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HELLO Alberta! #ableg The UCP government is planning to PRIVATIZE lab services. This is part of our health care system. The first step, I expect, in privatizing all of it. Why is no one talking about this??? @CBCCalgary @CBCEdmonton THIS IS NEWS!!!! People care about health care.
Why is this news, you may ask... Well, it means that every time your doctor send you for a screening test - blood, urine, mammogram, colonoscopy, or for a diagnostic test - X-ray, ultrasound, MRI, CT-scan, etc., YOU will be paying directly for it.
Or perhaps you will be paying higher insurance premiums so they can pay for it on your behalf. In the US, insurers have a reputation for questioning and not covering some tests. The more tests you have, the more your premiums go up. Whether insurance covers them or not...
Because the record of you having the tests suggests a potential risk. This is the erosion of our Universal Health Care. This will adversely affect the availability and quality of care the most vulnerable in our province can access. It will increase health care costs for everyone.
I am calling on our Federal Government, @JustinTrudeau , to protect and enforce our Canada Health Act. Premiers like Kenney will push this as far as he can, all the way to full privatization, if he isn't stopped.
Protecting our universal health care is one of the principle responsibilities of the Federal Government of Canada. Educating the public about issues like this is one of the principle responsibilities of our national broadcaster. @JustinTrudeau @CBCNews
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School districts may have to cut hundreds of teaching jobs in wake of provincial budget calgaryherald.com/news/local-new…
BTW, Teachers do not earn $100,000 a year. Not many of them, anyway. Schools allocate $100,000 per teacher hired but many hire new teachers at ~ $50K and use the rest to run the school.
The UCP is short-changing Alberta's children. Next time they whinge about "Oh! we can't leave a debt to future generations!" point out that future generations will be poorly educated and that is worse.
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Jason Kenney and the UCP are using the argument that Alberta is paying more for things like healthcare and education than other provinces. They say salaries are too high here in comparison. #AbLeg #cdnpoli 1/5
They don't want people to realise that the cost of living is also higher in Alberta than in other provinces. For teachers and nurses and so on to have the same standard of living as their counterparts in other provinces, they must make more money. 2/5
You can't make an equivalency between the cost of living in AB and MB, for example, and then say Alberta teachers should be paid what MB teachers are paid. There would be a lot of Albertan teachers who could no longer afford their homes. 3/5
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This should be major news. How can one reconcile shutting down ways for people to lower their carbon footprint in the face of a climate emergency with any notion of good governance? 1/4 #AbLeg
This is not "cutting down the deficit". This is cutting down on competition for the oil and gas sector. This is a slap in the face of Albertans who do care about the environment and want to do their part. 2/4
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Janet French
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Jason Kenney just listed the planks of the UCP's education platform in Calgary. Highlight: UCP would replace the School Act with the unproclaimed Education Act. #ableg #abed
It would erase the gay-straight alliance and LGBTQ protection changes in Bill 24 qp.alberta.ca/documents/Acts…
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I remember how he sometimes struggled to champion decency and civility in the legislature. I remember when I was covering the #ableg during the Bill 44 debate, and how he agonized between loyalty to the party line and pushing for greater acceptance of LGBQT rights.
He could be generous and responsive to a fault. When he was minister of health, I remember being at an event, where people buttonholed him with their frustrations with the health care system. He gave his phone number to everyone & pledged to investigate their cases individually.
But I think the role in the #ableg he enjoyed most wasn't as a cabinet minister, but as a speaker, where his talents as a teacher and master of ceremonies really shone. (And TBH, I think the ham & performer in him loved the pomp & circumstance, too.) #ableg
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Just regular folks. Dude on the left. See Q Anon sign. I invite you to google that one if you don’t already know. Fine people these yellow vest protesters. Endorsed by a UCP MLA don’t you know. #ableg
Let's check the yellow vest Facebook site. What do we have there? #Ableg
And another one from the yellow vest Facebook site. @DrewBarnesMLA are you really sure that you should be endorsing this movement? #Ableg
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February 1990: Jason Kenney attempts to silence pro-choice activists at the University of San Francisco. (2/43) #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
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[Thread] With Canada's Conservatives going into a full court press in Alberta, I think it's worth taking a look at what we might expect from a Kenney-led government. #ableg #abpoli /1
The first point to bear in mind here is the fact that we are seeing the same tactics being played out at all levels of government where conservatives are running. /2
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