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canbob.bsky.social
Retired hematologist. Interested in evidence based medicine, climate, agriculture, education and politics.
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My family and I chose Canada for its promise: a strong, stable, fair, and welcoming country. That promise is worth protecting. On June 23, vote for healthcare, affordability, and a future we can be proud of. #VoteforBetter #BetterisPossible #abpoli #abelxn youtu.be/0_l6tWEDyCY

I am happy to have assisted my client who played a small part in obtaining a $71 million dollar refund to Alberta customers from ATCO utilities. AUC Decision 29064-D01-2025 $36 million to the customers of ATCO Gas and $35 million to the customers of ATCO Electric Ltd.

Why efforts to improve involuntary treatment in WA haven't worked www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... Are there lessons to be learned by #Alberta and #BC?

🔴⚠️🔥♨️Hot,dry and windy weather is boosting extreme fires in N. #Alberta. This wildfire by Sentinel2 on May 30 is 40km west of ChipewyanLake and confirms the situation with massive smoke and a powerful pyrocumulonimbus #ClimateEmergency @volcaholic1.bsky.social

We wouldn’t want a pesky investigative report coming out during a by-election period now, would we?

It's 2025. How many more examples do we need to show people that austerity policies are ... bad? And that mutual aid at scale is called taxation? That we pay the government so that they can pool our money and invest in infrastructure?

🗳️☑️ Provincial by-elections have been called in Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Strathcona and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills. Voting day is June 23.

Minister Dreeshan slaughtered the “photo radar cash cow” now we’re seeing the slaughter on our streets. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

It’s necessary to repeat this message. #Measles is being spread in Canada by unvaccinated people who live here.

The average disability payment in Ontario is around $1100. The “co pay” for a basic room in long term care is over $2000. Tell me again how “just go into a home” is a feasible suggestion? We urgently need a universal basic income. An end to legislated poverty and better social supports.

This is horrifying. Alberta has a population that is 1/68th the US. And Alberta has half as many measles cases as the entire US does. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

#Measles is not being spread in Canada by visitors or temporary workers. It’s being spread by unvaccinated people infected with measles.

Not to mention that Stage 4 is as high as it can go 😜

Additional checkpoints pop up at two WA U.S.-Canada border crossings www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... @jonnywakefield.bsky.social

I wonder what the Enoch Cree FN thinks about the Sovereignty Act. You should ask the new MP for Edmonton Northwest, Billy Morin. #abpoli #cdnpoli

Almost 200 letters solicited and sent to Premier smith today telling her that safe streets should not be a political game. Learn more and send your own letter via @pathsforpeople.bsky.social at: win.newmode.net/pathsforpeop...

This is very troubling. When Alberta's chief electoral officer takes the unprecedented step of telling every MLA that the Justice Minister's proposed Election Act changes will undermine elections, he's clearly calling out anti-democratic behaviour. 1 www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Now that the election is done, it's time to regain momentum and keep the commitment to #pharmacare. Op-ed by @danyaalraza.com and I in the @hilltimes.com. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

Raynesh Ram's debut article for @thetyee.ca - "Arms-length" Alberta Energy Regulator board member is a special advisor who got $500K in sole source govt contracts An Alberta Energy Regulator's Close Ties to Danielle Smith via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...

A $40 knee high set of compression stockings and avoiding alcohol suffices for Factor V Leiden carriers. Flexing his ankles periodically would help. No need for Business Class.

Today, Chief Troy Knowlton of Piikani Nation made it clear to Smith that she has not only united First Nations in Alberta against Bill 54 and separation... She's united First Nations across Canada against what she's doing. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

The MAXIMUM amount a person receives on AISH is $22,356 per year. The living wage in Lethbridge is $20 per hour or roughly $41,600 annually. Danielle steals $200 from every AISH recipient and wants to be thanked for her generosity. I would love to see her try to survive on $1800 a month.

🇨🇦Trevor Doerksen makes an excellent point: #BattleRiverCrowfoot

Surprised no one has made the point that Danielle Smith's UCP govt is going to impose forced incarcerated treatment on drug users while at the same time that her govt defends prisoners dying from lack of drug/mental health treatment..

Pierre Poilievre in a nutshell. If ever there was a case to drain the swamp...

One thing I'm deducing from the whole "eat like great-grandma did" discourse is that The Jungle fell off the high school syllabus at some point and we should put it back.

Close to 17K already www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Why would the voters of Carleton support a #Convey endorser and someone who proposed laying off large numbers of the federal civil service? #Poilievre didn't read the room.

The truth is #BruceFanjoy worked his tail off to win his seat. thetyee.ca/News/2024/03... #cdnpoli

Friends, appreciate everyone who reads me!I’m grateful for your empathy,for every comment on support of Ukraine.Now it’s needed more than ever We are tired,but we continue fighting for our land! Please share where u are from.I would like to know where the people thinking about Ukraine are.Thank u!

“The three individuals who ran that DEI office in the medical faculty — all of whom are members of racialized minorities — are being replaced by a single person who does not come from such a minority background” Why are Canadian institutions bending a knee and complying in advance?

In our modern world, where facts don't seem to matter, this is the kind of comment you get when you write about a vaccine that has been incredibly effective and used safely since 1965. #measles #vaccination #infodemic

There are now 122 reported cases of measles in Alberta. "We really need a substantial campaign out there about the importance of vaccination, otherwise we are not going to get this under control.” - Dr. Shelley Duggan, AMA President www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Canada won't have a trade deal with the EU if we don't have a climate plan What Poilievre is doing here is locking Canada into trade with Trump's US It will screw us for generations #cdnpoli

So, lock them all up in for-profit prisons or send them off to other countries? People thought those who warned everyone about DT were crazy. Even I didn't think he would go as far as he has; and he's just getting started. So, please pay attention! Why take the chance, Vote to stop this creep!