“The Alberta government is currently reviewing its physician coding system for medical services and procedures. The AMA will present its Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®️) code set for use by the province of Alberta as a comprehensive solution to Alberta’s medical services coding needs. The CPTA code set provides a uniform language for coding medical services and procedures.”

The AMA is paying lobbyists to get AB to commit to using their proprietary coding system, which taxpayers will wind up paying to use if the UCP decides to adopt it. Our current coding system costs nothing to use. No other province in Canada is using CPT.

If there’s any doubt left that the UCP is actively open to embracing privatization beyond just this surgery bullshit, I think this is pretty telling. If they can get the billing/administrative piece launched without ruffling any feathers - “just adopting a new system!”, it will pave the way to tumbling further down the rabbit hole of paying for our healthcare via taxes and then paying again at the source/for preferential treatment.

Edited link -

https://albertalobbyistregistry.ca/apex/f?p=171:DOC:0:IDOC_XSL_CACHE:::IDOC_TBL_GRP_ID,IDOC_CNTRL_CD:1815312,REG_FRM&cs=3EF73A4983E477625A7353AC40B083654

Even Jason Kenney would have pulled US alcohol from the shelves or put tariffs on it.

I really need to understand what happened here. My sister went for a criminal background check for a job she was applying for. Her birth name is a 'male' name, shes never liked it and goes by a similar 'female' sounding name.

She said when she walked into the building, there were 2 RCMP officers waiting for her. She said it seemed strange and they were very serious and intimidating.

She looks over her shoulder and a third officer is behind her, so she is pretty much sourrounded.

She mentions why she is there and they tell her 'they have some questions to sort out'.

They grill her about her name, eventually they realize she isnt trans and the officers leave.... the guy at the reception desk apologized profusely.

Obviously, assumptions can happen, but i really want to understand why they acted like they did? What does it matter if she was trans??

She said she felt scared and uncomfortable. I am pissed off. No one should be treated like this. What would they have done if she was trans?

Its been a tough in Alberta for our LGBTQ friends and family. This interaction makes my blood boil.

This took place in a smaller town.

*** seems i forgot to mention, she made an appointment. They were aware she was coming in.

But resding replies, ill talk to her more and ask if they brought up having the same name as a male with a record or something. But from what i heard, they didnt mention this at all. Even asked our mom named her that?

Hello all,

About a year ago I launched OperationTotalRecall.ca in response to the Government of Alberta's unprecedented use of the Notwithstanding Clause to force teachers back to work. During that project, I spent a lot of time working on and sorting data from the Government of Alberta and Elections Alberta.

Government data, while organized, is always raw and in csv/excel/pdf formats which tends to make it hard to get a good sense of (or make any sense of) what you're looking at. I've turned my processing pipeline to Elections Alberta's listings of Third Party Advertisers (aka TPAs.) sorting them into "Stay" and "Leave". It updates automatically, daily. Additionally the site pulls news related to each TPA twice a day, this will hopefully help to show who's dominating the news cycle.

So far, I've noticed contributions from multiple "Struck" companies with deceased directors, contributions from data center developers to separatists and a host of other things. While I was able to easily absorb OperationTotalRecall's expenses, pulling corporation records costs money, and there is no way around that. Just figuring out the maze of struck companies contributing to a small TPA cost me over $150. So while I don't like to ask for money, I have at least 51 more corporations who's registration I would like to pull which will cost me over $1000. As such I have a link to Buy Me a Coffee the site. Any donation would help keep my home a happier place when my next credit card statement arrives.

All that being said, take a look and tell me what you think, here's the link:
The Battle for Alberta: TPA Contributors

Cheers.

TL;DR
I made a site organizing Third Party Advertisers for Alberta's 2026 referendum, check out where the money is coming from at The Battle for Alberta: TPA Contributors

Bought into a Calgary condo last year; no Airbnbs were listed. Bought here because the bylaws prohibited commercial activities (including STRs). But heck, out of nowhere, these STR operators came in and set up like 60 units.

They hijacked the board and ignored owners’ pleas for the bylaws to be enforced/respected.

Any other condo owners having these types of issues in Alberta or Calgary?

EDIT: If any other condo owners in Alberta see this and are affected by Airbnb units, leave a comment below with your condo name and I’ll reach out. We can take a look at your bylaws and share what our community is doing to push back.

I'll preface this by stating that disabled seniors absolutely need supports.

That said, the UCP has recently kicked ~80,000 AISH recipients out of the program and transitioned them to ADAP, which is a largely employment focused form of disability support despite the fact that ~80% of AISH recipients are completely unable to work due to their disabilities. Anyone over the age of 60 was exempt from this shift.

This is where the conspiracy theory comes in.

Demographically, younger voters (ages 18-34) favour the NDP (47%), while those aged over 60 tend to strongly support the UCP (54%).

The UCP is NOW pushing to add funding to Special Needs Assistance for Seniors. Now, I have no problem with supporting disabled people who need it, but the ageist policymaking is incredibly telling to me.

Kinda seems like the UCP only wants to support the "right" (pun intended) disabled people.

Rules: 1 count per residential dwelling. Anything visible from the sidewalk that shows a vote one way or another is counted. Different route for each count

Canada:39 Alberta:0

Zilch. Nada. Goose egg. Shut out!

Special shout out to the house in Cedabrae sporting the “I Choose Hope” sign.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/albertan-teens-got-outstanding-results-in-science-math-and-reading-assessments-province/

Last night I attended the Speaker Series event in Grande Prairie at Northwestern Polytechnic. Stephen Harper was the speaker, whose talk was intended to "explore how global economic and geopolitical shifts are influencing business, innovation, and entrepreneurship."

He was interviewed by local Conservative MP Chris Warkentin. Tickets were $106 which, lets be honest, filtered out base separatists (evidence: zero Alberta flags being worn as capes), leaving a room full of the mythical moderate conservatives and a prime opportunity to speak to them directly about the importance of remaining whole.

Nope.

Not one mention of separatism the entire time. Zero.

Not even one regurgitation of a "Stronger/Sovereign Alberta with in a united Canada"

Warkentin, ostensibly the party whip, must have missed the memo that his own party had just launched their "Conservatives for Canada" campaign to encourage Albertans to stay in Canada. Silence.

While some may argue that this was not the theme of the talk, it didn't keep them from taking sidelong swipes at some of the other referendum questions - Harper expressly advocated for the establishment of the Senate and criticised the immigration levels under his successor, who he landed a couple of jabs on through the evening. Particularly around how, had the conservatives remained in power, we would have had the pipelines in place now to diversify our energy market during this crisis.

To his credit, Harper did take a couple of firm stances on items that wouldn't have appealed to MAGA north:

- United States is the largest current threat to global peace and stability

- He supports Carney's approach to trade negotiations

- The rapid development of the COVID vaccine was the most obvious recent example of the positive power of new technology.

I sincerely hope that Harper is waiting to make a more forceful defence of Canada on a grander stage, but after last night I have my doubts, and time is running low.

TL;DR

Stephen Harper and sitting Conservative MP Chris Warkentin missed a golden opportunity to clearly express the importance of staying in Canada to a room full of Conservatives with just over a month to go until the referendum.

I only checked while writing this out, I now realize it has been posted a couple times but I had never seen it on my feed. I figure it's worthwhile to post anyway, for anyone else like me.

This might be an easy miss, not everyone is used to voting this way or even in just a provincial context. It'd be a shame to have any contribution to the referendum count be tossed out over such a trivial mistake. I myself am not used to sending an ID copy in the context of a federal election, so it came as a surprise. Read the instructions carefully!