Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by KelVarnsen

Those kids shouldn't have gotten cancer - Danielle Smith

Also Dani: have they given smoking a try yet?

[SeeGeeWhy]

Originally Posted by moneyguy

https://twitter.com/user/status/1735157790258458672

upgrade the freaking hvac

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by SeeGeeWhy

upgrade the freaking hvac

Are you a naturopath?

[looooob]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Also Dani: have they given smoking a try yet?

not to mention this is what happens when you give school kids access to computers

[GordonBlue]

Alberta records highest number of weekly new flu cases in 14 years

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-...ears-1.6688291

Local hospitals also are seeing an influx of people, but with the health-care system already strained, some of those who may need treatment aren't being seen by medical professionals, Dr. Darren Markland told CTV News Edmonton.

"There are no beds in the hospital. In fact, we're at about 150-per-cent capacity, and of course, that's really hampering. Once you become a stretched-out hospital, everything becomes super inefficient."

.Markland said some people who may be sick "will tough it out" because they can't be seen by a physician in a timely manner, which could lead to more complications and a worse outcome.

"In the ICU, I'm seeing the worst-case complications and people who go home, kind of pound back the Advil and then develop a secondary bacterial infection, and then they get super sick, and they end up in the ICU on all forms of life support," he said.

"I'm not trying to scare people, but a really good, functional health-care system should say, 'If I feel crappy, I should be able to see my family doctor within 24 hours to sort things out.' It doesn't exist, and that's why we're seeing delayed presentations of people who could be very well managed by care networks. Nurse practitioners, physicians, all people working in care networks could easily support this, but it's not there."

[GordonBlue]

FYI:

Alberta increasing mandatory crash reporting threshold from $2,000 to $5,000

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-...-000-1.6687976

The last increase came in 2011 when the threshold went from $1,000 to $2,000.

[you&me]

Originally Posted by GordonBlue

FYI:

Alberta increasing mandatory crash reporting threshold from $2,000 to $5,000

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-...-000-1.6687976

The last increase came in 2011 when the threshold went from $1,000 to $2,000.

Good

[TorqueDog]

I actually agree with that.

Backing into the corner of virtually any relatively new vehicle now is a several thousand dollar repair, with self-aiming projector and LED headlamps, the parts and bodywork needed (and the costs for the labour going up). It seems senseless to have to waste the time and resources of the police to report "my neighbour backed into my car".

[chedder]

Haha. When you lose Rick Bell as a cheerleader you must really be doing it wrong.

https://calgarysun.com/opinion/colum...-cut-albertans

[Raekwon]

Originally Posted by GordonBlue

FYI:

Alberta increasing mandatory crash reporting threshold from $2,000 to $5,000

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-...-000-1.6687976

The last increase came in 2011 when the threshold went from $1,000 to $2,000.

The province said the change will free up police officers and staff to improve public safety.


"Thousands of traffic accident reports clog up our justice system and strains police resources,"


This won't help that, people will still call police and refuse to move their vehicles for a minor scratch. Maybe better training about accident conduct when you get your license or renew it.

[MoneyGuy]

We’re in trouble and it will worsen.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1735764390190911828

[Looch City]

Reap what you sow 'Berta.

...wait I live here too, god dammit.

[Ozy_Flame]

It mystifies me how a province that initiates a campaign called "Alberta is Calling" is ill-prepared to handle the outcome (whether through the campaign, housing crisis, or otherwise) and with seemingly no plan for infrastructure growth or funding to municipalities to handle said growth. Healthcare, education, roads, you name it. And all with a surplus of cash that can put major dents in all of these items.

Just astonishingly myopic.

[Slava]

Just curious as to what the NDP supporters here think of using resource revenues to offset the gas tax. This seems entirely contrary to what a lot of the argument has been here (which is essentially putting those funds into the Heritage Trust Fund, and having people pay more tax today).

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/alberta-s...ieve-1.6687877

[Roughneck]

Heritage Fund or expanding capital projects are the only things resource revenue should be going to IMO. Scrapping the gas tax in the first place was poor, myopic policy in the first place and such populism shouldn’t be doubled down on.

[GGG]

We need to add an annual electric car tax in addition to the gas tax but putting the gas tax back in is great.

Resource revenues should be fixed at $50 oil adjusted for inflation then any windfall goes into debt reduction/heritage fund and taxes raised to balance the budget using $50 oil until such a time that the growth in the heritage fund can replace that oil revenue. We have 20 years at best to fix the problem.

[Faust]

In 2024, Alberta NDP decides who it is without Rachel Notley as leader:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ysis-1.7061516

[Regorium]

Originally Posted by Slava

Just curious as to what the NDP supporters here think of using resource revenues to offset the gas tax. This seems entirely contrary to what a lot of the argument has been here (which is essentially putting those funds into the Heritage Trust Fund, and having people pay more tax today).

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/alberta-s...ieve-1.6687877

Terrible populist bullcrap from the NDP. A bit out of character for them, so we'll see what their next statements are like.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

It mystifies me how a province that initiates a campaign called "Alberta is Calling" is ill-prepared to handle the outcome (whether through the campaign, housing crisis, or otherwise) and with seemingly no plan for infrastructure growth or funding to municipalities to handle said growth. Healthcare, education, roads, you name it. And all with a surplus of cash that can put major dents in all of these items.

Just astonishingly myopic.

One of the laughable (and sad) parts of this too is that the UCP continually advertise to the rest of Canada that 'Alberta Is Calling', and yet have a deep rage that when people actually start coming and housing is inevitably needed, it's a terrible problem that the City of Calgary works directly with the feds for funding to accommodate some of the results of their own campaign.

It's like they put a glove on one hand, and take one off on the other. One of the stupidest and most incompetent governments in Canadian history.

[Roughneck]

The UCP hated municipalities getting funding from the Feds so much they made a law requiring provincial government approval to do it (that somehow made it past the head of the ministry of red tape reduction department of redundancy and red tape).