Mr. Soapbox’s timing couldn’t have been worse.
A couple of days before my husband experienced chest pains that landed him in the cardio unit at Foothills Hospital, Dr Paul Parks, an emergency physician and past president of the Alberta Medical Association, declared that the UCP government is “choosing NOT to act” in the implementation of a new funding model for family medicine (FM) specialists.
Consequently we can expect the number of family doctors closing their practices to increase. This will put even greater strain on hospitals because Albertans without doctors pitch up in emergency departments and require hospitalization which could have been avoided (or at least minimized) if they’d had access to a family doctor in the first place.
However, the fact that UCP government has chosen not to implement a new funding model for FM specialists doesn’t mean it’s been idle. Since Smith took the helm, her government has:
- Fired the AHS board because Smith said it mishandled the pandemic (actually it was the UCP government, not AHS, that developed the pandemic policies she railed against but hey, someone has to be the scapegoat, right?).
- Replaced the AHS board with Dr. John Cowell who was supposed to fix the system in 90 days (he didn’t).
- Paid $97 million to buy back the medical labs Kenney sold to DynaLIFE (turns out privatization isn’t always the best solution, fancy that!)
- Broke AHS into four silos (primary care, acute care, continuing care, and mental health & addictions) thereby increasing the chaos in an overburdened healthcare system while also increasing the bureaucracy, the red tape and cost (but hey, what’s a few million here or there when you can increase the number of plum positions to be doled out to UCP friends and supporters)
- Transferred an AHS hospital to a faith-based hospital with the promise of more to come because “competition and fear” will induce AHS hospitals to produce better results (For the record, AHS is not a private enterprise looking to increase shareholder value by selling products to consumers, it’s the implementation arm of the government that delivers healthcare to Albertans in accordance with its policies).
Dr Parks describes the government’s current plan to compensate FM specialists as a plan to pay pharmacists and nurse practitioners to do family medicine that they’re not trained to do, then to pay emergency physicians again when they send these same patients to emergency departments. He notes this won’t reduce healthcare costs, it will increase them.
So here’s the really remarkable thing. Despite the chaos, the relentless attacks on publicly funded and publicly delivered healthcare, the finger pointing and the ceaseless pressure on overworked and underpaid healthcare professionals, despite all that, Mr Soapbox says the staff at Foothills are wonderful and he’s getting excellent care.
Despite the flak Danielle Smith’s government has thrown at them, our healthcare professionals are doing their level best to keep our healthcare system afloat.
Smith boasts that Alberta is the best place on earth to live and work, but she fails to recognize that no one can live here if they’re dead or work here if they’re sick.
Mr Soapbox might come home on Monday. Others have not been so lucky.
The responsibility for Alberta’s healthcare system falls squarely on the shoulders of the UCP government. Sadly, instead of fixing healthcare, they’re making it so much worse.
Susan on the Soapbox 
Wishing a speedy recovery for MR. Soapbox and thank-you for taking time to so eloquently put into words what is going on when you are both dealing with this serious issue! My husband knew something was going on for at least a year and half in the back of his throat… And waiting for a consult…. And waiting. There is- esophagial cancer!!! finally diagnosed two weeks ago. And now we wait for an oncology consult- what stage it is after all this time is Scary !! This is so different a system that existed when we were still working- we are retired.
Oh Yvette I’m so sorry to hear about your husband. It’s appalling that he has to wait and then wait and wait. I’m sure it’s very hard on both of you. There is absolutely no excuse for this kind of thing in a province as rich as ours.
Take care my friend.
Excellent description of the incompetency of the UCP. Promises made, promises broke, lack of transparency, definitely not listening to all Albertans just TBA so she maintain her leadership. Not a good time to be a senior with medical complications and heading to private/publicly funded LTC where staff shortages are the norm resulting in lack of care. So sad.
Sandra: you nailed it. But Smith is driven by ideology, not what’s right. Oil and gas companies continue to make record profits and they still pay the lowest corporate taxes in the country, which means money that could be put to good use supporting public services is lost. I only hope that her true blue supporters finally realize what they’ve done to the quality of life in this province.
Physicians all take the Hippocratic Oath an oath of ethics. Danielle Smith doesn’t know how to spell ethics. But she knows better than the Physicians on how to run the Health Care System. No wonder it is under water, one more time the Clowns show how they care about the people of Alberta. Even their supporters are suffering. Can you imagine.
Paul, as you correctly point out, Smith has appointed herself the ultimate “expert” in everything she touches, be it healthcare, education, the environment, or business, she has the answer and her hand picked little panels will confirm it for her. Very sad state of affairs.
Yes, we seem to have conflict between the Hippocratic Oath, the Hypocritic Oath and the Autocratic oath.
Susan: First off, I wish your husband a good recovery, as soon as possible. It is clear that Danielle Smith has wanted private for profit healthcare, just as Ralph Klein did. We still haven’t recovered from his bad cuts to the public healthcare system in Alberta. At this rate, Danielle Smith will ensure the CPC are defeated, because Ralph Klein did this too, before a federal election, by musing about public healthcare system reforms, which included private for profit healthcare options. I’ll play some more fitting music. This is a Steve Winwood and Will Jennings composition, from 1982, called Help Me Angel. Steve Winwood plays all the instruments on this track, and is a great singer. His obvious gospel music influences come from him being a choir boy in church, in Birmingham, England, when he was a boy.
Dwayne, thank you for your good wishes. As I said, the staff have been incredible notwithstanding the dripping faucet and the toilet that won’t flush properly, and the fact it took hours and hours for him to even get a room. Anyway, he’s in good hands now.
You’re absolutely right that Klein was the first to seriously erode healthcare. Every conservative premier seems to think the private market can provide a public service better. It makes me wonder whether any of these yahoos have ever worked in the private sector, because if they did, they’d know that nothing matters except the bottom line.
Great piece by Winwood and Jennings. The line “I’ve been too close to the fire” says it all. I only hope that there’s an agel out there to help us through this.
PS Interesting tidbit about Winwood being a choir boy in Birmingham. I didn’t know that. Thanks.
That’s a good point. Private companies don’t put the welfare of Albertans first. Why should they? Their focus in the end is making a profit, which is what every for-profit business has to focus on. Our elected officials are supposed to prioritize Albertans. Instead, they worship private industry to the point of obsequiousness.They act like businesses, or at least big businesses, do a huge favour by bothering to invest in this pathetic, dirt-hole province, and that we have little ability to accomplish much on our own.
Then they completely flip that script with the federal government, fighting Ottawa tooth and nail and acting like this mighty, Titan province is doing the country a huge favour by remaining in Confederation. I think a happy medium between these extremes would be best, but alas that’s not politics, and not the age we live in.
Jason: right. You’ve got to wonder what Smith is going to do with all her free time if Poilievre wins the next federal election. I mean she won’t be able to shake her fist at the Liberal/NDP coalition anymore, and she’ll have to smile sweetly when Poilievre fails to deliver whatever it is she thinks she deserves (I don’t care what she thinks, Poilievre will not have Alberta’s best interests in mind because he, like Harper before him, knows that Alberta will vote conservative no matter what, it doesn’t need to be wooed like Quebec). So what’s she going to do, continue picking on the municipalities? Rail at the other non-conservative provinces? What?
What, indeed? My concern is that without the feds the UCP will have to find another easy target, since their government thrives on anger, fear, and division. I Expect the trans-bashing to pick up, along with targetting other minorities. This bunch only cares about their power. Everything else is sacrificed to that.
Jason: I’m sure you’re right, that appears to be the modus operandi of these kinds of politicians. Play the victim and blame someone else for your failures.
Susan, very sorry to hear of your husband’s chest pains (that’s scary!), and hoping for his full recovery. My experience with hospitals and long-term care facilities (my Mom is in LTC) have been much like yours–the staff do the very best they can, in spite of government interference.
Cons in Canada are following more and more closely their Republican/MAGA role models. Their faith-based belief, however, goes back much further than Trump. Cons are convinced that business can do no wrong, and government can do no right. And, guess what? As soon as Cons form a government, they do their damndest to prove it.
(Further to above, I should have said “their faith-based belief in business predates Trump. So does their apparent lack of belief in their own competence. No Con, in ANY country, will ever put it that way, though.)
Mike J Danysh: I agree with you 100%, and especially liked your comment about their competence or lack thereof. Reminds me very much of those people who believe they’re are never accountable for their shortcomings, it’s always someone else’s fault.
Susan: Here is my next song pick. This is from Chicago, and was written by band member, James Pankow. It is Colour My World, and it was recorded and released in 1970. The (late) Terry Kath, the guitarist from the group, is on vocals here. This is in my music collection. A nice song of hope.
Dwayne, this is a nice song of hope. I had this album in my record collection years ago when I had records. We moved across the country and down to the USA and somewhere along the line I gave it away. I regret that now so thanks for the reminder of this lovely piece.
Susan: Here is my final song pick. This is a composition written by Leon Russell, and it was recorded and released by John Mayall, in 2007. It is Help Me Through The Day. I did see John Mayall live and met him. This is in my music collection. John Mayall passed away, not long ago at age 90. He would have been 91, this year.
My best wishes for a speedy recovery for your husband. All my HCW colleagues at the Foothills will give him excellent care, IN SPITE of the garbage of the UCP. Superb essay and spot on. Thank you.
Leslie: I’ll pass along your good wishes. Roy would certainly agree with your assessment of the HCWs at the Foothills. He’s getting excellent care (even though they moved him into an OC (over capacity) corner of what appears to have been a large storage room. That’s how it is in our overcrowded hospitals today, thanks to Danielle Smith’s government. .
Thank you for clearly defining the situation. We are extremely concerned for our healthcare but with two emergency doctors in the family, we agreed the medical staff are doing an awesome job despite the lack of support from our government.
Donna & Marsh: you and your husband are in a unique position in that with two sons who are emergency doctors you see first hand what they are going through as a result of Smith’s loony policies. Kudos to your sons, I’m sure some days they wonder why they bother, but anyone who’s visited the ED of any hospital in Alberta knows they work very hard under grueling conditions and for that we thank them.
All the best of speedy recovery Mr. Soapbox. Yes, the cardiac services folks at Foothills are fantastic!
Thank you Susan.
Has anyone else noticed that dental care is also being delivered on a parallel model? Dentists now refer patients to private clinics for diagnostic imaging care that is out of scope of their dentist’s chair. The public health system can perform the exact same service, with the exact same level of quality, with improved timeliness, but without the additional charges borne by our private insurer. This parallel model of increased charges has to drive up the cost of premiums because that’s how the insurance model works.
Whatever happened to the idea of wholistic care wherein a person can have medical services knitted together to present a single, full picture of health status?
mikegklein: I didn’t realize this was happening so thank you for bringing it to our attention. You’re absolutely right that at the end of the day this practice will simply result in Albertans paying more. Good for the private sector, not so good for us.
That is always the case and no one has proven publicly that private care is cheaper and better.
It is just a slogan Conservatives, like Pierre Poilievre love to use in their campaigns and it is working for them.
‘Axe the tax’ , ‘Cut the deficit’ ‘ Build the homes’
How do they do that? well that is not the point. Just give us the power and we can then screw it up a bit more.
Unfortunately people are taking it all in like never before. It works and admit to say that it worked for the liberals as well. They all need to get out of there and the system needs to be redesigned. We are in a new century and changes are needed as soon as possible. First of all ban lobbyists. Second have a fact check group in the House of commons. We need a new way more fool proof system to elect them as well as to have truthful discussions. Any name calling like Pierre Poilievre likes to do copying his Trump cousin, should be expelled from the house immediately without the usual I did but I did not. Twice and they lose their seat in the house. Why should they be different than any other public service workers? In fact it should be more stringent.
Carlos you have hit the nail right on the head. All fantastic ideas. I would add further especially here in Alberta that there requires a review and update to the electoral districts. The system puts to much strength to the rural districts when in fact the majority of the population is in the urban centres.
Robert: good point. How is it possible for the rural and small town ridings to determine the fate of the entire province given that the population of Calgary and Edmonton is slightly more than half (2.6 million) of Alberta’s population (4.9 million).
Carlos, thank you for this. I thought your last two sentences (“Why should they be different than any other public service workers:? In fact it should be more stringent.”) were particularly insightful. You’re absolutely right, public servants working for the government are dismissed if they violate the standards expected of them. And business executive,who lie or misrepresent their results are liable for fraud, corruption, and breech of securities laws. And yet politicians can shout barefaced lies across the aisle and at any public venue and get away with it. That’s just not right.
Just some reading. We need to move forward before it is too late.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/10/01/Magic-Happens-Citizens-Assemblies/
Yes, Citizens’ Assemblies are a brilliant idea. I would like us to begin at an even deeper foundation stone, something that helps anchor Citizens’ Assemblies to the most basic needs of our individual quality of life. Not to replace Citizens’ Assemblies, to strengthen and empower Citizens’ Assemblies.
Robert I agree with you and the only reason these changes are not made is because politicians like it. Gives them power and lets them do whatever they want and so it goes. Except they forget they are our employees and they should not have the right to just govern like emperors.
A lot more changes can be done and one is of course proportional representation which to me is the best system available. You get 35% of the vote , you get 35% of the seats. Easy and fair. I understand people like this idea of constituencies and that can be incorporated in the Proportional representation system but always within the percentages they get. This winner takes all is complete failure and used in a time where the Lords just did not want the PEOPLE to govern.
I agree a lot more can be done and one of the changes I would like to see is to replace the Senate with a House of Citizens. It would be just regular citizens and as far as how to elect them should be a discussion using people’s assemblies. Lots to discuss I am sure, to avoid corruption and other miseries we always get where humans exist but I think it would provide a service that the Senate never does.
So many ideas could be tried and tested. Unfortunately we are so deep in bureaucracy and Constitution that we are suffocating any possible real democracy. We are not in 1867 anymore and if people have not noticed we are a completely different society today.
How in the hell can one expect the same rules created more than 100 years ago, when they did not even know what a phone is, be effective today?
Unfortunately, they all promise changes but as soon as they get there and realize they will lose power , Puff forget about it.
MikegKlein – I also very much agree with you. By the way these are not new concepts. One just has to look at Switzerland with its very unique form of democracy that relies a lot on citizen assemblies. Even the number of immigrants is decided by the different Cantons, not by some Minister of Immigration that represents one idea in a country of 41 million. This is crazy and the last batch was basically and invasion rather than immigration that put a lot of stress on everything. Then the minister comes out and says – ‘Nope the house crisis has nothing to do with the total number of immigrants’ EXCUSE me ? So you allow almost 3 million people into the country and that is not going to affect the housing situation? You need a psychiatrist as fast as possible. Furthermore they come with this excuse that they could not stop it? Excuse me again? If you cannot control the number of people coming into Canada then just leave please. That is a sign of complete incompetence. Give that ministry to any regular citizen with a brain and they can tell you how you stop it . Of course you have to hurt the corporate world that wants as many as possible so they can exploit them and the Universities that are now dependent on their money. Those are not reasons to make us dependent on whatever these people want.
By the way, we are educated enough in Canada that we can create our own processes for whatever problems we have, except current governments right or left or another colour are not interested in solving anything.
THAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM
So sorry to hear Mr Soapbox has to experience this first hand. Hoping for a quick recovery.
lausmank55 if everything go according to plan they’ll spring Mr Soapbox tomorrow (Tuesday). He’s looking forward to coming home and we’re looking forward to getting him back.
Great news Susan
I hope your husband fully recovers
My best regards
Firstly, best wishes to Mr Soapbox, and I hope that if his chest discomfort is confirmed to have been cardiac in origin, he gets referred into a Cardiac Rehab programme (full disclosure: that was my field of Nursing practice here in the North Zone for 16 years). Sadly, in Calgary Zone, that service has been in the private sector since long before the creation of AHS — a state of affairs that even that “radical socialist” Sarah Hoffman didn’t alter when she was Minister of Health ;-).
https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/findhealth/Service.aspx?serviceAtFacilityId=1136495#contentStart
Secondly, extremist libertarians like Daniellezebub don’t believe health care should be a public service at all. They believe it should be a private service offered in the competitive marketplace, like finding a plumber or electrician to work on your house, or a hair salon for you next ‘do.
But competition doesn’t work if the customer can’t know enough to choose between different service providers, and isn’t in a position to say “no” and just fix their own plumbing or cut and style their own hair. It’s a captive, seller’s market where the provider holds all the cards, and so needs to be a strictly regulated monopoly paid for by the public purse.
jerrymacgp: Thanks for the suggestion re: follow up care.
And thank you for the clear and simple explanation of why privatizing healthcare doesn’t work. You nailed it when you said the suggestion that privatization offers “choice” is an illusion. At the end of the day the only people who benefit from privatization are those who are offering the service (which is being paid for by public dollars together with a top up from those who can afford to pay for private care). Jon Meddings,(the past Dean of Cummings School of Medicine) explained that surgeries in the public sector are being postponed due to a lack of anesthesiologists who were working at the newly created hip/knee surgery units (CSFs) which don’t report through AHS anymore and where the cost of care is higher. I won’t try to explain his thread, but I’d encourage readers to take a look at Meddings’ twitter account (@JMeddings). It’s well worth a read.
Thanks, Susan. In fact, I’ve been following Dr Meddings on ‘X’/Twitter for quite some time.
Hope your husband gets home soon. My own experience of the health care system has also been very positive – the nurses and doctors still care.
On this subject, the latest issue of Alberta Views is worth a read. The cover story is “Why can’t you find a family doctor?”
Michael: I did see that article in the latest Alberta Views. It was helpful in understand the pressure family medicine doctors are under to make a go of their practices on the pitiful level of compensation they receive from the government. When Dr Paul Parks was interviewed for that article he sounded hopeful that a deal might be reached. Sadly that turned out not to be the case.
Dear Ms. S: So sorry to hear about your spouse and his tribulations.
Smith has been telling us for years what she would do and the majority of voters in this province love what she is doing. That is democracy.
We know this for a fact as she is leading in every poll.
Unless Nenshi can pull a rabbit out his hat the job is hers indefinitely.
As long as she continues these idiotic policies the TBA Board will keep her around.
Jaundiced Eye: everything you say is true. What I wonder is how much more damage Smith will be allowed to inflict on the health and well being of Albertans before they finally wake up.
If Albertan’s haven’t figured it out by now, they never will.
Dear Susan – thank goodness Mr Soapbox is recovering. I hope he’s home today.
I echo his comments about the incredible level of care by hospital healthcare professionals. I was recently in the Foothills for a CT scan. The staff of professionals from reception to radiologists are kind, caring and very good at what they do. They deserve so much respect for sticking with us so far through these dark times till we can remove the stench of Danielle Smith and the UCP.
Linda
Linda Davis: Mr Soapbox came home yesterday. And he’s delighted to be sleeping in his own bed. I am heartened to hear that your experience with the professionals at Foothills matched his. The fact they continue to persevere is remarkable.
Dear Ms. Wright,
here’s hoping your husband is home today, and recovers speedily & fully.
As for timing … my father had his event before Smith was even re-elected to legislature, and my wife’s occurred in British Columbia.
In both cases, their primary care was adequate (father) to excellent (wife).
Ongoing care, well, that’s a different tale for my wife, now that we’re home in Alberta.
Gerald, I’m glad that your dad and wife had decent acute care, but I’m sorry to hear that your wife’s ongoing care hasn’t been up to snuff. This sort of thing is such a strain for the patient and their families. You’d think that the government would take steps to alleviate their suffering if for no other reason than it boosts economic productivity. Sick people can’t work and don’t buy things.
Dear Susan – first I hope that Mr Soap box gets home and makes a full recovery. I too spent time in the Foothills Cardiac ward and the staff were amazing. I do wonder how they keep the smiles and work ethic they present to us requiring their services?
I truly worry about the state of our health care system. Being one who uses this system intently do to a chronic illness that is not going anywhere, I worry daily. This Government is systematical tearing it apart in the hope that they will have to privatize it in order to provide services.
We have written letters, exposed such privatizing to the media, stood on soap boxes pontificating the down falls to this path and yet to no avail. I am glad that there is people such as yourself exposing and educating the public however I fear that by the time we kick their butts to the street so much damage will be done they may have got their way.
Sorry to be a downer but I think expressing the doom may be the only way to wake people up.
Sincerely
Robert
Hi Susan – I hope your husband recovers well. Those moments are always scary.
As far as DS I believe I have nothing left to say. It is scary and incompetent and although I admire the positive comments about service, I think that it is all on the backs of doctors and nurses, as competent professionals do want to provide a good job, It is great for those of us that have witness those services but for how long can these people keep going without appropriate rest and support and being treated like human beings?
The UCP is using them, because they know they will do their possible best to keep going. The exploitation is not just foreign workers anymore.
I wished there was a quick way of us kicking this incompetence out of there but she is a master deceit player and she knows how to get what she wants. There is a limit though and I cannot wait for her to step out of her deceit and be caught with the hand right in the cookie jar. It will be sooner or later. Lies are always found out, just a question of time.
Again I am surprised there are no protests, nothing. That is what is making me more hopeless with Alberta. We will accept the very low standards of services. The UCP will continue lowering corporate taxes and royalties and cutting back on services until they reach the optimal level in their fascist minds. We can all survive by ourselves like in the old west as long as we have access to weapons.
https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/braid-danielle-smith-united-states-chemtrails-sky-pentagon/wcm/827e7ba7-8e9c-4dda-9ccb-18c87f08843c
I think the UCP needs a very high dose of opioids to get out of their world of excuses not to be able to govern.
This is not just an embarrassment anymore. This is mental disease and they should be the very first candidates in their involuntary Drug program.
Pentagon scratches its head No wonder – she is outdoing the US Trumpists.
Here is some good reading for those that are not market fundamentalists.
Of course this is a socialist article these days where governments do nothing to benefit the citizens. This program was launched in a time when markets were not GOD like and when the private corporations still did not control our governments like they do now. Enjoy it.
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/weve-solved-the-housing-crisis-before-we-can-do-it-again
Also today the usual Danielle Smith’s ‘I said but I did not say but I say but I do not say’ type excuse that she is so good at.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-premier-danielle-smith-department-of-defense-1.7340079
I do not know about you but I am done with this political jargon of protecting all for and against just in case.
Like we discussed previously, politicians have to catch up to the rest of us in ethical, moral and even general manners behaviour. As a citizen I no longer accept these standards. They either push their standards up or we will force them to.
We should form a group in Alberta, kind of citizen Assembly to talk about proposals we would present to the Government of Alberta so we can start moving on more responsibility and more clarity and transparency. I am done with this transparency they all talk about which is nothing but a balloon full of water with a thousand holes at the bottom.
This Neo-liberal order that has destroyed enough of our world is over and we should start taking real steps for a province with real standards based on facts.
Susan I ask you to think about having a post once in a while about political issues that matter to us with your vision and to attract people that have expertise and really enjoy real life discussions, so we can develop better ways of making Alberta what we all want it to be rather than having 1% transforming it into an open sewage system. We are already falling behind in all education, health standards and it is spreading like covid.
I know someone is going to suggest – That is what parties are for, but think about it. Have ever been able to start a real conversation in any party including the NDP? All I get from them is ‘MORE MONEY PLEASE’
I had to unsubscribe from the NDP because I was ready to quit it all once and for all.
You would think Alberta was a poor province, not one with a comfortable surplus given how stingy the UCP has been in funding health care. And that is only one part of the problem, they are also picking unnecessary fights again with health care workers and also making unnecessary disruptive reorganizations. Its as if it is not yet broken, the UCP wants to break it.
So many Albertans can’t find family doctors already and with more people moving here it is going to get worse. Edmonton desperately needs a new hospital, the last new one was opened over 30 years ago. The one planned 6 years ago was cancelled by the UCP and it looks like it may be a decade or more before the one already needed now is buillt. This is all a disaster in the making.
Smith has promised a number of times to improve health care, but all she has done so far is to create more problems. Rural Alberta hospitals are also closing more often due to staff shortages. So it seems to be becoming a province wide problem, except for maybe a few select communities that are now getting new hospitals.
Yes you are right. She promised that her Cookie Monster was going to fix emergencies in 90 days.
Of course this was a message for her supporters who believe the Earth is flat. It seems like all of them fell from the edge and never recovered.
Yes the system is on life support and so are politics. We thought we had a weirdo in Danielle Smith but it seems BC wants a challenge.
https://pressprogress.ca/bc-conservative-leader-john-rustad-suggests-province-would-participate-in-nuremberg-style-covid-19-trials/
I thought things were starting to get better. Well not so fast, BC wants a turn at it.
So we will see what the premier says about this one. The usual yes but no but yes nut no. This is part of the 90 days improvement.
https://albertapolitics.ca/2024/10/how-is-it-possible-alberta-cant-find-a-distributor-to-ship-flu-and-covid-vaccines-to-family-docs/
Things just keep getting better – life support is probably the level last year
https://albertapolitics.ca/2024/10/danielle-smiths-promised-new-day-for-health-care-in-alberta-is-here-and-yikes-is-it-ever-awful/
Interesting that they call the left communists but it seems like they are the ones who use Russia’s mafia strategies.
https://pressprogress.ca/take-back-alberta-leaders-are-training-scrutineers-to-infiltrate-campaigns-and-act-as-security-on-voting-day/
Carlos: Even though that article is a year old, I wonder how Danielle Smith is going to walk away from her leadership review with no scars?