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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 48m

Topple a government midterm? Get the number of signatures required?

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 57m

Brain is clearly addled. A little too much time in the hot desert sun? Showing lingering effects of heat stroke? And someone is a little too smug and confident for skipping town after stripping teachers of their rights. Coward. No, no, no. You don’t get to come back with your head held high. Recall!

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 1h

You hit on an important point of private (choose to move into a facility) versus designated (placed by AHS). Big cost difference. Link is for the subsidized rates plus all the other costs you mentioned and more (tenant insurance, phone, TV…)

www.alberta.ca/continuing-c...

Continuing care – Resident accommodation charges

Find out the cost of resident accommodation charges for continuing care homes or waiting in hospital.

www.alberta.ca

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 1h

UCP have stated their priority is to move ALC folks out of the hospitals to deal with overcapacity issues. How? What is the plan? Where are the spaces? An aging population should be no surprise and planning should have started years ago. Our society and government have failed the older generation.

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 1h

This is a tragically common story. Older people in community wait for placement behind those in hospitals. There are few placements for couples, this waitlist even longer. They are involuntarily separated. There is no longer choice, first bed available which could be anywhere in a zone.

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 1d

Please god let him withdrawal! Just crawl into a hole and stay there already.

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 1d

We still have the ace investigative reporter @carrietait.bsky.social! Keep kicking at the darkness.

Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 2d

It is honestly worth listening to the whole committee proceedings. So much to digest.

AG Wylie also laid out the scope and cost of auditing a dismantled and restructured health care system.

NDP MLAs scored big points debating, but the game is rigged.

assemblyonline.assembly.ab.ca/Harmony/en/P...

Legislative Offices

Meeting in Rocky Mountain Room, video

assemblyonline.assembly.ab.ca

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 2d

Great point!

Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 2d

So then we’re left with the RCMP investigation? Hopefully they can finish before Smith replaces them all with her provincial police force.

Or is there someone willing to do the audits for free? I mean, Mr. Wylie did put it out into the Universe.

The corruption must be really bad. Realllly bad.

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 2d

And of course the UCP - care of Minister Petrovich - avoided, deflected, and delayed.

Thank you for speaking up and for the vast majority of Albertans. You were outstanding.

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 3d

I share your fear. I was ruminating on the same thing this morning. I am checking Election Alberta’s website daily to see if/when recall petitions are approved. The timeline for Nicolaides’ recall moved fairly quickly. I also fear people will tire of too many petitions. Requires a lot of volunteers.

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone know when and where she touches back down on Alberta soil? Maybe a nice “welcome home” is in order. Line the streets and highways in protest as she drives on by. Something like when Trump went to Scotland.

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for being clear on where the responsibility for this child’s life lies, which is the Minister for ACA. The UCP govt’s “restructuring and refocusing” has stripped AHS of any authority to improve patient care or to provide any care at all. AHS will be a hospital service provider, that’s it.

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 4d

There’s Tod the Optimist and Energizer Bunny.

And then there’s the rest of Canada:

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 4d

SickKids is a national leader in paediatric cancer research and is often the first Canadian site to open a clinical trial for new or innovative treatments.

www.sickkids.ca/en/news/arch...

SickKids named world’s best children’s hospital

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) has been named by Newsweek and Statista as the best children’s health-care centre in the world, topping the list of 250 children's hospitals globally.

www.sickkids.ca

Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 4d

Let it sink in that Ben is #4! Three kids are waiting ahead of Ben and how many more behind? No kid should ever have to wait for cancer treatment. Ever. Lagrange was willing to airlift babies elsewhere when NICU capacity was strained in 2024. Time for an all expenses paid trip to SickKids in TO.

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 4d

The full extent of my Bluesky feeds right now. Keep the commentary coming!

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 4d

From the release above:

“These financial supports are not new funding. They are funds redirected from teacher salaries that were not paid during the strike.”

Money that could be redirected and reinvested into hiring more teachers and EAs right now!

@naheednenshi.bsky.social

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 4d

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 4d

Done!

Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s the news release on the “Parent Payment Program”:

www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

Help for families: Parent payments begin

Eligible families who applied for support through the Parent Payment Program on or before Oct. 27 will receive their full payment starting Oct. 31.

www.alberta.ca

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 5d

“As of Oct. 29, 222,444 Albertans have applied for payments, according to a provincial news release. More than 180,000 of those parents are receiving their money on Friday.”

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 5d

This is OUTRAGEOUS!

No money for AB public education, but $86,000,000+ for parents.

180,000 parents x $480 for the 16 days students were out of the classroom.

Read this article and do the math. Please tell me I am wrong!

@thebreakdownab.bsky.social
@albertandp.ca

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Eligible Alberta parents receive provincial payments Friday for children out of school during teachers' strike | CBC News

Thousands of Alberta parents will receive e-transfers from the provincial government Friday as part of promised aid to help cover costs of children being out of school during the more than three-week ...

www.cbc.ca

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 5d

Just when you think Smith and her gang have hit rock bottom in their cruelty. Nope. This has gone too far. TOO FAR!

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