Emma Jackson
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"environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening” - Chico Mendes | organizer with @CJEdmonton
amiskwaciwâskahikan / treaty 6
Joined February 2013
you refused to give your workers a 10 cent raise.
No pressure, Meghan and Harry, but if you do choose to move to Canada, free coffee for life. Think about it.
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For everyone saying “what do you want Canada to do about it?” may I present South Africa:.
BREAKING: South Africa files case against Israel at the International Court of Justice for genocide. “Acts by Israel are GENOCIDAL in character, as they are committed with the requisite specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza.”
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I am begging a single Canadian mainstream media outlet to interview a worker on how they’re being impacted by Omicron instead of 23 business owners.
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As Israel raids al-Shifa hospital, people disrupt @JustinTrudeau while he wines and dines in Vancouver demanding that he call for a #CeasefireNOW. International war crimes are being committed and Canada is signing off on them. No justice, no peace until Palestine is free. 🇵🇸
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your reminder that the climate crisis hasn't stopped for a global pandemic . (📸 Noah Berger/AP)
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For the love of god, the answer isn’t just to get vaccinated. The answer is paid sick days. The answer is getting vaccines to millions around the globe. The answer is publicly producing and distributing PPE. The answer is our governments protecting us over corporate profit.
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Ahhhh yess, the Canadian state's preferred way to celebrate Human Rights Day— kneeling on the necks of people trying to undermine genocidal violence.
Outside near a Pro-Palestine protest by the US consulate in downtown Toronto
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It’s February. FEBRUARY.
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Canadian MPs could really benefit from taking a page out of the book of these French electeds who refuse to shake hands with fascists.
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Was told by the police today that we could be charged under the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act. Interesting how they refer to it when peaceful protestors are holding up the convoy, but not when the convoy is holding up the border for days. 🧐. #yeg #FluTruxKlanGoHome
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re: the racist attack in Red Deer:. 1) stop calling it Trumpism. this is born and bred Alberta fascism, stoked by Rebel Media and emboldened by our own government. 2) the RCMP's lack of intervention shouldn't come as a surprise. POC organizers have been saying this for decades.
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Hope we're all paying attention to how swiftly Canada imposed economic sanctions on Russia in contrast to how long it has continued to arm Saudi Arabia and fuel one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in Yemen.
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Immediately pulling my mask down the second I leave an establishment because I’m scared of getting the shit kicked out of me for keeping myself and my community safe during a global pandemic is some dystopian shit.
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so just to re-cap, we gave 18 fucking billion dollars to oil companies but we'll set up tents outside hospitals and increase police authority before we'll pay people to stay home
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called my parents to let them know i tested positive for COVID, my dad goes "Premier Kenney recommends you isolate for 15 minutes" . 😒😭.
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You’ve sent Israel over $28 million in military equipment since October. If you want a “sustainable ceasefire,” STOP ARMING ISRAEL.
The civilians in Rafah are people— they are mothers, children. They have names, stories— and they exist. Asking them to move again is unacceptable. They have nowhere to go. We need a hostage deal, for more humanitarian aid to enter Gaza and we need a sustainable ceasefire.
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Imagine running an organizing school for nearly a decade and not understanding the difference between marching PAST a site vs. demonstrating AT it. Pathetic.
Read my statement on events outside Mount Sinai Hospital yesterday:
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#FluTruxKlan held up at River Valley Road because #yeg has had enough. When our hospitals are under attack, we stand up and fight back. When white supremacists are organizing in our city, we stand up and fight back.
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My bad ass friend Atiya confronting the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs @melaniejoly and demanding she answer the question on all of our minds:. How many more Palestinian children need to die before you call for a ceasefire?. Canada is complicit in genocide. #FreePalestine
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"CANADIAN MEDIA STOP PRAISING ISRAEL'S VACCINATION ROLL-OUT WHEN THEY'RE DENYING IMMUNIZATION TO 5 MILLION PALESTINIANS" CHALLENGE.
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Victoria has not only disrupted Lockheed Martin but has shut them down FOR THE DAY. The largest military company in the world sending their workers home. This is what's possible when we take collective action to put our shoulder to the gear of the war machine ✊🏼🇵🇸
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hi, . tim hortons became uncool when it chose to cut back on workers’ benefits, paid breaks and tips in response to a min wage increase that still wasn’t even remotely liveable. signed, . a generation that knows what getting f*cked over feels like.
Has Tim Hortons become uncool? Why the iconic chain doesn't appeal to younger generation
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I just biked past a man frantically performing CPR on someone who had OD’d behind a dumpster just as an ambulance was pulling up. It fucking kills me that every day, average people across this city are doing everything we can to save our neighbours’ lives while our.
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In case you’re struggling to keep count, that brings the total to 10 arms manufacturers blocked or disrupted across the country in less than 2 weeks calling on Canada to #StopArmingGenocide. If they don’t, then we will. ✊🏼🇵🇸.
BREAKING: All three Kraken Electronics facilities in Canada blocked this morning, with actions in St. John’s, Toronto, and Halifax demanding that Canada cut off the flow of weapons to Israel. #StopArmingGenocide #ArmsEmbargoNow
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I would prefer to put less money towards my rent.
Young Canadians put a lot of their hard-earned money towards rent every month. We think that should count for a lot more – like towards your credit score.
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As an undergrad student, I once had to explain to the man who's about to be sworn in as our new Finance Minister that pipelines have to be paid for over time and therefore lock us into future production 🫠 . He said he had "never thought about it that way".
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So UCP MLAs participated in a blockade that has now been found to have had lethal weapons, and have yet to be fired. Meanwhile, workers are losing their jobs for insisting on wearing masks to keep themselves protected. Cool province we live in.
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Today, after telling the police they were leaving, a cop grabbed a protester and despite her telling him she was pregnant, he threw her to the ground. The police don't "serve and protect" people. They serve and protect banks complicit in war crimes.
Pro-Palestinian protesters staging ‘sit-in and take over’ of Scotiabank HQ
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BREAKING: 17 MP offices across the country are now occupied in solidarity with Palestine. We can on our MPs to demand a ceasefire, end the siege, and #FreePalestine of Israeli apartheid. #PalSolidaritySitIn
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tHeRe iS nO bUdgEt fOr pUbLiC tRanSiT bUt cHeCk oUt oUr nEw miLiTaRy gRadE TaNk.
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all i’m asking is for the CBC to write about climate change as if they’ve read the damn IPCC report.
Some are concerned that COP26 will mean an aggressive push toward the total phase-out of fossil fuels.
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happy anniversary of this (tragically) very real post.
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rich people in alberta love to live in houses that look like an earl’s
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This is white supremacy’s version of “good game, good game, good game, good game, good game”.
Coutts police honors, greets and hugs truckers who have blocked the US - Canada border for 18 consecutive days.
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Listening to Kenney’s new radio show on 630 CHED as he gets repeatedly roasted by teachers, and I’m gonna call it now that this show won’t last longer than a month.
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Remember when Justin Trudeau held a press conference every. single. day. when there were like 100 cases per province, and now that we have >4,000+ A DAY in most major provinces, he's like "this actually isn't our jurisdiction, best of luck".
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our landlord has decided to sell our house and have in-person showings in the middle of a global pandemic, so we’re deciding where to put stephen harper’s head for the viewings
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"Let me go pack boxes at a food bank whose existence is evidence of my own public policy failures".
Stepping up, helping out, and giving back – that’s exactly what the incredible volunteers at @KanataFoodCpbrd have been doing for years. Today, we stopped by to help them pack hampers for families ahead of Thanksgiving, and we thanked them for the difference they’re making.
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the combined income of six of these "oil and gas workers" is $11,855,904. maybe they should be the ones to give back.
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Unplugging my toaster to do my part to prevent brown-outs in -50°C weather while our government wages an ideological war against grid expansion.
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Call me crazy but when you drape yourself in the flag of a state that's carpet-bombing entire neighbourhoods, razing hospitals, and depriving 2.3 million people of access to food and water— I'm going to assume you're in support of said state's actions.
To falsely call peaceful protesters against antisemitism and for the release of hostages ‘war-supporters’ is to label them fair game for harassment and even violence. @CTVNews & @omarsachedina have put Jewish Canadian lives in danger. If ever a correction was warranted…. 2/2.
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we don’t talk enough about how those who largely get around by car truly have no idea that nearly getting hit by a car is an almost daily occurrence for pedestrians and cyclists.
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My (ageing) parents are entering Day 6 without power due to an extreme storm that no one outside of Ottawa is talking about. Every day I call them, I’m reminded that the climate crisis is here and our governments are still handing a blank cheque to Big Oil.
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governments attack our healthcare system, underfund frontline services, and pour billions into putting ever-increasing numbers of cops on the streets to walk around like paramilitary forces doing nothing but harassing people.
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i honestly don’t have the words to describe how disgusting and disheartening this was. young climate strikers spent months organizing for their strike today— writing their own land acknowledgments, preparing anti-fascist songs, and this is what they were met with.
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BUT HERE’S THE THING, THE IRVINGS ARE ONE OF THE LARGEST PRIVATE LANDOWNERS IN THE COUNTRY. THEY PRACTICALLY OWN THE ENTIRE PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK. EVERYONE KNOWS SOMEONE WHO WORKS FOR THEM. AND IT’S NOT JUST FORESTRY, THEY’RE ALSO IN THE OIL BUSINESS AND THEY CONTROL THE MEDI
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Nova Scotia. doesn't have a carbon tax.
Hundreds came out at our rally to axe the carbon tax in Dartmouth. This tax only further fuels #JustinFlation, costing Nova Scotians & all Canadians thousands just for living their lives. As Prime Minister, I will scrap the carbon tax to give people back control of their lives.
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So are we going to take down the monument to the 14th Waffen-SS in Edmonton now OR. ???.
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you literally introduced the niqab ban, cut refugees' access to healthcare, and have had known white supremacists running for your party.
Though we've made progress in combatting racism in Canada, our work is not over. We can continue to learn from our history, fight institutional racism, and strive for equality of opportunity for all.
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just rang through a $6 head of garlic at self check-out, politely told the attendant i didn’t want it if it was $6, then watched them delete the item and throw it in my bag anyways. here’s to the working-class stealing back what’s ours from price gouging billionaires in 2020!!!.
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words can’t begin to describe how dystopic it’s been to drive through Secwepemcúĺecw today in 40° weather, under the haze of wildfire smoke, along rivers overflowing from glacial melt. the climate crisis is here and we’re still handing billions to the corporations that caused it.
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if you think tracy allard travelling to hawaii is bad (it is), wait till you hear about the time she gave oil and gas companies a three year exemption on paying their property taxes to already-broke af municipalities because “we all need to make sacrifices” 🌴🌊.
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Organizing works. Now on to the next until Palestinians are not only fed, but free.
Ottawa is resuming funding to UNRWA, the UN relief agency for Palestinians, CBC News has learned. The government paused funding in January after Israel alleged that 12 employees of UNRWA were involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
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mmmm pretty sure the multi-billion dollar corporation ramming a pipeline through their territory at gunpoint without their consent intensified the situation but okay.
Wet’suwet’en chiefs vow to defy Coastal GasLink injunction, intensifying standoff one year after RCMP truce
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here’s hoping covid ends the cruise ship industry for good.
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While an IDF-produced film is being screened to media and MLAs inside the Alberta Legislature, Edmontonians are gathering outside for a Jewish-led Mourner’s Kaddish. We refuse to be propagandized into supporting a genocide. We refuse to keep fighting until Palestine is free. 🇵🇸
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This is the most bullshit xenophobic headline, @CBCNews. The financialization of housing, wealthy developers, and governments' unwillingness to build public housing has exacerbated the housing crisis. Not immigrants.
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Over 30,000 slaughtered by Israel. But of course Canada can't admit to genocide abroad while it continues to perpetuate genocide here at home. History will not look kindly upon this joke of a nation.
Canada is siding with Israel in its defence against allegations of genocide in the ongoing war in Gaza, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau breaking the government’s silence over the contentious case heard at the United Nations’ court in The Hague.
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Good luck arresting 10,000 people in Edmonton on Sunday. This isn’t an antisemitic phrase— it’s a chant for freedom and liberation. This is a racist and egregious overreach of police powers.
🔵 CHARGE LAID 🔵. Following the protest on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023, after consultation with the CPS Hate Crime Coordinator, one man has been charged with causing a disturbance & hate motivation has been applied to the charge. Ahead of the protest, our Diversity Resource Team & our
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People in Vancouver just chased Justin Trudeau out of a restaurant calling for a #CeasefireNOW. He refused to address them. No justice, no peace. Time for Canada to end its complicity in genocide. #FreePalestine.
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There are 137 wildfires burning in the Northwest Territories right now. 137. That’s 9 less than the number of times the fossil fuel industry met with the federal government in one month alone. These corporations don’t give a fuck about our future.
Oil and gas companies had 146 meetings with the government in May alone. 👀. Every day, multiple times a day, the oil and gas industry is telling someone in government to prioritize the fossil fuel industry’s interests, at the cost of a livable planet for us all.
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1,501 cases are now tied to the Cargill plant. FIFTEEN HUNDRED. nearly half of the entire workforce has tested positive and yet, the plant is set to reopen tomorrow. FUCK THIS SHIT .
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Before people start with their "now's not the time," there are 37 babies in the NICU at al-Shifa Hospital who are at imminent risk of dying as the hospital runs out of fuel— so yes, now IS the exact time to call out all institutions complicit in genocide.
BREAKING: Protestors disrupt @scotiabank’s Giller Prize Ceremony this evening. Scotiabank is funding the genocide of the Palestinian people through its $500 million stake in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.
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The irony of saying "never again" while arming a state that's committing genocide in live time .
We stand with the Jewish community and reject all forms of hate and antisemitism. On the eve of Int. Holocaust Remembrance Day, we paid tribute to the 6 million Jews and millions of others who were murdered by the Nazi regime. Today and everyday we remember and say never again.
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Edmonton lighting up the High Level Bridge (once again) in the colours of the Palestinian flag yesterday for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Some days I love this city ✊🏻🇵🇸
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Scenes like this are happening ALL. THE. TIME — so many people desperately trying to fill the gaps of a system driven by greed that’s killing our neighbours every day.
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can't wait for alberta's new covid restrictions: . no gathering with anyone outside your immediate household unless you're in a business with your credit card in hand, in which case feel free to lick each other's faces.
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Last year, during the heat dome, my roommates and I had to pull our mattresses down to our ground floor because the temperatures in the attic (where my room was) reached >43°C. One night, it got so hot I slept on the floor of our concrete basement. 🧵.
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if you need a global pandemic to help you ram through fossil fuel infrastructure projects, maybe that's a sign you've lost the social license required to build said projects.
Alberta minister says it’s a ‘great time’ to build a pipeline because COVID-19 restrictions limit protests against them
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alberta, don’t be fooled. Kenney slashing $128 million from public ed in the middle of a global pandemic is a DELIBERATE move to starve public schools, create an artificial crisis, and force “school choice”— i.e. privately run, publicly funded charters. we know this playbook.
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hey @JustinTrudeau, let’s be clear: legislating postal workers (including predominately women rural posties) fighting for pay equity and safer working conditions back to work is not feminist.
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Can't stop thinking about Suncor choosing this moment of ALL POSSIBLE TIMES to announce they're going to turn their focus away from long-term energy transition and double down on oil sands production. Burning the planet under no illusions.
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OR we could simply *not* throw billions at fuelling another global crisis in the midst of another and instead leverage the UNPRECEDENTED opportunity we've been given to nationalize the industry and rapidly phase it out.
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this you? .
Today we pause to honour the children who never returned home and the survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. Across our channels, we will be creating space for Indigenous voices by sharing their stories and experiences.
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hands up if you actually wanna let an infinite number of nova scotias worth of migrants into canada, and ship Bernier out to sea on a melting ice floe 🙋🏼♀️ . #elxn43 #leadersdebate2019.
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EPS are evicting Indigenous peoples from their own territory and sweeping encampments in -30°C weather. They're shoving people's faces into snow, handcuffing bare hands, brutalizing elders and arresting journalists. And WE are paying for it.
VIDEO: Violent scene as EPS break up the encampment at 95 St and Rowland Rd. Camp resident and Elder Roy Cardinal is seen with blood in his mouth and is led away in handcuffs after being taken to the ground and handcuffed. This sweep was done at -22C, -30C with windchill.
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👏🏼 when 👏🏼 oil 👏🏼 and 👏🏼 gas 👏🏼 companies 👏🏼 applaud 👏🏼 your 👏🏼 climate 👏🏼 plan 👏🏼 it's 👏🏼 not 👏🏼 a 👏🏼 climate 👏🏼 plan 👏🏼.
Shell’s ambition is to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050 or sooner, in step with society. We applaud the Government of Canada’s action today, and look forward to working with them and doing our part to help Canada achieve this goal. #NetZeroCanada.
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You can see the oil sands from outer space, that’s how destructive they are. But when it comes renewables, suddenly we’re concerned about “pristine viewscapes.” . This isn’t about the land at all, it’s about an ideological battle to continue lining the pockets of Big Oil.
Swaths of land in Alberta will be barred from hosting renewable power projects under sweeping new rules. The changes include buffer zones around “pristine viewscapes,” no builds on good quality ag land and new reclamation bonds #ableg #cdnpoli #cdnecon
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Of course Canada would delay debate on the NDP’s motion calling for a ceasefire, arms embargo, and recognition of the state of Palestine while civilians are being starved, and gunned down and run over by tanks in the streets because…. Brian Mulroney died.
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On the eve of another IPCC report, remember that Indigenous peoples asserting their sovereignty over their territory has been the single most effective thing buying us time against climate collapse.
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@CBCNews has been one endless loop of small business owners talking for the past 5 days straight.
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“They talk about who you love, who you marry, which bathroom you use, so they don’t have to talk about who you work for, where the profits go and who benefits.” -Shawn Fain, UAW President.
Gender identity can be a hard thing to talk about, especially when you are involved. But this conversation is extremely important and parental involvement is critical. Kids need to know we love and support them. My message to all Albertans:
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in alberta, you may have to pay a $25,000 fine and go to jail for 6 months for barring entry to a workplace by joining a picket line, but you can get your first drunk drive for free! .
First time drunk drivers in Alberta won't get criminal record under new proposed rules
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Story #8472 of why Justin Trudeau needs to hurry tf up and deliver a Just Transition for working people 🧵👇🏼. Yesterday, I signed a new lease and got the keys to the apartment unit next to mine. 1/.
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1.5 hours on the picket line with CN rail workers and my train knowledge has gone from 0 to a solid 6.5 💪🏼.
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over the holidays, a lot of family members asked me whether i thought Greta was being manipulated or puppeteered at all. look at this photo and try telling me that kids don’t have every reason to be terrified— and not just for their futures, but their lives right now.
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the fact that Canada just re-elected someone who did blackface (x3), is taking Indigenous kids to court, selling arms to Saudi Arabia and failing to end boil water advisories is a reminder that anti-racism is not only a moral imperative but a STRATEGIC necessity. #elxn43.
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Can’t believe that for a sec, I thought @UAlberta wouldn’t dare stoop as low as the UofC but here they are deploying fully armed riot police and teargas on peaceful students protesting a genocide at 5am. Shame on @BillFlanagan. Shame on #yegcc for funding this. #StudentIntifada
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Yesterday, I turned 31. Today, I wrote out the names of forty people who have been killed by Israel since Oct 7– all of them under the age of 31. Every single one of them deserved to celebrate their 31st birthday. Every single one of them deserved life.
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Pierre Poilievre is the student union leader who always wears a suit and calls for tuition INCREASES in line with— or exceeding— inflation.
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THE GONDOLA IS DEAD. INDIGENOUS-LED GOVERNANCE PROCESS LIVES.
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controversial opinion: the NDP and Greens should actually just merge for good so we only have to force one neoliberal-lite party to the Left instead of two.
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I'm ashamed it's taken me this long (I've been busy!) but I've finally unsubscribed from @CANADALAND. It's become evident that a network founded to do media criticism is proving itself incapable of doing just that and I can no longer, in good conscience, support it.
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Ontario MPP @JoelHardenONDP took a punch to the face today standing up for queer and trans kids. This is what leadership in the face of an emboldened right looks like— not just platitudes in the halls of power, but real mobilization in the streets.
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this is nuts. thousands out in edmonton and our main march from church hill square isn’t even here yet. people in the heart of oil country are rising up for good work, Indigenous rights and dignity for all ✊🏼🔥 . #OurTime2019 #climatestrikeyeg
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if loblaws gets rent relief before i do, i'm pitching a mf tent in the chips aisle.
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