What A Night!
Thank you Prince Albert Carlton NDP members for putting your trust in me as the next NDP candidate for the upcoming provincial election.
Friends, our work has just begun & the future is bright, with reason for hope.
We can do this!
#StrongerTogether
Please watch this clip of 🇨🇦 Prime Minister,
@JustinTrudeau
speaking in Berlin just now.
It’s actually quite incredible.
#Democracy
#WeMustProtectItAlways
(please excuse the colour on the TV, my phone recorded it oddly & Twitter only allows 140s of time)
Moe said "It's time to heal the divisions over vaccination in our families, in our communities & in our province. It's time for proof of vaccination requirements to end."
You're deciding when people heal?
#ItIsNotThatSimple
It's b/c of your inaction we are here in the 1st place
@AndrewScheer
Are you for real? This is what you choose to argue about Mr Scheer?
Was your own job on the Hill not disrupted when police 1st took action on Fri?
Do you have any empathy for the residents of Ottawa, who were terrorized by the people you supported?
These are the issues here!
It's official, I am seeking the NDP nomination for the provincial constituency of Prince Albert Carlton.
The citizens of Prince Albert need a new voice to advocate for them!
You know what’s unhelpful?
650 CKOM listeners comments being read out by
@evanbrayshow
that blame Registered Nurses & the
@SUNnurses
union.
That’s a narrative that needs to stop Right Now.
The last thing Nurses need right now is jerks tearing them down.
#HealthCareCrisis
In her letter, Kuttai said this “is something I cannot be a part of, and I will not be associated with a provincial government that takes away the rights of children, especially vulnerable children.”
Thank you, Heather for your service & for having the courage to do this today.
I'm going to tell you what my issue is
@PremierScottMoe
when you say "we need to learn to live with COVID".
Do you know what my own rural SK family thinks that means? That COVID-19 is benign & that people who take precautions are fear-mongers. You need to be way more clear.
So why are we standing for this?
C’mon Sask Voters, please step up & send the message that this type of one-sided, uneducated, ill-advised, vulnerable-targeting behaviour from politicians is Not OK.
My sick 8 year old’s thoughts tonight:
“I’m so tired cus my body is working hard to fight this. Cus it’s a virus. And my heart is working harder. I’m just so sleepy”
Yep 😢
#COVID19SK
What an arrogant display in QP right now by
@PremierScottMoe
as he yells about what an NDP government did in the 90s.
We are in a Crisis NOW.
You say you “are listening”? But that hasn’t been my experience, Mr Premier.
How about action on
#COVID19SK
from YOU, TODAY!
#SKPoli
I’m going to say it.
I’d say it’s past time for Dustin Duncan to resign.
Time after time he makes decisions that put students at risk.
Enough is enough!
Minister Duncan's performance on CBC Morning was appalling
He showed no curiosity and no willingness to learn about how kids will be impacted by his decisions
He hasn't read any research, talked to any teachers, or consulted with any families with queer kids
#skpoli
The
@SKGov
is going to let
#Omicron
run in Saskatchewan.
I’ve gotta say, I’m devastated.
We aren’t going to know who is sick.
We are flying blind…
As COVID-19 case investigator, I’m going to go to my room and cry now.
😩💔😩💔
#COVID19SK
Our campaign hit another milestone on this lovely Saturday🧡
Recent online attacks from the Sask Party will not deter us from continuing to put in the work in Prince Albert Carlton
#ThisNurseIsAFighter
💪🏻
#SkPoli
Been reporting & blocking trolls all day, but ok, I’ll bite.
Is this guy for real?
Multiple experts in Psychology/Psychiatry & Health Education have weighed in on his divisiveness & said the latest education policies he made against 2SLGBTQIA+ kids will cause harm.
So…
I just spent an evening with dozens of Prince Albert nurses.
And let me tell you, when nurses speak, it’s about time to listen.
#NursesAreNotOk
#HealthCareIsNotOk
And we are not backing down.
This is about patient care.
This is about nurses’ lives.
#SkPoli
For the record, you don’t want to know the awful things fellow citizens say to health care workers like myself, including on a day like today.
Please be kind to your health care worker family members and friends right now. Some of us are not doing very well.
#COVID19SK
Well that was a 1st for me yesterday. Turned off comments on all my tweets about concern for 2SLGBTQIA+ students, & the importance of health class that includes factual information about sexual health.
I value discussion, but I won’t put up with bigotry or threats. Full stop.
A few nights ago I struggled to sleep. Insomnia is definitely common among health care workers as we struggle to process the past 2 years of
#COVID19
.
Very little sleep, so I got up early yesterday morning to write and send
@PremierScottMoe
a letter.
#YourHCWsAreNotOK
🧵
1 last time.
@PremierScottMoe
/
@SKGov
are going to wait until far more people get sick & die, before they “might” do more to help the province of Saskatchewan during this
#COVID19SK
#OMICRON
#CRISIS
Stop expecting more from them.
Do Not Forget this & Hold Them Accountable.
True story about Moe. He came as part of 🇨🇦 COP22 delegation. I worked w him on Sask issues with Morocco over lentils & promoted Boundary Dam. I also gave Moe numbers that showed he could use revenues from carbon pricing to eliminate PST. He came back & threw fed govt under bus.
@SaskParty
This is laughable.
What stopped you from re-opening those hospitals since 2007 then?
& what's your excuse for the crumbling health care now, as you've been in power for what? 15 years?
& Ppl are leaving now too!
Take some responsibility for ONCE
@SKGov
!
#NeverVoteSaskParty
30% absence at my husband’s school due to illnesses. You know this isn’t normal, right
@SKGov
?
Is it being reported? 🤷♀️
#Influenza
#COVID19
all at once.
Parents & supporters of high school basketball athletes.
I’ve been here & it sucks.
Remember 2020? I was wife of a basketball coach & fan of a basketball team that should have been Hoopla bound.
Call your Sask Party MLA, rally in front of their offices. Tell them to deal.
Here she is, our lovely 7 year old got her 1st Pediatric Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Prince Albert, SK, this morning!
Thank you to my dedicated coworkers at
@SaskHealth
!
💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
#COVID19SK
#VaccinesSaveLives
“I am the nurse who had to push a 90-year-old grandma from her bed into the waiting room to sit in a hard chair for the night shift and we both cried.”
💔
These realities are unacceptable
@SKGov
Five nurses from St. Paul's emergency room in Saskatoon shared dozens of anonymous testimonies about the health-care crisis at a nurses' rally on Monday.
READ MORE:
Big changes coming for me, but it is time.
I am very much looking forward to mentoring (& preparing) the next generation for what is a rewarding, & most definitely challenging career, in Nursing.
💜
I had enough of Scott Moe a few years back, that’s when I started getting more politically involved & now I’m running as a Sask NDP candidate for the next provincial election.
We all need to get more involved!
#Vote4Change
#VoteNDP
'Change is coming': Sask. NDP makes election promises at 85th annual convention: "People simply can't afford another four years of Scott Moe's Sask. Party government," said leader Carla Beck on Saturday.
#sask
#skpoli
I noticed that he tried to blame Public Health that data is not being released. That’s low man.
It’s not our fault that you aren’t releasing the data.
First you don’t listen to us, then you throw us under the bus
@PremierScottMoe
?
That was a jerk move.
Share the data.
3/
So
@PremierScottMoe
‘s big word today is INTERRUPTION.
Not illness, not disease.
That is telling.
The economy matters more to him than health.
Do Not forget this Saskatchewan.
💔
#COVID19SK
#CRISIS
Why does the
@SaskParty
@SKGov
hate publicly-funded teachers so much?
I’m disgusted with the crap they’ve been pulling with their undermining, including today’s recent move to cut them entirely out of a decision-making process.
It’s gross & time to vote them out!
#SkPoli
Made the decision to get 7 yr old daughter her 2nd dose of COVID-19 vaccine between 3-4 weeks after her 1st dose.
With Omicron here we want her as protected as possible, as soon as possible.
She was so excited to get her 2nd shot. Zero tears.
#COVID19SK
#VaccinesSaveLives
Please
#StayHome
!
Sask is about to get hit by a
#COVID19Tsunami
Don’t go to that tournament, don’t go to that party.
Yes I’m up at 5am with this PSA b/c I’m working this weekend & it’s gonna be hell (for a while).
Do the right thing, PLEASE.
#COVID19SK
#Omicron
#CRISIS
Watching QP right now & honestly for the
@PremierScottMoe
&
@MerrimanPaul
to read an outdated “2 dose” statement from Dr. Tam to double down on their narrative that vaccines aren’t effective at preventing COVID-19, is misinformation.
Fact: the standard for this vax is 3 doses
1/
Listening to
@SLangeneggerCBC
talk with Dustin Duncan.
Dustin Duncan said where “students can social distance,” No masks needed.
The reality: Students can’t social distance in most classrooms. Class sizes can be pretty large preventing that.
The
@SKGov
still is clueless.
Seeing the news yesterday, how
@PremierScottMoe
would give so much time to someone who’s done Nothing to quell this pandemic, but would Not meet with me, someone who has sacrificed everything, for the health of this province, these last 2 years…
#ItSaysEverything
💔
#COVID19SK
One more thing...
I greatly appreciate that
@SLangeneggerCBC
reminded
@PremierScottMoe
multiple times that we are STILL IN A PANDEMIC. Especially when he tried to compare COVID-19 to other communicable disease, which are not threatening upheaval of health services right now.
ee
He “disagrees that the system is broken”.
Just now this was said by
@MerrimanPaul
to
@SLangeneggerCBC
See this is the problem sir, you aren’t really hearing us. Your health care workers ate telling you this is a crisis, yet you won’t even use the word.
I’ll have more later.
My Statement on today’s Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan decision (Oct, 6, 2020)
First, I just want to say that I am relieved.
It took me a while to process the good news this morning, because it has been a long road and over five and half years to get to this point.
1/
“Say, didn’t Premier Scott Moe scold the provincial NDP for inviting federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to its convention last year, while claiming the Sask. Party has no federal affiliation?”
Yep, but Moe and the SP play by their own rules. They frankly “don’t care”.
And lastly
@SLangeneggerCBC
once again shows she is not afraid to ask the tough questions of
@PremierScottMoe
&
& interject when he’s not being forthright/honest.
This health care worker and parent is much obliged Stefani.
#COVID19SK
6/e.
I wrote
@PremierScottMoe
& my MLA
@SKGov
a letter.
It’s not the first, & based on their inability to do what is right, it won’t be the last.
Sharing it so people know that we need to hold our elected leaders accountable
2021 will get better, but we’ve all got our part.
1/
@brianlilley
Why do you care so much that she’s wearing a mask?
She’s obviously wearing a mask in her clinic room. I do the same. COVID-19 rates are high right now, so it’s pretty wise to not remove masks at work, especially for health care workers.
Why are you putting down HCWs like this?
The pandemic is not over.
My family will mask, get further vaccines, rapid test, & isolate if positive.
We choose to care for our own health & that of others.
Just because masks/vaccines are no longer a requirement does not mean they are no longer needed.
#COVID19SK
A sad day for human rights, children’s rights & Canadian charter rights in Sask as the bill moves to committee.
All members in attendance for the
@SaskParty
@SaskUnitedParty
voted, Yes.
Note: All
@Sask_NDP
voted No, to a bill that experts say will cause irreparable harm to kids
So this is a slap in the face to all HCWs right now.
@SaskatoonPolice
should you not be ticketing these guys for their blatant violation of public health orders during the worst
#COVID19
wave Saskatchewan has had yet.
💔
💔💔💔
Dr. Shahab, there isn’t a health care worker in this province that isn’t crying with you today.
Thank you to everyone who is doing their best right now.
We need all the help we can get.
#COVID19SK
#CRISIS
Here's is audio of Saskatchewan's CMHO Dr. Saqib Shahab audibly tearing up as he talks about COVID-19 in Saskatchewan.
"It is distressing to see what is happening in our ICUs and hospitals."
#cdnpoli
#skpoli
#covid19sk
At a community townhall meeting in the PA Carlton area & Police Chief Bergen is speaking right now.
A very interesting stat is that when SERB (pandemic funding) was available from the federal government, property crime in
@cityof_pa
took a dive.
Why?
People were provided for.
Everyone please watch this interview of Public Health expert Dr
@TehseenLadha
from Edmonton, AB.
It’s 7 minutes long, but very important.
As a front line Public Health professional, I understand everything that she is saying, but I want U all to understand it too.
🧵
1/
2nd yr in a row of having Thanksgiving with our household only & the focus is protecting our 7 year old.
Working the past 1.5yrs as a COVID-19 case investigator/contact tracer, I know the largest risk is family gatherings with unvaxxed members.
#COVID19SK
#COVID19Reality
Jared Clarke one of the newest
@Sask_NDP
MLAs is doing a fantastic job of dispelling the myths of teaching health and sexual education. As a former grade 7/8 teacher this was his job.
Rhetoric & myths are being perpetuated by the
@SaskParty
@SKGov
& their supporters.
#SkPoli
Now it’s the “live with this virus” coming out of his mouth.
@PremierScottMoe
you have no idea what it has been like for HCWs during this pandemic. If you had met with us as requested, maybe you’d know, but you have refused.
I’m so tired of HCWs being the
@SKGov
punching bag.
Ok
@PremierScottMoe
this is PA, not Hollywood.
Pretty easy to stand out when you’re the only guy in line at Canadian Tire with sunglasses on.
My teen says he probably put them on when he saw me. Must’ve been that
@SUNnurses
bunny-hug that made him want to hide. 😆
It’s time for an inquiry into the
@SKGov
handling of the
#COVID19
pandemic.
Sign it for your family who has been sick or might still get sick with this disease.
Sign it for the health care worker in your family that needs a reprieve.
Please.
Apparently
@PremierScottMoe
&
@SKGov
are fine with sick children, b/c every time he says “it’s the unvaccinated” I picture my own 7y old daughter.
We need measures to PREVENT COVID-19 in our children Mr. Premier. The 5-12 vaccine won’t come soon enough.
You needed to do more.
~390,000
#SK
residents aren't vaccinated.
~180,000 are kids <12. That's CLOSE TO HALF (46.1%).
With widespread community transmission of Delta,
#SK
kids <12 are at high risk of
#COVID19
. Mine too.
With vaccine SO CLOSE, to NOT take measures to protect our kids... infuriating.
Saskatchewan says it will reduce its backlog of surgeries by privatizing certain procedures. There are 35,000 people waiting for surgeries in the province.
The public will fund the private surgery clinics, but at this time it's unknown what the cost will be.
#skpoli
Really
@jeremycockrill
&
@SKGov
this is how you describe the situation of with
@SaskTeachersFed
/teachers?
As a deadly threat?
Sit down. Because this is Not OK.
This isn’t something a serious Education Minister ever just says.
#SkPoli
No wonder the
@SKGov
’s Finance Minister said in QP last session that she spends very little on fuel for a road vehicle…
Apparently flying to a restaurant, in the province, is her preferred mode of transportation.
#OutOtTouch
#VoteThemOut
#SkPoli
Saskatchewan's finance minister spent nearly $8,000 on a private plane to attend a chamber of commerce lunch days after she tabled a provincial budget containing tax hikes.
My latest for
@CdnPressNews
#skpoli
#sk
📢 NEWS RELEASE: The Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation has announced that the next round of job action will be a second one-day provincewide strike held on Monday, January 22.
Read more:
At the
@Sask_NDP
convention, I talked about how (in my job as a PH Nurse) I am constantly debunking health mis/dis-information.
The fact that the current Premier
@ABDanielleSmith
(of our neighbour province to the West) uses her platform to mis-inform is irresponsible & dangerous
Dear
@ABDanielleSmith
- Vaccines saved millions of lives
- Therapeutics WERE studied (
#ivermectin
ineffective)
- Consensus (body of evid) is how science works
Pls, for AB, climb out of rabbit hole. Don't inform policies with lies, myths, & misinformation.
#DanielleSmithDarkAge
Even my 9 year old hears this & says, “privatization isn’t better, especially in schools!”
You know it.
@brittlestar
nails this video, while Saskatchewan
@PremierScottMoe
rage farms, expands private health care & funds those private schools with abuse reports.
#Vote4Change
I am having one of those days where I really feel the weight of the pandemic…
Today’s PEOC COVID-19 update really got to me.
Why?
It’s our 5th
#COVID19SK
wave.
& the people who make all the decisions are just going to sit back & watch it happen again.
This HCW is just 😩💔
“Omicron is going to run it’s course in Saskatchewan” -
@PremierScottMoe
And now he says “thank you”, but he’s going to let us suffer anyhow.
Says nothing about limiting gathering which spreads COVID-19.
😩😩💔💔
He’s fine with us all getting sick.
Jerk jerk jerk.
The Premier said if there are local outbreaks & high COVID-19 disease rates that the local MHO can enact a local Public Health Order.
Then let us!
In the past any local PHOs were denied b/c the Minister of Health has been refusing to look at/sign them.
4/
Regarding lifting the PHO to self isolate.
Trust me, people will not fully self isolate if it isn’t the law. As a COVID-19 case investigator I know this happens.
Also, a significant # of people still viral shed after 5 days of isolation.
#ItShouldStillBe10orNegativeTest
5/
I am married to a teacher & the state of schools right now is awful.
@PremierScottMoe
@SKGov
.
He’s been exposed so much, we are now testing before & after school.
There had better be a big announcement tomorrow to curb spread of
#COVID19SK
.
Either way, it’s late, too late.
So I had to actually block members of my own extended family on SoMe tonight.
💔
That’s how far gone the anti-reality, conspiracy crew has gone.
There is no reaching them.
Illness doesn’t matter to them, deaths don’t matter to them.
It’s truly horrific.
💔
#COVID19Reality
Did you know that 1 in 5 donations to the Sask Party come from Out-of-Province interest groups?
This is
@mearaconwayMLA
saying today what the
@Sask_NDP
would do to keep things more local & more fair for ALL Saskatchewan people!
#Advocate4Change
#SkPoli
If you can’t get the care when & where you need it… the Sask Party will just direct you to a private clinic in Alberta.
Women should be able to access this timely care here, in the public system, in Saskatchewan!
Let me be clear - we should do everything to help women at risk of breast cancer.
But Scott Moe shouldn't be patting himself on the back for this announcement.
He should be apologizing to women in our province for letting it get so bad.
#skpoli
#skhealth
#cdnpoli
This Health Care Worker is beyond exhausted, demoralized, and losing hope in our world/for our world fast.
From the recent protests in front of our hospitals, to our government leaving us on our own to fight this virus. I don’t even know what to say or do anymore.
1/
Apparently the Premier is not aware?
But Data IS collected daily in our COVID-19 case investigations: Cases & Deaths.
I reiterate, Data is collected daily (on 100s of people who are sick).
This data is collected by COVID-19 case investigators at SHA & CHL
So share it.
2/
Watching QP,
@ryanmeili
is correct. All practitioners were told regardless if SHA test centre or MD, NP, etc, everyone needs to follow same “very specific” rules for COVID-19 PCR testing.
Tell me again
@MerrimanPaul
@SKGov
@skgovcaucus
@PremierScottMoe
why kids can’t access?
Personal Update
After being off of work since late January d/t pandemic trauma
#NursesAreNotOk
, I can say I have now made it 3 half days back at work.
I’m tired, but feeling accomplished.
Each day has gotten markedly better.
That’s a huge relief & a confidence booster.
1/
Heard loud & clear on the doorstep today that folks are disgusted with how the Sask Party government is disrespecting teachers.
We don’t have to put up with this, you know.
Vote for Education by Voting NDP.
Are you sick & tired of the way the Sask Party treats teachers, nurses…workers in general?
Then it is past time for real change.
Moe & Cockrill have shown you who they are & they take you for granted.
What’s the best message you can send?
Fire them = Vote Them Out.
#SkPoli
I’ll save you from watching
@PremierScottMoe
‘s State of the Province Speech this hour.
He’s not going to do anything more to help us (ie: gathering restrictions).
We in health care as a result, will keep spinning our wheels 😢😔😞
#COVID19SK
#Crisis
Talented lawyer & MLA
@nicolesarauer
is providing a searing critique of the undemocratic way the the
@SaskParty
@SKGov
are changing the rules to limit the public’s ability to scrutinize this bill, 1 is by removing introduction of guests & petitions (during this special sitting).
Are we sure
@MattloveNDP
isn’t a lawyer?
Because he’s is killing it right now in debate. 🔥
What this highlights is the amazing expertise of teachers like Matt, in our province.
Curiosity & learning.
Essential tools for us all.
🧡
#SkPoli
Proudly wearing this shirt when I go out today (Thanks
@RealTenille
)
I always mask in public and I got triple vaccinated when I was eligible.
Why?
To protect myself and those around me.
#COVID19SK
@PremierScottMoe
Instead of rage farming could you do something useful?
Something like telling folks where to seek shelter in an emergency like this?
Or actually take steps to address homelessness?
Have some consideration for the most vulnerable.
Are you a leader or not?
I’m saying NOT!
Thorough update on Omicron from
@zakvescera
.
"The StarPhoenix requested an interview with Health Minister Paul Merriman on the record-setting hospitalization rates on Friday and was told he was unavailable."
#CovidIsNotOver
It didn’t have to be this way, but it is.
Teachers all across Saskatchewan were on strike today b/c we have a government that refuses to negotiate about things that matter.
A photo collage from my teacher husband Tim, as I’m working out of town this week.
#IStandWithTeachers
I got to meet Saskatchewan’s Lieutenant Governor today!
It was an honour to be presented with a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee medal in recognition for my work in Health Care, in Saskatchewan.
Thank you
@Vicki_Mowat_NDP
for the nomination.
Also stop saying the health system isn’t under pressure!
It’s health care workers, like myself that are investigating those 500 + COVID-19 cases of COVID-19.
500 + people need health care from Public Health, just today. Tomorrow will be the same.
You just devalued us 💔 😩😩