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Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 2h

How to create longer wait lists for those who don't have the means.

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2h

UCP government to allow Albertans to pay privately for some health care services https://globalnews.ca/news/11491855/ucp-government-to-allow-albertans-to-pay-privately-for-some-health-care-services/

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

Integrating more private options into Alberta's public health care system is a notorious point of debate in Alberta. But the province's latest legislative reforms to direct funds and patients to private screening options is deepening the divide. As Sarah Offin reports, some are calling it a violation of the Canada Health Act, while others maintain it's long overdue.

Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 4h

There must be a ridiculousness threshold where the Universe just gives up and folds in on itself.

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 4h

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s terminating trade talks with Canada over this Ontario government anti-tariff ad featuring late Republican president Ronald Reagan, Laura Stone reports
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 4h

Trump is mad because Doug Ford said Ronald Reagan was the best US President ever.

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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 5h

Breaking- it was the tv ads that did it….

CNN @cnn.com · 5h

President Trump said he's ending "all trade negotiations" with Canada because of recent television ads protesting US tariffs. https://cnn.it/42U06zw

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 5h

like Carney's gonna have to agree to station ten million people called "Illegal Alien Fentanyl Bounty Hunters" along the southern border to get us back to the negotiating table now and it's all Premier Dipshit's fault, I am wheezing

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Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 5h

Two very fast skating teams.

Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 6h

i can't keep track of all these line combos. 🤷‍♂️

Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 6h

The have a limited number if pet issues they claim they need sovereignty on. None of them actually help any Albertans.

CTV News Calgary @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social · 7h

Alberta asserts sovereignty with Bill 1; critics call it distraction from labour unrest
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Alberta asserts sovereignty with Bill 1; critics call it distraction from labour unrest

Alberta’s United Conservative government has made provincial sovereignty its top legislative priority, tabling Bill 1, the International Agreements Act.

www.ctvnews.ca

Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 6h

something wrong with the culture right now.

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Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 7h

huh Oliver Kapanen and Kasperi Kapanen are cousins. Kasperi Kapanen will be on the IR for up to 6 weeks with a knee injury. That's bad news.

Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 7h

Zut Alors! Bouchard strikes again.

Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 7h

*conference not division

Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 7h

*great start (cognitive decline)

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Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 7h

#oilers playing a very fast skating and younger #habs team. They're off to a great. (Alberta fans only see the east division teams once per year.)

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Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 7h

Good thing they didn't use tabulators. #yegcc
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From 6 to 600 ballots: What went wrong with the count in sipiwiyiniwak? - Edmonton | Globalnews.ca

Edmonton Elections has released an explanation on how sipiwiyiniwak city council candidates Darrell Friesen and Thu Parmar went from six votes apart, to more than 600.

globalnews.ca

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NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 1d

Another Australian coal company has announced that it has reached a settlement ($95 million)with the GoA over its compensation claims due to Alberta's coal policy flip flops.
Once again this info comes to AB taxpayers from the company website.
No disclosure from the GoA.
#abpoli #cdnpoli

evolvepower.ca

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 8h

Bushart was booked at the Perry County Jail in Linden on September 22, just before 2 a.m. He's been there ever since. interc.pt/3WhLINV

Bodycam footage from the Lexington Police Department shows the arrest of Larry Bushart Jr. on Sept. 21, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme," and the DEK, "Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since."

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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 1d

If you are fed up with social media suppressing info on Covid, other viruses and Long Covid, give this a like and repost. Let's make our voices be heard LOUD and clear all across everyone's feed!!

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Catherine Connolly: the outspoken leftwinger set to be Ireland’s next president

Independent candidate’s smooth campaign has enthused younger voters but views on Nato and Hamas may concern European allies

www.theguardian.com

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Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to read this whenever I don't feel like exercising.

* Note: story not verified.

Story of a man who cycled to Nepal and climbed Mt. Everest.

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MLA Joe Ceci @jceci.bsky.social · 1d

Almost a quarter billion dollars in payouts to Australian coal companies. This UCP government is really bad at governing/economic development. The UCP is costing all of us money. They have to go! #ableg #nocoalminesoneastrrnslopes

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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.ca · 1d

Dominion Voting Systems has remained a villainous character among the fantasies of the Alberta right, even long after Fox paid out $787 million for spreading the lie