HappyJazzz
Active Member
You’re wrong.
Is that succinct enough?
haha, perhaps too succinct, but I do appreciate the brevity!
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Alberta Politics
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haha, perhaps too succinct, but I do appreciate the brevity!
kcantor
Senior Member
Isn’t that Jennifer Johnson’s riding?
The lady who compared the presence of transgender children in schools to "adding a teaspoon of feces to a batch of cookies”?
The lady Smith said would never sit in caucus?
TAS
Senior Member
Ok, here's Danielle Smith wondering why oncologists can't keep up with their patient load (it's a 60sec clip below).
She's questioning the shortage of oncologists. She says there are 23,000 new cancer cases every year and 120 oncologists in Alberta. That's 191 patients for each oncologist, she says. That means less than a patient per day, she says.
OMG. Does she think an oncologist only sees a new patient once per year? And what about the patients the year before that and so on? Do those just drop off the list because it's a new year? For instance, after finishing treatment for breast cancer, for the next 5 years, you'll see your oncologist and other members of your health care team on a regular basis. Depending on your situation, you'll see them 1-4 times a year (googled that) - and that's after successful treatment.
Oncologists are constantly being sent new test results from their patient load that require review/analysis etc. And then of course there are different types of oncologists - focusing on surgery, chemo or radiation.
She's questioning the shortage of oncologists. She says there are 23,000 new cancer cases every year and 120 oncologists in Alberta. That's 191 patients for each oncologist, she says. That means less than a patient per day, she says.
OMG. Does she think an oncologist only sees a new patient once per year? And what about the patients the year before that and so on? Do those just drop off the list because it's a new year? For instance, after finishing treatment for breast cancer, for the next 5 years, you'll see your oncologist and other members of your health care team on a regular basis. Depending on your situation, you'll see them 1-4 times a year (googled that) - and that's after successful treatment.
Oncologists are constantly being sent new test results from their patient load that require review/analysis etc. And then of course there are different types of oncologists - focusing on surgery, chemo or radiation.
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The_Cat
Senior Member
I wonder how well-staffed the Cross and the new Calgary cancer facilities are staffed.
TAS
Senior Member
% this:"Buying a party membership shouldn’t mean becoming a VIP to exclusive government policy announcements."
"...when it comes to changes in health care, taxes, spending and policing, Albertans shouldn’t have to try to piece together belated accounts or leaks from private party events. If decisions have been made on significant new policy initiatives, the premier and cabinet ministers should be announcing them publicly to all Albertans."
Breakenridge: Smith declares policies, plans to UCP insiders only
Premier forgets she has to govern for all of Alberta by making surprise pronouncements at private events
calgaryherald.com
Gus Haynes
Active Member
To Smith, there are three tiers of Albertans: At the top, UCP donors and insiders; at the second tier, UCP voters; at the third and bottom tier are the urban voters that did not vote for her party.
Gronk!
Senior Member
The next provincial election cannot come soon enough, I look forward to seeing Nenshi's NDP oust that cow and her clown show.
MacLac
Senior Member
"Scanned for electronic signal to enter?" This is a thing?
MacLac
Senior Member
I would imagine piss poorly. How many more Job Fairs in the Philippines are they going to make to man our facilities up?
trevorhayden
Active Member
I don't think Smith has even another 6 months left in office. The right has a tendency to eat their own. She is doomed at the next leadership review.
The_Cat
Senior Member
Why does the UCP worry more about pleasing the far right, like Take Back Alberta?
Airboy
Senior Member
As much as I would love to believe this I don't think there is a back bone that will withstand and change. We have Danny and the UCP for a couple of more years.
bodsbods9090
Active Member
I've heard that from people too. She isn't as well thought as some think she is.
David A
Senior Member
I think even Smith realizes some of the harebrained and kooky ideas being announced recently would not be well received if announced to a more non partisan audience.
"Buying a party membership shouldn’t mean becoming a VIP to exclusive government policy announcements."
"...when it comes to changes in health care, taxes, spending and policing, Albertans shouldn’t have to try to piece together belated accounts or leaks from private party events. If decisions have been made on significant new policy initiatives, the premier and cabinet ministers should be announcing them publicly to all Albertans."
Breakenridge: Smith declares policies, plans to UCP insiders only
Premier forgets she has to govern for all of Alberta by making surprise pronouncements at private events
So she tries to quietly float these trial balloons to a sympathetic crowd, which end up sinking like lead ones anyways..
TAS
Senior Member
In the Sept. 3 letter obtained by Postmedia, Transportation and Economic Corridors Minister Devin Dreeshen calls the revised concept of the southeast-to-downtown Green Line LRT plan in Calgary a wasteful disaster and states the province can't in good conscience follow through with its $1.53-billion funding share.
calgaryherald.com
Province rejects revised Green Line plan, says funding to be withheld
In a scathing letter, Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen slams Calgary's Green Line plan, saying funding for it to be withheld.
calgaryherald.com