Annual General Meeting. It may be the last one. We hope to see you there! owlnews.ca/news/2026/10... via @mhowlnews.bsky.social #MedHat

This referendum is a political distraction from the real issues currently facing our public services: government erosion & privatization. But worse, it's stoking chaos in our already disrupted healthcare system, risking a devastating physician shortage for Albertans. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Healthcare workers, experts, advocates & patients have called for action for YEARS. Instead of listening, AB Health Ministers are globetrotting to collect cherrypicked "evidence" to support their aggressive privatization agenda. 📢We deserve better! Tell them so: rebuildourhealthcare.ca/#take-action

open.substack.com/pu... More people need to understand this, and push govt to finally work on the solutions that are outside of the ED. Emergency overcrowding will only be fixed with DOWNSTREAM capacity and workforce... and only if there is collective govt will

#ICYMI Parkland Institute report released Sep 28: Essential and Expendable How Alberta’s COVID-19 Response Failed Cargill Workers www.parklandinstitute.ca/cargill

To be clear, this doesn’t include additional funding for frontline staffing to actually reduce wait times This appears to fund management teams to instruct hospitals how to to more with less #onpoli

Evan Romanow, who allegedly had inside knowledge of the “CorruptCare” scandal… Has just been appointed to Deputy Minister of Hospital and Surgical Health Services. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

My kind of Nation Building! For the people, disabled, elderly, you! "Our public health-care system is also our economic advantage. It’s our best competitive asset compared to our neighbours to the south — creating jobs, saving businesses money, and ensuring a healthier workforce that lives longer."

#ableg #abpoli

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/...

albertaviews.ca/wher... Such a touching and empathetic piece. Please take the time to read this So beautifully written. It wonderfully captures the diverse and skilled collection of HCWs who make up the teams that provide the CARE in health care.

Alberta — Alberta sees surge in flu cases as vaccine distribution delayed #Alberta #News #Breaking

It's a junket, alright, and a step in manipulation of public opinion. A minister doesn't need to travel to learn about other health systems. Plenty of information is available. And she should listen to Alberta health providers. And health care, not a farcical referendum, should be a gov't priority.