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Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social Arbitrator gives Medicine Hat careworkers 6% raise This is a better increase than in their last two contracts, but it still falls way short of keeping up with inflation. albertaworker.ca/news/arbitra...

Unions created the middle class. Corruption blossomed everywhere because of prohibition; only the unions were singled out for condemnation. I wonder why?

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Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social Fort McMurray Save-On Foods workers propose 10% annual raises They have also proposed an additional paid holiday, 2 floater holidays, and a monthly gynaecological health day. albertaworker.ca/news/fort-ma...

I have more important shit to do.

My great great grandparents, Gustav Fahrenkrog and Ottilie Schrõder, were married 143 years ago today. Happy anniversary.

Happy 25.12.25.

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A long listen, but a great listen. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/r...

Happy 140th birthday to my great great grandmother, Marie Kodytková.

My tribe has had mutual solidarity with Palestine longer than you've been alive, weird anti-Indigenous loser

"Emergency room administrators inserting themselves into doctors’ decision-making on admissions is unusual"

Such bullshit. GENAI will be the death of us all.

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Ashley MacIsaac concert cancelled after AI wrongly accuses him of being sex offender www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Calgary emergency wards coping with 'extreme overcapacity' in flu season: AHS memo www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Because Alberta Education (yes, I want to come after YOUR JOBS you incompetent pricks) decided to take SO MANY junior high learner objectives and jam them into elementary. Students aren't developed to deal with that crap so quickly. JFC. I can do a better job than all of you at Alberta Ed. FFS.

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Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social CLAC files to poach 400 workers from UFCW These workers left CLAC to join UFCW in 2023. But CLAC started it, when they took them from UFCW in 2017. albertaworker.ca/news/clac-fi...

With half the world’s population lacking access to essential health services, traditional medicine is often the closest or only care available for many people. news.un.org/en/story/202...

They’re confusing him with the unrelated Mr. McDuck.

I am not sure enough people realize that the Dickens character Scrooge is a small business owner, not a billionaire.

Happy Festivus. Remember, it is a time for the airing of grievances, so be sure to air workplace grievances to your boss. Even better, team up with your coworkers and air your grievances collectively.

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In general, most folks can phone it in for a week of the year. If we received more PTO, they wouldn't have to do this. Me, I'm on production/metrics based work, so I can't. But, I can work in my pajamas, so I'll take it (I served my time, almost 20 years in retail)

To my siblings and comrades forced by our billionaire oligarchs to work in retail, I suggest you force yourself to throw up on a customer. As your doctor, I diagnose this as excitement for Christmas and your prescription is several days of bed rest.

Remember kids, if you're working today, no you're not. It's Christmas Eve Eve. Put 8 hours of fake meetings on your outlook calendar. You're meeting with Santa. Take a dozen smoke breaks and feed a reindeer. Dasher and Dancer love Newports. This work week is over if you believe it is.

Grade 6 kids are doing grade 9 math so it’s not really a surprise

The provinces, all of them run as fiefdoms for car dealers and real estate developers, are unfit to determine curricula. Abolish them and institute national standards

nobody could have predicted this

Truly, so many outcomes were taken from Junior High and shoehorned into upper elementary that I honestly don’t know what we are going to teach 12-14 year old students. It’s a mess.

“Only 53% of students achieved an “acceptable” score on the Provincial Achievement Test, or PAT, down from 72% who achieved acceptable in 2019, before the pandemic and new curriculum.” Class sizes also playing a role. Real harm is being done here. Our kids deserve better.

40 million people with diabetes will be left without insulin by 2030 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/resea...

"key concepts were moved to earlier grades" - they didn't stage the rollout, so some concepts literally didn't get covered at all by some cohorts. Just the level of care and concern one has come to expect from these folks...

David Staples must be rolling around in his grave. Nah, of course he’s still alive and totally on board with all of this.

It is that time of year.

“Only 53 per cent of students achieved an “acceptable” score on the Provincial Achievement Test, or PAT, down from 72 per cent who achieved acceptable in 2019, before the pandemic and new curriculum.”

Nearly half of Alberta’s Grade 6 students failed the provincewide math test in 2024, 3 years after the province started rolling out its new elementary school curriculum. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

AI Search Has a Citation Problem www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

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Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social ALRB certified 28 unionized workplaces in Nov 2025 The certificates include construction workers, education workers, and nursing workers. albertaworker.ca/news/alrb-ce...

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The fact that the ABNDP somehow can't manage to make hay out of this (and so much more) says ... A lot.

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In BC, family doctors under fee-for-service bill the government $35.83 per 15-min visit. Those on the Longitudinal Family Practice model bill $57.50. These costs include all overhead. Urgent and primary care centres cost $182.50 per visit, on average. healthdatabc.ca/primarycare/...