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BookEm 🇨🇦
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If you’re looking to support public education in Alberta and want to end private charter schools getting public $, the petition is available to sign in many places today. For #StAlbert folks, head over to the city public library entrance btwn 11:00-1:00pm today (Sunday).
#abpoli
#ableg
November 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Red Deer - you can sign the petition to tell Dani to stop putting public dollars into private school at Red Hart Brewery November 18th between 4-6pm. #abpoli
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Have you signed the Alberta Funds Public Schools Petition yet?

More signing locations up all the time at abfundspublicschools.ca/cgi-bin/publ...

#ableg #abpoli
Alberta Funds Public Schools
A Citizen Initiative petitioning the Government of Alberta to improve its Public Education funding model.
abfundspublicschools.ca
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Thanks Holly - it's helpful to have your letter as a starting point for writing my own.
I slept on it and miraculously produced a letter with no swears. Please consider doing the same if you haven't already. We need to raise our voices. The future of our province depends on it.
October 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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youtube.com/live/xVpwbMl... good for May for speaking up. I vehemently disagree with her assessment of JWR, but nonetheless, glad she spoke up.
Elizabeth May responds to Pierre Poilievre’s comments on RCMP and Justin Trudeau – October 20, 2025
YouTube video by cpac
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October 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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I sent feedback, please do as well.
HEY ALBERTA!!!!

Time to contact Premier Smith and let her know that forcing teachers back to work is NOT an option.
Call, write, email, fill in the contact form, do it all.
Make some damn noise, and put some support behind our teachers.
They need it.
Contact the Premier
Send a message to the Premier.
www.alberta.ca
October 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Civil society united when they wanted a coal mine polluting water flowing in south; can we get this for the water, already polluted flowing north?

@naheednenshi.bsky.social @albertawilderness.bsky.social @thenarwhal.ca @corblund.bsky.social @serenamah.bsky.social @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Let’s never forget that Question Period in the HoC has gone from asking intelligent pressing questions to the government to just trying to provide sound bites and bloodsport for memes and clips.

This is a social media phenomenon that cheapens the value of QP and democracy overall.
#cdnpoli
October 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Thanks to @techcafe.bsky.social for sharing this we now may know who is funding these protesters.

A must-read backstory about the Ostrich farm for those of you who have sympathetically supported them.

www.pauljhenderson.com/ostrich-farm...
Ostrich farm owners connected to ‘particularly abusive’ investment scheme that bilked $20 million from widows & seniors
Even some ‘freedom fighters’ first hooked in by Universal Ostrich Farms’ public calls for support are finding out the truth about the Bilinskis’ ‘speculative, illiquid and highly risky’ securities sla...
www.pauljhenderson.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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They cut off his mic.
We’re giving him the floor.

Join Evan Li and me for a conversation tonight!

⏰ 8 PM
📺 YouTube Live: youtube.com/@naheednensh...
September 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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MLA @marlinschmidt.bsky.social sums up the Alberta covid booster shitshow perfectly:
September 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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ABR Resistor Update
September 26, 2025
open.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Trump is so fucking dumb, he thinks the difference between Dubai & Abu Dhabi is that Dubai doesn’t have the Flintstones, but AbuDhabiDoo!!!
Thanks, I’ll throw myself out 😂
September 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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This is Timothy Snyder's exact advice this week.

If you don't know him yet, find him & read/watch everything he says. He's an American historian & knows.
He has given us a road map of how to navigate our country in a tyrannical crisis.
September 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Please sign! Enough is enough.
Sign the Petition

"It is thus nothing short of a Charter override.

The rights subject to the Charter override are far from trivial. Sections 2 and 7 through 15 of the Charter include many of the most basic, essential principles needed for a free and democratic society."

ccla.org/major-cases-...
Notwithstanding Clause: Save Our Charter - CCLA
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects key rights and freedoms of everyone in Canada. These rights are essential to preserving Canada as a democratic society where we can live our lives freely.
ccla.org
September 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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If you’ve not made a respectful and firm call or email to your local MP about a sitting MP placing a citizen in danger, you should. This can’t be allowed from any MP. We’re not the USA.
This must be addressed. Stat.
Democracy takes work between elections too.
#cdnpoli #beBetter
September 14, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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I called the ethics commissioner for the HoC to encourage them to look into the actions taken by the MP, Andrew Scheer in pushing a misrepresentation that has placed at least one Canadian citizen in danger. I encourage you to do the same. See my timeline for what I complained about.
#cdnpoli
September 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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I called Andrew Scheer’s Parliamentary Office. It went to VM. I left a very firm yet respectful voicemail pointing out what he’s done being wrong and should any harm come to her….its on him and he needs to fix this.
#cdnpoli #beBetter
September 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Something to be excited about in April 2026! Looking forward to reading this @matthewremski.bsky.social
Antifascist Dad: Urgent Conversations with Young People in Chaotic Times.

📕 Out April 26, 2025 with North Atlantic Books. Preorder link in bio.

💬 Naomi Klein: “A skillful, urgent and loving intervention.”
September 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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I think we all know who the ‘stupid babies’ are. Members of an immature government who can’t take feedback, have to have their own way, can’t be trusted with money, and won’t take responsibility for anything they do.
Margaret Atwood is 🔥 #abpoli #Alberta
August 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I called the Premier's office - this is terrifying behavior from our government. Book banning is a big deal and a bad sign
Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools | CBC News
A list confirmed by CBC News shows titles like The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World are among books to be pulled. The development comes after a policy from Alberta's education minister outlines new...
www.cbc.ca
August 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Alberta is banning The Handmaid’s Tale in schools.
Well, the list of books being banned from EPSB is appalling. And it's very likely that an author on this list will get their other works pulled too, especially in the absence of teacher librarians.

There are books on this list that changed my life. This is what the UCP is taking away from kids.
August 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Let’s. Do. This.
August 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Oh Canada…
August 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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@mark-carney.bsky.social Canadas PM
Stopped by the Ottawa Humane Society in Nepean to meet some of the newest staff.

They’re working here because of the Canada Summer Jobs program — a great initiative that connects hardworking young people with opportunities in their community.
#CanadaStrong
August 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM