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What is dis aster? So many do not know or understand ... why? Potentially they don't like anything but fun ... at whatever expense and consequence ... unless there are no consequences!

Al Ice ... don't look ... there could be a meltdown ... wouldn't that be a gas ! I could be something to stimulate something ... what? There it is more mystery ... and it got darker ... vapors gathered ...
 
Jae said:
Don't know her, jim. In what way(s) is she bizarre?
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Sometimes she seems quite rational and then she does weird and harmful stuff. She caters to fringe elements in society. She sold Alberta's hospitals to Covenant Health, a Roman Catholic health corporation at a cheap price.
 
jimkenney12 said:
Sometimes she seems quite rational and then she does weird and harmful stuff. She caters to fringe elements in society. She sold Alberta's hospitals to Covenant Health, a Roman Catholic health corporation at a cheap price.
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And I think you don't like that because Covenant Health doesn't offer certain procedures. Am I right? Actually, I read up just a little about it... I think it was yesterday. From what I read a number of providers will be involved in delivering health care in the province. I suppose if some hospitals aren't providing certain procedures than it will make things go more slowly at the hospitals who do. Things will get backed up and such. There will be longer waiting lines to have certain stuff done
 
jimkenney12 said:
For me it is more about Conservatives selling off public assets st a discount. Also, i was told she sold all public hospitals to Covenant Health.
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Okay, I think what I was reading was this: Premier Danielle Smith reveals plans to transfer some Alberta hospitals away from AHS | Globalnews.ca which says in part, "...including plans to remove Alberta Health Services (AHS) as the operator of some hospitals and turn facilities over to other operators like Catholic health care provider Covenant Health."
 
jimkenney12 said:
For me it is more about Conservatives selling off public assets st a discount. Also, i was told she sold all public hospitals to Covenant Health.
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She threatened hospitals that if they didn't preform better she'd turn them over to Covenant Health to operate. She apparently did this to LA Crete Health Centre. Look up La Crete on the map. You may see there are several reasons they might have trouble operating at full staff.

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We'll see if they can do better than AHS. There are problems associated with all health care being provided by a Catholic organization. I was offered a job at a what turned out to be a Catholic run hospital. I had to turn it down because it had practices and demands that went against my code of ethics.
 
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She threatened hospitals that if they didn't preform better she'd turn them over to Covenant Health to operate. She apparently did this to LA Crete Health Centre. Look up La Crete on the map. You may see there are several reasons they might have trouble operating at full staff.

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We'll see if they can do better than AHS. There are problems associated with all health care being provided by a Catholic organization. I was offered a job at a what turned out to be a Catholic run hospital. I had to turn it down because it had practices and demands that went against my code of ethics.
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Northern and remote
 
Is there a theology about selling off all public things to private concerns to reach some end? Would it decrease hoarded items ... and all thought would be outside that goal ... just beyond reason ... far out!

However without understanding of the dark abstract ... you do not know what assumed power is concocting ... assuming is a heavy hand crushing all lesser beings ... and thus the paradigm goes down as a false conspiracy ... against the powers I'de assume ...

What's an Ide got to do with primal immaterialism ... belief in essence? Imagine the essence of word as a mental disposition ... complex eh?

Dang ... the person suffers a hated mental complex ... as previously thought ... or was that a will?
 
Thank you Jae for the link. It was our daughter in Alberta, I believe who told us about the hospital transfer threat.

I lived in La Crete. it is one of the most remote communities in the Peace area. The short access to more southerly Alberta was/is by a ferry or ice bridge over the Peace River. The all road route is through Fort Vermilion. I used both. The community is about 97% Mennonite and I felt quite welcome there as a teacher in the adult upgrading school. The Evangelical Mennonite Church was welcoming and had moderate theology. The water in the house I rented was unusable because the oil tank for the school across the street leaked diesel fuel into the water table years earlier. I do not remember a hospital. The teachers enjoyed teaching there. It would be a great challenge to get health personnel with families to move there. I remember it as being well over an hours drive to get to High Level.

Covenant Health is struggling to staff its two hospitals in Edmonton (according to an article published on September 1) so people coming to emergency after a certain number ar there are redirected to the AHS hospitals in Edmonton. The record for Covenant Health in Edmonton is worse than for AHS.
 
jimkenney12 said:
Covenant Health is struggling to staff its two hospitals in Edmonton (according to an article published on September 1) so people coming to emergency after a certain number ar there are redirected to the AHS hospitals in Edmonton. The record for Covenant Health in Edmonton is worse than for AHS.
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That's interesting and goes against Smith's spin. If they have trouble staffing Edmonton hospitals, there's little hope for LA Crete.

I probably couldn't work for a Catholic hospital in my profession. Maybe I could as a nurse or something else.
 
Northwind said:
I provided the links. Jae knows nothing about this issue, much less La Crete
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Jae sent me the first link I used. It was an article in Global news about Smith announcing this at a town hall in Drayton Valley. That link helped me find other links including the interview with a person from the AMA commenting about the problems with Covenant Health. One thing I missed mentioning about La Crete is that it is surrounded by a lot of forest. Prairie people who like to have a horizon could get claustrophobic there.

The decision still is an example of the crazy side of Smith.
 
Ah so now Jae is acting the expert is he? That's all I'll say. I don't see any of Jae's posts.
 
Northwind said:
Ah so no Jae is acting the expert is he? That's all I'll say.
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He was not acting the expert. He was questioning my claim about all the hospitals being transferred to Covenant health as my daughter suggested. he found the Global article and shared the URL with me. It was more of him saying he does not understand all of what is happening in Alberta, but he found this information. I find him less irritating than WhyCzar with all of his posts of videos that I do not care to watch.
 
jimkenney12 said:
Thank you Jae for the link. It was our daughter in Alberta, I believe who told us about the hospital transfer threat.

I lived in La Crete. it is one of the most remote communities in the Peace area. The short access to more southerly Alberta was/is by a ferry or ice bridge over the Peace River. The all road route is through Fort Vermilion. I used both. The community is about 97% Mennonite and I felt quite welcome there as a teacher in the adult upgrading school. The Evangelical Mennonite Church was welcoming and had moderate theology. The water in the house I rented was unusable because the oil tank for the school across the street leaked diesel fuel into the water table years earlier. I do not remember a hospital. The teachers enjoyed teaching there. It would be a great challenge to get health personnel with families to move there. I remember it as being well over an hours drive to get to High Level.

Covenant Health is struggling to staff its two hospitals in Edmonton (according to an article published on September 1) so people coming to emergency after a certain number ar there are redirected to the AHS hospitals in Edmonton. The record for Covenant Health in Edmonton is worse than for AHS.
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You're welcome, jim, my pleasure. It does seem like quite the complicated situation.

Not that it's the same as the government actually operating the hospitals, but will it at least be regularly inspecting the ones run by Covenant Health and any others?

La Crete sounds like quite a place. The way you describe it here reminds me somewhat of the old TV show Northern Exposure.

A good article on Smith that I found this morning on Smith's rise to power is https://macleans.ca/politics/unsteady-reign-danielle-smith/ It says her party has had to rebrand her a few times, including at one point telling people, basically, 'Don't worry about her. She'll be gone soon enough. Elect the party.'

It also talks about some of her ideas, "Smith is the most polarizing politician in Alberta—and arguably in Canada, thanks largely to her inability to keep her foot out of her mouth and her susceptibility to some truly out-there ideas. In the lead-up to the campaign, she mused about privatizing hospitals and claimed that cancer is preventable until stage 4. She baselessly claimed Cherokee ancestry and refuted the existence of mass graves around residential schools. Last March, on a right-wing social-media platform called Locals.com, she trumpeted the fiction—embraced by QAnon—that Russia invaded Ukraine to fight neo-Nazis and shut down U.S.-funded bioweapons labs.
She has been especially vocal when spreading misinformation about COVID-19. She’s compared vaccinated Canadians to supporters of Hitler and called unvaccinated people 'the most discriminated-against group that I’ve ever witnessed.' In one of her first acts as premier, she implored her justice minister to drop criminal charges against Artur Pawlowski, a preacher who flouted lockdown restrictions. Like Ron DeSantis, the self-declared 'anti-woke' presidential hopeful for whom she’s expressed admiration, Smith can’t quit COVID."

It's all alarming.

It's interesting learning about this. We rarely get any Canadian news. The English language TV news channels we get from the West are CNN, CNN International, BBC, and FOX. Not surprisingly, they're far more concerned with America (and the UK - BBC)
 
jimkenney12 said:
I find him less irritating than WhyCzar with all of his posts of videos that I do not care to watch.
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Most here seem to be irritated with my view point whether I post videos or not.

IE. I agree that Ottawa's oil and gas production cap hurts Canadians.
Canada is the only country capping oil and gas production. Our healthcare, social services, and public infrastructure relies on the value generated from our energy sector. At a time like this, Canadians don't need more instability. - Danielle Smith
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Here is a link for anyone interested.
http://scrapthecap.ca
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