Kelden Formosa
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Teacher 📚 native plant enthusiast 🌿 one of the Jesus people ☀️ occasional writer of takes 🏳️🌈 mckinsey delenda est 🐦
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Canada's conservative movement is surprisingly full of gay people.
For
@TheHubCanada
, I wrote about how this group differs from the mainstream LGBT movement and how we can help our society come to a more stable settlement on issues of family and culture.
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Going forward I will not accept the description of me or any other Canadian as a settler.
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There is a Jewish nursing home in Vancouver that didn't want MAiD performed within its walls because it was traumatizing for the elderly Holocaust survivors who live there. Ellen Wiebe snuck in and performed a MAiD procedure anyways.
Canadian abortionist and MAID doctor Ellen Wiebe was recently featured in a BBC documentary on assisted-suicide. Check out what she had to say on laws and practices of assisted-suicide in Canada below.
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New from me in
@TrueNorthCentre
:
I'm an
#abed
teacher. Every day I see the lasting harms of COVID restrictions on kids.
Voters should be cautious about a party that fearmongered about school reopening & would have jeopardized it had they been in power.
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I am gay. I am also a teacher. I don't think we need pride flags in schools.
Emotions went past a tipping point last night at the York Catholic Regional District School Board meeting, where parents were ejected and had the police called over a debate if the school board should raise the Pride Flag in June.
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Huge respect for
@Anthony__Koch
, the first conservative commentator to ever appear on
@PnPCBC
. Getting kicked off CBC for being too defensive of Jewish people is a nice feather in his cap.
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It is false and risks dehumanization, with awful consequences.
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Dr. Knight - the woman celebrating massacres of Jews in this clip - is an American immigrant who received of tens of thousands of Canadian taxpayer dollars to fund her Ph.D. Her dissertation focused on internalizing decolonization, especially in urban contexts.
Natalie Knight, who led illegal anti-LNG roadblocks in early 2020 in Vancouver resurfaced at today’s pro-Palestine rally in Vancouver. She called the Hamas terrorist attack on Israelis “amazing, brilliant.” (📹Bryton’s Thoughts/YouTube).
#vanpoli
#cdnpoli
#October7massacre
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The delight she takes in her work of ending the lives of the most vulnerable...
May God have mercy on her soul.
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Things I do as a Grade 2 teacher in
#abed
:
✅ Teach all subjects well;
✅ Provide a safe learning environment;
✅ Help students develop good habits and friendships.
Things I don't do:
❌Help kids keep secrets from their parents;
❌Tell kids they were born in the wrong body.
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I've been reluctant to comment on this, but given that
@HaltonDSB
& the
#onted
public school system is defending it, it's worth saying: This is wrong. The only thing that kids in this class are learning is that adults will always put their interests last.
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Haven't really participated in this discourse much, but I think it's bad that Canadian government-funded media is portraying the sexualization of children sympathetically.
@brodiefenlon
This is why you're losing the country.
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We don't need to do anything to restrict free speech. We just need to stop funding university programs that make people hate each other.
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For greater clarity, I think it's good to recognize the special histories and relationships that First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples have with the land. That can be done without using misleading phrases like "settler" to describe people who are not part of those communities.
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Every CPC member who's celebrating
#Pierre4PM
owes a debt of gratitude to Sen. Batters for sticking her neck out and persuading the national caucus that the party needed a change in direction.
Happy. Grateful.
Excited for the future!
I’m so proud to have been part of the fantastic Team
#Pierre4PM
.
I know Canadians will love
@PierrePoilievre
’s message of freedom and hope.
#CPCLdr
#SenCA
#skpoli
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As an
#abed
teacher, I'm grateful to have such a thorough and thoughtful policy to guide our schools as we care for our students.
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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Personal note: After five years of living and teaching in Vancouver, BC, I've moved to Calgary, AB to teach Grade Two at Calgary Classical Academy, a brand new public charter school offering a rigorous traditional liberal arts education to a diverse community of learners.
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@CTVVancouver
@ctvethanfaber
I think it's very irresponsible to imply people who criticize your biased journalism are the moral equivalents of violent anti-Semites.
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Somehow I bet this guy doesn't live within a few hundred metres of a supervised injection site.
Give unhoused people homes. Decriminalize drugs. Ensure safe supply. Stop stigmatizing and moralizing drug use.
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As a gay guy myself, I think that
@Scrase
's point here was reasonable and not homophobic. The behaviour in this photo is very bad - horrible, even. What's more homophobic is for
@JasJohalBC
and the journo class to suggest that this behaviour represents all gay people. It doesn't.
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@Carolyn_Bennett
@PierrePoilievre
@CPC_HQ
If we had the same number of drug deaths under you as we had under Harper, thousands more Canadians would still be alive.
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"Hi Mr. Trudeau, many experts are expressing the concern that your MAiD policies are dogwhistles to supporters of eugenics. Are you trying to win the votes of eugenicists?"
#cdnpoli
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As a teacher in
#bced
, I am so bothered by many fellow teachers who are tweeting in
#BCedEnhancedMeasures
. So many people are spreading fear to other teachers and families, all to try to close schools again. Thanks to Dr. Henry for her steady leadership in keeping schools open.
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In my view, many schools already spend too much time on LGBTQ+ topics. We should try to treat students as unique human beings, not just as avatars of various communities. Too much focus on sexual orientation distracts from learning & supporting students' overall personal growth.
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@JamesMartinSJ
Respectfully, as a gay Catholic myself, I disagree. In a free society, people shouldn't be compelled to say anything they don't want to, including, "Congratulations on your marriage!"
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Honestly, having skimmed her dissertation to make sure I wasn't mischaracterizing it, it makes me sad.
She's had a hard life and is a deeply troubled soul. It's wrong that academics encouraged her to turn those difficulties into racial resentment.
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@wendy_waters
Thanks, Wendy. My only regret is that I should've pushed back on some of the fear-mongering earlier. I can't believe the contrast I see b/w my colleagues - who are doing their best to get kids through this in one piece - and the most prominent teachers on Twitter & in the media.
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It really is a stunning church, a testimony to the faith that preserved the French fact in North America after the British Conquest.
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Several big-name progressive lawyers are trying to get a professor fired for expressing doubts about drag queen story hours.
Hopefully
@uocommonlaw
will ignore this illiberal craziness.
@finseraste
's public engagement is good and educational for legal laypeople like me.
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@BahiraR
Is this the kind of thing you're celebrating? Imagine if she were your daughter.
Never forget what happened on Oct 7th.
Thousands of Palestinian civilians lined the streets of Gaza to spit on the body of German-Israeli woman Shani Louk.
Civilians hit her body with wooden planks, punched and slapped her naked body as they cheered with joy.
Never forget.
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This is a great articulation of the Canadian liberal mindset.
Democracy is *not* holding an election to allow voters to decide on contentious issues.
Democracy is deferring the Globe & Mail editorial board and 18% of voters who agree with them.
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@jordanbpeterson
Canadian provinces don't have as much ICU capacity per capita as American states, so we can't afford to maintain as high a daily case rate as they do without running out of space and having to ration care. This is a weakness of our healthcare system that we should consider more.
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@vancolour
@tamarataggart
@CHEK_News
@CHEK_media
@TamaraTaggart
asks, "Why else would we remove masks?" if not for eugenics. An obvious reason is to promote communication for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or still learning to speak, all of whom rely on lip reading.
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Activist journalists at the CBC continue their campaign to bully Catholic hospitals into euthanizing the poor and vulnerable.
My latest on MAID lawsuit: 19 people this year have been forced to transfer out of Providence Health facilities to access medical assistance in dying (MAID), a scenario advocates say proves the attempted fix by the province isn't good enough.
#bcpoli
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More of this, please.
Scenes in the Canadian House of Commons after the republican oath bill is voted down:
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Trans teachers are perfectly capable of dressing professionally. That's what the board should be requiring this teacher to do. Their refusal to do that tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the board: Kids' learning matters less than seeming progressive.
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@njhochman
The summer of church burnings in Canada - and the tepid response from the mainstream institutions of our society - was pretty radicalizing for me, as it offered a pretty dark picture of what victory for the other side would mean for some of the things that I love.
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Last year, the world's media failed to report accurately on what was being found near former residential schools. They ignored Indigenous voices, left out context, and stoked hatred. I'm grateful to
@TerryGlavin
for his brave and deeply-researched piece explaining what we know.
The year of the graves: How the world’s media got it wrong on residential school graves
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Please, let the fearful fever dreams of the average Lib be true, just this once.
If Pierre Poilievre becomes PM next year, mark my words, he will change 🇨🇦 in ways most people can’t yet comprehend. And it won’t be for the better.
As an urban Millennial with very progressive views on social policy, I truly worry about what’s in store for our country if
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Obviously coming to terms with your sexual orientation is part of overall personal growth, but I think that should come later in puberty - more towards the older high school grades.
The idea of encouraging kids to explore this stuff early is odd to me. Let kids be kids.
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Check out my piece in
@TheHubCanada
on the failure of our education systems to put kids' needs above adults' anxieties. We were so risk-averse when it came to COVID but so reckless when it came to the harms of closures & restrictions. Excerpts in the 🧵:
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The CBC, in headline news a few days ago:
"THERE ARE DAMNING EMAILS THAT WILL END DANIELLE SMITH"
The CBC, in a whisper, after no such emails are found by the public service:
"okay, well no, we never saw any emails"
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I teach kids this age. If one of them told me their parents were taking them to fetish stores, dressing them up in skimpy clothing, and having them perform for adult enjoyment, I would have a duty to report it to child services.
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@cselley
Even if she did donate, I'd totally understand. She's been advocating for nuanced policies for years, but few in the Canadian media have been interested in platforming her views, likely because the views of alarmists like Furness & Fisman get more clicks. It must be frustrating.
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To be honest, everything about this interaction makes me think more highly of Justin Trudeau, from the forceful responses to the "Canadian Pride: 1867" shirt.
Here’s a preview of what happened yesterday when
@TheRealKeean
and I caught up with Justin Trudeau.
It was WILD!
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@foxgw
Do you think you have a right to know if she is receiving medical or psychiatric interventions, particularly if they are coming from people who are unqualified to provide them (e.g., teachers)?
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This is Laith Marouf, the anti-racism consultant to whom the federal government gave $123,000.
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The fiasco of all our MPs applauding an SS soldier in the House of Commons is at least partly explained by nobody knowing anything about history.
This will get worse as we drift further away from teaching actual knowledge and replace it with content-light "skills" instruction.
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A hot new progressive take is that Nazi Germany was bad, sure, but not *exceptionally* bad.
We need to stop exceptionalizing Nazi Germany. It was a particular branch of one of the many types of ultra-nationalist fascist ideologies at the time. If you break down those ideologies, its obvious that many key elements continue to be wildly popular all over the world.
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To me as a
#bced
teacher, "opening it all up" means allowing young children to see their friends' and teachers' faces when they're at school.
#bcpoli
When people say open it all up in B.C. And get rid of all restrictions what is it you can’t do now that you hope to be able to do?
#bcpoli
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@Heidi__Matthews
This tweet is evidence that an elite education means little when it comes to developing knowledge or good sense.
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Extended school closures were a terrible mistake made by many jurisdictions, including Ontario and many US states.
Luckily, Alberta's UCP government followed the evidence and reopened schools in Sept. 2020, supporting kids' learning and mental health.
This was the right move.
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@maxfawcett
This line of criticism is misplaced. I'm concerned about vaccine hesitancy, especially for childhood vaccinations. But I've never seen any progressive policy ideas to increase people's trust in public health advice. It's just punishment, mockery, and mandates, which don't work.
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@MadAboutPaper
@brianlilley
Don't you think the villains in this situation were the ones threatening physical violence against this small business owner and her employees? And the ones who doxxed them?
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I think professional gay teachers should discuss their personal lives about as often as professional straight teachers do, i.e. occasionally, at the right moments, but not every day. Our classes are about our kids and the content, not ourselves.
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And thanks to
@jonkay
for being pretty much the only person in Canadian media willing to touch this.
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This is a big part of the problem with progressive politics. Duane doesn't know what the answer is, but whatever it is, it mustn't *look* bad, even if that means we allow people to risk freezing to death in public parks.
I do not know what the answer is. But this looks really bad. Police tearing down homemade shelters and arresting people in the dead of winter.
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This kind of behaviour is intrinsically bad. People have a right to walk down a street without being screamed at, even if we disagree with them.
(Plus, it increases the likelihood that the Liberals win next time. The average voter *hates* this).
CRAZY: Justin Trudeau swarmed by angry protesters outside the Bread Bar in Hamilton.
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I read his other tweets too, and they all strike me as a pretty normal guy trying to reconcile his support for gay marriage, respectful treatment, and "love is love" with some of the more recent excesses of the broader 2SLGBTQIAA+ movement.
Many gay people feel the same way.
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Quebec City residents would never let marketing consultants rename Chateau Frontenac "The Synergy."
Calgarians should channel that energy, and oppose renaming of
#yyc
's Fort Calgary as "The Confluence", which sounds more like a hipster café.
New from me
@TheHubCanada
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Another way to put this: "CTV News has already written a story. We are now looking for evidence to support it."
CTV News would like to speak with the parent of an immunocompromised child after Premier Smith said she will not allow more mask mandates in schools. Send us a DM or leave a comment.
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Plus, it's not as though the pride flag is a totally apolitical symbol, particularly not the progress pride variant, whose creators have explicitly connected it to a left-of-centre agenda for political change.
Should public schools be endorsing this?
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@anya1anya
@DrJBhattacharya
@alexanderrusso
do you refer to Newsom's union donations as left-wing pro-school-closure dark money? seems fair
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I'm really impressed by Premier Higgs here.
It's wrong that so many teachers are being told to keep secrets from kids' parents, especially when we're not even allowed to ask
any questions about this.
Kudos to him for taking the political risk to protect kids' best interests.
I spoke with Todd Battis on CTV to discuss the changes our government made to improve Policy 713 for our children and parents while maintaining a safe, welcoming environment in schools.
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@richardzussman
As a
#bced
teacher, I hope they'll make masks optional:
✅ There's no evidence school mask mandates reduce spread;
✅ The risk of COVID to kids is comparable to the flu;
✅ Vaccination rates are high;
✅ Forced masking harms communication and learning.
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@cselley
This is unfair.
@WillWJGreaves
is a PoliSci professor. He can't be expected to know about things that happened in politics.
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@gregbradyTO
Dropping mask mandates for kids in Alberta schools did not result in an increase in COVID cases among kids.
Data here:
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Sobering to read these and notice that most of the men who died were younger than me. May perpetual light shine upon them. 🍁
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@jennbrasch
It's interesting that the public health establishment is coming down hard on three beers a week but increasingly supportive of cheap and accessible hard drugs.
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And, as a Catholic, it bothers me to see people trying to inflame divides between LGBT people and others in our Church. The Jesus story is about trying to get us out of this cycle of retaliatory violence and bullying. We need reconciliation - more listening, less signaling.
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New from me in
@TheHubCanada
:
Renaming Fort Calgary isn't about reconciliation. It's about marketing, corporate rebranding, and the triumph of the consultant class over historic recognition and local democracy.
#yyc
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There is nothing less weird for a man than going on and on about the relative merits of different types of lumber.
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I really dislike this genre of "Make fun of less-credentialed people who don't know their fundamental freedoms are in Section 2 of the Charter rather than from the First Amendment" tweets.
It's snobby and disdainful and it's why our PMC is so disliked in the first place.
The First Amendment as an all-purpose magic internet law finds itself in a Canadian court, where the judge is not amused
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The Globe: Let's have an economic system in which both parents need to work full time and childcare is left to teachers and daycare workers.
Also The Globe: If parents don't know everything their kids are doing at school, it's all their fault and the schools shouldn't tell them.
This is the key part of the Globe’s editorial on New Brunswick’s attack on trans kids.
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I really believe teaching is a noble job. Parents entrust their kids to us. They let us take on part of their responsibility to raise them up and educate them. Why are so many in my profession willing to betray this sacred trust and make it all about themselves?
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Strongly recommend this podcast episode from two doctors who believe in vaccines and take COVID seriously but also acknowledge the trade-offs of certain measures for kids. Thanks to
@TracyBethHoeg
&
@kwadwo777
for your courage & care for kids' well-being.
#bced
#bcpoli
#covid19bc
In this episode we welcome back physician and epidemiologist,
@TracyBethHoeg
. We talk about the ongoing questions that concern our youth. Find “COVID-19 & Our Youth: Risk of Death, Vaccinations & Myocarditis, Schools, Masking, Sports & More” at
@kwadwo777
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@CHCOntario
@TorontoStar
@HBKidsHospital
@EmpoweredKidsON
@SickKidsNews
@CHEO
@kidsmentalhlth
@mch_childrens
@KidsHealthAllnc
There is no evidence that these mask mandates reduce transmission in schools. As a teacher, I see how forced masking harms students' learning and overall wellbeing, and can tell you it's especially bad for kids with are learning English or who have disabilities. Stop the theatre.
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I've noticed that defences of using the phrase "settler" to describe other Canadians generally claim that it's a neutral descriptor with no negative connotations. Those defences are mixed in with takes like these ones.
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I'm a Grade Two teacher in
#abed
. I'm grateful for
@ABDanielleSmith
's strong stance here. Masking kids harms their learning and mental health, and there's very little evidence that it actually reduces the (already low) risk that COVID poses to children.
#ableg
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People are wondering why this wasn't already in the BC curriculum. It's because BC has an "inquiry-based" curriculum focused on developing "core competencies" like "personal and social awareness" rather than on actually teaching young people any content.
#bced
B.C. commits to mandatory Holocaust education for Grade 10 students. Click on the image below to read more ↓
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It says something about Canadian academic culture that the people who represent TAs, post-doc students, and some of the instructors would celebrate the massacre of innocent Jews.
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@rmohamed_yyc
I think if you asked CUPE or Sarah Jama or your local DEI trainer then we'd both be. 🙃
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@maxfawcett
Max, do you know what percentage of Torstar, The Globe and Mail, and LaPresse's payroll is paid for through federal and provincial payroll subsidies? QC has a v generous program, so it seems likely we're approaching the point where most of LaPresse's payroll comes from the State.
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Find me a guy who doesn't know what "per capita" means.
Interesting data from the IMF. Canada's expected to lead advanced economies in GDP growth in 2025.
#cdnpoli
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Thanks to
@TheHubCanada
for publishing my article on the new
#bced
mask mandate for kids. We don't have much evidence that forced masking for kids actually reduces COVID risks, but it does harm their learning & mental health. I'll expand on a few points here.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
🧵
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@ChanLPfa
@MeghanEMurphy
@AlottaMalotta
@HeatherEHeying
I agree, and I really appreciate that you're going against some parts of your own audience here. It speaks well of your integrity and your friendship with
@AlottaMalotta
.
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