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Dr Norlaine Thomas (She/Her) Profile picture
@Norlaine
May 25 • 5 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
The past 4 years of UCP rule, and especially the past ~8 months of Danielle Smith as premier, have been exhausting and stressful. The almost daily outragous events can't have been good for anyone's blood pressure....
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Can't we just have a nice boring government that works for the public and good things get done? Where we don't have to pay close attention all the time, braced against the next fiasco?
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We need a government we can trust to just do good things like build schools, fix up healthcare, support municipalities, create programs to combat poverty, racism, etc.

So we can all relax and get back to our lives.

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Wouldn't that be a relief? No one threatening to grab your pension or make you pay to access healthcare or coal mine in the Rockies or make Alberta more like Florida, or even just making crazy, offensive, outrageous remarks every other day...?

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We can have that. Vote NDP. Even if you normally vote conservative, lend your vote to the Alberta NDP this time. Let's stop the crazy train.
5/5

#AlbertaElection2023
#BetterOffWithRachel

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May 27
How can I explain why Danielle Smith's "public delivery" through for-profit suppliers is not a good thing?

Ok. Let's say a procedure costs $1,000. It's a nice round, easy to work with number. The procedure costs $1,000, which includes wages of doctors, nurses and other
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healthcare professionals as well as support staff. It also includes any medications, materials (like sutures), and that fraction of depreciation on equipment. And it includes general overhead like building maintenance and keeping the lights and heat and water on.
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$1,000 is what it costs. That is, as they say, "at cost". Now, this doesn't include any profit for anyone. There are no investors waiting for dividends. At cost, no profit involved, in-house. Are you still with me here?
3/15
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May 26
It's a funny thing. We now have "pundits", folks presented as having a superior understanding of politics, who comment on the day's events through the lens of their own biases, telling us what to think.
1/7 #cdnpoli #cdnpolitics
I suggest this is not at all useful to society.

What would be useful is journalists who
a) say what happened or what was said by whom
b) explain how things actually work in the Canadian system or the facts of the situation at hand
c) point out any inconsistencies in
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what was said by politicians (i.e. where they are lying to the public)

That's it.
That should be the job.
We are smart enough to figure out what to think of it ourselves.
Politicians might be much more concerned with getting their facts straight, if they knew they would
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May 20
I know that there are a bunch of Albertans who look at what Danielle Smith and the UCP want to do, even the parts they don't want to talk about, and they agree with all of it. There are Albertans who think the healthcare system should be privatized.
#AlbertaElection2023 1/21
Maybe they feel somehow that sick or injured people should have to pay to show them the error of their ways so they smarten up and don't do whatever it was again. Maybe it galls them to think that some of their tax dollars are helping someone else, maybe even
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someone they would disapprove of. Albertans secure in the knowledge that they, and those they care about, will never be in the position of being denied medical treatment because they haven't got enough money. Because those things only happen to bad people, right?
3/21
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May 18
"Food quality is down and the price is up" This was the news this morning about how privatizing AB hospital cafeterias has impacted food delivery. This is the exact and predictable effect of adding a profit motive to anything. Minimize costs and maximize revenue.
This works the same for healthcare. The profit motive means that for-profit companies will do things as cheaply as possible and charge as much as possible. They are in the business of making profit. That's what they do. And it doesn't matter if they are manufacturing tires or
replacing hips, or providing food. The profit is the point. Not traveler safety, or patient wellness, or making sure medical staff working long shifts have something good and nutritious to eat to help them get through the hours. It is all about the profit.
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Apr 20
In December 2018, the NDP Government of Alberta passed the Mental Health Services Protection Act to ensure that counsellors and people providing mental health treatment were certified. Prior to this, just anyone could take people's money and "treat" them. 1/9 #abpoli
The Association of Counselling Therapy of Alberta came into being. However, the UCP stalled the process of accrediting the professional organization, so it is still the case that anyone can claim to provide counselling services, without oversight. 2/9
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
People have puzzled over why the UCP hasn't acted to prevent charlatans from taking people for a ride while claiming to treat mental illness and addiction. And now, perhaps, we have the answer...
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Apr 20
So, Stephen Harper has issued a video statement wherein he urges Albertans to vote UCP. One must assume he is onside with the TBA agenda. He has never liked Canada, but it seems almost traitorous to urge Albertans to vote for a separatist group. As we have discovered 1/6 #abpoli
the Take Back Alberta organization is, and as we have also learned, TBA pretty much controls the UCP from the inside. The UCP is effectively run by the same people who blocked the border at Coutts and occupied Ottawa. And Harper thinks they are A-OK. This speaks volumes 2/6
about him. I always suspected he was a corporate raider, back when he was PM. His job was to break Canada up so corporate interests could swoop in and harvest whatever might be of value. Oil, lumber, minerals, water. Even the cost of healing the sick. And now, with his rabid 3/6
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