Ted Grimm was Mayor of Medicine Hat for 24 years, Alberta’s longest serving Mayor.

Ted was a passionate advocate for public utilities, owned by residents. 🧵

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Ted was instrumental in Medicine Hat, maintaining the last fully municipally run power company and it was a top-20 producer at the time of his retirement in 2001.

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Ted was known to be a smart, caring and tough elected representative. He was also known for his progressive values. He attended the founding convention of our party and worked alongside my Father advocating for our party.

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My heart goes out to Ted’s wife Ruth, their four children Lynda, Douglas, Maureen and Michelle, and their families. You are in my thoughts.

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Dec 14
Tonight, the UCP defeated my Bill 201: The Public Health Care Delivery Standards Act, which would have had a major impact in ensuring Albertans get the healthcare they need.

Let me tell you what it would have done for you. 🧵

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The Bill would have set standards for emergency room waits, ambulance response, the time it takes to see a doctor and so on. Where those times weren’t being met — where you weren’t getting the care you deserve — government would have to provide additional resources.

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The legislation has been endorsed by many in the medical community, including Dr. Trevor Theman, a former chair of the board of the Health Quality Council of Alberta, and Alberta Medical Association president-elect Paul Parks.

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Read 7 tweets
Dec 13
Earlier today, Alberta’s NDP released newly obtained data that shows there were 9,600 unfilled ambulance shifts in Calgary alone from January to October of this year.

Response times and the length of time paramedics spend in hospitals have also increased. 🧵

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This is a crisis. Emergency care isn’t reliably there for Albertans.

We need a government that will do better. That will:

➡️ Respect frontline workers and make it clear we have their backs;
➡️ Restore funding cut from healthcare by the UCP;

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➡️ Introduce a new model that will bring care closer to home in Alberta communities;
➡️ Provide improved mental health supports for paramedics;

And that’s just a start.

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Read 4 tweets
Dec 12
I hear from first responders who are exhausted and suffering — as the crisis in our hospitals backs up into emergency response. 🧵

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Firefighters are now more often the first on scene, working to stabilize patients waiting for EMS to arrive. That wait is getting longer and longer.

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I want you to know that our plan isn’t to FIRE our way to a better health care system, as the Premier is doing right now.

We are going to HIRE.

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Dec 12
A thread on how my Legislature portrait came to be. 🧵

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My political career began as an activist.

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As a child, I walked to this legislature across the High Level bridge to protest for peace alongside my mother.
And before I was elected, I came to this building to protest in favour of public healthcare and also for the rights of working people.

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Read 8 tweets
Dec 11
There are national economic challenges that require national solutions.

I’m proud to live in a country where provinces and different levels of government can come together to develop solutions. 🧵

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There would be no TransMountain pipeline expansion in a world with Sovereignty Acts. That’s tens of thousands of Alberta jobs lost.

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But it gets worse. There are very real and very serious concerns about what this horrible bill could mean for federal housing funding, for large-scale investment in transit projects and more.

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Read 7 tweets
Nov 17
Nothing from the UCP to get Albertans a family doctor, nothing to address the specific calls from frontline paramedics to reduce wait times, and nothing to get children’s medication in the hands of Alberta parents. 🧵

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The new round of chaos Danielle Smith is inflicting on health care will make the situation worse. Health care workers deserve leadership that will listen to them and support them.

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Danielle Smith has absolutely no mandate to create the chaos, cost, and conflict that today’s announcement will generate.

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