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Vote splitting has consequences.
A tiny portion of voters can have catastrophic effects in an election & easily empower a party they oppose. This is precisely how Trudeau has clung onto power & Canadians must consider this dynamic when voting
#AlbertaElection2023 #cdnpoli #UCP
A tiny portion of voters can have catastrophic effects in an election & easily empower a party they oppose. This is precisely how Trudeau has clung onto power & Canadians must consider this dynamic when voting
#AlbertaElection2023 #cdnpoli #UCP
While the UCP win was resounding, both from popular vote and seats here we see how 6714 voters decided the fate of 10 ridings.... which is less than the margin of rejected ballots.
Massive amount of power in very few hands
Over 1.7 million voters fought over the rest
Massive amount of power in very few hands
Over 1.7 million voters fought over the rest
Had NDP flipped 7 ridings...
Notley would have been premier.
Notley would have been premier.
I don't want us to be the benchmark in Canada anymore for other provinces to say, "At least we're not Alberta." I don't want to wake up every morning with a knot in my gut worrying about what unhinged decisions the UCP will make that day as they chase /1
their fever dream of being a US red state. I don't want to cringe every time Danielle Smith opens her mouth because she is either uninformed, misinformed, or saying things that show a lack of judgment and critical thinking skills. /2
I am sick of extremism in Alberta. I am tired of extremists feeling at home here. I am tired of people like Theo Fleury & Jamie Sale thinking AB is the perfect place to spew lies from. There is such a long list of extremist bad actors that flourish in AB./3
The past 4 years of UCP rule, and especially the past ~8 months of Danielle Smith as premier, have been exhausting and stressful. The almost daily outragous events can't have been good for anyone's blood pressure....
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Can't we just have a nice boring government that works for the public and good things get done? Where we don't have to pay close attention all the time, braced against the next fiasco?
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We need a government we can trust to just do good things like build schools, fix up healthcare, support municipalities, create programs to combat poverty, racism, etc.
So we can all relax and get back to our lives.
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So we can all relax and get back to our lives.
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We are down to the last few days of the election and I will end my series on Family Medicine with these graphics from @Albertadoctors
How bad is the state of Family Medicine in #Alberta compared to the early days of the UCP?
Well, read on:
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How bad is the state of Family Medicine in #Alberta compared to the early days of the UCP?
Well, read on:
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The number of Family Doctors accepting new patients overall in AB has dropped from 887 to 209, with the South Zone taking a near obliteration.
(I actually think this is an overestimation for all zones because many of these are walk in or niche docs only)
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(I actually think this is an overestimation for all zones because many of these are walk in or niche docs only)
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Compared to the populations they serve, this is a dramatic loss and explains why you can't find a Family Doctor if you lose yours...
#abhealth
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#abhealth
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Inspired by @DrAndyHolt @TheRealDKGray @pax_romana2022 #AlbertaElection2023 rendition of Barrett's Privateers ... here's an ode inspired by Cremation of Sam McGee. Apologies to R Service
There are strange things done under an Alberta sun
By the leaders who moil for votes
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There are strange things done under an Alberta sun
By the leaders who moil for votes
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The smokey skies hide their secret lies
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever may see
is the night in May not too far away
Some still vote UCP
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That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever may see
is the night in May not too far away
Some still vote UCP
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Now Dani was not elected fair, just a few chose her for the Crown,
Why some lost their minds as she passed the time making gaffes, only God can expound
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Why some lost their minds as she passed the time making gaffes, only God can expound
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I know that there are a bunch of Albertans who look at what Danielle Smith and the UCP want to do, even the parts they don't want to talk about, and they agree with all of it. There are Albertans who think the healthcare system should be privatized.
#AlbertaElection2023 1/21
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Maybe they feel somehow that sick or injured people should have to pay to show them the error of their ways so they smarten up and don't do whatever it was again. Maybe it galls them to think that some of their tax dollars are helping someone else, maybe even
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someone they would disapprove of. Albertans secure in the knowledge that they, and those they care about, will never be in the position of being denied medical treatment because they haven't got enough money. Because those things only happen to bad people, right?
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So on Tuesday's tweet, someone asked why AB doctors were so lazy that we needed to rely on US data.
Well troll, you just needed to be patient! Because I can deliver AB data too. In fact here it is!
And sorry #Alberta, the future of Family Medicine isn't looking good
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Well troll, you just needed to be patient! Because I can deliver AB data too. In fact here it is!
And sorry #Alberta, the future of Family Medicine isn't looking good
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The section of Family Med with @Albertadoctors released a survey to all FM docs in April 2023 about their future plans.
927 active Family Doctors responded
Here's what they said:
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927 active Family Doctors responded
Here's what they said:
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54% of FM docs planned to modify their practice in the next three years toward less comprehensive care. This included retiring, leaving the province, changing to locum or niche services, or reducing their panel/hours worked
It gets more concerning because the AMA also said:
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It gets more concerning because the AMA also said:
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I was going to announce some other important news about the disintegration of #Alberta healthcare but we are pausing this week's program today for something much more important:
No child should ever be compared to feces. In any context. In any situation. Ever.
No child should ever be compared to feces. In any context. In any situation. Ever.
If @ABDanielleSmith doesn't immediately ask Jennifer Johnson, the @Alberta_UCP MLA candidate for Lacombe-Ponoka, to resign immediately, that is an endorsement by the UCP.
And endorsement by any political party that children should be literally compared to sh*t is abhorrent
And endorsement by any political party that children should be literally compared to sh*t is abhorrent
I posted yesterday about how @ABDanielleSmith's suggestion that to solve the current hospital wait time crisis is that Family Doctors should just work evenings & weekends is absolutely ridiculous.
Many of you agreed.
But some of you didn't
Let's talk about the research:
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Many of you agreed.
But some of you didn't
Let's talk about the research:
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My colleague recently posted on IG this excellent summary of 3 studies done in the US about how much time Family Docs would need to spend to meet the criteria of the US preventative task force health recommendations.
He has kindly agreed to allow me to repost them here
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He has kindly agreed to allow me to repost them here
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Study #1 reports that we would need 26.1 hrs in a day in order to complete everything required, and yet still manage acute care & charting
(We have all wished for more hours in a day. But Family Doctors actually need more hours in the day to even complete do their job)
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(We have all wished for more hours in a day. But Family Doctors actually need more hours in the day to even complete do their job)
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What in the fresh hell is this new bullsh*t from @ABDanielleSmith ?!
Let's break this CTV news quote down
"NPs are trained almost to the level of Family Doctors"
Stop.
No they are not.
Any NP would confirm this as well. NPs are NOT the same as Family Doctors
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Let's break this CTV news quote down
"NPs are trained almost to the level of Family Doctors"
Stop.
No they are not.
Any NP would confirm this as well. NPs are NOT the same as Family Doctors
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Any NP who respects their own profession would also say they have absolutely zero interest in trying to replace us either.
Family Doctors are SPECIALISTS in preventative medicine. We must complete an undergrad degree, spend 3-4 yrs in med school and then 2 yrs residency
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Family Doctors are SPECIALISTS in preventative medicine. We must complete an undergrad degree, spend 3-4 yrs in med school and then 2 yrs residency
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We can't work in teams because we can't afford to hire NPs to work alongside us. And the @Alberta_UCP has been actively working against that model of care because it would mean paying and MD and an NP simultaneously. They want the cheapest route. They only want to pay the NP
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1/🧵 debunking @Alberta_UCP's claim that @albertaNDP net-zero grid by 2035 plan will cost $87 billion and "you're going to pay for it!"
AESO: net-zero is an investment opportunity. Interview w/AESO VP markets Miranda Keating-Erickson.
#AlbertaElection2023
AESO: net-zero is an investment opportunity. Interview w/AESO VP markets Miranda Keating-Erickson.
#AlbertaElection2023
2/We were discussing a 2022 AESO study that was based upon AESO's 2021 20-year load forecast.
*Cost of between $44 billion and $52 billion depending on one of three scenarios
*Cost of between $44 billion and $52 billion depending on one of three scenarios
3/*"almost 90% of that comes from the supply side of the equation, so that is the turnover in actual production of electricity, which is all PRIVATE INVESTMENTS."
