Asked for a response to the protestors concerns about Bill 11 and the future of private health care in Alberta, Maddison McKee, press secretary for Alberta Minister of Primary and Preventative Health Services Adriana LaGrange, sent Global News an email that lashed out at Friends of Medicare, calling the organization “a political advocacy group governed by the province’s public-sector unions. They routinely spread misinformation and hyperbolic predictions, so it’s misleading to cite them as if they were impartial experts.”

“Their talking points are always the same: they compare Alberta’s common-sense changes to cherry-picked facts from other countries and a theoretical version of Canadian Medicare, rather than the real system patients experience every day,” added McKee.

This is the same UCP dream team that brought us CorruptCare, and they still refuse to step aside to let a proper investigation take its course. Danielle Smith continues to consolidate power into more private parties who are beholden to her and public coffers. She promises so long as she’s here, the money will continue to flow, and she expects political support in return.

I don’t follow Lemmy closely, but I believe they one day aspire to have a feature to combine similar links together to follow the discussion easier. Piefed does have this feature already and it’s great.

Isn’t that basically ICE and the selective enforcement of the law as demonstrated in Epstein?

Are you sure you haven’t been exposed to so much violence that you’ve been convinced to redefine it?

Some, including myself, already are of the opinion that the US is an autocracy because its billionaire class has effectively taken over the reigns. Whatever checks there are don’t actually balance out the billionaires with the rest of greater America.

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I have not paid attention to the Diablo series for a while now, but I was tempted to drop back in with D2 for quality of life improvements and new content.

I have D4 sitting around, I just didn’t have the same feeling to try again.

I appreciate the information here. I just wish to point out if we’re talking about human displacement, Canada and the US can be accused of the same upon its indigenous populations, the practice of slavery, and a history of segregation/apartheid.

If one is highlighting this mechanism/issue to discuss the real costs of industry and economic development, I think it’s a worthy issue. Were there better alternatives to what the European and Western powers ended up doing to others? I certainly hope so.

But if one frames this so called displacement as a moral issue to pretend a better or superior position, then this is delusional. I’d rather defer to the UN Declaration of Human Rights and suggest that the world should aspire to do more.

Dengue is slowly creeping north as far as Colorado. Are you sure no one wants to make it?

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10112025/colorado-invasive-dengue-fever-mosquito/

“What we need in this city is not just affordable housing, as in housing that’s 80 per cent of market value,” said Strikwerda. “We need social housing that’s geared to income.”

I took a drive downtown yesterday during the day. Homeless are laid down on the concrete sidewalks with blankets. There were some nasty -20C and worse days in Edmonton. The UCP don’t care, neither did EPS under McFee, and I point out the silence from Edmonton Police on the subject.

There are many reasons why people may not go to a shelter even when space is available, such as feeling unsafe due to past experience.

A controversial practice in both Edmonton and Calgary has been to dismantle tents and homeless encampments. Both cities confirmed that policy will continue this winter, citing safety concerns.

“When the city responds to an encampment, we do not simply ‘take it down,’” said a statement from a City of Calgary spokesperson.

“Our teams engage directly with occupants and ensure they are offered safe, warm alternatives before any structure is removed. No encampment is dismantled without providing support and connections to appropriate services and shelter options. The goal is always to reduce harm, prevent exposure to the elements, and create a safer outcome than if someone remained outdoors.”

Poetic and miserable, I may not be able to bear looking at a slushy machine the same way.