Aileen O @AileenKC

@SkipCanada Kit kats

You know what’s more dangerous than trans athlete??? 7 Frat boys at Cornell University…

#ableg WTF: Danielle Smith SECRETLY changed the law to FORCE Albertans to pay for: - Cancer screening: (Mammograms / colorectal (FIT) / cervical (HPV/Pap) / lung) - Cardiovascular Tests - Bone density (osteoporosis) This will kill the Albertans who can’t afford this. Awful

The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB

3 months 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

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Dear Fellow Albertans, This letter is written not as a partisan, but as an emergency physician who has cared for more than 100,000 Albertans, a former MLA, and someone who has devoted a working life to this province. Across Alberta, the strain is obvious. Housing is scarce. Emergency rooms are overcrowded. Schools are stretched. The cost of living weighs heavily on families. Anxiety about the future is real and justified. This is not anger. It is concern, because moments like this demand leadership. When people are under pressure, leadership is not just about solutions, but about direction: an honest explanation of what is actually going wrong, and reassurance about who we are as a society while we fix it. In recent weeks, Alberta’s challenges have been framed by the Premier, Danielle Smith, in a way that has left many people angry, not at systems or long-standing policy failures, but at immigrants and other governments. That is deeply troubling. The frustration people feel is understandable. But much of that anger is being misdirected at immigrants. With the exception of Indigenous peoples, all Albertans come from families that arrived here seeking opportunity. Immigrants did not break Alberta’s healthcare system or tear up family doctor contracts. They did not close hospital beds or cancel planned hospital capacity. They did not under build housing, assisted living, long-term care, or schools. They did not dismantle community care. Politicians did. Every day in emergency departments, the consequences are visible: acute-care beds occupied by patients who should be at home or in long-term care; ERs functioning as inpatient wards; and population growth encouraged without matching investments in primary care, continuing care, and hospital capacity. In 1992, Alberta had approximately 11,700 hospital beds. Today, with nearly double the population and a much older demographic, we have roughly 8,800. This is not an Ottawa or immigration problem. It is a planning and capacity problem. Many of the people caring for seniors, staffing hospitals, and holding the healthcare system together today are newcomers themselves. Blaming them delays real solutions and divides communities. That lesson is personal. Growing up as a newcomer involved violence, black eyes and broken bones, and learning early what happens when fear is tolerated and adults look away. Home was not always safe either, shaped by alcoholism and domestic violence. Those experiences leave marks. What mattered most was a mother who taught that anger shrinks a life, while forgiveness, discipline, and service strengthen it, and that opportunity carries an obligation to give back. That belief led to decades in emergency medicine, the training of thousands of doctors, and public service at personal cost. Those experiences lead to a clear conclusion. Albertans deserve leadership that lowers the temperature, not raises it. Leadership that fixes systems, not finds scapegoats. Leadership that takes responsibility for planning failures and invests in capacity to match growth. For these reasons, Alberta needs a change in direction and ultimately, a change in leadership, so the province can unite around practical fixes rather than division. This is not about racism. It is about judgment, competence, and the ability to govern responsibly during difficult times. Alberta needs leadership that brings people together and focuses on solutions, not blame. Premiers Lougheed, Klein and Stelmach have led through very difficult times and would not take our province to this sharp edge. Albertans are much better than this. I am a Canadian, an Albertan and I am an immigrant. God bless Alberta. Dr. Raj Sherman @ABDanielleSmith @nenshi @FreeAlbertaRob @PfParks @NightShiftMD @Alberta_UCP @UCPCaucus @albertaNDP @TheBreakdownAB @ryanjespersen @cspotweet #yeg #yyc #ABleg #cdnpoli

Zero “illegal criminal aliens” in the Epstein files so far. Just billionaires. Royals. CEOs. Politicians. Funny how that works.

Raping children is far worse than illegal immigration.

We should arm protestors in another country but if you show up armed in ours, the govt will shoot you and call you a terrorist. The jokes write themselves.

Ted Cruz @tedcruz

9 months ago

We should be arming the protesters in Iran. NOW. For the Iranian people to overthrow the Ayatollah—a tyrant who routinely chants “death to America”—would make America much, much safer.

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Can't believe that in 2025 we have to be telling people that vaccines are safe, slavery was bad and the swastika is a hate symbol.

In Palestine there is NO ceasefire, NO peace, only destruction and the violence of ethnic cleansing. Watching world leaders play “let’s pretend” with the light-heartedness of 4th graders playing Lego is sickening. We will all pay for their complicity & the insecurity it is sowing

Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani

12 months ago

🚨 BREAKING: Israeli Knesset Gives Preliminary Approval of Bill to Execute Palestinian Detainees INCLUDING CHILDREN

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Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately theonion.com/nation-s-indig…

Western discourse about the ceasefire is so full of double standards it truly boggles the mind. The West insists that Hamas must be disarmed because of October 7... but if we accept this logic we surely must conclude that Israel, which has committed *actual genocide for two years running*, must also be disarmed, and even more urgently. The West insists that Hamas cannot have any role in governance of Gaza (irrespective of whatever the wishes of people in Gaza may be). But again, if we accept this logic then Netanyahu, Likud and the other parties that govern Israel, which again committed *actual genocide*, must also be forcibly removed and debarred from governance. The West insists that Palestinians must be "deradicalized". How could this possibly not apply a thousand times more to Israeli society, which has actively conducted and supported the genocide with little to no dissent? In other words, even by the West's own logic, leaving aside all other aspects of international law, we should disarm Israel, forcibly remove its government, and impose deradicalization on Israeli society in order to prevent it from posing any further threat.

“Palestinians have families, too…Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.” Ms Rachel has a message for you @BarackObama.

A country cannot ‘detain’ someone who never crosses their borders That’s called kidnapping

🚨 BREAKING: Adalah, the Haifa-based legal rights group, confirms that after being seized from international waters, Global Sumud Flotilla “participants were forced to kneel with their hands zip-tied for at least five hours, after some participants chanted Free Palestine.” Adalah attorneys have since met with 331 flotilla participants at Ashdod Port, where they faced hearings before Israeli immigration authorities. 1.⁠ ⁠Humiliation tactics: National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir disrupted lawyer visits “in what was clearly intended as an act of humiliation and intimidation.” According to Adalah, “flotilla participants were filmed, and exploited in a degrading display of control, alongside Israeli officials’ ongoing smear campaign… branding flotilla members as ‘terrorists.’” 2.⁠ ⁠Unlawful process: Adalah stresses, “The entire process is unlawful from start to finish. The interception itself violated international law, amounting to abduction in international waters… the blockade itself is illegal, constitutes collective punishment, and serves as a central tool of the ongoing genocide, including the deliberate use of starvation as a method of warfare.” 3.⁠ ⁠Systematic rights violations: Participants were denied water, bathrooms, and medications, as well as legal access. Lawyers were left waiting nine hours outside Ashdod Port, only learning hearings had begun when detainees called them directly. “Several participants reported being subjected to aggression, threats, and harassment, including being woken violently whenever they tried to sleep.” 4.⁠ ⁠Transfer to prison: Authorities moved the detainees from Ashdod to Ktzi’ot Prison in the Naqab, where tribunal hearings began “entirely without legal representation.” Adalah lawyers are now present at the proceedings. 5.⁠ ⁠Next steps: Adalah says it is taking measures to ensure “every single participant is accounted for,” while demanding their immediate release and the return of their personal belongings and humanitarian aid supplies.

Drop Site @DropSiteNews

a year ago

⛵️ Over 400 activists detained from the Global Sumud Flotilla have been taken to Ashdod port after Israeli forces illegally intercepted their ships off Gaza. According to Adalah, a human rights legal center in Israel, detainees are first processed by the immigration authority for

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We UN Independent Experts firmly object a plan that risks brazenly trump int'l law. Yes: bombs have to stop, a permanent ceasefire is needed, persons illegally detained must be freed, but States and the UN cannot and shall not bury Palestinian self-determination and justice.

UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts

a year ago

#Palestine: Any peace plan must respect international law, beginning with self-determination and accountability, urge UN experts. "The Israeli occupation must end immediately, totally and unconditionally, with due reparation made to the Palestinians". ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

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🇹🇷🇵🇸More than 45 Turkish civilian ships are heading directly toward Gaza. This comes as a response to Israel intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla convoy.

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To put this in simple terms. For several hours now, Israeli soldiers have been kidnapping civilians from at least 44 countries in international waters. And most of their governments are silent.

🚨 INTERCEPTION UPDATE 🚨 Israeli forces have boarded Global Sumud Flotilla vessels. Communication is cut and the status of those on board is unknown. Immediate international action is needed for their safety and release