Cosmic Cat Wizard
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Nerd trying to just stay afloat. Antifascist. Art educator. Masters student. Bi. He/him.
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about 2 hours ago
Arsonist playing firefighter. They are the ones that stopped collecting the data in the first place
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onion person
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this whole piece is fascinating but this section really stuck out to me as why so many people are the way they are. they project trump himself onto themselves, and he is their identity. an attack on trump is a direct attack on them
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Alejandra Caraballo
about 11 hours ago
The anti trans hysteria is killing male veterans with cancer.
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
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Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-male-breast-cancer-coverage-trump-executive-order
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Parker Molloy
about 6 hours ago
Reminder that Andrew Cuomo looks 100% like the villain from the movie The Mask
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Josh Richardson
1 day ago
From Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan.
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Dr. Kristopher Wells
about 9 hours ago
Let’s this sink in. Bill 2 overrides: • The Labour Relations Code; • The Public Education Collective Bargaining Act; • The Alberta Bill of Rights; • The Alberta Human Rights Act; • The Education Act. All without vigorous debate or consultation with Albertans.
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Braid: An appalling, unjust law drives Alberta teachers back to work
Alberta teachers are going back to work, but the law that drives them lingers as a dangerous attack on rights, writes columnist Don Braid.
https://calgaryherald.com/news/braid-an-appalling-unjust-law-drives-alberta-teachers-back-to-work
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Parker Molloy
about 7 hours ago
The fascist administration is targeting
@katmabu.bsky.social
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Tim Onion
about 8 hours ago
Kat is being federally charged by the FBI for protesting at Broadview. This is a flagrant political prosecution by the Trump administration, which is trying to prevent free speech and free association. I am proud of Kat. Her movement is being targeted by the government. She needs your support.
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Jack Jenkins
about 10 hours ago
Note: This is me — I asked this question. You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.
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Robert
about 13 hours ago
This Demetrios clown can’t make it through a single interview without, backpedaling or lying. Blames immigrants. Yup. Blames negotiations. Check. Avoids accountability. For sure. Call up some of the Forever Canadian people, get this failure recalled Calgary. Do. It.
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From the alberta community on Reddit: Minister of Ed, destroyed in interview.
Explore this post and more from the alberta community
https://www.reddit.com/r/alberta/comments/1oivd7k/minister_of_ed_destroyed_in_interview/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
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Dom! 🇨🇦
about 12 hours ago
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Tim Lowe
about 12 hours ago
Correct. General strike?
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The Breakdown AB
about 12 hours ago
Time to suit up Alberta!
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#ableg
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Ready to Resist
Danielle Smith and her UCP government have stripped teachers of their constitutionally protected right to strike and bargain collectively. This is a government that is: This is NOT what Albertans…
https://afl.org/action-pages/resist/
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The Breakdown AB
1 day ago
“Alberta’s use of the notwithstanding clause continues an alarming trend of provincial governments putting political expediency ahead of people’s human rights.”
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Amnesty International Canada condemns Alberta government’s use of notwithstanding clause in Bill 2
Alberta's use of the notwithstanding clause in Bill 2 means that courts won’t be able to strike down the law even if it violates the Charter.
https://amnesty.ca/press-releases/alberta-notwithstanding-clause-bill-2/
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David Blain
about 11 hours ago
Labour relations expert weighs in on Alberta’s use of notwithstanding clause “Alberta’s back to work legislation makes a mockery of collective bargaining.”
#ableg
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
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Labour relations expert weighs in on Alberta’s use of notwithstanding clause
An Alberta labour relations expert says Alberta’s use of the notwithstanding clause to force teachers back to work marks one of the most aggressive labour moves in Canadian history.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/labour-relations-expert-weighs-in-on-albertas-use-of-notwithstanding-clause/
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Even Braid is against this yall
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about 10 hours ago
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Charlie Golf | FUND ALBERTA'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS 🏫
about 13 hours ago
Well, as I go back to work today, what can I say that won't land me in hot water? I know... I'm going to channel my anger at the UCP toward the hopefully to-be-successful Demetrios Nicolaides recall petition. May the odds forever be in the residents' favour.
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Jared Wesley
about 10 hours ago
The UCP uses closure more than any other party in Alberta history. It's easy to blame the leadership for curtailing debate. But UCP backbenchers have willingly handed over their authority by supporting these motions. Our new book explores this element of hyperpartisanship:
partyloyalty.ca
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Pragmatical 🇨🇦
1 day ago
Time for a province wide general strike.
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LiarSpeaksTheTruth
1 day ago
A general strike would get the message across. Alberta, strong arming, not free.
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Free Agent Fly On The Wall
1 day ago
General strike is the only option
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1 day ago
Already emailed my union informing them I support a general strike. If the unions don't unite, this will be the beginning of the end for unions 😞
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Cody Anstead 🇨🇦🇺🇦
1 day ago
I really hope the ATA defies this illegal, undemocratic, and authoritarian order. It is an attack on the charter rights of all Albertans by a premier who fancies herself a queen
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk
2 days ago
I hope that the Premier reconsiders her desire to invoke the “notwithstanding clause” in dealing with Teachers. This very rarely used clause, stripping Canadians of civil rights, has no place in collective bargaining. General strike would be a commensurate response.
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Alberta Views Magazine
1 day ago
Also in Alberta - Premier Danielle Smith misses the Bill 2 vote. She flies to Saudi Arabia to promote “Alberta’s investment opportunities, energy expertise and agricultural products” and will be gone until November 5.
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Alberta Views Magazine
1 day ago
Today in Alberta - October 28: In the early morning hours the UCP government’s Back to School Act (Bill 2) is passed, with classes expected to resume Wednesday. The bill imposes a four-year agreement that was rejected by 90 per cent of Alberta teachers last month 1/
#Teacherstrike
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Ann Petersen-Kane
1 day ago
Next week Smith is going to sanction the use of the Notwithstanding to take away the rights of trans kids and their parents. Because she knows she can get away with.
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Ann Petersen-Kane
1 day ago
Alberta won't fight back?! Fiddlesticks you say. There are high school students planning walk outs but will any adults join them? Will the
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opposition walk out in solidarity? Will ppl put up signs in their yards and businesses denouncing? Write letters to editors? MLAs? It's Alberta. So, no.
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And this is why Alberta needs a general strike in solidarity
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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻
1 day ago
Alberta, I know we’re all angry, but put your negative energy to work: write, make a phone call, let teachers and workers in your life know you support them. Use your voice. Flood the lines and inboxes with feedback. I’ll post my letter later today. Please do the same.
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Canadian In Alberta
1 day ago
Last night the UCP made slaves of every worker in
#Alberta
You might think that's an exaggeration but it's what I see when I think it through Now any employer can double workers hours, cut their pay, no benefits, no time off If we complain we will be forced to work using the Notwithstanding clause
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SweetJimmy (he/him)
2 days ago
General strike would stop them
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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻
2 days ago
Gil McGowan isn’t playing:
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I'm down, let's go general strike
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Harkavian Balvis
2 days ago
Not that I doubt Gil's conviction, but I hope he and the AFL are ready to play hard balllike yesterday. The UCP aren't even trying to play by the rules anymore, so the labour movement in Alberta needs to go to war over this. We've ceded too much proverbial ground already.
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The Breakdown AB
2 days ago
Speaking to
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today, GilMcGowan made it clear… Danielle Smith has just touched off an economic firestorm. And union leaders will be responding “province wide”.
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JimmyPotatoTV
2 days ago
they put it into the bill that the union would be fined $500,000 a day and each individual teacher in the union who didn't go back would be fined $500 a day, then she left to get on a plane to saudi arabia to further sell us out,
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Emerence🎃
2 days ago
I hope the other unions go on strike
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The French Wong
2 days ago
Teachers can’t fight anymore, but you must. All Albertans who value their rights & freedoms must respond now, fast & loud. Relentless even. Cuz they came for teachers’ rights…you know how the poem ends.
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M A Shane
2 days ago
Still time to write your MLA and tell them to vote No on Bill 2. It is MAGA. It is an affront to fairness. Takes less than 10 seconds.
www.stoptheexcuses.ca/mla-email-vo...
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Tell your MLA: Vote No
https://www.stoptheexcuses.ca/mla-email-voteno?utm_campaign=forced_2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=albertateachers
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Taking Alberta Forward, We Stand With Canada🍁
2 days ago
🚨 BREAKING RECALL NEWS
#Alberta
#AirdrieEast
🚨 Exciting update: The RECALL application for
#Alberta
MLA Angela Pitt, Deputy Speaker/Airdrie East, has received preliminary approval from Elections Alberta! The process is moving swiftly, with final approval pending Angela's response.
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Ann Petersen-Kane
2 days ago
Nicolaides is certainly on the defensive today. Good time remind Albertans that he only won his riding by 625 votes and there is currently a recall petition for him circulating.
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Ann Petersen-Kane
2 days ago
It's almost 3pm and the UCP still hasn't tabled the back to work legislation for the teachers, which they plan to ram through in one sitting, so clearly, they want to pass this stinky Charter violating legislation in the dead of night. Because they are so proud of it.
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Abigail Larson
3 days ago
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
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CaptainCoby
2 days ago
Today is the day I hope Alberta teachers stand together and tell Danielle Smith to fuck right off. If she uses the notwithstanding clause I hope every and all unions walk off job sites immediately.
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The Breakdown AB
4 days ago
We are at the point where Danielle Smith would rather violate charter rights and create a constitutional crisis… Instead of paying teachers fairly and giving kids the classrooms they need. Read that again. Because this is where we are.
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Anna Mehler Paperny
5 days ago
Alberta made it harder to get the COVID vaccine and now even people considered high-risk are giving up.
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Albertans are struggling to book COVID shots; doctors worry some might give up | CBC News
Parents and doctors continue to push back against the Alberta government’s controversial COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Determining who is eligible for free vaccines has not been straightforward, and the b...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/covid-vaccine-booking-challenges-alberta-9.6951352
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Kim Siever
4 days ago
AI-related data centres use vast amounts of water. But gauging how much is a murky business
www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
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Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News
Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data-centre-canada-water-use-9.6939684
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Dr. Kristopher Wells
5 days ago
The line has been drawn. If Premier Smith invokes the notwithstanding clause, expect an unprecedented provincial labour strike that will shut down the entire province. Democratic rights must be protected at all costs.
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