UCP and CMOH made decisions based on convenience instead of health and safety. - #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli 74 https://t.co/AOGXN2LFoV
RT @vincemcdermott I thought it was weird the Arctic Winter Games would ask the Alberta government for $1.2 million this late (they start in January). It turns out they didnât and the province gave them $1.8 million two years ago. https://twitter.com/fortmactoday/status/1597806585597804544
An in-depth investigation that examines how the oil and gas lobby used the pandemic to push through half of the 132 long-standing requests to peel back regulatory requirements. https://thenarwhal.ca/capp-oil-lobbying-alberta-government/ #ABleg #ABpoli
Some behind the scenes from our recent investigation into CAPP and the Alberta government from @mikedesouza, who started it all. #ableg #cdnpoli https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-energy-capp-lobbying-foi/
"A staffer in Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's office sent a series of emails to the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service, challenging prosecutors' assessment and direction on cases stemming from the Coutts border blockades and protests, CBC News has learned. ... 'This is so improper on so many levels â it's pure interference with Crown independence,' said one source with knowledge of the correspondence." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-premier-office-emails-prosecutors-coutts-1.6719743 #ableg #abpoli #alberta #cdnpoli
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says Ottawa is one of the reasons why her government has placed a moratorium on approving new wind and solar power projects, arguing the feds are preventing development of backup generation for renewable energy like natural gas.
Albertans still facing charges for breaking Covid-related laws are off the hook after a court decision ruled the province's health orders were invalid because they breached the Public Health Act.
The chair of a panel that produced a taxpayer-funded $2-million report on COVID-19 responses for the Alberta government suggested Conservative MPs use his findings as a political cudgel in the next federal election.
As noted in the article, the UCP's $2 million dollar report to review Alberta's Pandemic Response was panned by the Alberta Medical Association.
Calling it "anti-science" and "anti-evidence," the Alberta Medical Association (AMA) claims the document advances misinformation."It speaks against the broadest and most diligent international scientific collaboration and consensus in history.⊠Science and evidence brought us through [the pandemic] and saved millions of lives," AMA president Dr. Shelley Duggan said in a statement.This is such a missed opportunity for Alberta to document the impact of COVID upon our communities, and an embarrassment on the part of those involved in this report.
A task force created by the UCP government to review the provinceâs pandemic response has issued its final report and, while it is currently being reviewed by the province, Alberta doctors are pushing back, saying it contains misinformation and poses a threat to public health.
Incidentally, I'm just getting over a covid infection. At least, I am sure it is because I had covid once when we still tested for it, and nothing else has ever felt like it.
All the teachers are saying that the flu is going around like crazy. Yet nobody can test for covid or report on it anymore, because our province took away those tools.
Maybe I got it from elsewhere, but my daughter had a high fever for a full day before I got hit. Sounds more like an outbreak to me.
Seems I have fallen into some kind of rabbit hole to find what effectively looks like Premier Smith proposing a clear the streets initiative.
Smith said in Alberta, a police officer may approach someone committing a minor offence and issue them a ticket â almost like a court summons â which would require them to show up to an âintervention commission.ââWhere they will go and get an assessment from a psychologist, and go before three commissioners, and if theyâre Indigenous, they go before three Elder commissioners, and those commissions are really there to talk to them about what is going on with them,â Smith said.If I read this correctly, police can approach vulnerable people on the street. Since these people donât look quite right by the judgment of the police, they can issue a court summons upon these undesirable looking people based on no suspicion, or reasonable grounds of any actual offence.Building off post 95, looks like the police already got the memo that they get to define what vulnerable looks like.
Lethbridge police has defined a vulnerable person as âanyone, who, due to medical or mental health, or physical condition, may exhibit patterns of behaviour that may pose a risk to themselves or others.âGood times.
Alberta Health Services â which the province is dismantling as it forges ahead with its full-scale and controversial overhaul of the health system â is facing even more uncertainty as yet another leader departs.
Four days it took her to say anything. And then she says ⊠she will do nothing. Not good enough. Her own office is implicated. The investigation canât be delivered to the people being investigated. How dumb does she think Albertans are? So again: at a bare minimum we need an RCMP investigation and a full public inquiry. All those implicated must step aside during the inquiry. Former AHS staff and Board members must be freed from any gag orders. Albertans expect no less. Premier, itâs time to face the music.
âMs. Smith came into office on a campaign to overhaul the health care system and has since made significant changes to AHS. Her government has twice removed the entire board of AHS, and installed three different leaders.â
âtwice removed the entire board of AHS, and installed three different leaders.â
When you need to shop that hard to find people willing to do it your way⊠the problem you, Ms. Smith and the UCP.
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