Happy Sunday. For those looking for the full 17-page Statement of Claim from fired AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos' lawsuit against AHS & AB Health, this CityNews story allows free download without scribd account.
There are parts of the S/C on topics about which my tweets get widespread attention –
especially the overpriced, late and dangerously substandard kids meds that GoA wants you to think came directly from Atabay –
but in reality came through markup middleman MHCare Medical.
On my own initiative, I'll be cautious, at least until Statement of Defence is filed, because I don't want to unintentionally rebut in advance a stupid defence that GoA/AB Health/AHS might rely on.
No idea whether GoA will use $$$ external counsel, as they did in CM v Alberta.
AFAIK, I have never had any contact with Ms Mentzelopoulos (and keep spelling her name wrong) or the law firm and lawyers representing her.
I am not an insider to GoA/ABHealth/AHS or MHCare Medical. I am not a competing supplier. I have no conflict of interest.
Some of the facts listed in Ms Mentzelopoulos S/C overlap with content in my twitter threads which were accused of being defamatory in Mraiche's S/C against Nate Pike and @TheBreakdownAB (but not me 😓)
In my opinion, based on all the defences in Grant v Torstar, GoA/AB Health/AHS are not dealing properly at arms-length with MHCare Medical.
It seems more like a joint venture extracting as much pubic funds (taxpayer $) for itself. See messy pencil/paper "true org chart" IMO.
@threadreaderapp unroll 🧵
(Ms Mentzelopoulos lawsuit against GoA/AB Health/AHS and IMO the "true org chart" of what appears to be informal joint venture with MHCare Medical to maximize extraction of public dollars.)
@threadreaderapp @TheBreakdownAB @PfParks @JMeddings @CarrieTait @DuaneBratt Sorry - I made the worst typo above. I meant "public funds", not the typo or autocorrect of what is there.
(Groan, now I will have more of those bots "liking" my tweets whenever they crawl this website).
@SweetieCanuck @TheBreakdownAB @PfParks @JMeddings I'm sure if a certain Justice Minister still had the job, he would call EPS Chief of Police right away on his personal cellphone and complain about it.
Another might go to RCMP Commissioner's house and scream at him in front of his kids.
Lots of possibilities with these folks.
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The VP who oversees the restaurant was not on, but I left my business card.
My @Hyatt loyalty card, which shows zero as it has not updated for my purchases since February, when my car died, and I found walking there convenient. High prices, but matching food & service (!)
@Hyatt Now, I don’t care about my points, as I will never visit @HyattCalgary again, for any reason.
I won’t spend much time with the VP if he or she calls me. This is their problem to solve, not mine. I’ll get nothing from it either way - I’m gone.
Dear @CalgaryPolice and other smart people. I'm looking for 2 things:
• video of press conference and written response by Chief @neufeld_mark to Dreeshen's stupid announcement early Dec 2024
• GoA policy & evidence to get sites approved for photo radar
@CalgaryPolice @neufeld_mark I didn't know until now of this formal 12-month pilot while looking for more information related to my witnessing a cop nearly killed on Centre Street @ Samis Road on Sat night by a speeder who pulled over, then zoomed away.
@CalgaryPolice @neufeld_mark @reportrix @MBellefontaine I always knew Dreeshen's announcement, served in a "No Cash Cow" BBQ apron with Beef on a Bun for reporters, was colossally stupid.
I learned it kicked in on 1 April.
Will talk on record about my direct personal experience from this Saturday night.
🧵I live dangerously. Last night I was on the Red Line headed north from Somerset, shortly after the après-Flames crowd had thinned.
I threw on my respirator as I boarded (measles is transmitted by aerosol, as are COVID and influenza and RSV, etc)
You know where this goes…
A fellow train rider already seated 1 m away to my left took issue with it, even though (I swear) I did not offer him a respirator to wear.
So, even if I were to believe Droplet nonsense, we were within each other’s 2 m ABSOLUTELY SAFE SOCIAL DISTANCING MINIMUM.
Chatty fellow.
He asked me if I was aware “that f-ing thing did nothing for me.”
As I had not reviewed the gentleman’s curriculum vitae before our impromptu debate, I chose to nod, in submission to his likely superior IPAC gravitas.
🧵Respected Alberta political scientist @DuaneBratt posted in the friendlier place this same-day review of Health Min LaGrange's Statement of Defence in wrongful termination lawsuit from fired AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos.
@DuaneBratt AB Justice Minister posted a link to the Statement of Defence from the Dropbox of a Heather Jenkins, who appears to be the Ministry's Press Secretary.
@DuaneBratt GoA is again using external counsel rather than (excellent) in-house lawyers, just as they did in CM v Alberta in 2022, when LaGrange was Minister of Education.
Taxpayers paid for their representation + Justice Dunlop's penalty to pay Plaintiff's Costs.
I've tagged my MLA Kathleen Ganley on this, as she is a lawyer and former Justice Minister. I am neither, so I would appreciate her review of this, with advisors at @albertaNDP as required.
It is baffling to me, but as a layperson I looked deeper...
You're apparently renovating the bathroom above my friend's high-rise condo suite in NW Calgary, and here's what you (?) have done to her ceiling. Your "installer" apparently ran down to say he would "clean it up".