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2 years

So, we painted our home.

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3 years

No, people wouldn’t all quit their jobs if we had a UBI. They *would* quit their crappy jobs though. And that’s why companies oppose it. They don’t want to do what it takes to make their crappy jobs nice jobs. Because nice jobs don’t make profit. Cheap jobs with long hours do.

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You were never told to give up your freedoms. You were asked to help each other stay healthy.

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3 years

Canadians are shocked when 215 Indigenous kids are found in a secret grave. Canadians are shocked when a Muslim family is mowed down by an Islamophobe. Canadians are shocked because they have bought into the myth that Canada is racism free. Canada was built on racism.

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1 year

Movie idea: Indiana Jones, but the main character is Indigenous who breaks into museums and reclaims stolen artifacts.

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@kim_siever

2 years

Hey, folks. I just wanted to give you a heads up that starting this Wednesday, for all of Pride Month, we’ll give a bag of Skittles to anyone who stops by the Rainbow House in Lethbridge for a selfie. It’s our way of spreading joy.

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2 years

Just a reminder that there is no trucker mandate. It’s a universal mandate for anyone who crosses the border. Except up until last month, truckers had an exemption.

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2 years

CPP is a pension plan, not a tax. EI is an insurance policy, not a tax.

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2 years

What do you think when you see a vehicle flying a Canadian flag? And has that changed from what you’d have thought a month ago?

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2 years

I don’t want billionaires donating to charities. I want billionaires to pay their workers enough to not have to use social housing and food banks.

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2 years

Remember, the Freedom Convoy isn’t an anti-mandate action infiltrated by white supremacists. It’s a white supremacist action joined by anti-mandate activists. It was literally organized by white supremacists. The mandates, the truckers, the freedom? It’s all just a cover.

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3 years

Why were we taught to fear witches and not those who burned them alive or drowned them?

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3 years

There’s no such thing as “socially progressive but fiscally conservative”. Conservative fiscal policy creates/perpetuates social problems.

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3 years

Corporations in June.

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@kim_siever

3 years

Don’t say “Canada’s Indigenous people”. Indigenous people don’t belong to Canada. Do say “Canada’s residential schools”. Residential schools belong to Canada.

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2 years

I worked in construction in my late teens, I don’t recall ever hearing my coworkers complain about their freedoms being infringed on because the employer required us to wear hard hats and steel toed boots to work on site. If we didn’t, we weren’t allowed to work.

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2 years

Why is it every time I see someone say, “I support truckers”, it’s in reference to the convoy and never to the 90% of truckers who are vaccinated and still pulling freight?

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@kim_siever

5 years

Thread. 3 years ago, I marched in the local Pride Parade under the Mormons Building Bridges banner. Here’s why that was wrong.

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@kim_siever

1 year

Tomorrow, Alberta’s UCP government will cancel the provincial fuel tax. They claim it’ll save Albertans 13¢ a litre. These 3 Lethbridge retailers just raised their price by 13¢. They were at 125.9¢ yesterday morning.

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2 years

Our 13yo: What class are we? Me: What do you mean? 13yo: You know, like lower class, middle class, upper class. Me: Oh, we’re working class. Those other classes were made up by the owning class to divide the working class.

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

2 years

The day after @jkenney announced his party will eliminate the 13¢/litre provincial gas tax, Lethbridge gas stations raised their prices by 15¢.

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3 years

CERB was less than minimum wage on full-time hours. The only way people were taking CERB instead of going back to work was if they were getting crap hours at crap wages. And that’s not a CERB problem.

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

3 years

Anti-maskers: You don’t need to worry about COVID. There’s a 99.99999% survival rate. Anti-maskers: You should worry about the COVID-19 vaccine. There’s a 0.00001% blood clot risk.

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

2 years

Why are Russian rich people called oligarchs but American rich people called billionaires?

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@kim_siever

2 years

That moment when you’re interviewed on a radio station and they ask you what your plans are for Canada Day but you tell them that you don’t celebrate the genocide of Indigenous people and your interview gets cut off.

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2 years

Remember that time Canada taxed CERB payments but still won’t implement a wealth tax for billionaires.

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2 years

Apparently, the new BA.2 subvariant of omicron is in Lethbridge. A friend of mine and her partner contracted it. She went into anaphylactic shock, and her partner ended up in the ER.

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2 years

My favourite Bible story is where Jesus has bread and fish but doesn’t share them because he’s worried people will just trade them for booze or drugs.

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@kim_siever

5 months

Hey, @calgaryherald . He didn’t have “unprotected intercourse...with his daughter”. He raped her. He didn’t have “a 7-year sexual relationship...with his biological daughter”. He raped her for 7 years. She didn’t have a “sexual relationship with him”. She was raped by him.

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Central Alberta man took teenage daughter for abortion after impregnating her

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

5 years

Pride is an LGBTQ space. It always has been, and it always should be.

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@kim_siever

5 years

Why must Pride include companies that used to fire employees for being queer?

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@kim_siever

3 years

I came out at church today. It wasn’t as bad as my stomach had led me to believe it would be.

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@kim_siever

3 years

Socialism: The fire department putting out your house fire. Capitalism: The insurance company denying your claim.

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@kim_siever

2 years

20 years ago, our family of 4 was kicked out of our home because our landlord sold it and the new owner said he bought it for his daughter, who was going to university. I found out today that this is a frequent tactic landlords use to bring in new tenants and raise rent.

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2 years

🧵 I’ve posted a few articles over the last few days highlighting the white supremacy and far right agenda inherent in the so-called Freedom Movement. For convenience, I thought I’d include them in a single thread.

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3 years

If you’re opposed to gay marriage, then just say no when a gay person proposes to you.

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@kim_siever

2 years

We can’t eat the rich without universal dental care.

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@kim_siever

2 years

Politicians like @PierrePoilievre blame @JustinTrudeau for inflation because if they blame the real culprits—corporate profits—they’d upset their donors. Anyone who blames politicians instead of corporate profits for inflation isn’t a friend to workers.

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4 years

Who else had cut up hot dogs in their Mac and cheese growing up?

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2 years

If there’s one thing that’s become clear about the police response to the convoy in Ottawa, it’s that police aren’t designed to protect people; police are designed to protect power. They protect capital, they protect political power, and they protect the settler colonial state.

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Kim Siever

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9 months

Honestly, I don’t even understand this argument. Why *must* parents be fully involved? Why *must* parents know that their children go by different name and pronouns at school? Like, I legitimately don’t understand the necessity.

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'Parents must be fully involved' in student's decision to change pronouns, Ontario education minister says

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

5 years

Why must Pride include the political parties that used to oppose marriage equality?

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

3 years

Lethbridge police justifying their purchase of a tank.

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4 years

It’s weird how those who claim Indigenous people get too much free money from the government never mention how their great grandparents got 160 acres of free land from the government.

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1 year

The problem with for-profit healthcare is that public funds are being used for shareholder dividends, rather than healthcare.

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Kim Siever

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3 years

In 6 years, Canada Revenue Agency hasn’t convicted a single rich person for tax evasion. Not even anyone listed in the Panama Papers.

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2 years

I think we should eliminate personal income tax on anyone who makes under the median income. Make up for any revenue loss with a wealth tax.

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Kim Siever

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2 years

All these tweets on the #Chinada hashtag. Dude, if you were in China, you wouldn’t even be able to tweet this stuff.

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Kim Siever

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3 years

Have you ever noticed that the slogan is “I ❤️ Alberta oil & gas” and not “I ❤️ Alberta oil & gas workers”?

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5 years

Anyone watching a Pride parade today would have trouble finding that connection. Pride today has been commercialized, overrun with floats from companies, politicians, political parties, and other non-queer organizations.

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2 years

No profits in long-term care. No profits in electricity. No profits in phone service. No profits in health care. No profits in transportation. No profits in rental housing. Millionaires shouldn’t be profiting off the working class’s need to live.

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3 years

It’s weird how some people think it’s a big deal to put government debt onto future generations but think it’s not a big deal to put the effects of climate change onto future generations.

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Kim Siever

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5 years

Why must Pride include the same institution that used to (still do) arrest and imprison them for just being who they are?

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@kim_siever

4 years

This evening’s news story: Ethics commissioner’s spouse and his partners donated $78K to UCP and PCs #ableg #abpoli

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2 years

I don’t normally brag about expensive trips I take, but I just got back from buying gas and groceries.

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Kim Siever

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6 months

We gave away 48 bags of Skittles at the Rainbow House last night!

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@kim_siever

5 years

Why must Pride include the churches that used to (still do) excommunicate, ostracize, and even encourage violence toward their queer members?

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Kim Siever

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2 years

Yo! @Skittles sent us 12 boxes of sour candies! Hope y’all like sour Skittles!

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2 years

It’s intriguing to me that some people on the right think a billionaire like Trump or a lifelong politician like Poilievre aren’t part of the elites they claim they’re fighting against.

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Kim Siever

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3 years

I just dropped off my nomination package at Elections Canada. The returning officer approved my package. I’ll be on the ballot! Thank you to my 22 volunteers, who collected 226 signatures. The returning officer said it was the highest number any candidate submitted.

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Kim Siever

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9 months

Why is it that the phrase “critical infrastructure” never seems to be applied to creeks, streams, rivers, and lakes?

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

2 years

A few weeks ago, Denmark became the first major country to lift the last of its COVID-19 restrictions. Now, they have more cases per capita than nearly anywhere else in the world, and both COVID hospitalizations and deaths have shot up by about a third.

In warning to U.S., COVID rates soar after Denmark lifts all restrictions

In early February, to public jubilation, Denmark lifted the last of its restrictions on COVID-19. What happened next is instructive for the United States, as it prepares to travel a similar route.

www.yahoo.com

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Kim Siever

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3 years

You know how the UCP government said they spent over $1 billion on COVID-19 health expenses right? Well, I’m working on a news story for Monday, and it looks like they’re not telling the whole story. Not by a long shot.

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Kim Siever

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5 years

My marching under the Mormons Building Bridges banner took space away from the LGBTQ community. I was trying to appropriate Pride to make a political point. And that was wrong. And I am sorry for my ignorance and actions.

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Kim Siever

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2 years

Does anyone remember whether everyone added the Syrian flag to their Twitter bios in 2011 when 5 million Syrians sought refuge around the world?

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Kim Siever

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1 year

Look, the Alberta NDP haven’t been in power in nearly 4 years. At some point, UCP supporters need to start holding the current government responsible for the state of things. You can’t blame the NDP forever.

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Kim Siever

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4 years

If you want to carry a gun to protect people but you’re not willing to wear a mask to protect people, maybe it’s not really about protecting people.

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Kim Siever

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2 years

I think we should replace the phrase “cost-cutting” with “service-cutting” when it comes to publicly provided services. People need to know that when governments reduce expenses, they are reducing services that people use.

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Kim Siever

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7 months

I’m amazed at how many people on “the left” are refusing to see how popular Pierre Poilievre is among the general electorate. He’s nothing like Scheer or O’Toole. He’s even more popular than Harper. Don’t underestimate what he’s doing.

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Kim Siever

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2 years

Hot take: Jason Kenney has done more in 3 years to fuel Western alienation than Justin Trudeau has in 7 years.

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

2 years

@CandiceBergenMP You fuelled this crisis when you encouraged the protestors for over a week.

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1 year

If Canada Post was a private company, there’s no way there’d be post offices in small towns all across the country.

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

2 years

@jkenney You had 3 years in a row of deficit spending, for a combined $32.4 billion. You have one year with $0.5 billion in surplus, thanks to global oil prices that you have no influence over, and all of a sudden you think you have deficit spending under control?

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Kim Siever

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2 years

All ready for my first Pride parade after coming out.

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

3 years

People in Alberta still using Hotmail are new eligible for the vaccine.

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

3 years

Did you know that it’s been nearly a decade since the Fight For $15 movement began? $15 is no longer sufficient as a minimum wage.

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

2 years

Shopping at Superstore today. Lettuce has doubled. Salsa is up $3. Loblaws is freezing prices on No Name products by hiking up prices on other products.

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Kim Siever

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1 month

Alberta has seen 17 grid alerts in the last 22 months. This is ridiculous for a province whose entire costume is as an energy powerhouse.

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1 month

9. The answer is 9. We’ve had 9 grid alerts since @neudorf_ab took over the utilities portfolio last June. We had 8 between June 2022 and June 2023.

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

2 years

Queer and trans people aren’t trying to harm your children. Your cisgender and straight dads, uncles, brothers, and grandpas are more likely to harm your children than we are.

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

4 years

Hey, billionaires. We don’t need your philanthropy. We need you to pay your workers properly.

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

1 year

Alberta’s ethics commissioner has determined that Danielle Smith contravened the Conficts of Interest Act regarding Artur Pawlowski. Read the entire 17-page report here:

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

10 months

You know how some people will use up all the milk except for that small amount at the bottom so they can say they left some for everyone else? That’s what billionaires do with the economy.

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Kim Siever

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3 years

Just to be clear, so my 15yo can’t go to their friend’s house to study for their science exam—while masked up and 6 feet away—but I can go play slots at the casino?

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

3 months

Maybe some of y’all are too young to know this, but Greyhound buses used to have gender-neutral bathrooms.

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2 years

@jkenney Says the guy who merged two parties together.

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

3 years

Jason Kenney is blaming Indigenous people for vaccine hesitancy. If they do have hesitancy, it’s probably because of decades of the public healthcare system delivering lower levels of care, fuelled by colonialism and racism. Oh, and all that medical experimentation done on them.

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Kim Siever

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2 years

You know how when you went to your grandma’s for Christmas supper and she would say, “No one gets seconds until everyone has firsts”? What if we did that for housing?

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Kim Siever

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2 years

Why am I paying for a membership then, @netflix ?

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9 months

Trying to argue with someone who is convinced that climate change is a hoax is like trying to argue with someone who is convinced that 2 + 2 = 5.

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4 years

People don’t like the use of “settler” because it centres their identity around indigeneity instead of their whiteness. It threatens the rhetoric around eurocentric culture and possession of land. It delegitimizes capitalism as a natural evolution of society.

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Kim Siever

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2 years

Alberta conservatives: Electric vehicles will overload our power grid and lead to brownouts. Alberta conservatives: Oh, yay! Look at all the crypto tech companies opening in Alberta!

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

5 years

First, Pride is an act of protest. The first parades (if they can be called that) were held in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco on 28 June 1970, as a way to commemorate the Stonewall Riots the year before.

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Kim Siever

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7 months

My front porch light is solar powered. It still charges on cloudy days. I’m not sure why people think solar won’t work when it’s cloudy out. Have they never used a solar powered calculator?

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Pembina Climate Summit fireside chat with Premier Smith goes off the rails as she argues with audience. #ableg #abpoli

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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

2 years

Can someone explain to me why Alberta has a minister of jobs and a minister of labour?

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Kim Siever

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6 months

It’s shocking how many people in the comments seem to think that if Sobeys receives flour for 5¢ a bag cheaper because of lower taxes on farmers, they’d sell the bags for 5¢ cheaper, rather than keeping the price the same and increasing their own revenue.

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6 months

This guy thinks that lower costs for farmers will lower retail food prices.

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3 years

I hope politicians who wish their followers happy Mother’s Day tomorrow also advocate for universal childcare and universal basic income, so mothers can be truly free to choose whether to have a career or be a stay-at-home parent.

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Kim Siever

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3 years

I took 4 of my children to the optometrist yesterday. I left with a $509 bill. And that’s with private health insurance. Good thing Canada doesn’t have two-tier healthcare.

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Kim Siever

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3 years

So if it’s Trudeau’s fault that Alberta doesn’t have enough vaccines, who’s fault is it that vaccines are going to waste in Alberta?

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Kim Siever

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2 years

Our child’s employer won’t accept the results of a rapid test. They’re insisting on a PCR test. Because our child doesn’t qualify for one, the employer told them to lie and say they’re a healthcare worker. That’s the current situation in Alberta.

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Kim Siever

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2 years

A wedding party of over 2 dozen people just showed up to the Rainbow House for selfies.

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