5. The Red Deer Regional Hospital began diverting all new patients in need of urgent and emergency surgeries — with the exception of the most “life-threatening situations” to Calgary & Edmonton this week.
The hospital overwhelmed by surging demand from Covid.
6. Minutes after Kenney’s ally Erin O’Toole was outed as COac party leader, UCP leadership candidate Brian Jean called for Kenney to be voted out in April
7. Drew Barnes asp weighed in saying there is “no daylight between O’Toole’s failure and Kenney’s failure”
8. Five environmental organizations followed through on a threat to sue Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and the UCP government for defamation in relation to several disproven comments he made since 2019!
12. UCP MLA’s Shane Getson & Dan Williams also fully supported and participated in actions that blocked ambulances, supply chain vehicles, and essential workers.
Getson, himself is alleged to have helped block a major bridge in Edmonton with his dump truck
14. During a BRUTAL press conference Tuesday, Kenney said they he was looking to reduce restrictions “by the end of February”, despite record hospitalizations!
15. Tuesday night, rogue UCP MLA’s met and DEMANDED Kenney reduce restrictions ASAP.
16. Seemingly without Kenney’s consent, the UCP Caucus Chair released a statement!
Critics suggested it looks like UCP MLAs believe they have the authority to negotiate an entire province’s public health approach with a group of people engaged in illegal activity
2. Physicians sounded the alarm on the potential backlog of surgeries caused by Kenney continuing to do nothing about covid. This will force surgical staff to be redeployed
Kenney’s mismanagement of Delta already resulted in postponing 81,000 surgeries
1. This week started with @bedhuntersab) releasing a memo showing due to a critical staff shortage, Cold Lake’s 14,000 residents would largely have no ER doctors on site.
2. We also saw 550 times EMS services were delayed, dropped, or unavailable across Alberta!
2. After Kenney slashed BILLIONS from Alberta’s post secondary institutions, despite increased workloads, Concordia University faculty was forced to strike affecting ~2,500 students
The UofA,UofL & Mount Royal University are also headed in the same direction
1. 2-hours after Kenney told Albertans how serious Omicron is and to avoid gathering, 200+ UCP Members and MLAs secretly held a private party in #YEG!🍺
2. Because of online backlash, a huge UCP Party in #YYC the next day was cancelled 😞