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7 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
In Fort McMurray, healthcare workers have been treating patients brought in from all over the Alberta Health Services North Zone. Workers are burnt out, stressed beyond belief and struggling to keep up with a continual rush of patients.

#ableg #fortmac
I know there’s some help from Newfoundland coming to Fort McMurray this weekend and they are most welcome. These workers will help no doubt, but let’s be clear that Fort McMurray has opened more ICU beds than ever before.
Alberta’s NDP Opposition has proposed direct payments to working nurses and those who would come out of retirement to help staff hospitals, as well as an intense door-to-door vaccination program in partnership with community groups.
Our healthcare system has never seen such strain. Our ICUs have never been more full. This crisis requires real action.

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8 Oct
NDP Finance Critic @SPhillipsAB issued the following statement regarding the release of September’s job numbers by Stats Canada:

"While September’s job figures are encouraging news, there are still serious concerns about the health of Alberta’s job market and economy.

#ableg
“The UCP government’s failure to prepare for the fourth wave of the pandemic is hurting business and consumer confidence, as Calgary faces the second lowest business activity in the country, according to Statistics Canada.

#ableg
“Alberta’s unemployment rate remains significantly higher than the national average and is the highest outside of the Atlantic provinces.

#ableg
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30 Sep
I want to answer a question that Jason Kenney clearly didn’t understand this week.

And that question is: What do you say to the frontline healthcare workers heading to work today?
1/7 #ableg #abhealth
My message to these workers is that I am incredibly grateful for the immense sacrifices you have made and are still making … and I know the overwhelming majority of Albertans are grateful as well.

I hear you when you say you are in crisis. 2/7 #ableg #abhealth
Just as you have shown up for us, it is our job to show up for you, and do everything we can to help.

I know that you have worked incredibly hard for more than a year and half of this pandemic. 3/7 #ableg #abhealth
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21 Sep
While news of Tyler Shandro's removal as Minister of Health is welcome, it is not a solution to the urgent challenges before us. 1/4 #ableg #abhealth

cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
Alberta is facing a crisis in our hospitals but the UCP can’t see beyond the chaotic spectacle of their own infighting. 2/5 #ableg #abhealth
It is clear that the responsibility for Alberta’s pandemic mismanagement rests on the shoulders of every UCP member and therefore it is incumbent on them all to take responsibility and chart a more effective path on behalf of Albertans. 3/5 #ableg #abhealth
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19 Sep
The COVID-19 public health emergency has forced the postponement of the Global Energy Show in Calgary.

The event was to draw 30,000 visitors from all over the world and serve as a major draw to attract international investment to our industry. 1/5 #ableg #yyc
If Jason Kenney and the UCP had been more prudent in their reopening decisions and acted sooner to address the surging fourth wave of COVID-19 the event may have been able to go ahead. 2/5 #ableg #yyc
Instead, workers, businesses, and our global reputation have been harmed by the negligence of a government that went into hiding. 3/5 #ableg #yyc
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16 Sep
First, my deepest condolences to the loved ones of the 24 Albertans who died of COVID over the past day. This appalling death toll and the human suffering of those infected and those denied critical healthcare was preventable. 1/14 #ableg #abhealth
This is a crisis of the Premier’s own making. Neither he nor Dr. Hinshaw explained why they have failed to act for weeks when it was obvious something had to be done. 2/14 #ableg #abhealth
And while in one short breath Jason Kenney offered an apology, in many others, he made even more excuses, he talked up his own record... 3/14 #ableg #abhealth
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15 Sep
We lost 72 Albertans in the past week alone.

That is a hard truth to confront.

Besides those in the greatest danger, there are hundreds upon hundreds more in the hospital. 1/5 #ableg #abhealth
And there are still hundreds more Albertans whose life-saving surgeries have been cancelled because our hospitals are overrun.

The frontline heroes who work in those hospitals are sounding the alarm that the healthcare system as a whole is nearing collapse. 2/5 #ableg
And outside our hospitals extremists and conspiracy theorists are harassing healthcare workers and people seeking medical attention.

I have never seen a crisis on this scale in Alberta in my career, or in my entire life. 3/5 #ableg #abhealth
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