Lynne Dutton
@lynnerdutton.bsky.social
Trying to be informed AND keep a sense of humour. I have opinions.
Alberta via Saskatchewan
Alberta via Saskatchewan
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Good interview. @robbreakenridge.bsky.social does a nice job of introducing citizen initiatives & Corb an equally good job of explaining why we need clear legislation to prohibit coal mining activities in the eastern slopes.
#ableg #abpoli @cpawssab.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlGm...
#ableg #abpoli @cpawssab.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlGm...
PODCAST: Corb Lund on why Albertans deserve as say over coal mining along the Eastern Slopes
YouTube video by Rob Breakenridge Show
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Good interview. @robbreakenridge.bsky.social does a nice job of introducing citizen initiatives & Corb an equally good job of explaining why we need clear legislation to prohibit coal mining activities in the eastern slopes.
#ableg #abpoli @cpawssab.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlGm...
#ableg #abpoli @cpawssab.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlGm...
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“Albertans who fail to renew their health card on time will lose AHCIP coverage.
“Insured services may be declined until coverage is reinstated. Emergency services are still provided, but the patient may be billed if uninsured,”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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“Insured services may be declined until coverage is reinstated. Emergency services are still provided, but the patient may be billed if uninsured,”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...
Renewing health cards won't cost money, but failing to do so will cost coverage - Medicine Hat News
[email protected] The UCP government is proposing a set of changes to the Alberta health card under Bill 11, sweeping health-care legislation tabled Monday. Amendments to the Health Insurance...
medicinehatnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“Albertans who fail to renew their health card on time will lose AHCIP coverage.
“Insured services may be declined until coverage is reinstated. Emergency services are still provided, but the patient may be billed if uninsured,”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...
“Insured services may be declined until coverage is reinstated. Emergency services are still provided, but the patient may be billed if uninsured,”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...
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Mark Carney managed to trade a pipeline that will never get built for meaningful progress on industrial carbon pricing and electricity interties — both of which will get more wind and solar built.
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Mark Carney managed to trade a pipeline that will never get built for meaningful progress on industrial carbon pricing and electricity interties — both of which will get more wind and solar built.
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
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They’re hitting drug coverage too..
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
They’re hitting drug coverage too..
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Protecting a universal healthcare system involves ensuring stable, long-term funding, which can be achieved through government investment & preventing cuts to public services.
#Canpoli #ableg #abpoli #Alberta #yyc #yeg #Canada #UCP #AxeTheVaxTax #ABHealth #RecallThemAll #CanadaSky
notwotier.ca
#Canpoli #ableg #abpoli #Alberta #yyc #yeg #Canada #UCP #AxeTheVaxTax #ABHealth #RecallThemAll #CanadaSky
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URGENT – Stop Premier Danielle Smith’s Plan to End Universal Healthcare
Alberta Premier Smith has used the Notwithstanding Clause to pass laws that erase rights and silence the courts.
notwotier.ca
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Protecting a universal healthcare system involves ensuring stable, long-term funding, which can be achieved through government investment & preventing cuts to public services.
#Canpoli #ableg #abpoli #Alberta #yyc #yeg #Canada #UCP #AxeTheVaxTax #ABHealth #RecallThemAll #CanadaSky
notwotier.ca
#Canpoli #ableg #abpoli #Alberta #yyc #yeg #Canada #UCP #AxeTheVaxTax #ABHealth #RecallThemAll #CanadaSky
notwotier.ca
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Shut
This
Shit
Down
🤬
Not in our country, don’t go bringing hate into Canada, these people are domestic terrorists! These groups are on the terror watch lists.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This
Shit
Down
🤬
Not in our country, don’t go bringing hate into Canada, these people are domestic terrorists! These groups are on the terror watch lists.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Growing white nationalist group behind broad daylight demonstration in London on Sunday | CBC News
An apparent white nationalist demonstration on a busy overpass near London, Ont.'s downtown on Sunday afternoon is concerning for witnesses and experts who track extremist behaviour.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Shut
This
Shit
Down
🤬
Not in our country, don’t go bringing hate into Canada, these people are domestic terrorists! These groups are on the terror watch lists.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This
Shit
Down
🤬
Not in our country, don’t go bringing hate into Canada, these people are domestic terrorists! These groups are on the terror watch lists.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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“And, in fact, I did no such thing.
“I would note that the report didn’t even say it was AHS who destroyed them, only that they had ‘been destroyed”
Smith apparently caught in another lie after the former AHS CEO calls her out!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
“I would note that the report didn’t even say it was AHS who destroyed them, only that they had ‘been destroyed”
Smith apparently caught in another lie after the former AHS CEO calls her out!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Braid: Whodunit? Government blames ex-AHS boss in case of missing notebooks
Premier Danielle Smith's attempt to blame ex-AHS boss Athana Mentzelopoulos for destruction of key notebooks doesn't hold up.
calgaryherald.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“And, in fact, I did no such thing.
“I would note that the report didn’t even say it was AHS who destroyed them, only that they had ‘been destroyed”
Smith apparently caught in another lie after the former AHS CEO calls her out!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
“I would note that the report didn’t even say it was AHS who destroyed them, only that they had ‘been destroyed”
Smith apparently caught in another lie after the former AHS CEO calls her out!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
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“it “begs the question of whether the terminations were for legitimate performance reasons or if this is political interference in the prosecutorial function.”
On the same day that Smith overrides the courts, concerns are again raised about interference.
edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/q...
On the same day that Smith overrides the courts, concerns are again raised about interference.
edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/q...
Questions swirl as Edmonton chief prosecutor and deputy out of jobs
Edmonton's top Crown prosecutor and a deputy are out of their jobs, with little explanation being offered either publicly or to their former colleagues.
edmontonjournal.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:18 AM
“it “begs the question of whether the terminations were for legitimate performance reasons or if this is political interference in the prosecutorial function.”
On the same day that Smith overrides the courts, concerns are again raised about interference.
edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/q...
On the same day that Smith overrides the courts, concerns are again raised about interference.
edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/q...
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With this leaked document it will be difficult for the UCP to deny their endgame is to privatize healthcare in Alberta. As is the case with the dismantling of AHS, there is no evidence to support this. To the contrary, both will further weaken the public healthcare system.
SCOOP: Alberta intends to allow doctors working in the public health care system to simultaneously offers services in a parallel private market, according to draft amendments obtained by The Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
Alberta plans to allow doctors to deliver public and private services
Draft legislation would establish a model for medicine unlike any other in Canada
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
With this leaked document it will be difficult for the UCP to deny their endgame is to privatize healthcare in Alberta. As is the case with the dismantling of AHS, there is no evidence to support this. To the contrary, both will further weaken the public healthcare system.
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ICYMI - A rare inside view of the UCP push to embed the private for-profit surgery industry in Alberta - no matter the cost, even to cancer patients.
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing | The Tyee
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation.
thetyee.ca
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
ICYMI - A rare inside view of the UCP push to embed the private for-profit surgery industry in Alberta - no matter the cost, even to cancer patients.
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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The AB govt will likely use the notwithstanding clause on 3 laws today & in so doing, obstruct access to gender-affirming health care.
"If this is allowed to pass the obvious question is: whose rights or which health care services will they attack next?” www.friendsofmedicare.org/use_of_notwi...
"If this is allowed to pass the obvious question is: whose rights or which health care services will they attack next?” www.friendsofmedicare.org/use_of_notwi...
November 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The AB govt will likely use the notwithstanding clause on 3 laws today & in so doing, obstruct access to gender-affirming health care.
"If this is allowed to pass the obvious question is: whose rights or which health care services will they attack next?” www.friendsofmedicare.org/use_of_notwi...
"If this is allowed to pass the obvious question is: whose rights or which health care services will they attack next?” www.friendsofmedicare.org/use_of_notwi...
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Q. What is the state of the media?
A. Things have changed dramatically
Almost all my friends are reporters, & they have 2 options: keep their heads down at the outlet where they work & keep their big paycheck, or go independent & report what’s actually going on
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
A. Things have changed dramatically
Almost all my friends are reporters, & they have 2 options: keep their heads down at the outlet where they work & keep their big paycheck, or go independent & report what’s actually going on
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
Ben Collins, from ‘The Onion’: ‘The powerful have a revenge fantasy, it’s the revenge of the dorks’
The CEO of the leading US satirical website explains what to do when reality is crazy, and how he is trying to buy the website of a famous conspiracy theorist
english.elpais.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Q. What is the state of the media?
A. Things have changed dramatically
Almost all my friends are reporters, & they have 2 options: keep their heads down at the outlet where they work & keep their big paycheck, or go independent & report what’s actually going on
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
A. Things have changed dramatically
Almost all my friends are reporters, & they have 2 options: keep their heads down at the outlet where they work & keep their big paycheck, or go independent & report what’s actually going on
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
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Friends of Medicare is excited to announce another town hall with @PfParks. We are coming to St. Albert! Your voice. Your care. Your community. Real talk on public health care for every Alberta family. Sign up. Show up. friendsofmedicare.org/health_care_st…
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Friends of Medicare is excited to announce another town hall with @PfParks. We are coming to St. Albert! Your voice. Your care. Your community. Real talk on public health care for every Alberta family. Sign up. Show up. friendsofmedicare.org/health_care_st…
Perfect camouflage …
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Perfect camouflage …
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Here’s my latest for @nationalobserver.com on what Canadian progressives should learn from the Mamdani campaign
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/13/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/13/o...
Lessons for Canadian progressives from the Mamdani campaign
While there are ample lessons to be learned from the Mamdani campaign and Mamdani himself as a candidate — incredible message discipline, a supercharged field organization, and an unmatched digital ga...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Here’s my latest for @nationalobserver.com on what Canadian progressives should learn from the Mamdani campaign
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/13/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/13/o...
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Everyone should listen to this excellent question – w excellent points that the Premier didn’t bother to answer...
But let's break this down, shall we?
TLDR: when Premier says “they” she is deflecting cuz “they” = GOVT
1/13
Everyone should listen to this excellent question – w excellent points that the Premier didn’t bother to answer...
But let's break this down, shall we?
TLDR: when Premier says “they” she is deflecting cuz “they” = GOVT
1/13
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Everyone should listen to this excellent question – w excellent points that the Premier didn’t bother to answer...
But let's break this down, shall we?
TLDR: when Premier says “they” she is deflecting cuz “they” = GOVT
1/13
Everyone should listen to this excellent question – w excellent points that the Premier didn’t bother to answer...
But let's break this down, shall we?
TLDR: when Premier says “they” she is deflecting cuz “they” = GOVT
1/13
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Albertans read this thread and tell your friends. There aren’t enough government run longterm care facilities so patients needing extensive care that longterm care provides are stuck in hospitals taking up beds. They are there for months, years. Private care homes not the answer.
#abpoli #UCP
#abpoli #UCP
x.com/thebreakdownab...
Everyone should listen to this excellent question – w excellent points that the Premier didn’t bother to answer...
But let's break this down, shall we?
TLDR: when Premier says “they” she is deflecting cuz “they” = GOVT
1/13
Everyone should listen to this excellent question – w excellent points that the Premier didn’t bother to answer...
But let's break this down, shall we?
TLDR: when Premier says “they” she is deflecting cuz “they” = GOVT
1/13
November 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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www.ctvnews.ca/calga...
I've been saying this a lot... but hoping it might land with govt leads at some point: we currently have no cooridinated prov workforce plan.
Overtime costs more, and risks burning out our workforce...
1/2
I've been saying this a lot... but hoping it might land with govt leads at some point: we currently have no cooridinated prov workforce plan.
Overtime costs more, and risks burning out our workforce...
1/2
‘Pushed to their breaking point’: Paramedics working thousands of hours of overtime every month across Alberta
Alberta paramedics are working tens of thousands of hours of overtime every month.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
www.ctvnews.ca/calga...
I've been saying this a lot... but hoping it might land with govt leads at some point: we currently have no cooridinated prov workforce plan.
Overtime costs more, and risks burning out our workforce...
1/2
I've been saying this a lot... but hoping it might land with govt leads at some point: we currently have no cooridinated prov workforce plan.
Overtime costs more, and risks burning out our workforce...
1/2
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Westlock is banning the Pride flag from municipal property, citing the need for civic neutrality. Yet, here's Bonita placing a wreath openly branded with the UCP logo at a public war memorial. The hypocrisy is the point: Neutrality only applies to symbols you disagree with. #Westlock #ABpoli #ABleg
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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What's at the root of the UCP's use of the notwithstanding clause?
Our @partyloyalty.bsky.social research suggests hyperpartisanship is playing a huge role.
The locker room mentality in the UCP caucus is encouraging MLAs to cede even more power to the premier's office.
That's bad for democracy.
Our @partyloyalty.bsky.social research suggests hyperpartisanship is playing a huge role.
The locker room mentality in the UCP caucus is encouraging MLAs to cede even more power to the premier's office.
That's bad for democracy.
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
What's at the root of the UCP's use of the notwithstanding clause?
Our @partyloyalty.bsky.social research suggests hyperpartisanship is playing a huge role.
The locker room mentality in the UCP caucus is encouraging MLAs to cede even more power to the premier's office.
That's bad for democracy.
Our @partyloyalty.bsky.social research suggests hyperpartisanship is playing a huge role.
The locker room mentality in the UCP caucus is encouraging MLAs to cede even more power to the premier's office.
That's bad for democracy.
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This is an amazing long read. Required reading for Canadians #cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/dgardner...
open.substack.com/pub/dgardner...
Let's Go, Canada!
A few thoughts about travel and getting big things done.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This is an amazing long read. Required reading for Canadians #cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/dgardner...
open.substack.com/pub/dgardner...
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“EMS in Alberta now relies on exhausted professionals who are routinely working long stretches, sometimes mandatory and without rest, to give everything they can without the support they need,”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
‘Pushed to their breaking point’: Paramedics working thousands of hours of overtime every month across Alberta
Alberta paramedics are working tens of thousands of hours of overtime every month.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“EMS in Alberta now relies on exhausted professionals who are routinely working long stretches, sometimes mandatory and without rest, to give everything they can without the support they need,”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...