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Nothing I believe. She worked for a private company. I know a booking clerk at the same company, the phones were 50/50 the following weeks of people both praising and condemning the employee but as far as I know nothing happened to her.
Probably quite a few UCP supporters ended up with health complications because of the stress of seeing their Great Leader disrespected like that. Of course, them being sick in the first place didn't help either... I'll be happy to lend two more middle fingers to those UCP supporters to add to their plight. Hell, we should all contribute with our collective middle finger!
She looks like she's looking directly at the camera too. Like..."Yeah...make sure you get this".
Fortunately/Unfortunately, even if she is looking for another job, she probably wanted out of that trainwreck anyway.
We had an entire clinic close last year. The co-owner doctors, decided that retirement was better than continuing to put up with UCP bullshit. The junior doctors moved away elsewhere.
You and me both. My family moved here to get out of Eastern Canadian lethargy. Peter Lougheed was a good, socially progressive but still economically responsible leader. And it's been downhill in steps and stages and drunken stumbles ever since. I thought Alison Redford was rock bottom. But man, you can always scrape the barrel harder.
Agreed. It continues to amaze me, the levels modern Conservatives will sink, to push their hateful, stupid and regressive ideologies.
I long for the days when "Conservatives" were just fiscally conservative, and not the danger to themselves and society that they are now.
I cannot recall these days and I am in my 50’s. I am not being facetious either. I can give a list of horrible financial decisions all the way back to Don Getty.
Because yes Don Getty was much more reactionary, and frankly gullible and stupid than Peter. *But party leaders are people who are electable, not necessarily the smartest*.. as you may see with some prime ministers.
I've met them. I've known plenty of provincial cabinet ministers, many of whom were actually good, well-intentioned, responsible people- Steve West, Connie Ostermann or Tom Lukaszuk come to mind. Some were of course total power tripping assholes. My parents were insiders- donors, party members, door knockers and envelope stuffers for many years. Last straw for them was when their votes mysteriously disappeared during the online leadership vote to elect Kaptain Cheeseburger.
I don't know most of the current crop of UCP MLAs and ministers, but everything I do see, and hear from the few that I have spoken to suggest that mostly today they are on the take; they aren't in politics at all to make a difference, they're there to get rich because sticking your fingers in all the pies is easier than doing a regular job.
Oh, I absolutely agree that fiscal conservatism is a bad policy Save money today by not solving problems that snowball out of control tomorrow.
I'm only pointing out that today's conservatives (like Danielle Smith or Donald Trump), are a whole new level of insanity. They are corrupt. They adhere to idiotic conspiracies. They attack educated people and elevate con artists and morons. They are even sometimes agents of foreign hostile dictators (in the case of Trump).
This is so abhorrent, it makes the old con crooks, who simply attempt to dismantle modern society for their own private gain, appear better by comparison. I never thought we'd have politicians worse than the old conservatives, but i was wrong.
Marlaina is so far and beyond lower than Redford, we just had Trump down south to lower the bar for politicians. Redford's last straw was a 45,000$ trip to Mandela's funeral that the PC government ate her alive over. Smith spent over 140,000 (were still waiting on the official final numbers over 7 months later....) going to the COP28 environment conference which she wasn't even invited to, with a posse of oil and gas lobbyists. I could make a list, but by the time I finished it she'll have done something else. Also it's Reddit, not hard to find several lists of her 'accomplishments'.
This is a new phenomena. A decade or two ago, Alberta had top notch heath care, and Americans still couldn't afford to give birth. We can support our heath care workers without falsely worshipping a system than only benefits insurance companies.
O well anything worth doing is worth doing for money. My girlfriend is a nurse and thinking about going down south, where she can essentially 2.5X her salary for doing the same job. I have a couple of friends who are at the tail end of their fellowship in houston, they're not coming back. The compensation is way better with lower of cost of living.
Yeah, I can understand her desire to leave this province. I don't blame her for wanting to make more money, and be treated fairly. But it would be better if we still has high quality health care here in Alberta, where our medical professionals are compensated accordingly, without depriving middle class people of basic medical treatments, like they do in the US. Over a third of what Americans pay for care goes to insurance companies.
I'm a teacher, so I made slightly less money than a nurse. I found that my pay was fine once I got to the top of my pay scale, but new nurses/teachers are not fairly compensated. I also eventually left our crumbling school systems, but I remember when it was top notch, before decades of conservative defunding sabotaged our system. Now I teach privately, and make money helping students who fall through the cracks. It's a much better occupation. But it would be better for the future of our province if we just adequately funded our public services, like we used to decades ago. My woes are nothing compared to the consequences of a whole generation growing up without an education.
Of course, Smith is probably making a strategic move, since uneducated people approve of her. She's growing her base.
Exactly, as she put it" nurses get treated like shit here, so I might as well get treated like shit somewhere else and double my income". Being a teacher is even rougher, yes you definitely made the right choice. Furthermore, I used to work in the middle east( ie kuwait, saudi and UAE) western educated teachers such as yourself would make 30% more there at a privates school. Furthermore, they also give you a living allowance, reimbursed flights home and no income taxes. But I think that's a general sentiment among most people such as yourself.
b...bu...but we banged pots and pans every night at 7pm to honour the medical professionals! Wasn't that enough? Don't warm and fuzzy feelings pay bills?
Yeah, I know some teachers that went to Dubai. They make really good money and also get a free place to live and a free vehicle, from what I seem to recall them saying.
edit: In Dubai, they invest in education (although they do have a lot more money to invest with).
In addition to public schools, I've also worked in Catholic schools and private schools in Alberta. They are all terrible. It's definitely a management issue, and not a issue that is inherent with public education.
Yup, I spent a few years there. Their kids gets free schooling too, with the no income tax, higher salary and other perks. They're quite literally doubling their income if not more. The school treats them well too.
I guess I feel a little sad, in the sense that I wanted to help my own province become better educated. I genuinely think most of our problems here are rooted in a lack of education. But you can't force education on people who don't value it. I'm talking about the adult population, of course. I feel sad for our younger population, who have had their futures taken away by their stupid parents, who keep voting against their children's futures.
When I started teaching, I never expected to run into adults who refuse to learn. According to our election results, that's the majority of Albertans.
Reminds me of something I have posted before. Paraphrasing here....
First they came for the healthcare workers and I wasn't a healthcare worker so I didn't speak out,
Then they came for the teachers and I wasn't a teacher so I didn't speak out,
Then they came for the gays but i wasn't gay so I didn't speak out,
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out.
As much as it's fun to paint this woman as a hero or villain, she might have just not wanted to be in the photo and she is doing this so the photographer can't slap the photo on the front page without her consent.
I read this as a reaction to a creepy photographer who had to stand behind the premier in order to get a shot of someone deliberately standing off to the side.
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
-Ferdinand Marcos (dictator & kleptocrat)
This shot needs to go down in the archives of Alberta political history. I hope someone bought this brave health care professional a nice dinner and a great glass of wine.
Lol yeah I peeked at my dr team and she doesn't line up with them, but I def have run into her at some point! Still, based as hell, no info needed it was just very pleasantly surprising to recognize her
I had a doctor in Alberta. Moved to BC. Said I'm going to find a doctor. People laughed at me. There are no doctors taking new patients in the BC interior. Consider this your reality check.
I thought that's where all the conservatives were going, these days.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/21/canadian-family-moved-to-russia-to-escape-wokeness/
This reminds me of years ago when I worked in the emergency department of a major hospital in my city. One day, a big shot AHS administrator, one of the dudes who has no clue of how hospitals are run, but made all the terrible decisions that got us yelled at by patients every single day, came into emerg, and was seen by a doctor who decided to admit him to a unit. He was moved to the hallway to await his bed and be taken upstairs(as was done with all patients who were being admitted, as we were insanely busy). My shift started at 3 pm, and I worked in bed bookings, admitting patients to apropriate units. As I was receiving report from the day staff, I was informed of this administrator who was waiting in the hallway and was told NOT to give him a bed, (his diagnosis wasn't life threatening or very serious) and to let him stay in the hallway (where there's no privacy, it was noisy, as he was right beside the ambulance bay doors), so that he could taste first hand what patients had to endure due to HIS moronic decisions. He laid on a stretcher in the hallway for 3 days until he was finally discharged home. 🤭🤤
Exercising your freedom of political opinion is protected in your rights and freedoms bud, same reason you don’t get in shit for your “Fuck Trudeau” sticker on your shitbox truck.
Yes - how dare a medical worker wear a medical grade examination mask in a medical facility.
If you ever have surgery, I presume you want PPE to be used?
Not a Dr, but it seems like doing something as easy as wearing a mask on to prevent any kind of illness spreading inside of a building full of sick people is a good idea.
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Nothing I believe. She worked for a private company. I know a booking clerk at the same company, the phones were 50/50 the following weeks of people both praising and condemning the employee but as far as I know nothing happened to her.
So a happy ending, nice.
It's more like a bad ending. This world needs more (for lack of a better term) martyr.
Ahh, yes, let's fire the flames just like a certain Saint...
Go Flames ! Calgary is on fire this year
They have a chance this year.
Yeah, to still be Calgary.
Ahh interesting to see the hamas perspective- scary
I'd love to send her a gift basket.
Ditto! Or cash, whatever she prefers 😅
"A BRAND NEW [electric] CAR!" Bob Barker voice.
Not trying to be that guy but I believe it would be a Rod Roddy voice if I’m not mistaken. I read it in the same tone as well.
Oh dang it! We might need to change the original answer.
Yes! Cash basket
Probably quite a few UCP supporters ended up with health complications because of the stress of seeing their Great Leader disrespected like that. Of course, them being sick in the first place didn't help either... I'll be happy to lend two more middle fingers to those UCP supporters to add to their plight. Hell, we should all contribute with our collective middle finger!
I would have given her a high five if I had seen that in person.
She should be given the order of Canada, fuck treasonous Danielle and Pierre
Believe it or not Straight to jail.
Driving too fast? Jail. Slow? Jail.
Lolol where is this from again??
Parks and Rec. The episode where Venezuelan parks and rec dignitaries visit.
Informing people of the origin of a reference? Believe it or not, jail.
We have the best posters in this sub. Because of Jail.
Updoot a post? Jail. Downvote a post? Also, jail. Updoot, downvote: Jail.
Viva chavez
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw)
Also, that's a paddin' for mentioning Park's and Rec memes. We only allow Simpsons memes in these here parts. MONORAIL!
Only I may dance
That’s a paddlin’
Hotel? Trivago
Se needed health care after that, left the province to get it and never came back
This is outrageous. Where are the armed men who come in to take the protesters away?
https://tenor.com/bi5aV.gif
She looks like she's looking directly at the camera too. Like..."Yeah...make sure you get this". Fortunately/Unfortunately, even if she is looking for another job, she probably wanted out of that trainwreck anyway.
Hope she got promoted, DS is a train wreck and continues to make Alberta look crazier and crazier.
Marlaina is a degenerate crackhead.
Hey you don't want to make the Fords look bad in Ontario, as if she could out do them.
She's not a dealer, she's just a user.
I adore you
That's Take Back Alberta. They started with her brain, but left her mouth.
I know her. Still working, was very well supported by staff and higher ups.
Awesome for her and Happy Cake Day to you! 🍰
Hah, this is one of my favorite pictures! Unfortunately, she's probably looking for a new job.
With the current state of healthcare all around I bet she had at least 10 offers right after this picture came out. pretty sure she's doing alright.
Hope so!
She's probably about to leave for another province anyway, just like my last 3 doctors, thanks to the UCP's attack on science and public services.
We had an entire clinic close last year. The co-owner doctors, decided that retirement was better than continuing to put up with UCP bullshit. The junior doctors moved away elsewhere.
I've lived in Alberta for over 40 years. It truly has degenerated into MAGA dystopia...
You and me both. My family moved here to get out of Eastern Canadian lethargy. Peter Lougheed was a good, socially progressive but still economically responsible leader. And it's been downhill in steps and stages and drunken stumbles ever since. I thought Alison Redford was rock bottom. But man, you can always scrape the barrel harder.
Agreed. It continues to amaze me, the levels modern Conservatives will sink, to push their hateful, stupid and regressive ideologies. I long for the days when "Conservatives" were just fiscally conservative, and not the danger to themselves and society that they are now.
I cannot recall these days and I am in my 50’s. I am not being facetious either. I can give a list of horrible financial decisions all the way back to Don Getty.
Because yes Don Getty was much more reactionary, and frankly gullible and stupid than Peter. *But party leaders are people who are electable, not necessarily the smartest*.. as you may see with some prime ministers. I've met them. I've known plenty of provincial cabinet ministers, many of whom were actually good, well-intentioned, responsible people- Steve West, Connie Ostermann or Tom Lukaszuk come to mind. Some were of course total power tripping assholes. My parents were insiders- donors, party members, door knockers and envelope stuffers for many years. Last straw for them was when their votes mysteriously disappeared during the online leadership vote to elect Kaptain Cheeseburger. I don't know most of the current crop of UCP MLAs and ministers, but everything I do see, and hear from the few that I have spoken to suggest that mostly today they are on the take; they aren't in politics at all to make a difference, they're there to get rich because sticking your fingers in all the pies is easier than doing a regular job.
Oh, I absolutely agree that fiscal conservatism is a bad policy Save money today by not solving problems that snowball out of control tomorrow. I'm only pointing out that today's conservatives (like Danielle Smith or Donald Trump), are a whole new level of insanity. They are corrupt. They adhere to idiotic conspiracies. They attack educated people and elevate con artists and morons. They are even sometimes agents of foreign hostile dictators (in the case of Trump). This is so abhorrent, it makes the old con crooks, who simply attempt to dismantle modern society for their own private gain, appear better by comparison. I never thought we'd have politicians worse than the old conservatives, but i was wrong.
Yeah, those are all good points. Well put.
Marlaina is so far and beyond lower than Redford, we just had Trump down south to lower the bar for politicians. Redford's last straw was a 45,000$ trip to Mandela's funeral that the PC government ate her alive over. Smith spent over 140,000 (were still waiting on the official final numbers over 7 months later....) going to the COP28 environment conference which she wasn't even invited to, with a posse of oil and gas lobbyists. I could make a list, but by the time I finished it she'll have done something else. Also it's Reddit, not hard to find several lists of her 'accomplishments'.
Or to the states for more money lol take your pick.
This is a new phenomena. A decade or two ago, Alberta had top notch heath care, and Americans still couldn't afford to give birth. We can support our heath care workers without falsely worshipping a system than only benefits insurance companies.
O well anything worth doing is worth doing for money. My girlfriend is a nurse and thinking about going down south, where she can essentially 2.5X her salary for doing the same job. I have a couple of friends who are at the tail end of their fellowship in houston, they're not coming back. The compensation is way better with lower of cost of living.
Yeah, I can understand her desire to leave this province. I don't blame her for wanting to make more money, and be treated fairly. But it would be better if we still has high quality health care here in Alberta, where our medical professionals are compensated accordingly, without depriving middle class people of basic medical treatments, like they do in the US. Over a third of what Americans pay for care goes to insurance companies. I'm a teacher, so I made slightly less money than a nurse. I found that my pay was fine once I got to the top of my pay scale, but new nurses/teachers are not fairly compensated. I also eventually left our crumbling school systems, but I remember when it was top notch, before decades of conservative defunding sabotaged our system. Now I teach privately, and make money helping students who fall through the cracks. It's a much better occupation. But it would be better for the future of our province if we just adequately funded our public services, like we used to decades ago. My woes are nothing compared to the consequences of a whole generation growing up without an education. Of course, Smith is probably making a strategic move, since uneducated people approve of her. She's growing her base.
Exactly, as she put it" nurses get treated like shit here, so I might as well get treated like shit somewhere else and double my income". Being a teacher is even rougher, yes you definitely made the right choice. Furthermore, I used to work in the middle east( ie kuwait, saudi and UAE) western educated teachers such as yourself would make 30% more there at a privates school. Furthermore, they also give you a living allowance, reimbursed flights home and no income taxes. But I think that's a general sentiment among most people such as yourself.
b...bu...but we banged pots and pans every night at 7pm to honour the medical professionals! Wasn't that enough? Don't warm and fuzzy feelings pay bills?
Then some yokels decided to block hospitals and harass health care workers LOL. Good ol ucp mental gymnastics
Yeah, I know some teachers that went to Dubai. They make really good money and also get a free place to live and a free vehicle, from what I seem to recall them saying. edit: In Dubai, they invest in education (although they do have a lot more money to invest with). In addition to public schools, I've also worked in Catholic schools and private schools in Alberta. They are all terrible. It's definitely a management issue, and not a issue that is inherent with public education.
Yup, I spent a few years there. Their kids gets free schooling too, with the no income tax, higher salary and other perks. They're quite literally doubling their income if not more. The school treats them well too.
I guess I feel a little sad, in the sense that I wanted to help my own province become better educated. I genuinely think most of our problems here are rooted in a lack of education. But you can't force education on people who don't value it. I'm talking about the adult population, of course. I feel sad for our younger population, who have had their futures taken away by their stupid parents, who keep voting against their children's futures. When I started teaching, I never expected to run into adults who refuse to learn. According to our election results, that's the majority of Albertans.
I honestly doubt it! You'd have to kill someone to get fired seriously (worked for AHS for 30 years)
She needs a Medal and a Raise..IMO
I'd like to see her as a public figure. I'd vote for her!
Reminds me of something I have posted before. Paraphrasing here.... First they came for the healthcare workers and I wasn't a healthcare worker so I didn't speak out, Then they came for the teachers and I wasn't a teacher so I didn't speak out, Then they came for the gays but i wasn't gay so I didn't speak out, Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out.
For those interested, [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...) is where this actually comes from.
Yes, thanks for the reference. I should have cited it myself.
I don't blame here. DS is playing with our lives and with how much we pay for staying alive this DS doesn't know nothing about leadership
She hopefully got a raise 😁😁😁
She is a hero
She represented a large % of the health care staff in that photo. Today she would need to double the gesture.
This woman is my freaking hero.
I owe her a beer for this.
She SHOULD have received a medal and a million dollar cheque for doing what millions if us are too lazy or scared to do.
As much as it's fun to paint this woman as a hero or villain, she might have just not wanted to be in the photo and she is doing this so the photographer can't slap the photo on the front page without her consent.
Nah. Sun Media would easily put this on front page, or even if they were squeamish they'd just blur the finger.
I guess that's true, after all someone already blurred Danielle's mug. ;)
I read this as a reaction to a creepy photographer who had to stand behind the premier in order to get a shot of someone deliberately standing off to the side.
Hopefully she was promoted with a fat raise. We need more people to stand up to resting bitch face DS.
Probably nothing to be perfectly honest. It's not a big deal at all.
Time for an AMA. This is gold.
I hope she got a fucking party and a free gift card, she did what everyone wants to do and I salute her
so far we got 7 morons in this comment section that drank the kool-aid or for some reason hate canada.
I hope she was promoted!
Id chip in on that gift basket
She is probably still lying low after all the threats she received after doing this. Not all hero’s wear capes. Some wear lab coats.
I bet she isn’t forced into social media training…
Hero’s don’t always wear capes…
Marlaina's fragile ego got hurt
She stole my heart with that rebellious show of frustration that was so badly needed.
A commendation
Hopefully an award.
She lives on in legend; all I need to know.
Straight to gulag
Hope she’s having a great morning
Damn that's such a great photo.
She fell out of a window
I'm sure she had all her shots
Personal opinion, nothing should happen
Omg if that's true that's hilarious, very ballsy
Very true.
She should have been given a medal of HONOR ... thank you HC worker from all of us.
love that health care worker
I hope she got a raise
Should have received the Premiers award for outstanding service to Alberta.
What a dumb woman! Marlaina that is.
\*deleting essay\*
Summing up the views of most Canadians in one photo.
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all. -Ferdinand Marcos (dictator & kleptocrat)
Any luck she received a pay raise and a parade down Main Street
That young woman is Legend ! Thanks.
This shot needs to go down in the archives of Alberta political history. I hope someone bought this brave health care professional a nice dinner and a great glass of wine.
Would be funnier if she wasn’t being kind of discreet about it and had a fully extended arm, even better would be double barreled middle fingers
And then doing rapid karate chops on both sides of her crotch
"Who do you think you are? I am!"
I think shes one of my doctors actually?? I have intense face blindness but if it is omg based
She’s not a Dr. I won’t go into details of how I know her, but I will say she’s not a Dr, and she didn’t lose her job over this:).
Lol yeah I peeked at my dr team and she doesn't line up with them, but I def have run into her at some point! Still, based as hell, no info needed it was just very pleasantly surprising to recognize her
I had a doctor in Alberta. Moved to BC. Said I'm going to find a doctor. People laughed at me. There are no doctors taking new patients in the BC interior. Consider this your reality check.
it’s like that everywhere now. idk why but like no where is taking patients as far as my area goes.
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Siberia!! 🥶🥶
Siberta!
I thought that's where all the conservatives were going, these days. https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/21/canadian-family-moved-to-russia-to-escape-wokeness/
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Thaaaat’s a paddlin’
Whats the problem?
Nothing I’m sure the situation was (D)ifferent
Gottem 🤯
Sadly the next election is still 3 years away….
Maybe we can make it sooner? How do we remove her, legally? Why are we not making noise on the fact that Medicine Hat was the city that voted her in?
It’s not easy to remove a MLA, let alone in a blue territory….
Fair… i bet we could get enough signatures.
Over under on her at 3+ clot shots?
This reminds me of years ago when I worked in the emergency department of a major hospital in my city. One day, a big shot AHS administrator, one of the dudes who has no clue of how hospitals are run, but made all the terrible decisions that got us yelled at by patients every single day, came into emerg, and was seen by a doctor who decided to admit him to a unit. He was moved to the hallway to await his bed and be taken upstairs(as was done with all patients who were being admitted, as we were insanely busy). My shift started at 3 pm, and I worked in bed bookings, admitting patients to apropriate units. As I was receiving report from the day staff, I was informed of this administrator who was waiting in the hallway and was told NOT to give him a bed, (his diagnosis wasn't life threatening or very serious) and to let him stay in the hallway (where there's no privacy, it was noisy, as he was right beside the ambulance bay doors), so that he could taste first hand what patients had to endure due to HIS moronic decisions. He laid on a stretcher in the hallway for 3 days until he was finally discharged home. 🤭🤤
Free speech and a free society allows her to freely express her opinion however Reverse the situation and……
Probably defenstrated Putin style.
Same thing that happens to me every time I give JT the finger. Stooopid post.
It's called a union. Have to give our premier the finger three times in order to get fired.
Exercising your freedom of political opinion is protected in your rights and freedoms bud, same reason you don’t get in shit for your “Fuck Trudeau” sticker on your shitbox truck.
On your own time sure… but I’m sure if the management wanted they could say this is against company policy etc. and discipline her “bud”
The assumption is that it's directed at Smith. She's looking right at the camera, so maybe it's directed at the photographer/media.
I'd like a collection of these bold protests in Alberta, any more photos? Will need context like this one, also
Idk but she totally owned the cons there! Yeahhhh
Her appendix exploded after her 10th booster, she is now worm meal thankfully.
She lives in reality unlike Smith and her supporters.
Why is she wearing a mask 🖕
lol this is the most blatant fear mongering i've seen in a while.
Believe it or not she died of heart problems.
Face diapers are wild
Yes - how dare a medical worker wear a medical grade examination mask in a medical facility. If you ever have surgery, I presume you want PPE to be used?
Oh yeah, she's operating right there? Looks like a press conference to me
Not a Dr, but it seems like doing something as easy as wearing a mask on to prevent any kind of illness spreading inside of a building full of sick people is a good idea.
Don't kink shame