Neil Korotash 🇺🇦
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High School Science 🧬, Agriculture 🚜, and Math 🧮 teacher, political nomad, and fan of both the Oilers and nuance.
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Jason Kenney has tweeted 7 times in the last 24 hours about using Alberta oil & gas instead of oil & gas from Russia. I don’t think anyone disagrees, but it comes across as crass to me. There’s a time & place for politicking and this isn’t it. 🇺🇦
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This government is so incredibly bad it’s hard to know where to start. A war with doctors. Coal mining in the Rockies. Racist curriculum writers. Billions in accounting errors. Equalization dog whistle politics. War room. Contact tracing failure. Care to add more?
#abpoli
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Smith, and Jean, and anyone else running against “Ottawa” or for “Alberta sovereignty” can pound sand. I’m damn proud to be Canadian and I’m sick and tired of right wing politicians sowing division to serve their own political ambitions. Work together or get lost.
#ableg
#abpoli
As your Premier, on day 1, I'm introducing the Alberta Sovereignty Act. It's time put Alberta First!
To become your Premier and stand up to Ottawa, I need to win the
@Alberta_UCP
nomination. (1/2)
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Having a hard time processing this right now. The historic & beautiful St Jean Baptist’s parish in Morinville burned to the ground last night.
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Today the UCP reiterated their plan to strengthen charter schools. This on the heels of more investments in private schools & homeschooling and, in my opinion, at the expense of a robust public system. This is backwards. 1/2
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If I were in office, I’d also give a shout out to farmers who are still out every day tending to animals to provide us with food. I’m tired of this government treating one industry like it’s their favourite or only child. Give it a rest already.
#abpoli
#ableg
Shout out to all the workers in oil & gas who are helping keep Albertans warm during this deep freeze.
Thankful for the abundant conventional energy that helps us survive tough winters in Canada!
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A lot being made of Danielle Smith’s attendance at an Oilers game. Seems timely for me to share this story:
It’s 2001. I’m 21 years old. It’s a few weeks after I was elected to
#stalbert
city council. I accepted an invitation by a local developer to sit in a box at a game.
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I think about that conversation in his office all the time. I’m thankful to have had leaders like him to guide me and can’t help but wonder if we’d be better off had more of our politicians had teachers like mayor Plain.
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So if I understand this correctly, libraries have to close but churches are still open? These guys have really made a mockery of this whole thing. It’s no wonder fewer and fewer people are taking measures seriously.
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Wow. I’ve heard it all now - Kenney defending Trudeau & his government saying he didn’t think extended tax powers were intentional and that people need to be a little more understanding. Both leaders have been excellent during this crisis. No room for partisanship here.
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Jon Oliver’s bit on the convoy is good but the Critical Race Theory’ stuff that follows is absolutely terrifying because it’s happening here in Alberta and I’ll give you a two examples.
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This UCP government has even screwed up a referendum on daylight savings time. They’re giving us a bad and a worse option. Use Science and vote NO to permanent DST.
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Dear
@jkenney
&
@MattWolfAB
, seeing as you retweeted me you should also know that though I support a return to school, I do not support the lack of funding for covid measures, layoffs, push towards more choice, curriculum rewrite, or pretty much any other Ed decision so far
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As an
#Alberta
teacher there is a lot I could be angry about. I could be upset the UCP has cut per student spending despite their pledge to maintain funding. I could be upset that they laid off most of our EAs during a pandemic leaving students w/ fewer supports.
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This past year AIMCo, the province’s pension fund, gambled & lost $2.1 Billion of Albertans’ money while at the same time the government overseeing it accrued $1.6B in accounting errors. Now, the UCP are asking teachers to trust them with our pensions 😳
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This is THE most asinine thing I’ve ever read. The “
@NDP
” curriculum review was not only initiated by the PCs, but it involved hundreds of teachers, thousands of students & parents, and was one of the most collaborative and open government endeavours I’ve ever seen.
Alberta’s government ran on a commitment to pause the NDP’s secretive curriculum review and to launch the most open and transparent curriculum renewal Alberta has ever seen. Our government is doing a true, open and public curriculum consultation. (1/5)
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Approx 2.5 years ago at the PC policy convention in Red Deer I had a front row seat to witness
@jkenney
’s pledge to strip LGBTQ students of their safety in schools and it was under the guise of “parent choice.” Today he fulfilled that commitment. Despicable.
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You know what we could really use? A dedicated online public school / digital curriculum resource hub like the Alberta Distance Learning Centre… that the province permanently closed at the beginning of the pandemic 😡
I am CONCERNED about the tidbit regarding tutors for AB families in today’s presser. Why are we not supporting the professionals in the classrooms? Those are $$ that could be used to support AB students in public schools.
#AbLeg
#AbEd
@albertateachers
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This is so upsetting. “Parent Choice” seems so innocent as does “back to basics” Math. It’s easy to get behind those sentiments right? Who could possible be opposed? They are lazy & disingenuous arguments and we can’t let the UCP get away with them.
Alberta’s government enhanced the protections for parents to choose the best education for their kids. We’re also ending the recent obsession with teaching fads like discovery math to provide a strong curriculum for all.
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I had no clue. I was young and inexperienced. Over the next three years, I’d learn a lot from Mayor Plain. We disagreed often. He was stubborn. He was brash. He is one of the most intelligent people I know. He is also a model of honesty and integrity.
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Mayor Plain was furious. My first experience with Richard’s wrath. He scolded me for attending in a way that only he could. He told me I put the credibility of the entire council at risk & that I was to NEVER, under any circumstances, accept gifts from businesses or lobbyists.
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Not a fan of Liberal budget but felt like this needed fact checking so I did some. Trudeau’s gov’t reduced foreign aid to $4.4B, lower than under Harper & OECD avg, and have already pledged $3.6B more in veterans funding. Let’s start discussions w/ facts not memes please
Edm town hall, Trudeau told a wounded vet, that, there wasn’t enough $’s to pay for his care or any veterans from Canada. It’s not in the liberals budget.
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@TristinHopper
Source? I want to use this in my class but need a reference. Nothing in the graph says cbc or has a time/date stamp or link etc.
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Automatic unfollow. I’ve had some good conversations with David in the past, but this is willful ignorance at best. Math issues were never curricular & comp sci was in 2018 draft. He has zero clue.
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Tough loss for the
#oilers
after a great game but it was entertaining, they got a point, and I got this photo.
@EdmontonOilers
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but an experienced Educational Assistant in Alberta makes around $29k gross & they often work w/ our highest need kids all day. And apparently that’s more than EAs make in ON. [corrected from earlier twt where I erred in annualizing it to $34k]
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After a couple twitter exchanges last night I want to clarify something. I’m pissed about how the UCP have funded Education over the last couple of years. They promised to maintain or increase spending yet they’ve absolutely cut spending despite growing student numbers.
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I’m told a party that is willing to replace limits on charter schools can’t get elected. I’m told that a party committed to funnelling funds from private to public schools is unelectable. I disagree & want to build a party that does just that. Who’s with me? 2/2
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The next morning I was summoned to then mayor Richard Plain’s office. I didn’t know what it was regarding at the time but I’ll never forget the “conversation” that ensued.
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@SteveRickettsSP
Blaming the Federal government for something the province is responsible for would certainly be on brand.
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We now have a push towards more ‘choice’ in the way of private and charter schools from a premier that has been duped by an ignorant columnist and his readers.
Make no mistake, the same forces at work South of the border are alive and well here too.
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I’ve been struggling with what to say about
@ryanjespersen
’s dismissal from
@630CHED
and I’m not usually lost for words. Quite frankly it’s incomprehensible. While we wait to learn more I’ll say this:
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This “former drama teacher” is not only more educated, but also has a much more impressive resume than this failed consultant and sub-par columnist.
Texans love their freedom, and are willing to fight for it. Canadians love being told what to do by a former drama teacher with a paper thin resume and nice hair.
#cdnpoli
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Is it just me or does everything seem like a competition with Kenney? Rather than coming across as compassionate he comes across as bragging that Alberta’s support for mental health is more per capital than other provinces. Or maybe just my bias making me hear that?
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2. After watching Jon Oliver’s bit, replace Rufo with David Staples, replace Trump with Kenney, and replace CRT with ‘Discovery Math’ and you have the same misguided outsized influence over an ideological leader pushing for more parental choice.
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This is nuts.
$150k speech writer
$150k director of talent
$115k tour manager
And that’s not even including the $200k we pay Matt Wolf to troll people on twitter.
Premier's office: 19 staff, $2.4M tab - NewsMedicine Hat News
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In defence of
@CBCCanada
given recent events: Last year my class watched 15 minutes of news every single day. We rotated CBC, CTV, Global, Aljazeera, BBC, CNN, and FOX religiously. CBC was “the best” IMO. I like that my tax dollars support good independent journalism.
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This “promise” was terrifying when they made it and even more terrifying now that it’s closer to reality. The UCP have taken a thoughtful, balanced, well researched curriculum written by experts and are replacing it with a plagiarized ideological, right wing, politicized version.
We promised to stop the NDP's ideological, left-wing, politicized rewrite of the school curriculum.
We kept our word. We've stopped it. We are now presenting Albertans with a thoughtful and balanced curriculum to set young people up for success.
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FYI
#oilers
fans, a group of us were in
#calgary
Friday and didn’t get booed once. Let’s return the cordiality please and have some fun!
#letsgooilers
#BattleofAlberta
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Scheduled our vaccine appointments for tomorrow and we’re getting the best kind!
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“The best vaccine is the one that’s available to you first” - smart people
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This is rich. She recently appointed somebody who thinks the teaching about residential schools is a fad and is overblown to lead Alberta’s curriculum review. The hypocrisy and arrogance has reached a new level
#FireChampion
Today is
#OrangeShirtDay
. Today
#wewearorange
to honour residential school survivors and raise awareness about the impacts the residential school system had on Indigenous communities.
Learn more about residential schools and Orange Shirt Day at .
#abed
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Going to put this out there. I am mostly okay with everything the gov’t announced yesterday about returning to school. It appears to be evidence based and it is good for kid’s mental health. I still have lots of questions but now we have 5 weeks to figure it out.
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1. The UCP have been loathe to identify exactly which parts of the former draft curriculum were ideological but some of their early commentary and the inclusion of the likes of Chris Champion on their curriculum review panel make it painfully obvious.
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This actually legitimately scares me. What the hell is wrong with people? Shred years of open and transparent work by thousands of people wasting millions and millions of dollars for what? Scoring a few political points? For some ideological boogeyman that doesn’t exist?
With
@DavidStaplesYEG
scoop on the NDP's secret curriculum changes ('In new social studies curriculum, there's no such things as Albertans' ), what I said at our Party's founding AGM this spring: "We will put that curriculum through the shredder."
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Elect an MLA who won’t give up! Thanks for all the great comments on my campaign video. Here are the outtakes.
@AlbertaParty
#morinville
#stalbert
#sturgeoncounty
#abvote
#ableg
#abpoli
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Discussing racism as it exists in today’s Canada vis a vis white colonialists and Indigenous people is deeply uncomfortable for them and is one of the unspoken reasons for the curriculum rewrite.
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I trust Dr. Hinshaw and have zero reason to doubt her. That said I legitimately just want to understand the Science that says no gatherings of over 250 but having hundreds to thousands of students and teachers or worshippers in the same space is okay.
#covid19alberta
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Sure, let’s have a purely symbolic referendum costing millions of dollars while we lay off thousands of educational assistants, claw back doctors pay, cut funding to post secondary schools, and stop paying municipal taxes just to name a few. 🤦♂️
Kenney says Alberta will hold referendum on equalization in 2021 as Fair Deal Panel offers 25 recommendations
#ableg
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Literally just saw a post that said oil workers in Alberta don’t get enough respect from government because they all vote conservative. I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry.
#abpoli
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Jason Kenney has now, on three separate occasions, misrepresented by a factor of 1000% the cost of the carbon tax.
#ableg
Here’s a look at how Jason Kenney keeps tweeting outrageously wrong stories about the impact of carbon prices, which keep getting debunked, and yet he carries on tweeting each new instance.
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I could be upset about class sizes. I could even selfishly be upset about an increased workload and my 2% raise over 8 years while the UCP signals a 5-7% public sector wage cut. But what honestly keeps me up at night is the UCP’s hypocritical re-write of our program of studies.
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I’ve come to the conclusion I’ll never understand why otherwise rational people use the term “cash cow” as a negative when it comes to photo radar. It really should be celebrated! It’s a voluntary fee that lowers property taxes and has the added bonus of slowing people down
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What a joke. So classless. And to post this so all can see - what does that say about him?
My letter responding to Amnesty International’s ridiculous attack on Alberta’s defence of energy jobs from the foreign funded campaign to land-lock Canadian resources:
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I know Ryan will find a voice soon enough and I wish him the best with whatever the future holds. I also hope this costs
@630CHED
a boatload of money!
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How can a centrist party split the vote on both sides? Here we explain the vote splitting myth using doughnuts.
@AlbertaParty
#FiercelyAlbertan
#abvote
#Morinville
#StAlbert
#T8N
#SturgeonCounty
#Redwater
#BonAccord
#Gibbons
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The
#snowbirds
have brought so much joy & inspiration to millions of 🇨🇦’s this past week. I was so proud as they flew over StAlbert Friday. Sending love to the
@CFSnowbirds
family
And to those who are all of a sudden jet experts, or worse, politicizing this, you can screw off.
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I don’t understand the “we should all suffer” perspective I’m seeing. It’s discouraging. Quite literally I’ve given up more lucrative private sector opportunities in favour of the stability that teaching provides. There are trade-offs and those trade-offs are now under attack.
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The shoes on the steps 💔. The beautiful gardens that remain. The 100 year old frescoes that don’t. A community divided and all on the eve of Canada Day, and all of the implications that brings... just going to sit here and have a good cry. 😢
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These are the values we deserve to see in our provincial government and they're the values shared by the Party I'll be supporting in the next election. Goodness knows they are not values shared by the UCP.
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This current rendition however is being undertaken by yet another UCP panel handpicked to give them exactly the recommendations they want. They’re clearly approaching the review with a white-washed, fossil fuel promoting, Christian lens that is anything but unbiased.
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Ultimately, this boils down to a question of values. Do we value truth, compassion, & equality as we seek to understand the systemic racism in our country? Do we value Science & multiple perspectives required to have a robust conversation about the future of Energy in Alberta?
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How are we supposed to move forward on a path of Reconciliation when our own gov't is clearly uncomfortable with it being taught in schools? How are we supposed to tackle the real environmental issues associated w/ oil & gas extraction if our gov't doesn’t even acknowledge them?
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There, she was unable to cite a single example of bias, yet used it as the reason for the entire review. The only evidence ever given is a grossly misinterpreted test item that reveals more about the minister’s own reading ability than it does about an alleged anti-oil bias.
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The UCP picked up the review & delayed it yet again. $Millions & the work of thousands of people wasted while I still teach a Science program that was written before smartphones were invented. Secondly, we’re watching the erosion of integrity in politics before our very eyes.
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Your own Fair Deal Panel report literally shows this isn’t true. Only 35% of 1000 respondents thought this was a “somewhat” good idea. You either can’t read or are intentionally misleading people. Or both.
#abpoli
#ableg
Albertans told the Fair Deal that they want a made-in-Alberta provincial police force. The Government of Alberta must ensure this is feasible for the province, and that work is now underway. I look forward to receiving and sharing the final report.
#ableg
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@ryanjespersen
is quite simply a man of integrity. He always spoke his mind and was honest with his guests and his listeners. He asked hard questions when required and wasn’t afraid to take a stance.
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Alberta’s media landscape needs more rational voices, not fewer. This is a huge blow to the political discourse in the province and many of us got a lot of our news and current events from the
@ryanjespersen
show.
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Lastly, and most important in my opinion, is the actual content of what is being developed. To the NDP’s credit, they involved thousands of teachers, stakeholders, and experts in an open and transparent review.
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Some would argue that ship sailed long ago but it wasn’t until 2017 that Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway introduced us to the world of “Alternative facts.” I couldn’t help but think of that phrase when UCP Education minister Adriana LaGrange stood before reporters in August.
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Lastly, I want to thank all of the Admin and school officials who have been working so hard to prepare for this school year. I’m proud of what our division and others have done without more resources. Everyone, except maybe the Education Minister, is doing the best they can 😉
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So let me get this straight
@jkenney
, you’re going to spend millions on a pointless referendum about equalization and yet you’re so jaded you’d rather risk Alberta jobs than make Trudeau look good by accepting federal government wage top-ups?
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They’ve used dishonest messaging telling the public things like they’ve “increased base funding” but on the other hand eliminated essential grants that school divisions have been receiving for years. They not only broke their campaign promise, but they also lied about it.
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Do we value our front line Education experts and heed their advice when it comes to writing curriculum? And finally, do we value honesty and integrity in our political representatives?
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Determined to rid of us the “NDP’s ideological curriculum” they’ve embarked on their own ideological agenda & it’s not like we didn’t see it coming. When the NDP released their K-4 program in Oct '18
@jkenney
bristled at the progressive changes to Health & Social Studies.
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Champion is on the record as calling certain lessons about Indigenous history “fads” and has accused residential school survivors of playing the victim card. Given that, these leaked documents reported on by
@janetfrench
should come as little surprise.
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During the campaign, Kenney told us he’d put the curriculum through the shredder. Then in August,
@AdrianaLaGrange
made their intentions clear when she appointed Chris Champion to lead the review: Indigenous voices and Reconciliation have no part in a UCP Program of Studies.
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The new riding of
#Morinville
#StAlbert
deserves an MLA who understands the diversity of the region and is ready to work for you. On April 16th vote Neil Korotash
@AlbertaParty
#fiercelyalbertan
@abvote
#SturgeonCounty
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Why include the second line of this tweet? Is he comparing what happened to Janis Irwin’s office with Valentine’s Day cards taped to MLA office doors? That was my first thought when I read this. It’s weird or petty or both.
I condemn the vandalism of MLA Janis Irwin’s office today.
Many other MLA offices have been vandalized in recent months.
Shame on those responsible.
If you disagree with an MLA, there are countless legitimate ways to register your views. Vandalism is not one of them.
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Though there is a lot of competition, I maintain LeGrange has been the worst, most dishonest, most incompetent minister. Amnesia about awarding a mask contract to her contributor at double the cost, repeatedly failing to give an example of NDP curriculum bias,
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Oh my god Danielle Smith is so bad. Tuned in to hear her being so condescending towards Youth. You can do better
@CorusPR
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They show the panel is recommending the removal of references to residential schools and “equity” in favour of feudalism and Chinese dynasties. Why tackle the tough legacies of Imperialism when you could literally gloss over them with artwork by Monet and Picasso instead?
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And when he did take a stance, it was well reasoned. He didn’t pick teams - he formed his opinion on a case by case basis in response to evidence. For example, he supported elements of private healthcare but was also an ardent defender of safe consumption sites.
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Getting set to roll out free garden kits to 18k Alberta students & now we even have official seed packs. Some amazing students, teachers, and sponsors involved
@aitc_agforlife
@insideeducation
@NutrienLTD
@N4LCanada
@TDFEF
HT
@debsgreenhouse
for envelope provider
#growalberta
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I just got exempted from jury duty. The judge was convinced that it would be unreasonable to expect a substitute teacher to come in next week and teach students how to butcher their pigs that were slaughtered this AM. 🤣 🐖
#urbanag
👨⚖️
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Cool cool. Maybe your next fundraiser could be for some more school cleaning staff? Maybe a few more teachers so I don’t have to teach online and in class simultaneously? I hear Alberta likes 50/50 raffles.
All proceeds from local Tim Hortons smile cookies will support the Reading College program, which helps Grade 2 students improve their reading and writing skills! Thanks to
@rdpschools
for stopping by to talk about the program today!
#abed
#ableg
#reddeer
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This is deeply troubling on many levels. For starters, the curriculum review process started under the PC gov't w/ the Inspiring Education investment of 2014. If the PC’s dropped the ball by not completing the curriculum review, the NDP simply punted it 5 years down the road.
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This morning I announced that I am seeking the
@AlbertaParty
nomination in
#Morinville
#Stalbert
. I believe that the Party represents the best and brightest future for Alberta. It is unlike any political Party or movement I’ve been involved with in the past. 1/5
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As a teacher and Education shadow cabinet minister for the
@AlbertaParty
, here is my statement regarding the draft curriculum:
#AbLeg
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It’s much harder to have a real conversation about what “choice” really means. Who is privileged enough to make those choices? What do those “choices” do to public education? How much do those “choices” cost the taxpayer?
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I suspect this thread will fall mostly on sympathetic ears and as such I encourage you all to keep the conversation going. Don’t just retweet. Talk to your friends, families, & neighbours and let’s make sure Albertans won’t be fooled by the Premier’s buzzwords.
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I’ll be the first to admit I don’t have the foggiest clue about the state of CBE’s finances but cutting $32M in funding, not expecting layoffs, then ordering an audit and accusing a large publicly elected board of reckless misuse of funds is not a good look.
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and her undying devotion to Kenney’s ideological agenda put her at the top of the list for me. The next election can’t come soon enough.
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I’m a teacher but I’m healthy & can wait for my vaccine until healthcare providers & those w/ medical conditions receive theirs. As
@CMOH_Alberta
said today, there is very little transmission WITHIN schools & most school cases are result of community transmission.
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I feel like I pay attention to the news more than most. I listen to a diverse set of podcasts and follow a wide variety of media outlets. I back Science and evidence-based decision making. Yet it seems I can’t keep up.
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