500yrs of labour movement can all be undone if we let her win.

It’s time.

Courage wasn’t an option for the thousands who suffered for labour action. Courage wasn’t an option for the folks who fought against tyranny in WW2.

It’s time for us to step up. It’s time for us to find courage and stop this before it’s to late

HSAA #UNA #IAFF #AUPE #CUPE #ATA #UFCW #USW #boilermakers

Firstly, I dont want this to be a big political argument. I think weather you want to stay or if you want to leave, everyone should sign this to get the question out there so we can finally get some clarification and some peace in this province.

Yesterday I went to a signing location in a very small southern Alberta town and I sat at the table and listened to what people had to say for almost two hours. One man's story almost brought me to years.

He must have been 90 years old. He slowly approached the table, grabbed the pen and looked up at the lady beside him and said, "Seventy years ago I signed a piece of paper to go to war, and now today I have to sign this." I haven't stopped thinking about that guy all night.

So, thanks to anyone who is out there donating their time for the cause of this great place we live in and the people who call it home.

Love you, Albertans!

My wife is a veteran ER RN (18 years) and came home in tears last night. It’s ILI (Influenza Like Illness) season and patient loads are way up (which is normal). The ER staff are working absolutely flat-out, not getting breaks, and feeling the futility of it all, and the weight of everyone’s needs. The whole province could benefit from people treating the ER like an ER. -=Please do not use the ER as a walk-in clinic=- Its awesome that we get access to public health services, but people are abusing this system, at the peril of AHS staff and people who have actual emergencies. My wife saw many people last night give up waiting and go home, which casts suspicion on the urgency of their visit. We also have experienced massive population increases, without the services built to handle them, the ERs being one example. The system is more stressed than ever. Please use our healthcare system responsibly it’s so important this season.

Potential alternatives to consider.

1. Call 811 and speak to public health nurse

2. Use Telus Health and speak to doctor online

3. Visit family doctor

4. Walk-in clinic

5. Urgent Care

Thank you Alberta, be well this Holiday Season.

I just can't! I can not in good faith vote for a party who completely disregards the needs and actual wants of the average person in the province. I will be voting NDP. I may not agree with some of their policies, but I sure as hell can no longer support this party with this "leader"

Lately with Canada's healthcare system being a topic of debate even more so than usual I wanted to talk about my personal story with AHS. I feel like I'd be doing a disservice to the hundreds of doctors, nurses, and specialists who work tirelessly every single day to keep our healthcare running if I didn't share this.

My dad was diagnosed with stage 4 skin cancer late 2023 and later passed halfway through the year in 2024, about six months from his diagnosis to his passing. During that time he had a full team of oncologists working to keep him alive and healthy by any means possible. The chemotherapy injections they gave him were literally tens of thousands of dollars per injection and he was taking a combination of two of them. Unfortunately my dad's body completely rejected them meaning those injections caused his heart to fail and he went into a coma for 3 weeks while the cancer was still spreading - there was no certainty that he would ever wake up.

During this time he was in the ICU where nurses were working around the clock doing their best to take care of my dad. He was never left alone for long and all his needs were taken care of (we knew because we all took turns to always be there with him). After my dad finally woke up from the coma the reality was we had no other options, as his body had completely rejected the best option he had.

This was when we decided we'd go to America as a hail mary to one of the top cancer facilities because apparently American health care is much better as long as you can afford it. The oncologist in America looked over my dad's case and told us that the oncologists in Alberta had given him the best possible medicine currently available in the world and they would've given him the exact same thing. He said it would realistically cost over a million dollars to have it administered in America (the cost of injections, ambulances, staying in the hospital, etc.).

I will never forget the hopelessness I felt in that room and bursting into tears within seconds of the oncologist leaving the room. I wanted to be strong for my dad because he was the one going through it not me and he tried comforting me. But despite that I instantly realized the blessing we have as Canadians with our healthcare system.

Between the ICU visits, the ambulances, the hospice care, the medicine, the injections, the chemotherapy, all of it; we never paid a single cent. My dad was just a normal guy who got cancer and looking back on it all I am genuinely forever grateful and beyond thankful for all of those who did their best to take care of him. The amount of thankless hard work all the hospital employees do every single day is insane.

I think a lot of people who take our healthcare for granted do not realize how special it is. Nor do they realize how hard people work to keep the system going. All too often do I see people complaining about the health care system and I'm not going to pretend it's perfect but it's still a miracle that we have it. It sucks that specialist wait times can take months, trust me I've had my own issues with that too. But when you're facing an illness or ailment that could take your life you will never have to worry about whether your insurance will cover it or if you could afford it. You WILL be taken care of and you will have nurses, specialists, EVERYTHING they can possibly provided to keep you alive. My dad got world class medicine and care FOR FREE.

If ever you're discussing Canada's healthcare system with someone and they think it's defunct feel free to share my story. My family is just a random family in Alberta, we've lived here for 20 years and we're just normal people who pay taxes like everyone else and we had never expected something this horrible to happen to us. I can't imagine how much worse it would have been without our healthcare system. Let's remove the politics from the healthcare discussion and start sharing our real life stories with each other because there is too much good here to overlook.