The Alberta government keeps vaguely pointing to "European" health care to try to support their claim that a two-tier system will fix things. But Europe isn't a panacea & their privatization hasn't come without problems. Enough cherry-picking! Get the facts from @onthealthcoalition.bsky.social

MYTH BUSTER: European Health Care Models - Ontario Health Coalition

(July 22, 2026) Pro-privatization groups, some of which are funded by or linked to right-wing American organizations and corporate interests, have turned

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www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘Canada ranks 28 out of 35 OECD countries for its lower share of public spending on health care, behind 27 other countries with universal health care systems’ @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

Public versus private health care spending in Canada | CCPA

Canada already sees a higher portion of private health care spending than a lot of countries, and it needs to change

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Independent museums have always been at the centre of public debate. Interference by foreign governments & our own government ministers should concern all Canadians. An important piece from Nir Hagigi & @yasmeenabulaban.bsky.social . www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Museum independence cannot be conditional in Canada | CCPA

The campaign against the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ Nakba exhibition shows why arm’s-length cultural institutions must be protected.

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Important under-the-radar story Via Zoe Mason - Essentially, the UCP are eliminating citizen-involved boards that might criticize the govt's anti-environmental agenda. The UCP Is Killing a Key Part of Alberta's Environmental Protection via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...

The UCP Is Killing a Key Part of Alberta’s Environmental Protection | The Tyee

For two decades, government advisory groups have forged consensus. Now they’re being shut down.

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Groups across Canada call on premiers to protect public health care reddeeradvocate.com/2026/07/22/g...

Groups across Canada call on premiers to protect public health care - Red Deer Advocate

Health care advocates from across Canada stood shoulder to shoulder in Prince Edward Island, where premiers met on Wednesday, to demand that premiers stop the spread of American-style health care […]

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Ottawa is not riding out on a white horse to save our public healthcare. Albertans need to take to the streets, before there's nothing left to save.

David J. Climenhaga@djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 2w ago

Planned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer could slash more than $50B from public health care over a decade. albertapolitics.ca/2026/07/plan... #cdnpoli

Albertans, we are in new and unstable territory now. We no longer have equitable access to healthcare under universal conditions in our province, no longer have the same guarantees under the Canada Health Act as our fellow Canadians. 1/

The Breakdown AB@thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 2w ago

While Wab Kinew was speaking about the greatest possible nation building project that Canada could undertake is public healthcare... Danielle Smith quietly privatized a huge swath of Albertan's healthcare. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Did Alberta Premier Danielle Smith hand out a government contract worth hundreds of thousands of dollars – one that deals with the referendum – to her recent political staff? Yes. Today, I’m teaming up with my friends at @nationalobserver.com to tell you all about @rorywh.bsky.social's huge story:

Imagine, if you will, that Brexit and Jan6 produced a monstrous offspring ... They will name it "Democracy" and those of us who object will be "terrorists." Good night and good luck, fellow Albertans.

Jared Wesley@jaredwesley.ca · 2w ago

Over in the other place, separatists are revving up a "stop the steal" narrative by attacking Elections Alberta over its signature verification process and campaign finance oversight. The premier's wishful thinking about these folks fading away after a referendum loss is delusional. And dangerous.

Hear me out, what if Nolan tried to keep the linearity by cutting the timeline down to a day and setting it in Dublin

If anyone ever wants to argue that local history and historians are not important, then this should put that to rest. But for Catherine Corless and her labour none of these would have been searched for.

Aedh MacTire / Haydyn Williams@tine119.bsky.social · 2w ago

And there will probably be more. All who knew. All who did nothing. All who said nothing. All who participated…….deserve #Prison followed by their own special place in #Hell. And if they professed to serving their #Lord, then they are liars! www.thejournal.ie/tuam-mother-...

As Canada's premiers meet for the Council of the Federation in Charlottetown today, Friends of Medicare is joining health coalitions from across the country in calling for an end to the spread of U.S. style, two-tier health care. Read our joint statement: www.friendsofmedicare.org/health_coali...

After two separate investigations into procurement corruption, and an ongoing RCMP criminal investigation of procurement, the UCP govt of Danielle Smith still awards a $300K contract to her former campaign advisor's company, claiming it was an open competition when there is no evidence of that.

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 2w ago

Danielle Smith's office has awarded a $300,000 government contract to an advertising agency co-founded by her former campaign advisor.

The @cdnhealthcoalition.bsky.social, provincial health coalitions & researchers are gathering in Charlottetown to call out Alberta & say No Two-Tier Health Care Public health care is critical to Canadian sovereignty, healthy communities & our economic advantage www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Pipelines and separatist threats testing Canada’s national unity as premiers meet in Charlottetown

Health care, affordability, public safety, economic growth, sovereignty and national security are also on the agenda at the annual conference this week.

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Via @rorywh.bsky.social Alberta electricity industry expects tripling of power prices from data centres www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/20/a...

Alberta electricity industry expects tripling of power prices from data centres

In Capital Power's latest earnings call, the company's CEO, Avik Dey, told analysts that he couldn't rule out prices of "$80 or $90" per megawatt hour of electricity by early 2028. By 2029, rival comp...

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Scoop! After years of the UCP making it out that there was o specific budget for "Your Province, Your Premier", it turns out that Albertans are paying A LOT! Like almost $10,000 a month a LOT! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...

The cost of "Your Province, Your Premier"

Albertans are paying almost $10,000 a month for Danielle Smith's radio show...

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Obligatory:

Sister Michael: Is This My Wake? (Derry Girls)

Alt: Sister Michael: Is This My Wake? (Derry Girls)

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Making Count von Count watch a 0-0 half is rude.

Can I get a "Fuck your fascist vineyards!" for the people at the back?

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 4w ago

Canada's boycott of California wine is causing devastating harm to winegrowers. I'm urging the Canadian government to recognize that California doesn’t agree with these tariff wars, to lift these restrictions, and increase consumer options to strengthen both our economies.

Hot off the press care of Lisa Johnson @reportrix.bsky.social www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/alber...

Alberta auditor expects to complete health-contract investigation by end of year

EDMONTON - Alberta's new auditor general, Phil Peters, says he expects his investigation into a health-care contracting scandal to be complete by the end of this year.

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📢 Amplify our call on the Feds to STOP two tier health care: www.friendsofmedicare.org/enforcethecha 📺 Watch today's press conference with FOM, @cdnhealthcoalition.bsky.social, @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social, @actioncanadashr.bsky.social & @gpllp.bsky.social : www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

Public Health-Care Advocates Discuss Alberta’s Bill 11

In Ottawa, a group of public health-care advocates hold a news conference related to Alberta’s Bill 11. The provincial law allows for doctors in Alberta to perform some medical services in both the pu...

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Friends of Medicare@friendsofmedicare.bsky.social · 3w ago

Following announced regulations, a new legal opinion released by Canadian Health Coalition shows AB's Bill 11 STILL breaks the Canada Health Act! “Without urgent federal action, come September, Albertans' access to health care will be determined not by their need, but by their ability to pay”: FOM

Excellent but devastating 🧵from Dr Parks on the continued overwhelm in AB ERs. I wrote about the damage these policies are wreaking on our healthcare system during my hours in the waiting room with my child, who was experiencing an anaphylactic reaction. www.parklandinstitute.ca/patient_or_n...

A Patient or Just Another Number? How UCP Policies Exacerbate the Crises in Health Care

In a healthcare emergency, wait times can be a matter of life or death. A recent visit to the emergency room highlighted the degree to which the Alberta government's policies - meant to fix health car...

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Parksy@pfparks.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hey AB: Our functional ED capacity in the Edmonton area has been devastated We have NEVER had overcrowding in our EDs that looks like this in our summer (typically we see admitted volumes decrease in the summer) > 6mnths since Mr. Sreekumar's tragic death, NOTHING is better 1/2

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Opinion: Alberta’s Bill 11 undermines the foundation of public health care

Allowing surgeons to work in both public and private care could leave patients reliant on the public system waiting longer for surgery.

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“Government has frozen the minimum wage for a long time in Alberta. That tends to impact low-wage workers, the most disproportionately female.” @kjscott.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca #canfem www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Alberta leads Canada in gender pay gap

Women in Alberta earn 64 cents for every dollar men make annually, according to a report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).

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www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘The contours of the struggle ahead are taking shape more clearly every day. The old order is, indeed, gone. What comes next is up to us.’ @policyalternatives.ca

Editorial: A time of monsters | CCPA

The world order we have known all our lives is gone, and it is time to stop pretending otherwise. What will replace it?

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Today's a good day to explore haunted castles. If you don't have castles in your area, try visiting some spirits at an old bookstore, the abandoned docks by the harbor, or a shopping mall that is half closed and barely holding on. Ghosts get lonely too, just like we all do.

“Stability and national unity” on a planet on fire

Toronto Star@thestar.com · last mo.

Canada will not hit carbon emission reduction targets set under the Trudeau government, Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a video posted to YouTube. He argued that downgrading the country’s climate-change ambitions is necessary for global stability and national unity.

Hang on while I try to pick the best "unsurprised by this bullshit" face: 🙄 Or 😒 The UCP is running the same playbook on education as they have been on healthcare - and the goal is as much about breaking universal public services as it is about grift.

Investigative Journalism Foundation@theijf.org · last mo.

Private schools and childcare companies were top donors to the Alberta education minister’s constituency association. zurl.co/ZTpNY

What happens when governments challenge the rule of law and the legal profession stays quiet? In this op-ed, Orlagh O'Kelly argues the profession faces a choice: defend the rule of law, or become agents in its dismantling. 🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/4gMhMVq

Alberta’s Continuing Care Capital Program purports to be an expansion for seniors care—but it is a motor to shovel public dollars into private real estate By @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca #abpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Alberta's senior care expansion program is a real estate subsidy | CCPA

Alberta’s Continuing Care Capital Program: is shovelling public dollars into private real estate

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