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Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇨🇦🇺🇦 Profile picture
Ziad 😷 Fazel 🇨🇦🇺🇦
@ZiadFazel
Dad, Engineer, #STEM guide. 🇨🇦🏈 #ZeroCovid #CovidIsAirborne Wear Respirators, not Masks. Opinions are mine alone. Also ziadfazel at 🦋
Feb 17 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
With the sad news last night that all of @TheBreakdownAB YouTube content would be taken down Tuesday night, I had a look at my favourite guest appearances on the show.

See 'em before they're gone if you're interested.

🧵 On 1 Jan 2023, I covered GoA's questionable procurement of masks & respirators since 2020.

I didn't just comment on MHCare Medical's products, but also Orpyx, Shanghai Dasheng, @CAPPEM2 and 3M, and many of my comments are quite positive.

Feb 16 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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.

@TheBreakdownAB @PfParks @JMeddings

edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/02/13/nen… 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.
Feb 13 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
Personal safety was/is a concern for me too, since 2020, because I was proving the Vanch masks did not even meet ASTM Level 1 standard that AHS claimed they did, for over $200m of PPE from Mraiche Holding Corporation.

Bravo @kim_siever @TheBreakdownAB

albertaworker.ca/news/what-you-… x.com/AndieYEG/statu… @kim_siever @TheBreakdownAB Confirmed something awful in @TheBreakdownAB peek today at AHS FOIP response.

4 Jan 2022: the dangerous BYD Kids masks were bought from MHCare Medical.

As Education Min, LaGrange ordered them given TO OUR KIDS.

So of course I watch my personal safety.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1485004…Screenshot shared by Nate today, of a list of AHS purchases from MHCare Medical, where I have highlighted the 4 Jan 2022 purchase of 1000 cases x 2000 masks each.
Feb 12 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Yesterday, Ministers Fir & Turton trotted out GoA's canned talking points on AB Health/AHS procurement scandal to media and public for the first time, and I wanted to point out certain problems with it.

Bravo @alanna_smithh @CheSkulskiCTV & unnamed male.

youtube.com/live/8kqvTwktG… Turton laughably praised Smith for her "decisive leadership" in asking the Auditor General for "an expedited review".

In her 6 Feb tweet, Smith said "I will be writing Auditor General Doug Wylie to ask for an expedited review".

So, where's that letter?

Feb 11 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
As someone who successfully went to Auditor General + Alberta Securities Commission about Alberta Research Council wrongdoing ~20 years ago, I wanted to share some tips based on what I read in Premier Smith's letter on 8 Feb 2025.

🧵

Body of tweet whose link I pasted in my tweet. "To that end, I will be writing Auditor General Doug Wylie to ask for an expedited review and his findings on this issue."

Auditor General said 2 days prior he had already commenced the "examination", not review.

Deep dives & thread pulls, not "review".

oag.ab.ca/statement-from…
Feb 1 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Great to see @orlaghokelly driving another public interest lawsuit to help children with disabilities deprived of education by GoA.

She and @Sharonadactyl taught GoA a lesson in CM v Alberta, and were awarded over $100K in costs.
@Lorian_H @UbakaOgbogu

canlii.org/en/ab/abkb/doc… x.com/thebreakdownab… Oops. I mistakenly left out @gilmcgowan and @ABFedLabour for not only providing funding, but for getting court approval to act as a party (plaintiff) in case the children became too sick to continue.

There are a lot of reasons to like Gil, but that one is special for me.
Jan 2 • 66 tweets • 23 min read
Just before Christmas, I was asked by a friend still traumatized by her harasser to help her report to the police, who recommended she get a Civil Restraining Order without Notice.

AB Justice website providing advice for this is flawed. Here's what to do until it is fixed.

🧵 The @CalgaryPolice recommend this website, which AFAIK is OK for the majority of situations they attend: Restraining Order in Family Law situations.

But for the "Civil Restraining Order", aka Restraining Order from Civil Court, it is deeply flawed.

alberta.ca/get-a-restrain…"How to file a Restraining Order (Without Notice) Step 1. Fill out the forms Fill out the correct form based on your situation: • if your situation involves family members, a relationship where you lived together or a Family Law situation, fill out the Application for a Restraining Order Without Notice in a Family Law Situation • if you are in a situation that does not involve family law, such as neighbours or coworkers, fill out the Restraining Order Without Notice You don’t have to use your own address and phone number if you think it will put you in danger. You can use a friend’...
Dec 24, 2024 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
It appears the Plaintiffs have listed two of my tweets in their Statement of Claim as "Twitter Defamatory Words".

1(e) and (j).

I deny that my words were defamatory, false or malicious.

🧵 Seeing my tweets listed in that defamation lawsuit is a complete surprise.

To the best of my knowledge, I have never received any response from the Plaintiffs or their agents to any of my tweets or words.

No reply, no request or demand for correction, retraction or apology.
Dec 23, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
In Alberta, babies under 1 year old are getting clobbered by Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), and it is overloading our children's hospitals:
• Hospitalized at 36x the rate of average Albertan
• Hospital & ICU at 3x rate of COVID in babies under 1

alberta.ca/stats/dashboar…Line graph and table of Total hospital admissions, ICU admissions, and deaths among laboratory-confirmed RSV cases in Alberta by age group, 2024-2025
Line Graph and Table of Total hospital admissions, ICU admissions, and deaths among laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases in Alberta by age group, 2024-2025 Typical LaGrange-style quote in reporting by @JenLeeCBC:

"In a statement emailed to CBC News, a spokesperson said the hospital is seeing an increase in respiratory admissions, which "aligns with seasonal trends.""

Likely untrue, despite the vagueness.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
Dec 22, 2024 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Alberta is projected to have its worst influenza vaccine coverage since 2010-2011.

9 weeks into this year's flu shot campaign, we're at 19%. Last year, we were at 23%.

This whole season's coverage projects to 22%.
• last yr 25%
• 2011/12 was 23%

alberta.ca/stats/dashboar…Line graph of cumulative weekly immunizations showing at week 50 of this year's campaign (9 weeks in) 929,380 shots administered so far, which is only 90% of last year's 1,037,278 at the same time.
Line graph of cumulative weekly immunizations showing at week 50 of this year's campaign (9 weeks in) the coverage for all ages is 18.9%
Line graph of cumulative weekly immunizations showing at week 50 of last year's campaign (9 weeks in) 1,037,278 shots administered so far
Line graph of cumulative weekly immunizations showing at week 50 of last year's campaign (9 weeks in) the coverage for all ages was 22.7%. Seniors 65+, at week 50, 9 weeks into the campaign:
• This year, only 49.2% coverage.
• Last year, 59.4% coverage.

LaGrange's arrogant, deceptive decision to cut off community medical clinics obviously figures largely in this drop.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…2024 vaccine coverage for certain ages at week 50, showing only 49.2% for age 65+
2023 vaccine coverage for certain ages at week 50, showing 59.4% for age 65+
Dec 18, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
3-min video posted 31 Oct 2024 by Liricom & Plenary shows what they expect provincial taxpayers to build + operate for them between airport & "Grand Central Station".

For free.
/h @project_calgary

@DruhFarrell @TheBreakdownAB @CWalcottYYC @jasmine_mian

Before I get into pros and cons, let me just help you figure out their bizarre colours:
🟧 for Calgary Airport Downtown Express track that is at grade or in the 80th Ave tunnel
🟦 Teal (close enough) for stations
🟨 for track that is elevated from Bow River near zoo to Crowchild
Dec 16, 2024 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
When UCP claims their elevated track & station #GreenlineYYC design through Beltline into Downtown is better than tunnels, but🚩won't release a single rendering, others will.

😱

Visit @yycbeltline web page, where each image is labelled. You barely recognize the streets after. @yycbeltline Beltline Neighbourhoods Association tries to recreate Dreeshen's claim that only one "non-driving lane" on 10 Av would be affected (after multi-year construction probably closes the whole street) by rendering only a single column for the track and two columns for station.
Dec 13, 2024 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Confirmation GoA's plan for Green Line into downtown is terrible:
• no press conf
• nowhere in press release do they state where it crosses the rail tracks, or meets 7 Ave
• only 1 high level map - no renderings or closeup on downtown
• no AECOM quote

alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…Screenshot of bottom of press release where you would normally see multimedia or backgrounder. Instead, "Related Information" only has "map of proposed downtown elevated route".
1-page PDF with 2 maps on it - previous route and GoA proposal - that are so small and high level you cannot see the "map of proposed downtown elevated route" as touted in the press release link. @TheBreakdownAB @GregGinYYC @DuaneBratt @CWalcottYYC @jasmine_mian @JyotiGondek @cspotweet @AdamMacVicar @LiveWireCalgary @GreenLineYYC Rick Bell's "exclusive" claims the crossing into downtown is at 2nd Street SW, but I refuse to link to that propaganda. @LiveWireCalgary has always provided excellent, deep journalism on #GreenLine and they confirms the crossing AND the cheap blindside.

livewirecalgary.com/2024/12/13/pro… LWC has asked for a copy of the report done by AECOM for further review. A response has not yet been provided. Calgary city council has also not seen the details, according to several councillors. City admin had apparently not seen the AECOM report before the province released details. “We have not received the AECOM report before (Minister) Dreeshan ran to (Postmedia columnist) Rick Bell,” wrote Ward 8 Coun. Courtney Walcott via text. In an official statement, the City of Calgary said that until council had the opportunity to review the report, including alignment and costing, they coul...
Dec 6, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
With PFC film members leaving Xitter, in last week's PFC, I promised to look into a shared calendar to potentially replace this Community.

Fiona (or anyone else we decide) can create a Google Calendar just for PFC, and share it with specific people.

🧵

support.google.com/calendar/answe…"Share a calendar with specific people" section from link. My concern about privacy, like everyone's email address shared with everyone else in the group, have been resolved with the oddly-named "See all event details" access permission, which doesn't even show the guest list.

But there are still other privacy concerns I want to check. "Control access to your calendar & individual events" table from link.
Nov 23, 2024 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Curious anomalies in Alberta stats on Health Canada's Medical Device Incidents & Serious Adverse Drug Reactions dashboard.

Superficially unremarkable, but you know I drill down. 🧵

@Jantafrench @MBellefontaine @markusoff @PattiSonntag @picardonhealth

health-infobase.canada.ca/hospital-adver…Map of Canada showing reports by jurisdiction, with Alberta 3,968 not looking too far out of line at 14% of Canada's 28,301 people.
Map of Canada showing rate of reports per 100K people, by jurisdiction, with Alberta 81.17 slightly worse than Canada's 81.17. See the ALT text in my map screenshots above.

Alberta slightly higher than Cdn average in ALL reports per 100K, but still in the pack.

But when you separate Serious Adverse Drug Reaction (Serious ADR) from Medical Device Incident (MDI), the stats get weird. Summary table of rate per 100K of all reports by province or territory, separated into ADR and MDI reports, Showing Canadian average of 69, with Alberta slightly higher at 81.
Nov 15, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
More evidence AB Health Min LaGrange never intended ANY vaccination in physician's offices continue past April 2024.

Feb 2024: she "specifically asked" Alberta Pharmacists Association if they could do it, even if beyond their current scope of practice.
@drDavidKeegan @JMeddings Screenshot of Alberta Lobbyist Registry search of "Alberta Pharmacists" showing their 9 Oct 2024 filing. Scroll to the right for the magnifying glass icon to see the report, which I cannot directly link.
Screenshot of top of "Alberta Pharmacists" 9 Oct 2024 Semi-Annual Organization Lobbyist Renewal Filing.
Screenshot from "Last 6 months" section from the filing, which reads: "Program or Policy: Alberta Public Health Vaccine Program We met with Alberta Health Public Health and Compliance Department to discuss community pharmacists participation in the administration of the influenza immunization vaccine and other public health vaccines. We met with Minister LaGrange in February, 2024 and she specifically asked if we could provide a list of potential public health vaccines that pharmacists could administer under their scope of practice but that the currently didn't have access t...
Screenshot from "Next 6 months" section from the filing, which reads: "Program or Policy: Alberta Public Health Vaccine Program We meet with Alberta Health Public Health and Compliance Department to discuss community pharmacists participation in the administration of the influenza immunization vaccine and other public health vaccinations." @drDavidKeegan @JMeddings @JenLeeCBC @TheBreakdownAB @TehseenLadha @Albertadoctors For the evidence she lobbied them, rather than the other way around, search Alberta Lobbyist Registry for "Alberta Pharmacists" to see their 9 Oct 2024 semi-annual filing.

"Previous 6 Months" + "Next 6 Months"

Kudos @ABPharmacists for the transparency.

albertalobbyistregistry.ca/apex/f?p=171:9…
Nov 11, 2024 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
ICYMI, my request Friday to Minister @AdrianaLaGrange to recoup $49.4m from MHCare Medical/Atabay boondoggle.

Sorry to openly copy AB reporters, but questions at her pressers are so restricted.
@alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @ByMatthewBlack @gthomsonink @MBellefontaine @JenLeeCBC @AdrianaLaGrange @alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @ByMatthewBlack @gthomsonink @MBellefontaine @JenLeeCBC I wasn't aware that on 10 Aug 2020, then-Education Minister Lagrange had fired a pre-emptive deceptive strike at Alberta's Ethics Commissioner Trussler about the IFR chlorine masks purchased within the previous two (2) weeks from a company in her riding.

rdnewsnow.com/2020/08/10/lag…
Nov 10, 2024 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
MHCare Medical
Supplies to Alberta Health Services 🧵

For those investigating this, especially HCW representatives like @UnitedNurses @HSAAlberta @gilmcgowan @Albertadoctors...

Health Canada's Medical Device Incident Database confirms some suspicions.

hpr-rps.hres.ca/mdi_results.ph…Screenshot of Health Canada database showing 289 results for "mhcare" There are, as expected, MANY reports like this of Vanch mask problems.

Some mistakenly filed as PRIMED, but all correctly identifying importer MHCare Medical and/or the Beifa Group Chinese exporter printed on the box.

@John1MD @RajBhardwajMD Example of many Vanch mask reports
Examples of PRIMED masks assumed, but box identifying MHCare Medical or the Beifa Group Chinese exporter on the box.
Examples of no name listed for masks, but Beifa Group and/or MHCare Medical identified
Nov 9, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Minister @AdrianaLaGrange, Atabay + MHCare Medical have not delivered $49.4 million of the $70m paid up front for children's meds.

Increasingly unlikely.

Please get that back. We need the money for healthcare. @alanna_smithh @Jantafrench @shoffmanAB
theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta…"The provincial government has said it is working with the Turkish manufacturer to “explore options” to fulfill the remainder of the contract, but has repeatedly declined to provide additional details. However, in the e-mail from Mr. Van Dyne to Ms. Williams, he said they are hoping to fulfill the remainder of the contract – equivalent to $49.4-million – through the purchase of intravenous, or IV, acetaminophen." You stated that GoA "bought the medicine with the best of intentions."

Only 13,700 of 1.5m bottles received were even distributed. AHS will NOT use them. We have 3-4 yrs of national demand in stock.

With good intentions now, please get the $49.4m back.

edmonton.citynews.ca/2024/01/10/opp…
Nov 5, 2024 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
1. Danielle Smith ordered EVERY shipment of the $80m MHCare Medical/Atabay children's acetaminophen boondoggle to be AIRLIFTED at taxpayer expense.

2. It's likely these airlifts were handled by MHCare Medical too, with their usual profiteering off the Gov of Alberta.

🧵 How do I know Item 1 above? Well, for starters, Smith told us in her opening PR stunt.

Stupid, wasteful decision. Even if you truly believed you were solving a shortage, you might airlift the first 1-2 shipments, while bringing the rest by ocean freight.

alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…"Alberta’s government and Alberta Health Services are working with Health Canada on completing the drug establishment licensing approval process. Once the approval is granted, the medication will be delivered to Alberta over 10 air shipments. As soon as the medication arrives in the province, it will be distributed to community and retail pharmacies so that parents and caregivers can purchase it for their children. Because Alberta’s government has secured so many bottles of the pain and fever medication, it is expected that Albertans will be able to find it on pharmacy shelves in the s...
Oct 30, 2024 • 55 tweets • 25 min read
When I finally got my hands on $80m Danielle Smith/MHCare Medical boondoggle children's acetaminophen, I weighed & measured it.

Thanks to glass bottle: 291 grams

250,000 bottles = 73 tons!

Smith's decision to airlift that to Alberta in Jan 2023 is case study in bad ethics.

🧵 Image @TheBreakdownAB @LukaszukAB @JMeddings @PfParks The whole boondoggle is enough to kick out a gov and bring in Auditor General.

But Smith's decision to manufacture AND airlift these 250,000 bottles – without a child safety cap (!) – shows the worst of it in one incident.

Shameless Smith made an expensive PR stunt about it.