EDMONTON—Alberta Premier Danielle Smith doesn’t just think unvaccinated people are the most discriminated-against people she’s ever seen — she also says they could fill depleted ranks among health-care workers in the province.
A reporter asked: where will those workers come from in a country, and world, where the health-care shortage problem is being felt everywhere? Heather Smith, president of the United Nurses of Alberta, a union representing some 30,000 nurses, said that Smith’s comment was “ill-informed,” pointing out that about 97 per cent of health-care workers under Alberta Health Services had chosen to get fully vaccinated.
Even then, “the government of the day can never say there will never be another mandate,” she said, “they have an obligation to act in the best interest of the public.”
Be the leader we crave for and it’s not a NDP or a liberal who tries to dictatorship us be a leader
I’m not saying much but being free and being Alberta for what we stand for why ask
We are not so dictator telling people what we can do and not do freedom is what makes us different from everyone else just believing is the cure
That’s who we are and that’s what we will be free and be the only free province we’re we live as one
We will always be the free province in all of Canada and to hell with the liberal NDP dictatorship
Yes, they should the freedom of rights said so the liberal NDP dictated I say to hell with them
This is all political bullshit. More and more countries are getting rid of these ineffective measures. They’re also not offering the shot to healthy people. Look at Denmark, anyone under 50 don’t qualify for the shot unless they have underlying conditions.
The fact that they lied about what does is scary
Stop dividing the population! You are harming us. Let them work for our sakes.
The 'experts' and 'political opponents' need to fix the problems they created. It's not the skilled and fired workers mistake - it's the entire medical-pharma complex that led to any belief that unvaxed are dangerous. Such childish and regressive answers from 'experts' in 🇨🇦.
Scare off the workers? You guys serious? You are still perpetuating this hateful message of discrimination.
You mean the ones who chose to get vaccinated with a toxic, DEADLY and useless mRNA gene manipulation therapy, that has caused irreversable damage to their own bodies, has NO effect against transmission, but it decimated their own immune system.
Every time you so-called “journalists” use the term ‘experts’ it should be regarded as complete bullish!t. Start naming these ‘experts’. My guess is they don’t exist.
Propaganda.
No one is scared of covid anymore we all had it
This lady thinks like a truckers unemployed wife. Not to sterotypical of white trash but…
TS nice try. It isn’t the unvaccinated dying of SAD or suffering serious life altering adverse reactions. We need to now organize new blood donation system so we are not subjected to tainted blood by the vaccinated
If the workers are available and you can't make it work, the problem is you.
And why does anyone need to know your vax status again?
Travelling in Europe for the past two weeks. Concluding that Canada and Canadians are with out doubt, the most hysterical and absurd people with respect to Covid fear mongering. Not a word of Covid on UK or Italian TV or radio. Countries are open and normal. Only in Canada, eh?
Let’s go Toronto NAZI Star! Let’s see how low you go this time to outcast people who are actually better off with C19 than multiple vaxxed. But you with your nazi narrative seek an encore on your last year’s disgusting headline 😡🛑
Chose to get jabbed or pushed to and bribed
Then they aren’t that tired or overworked.
“scare off the workers” 😂
Propaganda and more propaganda and “experts” talk…you are such a disgrace !!
Not since the 50s or 60s has a segment of the Canadian population been more openly disavowed so publicly so blatantly so purposely disenfranchised. There are many segments of society who suffer from discrimination, but not this public, open and entrenched, thanks to MS media
Well that's just too bad for the misinformed workers now isn't it.
Any vaccinated person who's scared of someone unvaccinated is irrational, nonsensical, and unfamiliar with current science
Wait why would they be scared? If we know that the vaccines don’t prevent transmission like the Pfizer CEO admitted, ALMOST SURELY the vaccinated MUST be at least more likely not to die from Covid than the unvaxxed, RIGHT?! 🫢 could this all be a sham?!
By now, health care workers know the truth. Those with any intelligence would welcome their colleagues back.
kainwerdm More garbage journalism pushing the agenda. What happened to you
How about it never should have been anybody's business. Especially since it's now been proven time and time again that you can still transmit regardless of status. This is such a farce
Toronto star posting more bullshit
kainwerdm They didn’t choose to get vaccinated……they were faced with “get vaccinated or lose your job”. That is simply a fact that can not be refuted.
So kinda like hiring high school dropouts to be teachers
Hahahaha
Unjabbed workers would be more at risk from the spike proteins that jabbed workers already took. These Health Care workers deserve their jobs back, immediately. BTW, don't call it a vax, it is gene therapy
If they’re scared off, it’s because they are bigots.
Is this satire?
The vaccinations work right? I'm not exactly convinced they do the way you talk about their failure in blunting the virus.
Experts, we've learned, have no clue what they're talking about, so that's good. And political opponents...RachelNotley Who cares what she thinks? Maybe ask the workers if the workers would be scared!🤯
'Chose' = coerced.
Lmao you guys are complete garbage.
Why would vaccinated workers be afraid? C19 shots don't inspire much confidence if 2 to 4+ still don't build confidence. Or would it be fear of looking people in the eye who were treated as less than Human in our so-called 'inclusive' Country? Doesn't stop spread ref: Pfizer.
Liars. Many of the 'most' I know 'chose' to keep their jobs because they had kids & mortgages; MOST did NOT freely choose to take the shots, and regret having done so, resent having been illegally pressured to do so.
I am seriously wondering WHY the new AB Preem is actually TRYING VERY HARD to appear to Canada as conspicuously uniformed? 🤯
So the people who vaccinated and masked up are crazy? Is anyone buying this farce
They can not be trusted with the care of others
If we have healthcare workers that still believe the vaccine protects from transmission we should be double checking their qualifications PfizerGate
Someone else's vaccine status has no affect on anyone else. Vaccinated and unvaccinated both spread Covid. Wish it weren't so, but it is. Why would anyone be more afraid to work with an unvaccinated person at this point?
an unvaccinated retail clerk isn't going to be able to fill a nursing job, and very few nurses actually chose to leave nursing because of the vaccines.
Those who received the first 2 doses and those who received none are exactly the same right now. So why are the unvaxxed being persecuted? This is strictly spite by mean spirited people. There’s no science. It’s punishment for being disobedient dogs. Nothing more.
'Experts and political opponents' have said a lot of other stupid things too. So have you. That's why we don't listen to you.
Experts
She is right on this point there is absolutely no data to prove vaxed or unvaxed are any different as far as getting covid and passing it on goes.Anyone that disagrees is a prejudice hater & a discriminator of the unvaxed.
Funny thing about being a “health care worker” is it takes YEARS of specialty education and training to fill a role. Danielle’s crowd may have to complete a GED first. Then apply for nursing or med school. So somewhere in 2027 this might help fill a few entry level spots.
Is that fair? I don’t think she is vaccinated.
Can you cut the crap. The shots have done nothing. They have given people a false sense of security & have actually put others at risk believing they are immune & can't pass the virus on. Jabbed or not jabbed, virus spread is equal. Give them back their jobs, stop peddling lies.
They're ALREADY working.
Is this a joke.
Complete and utter BS! FYI - your 2 or 5 covid shots does NOT protect others from covid transmission. That is a cold hard fact.
Well, no surprise here. Your 'experts' continue to lie. All the healthcare workers I have come across have known for months that the vaccine does diddly squat. They are all just too afraid to say so out loud.
Our healthcare workers don’t know that the vaccines don’t prevent transmission? That explains a lot. 🙄
Over 95% of health care workers in Alberta are vaccinated
Yeah ok Toronto star... you are part of the problem, remember this paper you printed last year?
'Follow the science' has become a meaningless expression and has just been a front all along.
Who do you suppose created that fear?
your experts are destroying the medical system
It wont scare anyone. No one cares anymore. No ones wearing a badge indicating their vaxx status... ridiculous
She’s right they should. How would that “scare off” anyone? Working in that field I’m sure they’re not stupid enough to still believe the shots prevent transmission? It’s well known now what it does and doesn’t do.
Suggestion: UNVACCINATED staff work government POINT-BASED priority SELECTIVE (health care clients with MOST PRIORITIZED needs) HOME🏋🏿♀️HEALTHCARE. THAT MEANS: visiting weaker and ailing persons, young or old in their HOMES.
I don't want an unvaccinated person working on me
Experts lol - same people that said follow the science - thanks for the laugh we all know the so called experts and political opponents are not interested in real people issues - of course we should hire them back they are the true and trusted health care workers
The only ones scaring anyone is you - Toronto Star! Get your 10th shot and start reporting on more important things like the coming recession or tangible solutions for our healthcare.
That's the governments fault for creating a false narrative. Canada is corrupt
The only people willing to lose their jobs were those who value informed consent.
Is anyone really vaccinated'against Covid? Be honest 😂
Fact check. Most workers didn't need the 'vaccine' in 2020. It took a year of vax grooming to scare enough people.
vaccine not tested. So.
Smith should be more concerned about an exodus of HC workers to more hospitable places. This, from Ottawa.
Lmfao this is so stupid, the vaccines don’t work. It’s time to stop pushing this nonsense
Scare off the workers lmao! Chose to get it?! YEAH RIGHT
As a health care provider, I agree that working with someone who refuses to accept scientific truths would be unacceptable. Vaccination has saved billions of lives.
What you're really seeing here is a media, political and 'expert' class trying to protect THEMSELVES from facing responsibility for endorsing and/or participating in pointless and discriminatory firing of 'unvaccinated' health-care workers in the first place.
If they believe in the vaccine so much why are they afraid of the unvaccinated if they're already vaccinated? 🤔
Most HCW's I know who originally got vaccinated because they had to, aren't up to date with their boosters, because they haven't been required to. Anecdotal for sure, but I'm talking 20 people that I'm aware of in a small town hospital, alone.
During a recent COVID-19 EU hearing, Pfizer’s president of international developed markets, Janine Small, admitted that the vaccine had never been tested on its ability to prevent transmission, contrary to what was previously advertised.
Oh yes. Because getting vaccinated stops you from spreading it
With vast majority of even over 70 year old's rejecting the current round of 'boosters' in Ontario this hateful nonsense couldn't be more out of touch. Also does 'chose' really apply given the circumstance?
Why would it 'scare off the workers' who chose to get jabbed? Doesn't their safe and effective jabs work? Toronto Star and their experts are nothing but fake news propagandists. All you hacks will soon be unemployed. EnemyOfThePeople PseudeauNews
But Pfizer said the vaccine was never tested for preventing transmission. And, other sectors commingling the vaxxed and unvaxxed don’t appear to have an issue.
'experts' and political opponents. Lol, ok
What experts and political figures advise this misinformation? Vaccinated or not it can still spread. They all worked together prior to the vax, when the vax wasn’t even released yet. It was only when these mandates came through did our system snowball in decline.
Wtf? So they wont hire back the wrongfully fired cuz it may hurt the feelings of those who caved? This is some fucked up shit.
Even Pfizer has admitted the vaccine doesn’t prevent transmission… this is disinformation and fear mongering
So it’s a purity test. If you didn’t do what I did you can’t work beside me. Maybe unvaccinated workers should quit on mass in every profession and see how fast the authoritarians will cave
Why are the vaccinated so afraid?
If your vaccine works why would working beside someone who is unvaccinated “scare you off” ?
They should yes.
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