I might not seem like your average patient for a complex modifier - but I have ADHD & after my car accident it triggered thyroid & gut problems. Because my Dr. spent more than 10 minutes she was able to make a hashimotos diagnosis. What's your story? #morethantenminutes #AbLeg

6,000 @UniforTheUnion workers at Air Canada just landed some major wins — 21% increases in wages and benefits All without any threat of disruption on either side Collective bargaining works #cdnpoli toronto.citynews.ca/2026/06/…

Fiction vs Fact Fiction: Albertans can move to BC, live there for years, then come back to Alberta because they have an Alberta health care number. Fact: If an Albertan moves to BC, they MUST apply for the BC Medical Services Plan within two months, and their Alberta coverage expires after their BC MSP card becomes active. Conservative leaders bank on their supporters not checking a single damn thing they say. And their supporters never do.

Smith confirmed today that one of the biggest reasons for the new ID's... (For all ages) Is so that Alberta Health Care can expire every 5 years if not renewed. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Taoiseach of Ireland, Micheál Martin pays tribute to PM Mark Carney: Throughout your hugely distinguished career, you have demonstrated wisdom, integrity and leadership at moments of great consequence. You have earned respect, not only in Canada, but all around the world.

🍁 🍁🍁🍁🍁 Monsanto wanted its growth hormone in every glass of Canadian milk. One government scientist stood in the way and his own bosses spent 14 years trying to destroy him for it. His name was Dr. Shiv Chopra. Born in India, 1934. Came to Canada in the 1960s. PhD in microbiology. Senior scientist at Health Canada's Bureau of Veterinary Drugs. 35 years reviewing drug applications. Approve the safe ones. Reject the unsafe ones. Protect the public. For 20 years he did it quietly. Then Monsanto came knocking. A new drug. Bovine growth hormone. Brand name Posilac. Inject it into dairy cows, get 10-15% more milk. Bigger profits for the industry. Far bigger profits for Monsanto. The FDA had rubber-stamped it in 1993. Monsanto expected Canada to follow. The file landed on Chopra's desk. He started reading the science. He started finding holes. The data was thin. Long-term safety studies were missing. The cow studies that did exist showed lameness, mastitis, reproductive failure, shortened lifespans. If it was doing that to the cow, what was it doing to the milk? His recommendation: reject it. Demand real safety data. His managers had a different idea. Approve it. The Americans approved it. Why are you holding it up? Just sign off. He refused. So the pressure started. Closed-door meetings. Attempts to pull the file and hand it to someone friendlier. Gag orders don't talk to the media, don't talk to anyone. Suspensions. Reprimands. Demotions. Dead-end reassignments. He kept refusing. Two other scientists refused with him. Dr. Margaret Haydon. Dr. Gérard Lambert. Same data. Same alarm. Same answer. In 1998 the Canadian Senate launched an investigation into what was happening inside Health Canada. Chopra and his colleagues did something almost nobody does. They walked into the Senate and testified under oath. Said managers were pressuring them to approve unsafe drugs. Said industry was running the regulator. Said the system was broken. It made headlines around the world. In 1999, Health Canada rejected Monsanto's application. rBGH would not be approved. Europe banned it next. Then most of the developed world. Sit with that. One immigrant scientist in Ottawa beat one of the largest chemical corporations on Earth — and won. Then his own government fired him for winning. July 14, 2004. After 35 years of service, Health Canada fired Chopra, Haydon, and Lambert on the same day. Official reason: insubordination. Real reason: he embarrassed them in front of the country. The same year, the Prime Minister mailed him a gold watch for "illustrious service." While they were firing him. He called it comedy. He sued to clear his name. The fight took 13 years. He lost appeal after appeal. The final ruling came down in 2017. Three months later, in January 2018, he died. 83 years old. Never reinstated. Never given his pension back. Never owed an apology by anyone. But here is what they could never take back. rBGH is still banned in Canada today. Every glass of Canadian milk is still hormone-free — because one man refused to sign. And the United States? Never banned it. It's still legal there. Right now. He kept it out of Canada and they fired him. The system he fought is still pouring it into glasses across the border. So tell me below was Shiv Chopra a hero, or just a troublemaker who got what was coming to him? Pick a side. Because someone in those meetings is still telling scientists to "just sign off."

INNISFAIL, thank you for awarding the #ForeverCanadian Unity Bus 1’st prize in your parade!!! 🏅 #ableg

"It's just pure chaos. This is truly a massive blow for clinical sanity in our system right now. We are really struggling. The frontlines are really struggling — our emerg wait times, the system overcrowding, access into our hospitals — it is terrible." cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/a…

The Carney government just dropped a $3.2 billion food security strategy and it’s worth understanding what it actually does. Right now, only 11 cents of every dollar you spend on groceries reaches the farmer who grew it. Five companies control 80% of the grocery market. And Canada exports billions in agricultural products while turning around and importing processed versions of the same food from the US at a markup. This plan attacks that problem structurally. $1 billion goes toward food terminals and distribution hubs so independent grocers can buy directly from Canadian farmers, cutting out the middleman. The Competition Bureau gets a funding boost to go after the property control tricks big grocers use to block competitors from moving in nearby. And Farm Credit Canada gets $1 billion for domestic food processing so we stop exporting raw product and importing it back as something more expensive. The targets are concrete: expand the Ontario Food Terminal by end of year, open two new food terminals and 10 regional food hubs by 2028. This isn’t a handout to Loblaws. It’s infrastructure to break their stranglehold on the supply chain. Will it fix your grocery bill overnight? No. But building real competition into the system is how you get lasting price relief, not a rebate that disappears after one quarter.

Here's Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, in 2018, writing about work on 'Albexit' by Jack Mintz. Smith just appointed Mintz to head a provincial panel detailing the economic case to *remain* in Canada.

Another one bites the dust! The AHS Chief Medical Officer fired - or let go with no notice and no replacement, "was always part of the plan" they'll likely say. Soon we'll have no one with operational experience in leadership! (Reminder: new ACA org is NOT Operational)

I love meeting people and listening to their stories. Here is some voices from the campaign trail. #unity #ForeverCanadian #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli @LukaszukAB @ForCanMVMT

Glad to see this positive decision to prevent wasting money and time resources @AdrianaLaGrange! Thank-you! #AbHealth

CALGARY and LEDUC, come and claim your #ForeverCanadian lawn signs. If you live nearby, claim yours too! #Yyc #ableg

EDMONTON, anyone in or near Edmonton can claim their #ForeverCanadian lawn sign at our campaign headquarters. Please stop by. #Yeg #ableg

Private for-pay surgeries are coming soon to Alberta. But lessons from Quebec, who’ve had this policy for 20 years, show it won’t alleviate long public surgical waitlists. Learn more in our CMAJ paper, or on my substack #healthcarecanada #privatization #medicare cmaj.ca/content/198/8/E298 bradenmanns.substack.com

#yyc more chances for a lawn sign. Mark your calendars June 10 at two locations. @LukaszukAB @ForCanMVMT #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #ForeverCanadian

In #yyccc today, Administration confirms that $244 Million in costs incurred for an underground Green Line downtown has been sunk, burned, lost. 💸💸💸💸 Thanks @DevinDVote! 🤡 #ableg #yyccc

I just got a sign, and put it up. YAHOOOOO!

Great to know that another petition succeeded. This one was completed without any illegal access to the list of electors and will be verified by Elections Alberta. #ableg

Outgoing Governor General Mary Simon receives a standing ovation.