ALL OF THIS. Alberta teachers have 3 pillars in contract negotiations: 1. Wage increase to make up 10 years of cost of living increases. 2. Written commitment to cap classroom sizes. 3. Written commitment to cap classroom complexities. 2 of these pillars directly improve student education. #abed

The UCP is willing to spend millions of dollars A DAY to fight against better classroom conditions. How many EAs could they hire a year for one week of spending on this - because I bet it’s more than the 1500 EAs they offered. Which means this isn’t about budget -it’s about power and spite. #AbLeg

Not only autumnal colours but a timely post today for Canada. #TruthAndReconciliationDay #WearOrange #EveryChildMatters

Conservative Creep from the US is a concern in Canada. We must be vigilant.

What has happened to #SamuelBird? Hoping the #EPS continues looking for answers. His mother deserves them. #yeg #missing #child #suspectedmurder #mysteries #arson #Edmonton #DawsonParkVigil globalnews.ca/news/1145616...

Where is #SamuelBird? #yeg #eps #vigil #DawsonPark How volunteers are leading the desperate search for a missing Indigenous teen | CBC News share.google/1dpAXc1Xvy4W...

Just a reminder that the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation is not a holiday to celebrate. It is an acknowledgement & remembrance. We need to not lose sight of that.

I hope @baileysarian.bsky.social is getting a percentage off her image and catchphrases because someone is making bank.

Great #tutorial for all #Canadians to see how a #MemberofParliament(MP) #voted in the #HouseofCommons. This example uses #PierrePoilievre • his anti-Canadian •anti-crime • anti-affordability. You get the theme ~ AGAINST is his brand. He hasn’t produced anything to help Canadians in 20 yrs

This is a long time doing research to determine that Captain Kirk’s alien lothario kink was perfectly normal.

Most Alberta minimum wage workers aren’t teens and haven’t been for a long time. When they say raising minimum wage isn’t necessary because it’s “mostly kids” earning afterschool money, they are plain wrong. As of Oct. 1, we’ll have the lowest minimum wage wage in Canada. Some #AlbertaAdvantage, eh?

That’s the sequel I always argue for.

Dr. Maryland was a compassionate, thoughtful man who loved to share pics of his daily trailriding and retreats to his tiny cabin. This is so heartbreaking.

President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”

Crazy thing is the Germans didn’t have a historical precedent to warn them

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Ending vaccine mandates risks kids’ lives. Period. 🍁🍁🍁

You WROTE the current law, Poillievre. It does what you say you want so you are either deceitful or incompetent.

Good. Now cancel the harmful opt-in sex ed requirement. It prevents kids from getting access to education about their own bodies.

More funding cuts to family violence programming in Alberta.

From @non_toxic_masculinity_ on Instagram:

This is simply the result of bad governance.

Sep 1st 1885 - Doc Brown, trapped in the past, wrote a letter to Marty explaining what had happened when the DeLorean was struck by lightning and where he had hidden the car. 📽️📅 Back to the Future Part III (1990)

"The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" www.reuters.com/world/middle...

45 years ago today Terry Fox was forced to call off the Marathon of Hope at Thunder Bay. He showed a nation what determination and leadership meant. Terry has stayed in our hearts ever since. We carry his spirit in these troubled times.

Unsurprisingly, the #ABGov is lying about what the school board did to follow their ridiculous order. In today’s presser, Premier Smith said Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” should be taught in school. Did she forget it includes graphic depictions of sex and idealizes non-consensual sex? #Yikes

New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

America: Universal healthcare creates wait times for healthcare. Also America: waits six months for a neurosurgeon consult and a year to get into a dermatologist…

Advice on boycotting: If you make a boycott last a single day, then you’re not boycotting. A boycott is something that’s meant to last weeks, months even. You cannot expect change in a day, especially when a company is as large as YouTube is. Your one day “boycott” does nothing.

Your annual reminder that WONDER WOMAN and THE JOKER were Mexican and Cuban, respectively. Thank you and have a nice day.

Four years after Edmonton’s ward names changed, many still struggle to say them. Here’s an easy fix: ✅ Go to the City’s website ✅ Play the official audio guide ✅ Repeat & practice www.edmonton.ca/city_government/city_organization/indigenous-ward-naming-knowledge-committee

“Why don’t Canadians want to vacation in the US?” Might have something to do with you actively pondering a “mostly peaceful invasion” of my province.

“Sudden and unprovoked attack”? He was stalking it to what, invite it to play backgammon? He was hunting it. That was the provocation. Humans are it’s only predators and he was predating it.

Me too and it has impacted the brand and model I have bought recently.

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But the tariffs are all about a national economic emergency, right?

Motherfucking wind farms…

Yes!! So those with real need for exemption can be protected via herd immunity www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

maybe there's still some good left in this world after all

Watching this reminds me of the opening of 8th Fire. 🔥

Today marks 20 years of legal Gay Marriages in Canada. I’m so proud of us!

Solid analysis. In brief: when you stack a panel and audience, and start with a propaganda video and survey that doesn’t have a “None of the above” option to prime the audience, you are not consulting in good faith. You are building a narrative of manufactured consent.

Lots of people saying Stephen Colbert “should go scorched earth” for the last month of his show. I get it but they seem to forget that he’s getting fired, not dying. He’s also not *that* powerful. Clearly. He also doesn’t live in a vacuum. He has a wife he dearly loves and has 3 kids.

What CBS' disgraceful termination of Stephen Colbert illustrates is how quickly a Republic can fall when the media chooses cowardice instead of courage.

We don’t need a Taika Waititi Judge Dredd, we need a sequel to the one that came out in 2012.