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Please read and amplify CompE Psych's message. Four residents have already died and winter is here.

CompE Psych on Twitter “This is the outcome of a poor showing between , , and . To close a shelter because all harms were not being mitigated reeks of the UCP principle in shutting down SCS. Is anyone really surprised? /1 https://t.co/vTOAwPmkRr”

A special Tuesday POP briefing for the upcoming federal election!

Our panel takes to the airwaves again tomorrow, this time with a national focus: what is Canada's strategy to emerge from COVID?

Live: 2PM EDT / 12PM MDT / 11AM PDT

Experts discuss return to school and covid. Taking questions from the audience in advance if you have one (link in their post).

Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXWblAge6ZMLkLFDjTtRwwQ

Calling all a followers! We are broadcasting live tomorrow at 4 pm, discussing COVID and the return to school. We want your questions!

Some will be answered on stream, all will inform the presentation. Thank you!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dS16WXA4xvwBvGR12Ox7Q4tmPacgMhWiIxzuyllUFc4

Protect Our Province Covid Briefings will be continuing Mon, Wed, Fri @ 16:00. In addition to a rundown of recent events and daily numbers, they will be themed. Please join in, and follow the link below to subscribe!

Also send them your questions to help guide the content. Knowledge is power and they are doing this to serve you.

Wednesday Sept 1 - The evidence for airborne transmission with Dr Conar Ruzycki

Friday Sept 3 - Back to school with peds Dr Tehseen Ladha and Support Our Students lead Dr Wing Li

Protect our Province: COVID Briefing (Monday Aug 30, 2021) Protect our Province: COVID Briefing. A regular panel of doctors and experts. We bring timely, accurate updates on the COVID crisis in Alberta and take quest...

The data from today's POP presser.

The Twitter advocate who supplies good data on pediatric hospitlaizations is

https://twitter.com/MerlinofCanada?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Dr Tehseen Ladha is also a superb resource for pediatric concerns

https://twitter.com/TehseenLadha?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Physicians and other health experts doing their best to fill in the massive information vacuum resulting from our MIA government and CMOH. Feel free to tune in and show your support! Link to watch at the end of the article.

Alberta doctors holding COVID-19 updates in absence of province briefings | Globalnews.ca Outspoken Calgary E.R. doctor Dr. Joe Vipond said the panel is in response to a lack of recent direction from the Alberta government on stopping the spread of COVID-19.

Our healthcare system is crumbling. Emergency physicians are demanding help. Will AHS and our government listen?

"It was with confusion and alarm that many of us read your recent op-ed column, Edmonton Journal dated July 31st 2021, where you actively and publicly downplayed the significance of bed closures and increasing staffing issues..."

The exodus of family doctors from Alberta is real, and the blame falls squarely on Health Minister Shandro. Just as the pandemic was sweeping across Alberta, the UCP government decided it was a good time to wage a public war on doctors of Alberta, to violate their Chart rights, to rip up their contract, and block every possible means of good faith negotiations with the Alberta Medical Association. The consequences were predictable. For the first time in recent history, Alberta is recording a net loss of non-specialized general practitioners and family doctors.

“A key moment for Alberta’s education system came in mid-October, when parents and schools began to report lengthy delays in notifications for cases due to a contact tracing backlog from Alberta Health Services.

“By early-to-mid-November, we were hearing about students not knowing about an exposure until the quarantine period was actually over,” said Medeana Moussa, executive director of the Support Our Students advocacy group.

“I think that was a huge Achilles’ heel. . . Everything hinged on that tracing system for schools, and when it broke, I think that’s what landed us in this situation.” “

SOS is quoted in this article alongside university professors, physicians, scientists and other important voices that warned of the concerns around schools, data tracing and COVID19.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/albertas-active-covid-19-cases-lead-the-province-with-a-lockdown-to-last-through-the-holidays-how-did-we-get-here

“The Strategic COVID-19 Pandemic Committee will be co-chaired by Dr. James Talbot, Alberta's former chief medical officer of health, and Dr. Noel Gibney, an intensive care physician and professor emeritus at the University of Alberta.”

Edmonton doctors say new COVID-19 committee will provide ‘impartial, objective’ information The committee said medical leadership is required "with over 1,500 daily cases and exponential growth... and frequent circulation of dangerously incorrect information."

Social supports like AISH benefits and Income Support help keep our patients healthy and out of hospital.

The Auditor General found that the Alberta government made changes to these supports in 2019-2020 for the purpose of tricking Albertans into thinking they increased funding in 2020-2021.

Albeeta doctors don’t think the government should be playing these sort of games with peoples lives.

If you do a good job of being your own contact tracer, Shandro might ask you to replace a rural doctor that left.

“Albertans who are not within these priority groups, who have tested positive for COVID-19, are asked to notify their own close contacts of the exposure.”

https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/topics/Page17199.aspx

Sneaky Shandro is back at it. What is he trying to sneak into his latest healthcare bill to help his vital partners?

The Commissioner issued the following statement expressing disappointment in not being consulted on significant amendments to the Health Information Act and the implications changes may have on Albertans' privacy rights:

https://www.oipc.ab.ca/news-and-events/news-releases/2020/information-and-privacy-commissioner-responds-to-health-information-act-amendments.aspx

Saving lives while rhyming up a storm! Well said Dr Heref Oru!

Dr. Heref Oru on Twitter “This is a 🗣📢 🚨Public Service Announcement🚨 brought to you in part by the 98% of doctors who are tired of Tyler 's lies. 🔊 https://t.co/7mK7Sj5BKr”

We can't sing but these docs sure can! Thanks for the cheer booster, team!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHtZK7uRXEg&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR06lmLdhPWyGEerTybSPnkKzpnXfw4nyUIxheOiqKq504CoQ8p-wGA-_pU

The Last Alberta Doctor We are Doctors of Alberta We can't strike We can't negotiate We can't quit But we can sing...sort of. 🎼To the tune of The Last Saskatchewan Pirate🎼 Performed...

What UNA said. Not cool AHS, not cool.

Public workers of Alberta, we support you!

abdocs4patients recognize that all healthcare workers have a professional and ethical duty to speak out about issues that risk harming their patients, especially when our government is so actively secretive, dishonest and unresponsive.

Thank you Medicine Hat for helping us to help you!

***Please sign the petition but do NOT make donations through this site. These donations do not go to the clinic; they go to the petition website***

Hat mother launches petition to save maternity clinic MEDICINE HAT, AB - A city woman upset with the decision to close the city maternity clinic has launched an onl...

Safe, accessible and affordable public healthcare is a hill worth dying on for so many physicians in Alberta... Despite what Kenney and Shandro want you to think.

When our first-responders suffer, we all suffer. Support our front-line heroes like they deserve.

'It's destroying me as a person': Calgary paramedics say job is taking toll on mental health | CBC News EMS crews in Calgary say they are being pushed to their limits by an ambulance system that is overburdened and under resourced.

But don't worry, Shandro assures us everything is tickety-boo!

Medicine Hat's maternity clinic will close - Medicine Hat News [email protected]@MHNGillianSlade After 17 years the maternity clinic at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital has come to an end. Patients not registered at the maternity clinic by the end of the month will no longer have that option, says Dr. Gerry Prince, who was instrumental in the establishme...

This isn't normal and this isn't right. Physicians are humans and we cannot sustain this.

Doctors are totally not leaving, and totally being recruited. Totally...

Ponoka loses potential new doctor over government’s battle with physicians A Ponoka medical clinic in desperate need of physicians has lost a potential recruit due to the province's rel...

We could not do our jobs without them. They are essential members of the healthcare team. AHS Laundry Workers: thank you and we support you.

The UCP have been attacking frontline health care workers during the pandemic. All the people working overtime to keep us safe. 😡

Now the UCP are redefining who they consider to be on the "frontlines" with their plan to fire 11,000 workers.

Jason Kenney thinks the Albertans who cleaned rooms, washed sheets and served food to patients in hospital, during a pandemic, are expendable.

➡️ These *are* frontline workers, and they deserve better from their government.

❌ Contracting out of services means fewer people doing the work, lower pay, and in some cases the jobs move out of province entirely.

For patients and their families, it means rooms cleaned less often and less thoroughly, and food provided by the lowest bidder.

‼️ We have seen the failings of for-profit care in our continuing care facilities through this pandemic, and now Jason Kenney wants to bring that into our hospitals.

We support our Medical Laboratory Technologists. Well said!

We fully support AUPE employees in their right to strike.
We fully support UNA members in their right to strike.
We fully support HSAA members in their right to strike.
We fully support CUPE members in their right to strike.*

This is a targeted decimation of our public health care system to give our tax dollars to private corporations. You will pay more money for worse healthcare.

*Sorry for the initial unintentional exclusion, CUPE!!!!

This will not save money and this will harm lives.

Health ministry to cut 11,000 AHS jobs to save $600M annually after three years Outsourcing will account for AHS cutting 2,000 laboratory jobs, 4,000 housekeeping jobs, 3,000 food service jobs, and 400 laundry jobs.

As a patient, I definitely don't see any problems with receiving care from a doctor who doesn't want to be there... Definitely no problems for me, the doctor or our public health care system...

Alberta doctors would have to 'stagger' resignations under proposed new standards | CBC News Alberta doctors will no longer be able to quit en masse, should their regulatory college adopt new proposed policies.