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Quarantine – Rebekah McDonald on her family’s experience in Calgary

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Rebekah McDonald knew strict new travel restrictions were coming in just a few days.  She was relieved her 20 year old son would be coming home January 30, a couple of days ahead of time.  Rebekah had helped arrange for the appropriate PCR test and the family was following all the rules.  She hadn’t seen her son in some time and she was anxious to meet him at the airport and bring him home.  What she didn’t know was the Traveler COVID Isolation Centres were already operating and within a few hours her son would be one of the first guests.

All was going well until the plane landed and all the other passengers walked past.  Her son wasn’t among them.  That’s when Rebekah noticed she was getting a notification from Facebook messenger.  Because her son left his phone plan behind in Arizona, this was his only way of contacting her.  He was being detained and they wouldn’t tell him why.  The test had come back negative.  The airline allowed him on the flight.  But health officials at the Calgary International Airport were not satisfied.

That was the beginning of a short nightmare for the McDonald family.  In retrospect there was a misunderstanding which could have been easily explained at the airport.  It wasn’t.  Instead a distraught mother worried for the safety of her son.  For two days the family struggled to find answers.  They found the quarantine system set up by the Public Health Agency over the proceeding months to protect Canadians from COVID-19, had somehow neglected to think of communicating with the family and loved ones of those affected.

Here Rebekah explains the situation in her own words.

In the days following the release of her son from the quarantine centre, Rebekah has heard the federal government might be looking to make changes.  However the RFI (Request for Information) issued by the federal government back in September states the centres are expected to be in operation for 1 to 2 years.  So far the family has not heard if they’ll be asked to pay for their son’s stay.

 

After 15 years as a TV reporter with Global and CBC and as news director of RDTV in Red Deer, Duane set out on his own 2008 as a visual storyteller. During this period, he became fascinated with a burgeoning online world and how it could better serve local communities. This fascination led to Todayville, launched in 2016.

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith Media Roundtable from Washington

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From the YouTube channel of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith

Members of the media join Premier Danielle Smith for a round table on January 21, 2025.

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Is There Any Canadian Province More Proud of their Premier Today…

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Prior to Trumps inauguration event and announcement was made that Trump would not be imposing the 25% tariffs…

Which means, Canada seriously dodged a bullet here.

And while the Liberals will most likely frame this as, their success in showing, Bad Orange Man, that they’re tough and ready to burn down what is left of our economy, throwing Alberta under the bus, first…through a nuclear option…

Premier Smith rode this challenge out like the true champion we knew that she would be.

It’s hard to say if this was a legality matter in the grander scheme…or if the 25% tariffs would have truly been as big of an impact on the US…

One thing is clear, however…

Smith was ready to go to the tables with the Trump administration and opt for diplomacy over threats…which should be what we expect from our leaders.

And should these 25% tariffs have gone through…I’m more than sure a Plan B would have been brought out in civil conversations, over screeching rhetoric.

“She’s treasonous”, they screeched.

“She’s supporting her friends in Oil and Gas”, they relent.

“She should put Canada first”, they echo…

And let’s just address these…

Is Walmart beholden to Campbells soup? Fruit of the Loom? Kraft?

Or does Walmart sell products that helps keep their doors open?

Walmart is not beholden to any product…just like Premier Smith isn’t. We have 26% of our GDP – the largest portion – owed to Alberta O&G, something that we have a limited trade partner with, due to the Liberal – Anti-Alberta/Anti-O&G/Anti-Pipeline attitude that wants to spend us further in debt with unreliable and expensive “Renewables”.

What does Alberta get from renewables?

A higher cost for energy, in an affordability crisis, created by the same people who continue to push them…sounds like a terrible deal, for Albertans, and something a true leader would Not Favor.


When Walmart sits down to hash out a deal with Heinz, are they committing treason because they haven’t shown their allegiance to their own, ‘Great Value’ brand Ketchup?

No…other provinces have their own industries and resources, which they are free to continue developing independent of the federal government, as is suitable and supportive of their own economies…Alberta isn’t competing with them, nor Canada as a whole.

Alberta through industry and resource, actually supports Canada through a grand imbalance on “Equalization Payments”…

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As do we through paying 50% more into the Canada Pension Plan, than we actually get out of the Canada Pension Plan…to the tune of a $334 Billion Dollars.


And as for this “Team Canada”, horseshit…

The title Premier of Alberta, should hold some clues as to who Premier Smith should be advocating for…as she is the Premier of Alberta and Not the Prime Minister, nor leader in the Liberal Party that has created this fiasco, to begin with.

Rail, as they may…other provinces can’t cast a vote in her support, either way…

None of the other provinces, through Members of Parliament, nor through Premiers, came to support Alberta and our economy through a number of Federal Bills that railed on our provincial resources…

Worse yet…these hypocrites cash cheques from our province, while telling us how to diversify our economy…to which I’d state one thing unequivocally…

If we wanted to be a Have Not Province…like you are…we’ll come and ask you for your advice.

Until then…

I’ll hold my Alberta Flag Higher than my Canadian…

And be proud today, of having the only Premier in the country of Canada, worthy of any praise today!

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