This is outstanding public health / preventive care guidance!

It's that time of year: lots of people will be sick, and many won't know what sickness it is. It's a good idea to get tested, but even if you don't know what it is, *please* stay home as much as possible, get plenty of rest to help yourself recover, and wear masks if you have to go out while sick!

It has all the markers of the well-known strategy of: break the public system so that private is the only apparent solution. We had one of the most efficient healthcare systems in the world, and then it was broken up into pillars which burned time, and continues to cause confusion and chaos.

Clean air in schools reduces infections for the WHOLE POPULATION. Why WOULDN’T we clean the air? The healthcare/missed work costs far exceed the infrastructure costs, don’t let them get away with “it costs too much”. Demand clean air in schools and workplaces!

Here is the Hansard text of my Senate speech, denouncing Alberta’s racist, risky referendum questions, scapegoating immigrants.

Just under 10 minutes. Senator Simons brings facts. Immigrants are part of the backbone of Alberta!

All human groups trigger concerns. That’s life. What we know: - immigrants do less crime per capita crime that born citizens - this govt has horribly broken our healthcare system and grossly underfunded education - this premier deliberately tried to increase immigration - immigrants are people too

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You’re welcome, but I really just used the website. Our healthcare system has collapsed. The question is do we let private health care just bulldoze the rest of it and replace it, or do we rebuild it? I think you know which I think we should do. So much cost and needless harm.

And heart-breaking. And exhausting. And painful. And tragic. And unfair. And immoral. And chosen.

*2PM on Saturday, October 24th. Stand up. Show up.