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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 🦋
Dec 16 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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.
Oct 27 • 17 tweets • 8 min read
🧵Unboxing videos of $80m boondoggle by Danielle Smith + MHCare Medical to [incompetently] import children's acetaminophen from Atabay in Turkey.

Excuse the shaky hand - I don't have a tripod and missed lunch to get ahead of much-anticipated @TheBreakdownAB tonight. @TheBreakdownAB Here's the link to the Blue Cross warning from the first video.

I guess me trying to hold a cellphone while doing this is like a parent trying to hold a sick child trying to figure out the package and instructions.

ab.bluecross.ca/pdfs/pharmacy-…
Oct 25 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
LaGrange: "fairly encouraging that we will have similar numbers to last year"

What?! Last year had the worst flu shot uptake in 10 years. @JenLeeCBC interviewed multiple experts who said this was a problem.

LaGrange keeps benchmarking us to the worst.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ca… x.com/TheBreakdownAB… @JenLeeCBC If LaGrange wants to compare to last year's stats, we had by far worst:
• hospital admissions
• ICU admissions
• deaths
• since before pandemic.

No physician clinics this year either.

This year could be worse.

@drDavidKeegan @PfParks @shoffmanAB

alberta.ca/stats/dashboar…Table of Total hospital admissions, ICU admissions and deaths among laboratory-confirmed seasonal influenza cases in Alberta, 2020-2021 to 2023-2024
Table of Influenza vaccine doses administered and coverage by season and provider
Oct 1 • 21 tweets • 8 min read
I believe Danielle Smith + UCP erred when they changed Conflict of Interest Act to allow gifts of unlimited value – without changing underlying ethical requirement. I'm encouraging Opposition to complain to Ethics Commissioner about this.

@MLAIrfanSabir @KathleenGanley @nenshi IMO, the error by Smith and the UCP makes all the luxury suite Oilers playoff tickets they smugly accepted, and similar gifts, a breach of the Conflict of Interest Act.

Even after the December 2023 amendment.

@DuaneBratt @TheBreakdownAB @LukaszukAB @JLisaYoung
May 28, 2023 • 18 tweets • 12 min read
But the City doesn't tell you the $17m/yr is a mortgage payment, of which only the interest portion is operating revenue.

The City lies to you these are all Lease Payments.

On this mortgage, at best the City is getting a breakeven. The City is showing no Interest Income on it. Table 1: Summary of the Fin...Screenshot of excerpt from ... Let's pretend this is a lease:
• payments starting at $17m/yr
• rising at ridiculously low 1%/yr
• as if CSEC is an affordable housing client needing a rent cap.

CSEC gets ALL the revenues of $1.2b of taxpayer dollars, custom-built, for only $17m/yr.

calgary.ca/major-projects… Map of Event Centre Block, ...Portion of City of Calgary ...Portion of City of Calgary ...
May 26, 2023 • 17 tweets • 16 min read
🧵 Stampede Park Arena aka "future Culture & Entertainment District Event Centre"

City of Calgary's presentation of the financials is deceptive:
• overstating direct benefits to City
• overstating CSEC investment
• understating City investment
• especially from Reserves Citizens of Calgary do not get a referendum on the deal. In fact, "public consultation" was limited to an announcement on 25 April 2023, releasing this deceptive report.

Our "Referendum" is the Provincial Election Monday 29 May, and its advance voting.

calgary.ca/content/dam/ww…
Dec 30, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
@JorgeDe83010797 Hi. The other night we chatted briefly about locomotive axle bearings on @MriyaReport and I decided to get up to speed on it a bit. If you want to chat about this on the Spaces, let me know. I can cover generally while you dive deeper.

@JorgeDe83010797 @MriyaReport This video goes deeper into the assemblies. I gathered from the Spaces that Russia does not make the bearings themselves, but was curious about their domestic capability for fabrication and maintenance of all parts of the axle box, or even the bogeys.

Dec 29, 2022 • 82 tweets • 94 min read
🧵Alberta Health Services (AHS)
Questionable Mask & Respirator Procurement & Selection

💵- Procedural Mask: Orpyx ASTM F2100 L1 or L3
😣- Fit-Tested N95: 3M Cup 8210/8110s
😱- What's the Point KN95: BYD Earloop DG3101

/1 Personal Protective Equipme...Box of 50 Orpyx ASTM Level ...Image of single 3m 8210 Cup...Box of 20 BYD KN95 Masks (w... AHS Questionable Decisions around PPE go far beyond the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) notorious resistance to #COVIDIsAirborne.

IMO there are Contracting, Procurement & Supply Management (CPSM) and Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) issues as well.

/2
Dec 7, 2022 • 109 tweets • 90 min read
Interim Premier Smith & Health Minister Copping announced today they had "secured a large supply of children's pain relief medication."

Here's why I think this is not just a distraction, but also another GoA sole-source boondoggle to yield zero product.

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."

ie. the Turkish drug fabrication plant is not licensed. Neither an easy nor quick process to do. +

canada.ca/en/health-cana…
Nov 14, 2022 • 13 tweets • 15 min read
🧵 Gov of Alberta's Backdoor Prohibition
on School Mask Mandates

IMO, this is the policy holding back EPSB and other school boards in mandating masks in any school, for any period of time, no matter how bad the outbreak.

@OrlaghOKelly1 @UbakaOgbogu

albertahealthservices.ca/assets/healthi… Alberta Health Services Provincial Population and Public HeaTable of contents for this 6-page PDF linked in my tweet"Introduction School superintendents/designates are reOutbreak Measures When CEIR is notified as per the Reporting I offer this to the legal analysts as it may be GoA's collateral attack on Justice Dunlop's Decision in CM v Alberta.

My lay understanding of "Collateral Attack". Rather than appealing the decision, or complying with it, GoA undermined it.

@tim4hire

dentons.com/-/media/pdfs/i…
Nov 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 9 min read
SUPERB thread @Jantafrench on Massive Outbreaks of Illness in Alberta Schools:
• Crisis in Edmonton Public
• Gov Coverup
• Calgary worsening
• Education Minister Nonchalance/Negligence? (2 tweets)
• Board Meeting on Zoom Tuesday
• Warnings from Ontario (4)

#BringBackMasks @Jantafrench @FurnessColin @TehseenLadha @gilmcgowan @shar_ondipity @jvipondmd @OrlaghOKelly1 @BarryHunt008 @amandalhu @PopAlberta @SOSAlberta @TheBreakdownAB @CAAerosolCltn @dewigmore @DFisman @apmalong @dupuisj @kristalixy @sameo416 @LeylaDAsadi @docjon55 @GosiaGasperoPhD @RajBhardwajMD
Oct 11, 2022 • 85 tweets • 117 min read
Thread regarding Danielle Smith's @gofundme Fundraiser and her oath of office for Premier tomorrow.

I have questions & concerns.

gofundme.com/f/right-to-try… @gofundme The image for Smith's fundraiser started Sun 19 Sep 2021 is about first of two stated objectives:

"ask the court to force the government to make the J&J Janssen vaccine available to Canadians."

This objective appears bogus + dangerous. Here's why.

covid-vaccine.canada.ca/jcovden/produc… Top of Smith's GoFundMe sho...Health Canada's regulatory ...