Roberta Lexier
@robertalexier.bsky.social
University professor studying social movements, social change, and left politics. Proudly socialist, anti-fascist, anti-Zionist. All opinions my own.
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White Nationalist Networking: Help us Identify the Organizers and Guests
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I got a bunch of mail today and I am so happy that my friends and comrades still like to write and send cards, letters and other wonderful mail.
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I got a bunch of mail today and I am so happy that my friends and comrades still like to write and send cards, letters and other wonderful mail.
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Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
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No punches pulled in this analysis of the presently-disappointing response to the strike-breaking Bill 2.
NEW EP: Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/11/04/a...
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/11/04/a...
November 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
No punches pulled in this analysis of the presently-disappointing response to the strike-breaking Bill 2.
In case you were wondering, I don’t give a single fuck about govt deficits. And neither should you.
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
In case you were wondering, I don’t give a single fuck about govt deficits. And neither should you.
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NEW EP: Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/11/04/a...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
NEW EP: Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/11/04/a...
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The resistance is going to be texted. Enjoy our rant!
NEW EP: Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/11/04/a...
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/11/04/a...
November 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The resistance is going to be texted. Enjoy our rant!
I don’t normally study far enough back to reach a firm conclusion but it feels like the lack of food often leads to social and political unrest, no?
November 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I don’t normally study far enough back to reach a firm conclusion but it feels like the lack of food often leads to social and political unrest, no?
2025 Alberta Scavenger Hunt: find a Covid vaccination in your actual city.
October 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
2025 Alberta Scavenger Hunt: find a Covid vaccination in your actual city.
It’s not a slippery slope. We’ve already slid down the slide.
My latest in the @edmontonjournal.com on the province’s pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause to override the Charter rights to strike…. And to meaningful bargaining… of 50,000 teachers
#ableg
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
#ableg
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Opinion: Invoking notwithstanding clause a slippery slope for Alberta
Pre-emptively and actively overriding rights is a slippery slope. Whose rights are next?
edmontonjournal.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
It’s not a slippery slope. We’ve already slid down the slide.
Huh, wonder what would’ve happened if they’d listened to me in September 2022 when I suggested they were already behind beginning the process??
NEW:
AFL president Gil McGowan says work will begin on the process to organize a potential general strike in Alberta if in response to the UCP invoking the notwithstanding clause to force teachers back to work.
AFL president Gil McGowan says work will begin on the process to organize a potential general strike in Alberta if in response to the UCP invoking the notwithstanding clause to force teachers back to work.
October 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Huh, wonder what would’ve happened if they’d listened to me in September 2022 when I suggested they were already behind beginning the process??
Cowards here, cowards there. Is there anyone with the courage to actually fight??
October 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Cowards here, cowards there. Is there anyone with the courage to actually fight??
Also teachers look after your annoying kids all day. Just pay them.
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Also teachers look after your annoying kids all day. Just pay them.
We either have rights or we don’t and in Alberta we don’t.
We’re all gonna have to unite to fight this class warfare.
We’re all gonna have to unite to fight this class warfare.
Alberta government orders teachers back to work using notwithstanding clause
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Alberta government orders teachers back to work using notwithstanding clause
The Alberta government has ordered more than 50,000 teachers back to work through legislation tabled Monday afternoon using the notwithstanding clause.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
We either have rights or we don’t and in Alberta we don’t.
We’re all gonna have to unite to fight this class warfare.
We’re all gonna have to unite to fight this class warfare.
Strongly worded statements are nice and all but they’re not gonna win this fight. We’re gonna have to be willing to risk it (and we definitely should). ✊🏻
“The Alberta Government’s use of the notwithstanding clause is reckless, authoritarian, and ideological overreach."
AUPE reiterates its support for Alberta teachers as it condemns the province's move to legislate them back to work.
AUPE reiterates its support for Alberta teachers as it condemns the province's move to legislate them back to work.
October 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Strongly worded statements are nice and all but they’re not gonna win this fight. We’re gonna have to be willing to risk it (and we definitely should). ✊🏻
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NEW from me ✨
Excited to share the latest collab between @xtramagazine.com and @thewalrus.ca today, where I dive into how far-right groups are setting the education policy agenda in Alberta, and have put LGBTQ2S+ youth in the centre of the culture war
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
Excited to share the latest collab between @xtramagazine.com and @thewalrus.ca today, where I dive into how far-right groups are setting the education policy agenda in Alberta, and have put LGBTQ2S+ youth in the centre of the culture war
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
How far-right groups brought the culture war to Alberta schools | Xtra Magazine
Many of the most vocal groups in developing Alberta’s school policies have no affiliation to kids or the education system
xtramagazine.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
NEW from me ✨
Excited to share the latest collab between @xtramagazine.com and @thewalrus.ca today, where I dive into how far-right groups are setting the education policy agenda in Alberta, and have put LGBTQ2S+ youth in the centre of the culture war
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
Excited to share the latest collab between @xtramagazine.com and @thewalrus.ca today, where I dive into how far-right groups are setting the education policy agenda in Alberta, and have put LGBTQ2S+ youth in the centre of the culture war
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
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Alberta teachers strike/lockout, Day 11 (day 8 of no classes):
Premier Danielle Smith floats the idea of striking another commission on learning, like the 2003 effort that came out of a previous teachers’ strike.
ATA: uh, no thanks #AbLeg #AbEd
www.stalbertgazette.com/politics/alb...
Premier Danielle Smith floats the idea of striking another commission on learning, like the 2003 effort that came out of a previous teachers’ strike.
ATA: uh, no thanks #AbLeg #AbEd
www.stalbertgazette.com/politics/alb...
Alberta Premier Smith wants education commission after teachers strike
EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Thursday, as thousands of striking teachers and their supporters chanted and shouted nearby, that she wants to form a commission on education when the pr...
www.stalbertgazette.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Alberta teachers strike/lockout, Day 11 (day 8 of no classes):
Premier Danielle Smith floats the idea of striking another commission on learning, like the 2003 effort that came out of a previous teachers’ strike.
ATA: uh, no thanks #AbLeg #AbEd
www.stalbertgazette.com/politics/alb...
Premier Danielle Smith floats the idea of striking another commission on learning, like the 2003 effort that came out of a previous teachers’ strike.
ATA: uh, no thanks #AbLeg #AbEd
www.stalbertgazette.com/politics/alb...
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I think the certainty is always our downfall. No one actually knows what will "work." No one. You try lots of different things and then you see what can be built on.
October 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I think the certainty is always our downfall. No one actually knows what will "work." No one. You try lots of different things and then you see what can be built on.
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Canadians pay a lot of attention to ICE in the U.S., but meanwhile, in local immigration enforcement:
"We’ve been seeing this more and more ... CBSA has been newly enhanced and newly empowered."
"We’ve been seeing this more and more ... CBSA has been newly enhanced and newly empowered."
Immigration checks conducted at Calgary event centre worksite
Calgary police officers, along with members of the Canada Border Services Agency, attended the city’s event centre construction site on Wednesday for what police described as a 'planned regulatory com...
www.ctvnews.ca
October 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Canadians pay a lot of attention to ICE in the U.S., but meanwhile, in local immigration enforcement:
"We’ve been seeing this more and more ... CBSA has been newly enhanced and newly empowered."
"We’ve been seeing this more and more ... CBSA has been newly enhanced and newly empowered."
✊🏻
A new poll found 58% of Albertans’ sympathies are with the Alberta Teachers’ Association, compared with 21% who side with the government. #ablab #abpoli
How Alberta Teachers Are Winning the Public Opinion Battle | The Tyee
The teachers’ main demands are finding support, while the government is being blamed for the school shutdown.
thetyee.ca
October 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
✊🏻
Huh, 2014 Danielle Smith might’ve been onto something
Smith in 2014: The plan to change the motto on Alberta's licence plate is a politically motivated distraction.
Smith in 2025: Here's a plan to change the motto on Alberta's licence plate.
Smith in 2025: Here's a plan to change the motto on Alberta's licence plate.
October 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Huh, 2014 Danielle Smith might’ve been onto something
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Must read here for all Albertans via @ximenaka.bsky.social.
Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education | The Tyee
MAGA’s Project 2025 has become a blueprint for undermining Canada’s schools in the name of profit and privilege.
thetyee.ca
October 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Must read here for all Albertans via @ximenaka.bsky.social.
Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Solidarity ✊🏻
This is the first publicly released polling on Alberta education issues from a professional pollster in a while, and the results are super interesting.
ARI poll suggests contract dispute support for teachers: 58%
Support for AB govt: 21 %
Neither: 18 % #AbLeg #AbEd
ARI poll suggests contract dispute support for teachers: 58%
Support for AB govt: 21 %
Neither: 18 % #AbLeg #AbEd
New poll suggests bulk of public back Alberta teachers in contract dispute | CBC News
A new Angus Reid Institute poll suggests locked-out teachers have more public support than the Alberta government as a contract dispute cancels classes for a second week.
www.cbc.ca
October 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Solidarity ✊🏻
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My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."
They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.
Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.
organizingmythoughts.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."
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The way everyone in a position of power in the government and at Canada Post refuses to entertain any of the proven methods that have saved other post offices and made them profitable is pathological.
How would they be behaving any differently if they were actively trying to make Canada Post fail?
How would they be behaving any differently if they were actively trying to make Canada Post fail?
Would you go to Canada Post for your mortgage? Why advocates think postal banking could be a lifeline for the Crown corp.
Amidst the labour dispute between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, a debate concerning the future of post offices across the country has once again taken the stage: Should Canada ...
www.thestar.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The way everyone in a position of power in the government and at Canada Post refuses to entertain any of the proven methods that have saved other post offices and made them profitable is pathological.
How would they be behaving any differently if they were actively trying to make Canada Post fail?
How would they be behaving any differently if they were actively trying to make Canada Post fail?