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8 Mar, 5 tweets, 5 min read
Very proud to be part of this amazing group of women. #InternationalWomensDay @ISGSenate #SenCA
Not all are active on Twitter, but some have great accounts to follow - including @KPateontheHill, @ratnaomi, @CPetitclerc @mivillej @DonnaDasko @SenMarilou @SenJaffer @SenatorBoyer @SenMartyDeacon - and who did I miss? With a list, I fear I always miss someone! @ISGSenate
Oh! Of course! I missed @SenRosaGalvez, @SenCoyle @SenatorHartling! @ISGSenate
And @lankin_f (Who else?) @ISGSenate
But whether they’re on Twitter or not, the fierce smart women of our @ISGSenate team are a great source of inspiration and encouragement. Happy #InternationalWomensDay to them - and to everyone.

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A lot of people have asked why I haven't spoken out more publicly about the plight of the beautiful & historic Ring Houses on the University of Alberta campus. After all, as a newspaper columnist, I was a very public advocate of heritage preservation. But now - I'm a senator.
And that's a differnt role. As a columnist, it was my job to be a frank and outspoken catalyst for community debate. And I raised a stink about all kinds of heritage buildings that I fought to save. Some stories had happy endings. No column of mine saved a building. But...
Often times, conversations I provoked inspired others to step in. When I travel #yeg and see buildings such as the old Molson Brewery, or the old Bay Building (Enterprise Square) or the old McDougall United Church, I rejoice to see the splendid buildings we came together to save.
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I first saw @KimsConvenience on stage at Edmonton's @citadeltheatre. It was a sweet little show, but I didn't fall head over heels. I remember saying to my husband as we left, "You know, that could be the basis of a pretty good sitcom."
Thank goodness smarter people that me thought so too - and turned a stage play into some of the greatest Canadian television. Don't get me wrong. I love @SchittsCreek too. But I loved the way Kim's Convenience was grounded in the Toronto that I knew.
Maybe it idealized Canadian multiculturalism. But I was OK with that. I loved its full-throated celebration of multiculturalism. I only lived into Toronto for a couple of years, in the mid 90s. But the show made me nostalgic for the polyglot energy of the city.
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When a rather small and motley group of angry, frightened Albertans decides to march on the #ableg, carrying and wearing symbols of Trumpist racism, how should we react? Especially if what they are really seeking is attention and martyrdom?
Rather than giving oxygen to a tiny rump of misguided would-be martyrs, rather than letting them define Alberta, this morning I want to turn the conversation to how we shape, sustain and celebrate the courageous, welcoming multicultural Alberta the rest of us know & love.
Listen to the words of Indigenous Grande Prairie physician @AlikaMD, as he talks about ways to reach out to Albertans who reject masks & vaccines & discusses ways to build trust and community. senatorpaulasimons.podbean.com/e/s2-episode-1…
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Some context, perhaps. About 10 years ago, maybe longer, folks noticed that @edmontonjournal reporter @keithgerein made a habit of wearing purple shirts on Thursday. And thus, with affectionate humour, we all began wearing purple on Thursday.
It was our newsroom inside joke. The purple didn’t stand for any cause. It wasn’t a political statement. It was a way of gently teasing and honouring Keith, and of showing newsroom solidarity in stressful testing times.
It went on for years. And as people were laid off, or left for other gigs, some of us went on wearing purple on Thursdays as a memory of our time in the newsroom together. (Watch any time I speak in the Senate on a Thursday. I’m almost always wearing purple.)
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Elaine McCoy was an icon of Alberta politics. She followed in the footsteps of Peter Lougheed, succeeding him as MLA for Calgary West. She was a cabinet minister in Don Getty’s government, handling some tricky portfolios in a time of transition.
When I first started work as a journalist, she cut a stylish swarth through Alberta political culture. She was beautiful, elegant, always fashionably groomed. She brought glamour and charisma to the Getty government, when neither was in abundant supply.
When Don Getty stepped down, Elaine McCoy ran for the Tory leadership. It’s intriguing to think that in an alternate timeline, she, instead of Ralph Klein, might have become premier. But that was not to be.
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A dear friend of mine was scheduled to have a significant surgery next week. A surgery so important and time sensitive, that it was set to go ahead, in spite of all the Covid restrictions and despite a Covid outbreak at the Alberta hospital where the operation was booked. But...
The surgery has just been cancelled. (I’d say postponed - but until when?) This is the hidden cost of letting Covid spread unchecked in Alberta. We may never know how many people’s suffering will be extended, cruelly, because hospitals were too overwhelmed to care for them.
And we’ll likely never know whose health might be permanently compromised because they couldn’t get essential treatment in a timely fashion. This isn’t just about those suffering from Covid. It’s about the swamping of our hospital system.
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