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They bargained until 11pm every night, then finally had a response from the employer with 1 minute on the timer! Now we have yet to see if the membership will ratify the new agreement.

#abpoli #cdnpoli #Solidarity #union #healthcare #strike
Live press conference at AUPE headquarters with 00:01:00 left on the timer before strike, newly-elected AUPE President Sandra Azocar at the lectern.
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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There is Power in a Union!

#abpoli #cdnpoli #Solidarity #union #healthcare #strike
Janis Irwin is at Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton. Tentative deal reached! 🤝 I arrived on the picket line in support of incredible AUPE nursing care workers bright and early this morning, just in time to hear that their strike is over just after it started! They’re LPNs, they’re healthcare aides, and they do critical work for us all. So proud of the courage of all these workers in fighting for a fair deal! Today and every day we stand with healthcare workers! ❤️✊
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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AHS blinked!

www.aupe.org/news/news-an...

#abpoli #cdnpoli #Solidarity #healthcare #union #strike
AHS blinks! We have a tentative agreement – please return to work Bargaining update for Locals 041, 043, 044, 045, and 046, Alberta Health Services Nursing Care Nov 22, 2025 Members set a new standard in health care and the labour movement. Your negotiating team reached a tentative agreement with AHS mere minutes before our strike was scheduled to begin. Please return to work as directed by your management. We will share another bargaining update with more details about the tentative agreement as soon as possible. Your team will also hold a press conference at 11:00 a.m. this morning to share more details with you, the media, and the public. Reaching this tentative agreement was only possible because of your strength, solidarity, and willingness to fight for what you deserve.
November 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Today Alberta Health Services nursing care goes on strike across the province. Here are the facts:

#abpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare #strike #Solidarity #union
WHO ARE WE? We are more than 15,000 Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), Health Care Aides (HCAs), rehabilitation care workers, mental health aides, psychiatric aides, physiotherapy assistants, operating room technicians, and orthopedic technicians. We are the hearts and hands of your public health care system. We are front-line workers who provide hands-on care for your loved ones every day. We are members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE). WHY ARE WE ON STRIKE? Poor working conditions impact patient care, and we knew it was time to fight for public health care. We have spent more than 20 months negotiating with AHS to fix the issues we face and that have created a crisis in care. These issues include: Staffing shortages that put care at risk... Longer waits, overworked staff, and burnout. We are fighting for safe staffing levels so patients get the care they deserve. Recruitment and retention crisis... The cost of living is too high, and our wages have not kept up. Many nursing care staff work full-time, but still struggle to pay our bills. Poor wages and working conditions make it difficult to hire new nurses and aides to fix the staffing shortage. WHAT ARE WE ASKING FOR? • Fair wages. • Safe workloads. • Respect for the critical work we do. These standards will help ensure that our hospitals and other care facilities are safe, functional, and able to provide the care you and your loved ones rely on.
November 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
neddog.bsky.social
Oh wow, it's already here! :o

#wicked2
Movie poster for second Wicked movie which reads: You will be changed Wicked for good November 21 The image shows Glinda floating in a bubble wearing a puffy dress and tall tiara, reaching towards Elphaba in a black dress and pointed hat, riding a broomstick.
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Wow, so it was actually a "vehicle hitting equipment" which knocked out power all through Terra Losa, West Meadowlark Park, Summerlea, and Place LaRue, with full restoration expected at 3pm (over 6.5 hours)! :o

#yeg #yegbike
Edmonton Power Outages map from Epcor says "There is 1 outage, Last update: Nov 21, 8:30 AM", and shows a red area around Terra Losa, West Meadowlark Park, Summerlea, and Place LaRue. Affected neighbourhoods West Meadowlark Park Estimated Restoration: Nov-21 3:00 PM Nov-21 3:00 PM Lost Power At: Nov-21 8:20 AM Affected Customers: 1 Cause: Vehicle hitting equipment
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, honoring the memory of trans folk whose lives were lost in acts of anti-trans violence, following Transgender Awareness Week since the 13th.

2 days ago the UCP stripped trans youth of their Canadian Charter rights in order to pass 3 hateful anti-trans bills.
An illustration of a row of lit candles in trans colours followed by the words, "Transgender Day of Remembrance, November 20", also in trans colours.
November 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Here's the original source (Big Oil Bertha on Reddit) with the original image in better quality: www.reddit.com/r/EhBuddyHos...

#abpoli #cdnpoli #fascism #humanrights
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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“I look at the Americans. I look at Ron DeSantis in Florida and Kristi Noem in South Dakota. They’ve been able to create little bastions of freedom, and we can create a little bastion of freedom in Alberta as well.”

- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith during a Q&A in Gibbons, Alberta on April 12, 2023
npr Efforts to restrict rights for LGBTQ youth Florida's governor signs controversial law opponents dubbed 'Don't Say Gay' Updated March 28, 2022 - 2:33PM ET By Jaclyn Diaz South Dakota governor signs bill prohibiting gender-affirming treatment for transgender minors By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN Updated 9:00 PM EST, Mon February 13, 2023 Noem defends no exception for rape, incest in South Dakota trigger law: No reason for "another tragedy" to occur BY MELISSA QUINN JUNE 26, 2022 / 12:16 PM / CBS NEWS DeSantis signs Florida GOP's 6- week abortion ban into law By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE April 14, 2023
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Merry Christmas, Alberta!

#abpoli #cdnpoli #fascism #humanrights
Image shows Alberta Premier Danielle Smith as The Grinch in Santa Claus suit, with the caption "Notwithstanding Claus is coming to town!". A Reddit watermark can be seen in the bottom corner.
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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This is Transgender Awareness Week. It's no coincidence that the UCP passed anti-trans legislation on this week, and invoked the notwithstanding clause to strip charter rights and shield the UCP from judicial oversight. Haters need to ridicule and mock, and show utter contempt.

#abpoli #HumanRights
Transgender Awareness Week Transgender Awareness Week, observed November 13 to November 19, is a one-week celebration leading up to the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), which memorializes victims of transphobic violence. TDoR occurs annually on November 20, when transgender advocates raise awareness of the transgender community through education and advocacy activities.
November 19, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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First it was the right to assembly, now to be free from DISCRIMINATION!

Danielle Smith calls the existence of trans kids the most urgent threat to the safety of other children. Statistically you are probably not trans, but these fundamental rights belong to all of us. They will come for yours next.
Alberta uses Notwithstanding Clause to perpetuate unprecedented attack on Trans Rights Today, the Government of Alberta has introduced Bill 9 which uses the notwithstanding clause to restrict the rights of Two-Spirit, trans & gender diverse people in the province. This legislation is brought days ahead of Trans Day of Remembrance - a day meant to honour the lives lost to anti-trans violence. Doing so is not only cruel but a direct form of institutional violence against trans communities. This law reaches into nearly every part of a young person's life and restricts their access to health care, ability to learn, and right to participate in their communities. This is not theoretically or ideological - Behind every policy are real young people and families who's rights, sense of belonging and very safety are being eroded by our very government. This is an unprecedented action in Canada. This is the first time a government has used the notwithstanding clause to prohibit essential gender affirming health care to young people. This past June, the Court of King's Bench of Alberta ruled that the denial of this health care would cause irreparable harm to gender diverse young people and issued an injunction blocking the ban from coming into effect while the constitutional challenge brought by Egale Canada, Skipping Stone, and five individual gender diverse youth, proceeded. Edmonton·Breaking Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges Premier says move is urgently needed to protect the safety of children Janet French · CBC News · Posted: Nov 18, 2025 2:59 PM MST | Last Updated: 13 minutes ago Image: Two people stand at a podium with flags visible in the background. Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery and Premier Danielle Smith speak at a news conference Monday announcing the government's plans for Bill 9. (Emilio Avalos/Radio-Canada) The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills from legal challenges that affects transgender youth and adults. Premier Danielle Smith said at a news conference on Monday that three ongoing legal challenges to gender policies in health care and education could take years to resolve and create too much uncertainty. “This government does not turn to the notwithstanding clause unless the stakes warrant it, and in this case, the stakes could not be higher,” Smith said Monday. “This is one of the most consequential actions our government will take during our time in office.” Organized labour stands in support of trans people against Bill 9’s politics of division November 17, 2025 “We will not rest until unconstitutional attacks on workers and trans people are brought to a halt”—McGowan EDMONTON: Gil McGowan, President of the Alberta Federation of Labour, made the following statement in response to reports that the UCP government is planning to introduce Bill 9 and invoke the notwithstanding clause again, this time in an attack on the rights of trans people in the province: “We at the AFL are deeply alarmed by reports that the provincial government is planning to invoke the notwithstanding clause pre-emptively on three bills, Bill 26, Bill 27 and Bill 29, that represent a direct attack on the rights of transgender people, especially vulnerable youth. An Alberta judge has already put a hold on a provincial law that bans doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth. Other legal challenges are working their way through the courts. The government’s use of this clause would short-circuit those processes and strip away the fundamental protections guaranteed under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Every Canadian should be concerned when the notwithstanding clause is used to erode people’s rights. That is not what this clause was intended to do. The only reason to use it in this way is because the government knows it is wrong and will lose in court.
November 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Interesting... I didn't know this connection was so deep.

(And no, I'm not including MTG as a credible source, but the Times of Israel sure are fired up about her comments, lol.)

#uspol #israel #epstein
Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Israel Second, Epstein has long been rumored to have been an intelligence asset, specifically for Israel. Epstein was meant to have come into the employ of Israel as early as the 1980s after working as an arms dealer, sources told journalist Vicky Ward a few years back, and the discovery of a false passport and cash in his safe seemed to lend further credence to this. More recently, Drop Site has done the best reporting on this front, running a series of stories based on a tranche of leaked emails of former Israeli prime minister (and Epstein associate) Ehud Barak that show Epstein’s work for the Israeli government. That included: repeatedly hosting an Israeli military intelligence officer and Barak aide who was in the United States to conduct official business; working with Barak to secure actions against Israeli adversaries, whether a US bombing of Iran or Russian backing for regime change in Syria; or brokering security agreements between Israel and Mongolia and Côte d’Ivoire. As these stories pile up, it has become increasingly difficult to deny that Epstein was, at minimum, an asset for Israeli intelligence. Epstein and Israel Jeffrey Epstein Pursued Swiss Rothschild Bank to Finance Israeli Cyberweapons Empire Epstein on Ariane de Rothschild: “it was said to me, if Ehud [Barak] wants to make serious money, he will have to build a relationship with me. take time so that we can truly understand one another.” Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain Nov 18, 2025 With an avalanche of new documents released by the House Oversight Committee, and looming legislation mandating further disclosures, the press has renewed its relentless coverage of the life and times of Jeffrey Epstein. Yet, with some notable exceptions, a major part of his life’s work has remained outside the media’s gaze, his relationship with the state of Israel and his prominent role in helping advance the Israeli cyberweapons industry. And so our series continues. Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests Israel pressuring Trump not to release Epstein files Firebrand MAGA lawmaker with history of antisemitic comments asserts on CNN that ‘the right question to ask is, was Jeffrey Epstein working for Israel?’ By ToI Staff 17 November 2025, 12:16 am Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, speaks during a town-hall style meeting, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Georgia. (AP/Mike Stewart) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, speaks during a town-hall style meeting, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Georgia. (AP/Mike Stewart) How Jeffrey Epstein Helped Israel Establish A Police State In This Country The story began in late 2010, when a disputed presidential election in Cote d'Ivoire triggered violence. Edited by: NDTV News Desk World News Nov 16, 2025 17:23 pm IST Published On Nov 16, 2025 17:03 pm IST Last Updated On Nov 16, 2025 17:23 pm IST How Jeffrey Epstein Helped Israel Establish A Police State In This Country Ehud Barak coordinated meetings via Epstein in New York.
November 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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The House of Representatives voted 427-1 to approve the Epstein discharge petition, which was offered by Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie.

#uspol #epstein
BREAKING: House Votes to Release the Jeffrey Epstein Files, Humiliating Trump It’s an embarrassment for Trump, who had promised to release the Epstein files before then calling the scandal a “hoax.” A Trump official admits, “We lost this one badly.” Prem Thakker, Andrew Perez, and Asawin Suebsaeng Nov 18, 2025 Image: Ro Khanna, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie Taylor Greene at a press conference on the Epstein files measure, on Nov. 18, 2025. Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu/Getty Images.
November 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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"Not all settlers."
- Benjamin Netanyahu

#freepalestine #westbank
Israeli settlers raided two Palestinian villages in the West Bank on Monday after the IDF evacuated a nearby settler outpost. In the village of Umm al-Butm, dozens of settlers set a building and vehicles on fire and assaulted Palestinian women in their homes, including a 66-year-old who was hospitalized. Several hours later, settlers set fire to three homes, three vehicles and a caravan in the village of Jab'a. "A disaster has happened here – and all in front of the soldiers and police," an Umm al-Butm resident told Haaretz. PM Netanyahu said he takes the "violent riots and the attempt by a small extremist group to take the law into their own hands very seriously," stressing that the perpetrators do not "represent the settlers" in the West Bank, and calling on law enforcement authorities to "bring the perpetrators to full justice."
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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When people are scared of Trump's America and you have to tell them that Danielle Smith's Alberta is much worse.

#abpoli #fascism #education #yeg #yyc
Karen Mykietka “0h my! They are really lacking sex education in the U.S. Those poor women. Emily Hargreaves Karen Mykietka in the us you can opt out of sex education. I'm afraid that’s what this man did. Ned Yeung Emily Hargreaves In Alberta you now have to OPT IN for Sex Ed, otherwise you get none. That's much worse than the option to opt out. Opt out is the DEFAULT in Alberta, since the start of this school year. All thanks to Danielle Smith's UCP. We haven't yet seen the deteimenal effects to our society because this is too new yet, but we will soon. The scariest part is that MY DAUGHTERS will be growing up with these intentionally uneducated boys. Edmonton News Pencils, notebooks, sexual health education: YWCAs launch Alberta-wide reminder about new sex ed. opt-in law for students By Hannah Kavanagh Published: August 26, 2025 at 5:57PM EDT The YWCAs of Alberta have launched a campaign to remind parents to opt-in to sexual health education. CTV News Edmonton's Miriam Valdes-Carletti reports. The YWCAs of Alberta have launched a campaign to remind parents about opt-in sexual health education this school year in the wake of new provincial legislation. Starting Sept. 1, the province will follow an opt-in framework, meaning parents must give consent for most gender and sexual orientation-related teachings on behalf of their child.
November 17, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Good quotes, but that's still a lot of words to say that the only purpose of the UCP's municipal parties was to buy an election with big money.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#abpoli #yeg
The new amendments in the act don’t require the parties to hold a cabinet or caucus. This is one of the reasons why party politics don’t work at the municipal level, according to Lori Williams, a political science professor at Mount Royal University. “The municipal level [is] where the issues are not particularly partisan, where voters really want their elected representatives to respond to the concerns that exist at the community level,” she said. “When we look at what these candidates promised during the election and what many observers just saw going into this election, there is no mechanism for party discipline.” Image: A woman with brown hair in front of a row of books. Caption: Lori Williams is a political science professor and political analyst with Mount Royal University in Calgary (Scott Dippel/CBC) Williams said it seemed that the parties themselves didn’t sway people into voting one way or another. But what it did afford was significant financing for its candidates.
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Among the commitments now inscribed in its Back to School Act is a requirement to pay for 3,000 more teaching positions during the next three school years.

But what wasn't clear is that the 2025-26 provincial budget had already allocated funding for exactly this purpose.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Image | Premier Danielle Smith announces class size and complexity cabinet committee Caption: The Alberta government has pledged new money to hire staff to help students with varied needs in crowded classrooms. However, they say a promise to pay for 3,000 more teachers over three years was already in the March budget. (Mike Symington/CBC)
November 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
neddog.bsky.social
This Alberta movement is unifying through K-Pop Demon Hunters. :D

#abpoli #kpop #kpop_demon_hunters
Rory Gill If anyone is genuinely interested in how to organize a province wide strike and win it, there are 6500 CUPE Education workers who can tell you all about it. Shania Woloshyniuk If the entire province works together, regardless if they’re part of a union or not we can topple this government Ned Yeung to Shania Woloshyniuk I have never seen so much cohesion in people movements across Alberta as there is right now. This is our time! Shania Woloshyniuk to Ned Yeung We're goin' up, up, up, it's our moment You know together we're glowing Gonna be, gonna be golden Ned Yeung to Shania Woloshyniuk We're shattering the silence, we're rising, defiant Shouting in the quiet, "You're not alone" We listened to the demons, we let them get between us But none of us are out here on our own This is what it sounds like.
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
neddog.bsky.social
This would be like a rural American town arresting a few members of the KKK after a lynching, then the KKK responding by burning down Black churches and writing "White Power" on the remains, while the local sheriffs continue to round up Black folk across the state and imprison them for being Black.
Israeli forces arrested around 40 Palestinians, including several former prisoners, in raids across the occupied West Bank overnight, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society. The arrests took place in the areas of Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem, and Ramallah. Israel has made about 20,500 arrests during near-daily raids in the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said. Over 9,000 Palestinians are currently imprisoned in Israeli detention centers. Israeli settlers torched and defaced a mosque in the Palestinian village in Deir Istiya in the central West Bank overnight. Settlers graffitied messages on the mosque, including “we are not afraid,” “we will revenge again,” and “keep on condemning,” according to the AP. The attack came one day after some Israeli leaders issued rare condemnations of another attack by dozens of settlers in the Palestinian villages of Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf, where four Palestinians were wounded and four Israelis arrested. Israeli forces were captured in a video published by Quds News Network forcibly sealing and welding shut the main doors of Palestinian homes in the Jaber neighborhood of Hebron WEST BANK: Settlers set fire to the Haja Hamida Mosque, located between the villages of Deir Istiya and Qal Hars in the West Bank and sprayed racist graffiti on its walls on Thursday morning, the Palestinian Wafa news agency said. When asked by reporters if escalating violence in the West Bank could endanger the cease-fire in Gaza, U.S. Secretary of State Rubio said, "I hope not. We don't expect it to. We'll do everything we can to make sure it doesn't happen." The Shin Bet, IDF and Israel Police said that they thwarted a planned Hamas operation in the Bethlehem area which was set to target security forces and civilians in the immediate future. "The U.S. Administration's focus on the Middle East is mostly devoted to preserving the Gaza cease-fire and expanding the Abraham Accords – with brief detours into interfering in a democratic ally's judicial system. But one issue that is not at the front of Trump's mind stands to unravel his grand scheme of regional peace: Israeli settler violence, which is nearing its greatest crisis point in decades. While violence targeting Palestinian civilians and their property has long been a fact of daily life, its frequency and severity is approaching a spillover point that will have long-lasting ramifications across the Middle East" – Ben Samuels
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Updates from Canada Post (today, Monday) and from the Union on Friday. It sounds like massive cuts are being implemented, but they are somehow promising (without details on how) to maintain rural delivery. Do I have any CUPW members following me who can weigh in on this?
#abpoli #cdnpoli #Solidarity
As we approach the end of 2025, we are reflecting on a year that has been difficult. We know the ongoing labour uncertainty and rotating strike actions are continuing to impact your business – and that this is the second peak season where you must navigate these challenges. We are committed to reaching new collective agreements and providing you and your customers the certainty you need. We are also focused on stabilizing the remaining impacts of our SAP update, which will improve your experience when doing business with us. ... On Friday, Canada Post proposed a comprehensive transformation plan to the Honourable Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement. The plan details the decisive action the Corporation is prepared to take to deliver the services Canadians need in a way that is financially sustainable. On September 25, the government removed long-standing barriers to reform and directed Canada Post to implement concrete changes that respond to today’s rapidly changing environment and avoid becoming a recurring burden on taxpayers. These changes include converting the remaining households to community mailboxes, modernizing its network of post offices, amending service standards for letter mail and reducing overhead costs. Canada Post’s proposed plan would also support the Minister’s direction to ensure postal services remain accessible to all Canadians, particularly those in rural, remote and Indigenous communities. ... Negotiations Update: Meetings with Federal Mediators Friday November 7 2025 2023-2027/359 No. 163 - AMENDED This week we continued our meetings in our effort to explore negotiated solutions that both parties can agree to with the assistance of the Federal mediators. Our goal remains to get negotiated collective agreements that can be ratified by the membership. 45 Day Deadline Approaching On September 25, Joel Lightbound, the Minister Responsible for Canada Post, announced devastating cuts to postal services and good jobs which will harm communities and businesses, especially in rural, remote and Indigenous areas as well as seniors and persons with disabilities who make up over 40 percent of the population. The Minister gave Canada Post 45 days to come up with a plan to implement the cuts. That 45-day deadline is almost up. But we still haven’t had a full, public and transparent mandate review to hear from all stakeholders. Keep the Pressure On As we fight for strong public services, good jobs, and a sustainable post office it’s more important than ever that we keep the pressure on decision-makers. Your voices make a real difference in shaping how MPs understand what’s at stake. Stay informed: sign up for eDigest to get union news and updates delivered straight to your inbox: www.cupw.ca/en/cupw-edigest. In solidarity, Jan Simpson National President
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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#dadjokes
Image shows collage of images of leather ankle boots and a leather jacket, with a weblink labeled "The Thursday Collection" by thursdayboots.com, and a call to action button that reads, "Shop now". My comment asks, "Do you have anything we can wear all week long?"
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Maybe we should fund the future instead of the past.

#abpoli #cdnpoli #education
Red and black protest sign reads, "If only CLASSROOMS got the same support as PIPELINES".
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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How unsurprising that the Holocaust Encyclopedia doesn't agree with the UCP's persecution.

First they came for the communists, then the socialists, then the trade unionists, then the Jews, then me.

Socialist & Unionist NDP invoked this poem over the persecution of Union workers' collective rights.
(Under a United Conservative letterhead header.) November 6, 2025 Chantelle de Jonge, MLA for Chestermere-Strathmore, issued the following statement on NDP MLA Lori Sigurdson invoking the Holocaust and comparing United Conservatives to Nazis: “Yesterday in Question Period, NDP MLA for Edmonton-Riverview Lori Sigurdson invoked the Holocaust while criticizing Alberta’s use of the notwithstanding clause. It was an appalling and deeply offensive comparison. “During her remarks, Sigurdson referenced the poem First They Came, written by Pastor Martin Nieméller, reflecting on the Nazi regime's systemic persecution of Jews and other groups during the Holocaust. She went so far as to compare a provincial labour dispute to genocide, stating, “first they came for the teachers, and I did not speak out because I was not a teacher”. “This unhinged rhetoric is disgraceful and beneath the dignity of Alberta's Legislature. Invoking the Holocaust and comparing United Conservatives to Nazis to score desperate political points trivializes one of the darkest chapters in human history. Every member of the Assembly has a duty to speak with respect for the six million Jews and five million other victims including people with disabilities and those of different ethnicities and religions. It is abhorrent to exploit their suffering for partisan attacks. “There is a clear moral line that must never be crossed in politics, and yesterday the NDP crossed it. Alberta's Legislature should be a place for respectful debate, not reckless comparisons to crimes against humanity. “Albertans can hold differing views on the notwithstanding clause or any government decision. But there is no place for comparing policy debates to the Holocaust or the atrocities committed by the Nazis. “Naheed Nenshi needs to condemn these comments and ensure his caucus understands the deep gravity of what was said. The Holocaust is not a political talking point. Lori Sigurdson must apologize." -30- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The quote that begins with the words “First they came for…” continues to be used today in popular culture and public discourse. It has often been adapted to reflect current social issues and debates across the world.
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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The results are rising steadily, reflecting about 2/3 union members and 1/3 non-union. Over 8100 ready to personally hit the line so far right now.

#abpoli #cdnpoli #Solidarity #strike #union
I would be willing to: 11946 - Support a general strike to oppose the UCP's attack on worker rights 8100 - Personally take part in a general strike to oppose the UCP's attack on worker rights 5067 - Volunteer for recall campaigns to force early elections for targeted UCP MLAs 4178 - Volunteer to help on intitiative campaigns aimed at putting worker-friendly questions up for province-wide referendums 186 - None of the above Are you a member of a union? Yes - 8082 No - 4341
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM