Laurie Buckland

@laurieinyyc.bsky.social

🇨🇦 Retired biologist. Canadian living in Alberta. Love hiking, nature, travel, cooking, reading, knitting, watercolour painting. #ABResistance #EnoughIsEnoughUCP #WomenAgainstPoilievre

Families fled war seeking safety, and Alberta welcomed them with open arms. Now, Premier Danielle Smith is scapegoating temporary residents for systemic issues. People fleeing conflict didn't choose war, and they deserve real support, not blame. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

Jason Markusoff@markusoff.bsky.social · 2d ago

43,500 Ukrainians in Alberta with non-permanent migrant status. They'd be affected by Danielle Smith's immigration questions. Doubt they're the explicit target of the proposed crackdown on services for temporary residents, but they represent about 1 in 7 of them. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Hey AB, do you even care about how much of your taxpayer money is being wasted on HC services that are objectively worse than they have ever been? 5/5

And Danielle Smith wants everyone to believe that she doesn't even know Sam Mraiche, the guy who was in her inner circle on election night, and lavished hockey gifts and probably more on her! Where the hell is the AG report? 3/5

Everyone should ask the Premier and Minister what their plan is to address this? On what planet would this not get worse when they plan to move more anesthesiologists and nurses to private care?!!! 2/2

This breaks promises to protect our parks that were made decades ago and is disrespectful to countless Albertans who opposed this move during public consultations. Tune in next season to watch me continue the fight to save our parks! (2/2)

Is the Auditor General an independent body? If there are legitimate reasons for the delays for the report then he should come out and explain. At this point his office is looking like a joke and like a lapdog of a Premier who fires anyone who speaks truth to power. 4/5

open.substack.com/pu... More people need to understand this, and push govt to finally work on the solutions that are outside of the ED. Emergency overcrowding will only be fixed with DOWNSTREAM capacity and workforce... and only if there is collective govt will

Matt Gurney: Why and how our emergency rooms are doomed

We cannot fix hospital ERs without fixing the entire system around them. This is apparently valuable insight. Send me my cheque, please.

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Financial Times in January verified Jeff Rath, Dennis Modry and Mitch Sylvestre met with American officials in Washington. For months before that, they boasted about it. Did Danielle Smith, her cabinet ministers or senior staff ever openly condemn Rath et al before the Globe's most recent story?

"Country music star Corb Lund led a petition campaign this year to stop coal mining in the eastern slopes of the Rockies, attempting to force a provincial vote on the issue this month, unsuccessfully. A recent survey found a majority of the public would have supported his position in a referendum."

Coal’s Revival Is Creating Divisions in Canada’s Energy Heartland

Proposals for mines to capture Asian steelmaking demand are pitting residents against each other in resource-rich Alberta

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Next, the David Suzuki Foundation @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social . Immense respect for the man, and the organization he helped create. I work with them on their clean electricity efforts, and my daughter Sadie is involved in the La Rose vs. His Majesty the King climate lawsuit. davidsuzuki.org

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Good interview if you want to understand Smith better. IMO, if you're soulless like Kenney, you won't last. Smith's biggest enemy is Smith—Kenney was done in by his own hubris, and she will be too. They both treat this like a game and forget the people they're toying with are human. #abpoli

Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 5d ago

Really enjoyed my chat with @readtheorchard.org about his new book on Danielle Smith. #abpoli YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5XK... Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

Danielle Smith, how did your yesterday’s secretive meeting with the separatists and convicted Tamara Lich go? Why weren’t media and Albertans allowed to hear what you said to them? When campaigning for unity, we don’t hide. calgaryherald.com/news/local-n... #ableg #cdnpoli

Smith says she attended True North event to sway separatists, but critics aren't convinced

Premier Danielle Smith says she attended True North event to sway separatists, but critics aren't convinced

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