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3rd Stage Colon Cancer Survivor. My body clearly hates me and I am a bit cranky. Nothing I have is curable, so don't pester me with "Cures".
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From the FB... At least one school has resorted to donating books to the public because they simply don't have the resources to catalog all of the books by Smith's deadline. This is absolutely surreal. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Here’s a sentence you won’t be able to unread… On “Alberta Day”, Danielle Smith stood beside the lawyer who repped the Coutts blockade and was also Artur Pawlowski’s lawyer in a suit against the government… Who also heads up a synth pop group. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
So is Smith going to turn her attention to daycare and Out of School Care and have them ban books too??? Bc there are books there... 😱😱 #abpoli#bookban#transrights
I decided to call the main bitch herself and left a message that Albertans won't tolerate Fascism. That our daughter will be reading banned books at school, I suggest that other concerned Albertans call the office of the hag.
This is why the UCP spend so much time trying to convince their base that unions are bad. If more of their base were union members, more of them would be taking home a fair wage for a day's work, to support their families. A vote for UCP is the definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face!
I just get tired of watering plants by mid August and then they die slowly.
I feel bad for anyone that doesn't have a good filter system for their furnace. We got one 2 summer ago and it sure is nice not having the banger smoke induced headaches. #abwildfires
Well as kids in Alberta get dumbed down by the Alberta gov't and parents can't figure out why their kids are struggling with reading, maybe their will be a reflection.... bhahahha no the parents will just hand the kids their phone and give up on having kids that can read.
Why should they have to, not their job. That is child labor in school. Book are bans are fascism.
From FB... This is the real consequence of a government that can't think past their first reaction. The UCP's book ban was poorly thought out, written & executed with unintended consequences that are disastrous. Everyone saw this coming but them. #abpoli #abed #cdnpoli
August 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day. We can always learn more about drug use and overdose deaths. Today is a chance to honour those we have lost and protect loved ones from the harms of toxic drug policy. Every overdose is a policy and societal failure. YEG - 6PM at Victoria Park.
Dr. Turk, an expert on intellectual freedom, calls Alberta’s book ban an embarrassment to Canadians. cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2025/08...
He is the OG of anti vaccination, why even give him air. He failed public health in America.
Calgary Public Library knows where it’s at. 🌈
Me: tells someone about my diagnosis. Someone: oh my relative had that cancer and died! Me: #Cansky
I don't know about that, my brother decided that he was better off working for the railway than in Fort Mac., electrician jobs have dried up.
"Talbot scoffs at the idea that lower vaccination rates are a reason to order fewer doses, rather than a call to action. “When was the last time you saw a successful business run a bad marketing campaign and then blame the customers for failing to show up?” he asks." 🔥 Indeed.
What BJ *actually* means, is that the Federal Liberals are investing $650,000, and the UCP are investing $70,000. He did say that — just in a deliberately deceptive way. As is the norm for his party 🙄. #ableg #cdnpoli
Mikisew Cree First Nation is calling out Danielle Smith for greenwashing at a time when nation members are still being diagnosed with high cancer rates. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Back in the day we let all the Nazis from WWII in, and we also had a big KKK organization here. Not so much in the water as in the DNA to be racists.
As EMS across the province are fighting for respect and better wages from the government of Alberta… This is the reality of the state of EMS in Alberta. 1 Paramedic managing two cardiac arrests after a fire. In Edmonton. What’s a paramedic worth to you? #abpoli #cdnpoli
Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
If you live in Canada and believe you're immune from an Orwelian future, please be aware that the Edmonton School District just banned 200 books, including six of mine, from its school libraries.
Ring Smith's phone off the hook. I called waited a couple of minutes. Fascism is not acceptable. www.alberta.ca/premier-cont... #abpoli#transrights
THIS IS THE STORY! Call out the specific people doing this, and their extremist agenda. There is NO “good faith” here. And call out how the United Conservative Party UCP “governing” Alberta is encouraging and enabling all of it, for power and radical ideology.
We all know Sam and his family already has it. I am sure they are going to work super hard for that money, you know buying us something we don't need or storing something we don't need.
If this is the kind of racist response the Alberta Next campaign is provoking - whether by accident or by design - we have a social crisis that Albertans of goodwill can no longer ignore or laugh off.
Because you start with scapegoating international students - and you end up here, with people at a government rally in Lloydminster baying for the mass deportation of new Canadians. Let’s stop being mealy-mouthed. This is disgusting. It’s unCanadian. It’s unAlbertan. It’s unacceptable. #AlbertaNext
I am sure if we take her to Fort Mac and punt her hard enough she will go back into the ground. If not I have a dog that can dig a hole faster than god can open one up.
As the Handmaids Tale is unfolding in the US and increasingly in #AB, we can’t let kids read about it! #BanningBooks Where is my #Freedom?
🍁 Sorry, what century is this? And where are we? "many books written by women & LGBTQ2S+, indigenous & historically radicalized authors..." Danielle Smith is desperate to hang on to votes from right wing groups. The price is censorship. #abpoli #notmypremier www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
It's truly a jaw-dropping example of fiscal whiplash. The speed of this shift raises serious questions about the government's forecasts and management. Hard to believe this isn't just pure incompetence at play. #ableg #abpoli
Please don’t fall for any of the UCP messages about fiscal prudence and responsibility: they have none
Reporter - “You’re saying that teachers suddenly asked for better wages, but they’ve been asking for better wages for months?” Horner - “Well yeah, but we have no appetite to pay more” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Every fucking thing this government does is to benefit fossil fuel producers. They're actively sabotaging renewables and affordability at the altar of ATCO, CNRL, TransAlta, and Cenovus shareholder dividends.
In the 1990s, the RCMP launched a probe into residential school crimes in British Columbia. The final report has been made public for the first time thanks to the Investigative Journalism Foundation's Open by Default database. It's devastating 🧵 thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...
Okay we are done this convo. Banning books is Fascist.
This clip is WILD! Not only does Smith concede that schools boards have been doing a good job of keeping inappropriate materials out of schools… She also makes it clear that she wants to be the moral arbiter of what kids can read. With no background in education. #abpoli
Smith today… “We asked school boards to use their discretion” So… She didn’t read the ministerial order either? Who is even making the decisions in this government? #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
I am Canada and this is happening in Alberta. And yes it is a problem when books get banned in school. Especially when they are banning books like 1984 and Handmaid's Tale.
Danielle Smith today - “This isn’t what we wanted with our book ban at all! We meant graphic pictures! Why would anyone think we meant a written passage!” The book ban - #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
No Margaret Atwood, please! We’re Albertan! albertapolitics.ca/2025/08/no-m... #ableg #abpoli
AIMCo earns 2% first-half return as clients seek to reduce risk-taking - Globe & Mail. Another Danielle Smith boondoggle. A 2% return is well below the average return and one of the lowest returns for a money manager. Albertans are seeing their retirement and public reserves being eroded by AIMCo.
Canada's covid advice for pregnant moms "an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, including a booster dose, during any stage of pregnancy is safe and effective. COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy helps protect against serious outcomes for the person who is pregnant and their baby." www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
“We will not allow our ultimate agenda to be put in libraries so children have access to our ulterior motives. Our schemes must be kept to government policy documents.”
Surprise! Looks who’s backpedaling and blame shifting due to the outraged public. Don’t blame ESPB, this book banning belongs solely to the Alberta Government.
Teachers: we really need supports for complex needs in classrooms, lower class sizes, better working conditions, and appropriate funding UCP: best we can do is a book ban
My kid is already texting her friends about the Berta Book Ban. The gov't can ban the books from the shelves but my kid is going to read those books now. And she is going to read them at school. #abpoli#transrights
Kind of like physically occupying an entire city to force them to accept your ideological views?
Meanwhile, as one UCP minister is caught sneaking an anti-LGBTQ2S+ bigot into the legislature... Another gets taxpayers to pay for his flights to Europe where he will spend half of his time there on "personal time". Wonder if he gets First Class too? #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Uhmmm,, more like a Shield's Up party to host at the leg. Bottoms up, UCP MLAs!!!
Cancer is rooting in his demise!!! I hate cancer scammers, way too fucking many of them!
It is amazing that all of the grifters she helps make money off of Albertans always come to hate her deeply. More like telling... She must be one hell of a Bitch!
Brand is a rapist so he is a special Brand of evil.
My dad only hates certain pedophiles, and he loves Trump for the conspiracy theories. Old boomers in Canada love this shit just as much as Americans.
Marlin Schmidt is cracking me up with his parody of Danielle. Part one:
I know this is not a unique observation but public health was basically created to deal with the Spanish flu, and then a century later COVID hit and killed twice as many people and our response was to destroy public health
Exactly!!! :D
Alberta. Heads up to those newly diagnosed with cancer, on treatment. Pls don't go anywhere when your white blood cells are low. We lost a brain cancer patient a week ago who went to a function bc she really wanted to go and she ended up with pneumonia and died. #abpli#cansky
People really need to wake up in Alberta. You have Alberta gov't managers literally complaining that their employees can't make living wages and have to go the food bank not bc they care but bc they are tired of hearing about it. They joke about it in meetings. Being a gov't employee is humiliating.
“The UCP gov’t’s disdain for the vaccine couldn’t be more obvious. The positive choice, which [the UCP] rejects, is to devise a free-of-charge system that doesn’t waste. Alberta is now the only province to make people pay for protection against this terrible illness. It’s plain wrong.” #ableg
Danielle Smith says she has no choice but to force you to preorder & pay for your own COVID vaccine to prevent “wastage.” This after she paid $80M for a multi-year supply of off-brand Turkish Tylenol, most of which never arrived & the rest we couldn’t use. Better is possible. It has to be #abpoli
I called on the 🇨🇦 govt to guarantee, no-cost access to COVID-19 vaccines, including for every child under 12. Under the Canada Health Act, every Canadian deserves equal access to care no matter where they live, or how badly their provincial gov’t ignores science, health guidelines & their citizens.
And here's the press release from @albertawilderness.bsky.social and @cpawsnab.bsky.social
I wrote about in the comment section, made sure to say that healthy families make for a strong economy.
Thank you, I hope we all ask for more social supports and UBI, bc these are tough times for all of us.
open.substack.com/pub/thebreak... The stink-of-corruption #UCP government of @ABDanielleSmith While Albertans struggle with the high cost of everything and struggle to access healthcare, ministers and their staff live it up and scheme to get more. #FiretheUCP #RemoveDirtyDanielle #Alberta
Oh yes Harper's famous snitch line.
The people most concerned with racial purity are all mutts.
My son worked for Shopify and jesus, not even connected to their information so that staff can answer customers questions. It is a scam. He was relived to be given a severance package and let go. Never mind all the grifting the platform lets sellers do.
American companies want in here so bad, and they got it. Massively rushed through process. The other thing that is sketchy is Play Alberta, you get points from the province for gambling.
Well, it is going to be a very bad winter for many seniors that is super clear when you see this in the headlines.
Well look at those wanna be Fascists.
Brain you are on my post, so you can fuck off. And stop whining. You are not the only person to have had Covid and the effects of it. Learn what sarcasm is. I have cancer, boo hoo.
Go to a daycare and see how many parents refuse to pick up their sick kids.
Most people continue to send their kids to school with fevers.
Most people do not stay home when they are sick.
There is no good reason to put a price tag on a vaccine booster when the rest of the country is not following suit. Albertans are already dealing with increased public health issues as we live in the Measles capital of Canada and people will face forced drug treatment, harming their bodily autonomy.
There is evidence of a new Omnicron variant of Covid. By charging 100 dollars per vaccine Alberta is denying life-saving protection to many Albertans. Viruses will travel as people do. Do we want a repeat of 2020?
They are already have and are killing people willingly by ignoring Covid and Measles.
Smith is insane bc she doesn't anyone to be vaccinated. You don't think people with Covid are already attending these events. Her people who don't think Covid exists.
When examined alongside U.S. policy, Alberta’s trajectory on vaccines is evident, diverging from the recommendations of NACI. #ABleg #ABpoli #Cdnpoli #FireLagrange #DanielleSmith #NACI #Covidvaccines www.canada.ca/content/dam/...
You wanna make sure Smith vaccinates all Albertans, go to her meet and greets with Covid. Seriously!! If she is fine with us all being sick then she should be cool with all of us being sick with her in real life. #abpoli
Make sure every time you are sick you go to a UCP event. They will figure it out, or not.
remember that time two hospital morgues were full globalnews.ca/news/8205792... #Alberta #abpoli #covid19
"Just one weekly puff from an asthma-like inhaler might one day protect you from the viral infections" Bad time to be cancelling mRNA studies in the U.S. www.newscientist.com/article/2492...
Thank you, I worry about the newly diagnosed cancer patients that have to deal with this public health crisis and trying to survive while under going chemo. Me, I am 8 years in, I know how this all works with people not understanding the risks of cancer and viruses.
Well he just cursed us more than we were cursed. Someone get the Leg. a a proper smudge, but then again we don't deserve it. We shall take that extra curse that Fascist put on us.
Danielle Smith to Albertans: No way can you have free COVID vaccinations like every other Canadian. albertapolitics.ca/2025/08/dani... #ableg #abpoli #abhealth #COVID19
And here we have a gov't that is allowing 15 year olds to drop out of school, still emphasizing a career in oil and gas when most of the jobs have already been automated. Wrecking sectors such as healthcare, education, renewables, etc which can be very rewarding and profiting professions. Oil=death
I think this essay, which is not about Alberta, actually is about Alberta. About the resentment and fear many in our resource sectors feel when they see - or foresee - the loss of high paying jobs that didn’t require much or any post-secondary education.
Albertans love going to the chiropractor for diagnosis for their illness and then over paying in the thousands for pretend supplements that will cure them. The new thing in St. Albert is getting garbage in an IV to boost their health. #Abpoli
Maybe what will happen here is the extinction of the dumb people bc they have been riding on the coat tails of the super intelligent for a long fucking time. Alberta hates smart educated people. This fact may kill a lot of high school drop outs and wanna be researchers. #abpoli#covid
I'm tired of hearing people saying they are tired about talking about Covid. I am fucking tired about having Cancer, but doesn't change that I have it and have to do shit everyday to take care of myself. Privileged healthy fucks, have no clue what being sick for life means. #abpoli#cansky
They deliberately chose to let a virus that causes disabilities loose… and now they are looking to curb spending on disabilities… and hospitals still aren’t “ready”… aerosol-borne viruses are running through the corridors as free as birds…
The UCP in Alberta have quietly announced a ban on covid vaccination for most kids under 12, please report on this and do anything you can to stop it. They have revised to a two phase rollout, neither of which make kids without severe medical eligible for vaccination. www.alberta.ca/coronavirus-...
Politics > science & common sense = BS The barriers put in place to stop access to one of the biggest medical breakthroughs in decades? The doubtmongering lies? Is AB gov full MAGA? Alberta sets COVID-19 vaccine shot price at $100 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Drug poisoning death in #yeg are up 70% because of government unwillingness to provide people with alternatives to the toxic drugs that are killing them. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...