Senior Edmonton Care Home Staffer Says they Won’t Properly Treat Unvaccinated Residents

David Dickson, a retired Liverpool police officer and owner of a cybersecurity firm who has been instrumental in gathering government data to show deep flaws in Alberta government and AHS practices, has been hearing reports from within Villa Caritas care home in Edmonton which he shared with TNT.

Dickson said that:

“Last week I was informed through the health care workers group I support, that a senior staff member at Villa Caritas Care Home in Edmonton stated that they would “Slow Code” any person who was unvaccinated. This statement was made to another health care worker in an area that was monitored by a camera.”

Dickson then went on to explain what a “Slow Code” is and why it is fully irresponsible to subject unvaccinated care home patients to that standard of care.

h/t Marvin

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Bakeries, diners and bars serve up defiance to Alberta’s vaccine passport program

The tables at Karen’s Homestyle Cooking in downtown Peace River, Alta., sit empty.

Owner Karen Greaves would rather turn diners away than participate in Alberta’s vaccine passport program.

“I’m just totally done with it. From Day 1, I was done with it,” Greaves said Thursday.

“This is not about health and safety, it’s about control.”

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Minister formerly an activist

Newly minted Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says his agenda to combat climate change and bring down emissions from Alberta’s oilsands is not a secret.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has said Guilbeault’s appointment Tuesday to the environment portfolio sends a “problematic message” to his province about Ottawa’s plans for the oil and gas sector.

Guilbeault is a former environmental activist from Quebec who has called the oilsands “dirty” and argued that pipelines and oil and gas expansion are not compatible with meeting Canada’s climate goals.

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Six Million Rapid-Testing Kits for Alberta Kids Despite “safety and efficacy concerns”

The other day Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced that the province had acquired six million rapid-testing kits for unvaccinated children in schools, so they can be tested twice a week.

It should be noted that currently in Canada COVID-19 vaccines are not approved for children under the age of 12-years-old, so, in theory, all elementary school-age children would be receiving Rapid tests if parents go along with what the Alberta government is wanting them to do.

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Who do Albertans think they are?

When asked which values animate provincial politics, most Albertans continue to describe the dominance of wild west notions, like populism, western alienation, settler colonialism, frontier masculinity, bootstrap individualism, and the primacy of prosperity doctrine (hard work produces wealth).

This becomes clearest when we ask our focus group participants to draw an Albertan who has the most influence over politics in this province. The resulting caricatures most often depict roughnecks, cowboys and farmers. In short, Albertans’ perception of the typical Albertan remains static, gendered, racialized, and rooted in a “wild west” past.

How I despise the CBC.

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Beaumont, Alta., bakery ordered to close over ‘vaccine passport’ rules remains open

A Beaumont, Alta., bakery owner says she’d rather lose her business than stick her nose into that of her customers by asking for their proof of vaccination.

“I refuse to ask for the vaccine passports. It’s not any of my business,” Jen Foster from Bake My Day told CTV News Edmonton Wednesday.

As of Sept. 20, only restaurants that ask for vaccine proof, or a negative COVID-19 test, are allowed to stay open for in-person dining.

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Albertans will finally have a say on Canada’s equalization program

Canada’s system of fiscal federalism and equalization is fundamentally broken and Albertans are finally being given the chance to do something about it.

During next week’s municipal elections, Albertans will have the rare opportunity to participate in direct democracy and vote on the fairness of Canada’s equalization program. Specifically, they will be asked whether equalization payments should be removed from the constitution.

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The AHS’ Mismanagement of ICU Beds appears linked to the NDP’s War against Jason Kenney

I am no fan of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, or the UCP for that matter, and I think his new regime of draconian restrictions and passport system is absolutely abysmal, but at the same time, it would be dishonest to hold Kenney solely responsible for the current situation. There are clearly forces inside and outside of the government pressuring Kenney and the UCP into blowing up the COVID-19 situation into something worse than it really is.

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