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This is going to be long. Sorry.
The entire "parent's rights" thing happening in AB right now is entirely based on strawman arguments, red herrings and sheer imagination. 1/12
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Man, it may be a loooooooooooooooooong time before I’m willing to even entertain the idea of going to the states.
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I love all these “god gave us this perfect immune system, why would I think we could do any better?” people.
My immune system might decide to kill me if I eat a shrimp.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but we’ve never had a covid lockdown in AB
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If a private school has entrance restrictions of any kind (this includes significant tuition rates, IMO), they should not receive public funds.
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FTR, I have 34 desks in my room currently. I just got a call asking if my teacher's desk at the front can be removed in order to try and fit 1-2 more desks in my room. I don't know if I will actually have more than 34 kids but.... guys. This isn't going to be pretty.
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How come, for so many, being proud of Alberta only extends to the dead dinosaur goo we found under the ground?
Why are we not proud of the wonderful education system? The healthcare that doesn’t leave thousands of us bankrupt per year? Stuff like that.
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@USSCobblerguy
@NathanHRubin
There are 0 wait times for critical care. I’ll take what we face over the American system all day every day.
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Dear everyone offering Mcdavid your leg:
Mcdavid’s broken leg is better than your leg.
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What teachers ARE doing:
- Creating a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment
- Recognizing that these students are individuals who have their own identity and rights
- Providing support that is *asked* for.
-Keeping the well being of these kids in mind. 4/12
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I honestly don’t know, has there ever been a larger financial blunder in AB history than just pissing away $1 300 000 000 on nothing?
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Teachers are not:
-Counselling kids to keep secrets
-Assuming all parents are abusive
-Telling kids not to be comfortable in their own bodies
-Wanting to "replace the parents" 2/12
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Well, welcome Zach Hyman I guess.
Gene Principe gonna lose his job.
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Finally just blocked Matt Wolfe. Should've done that a long time ago. Just a horrible human being.
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The funniest thing today is people claiming the UCP are “left of center”
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I love how Alberta has increasing cases and instead of slowing shit down they are opening up more stuff.
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Sonya Savage: It doesn't matter if what was done was legal or not.
Let that sink in.
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We know that LGBTQ kids are extremely overrepresented in the youth homeless population. We know that LGBTQ kids are more likely to be abused. We know that marginalization and stigma leads to mental health issues in these kids. Let's not make that worse. 7/12
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This disclosure thing only applies to the tiniest fraction of kids. The most vulnerable kids. Kids that are specifically not ready to tell their parents and express that (For whatever reason. Maybe they just need time). 5/12
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You can find some obscure reference to some really weird situation (often from extremely questionable sources) to make it seem like things are happening, but they are not in any systemic way. 3/12
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Therefore, it follows that this only represents the tiniest fraction of parents. I think we can all admit that there are a tiny fraction of parents who don't have safe/healthy relationships with kids. That's not controversial. 6/12
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As for the whole over reach into materials being taught thing, they are just exploiting conspiracy theory and fear to prop up a social agenda. 8/12
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The need to address the fact that instead of putting decisions back into the hands of parents, they actually took away the ability for parent's to consent to things that are not permanently altering. 10/12
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In regards to surgeries and such, the odd thing is that this actually restricts parent's rights more than it frees them. They are banning things that don't exist to justify banning less controversial things. If they can say "but you agree with ______!?!?!" they don't feel 9/12
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Who publicly complains about Bieskas comment about the edmonton media first? Rishaug or Spector?
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If you are an Oilers fan and you want to trade McDavid, I hate you and you need to inquire about a lobotomy, on the double.
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The UCP have now had to kick 3 members out of caucus.
These weren’t the members yelling at doctors on their driveway or harassing them via phone with unethically obtained numbers. Not the guy accusing the opposition and media of wanting to watch Albertans die. 1/5
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Kenney said n95s cost $3.25 per mask??? What the absolute fuck? Is 2$ of that going straight into a cronies pocket?
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Apparently, the UCP guy came to our door and I wasn’t here. Missed opportunity but at least he was still sent away with “it’s never going to happen, keep your pamphlet” haha. ❤️ my wife.
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He was a bad GM from a hockey perspective.
He was a bad GM from a human being perspective.
The Oilers had every chance to do the right thing here and just shot themselves in the groin.
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Smear job by notable socialist leftist pinko *checks notes* Charles Adler.......
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Of course, things not related to gender transition will get caught in the crossfire as well. That will be problematic. 11/12
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The person who is in the position of power is not the one being bullied. She is the one forcing her will on the unwilling people of this province.
Bell: Alberta schools boss LaGrange tells ATA she won't be bullied
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The kindest thing I can say about these people is that they are an embarrassment.
Being "proud of our oil and gas industry" doesn't mean you need to piss oil on every corner and get upset about anyone who challenges the status quo.
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So Jason Kenney sees what is going on in the world today and decides to take money from victims and give it to cops and to start taking official questions from Rebel Media?
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@DangitBird
@95percentcoffee
The thing is, they don’t really think it’s easily fixable but they love when people take up that mantra. They don’t care. It’s simple as that. If it doesn’t impact them it isn’t worth caring about to them.
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Remember that the purpose of terrorism is to create fear, mistrust and division. Don't let it. We're stronger together.
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I’m old enough to remember when the UCP was the only provincial party asking for money from the feds while simultaneously spending money asking people to wish Jason Kenney a happy birthday.
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I gotta say, If Kenney ever followed through with the idea of calling an election to teach his caucus a lesson and then lost to the NDP would be one of the funniest things I've ever experienced.
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Ok so. I’ve mainly been gone the last couple of days and after some drama and some stress I can finally announce
@aboschloe
and I welcomed our second little boy yesterday. Super pumped over here.
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So, in AB, our positivity rate is back over 5%. We have the highest per capita of active cases in the country. Variant cases are rising exponentially. In only a few weeks we went from like 150-200 cases a day to 450-500.
Can we not do the whole giant third-wave thing please ppl?
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@MartinKulldorff
@HRaleighspeaks
That’s much more disturbing than say… mass Covid graves and n the early stages of covid
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I keep pumping this but education has to be a major priority in this election. Education is an investment, not a simple line item. There’s one party that has flat out ignored population growth funding for school and they’d be a disaster.
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Imagine having watched the oilers waste Connor McDavid’s 18-23 year old seasons and going “I’m ok with the new GM thinking he can take his sweet time for the next 3 years”
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Put Puljujarvi with RNH instead of Archibald and all of a sudden 93 looks better. Heh.
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Is it unreasonably crazy that I went to respond to Lagrange’s post on Facebook but deleted it because I'm half afraid it'll put me on some blacklist as someone to target for removal from my job at some point?
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Totally fine with edmonton not doing that.
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I know it has been said before but I absolutely HATE the fact that Kevin Bieksa is so bloody likeable.
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All the village idiots have gathered.
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If you take away "NDP Bad!" and "Notley-Trudeau Alliance!" and "I hate lgbtq+ people!"
Is there anything legitimate reason to really vote for the UCP?
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We are living in a world where there is a non-zero chance that David Staples somehow becomes our next education minister.
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Nope, many of these are in cabinet. The whole party is garbage and needs to dissolve into the obscuring it deserves. 5/5
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@StaySaif
@CDNCrickles
When you have to be bludgeoned into doing the right thing, you don't deserve praise for capitulating to do that thing. Especially if it meant more people dying while you dithered.
I'm glad something is happening but yeesh.
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Finished my first ever cutting board. Im giving it as a gift to someone not on twitter.
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Just unfollowed someone instead of engaging in their bullshit. Score one for my mental health.
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I love the fact that the Oilers are now currently paying James neal and Lucic for nothing and it’s still better than paying one of them to try and do something.
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Ok everyone:
-Education is not industry and shouldn’t be treated as such
-Your anecdotal experience In high school doesn’t define the system as a whole
-The sum of a students learning can not be measured by standardized tests
-Our education systems is one of the best in the world
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Not the guy who posted pictures flouting public health rules and lied to cargill workers leading to an increased covid breakout. 2/5
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Not the lady who seemingly does nothing but walk around saying “robust” over and over. 4/5
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11 years ago today
@aboschloe
and I made official what we already knew for a long time. Best friends, partners, soul mates. Love you sweetie.
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Not making the vulnerable a priority is exactly the basis of your entire party. Go away. Disappear.
To see vulnerable Albertans not having a federal government making them a priority is incredibly frustrating.
We need more vaccines now. 1/3
#ableg
#abhealth
#COVID19AB
Bell: Alberta takes aim at Trudeau's botched vaccine plan
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Not the MLAs publicly undermining public health initiatives via a letter calling for restrictions to be lifted (some while having significant outbreaks) 3/5
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Wayne Gretzky made a lot of careers, but the careers boosted most were shitty legacy oilers media. Matheson, Jones, etc.
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@teacherinRI
@staralixstar42
@Bigmamabenzzzzz
Meh. When my wardrobe impacts my pedagogical efficacy then get back to me.
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Step 1: Fire Nicholson
Step 1a: Hire someone competent instead (preferably some1 katz doesn't know personally)
Step 2: Fire Holland
Step 2a: let the competent person hire someone else competent.
Step 3: Fire Tippet
Step 3a: competent people hiring competent people
Step 4: profit
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It’s sort of hard to fathom just how horrible our provincial government is.
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Fucking gross, Alberta.
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We all are seeing and acknowledging just how good RNH has been these playoffs, correct?
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A) too little, too late
B) don’t believe it anyways
C) imagine NEEDING to have to take “unprecedented” measures to keep out the hateful bigots because they’re attracted to your party like flies to a mountain of 💩
Kenney's plan to screen new party members for hateful, extreme views is unprecedented
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