‘Pandora’s box’: Danielle Smith and insurance giants unleash attack on healthcare ⋆ The Breach Danielle Smith is working hand-in-glove with private insurers to push health privatization in Alberta—and it could spread across Canada

‘Pandora’s box’: Danielle Smith and insurance giants unleash attack on healthcare

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Screenshot of a Fight For the Future article 100+ Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive's Role in Preserving the Public Record. It includes the text “Rachael Maddow declares the Archive is a 'national treasure' as uncertainty mounts on whether today's journalism will be preserved for future generations." Below is a photo of Wayback Machine Mark Graham addresses an audience, standing before a lectern that reads “Journalists ❤️ Internet Archive,” with several attendees on stage. Photo by Kenyatta Thomas.

100+ journalists, including Cory Doctorow, Rachel Maddow and many more, are backing the Internet Archive’s #WaybackMachine as essential to preserving the public record 🗂️

Read more at Fight for the Future 👇
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Exactly 💯

Cat sat in sunlight.

Morning 🤣

AI minister meets with mining, energy companies on environment impacts — not green groups A sessional paper from March 11 reveals Canada's AI minister has not met with environmental groups to discuss the potential impacts of AI infrastructure.

Carney fans, rationalize away!

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Through backdoor deals with anti-LGBTQ+ bigots the liberals achieved an undemocratic majority.

Within a few years Mark Carney will complete his plan for a full AI surveillance police state in partnership with Israel and big tech while selling resources to the highest bidders

Corsight AI is owned by Stephen Harper's company, AWZ Ventures.

Burn, baby, burn.

"Three Liberals privately suggested to the Star that Prime Minister Mark Carney may put federal money behind a new pipeline to the west coast. [...] sources say Carney wants to see the pipeline built, and is realizing it may not happen without more public money behind it."

🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated:

More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector
$925 million for AI
$81.8 billion over 5 years for military

However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.

Le congrès du Parti libéral se déroule à Montréal ce vendredi, et nous serons sur place pour exiger un système de santé qui accorde la priorité aux personnes plutôt qu'aux profits.

Joignez-vous à nous ce vendredi à midi, devant le Palais des congrès!

The Liberal Party convention is happening in Montreal this Friday, and we are showing up to demand a health care system that prioritizes people over profits.

Join us at 12 PM this Friday outside the Palais des congrès to help us defend public health care for all!

We can tell you who will really get rich from this oil crisis – and how we can stop them | Isabella Weber and Gregor Semieniuk Soaring oil costs signal the great transfer of wealth away from households, but also a new opportunity to redistribute it, say economists Isabella Weber and Gregor Semieniuk

YES! Once again, with gas prices skyrocketing, fossil fuel companies are about to make a killing on this war. It's vital that we have a windfall profits tax on oil & gas corporations. This piece by economists Isabella Weber and Gregor Semieniuk makes the case:

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Tracking the cuts.
As usual this crucial journalism not being done by any in mainstream media or our national broadcaster.
1400 cuts to ECCC is a devastating loss in a time of parallel climate and biodiversity crises.

Cuba, Haïti et la démocratie

Chronique | Les deux peuples ont été sabotés en parallèle, dans des styles et des pièges différents, pour le même étouffement.

This government finds new lows to carve out for itself.

There's something so repugnant and insulting when such a generic letter, filled with bland platitudes, is sent to an association of historians who know full well who is to blame for these cutbacks. Many of us specialize in the histories of government, politics, and the state, for goodness sakes!

The Alberta government continues to say that it is not bringing in US-style, two-tier health care

Have a read of this update from an ophthalmologists' office

A clear and blatant violation of the Canada Health Act and the principle of access based on need, not ability to pay

#cdnpoli #abpoli

@alonghurst.bsky.social fyi

Hello, You are receiving this message because you are currently on the publicly funded cataract surgery waitlist at Mitchell Eye Centre. We are writing to share an informational update regarding a recent change to Alberta’s health care rules that may provide an additional option for some patients awaiting cataract surgery. For more information, you can review the Government of Alberta’s overview here: As a result of this change, some patients may now choose to pay privately for cataract surgery rather than remaining on the public waitlist. This option is entirely voluntary. Your place on the publicly funded waitlist does not change unless you choose to pursue private surgery. This information is being shared so that patients are aware of all available options. If you would like information about privately funded cataract surgery, please contact our surgical coordinator directly: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Once contacted, our team will follow up to provide information and answer any questions you may have. If you prefer to remain on the publicly funded waitlist, no action is required at this time. Thank you for your patience while awaiting care, and for trusting Mitchell Eye Centre with your eye care. Sincerely, Mitchell Eye Centre

Two-tier health care, in violation of the Canada Health Act, is now a reality in Alberta.

You can pay your surgeon to jump the public wait list and get your surgery ahead of everyone else.

Instead of fixing public health care, Danielle Smith is destroying it.

#ableg #abpoli

Today's greatest inflationary pressures over the past year:
Groceries, rental housing, out of pocket purchases of healthcare services.
Electricity inflation has risen the fastest since November (year over year inflation)
From www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/c...

Fascinating - what's the contribution of out of pocket health spending to overall inflation here? Is it driven mostly by drug prices?

Guess what? *American* companies will profit yet again.

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Feds earmark money for munitions factories in Quebec, Ontario Defence Minister David McGuinty says the federal government is giving a big boost to the munitions industry to build up the domestic supply of heavy artillery shells.

It's all fossil fuels, AI, and weapons -- and corporate profits in all of those -- in Carney's vision of Canada.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Pushed into ICE detention: Canada sent this Haitian man back to the U.S. despite his claim he qualified for asylum The 25-year-old had all the documents to prove his relationship with an "anchor family member" — his aunt — in order to make the refugee claim. But she was out

He had all the documents to prove his relationship with his “anchor family member” in Canada to qualify for an exemption to Safe Third Country Agreement banning him from making the refugee claim. CBSA sent him back to the US cos his aunt was out of Canada
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The asymmetry in the language is just awful.

A large crowd gathered outside the office of Edmonton Liberal MP Eleanor Olszewski on Monday, one of more than a dozen rallies held across Canada, calling on Ottawa to protect the country's public health care system.

Protesters say 'American-style' 2-tiered health care is coming to Canada globalnews.ca/news/11733546/protesters...
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we are going to win

The philistinism of the 0.01% on full display here.

Vancouver to Halifax: Nation-wide demonstrations against Alberta’s two-tier health-care bill From frontline health-care workers to concerned seniors, advocates for Canada’s public health-care system held demonstrations at the offices of members of parliament across the country, including in d...

Vancouver to Halifax: Nation-wide demonstrations against Alberta’s two-tier health-care bill

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