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2 years

@tiredasfmilf And the family needs to have a talk with that family member! She needs a “you are no longer welcome at family functions without taking a covid test at the door.”

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The rollback in nurses' wages being demanded by the @UCPCaucus would take them back to what they were earning in 2010. In that year, an MLA salary was $52,000, about half what it is now. @jkenney - you first.

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If you’re angry about Trudeau’s use of the EA but okay with Smith’s sovereignty act, you’re a hypocrite and it was never about freedom.

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1 year

Hey @PierrePoilievre So, PMJT is spending too much on travel, huh? For trips he is going on for diplomatic reasons? Cool, cool, cool. How do you explain that you’ve spent more than $20,000 more than he has in the last three months? What diplomatic missions have you been on? What

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2 years

All right, everyone. Every mask worn from today forward is a Jason Kenney non-confidence vote. You know what to do.

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3 months

Hey @ABDanielleSmith - until we see a signed parental consent form, we’ll be addressing you as Marlaina, the name chosen for you by your parents!

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1 year

Once again, rural Alberta holds the cities hostage with their regressive, ignorant votes. And Smith and the UCP will begin breaking election promises in 3, 2, 1…

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8 months

Talked to a coworker today about CPP today. Explained about how CPP is among the best investment organizations in the world. Talked to her about how the UCP took the teacher pension without consultation, and how AIMCO (the likely candidate for an APP) immediately lost a bunch

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2 years

That sound you hear? That’s the sound of social workers in Alberta slamming the door behind them as they either quit or move to another province. Just when we need them the most.

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2 years

Hey @jkenney Perhaps you can explain to Albertans why, on a day 41 deaths from Covid and the highest hospitalizations in the pandemic were announced, you were retweeting fakeD pictures of empty store shelves and support for anti-vax truckers? Instead of support for Alberta’s

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2 years

@charlesadler @edmundacuto94 It’s time to remove Fox from Canadian cable

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8 months

Did anyone in Alberta hear about when Covid boosters will be administered? And to whom? Went to the AHS site, but the link is broken. You know, just like the UCP.

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3 years

Hey @jkenney You know who votes? Old people. My mom and her friends, all in their 70s and 80s hate you and everything you stand for. They will be voting in two years, and no amount of fireworks is going to make up for your treatment of the health professionals they rely on.

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2 years

I heard a conservative call Danielle Smith an “intellectual” today. Whut?

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2 years

@CMOH_Alberta Tools like…? Masks? Nope. Reliable and accessible PCR testing? Nope. Vaccine passports? Nope. (Scratches head) What tools do we have again?

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2 years

So far today, I’ve read that @JyotiGondek @JustinTrudeau and @RachelNotley have reached out to BC to offer help. @jkenney ? He’s online talking about trucks.

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11 months

Dear @UCPCaucus - it’s not a “surplus” if people are hurting because of the underfunding of the social safety net, health, and education. It’s theft from Albertans.

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2 years

@MikaelThalen Teachers all over Canada will be teaching their kiddos coding starting Monday.

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6 months

We fired Redford over less, but we’re going to give Dani a pass on this?

Occupy Calgary #ABResistance

@CalgaryOccupy

6 months

~🧵"DS's vanity drug deal has cost 35Xs the cost of Redford sky palace 35Xs the amount of taxpayer dollars" How AB Cons have changed. Redford was fired for much less & DS is just getting started Ziad has exposed just how corrupt the Turkish Tylenol deal was #NeverTrustTheUCP

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2 years

@ABDanielleSmith Tamara Lich BROKE THE TERMS OF HER BAIL. You’re saying it’s OK to do that? Whether she was wrongfully arrested in the 1st place is beside the point - she was clearly told what not to do when released, and she broke those rules. You don’t get to decide which rules you comply with.

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1 year

Hilarious! UCP staging a honk-to-support-us on a busy corner in #shpk . Literally no one honking

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8 months

Hey @ABDanielleSmith How about you take that 7.5 billion you’re spending on your Alberta Pension Plan propaganda tantrum to pay pharmacists to give us our flu and Covid shots?

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2 years

Back from Twitter jail. It appears something I said offended someone - I'm thinking a certain UCP a staffer who was attacking teachers last night. Told him teachers would be remembered long after his political career was dead in 2023. Could have been the eff bombs.

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1 year

Why I don’t hold out a lot of hope that the UCP will lose the next election, despite the complete dumpster fire they’re turning this province into…. a 🧵. I was teaching Social 9 during the federal election when PMJT first won. If you don’t know, Social 9 focuses on Canadian

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8 months

@JaneQCitizen And we wonder why teachers focus on acceptance in school? It’s to counter the hatred like this that is being taught at home.

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8 months

APP! A win! I told her she needs to talk to people about this, not just keep this info to herself. Hope she does!

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5 months

Believe people’s actions. The Cons have told us very clearly with their votes who and what they consider important. It’s not children, not families, not veterans, not the poor. If elected, the Cons will impose laws that hurt these people.

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When people show you who they are, believe them.

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1 year

value does this money bring to Canadians? Is that the price of fomenting anger and discord amongst Canadians? Sit down, sir.

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@laurfoll

2 years

@merry123459 This is my standard Twitter response to Clownvoy supporters:

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5 months

I’ve finally made the decision that it’s time to put my sweet dog down. She’s 18 years old and I’ve had her since she was 4 months. She’s going to leave the biggest hole in my heart, but she’s ready to go. I can’t imagine how quiet my house is going to be…

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11 months

I’m wondering if my #shpk MLA @nateglubish can explain to visually disabled Albertans why the CNIB has not received the provincial grants they used to since the UCP took power? There are now only two CNIB offices in Alberta - YEG and YYC. Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Red Deer and

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2 years

@Norlaine @gilmcgowan I seriously believe that my wearing a mask is a reminder of two things - first, that the pandemic is not, in fact, over, and second, that they are in the wrong and selfish for not wearing one themselves. It’s hard to be confronted with reality for some people.

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2 years

@pammcgugan @MtnShepherdesss @CTV @CPC_HQ @JustinTrudeau Harper and his minions absolutely INSISTED on using the phrase “the Harper government” instead of “the government of Canada”. Well, they should own this, now, too.

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2 years

@Wineguy_69 Next time, try, “You know that the government wanted us to take our masks off so they could use their facial recognition programs in us, right?”

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2 years

@kootenayGreg Anyone who seeks to cross an international boundary MUST comply with the laws of the country they are entering, whether they are a citizen or not. Her age has zero to do with it. What is with these people and their “you can’t make me!” attitude? Stuck in the terrible twos!

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@laurfoll

3 years

@AngharadWatson @yomeeks I’ve been teaching future doctors and insurance sales people…my salary has increased 2% in that same time span.

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2 years

I heard today that there is a nine to ten month wait for autopsies. Let that sink in for a second. Without a certificate of death, mortgages and property taxes still have to be paid on a property no one lives in. It can’t be sold. Insurance can’t be claimed. WTF @UCPCaucus ?

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8 months

of money and gave giant bonuses to its execs. Talked about the difference in returns between CPP and AIMCO (see the chart attached, posted today by the AB Teacher Pension War Room, and from the Globe and Mail earlier this year). Her response? Well, I’m going to vote against an

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1 year

I’ve been thinking a lot about Ray Bradbury’ s Fahrenheit 451 recently. It’s a dystopian novel I taught with my grade 12s, a book about anti-intellectualism and book burning, and now banned in Florida, ironically enough. If you haven’t read it, you should; it predicts a world

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4 years

@RandyRainbow From Canada, I am thinking, “How is it possible that there are so many stupid, gullible people?”

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3 years

@RoadToTheMaste1 You’re wrong? Your lived experience cannot be true? Why? Because our UCP overlords say so? Arrogance rears its ugly head once again.

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3 years

@AHS_media “Chartered surgical facility”? Soooooo, a “privately owned but paid for by Alberta taxpayers, allowing rich people to jump the queue, able to hire non-unionized workers and pay the $hit facility.” Fixed it for you.

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3 years

Almost 80% of Edmonton schools have Covid cases. Children are the fastest growing Covid-infection group. Where is @AdrianaLaGrange ? #MLAorMIA

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1 year

@RosieBarton @CBCTheNational As an Albertan, I support PMJT in this. The Con premiers want blank cheques so they can fund their own agendas.

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2 years

@VaughanPappy @Stephwolfe101 Crossing Keith's Deli off the list of local businesses to patronize…

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3 years

I spoke to my MLA's office this morning. According to a @MartinLongUCP staffer, the province did not refuse help from another province. Guess that news conference I watched yesterday was a figment of my imagination?

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2 years

@RyanJPowell004 @mckitrick_annie 1000%. People who loudly use profanity in a public space (written, verbal, etc) should understand that there will be people who don’t want to do business with them as a result. Professional conduct is required by anyone I employ.

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3 years

I am beyond angry about this. I am also very fearful. I am one year from retirement, and I would have socked away a lot more money if I had realized 30 years ago that a government could steal my pension. BTW - my pension is my deferred salary, and it is MINE. #handsoffmypension

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@albertateachers

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“Teachers have always had control over their pensions in this way. Now it’s been taken away from them without consultation, and that has made them angry."- ATA president Jason Schilling. #abed #ableg #Handsoffmypension

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2 years

@Cooper4SAE Q: If there are ten people sitting at a table and one of them is a Nazi, how many Nazis are sitting at the table? A: Ten

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2 years

@joncoopertweets As a Canadian, I couldn’t tell you if our PM was a church-goer or an atheist. This American hyper-Christianity in government just baffles most Canadians.

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1 year

The UCP are busy returning the money they’ve cut over the past four years, money for AISH, police, etc. promising caps on insurance and gasoline. But if they get elected again, those dollars and caps will disappear again. This is their MO. Don’t let them get away with it.

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2 years

@Tolkien_13 @BNNCA Um, maybe because Canadian law isn’t dictated by an American court?

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2 years

@bymichaeldunn Totally and 100% selfish. He'll do it for a beer and some chicken wings, but not to protect his friends and family.

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2 years

doctors, nurses, teachers? The families of the people who died? A pro-vaccine message? Instead of, basically, LEADING Albertans through this difficult time, you were seeking to ingratiate yourself with the anti-vax crowd and score political points off of Trudeau. #ResignKenney

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1 year

and the NDP, but Trudeau” arguments with facts and research, and not allow these voters to spew illogical fallacies without basis in fact.

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@laurfoll

2 years

@AudieCantFail @InsiderOilers So, this is the broken restaurant system at work right here. Why can’t we just pay servers and kitchen staff a good wage and eliminate tipping altogether? I’ve lived in Japan and Australia, where tipping in restaurants doesn’t happen because the staff are paid good wages. Grrr!

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@TheBreakdownAB If irate voters hating a PM was cause for him to resign, Stephen Harper wouldn’t have made it past his first term.

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@laurfoll

3 years

Hey, @AdrianaLaGrange - what was that about how terrible our education system was again? Out terrible results? So, let’s hire Americans to write our new curriculum, because their system is so much better, right? Oh. Oops.

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@CarlBoucherKnee

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$310,000 for a statue ✅. Money for AISH recipients visiting the food back to get by? ❌

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2 years

So, Smith wants to fight the carbon tax in the courts AGAIN. Says because of inflation we can win. Alberta, do we really want a premier that doesn’t understand that legal decisions aren’t made based on wealth but on the law? #abpoli

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1 year

@Unbranded63 @ame_todd It’s almost like more education increases one’s critical thinking skills or something… 🤔

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1 year

LGBTQ friends will vote for the lake of fire party. Voters with siblings on AISH will vote for the party that keeps those siblings in poverty. People who’ve lost their oil and gas jobs because this party can’t get a pipeline going, will vote UCP because they’ve been brainwashed

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1 year

@LukaszukAB @ABDanielleSmith @CBCNews @CTVNews Where are you guys? This literally seems like your job

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2 years

@AHS_media “AHS announces the *firing* of Dr Yui while the GoA moves to ignoring covid and privatizing health care.” There, fixed it for you.

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@laurfoll

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life. The UCP are boasting about BILLIONS of dollars in surpluses - unspent money! - while Albertans struggle. This surplus was made by stealing money from the social safety net, health, and education. It’s nothing to boast about.

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The @Alberta_UCP have announced that their “public consultation” with Albertans regarding the proposed hijacking of our CPP will be done via phone. They won’t even talk to us face-to-face about it. They know how unpopular it is. Such cowards!

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2 years

@ember_november Don’t you love the UCP attitude of only listening to people who agree with them wholeheartedly? Everyone else can take a flying leap.

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2 years

@cdnrockycaitlin @kacement And yet, Jim Keegstra, the social studies teacher who taught that the Holocaust never happened and lost his teaching certification as a result, isn’t on the registry at all. Surely that would be an example of someone who SHOULD be?

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@CarymaRules “The way I got treated for wearing a mask is how you’re getting treated.” Ah, ow we get to the heart of it. This is about revenge and retribution for perceived wrongs.

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@laurfoll

3 years

So, AB Ed ad published their back to school “plan” (and I use that term loosely). It’s the educational version of the best summer ever “plan.” Some things - (1) “maintaining ventilation” - we haven’t had proper ventilation EVER. 33 degrees in my classroom this week. /1

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2 years

@TheBreakdownAB I would hope that we all understand that the removal of Kenney will not improve the party.

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1 year

@babsbutterfly2 @ThunderBayEd When will they learn that their ideas and rage farming simply don’t appeal to the majority of Canadians?

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Conservative, had always voted CPC, etc. what it came down to was that their parents and families had so completely brainwashed them that, no matter what their own personal beliefs or the fact that hey would be voting against their own best interests, these kids would never

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@GarnettGenuis @RaquelDancho @AnthonyRota Forced out? You make it sound like the brown shirts came in the middle of the night and tossed her out in the street in her nightgown. She was ejected from parliament for breaking parliamentary rules. You should be grateful for those rules, because they protect Liar PeePee, too,

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2 years

@SammyG_MD If you want to get mad, get mad at the anti-vaxxers. Get mad at the governments hoarding and then throwing out expired vaccines while other nations don’t get enough to vaccinate people who want them.

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@mrteacher024 My response was always, “Invent a time machine, go back to September, and do all the work I assigned when I assigned it.” Heard recently: Teacher: Spell “way” Student: W-A-Y Teacher: You forgot the “F” Student: There's no eff in way Teacher: Exactly

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@AlexanderDowsey @Barbielynn01 Hey @KerryDiotte those ridings might not be so UCP safe. Consider the four day response time and who cut the wildfire fighting budgets to the bone. Rural voters certainly will.

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2 years

@ToewsforAlberta Travis, you know that’s not true. It’s called the Canada Water Act. Look it up.

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even voting anything but conservative, both federally and provincially. And, ladies and gentlemen, these former students will be voting i; the upcoming election. They rural ridings will overwhelm the urban ridings to hold this province hostage once again. These young people with

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Will she listen to ANYONE who disagrees with her? Unlikely.

Smith urged to work with elected Edmontonians after promising 'council' of defeated UCP candidates

Alberta's re-elected premier says she plans to form a "council" of UCP candidates who lost in Monday's election to advise her on Edmonton issues, something her opponent made fun of Wednesday.

edmonton.ctvnews.ca

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2 years

@northernck @53swimorsink @CBCTheNational Involve yourselves with a movement that seeks political power and influence? Maybe it’s time to pay taxes!

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@shmitzysays And not one of them is going to make it past the Canadian border agents! CBA: Bonjour, hello. Purpose of your travel into Canada today? Trucker: Overthrowing the duly elected government.

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@TheBreakdownAB @TiredMamaG So, protection for adults in the oil field are okay, but kids in school? Screw ‘em! Thanks @CMOH_Alberta @AdrianaLaGrange

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@CoryBMorgan It’s only a scam of those overtime hours aren’t needed. If they are, it sounds like an indication that more nurses need to be hired so less overtime is necessary. Not sure how alienating them is going to help that…

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@ToewsWenda @bobittyboop She keeps apologizing, but doesn’t change her behavior. So, is she really sorry? Is she learning from her mistakes? I’d say no, and would argue someone who apologizes without meaning it and who doesn’t learn from past errors should NOT be our premier!

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@Dalbodog @NoMoreBooks My girl Coco, who was my best friend for 18 years. Gutted when I finally had to let her go a few weeks ago. My house feels so empty without her. They truly are the best of us.

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@philmcrae @lhaukmee @SmhSharp @schill_dawg @atypicalalbertn @WhiffofGrape @LukaszukAB @AntibioticDoc @CMOH_Alberta @shoffmanAB @AdrianaLaGrange After 34 years, I have taken my first ever leave. The stress of teaching in a system that prioritizes misinformation to parents (no Covid here, nope) over the health and safety of staff and students and their families…. Daily crying jags and panic attacks were the result.

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@MineerBrett Why did school officials have to move the competition if he was so all-fired quiet and reasonable?

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access to abortion and free birth control will vote for the most misogynistic of parties. So, what can we do? We can vote. We ca talk to our friends and family members about why they vote conservative, and how this is against their best interests. We can counter the “but Rachel

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@BarbLarochelle Is it a coincidence this is just days after teachers released from their NDAs attacked the UCP curriculum and the process by which they were “consulted”? I doubt it!

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into believing it’s Trudope's fault. Young people with parents and family members that are aging or require complex medical care (and aren’t getting it) will vote for the party that plans to privatize our health care…even though they can’t afford it themselves. Young parents

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@JimMacLachlan He’s not Pierre Poilievre, Stephen Harper, Andrew Scheer, or whatever the other guy's name was.

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@belle_levesque @ThunderBayEd @RealAndyLeeShow She’s posted that they weren’t drunk…so then what’s her excuse for the behaviour with the mushroom pillows? Funnily enough, she doesn’t mention that…

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2 years

@JasonPYYC Two teachers handed in their resignations at my school today.

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1 year

Reading the replies to Danielle Smith’s Facebook posts makes me weep for Alberta.

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3 years

@jkenney Jason, your blue pickup only gets seen when you are trying to pass yourself off as an Albertan. You’re a Laurentian elite, no two ways about it.

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children who will enter the education system within the next few years will vote for a party that created the worst curriculum ever seen in this country. Young indigenous people will vote for the most racist, white party possible. Young women who believe that they should have

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@TysonFedorTV @CalgaryPolice Here’s an idea - instead of focusing on the breed, focus on the owners. Also, focus on why no ambulance was available for more than half an hour (hint - the UCP dismantled the system in order to privatize it)

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Smith’s supporters need to ask *why* she’s threatening to sue CBC. Is it because they lied? No, they’ve got her on tape saying it. It’s because her base have bought the CBC-as-lefty-propaganda pill, when really it’s just that she must attack what she can’t control. And because

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