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Political love child of Jack Layton & Ann Richards. Transfusion Med Lab Ninja. Collector of Interesting People. Views expressed not that of my employer. She/Her
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The 1st act of authoritarian movements is to divide the populace against scientists, teachers & professors.
The very people whose research gave you clean water, cured your disease, taught you to read, showed you how to think critically & articulate arguments.
Ponder that.
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I made the mistake of telling my husband an early symptom of COVID is loss of smell.
He’s taken to passing gas in my vicinity & then when I react, informing me he is helpfully “performing a health check”.
He taught the children the technique.
I may divorce him.
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My kid’s moving into university residence next month.
We bought him Power Ranger bed sheets that he isn’t aware of yet. They are the only sheets we’re sending.
Birth control comes in many layered forms 😉
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Hate to break this to you Ms Churchill, but the kid with cancer, the newborn up in L&D, the trauma patient in Emerg, the lady getting a new hip & all the staff caring for them matter more than your desperate narcissistic need for a hot selfie.
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If locking my 2X vaccinated ass down for a month buys a kid his cancer surgery, a grandmother her long awaited & desperately needed new hip, keeps one more immunocompromised person from dying from Covid, or allows a mom to get her transplanted liver,
Lock.
Me.
Up.
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Insisting vaccines don’t work because they require boosters is like saying your car doesn’t work because you have to keep filling up the tank.
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Where was Poilievre’s vehement outrage when the targets were
@cathmckenna
or
@cafreeland
or Margaret Trudeau or Sophie Trudeau or
@RachelNotley
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That’s how we know how unbelievably self centred, disingenuous & self serving Mr Poilievre truly is.
#cdnpoli
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The Ottawa Occupiers complain about not being listened to
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Dude, I’m a rural alberta NDP voter. I don’t even exist in the fed poli landscape & you don’t see me mounting a posse with the local yoga club to form an e car convoy to Ottawa demanding more trees & funded pharmacare
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Pro tip.
If someone claims that an mRNA vaccine changes your DNA, ask them to draw the process diagram of how that happens.
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The absolute look of bewilderment on the face of an individual who’s retiring early due to vaccine refusal when I comment how it will suck that they can’t spend any of it travelling outside of Canada.
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She realizes that our grandfathers were literally required to bring their immunization records with them to sign up to serve, right?
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$100 to the charity of choice of the first reporter to begin their question by greeting Mr Kenney with “aloha”.
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The same folks insisting an electric car is unviable because 15 minutes is far too long to charge, are currently spending 15 minutes in the Costco gas pump line to save 8 cents.
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It takes an almost unbelievable level of political cognitive dissonance to spend yesterday shaking the hands of protesters at an event organized by white supremacists & then pin a green square today.
#cdnpoli
#FluTrucksKlan
Today we remember the victims of the horrific shooting at the Quebec City mosque on January 29, 2017. This attack on our soil, on our people, was an act of terror and hate.
#GreenSquareCampaign
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A friend has a great photo of her mom wearing a miniskirt in Iran with her friends in the ‘60’s & we couldn’t understand how a culture could shift so hard.
Now I know.
#RoeVsWade
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If you’re protesting because you can’t cross into the states without a vaccine, what until you find out what a criminal record will do to any future foreign travel plans.
#FluTrucksClan
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A wedding with allegedly mask refusing guests at the same hotel in Red Deer as quarantined players, thus causing Covid spread & then cancelation of the World Juniors is EXACTLY the expected outcome of “personal freedom”.
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I’m sorry Grace Life folk but Jesus is busy at icu bedsides in Alberta today so he sent a snowstorm to try, yet again, to keep you all from being in that icu bed next month.
Prove me wrong.
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If Dr Hinshaw takes the podium tomorrow and just says “I tried with all of you, fuck it, I’m done” tosses her papers at whatever MLA meat curtain is behind her & walks ~ may I be the first to buy her a well deserved, socially distanced, alcoholic beverage.
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#WhereIsKenney
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So we’re all about to discover what supply chain disruptions REALLY look like when there’s no road or rail from the Port of Vancouver to the rest of Canada.
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I’m no Liberal but Trudeau is making the speech of his career in the House right now.
Of. His. Career.
And it’s impressive.
#cdnpoli
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Having a vaccine clinic at Stampede is like putting the condom on after having sex.
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I find it rather endearing that Mr Kenney always just assumes the smart people are NDP.
🤷🏼♀️
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Every MLA in Alberta should have the courage to observe a full ICU shift this week.
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Tell you what sir, I’ll meet you in the lab & if you can identify which analyzer is the PCR cycler, what reagents we’ll need or which primers you prefer, we’ll have a chat about the legitimacy of PCR techniques of DNA replication to detect COVID-19.
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As I’m pretty sure I fall into the very large category of those Mr O’Toole pledged to “take Canada back” from, I feel the need to make an evidently partisan statement.
My Canada includes POC, all immigrants, lefties, lgbtq2s, & recognizes the Treaty Land we all stand on.
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The CERB is clearly delineating how political ideologies see people.
The Left ~ most people are honest & if a few cheat the system, we’ll deal with that later.
The Right ~ a few might cheat the system so let’s hold off supporting everyone, while we hunt for the few.
#cdnpoli
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My 9 year old just announced that she stayed up until 127am reading the 5th Harry Potter book by flashlight.
As I’m new to all this, is this a homeschooling pass or fail?
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The most amusing part of the GiveSendGo data dump?
The large account folks who’ve been screaming freedom & pushing the convoy message to raise funds but didn’t put any of their own money where their mouth is.
Fleury, Sale, Wilson.
#cdnpoli
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A Finnish Prime Minister parties, the Right flips out.
A Canadian PM wears socks, the Right flips out.
A US President wears a tan suit, the Right flips out.
It seems pretty obvious where the faux outrage is coming from.
I’m tired of media giving any of it air.
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If Ms Lich & her spouse wish to invoke American legal precedents, the least we can do is let Judge Judy have jurisdiction on the case.
#cdnpoli
#cdnpolitics
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Every year at close of filing, my corporate accounting firm holds a little meeting with me to “find efficiencies to increase your profit margin”.
They invariably tell me I could make even more if I pay my staff less.
So this year I’m taking their advice.
I fired my accountant.
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If you publicly bitch about the expense of paying nurses overtime but you publicly announce you’re paying $100 to the main drivers of that overtime, it was never about finding savings or financial restraint.
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My parents left my sister & I unsupervised at their house for the evening.
We’re currently playing with their electric bed that moves up and down & we ordered pizza.
We are 51 & 47.
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I’m continuing to wear a mask in public because I don’t want to give some random kid under 5 covid. Isn’t that enough of a reason?
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Just a heads up to Canadian reporters dealing with Poilievre using the Harper tactic of only answering a very limited number of questions.
File EVERY report with “Mr Poilievre refused to allow my or my colleagues questions & refuses to answer questions from reporters”.
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Breast reductions & tubal ligations have been deemed unnecessary healthcare by the UCP health review panel.
That’s like me saying prostate exams are unnecessary because I’ll never need one.
It’s about who’s at the table, who has a voice & who’s perspective has “value”.
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I love all the men referring to masks as “face diapers” & how much of an inconvenience they are.
Sir, many of us ladyfolk have been spending at least 4 nights a month sleeping with a maxi pad diaper since we were 13.
And many docs argue with us when we ask for meds to stop it.
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To the average albertan, collapse of our healthcare system is expected to look like some mass casualty spread of stretchers outside of the ER.
To those within the system, we’ve collapsed when kids with cancer aren’t getting their surgeries ASAP
We’ve collapsed.
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It’s costs me absolutely nothing to respect someone’s gender identity but it means the world to the transgender community.
Rejecting gender identity is petty & cruel. It is bullying on an official policy scale & I find it repugnant.
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#onpoli
#HumanRights
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If I threw a house party that resulted in multiple admissions to ICU, I’d be expecting a knock at my door from the RCMP, a class action lawsuit & the total abject scorn of my community. Just sayin’
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When your government wants to ban chalk but allow pepper spray, you get a pretty strong indication of what action they wish to see.
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We have a hospital in Alberta fundraising for a toilet & this government claims we need $30 million a year to argue about how the villain is depicted in a cartoon about Bigfoot.
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International borders in Canada are now being blocked in Ontario, Manitoba & Alberta.
Ottawa is still occupied & it’s airport is being surrounded by a vehicle blockade.
The US fundraising is occurring in full public view.
How is this not considered a foreign funded coup?
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The number of folks in the comments who think I’m serious about this actually impeding my son’s uni sex life is actually funnier than buying the bed sheets 🤣
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There really is no other way to say this 🇨🇦
We are under a direct internal threat, funded by foreign dollars, of a systematic attempt to destabilize our democracy & our nation, using both physical & social media methods
We need to protect democracy
Or we’ll lose this nation
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For a very long time I have heard the phrase “we don’t need unions anymore, they fought for weekends, equal pay and no child labour & now we’re good.”
You know who’s fighting for workers in this pandemic?
Unions.
They matter. A lot.
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Love Trudeau or hate Trudeau, I really don’t give a shit.
But to state he didn’t need to call the EA is frankly, ridiculous.
He gave Ford & Kenney & Watson more than a week to solve their own problems & they failed.
Don’t bitch cause you’re team wasn’t capable.
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I’ll never cease to be amazed at the number of voters who will NEVER be affected by the increase in the capital gains tax rate who will still vote as if they were.
Pretending you’re rich in the voting booth isn’t the flex they think it is.
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Ya’ll know
@RachelNotley
right now is sitting in a lawn chair in the snow of her Strathcona backyard, sipping on a glass of Chardonnay & whispering karma, fuckers, karma.
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#ResignKenney
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So protesters head to Ottawa to oust Trudeau and the end result is the Conservative Leader & the Ottawa police chief end up resigning, the organizers lose all their money & remaining occupiers may face fines & jail.
Looks like the cool socked Drama teacher was, in fact, ready.
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I love how Albertans scream that we need to make drastic cuts to healthcare because it’s the largest component of our budget.
Peeps, I’m a - okay with it being the largest part of our public spending. I also believe education should be the 2nd largest expense.
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I am working gloved, masked, heavy waterproofed gowned, trifocaled & face shielded for 8 hours a day in large part because a few Albertans screamed freedom & continue to insist Covid’s not real.
Forgive me if I’m a tad hot & cranky.
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There’s a whole pile of US Republican politicians suddenly interested in Canadian politics. Along with Trump.
That should be a huge alarm bell for us.
#cdnpoli
#FluTruxKlan
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If you have to stand 6 feet apart to announce you’re opening schools,you shouldn’t be opening schools.
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I’m so Canadian I just accidentally opened the dishwasher while it was running and apologized to it.
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If you refuse the vaccine because you believe the 1 in 1,000,000 risk of a clot is greater than the 1 in 100 risk of dying from Covid, then you really suck at math & frankly aren’t qualified to make that decision.
Sorry not sorry.
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My coworker’s parents live between a pile of little girls so the kids use their lawn to play. The kids built a tiny fairy garden under the tree. Coworker’s dad has been buying tiny furniture and places them there at night. Girls believe it’s fairies. Oh the feels ❤️🧚🏾♀️
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This generation of teens are getting vaccinated without parental consent like mine went on birth control without theirs.
Solidarity.
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The only people who can get in or out of Vancouver to the rest of Canada are the vaccinated.
Just pointing that out.
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Evidently the new Babylon/Telus health app just tells everyone to go to Emergency.
There is nothing so Conservative “on brand” as a private corporation charging the taxpayer double to do nothing & then directing you back to the public system.
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#cdnpoli
#COVIDCanada
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The price per barrel this morning for West Texas crude is $61.64 USD. The Carbon Tax is $0.08. Shell reported a profit last year of $21,400,000,000.
I believe you’re finger is pointed in the wrong direction.
#cdnpoli
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As you fill up your car this weekend for the busy week ahead, don’t forget: those high gas prices are “exactly what” Justin Trudeau wants. What I want is to help make your life more affordable.
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Watching a province full of citizens absolutely buried under the weight of their (private) insurance, heat & power bills, being sold the idea that extending privatization into healthcare will somehow make the system more affordable.
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There’s an argument made that the high wages in O&G are because it’s dangerous work.
And that’s a fair point.
Ask nurses how often they’ve been punched, kicked or threatened at work. How many deadly pathogens they’re exposed to per shift. The mental toll they carry.
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If we’re okay sacrificing the elderly for the economy, why aren’t we okay sacrificing the billionaires?
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I’m fascinated with media attempting to frame the CPC Leadership race as a chance to show 🇨🇦 who the Party is.
Harper, Kenney. Scheer, Bernier (prior to losing), O’Toole, Bergen, Kenney, Batters, et al.
The CPC keep showing us EXACTLY who their Party is.
#cdnpoli
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My mom: how can Canada possibly afford
@theJagmeetSingh
Universal Pharmacare plan?
Me: do you have any idea how many patients we currently have in $1,500/day hospital beds because they couldn’t afford their $5/day pill?
#Pharmacare
#cdnpoli
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Raise your hand if you’ve ever been at a back yard party & had the cops show up to make you be quiet.
🙋🏼♀️
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I’m at my kids basketball practice & parents are outright loudly mocking Smith’s claim that inflation is due to Trudeau.
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Can I just point out that a horse collecting the CERB will probably contribute more to the Canadian economic recovery than Andrew Scheer.
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So let’s have an honest conversation.
Are work camps often violent towards women?
Yes.
Are all men in these camps violent towards women?
No.
Does dismissing the discussion about violence towards women help either men or women?
Absolutely not.
Have this discussion.
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Open up the Astra Zeneca vaccine to any adult able to display an understanding of the risks & willing to sign a waiver.
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Occupiers took our flag 🇨🇦, do not allow them to co opt Orange Shirts.
#FluTruxKlanGoHome
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The moment you realize your government takes more action to prevent chalk on sidewalk than an absolute tsunami of a Covid 3rd wave.
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Dr Yiu is the most universally trusted & respected individual in healthcare leadership by the staff at AHS.
Her firing is a signal.
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My husband just called from the Costco return line up.
He wished me luck raising our children, requests that my replacement boyfriend finishes the renos & hopes to be home by the time our youngest graduates in 2028. 😉
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I didn’t realize until today that my family has a Christmas tradition OF FOLLOWING THE LAW.
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My hospital colleagues & I have somehow managed to not hold drunken parties on shift or obnoxiously berate & sexually harass other staff.
And I guarantee you we’ve put in far longer hours during Covid, for far less pay, than you.
You pompous, arrogant self serving ass.
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Agriculture Minister Devin Dreeshen denies he has an alcohol problem in response to Ariella Kimmel’s allegations. ‘With my behaviour, there are long, hard days in the Legislature and I think that’s something that everybody has had to deal with’, he says
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If you’ve spent the last two years using the job loss under Notley as your main social media argument & you haven’t said a word about the largest monthly job loss in Canadian history under Kenney....it was never actually about “jobs”, was it?
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People are being told to not look like the journalists or healthcare staff that they are due to safety concerns from people attending a protest for freedom.
Let that sink in.
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@maxfawcett
Years of witty political tweeting & I’ll go down in twitter history for a fart joke. 😉
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So.
I’m seeing the memes, the jokes, the glee & the gossip with which many are commenting on the Trudeau separation.
Hey everyone, glass houses.
While I generally keep my personal life personal, I have a confession.
My marriage fell apart last January.
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There are 3 important lessons COVID is teaching
1. The value of a robust, publicly funded, integrated healthcare system
2. The need for higher staffing requirements & oversight of elder care
3. That economic stimulus is achieved by putting $ in the hands of the 99%, not the 1%
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You don’t get to send a mob to Ottawa to overthrow the government we just elected & then lecture me that I don’t support democracy.
#cdnpoli
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For my own mental health, I’m reading every tweet about masks and substituting in the word pants instead just to show how ridiculous the statement “I’m done with pants, you can’t make me wear pants. Pant tyranny.”
really sounds.
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If the UCP want to keep saying Dr Hinshaw is responsible for everything, let’s just ditch the whole UCP government & ACTUALLY put Dr Hinshaw in charge of everything for the next 3 years.
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16 year old Albertans who see their wage drop in 30 days ~ remember who believed you deserved a decent wage & remember those who took it away.
We’ll see you in 4 years at the ballot box 😉
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Every day we all pay for a hospital bed we’re not using, a road we’re not driving on, a bridge we’ll never cross, a cop we won’t need to call, a paramedic who won’t save our lives & a teacher who doesn’t need to teach us to read.
The rest of us aren’t so selfish.
#ableg
#cdnpoli
@EmmMacfarlane
So if I choose to not avail myself of the public school system & instead send my child to a private facility, I should be on the hook twice? Why should I pay my child’s tuition AND also pay for a spot in the public system that I’m not using? Why should I pay for my child & yours?
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The fact that a child’s death from Covid was justified with a disclaimer to ensure those with the “perfect” children didn’t unnecessarily panic should make you rage.
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Just your friendly reminder that if you post Rebel Media articles as “proof” of anything, that Ezra Levant ALWAYS defends himself in court by saying he is an entertainer & not a journalist.
And he’s defended himself in court, and lost, a lot.
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