Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[Hockeyguy15]

https://twitter.com/TheBreakdownAB/s...H90Ly1lzg&s=19
Really stable people.

[Muta]

Why is it that many conservative voters can't /refuse to see how bat#### crazy right wing their party went over the last several years? All it takes is a one-minute comparison from previous PC governments. Conservatives - THIS ISN'T THE SAME PARTY.

Smith is unfit for public office and needs to be removed immediately.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by fotze2

Found out Artur and his cult live right near me. Complete with wacked out Jesus is Lord vehicles. Weirdo chased after me once when I gave him the finger with my family in the car.

https://goo.gl/maps/K9qYLevZM7LtcMEN6

Hmm...."Jesus is coming back."

So, should I be confident in my assumption of what you're going as next Halloween?

[looooob]

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

This isn't really how it works for med students entering residency. They all go through a process called CARMS (Canadian Resident Matching Service). Students apply to programs they want to enter and do a tour of interviews, then make a final ranking of what they want to do...the programs rank their candidates, and the system spits out the results .

Basically no seat goes unfilled in any specialty. Tons of students want to enter a specialty, but some lose the game of meritocratic musical chairs and get 'stuck' into family med (lots of students do want to do family med though).

There are several plausible explanations here, but students not wanting family med isn't really one of them. It's that students - especially the good ones that the Calgary program wanted to take - ranked Calgary really low or not at all.

in my cursory review I can look at 3 sets of numbers all independently say something ( most likely troublesome) about what graduating med students are thinking about a) family medicine and b) Alberta


there are as best I can tell 351 unfilled spots through round 1 of CARMS (all specialties, all universities)


of those 49/351 are in Alberta (14%). I don't know how that compares to other years- but I think the Alberta population is roughly 11% of the Canadian population (napkin math, and doesn't equate to residency seats) so despite what used to be a perceived or real Alberta advantage (based on a number of factors) alberta generally underperformed in the match


Across the whole country of the 351 unmatched spots 260 are in family medicine, that is 75%. that is not a total news flash, but I suspect this number is trending up with time. most of the unmatched positions are in family medicine as opposed to specialties (despite some specialties really not faring super well for job prospects post residency. the other specialties with quite a few unfilled spots (distributed widely as opposed to one or two problem programs) are psychiatry and public health (the latter likely never a really popular option- but interesting coming out of a pandemic)


finally of the entire 260 unfilled family medicine slots 42/260 (16%) are in Alberta- again suggests some truth to the fact that family medicine in Alberta is being disproportionately avoided


(this was entirely based on mental math, so my tallies may be totally off in which case ignore what I just wrote)

[iggy_oi]

I have a feeling that there is a cache of this sort of stuff that is going to be coming out over the next few weeks as we head into the campaign.

[Mr.Coffee]

Has the NDP released a policy or plan of any kind?

[TheIronMaiden]

https://www.albertandp.ca/commitments

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Pawlowski leaked the video. Had to have been him.

To the CBC no less.

Hilarious.

Well....there's this. It appears on his YT "tv" channel, found it linked on Twitter. So....a leak but not a leak, if someone just went searching enough?



ETA: Took me a while to find it again, because twitter's algorithm is so messed up right now, but Jonny Wakefield's account is where I found that video.

[Torture]

Why the actual #### is the Premier taking time to talk one on one to someone under criminal prosecution in the first place?

Nevermind what you think about Covid or Pawloski the simple perception of political interference is completely inappropriate.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

Has the NDP released a policy or plan of any kind?

There is also this "Plan for Modernizing Primary Care"

https://www.albertasfuture.ca/public...d/files/225396

Edit:

There are these plans for a whole wack of other sectors as well.

https://www.albertasfuture.ca/albertas-future

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15

https://twitter.com/user/status/1641134773790994432
Really stable people.

I'm really not a looks-shaming kind of guy but while this woman is obviously very ugly on the inside, what the #### is going on with her face?

She looks like they put a Hall of Presidents animatronic robot inside an old Gelfling puppet from The Dark Crystal.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by Muta

Why is it that many conservative voters can't /refuse to see how bat#### crazy right wing their party went over the last several years? All it takes is a one-minute comparison from previous PC governments. Conservatives - THIS ISN'T THE SAME PARTY.

Many welcome the change. The PCs were thrown out on their rears and the party itself subsequently cancelled.

Far too many Albertans would welcome a one party state.

[Puppet Guy]

Looks like ol' Art isn't having the best of days:

The Alberta Independence Party, a political party that aims to reduce the province's reliance on the federal government has parted ways with its leader, Calgary street pastor Artur Pawlowski.

In a social media post, the organization said it made the decision after "serious consideration and deliberation" and was because Pawlowski no longer represented the party's views correctly.

Pawlowski says the Independence Party's decision was given to him on March 28 – his 50th birthday.

In a Facebook statement, he accused the party of "spearheading" an attack on him and his religious beliefs.

"For months the board was bombarding me and demanding that I stop talking about God, moral principles and true freedom and independence. I was told multiple times that I cannot talk about grooming of children, drag queen shows, abortion and corruption in our present government," he said.

He added that he "could not submit" to the party's demands and was told that he could no longer be the leader of the party.

"I never had, nor ever will, abandon my faith and moral standards. I have been and always will fight for everyone’s freedom even if I disagree with someone else’s life choices. I expected the same from this party."

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/artur-paw...arty-1.6334228

[Reggie Dunlop]

So, what happens now....

Smith resigns and Bumbles is brought back in as a last-minute replacement?

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by GordonBlue

To be fair while part of that is people not wanting to practice in Alberta, I would guess some of it is doctors just not wanting to go into family medicine.

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Case in point - why do you think that is, particularly in Alberta?

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

This isn't really how it works for med students entering residency. They all go through a process called CARMS (Canadian Resident Matching Service). Students apply to programs they want to enter and do a tour of interviews, then make a final ranking of what they want to do...the programs rank their candidates, and the system spits out the results .

Basically no seat goes unfilled in any specialty. Tons of students want to enter a specialty, but some lose the game of meritocratic musical chairs and get 'stuck' into family med (lots of students do want to do family med though).

There are several plausible explanations here, but students not wanting family med isn't really one of them. It's that students - especially the good ones that the Calgary program wanted to take - ranked Calgary really low or not at all.

On first glance it looks like there are more medical spaces available in Alberta than in BC despite a lower population. The Alberta government has also indicated (latest budget) they will increase that number. SO we appear to be doing okay when comparing to some of our neighbors, at least in terms of training. I also think rural family medicine is a tough sell for any province, not just Alberta.

Interestingly CBC had an interview on the radio yesterday with someone from either UCalgary or UAlberta (I don't recall) and they were discussing this. IT sounds like the universities are also looking at ways to attract more students to family medicine, and in particular rural family medicine. Everything from who teaches the classes to taking into consideration where a student wants to practice (if I understood correctly) when ranking their application.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ools_in_Canada

[Looch City]

What Danielle Smith is doing is absolutely ridiculous. How could the NDP do this?

This is precisely why I'll be voting UCP again this year.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

So, what happens now....

Smith resigns and Bumbles is brought back in as a last-minute replacement?

I mean Travis Toews has already said he's not running again, so options on that front are limited at best. I doubt that she's resigning though.

If I'm the NDP, I just run ads with some clips from that phone call.

[Superflyer]

The best way that I heard it described is "It took Smith a few years but she finally got the Wildrose party into power in Alberta"
There is conservatism and there is what the wildrose was, this is more on the wildrose side of things with their lake of fire bullspit.

[Ashartus]

If they were being smart about this the NDP would have sat on it until just before advance polls open, too many people will forget about it by May.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by Ashartus

If they were being smart about this the NDP would have sat on it until just before advance polls open, too many people will forget about it by May.

They've likely got a new one for every week. Lets be honest Danielle Smith ran a socially conservative podcast.