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Carrie Tait

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Carrie Tait

@CarrieTait

Reporter in The Globe and Mail's Calgary bureau. Loves: The Riders, the Oilers, the farm, mountains, snow. Dislikes: Daylight Saving(s) Time, raccoons, gophers.

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Joined November 2011

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Carrie Tait
@CarrieTait
Sep 14, 2020
Fun! Women represent about 55% of the people in my stories in the last three months. Exclude officials - think premiers, chief medical officers, mayors, spokespeople - and women make up 75% of the voices. It can be done. Big thanks to @InformedOps! #partylikeajournalist
Carrie Tait
@CarrieTait
Sep 23, 2021
Dr. Verna Yiu, CEO of AHS: The only reason Alberta's ICUs are able to admit the average 23 patients per day is because people are dying.
Carrie Tait
@CarrieTait
Oct 1, 2021
Season Foremsky was one of Calgary's ICU nurses. She died this week, of an apparent overdose, after months of dealing with trauma and abuse on the frontlines of the pandemic. "I cry before my shifts," she wrote on Facebook. theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta… #abpoli #ABCOVID19 #yyc
Calgary ICU nurse who faced abuse on front lines of pandemic dies of apparent drug overdose
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Carrie Tait
@CarrieTait
May 4, 2021
Just filled out the census. Method of transportation to get to work? Well, I guess I walk. How many minutes does the journey take? Zero minutes. It takes zero minutes to walk from my bedroom to my kitchen table. I entered zero minutes. Have fun, Future Historians!
Carrie Tait
@CarrieTait
Dec 6, 2022
No government should be telling reporters what questions they can ask and when they can ask them. I can't believe I have to file this under #ableg #abpoli, but here we are.
Carrie Tait
@CarrieTait
Jul 21, 2025
Hi, yes, g'morning. This is awkward. But targeting a reporter - hi! - with surreptitiously obtained photos and details of her tooling around town is an attack on the public's right to know.
Globe and Mail reporter targeted by online campaign, photographed surreptitiously in public settings
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Carrie Tait
@CarrieTait
Feb 21, 2025
SCOOP: Sam Mraiche, owner of the firm that imported meds from Turkey, is a part owner in two private surgical facilities that last year were negotiating deals with inflated rates compared to competitor, according to documents theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta… w @alanna_smithh
Alberta surgical companies with contracts under scrutiny linked to firm that imported children’s...
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Carrie Tait
@CarrieTait
Jan 25, 2025
Alberta govt task force recommends halting COVID-19 vaccines, in a report rife with suggestions counter to medical consensus: theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… w @alanna_smithh #abpoli
Alberta task force recommends halt of COVID-19 vaccines in new report
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Carrie Tait
@CarrieTait
May 19, 2025
SCOOP: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's former chief of staff lived in a home owned by a sister of Sam Mraiche, a businessman whose dealings with Alberta Health Services are subject to multiple investigations. theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta… w @tom_cardoso @HoserLibrarian
Former chief of staff to Alberta Premier lived in home owned by Sam Mraiche’s sister
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Carrie Tait
@CarrieTait
Jan 14, 2024
Hey, good job, whoever shut off a bunch of lights in 8th Avenue Place.
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Carrie Tait
@CarrieTait
Mar 13, 2025
Statement from Athana Mentzelopoulos, AHS's former CEO
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Carrie Tait
@CarrieTait
Sep 16, 2021
Alberta has cancelled ~ all ~ non-urgent surgeries -- Dr. Yiu, AHS's CEO
Carrie Tait
@CarrieTait
Dec 11, 2022
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, on her Saturday radio appearance, said the sovereignty act "could have been used in the past" to stop the federal prohibition on plastic straws. "How many people love the fact that they are now having to use paper straws?" #ableg #cndpoli 1/x
Carrie Tait
@CarrieTait
Mar 21, 2025
SCOOP: Health Minister Adriana LaGrange dismissed the AHS board the same day the organization was scheduled to receive a report examining whether some of its contracts were subject to "improper activity," according to docs. theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta… w @alanna_smithh
Board of Alberta Health Services fired on same day that investigation report was due
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