Sean Dupuis
@sdincanada.bsky.social
Alberta, Canada educator & administrator fighting for a education system that works for all. Leafs fan, movie enthusiast, and always looking to learn.
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When the UCP uses the notwithstanding clause tomorrow, watch defenders say, "it's totally legal" or "we had no choice."
They're deflecting.
The UCP wants to exact as much harm on transgender folks as possible. And they know their actions are not justifiable in a democratic society.
Who's next?
They're deflecting.
The UCP wants to exact as much harm on transgender folks as possible. And they know their actions are not justifiable in a democratic society.
Who's next?
November 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
When the UCP uses the notwithstanding clause tomorrow, watch defenders say, "it's totally legal" or "we had no choice."
They're deflecting.
The UCP wants to exact as much harm on transgender folks as possible. And they know their actions are not justifiable in a democratic society.
Who's next?
They're deflecting.
The UCP wants to exact as much harm on transgender folks as possible. And they know their actions are not justifiable in a democratic society.
Who's next?
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Some Albertans welcome the return to classes later this week.
The ends do not justify the means, however.
You don't have to support the teachers to oppose Bill 2.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
The ends do not justify the means, however.
You don't have to support the teachers to oppose Bill 2.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
Alberta Strong and Free, Notwithstanding
The UCP's Bill 2 skirts the legislature and the courts, leaving it up to the public to push back swiftly
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Some Albertans welcome the return to classes later this week.
The ends do not justify the means, however.
You don't have to support the teachers to oppose Bill 2.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
The ends do not justify the means, however.
You don't have to support the teachers to oppose Bill 2.
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
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This Sunday, on World Teachers' Day, we're gathering to fight for public education. Please join us and get loud for our teachers and students.
📍In Edmonton at the Alberta Legislature at 11:30 AM
📍In Calgary at McDougall Centre at 3:00 PM
Thank you for your support.
📍In Edmonton at the Alberta Legislature at 11:30 AM
📍In Calgary at McDougall Centre at 3:00 PM
Thank you for your support.
September 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This Sunday, on World Teachers' Day, we're gathering to fight for public education. Please join us and get loud for our teachers and students.
📍In Edmonton at the Alberta Legislature at 11:30 AM
📍In Calgary at McDougall Centre at 3:00 PM
Thank you for your support.
📍In Edmonton at the Alberta Legislature at 11:30 AM
📍In Calgary at McDougall Centre at 3:00 PM
Thank you for your support.
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Utter contempt and disrespect from Bruce McAllister.
Cutting off the kid's mic and limiting his freedom of expression is one thing, but saying he should be spanked is a fireable offense from a supposedly neutral moderator. Bruce needs to be removed immediately.
Cutting off the kid's mic and limiting his freedom of expression is one thing, but saying he should be spanked is a fireable offense from a supposedly neutral moderator. Bruce needs to be removed immediately.
September 30, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Utter contempt and disrespect from Bruce McAllister.
Cutting off the kid's mic and limiting his freedom of expression is one thing, but saying he should be spanked is a fireable offense from a supposedly neutral moderator. Bruce needs to be removed immediately.
Cutting off the kid's mic and limiting his freedom of expression is one thing, but saying he should be spanked is a fireable offense from a supposedly neutral moderator. Bruce needs to be removed immediately.
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Excellent analysis, Yale! I appreciate how you have laid it out and - yes - everyone should read this.
As I teach in my course, "Who governs matters" so - in effect - how you vote matters even more! Take the time to inform yourself.
#DemocracyMatters
#YQL #Lethbridge
As I teach in my course, "Who governs matters" so - in effect - how you vote matters even more! Take the time to inform yourself.
#DemocracyMatters
#YQL #Lethbridge
I'm concerned about civic literacy in advance of the Oct Lethbridge election. Here's my take on the issues. Enjoy!
@jeffreycoffman.bsky.social @erinphillips.bsky.social @theerinlucas.bsky.social @charlottewolters.bsky.social @evoneuro.bsky.social
yalebelanger.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/m...
@jeffreycoffman.bsky.social @erinphillips.bsky.social @theerinlucas.bsky.social @charlottewolters.bsky.social @evoneuro.bsky.social
yalebelanger.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/m...
Mapping Lethbridge’s Election Priorities, 2025
I’m going off script in this post to discuss the slate of candidates for the October 20 Lethbridge municipal election. To cut through the white noise and offer some clarity (albeit no certainty), I…
yalebelanger.wordpress.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Excellent analysis, Yale! I appreciate how you have laid it out and - yes - everyone should read this.
As I teach in my course, "Who governs matters" so - in effect - how you vote matters even more! Take the time to inform yourself.
#DemocracyMatters
#YQL #Lethbridge
As I teach in my course, "Who governs matters" so - in effect - how you vote matters even more! Take the time to inform yourself.
#DemocracyMatters
#YQL #Lethbridge
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Alberta spends the least per student in the entire country. Now you can see what your school—or your child’s school—could look like with funding that matched the National average or that of BC and Manitoba:
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September 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Alberta spends the least per student in the entire country. Now you can see what your school—or your child’s school—could look like with funding that matched the National average or that of BC and Manitoba:
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... To this list, you can add shaking down universities, law firms, and private corporations. And the massive personal financial corruption by the entire Trump family.
Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode | Jonathan Freedland
Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... To this list, you can add shaking down universities, law firms, and private corporations. And the massive personal financial corruption by the entire Trump family.
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Talks have broken down between the ATA and TEBA.
Please visit abteach.cc/BargainingIm... to read our news release and watch the press conference with ATA president Jason Schilling.
Please visit abteach.cc/BargainingIm... to read our news release and watch the press conference with ATA president Jason Schilling.
Public education at risk due to bargaining impasse
Without fair wages and improved conditions for teachers and students, Alberta risks driving away its most valuable educational resource: its teachers. Talks have broken down between the Alberta Teachers' Association (ATA) and the Teachers' Employer Bargaining Association (TEBA).
teachers.ab.ca
August 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Talks have broken down between the ATA and TEBA.
Please visit abteach.cc/BargainingIm... to read our news release and watch the press conference with ATA president Jason Schilling.
Please visit abteach.cc/BargainingIm... to read our news release and watch the press conference with ATA president Jason Schilling.
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Get ready to bust out your RED!
On Tuesday we head back to the bargaining table to stand up for public education. Stand with us. Wear red and demand better for our students. #Red4EdAB #RedForEdAB #abed
On Tuesday we head back to the bargaining table to stand up for public education. Stand with us. Wear red and demand better for our students. #Red4EdAB #RedForEdAB #abed
August 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Get ready to bust out your RED!
On Tuesday we head back to the bargaining table to stand up for public education. Stand with us. Wear red and demand better for our students. #Red4EdAB #RedForEdAB #abed
On Tuesday we head back to the bargaining table to stand up for public education. Stand with us. Wear red and demand better for our students. #Red4EdAB #RedForEdAB #abed
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The UCP is facing 8 investigations into corruption, plus no fewer than 3 major public sector union strikes (all of their own making).
The affordability crisis looms, as does a trade war with the US.
Wildfires & measles are raging.
And the premier chose now to clear a path for a separation vote.
The affordability crisis looms, as does a trade war with the US.
Wildfires & measles are raging.
And the premier chose now to clear a path for a separation vote.
May 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The UCP is facing 8 investigations into corruption, plus no fewer than 3 major public sector union strikes (all of their own making).
The affordability crisis looms, as does a trade war with the US.
Wildfires & measles are raging.
And the premier chose now to clear a path for a separation vote.
The affordability crisis looms, as does a trade war with the US.
Wildfires & measles are raging.
And the premier chose now to clear a path for a separation vote.
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"Whether Alberta follows the full arc of the Trump example remains to be seen. But today’s legislation makes clear that the risk is no longer hypothetical. It is real, present and growing. And the further it progresses, the harder it will be for concerned Albertans to stop it."
My latest.
My latest.
While billed as technical updates to restore faith in elections in Alberta, sweeping changes made by the UCP Tuesday do precisely the opposite. @jaredwesley.ca writes. #abpoli
Smith’s Anti-Democratic Electoral ‘Reforms’ Are Straight from Trump’s Playbook | The Tyee
It’s no accident the changes were announced as attention was focused on the federal election.
thetyee.ca
April 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Whether Alberta follows the full arc of the Trump example remains to be seen. But today’s legislation makes clear that the risk is no longer hypothetical. It is real, present and growing. And the further it progresses, the harder it will be for concerned Albertans to stop it."
My latest.
My latest.
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Wow. This is a must read for Canadians - and for Americans. The starkest, grimmest, most accurate summation of what's happening in the US under Trump that I have read. You won't see this in the New York Times or Washington Post.
April 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Wow. This is a must read for Canadians - and for Americans. The starkest, grimmest, most accurate summation of what's happening in the US under Trump that I have read. You won't see this in the New York Times or Washington Post.
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Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
April 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
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Does Danielle Smith's behaviour amount to encouraging foreign interference in our elections?
One prominent Conservative thinks so.
One prominent Conservative thinks so.
![Ken Boessenkool on X: When Danielle Smith ran for the leadership of the UCP, I argued that she was unfit for public office. This interview [with Breitbart] (and the faxr she didn't tell Albertans about it!) proves I was right. I don't believe in recall, but I'm open to an exception here.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:56h2yvgkmqveqllxmgk7r6dp/bafkreia5rodndh2ua222byheer7pxfimbkgpztz5zzp4a4kvwoywnpdlee@jpeg)
March 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Does Danielle Smith's behaviour amount to encouraging foreign interference in our elections?
One prominent Conservative thinks so.
One prominent Conservative thinks so.
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Elbows up, Canada!
March 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Elbows up, Canada!
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It boggles the mind how Premier Smith can take a harder line stance against the prime minister of her own country than the president of an enemy nation.
If she's unsure who is the bigger threat, her advisors have failed all Albertans miserably.
If she's unsure who is the bigger threat, her advisors have failed all Albertans miserably.
March 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
It boggles the mind how Premier Smith can take a harder line stance against the prime minister of her own country than the president of an enemy nation.
If she's unsure who is the bigger threat, her advisors have failed all Albertans miserably.
If she's unsure who is the bigger threat, her advisors have failed all Albertans miserably.
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Massive Friday bomb in the Alberta health care scandal.
The Alberta Government dissolved the board at AHS the same day they were scheduled to receive the report from investigators looking at improper business deals.
There is more-
The Alberta Government dissolved the board at AHS the same day they were scheduled to receive the report from investigators looking at improper business deals.
There is more-
Board of Alberta Health Services fired on same day that investigation report was due
Health Minister dismissed board after directors forwarded a letter to the Auditor-General alleging that government officials meddled in AHS’s operations to the benefit of private companies
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Massive Friday bomb in the Alberta health care scandal.
The Alberta Government dissolved the board at AHS the same day they were scheduled to receive the report from investigators looking at improper business deals.
There is more-
The Alberta Government dissolved the board at AHS the same day they were scheduled to receive the report from investigators looking at improper business deals.
There is more-
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Attention Canadians
Russian and Conservatives begun their disinformation war against PM Mark Carney. Don't fall for their bs
#ElbowsUp
crier.co/the-disinfor...
Russian and Conservatives begun their disinformation war against PM Mark Carney. Don't fall for their bs
#ElbowsUp
crier.co/the-disinfor...
This campaign against Carney isn’t an isolated event
The same forces that propelled Brexit, Trump’s Big Lie, and Russia’s disinformation warfare are now being deployed in Canada.
crier.co
March 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Attention Canadians
Russian and Conservatives begun their disinformation war against PM Mark Carney. Don't fall for their bs
#ElbowsUp
crier.co/the-disinfor...
Russian and Conservatives begun their disinformation war against PM Mark Carney. Don't fall for their bs
#ElbowsUp
crier.co/the-disinfor...
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I repeat: we should be adopting a full-on war footing against this threat. Structural economic and diplomatic shift away from the US, as much as possible, and a massive investment in military personnel expansion, training, and equipment.
This is new: “A source with direct knowledge of the discussions told NBC News that Trump is heavily focused on Canada in conversations with aides, who believe he is completely serious about making the country the 51st state—even with Trudeau out of power”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Trump's quest to conquer Canada is confusing everyone
Canadians and Republicans alike are confounded as President Donald Trump increasingly links a trade war to his push to annex America's northern neighbor.
www.nbcnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I repeat: we should be adopting a full-on war footing against this threat. Structural economic and diplomatic shift away from the US, as much as possible, and a massive investment in military personnel expansion, training, and equipment.
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This is new: “A source with direct knowledge of the discussions told NBC News that Trump is heavily focused on Canada in conversations with aides, who believe he is completely serious about making the country the 51st state—even with Trudeau out of power”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Trump's quest to conquer Canada is confusing everyone
Canadians and Republicans alike are confounded as President Donald Trump increasingly links a trade war to his push to annex America's northern neighbor.
www.nbcnews.com
March 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is new: “A source with direct knowledge of the discussions told NBC News that Trump is heavily focused on Canada in conversations with aides, who believe he is completely serious about making the country the 51st state—even with Trudeau out of power”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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No premier should share the stage with this.
FWIW this is what Shapiro had to say about the US annexing Canada:
“I feel they will greet us as liberators”
“It’s a silly country”
“I’m not saying Canadians should vote in American elections. God forbid. We can annex it and just call it an outlying territory. Like Puerto Rico, but of the north.”
“I feel they will greet us as liberators”
“It’s a silly country”
“I’m not saying Canadians should vote in American elections. God forbid. We can annex it and just call it an outlying territory. Like Puerto Rico, but of the north.”
March 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
No premier should share the stage with this.
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US president Donald Trump’s hyper-focus on Canada has resulted in threats of annexation, shattered diplomatic ties, and devastating tariffs (if he’ll commit to them, anyway). @davidmoscrop.com examines how Canada became a part of Trump’s geopolitical long game: thewalrus.ca/why-wont-trump-s...
March 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
US president Donald Trump’s hyper-focus on Canada has resulted in threats of annexation, shattered diplomatic ties, and devastating tariffs (if he’ll commit to them, anyway). @davidmoscrop.com examines how Canada became a part of Trump’s geopolitical long game: thewalrus.ca/why-wont-trump-s...
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"Trump, [Lutnick] said, had come to realize that the relationship between the United States and Canada was governed by a slew of agreements and treaties that were easy to abandon." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious (Gift Article)
President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements.
www.nytimes.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
"Trump, [Lutnick] said, had come to realize that the relationship between the United States and Canada was governed by a slew of agreements and treaties that were easy to abandon." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
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“It is, or at least it should be, a damp stain on our national conscience, and your average outraged Canadian is responding rationally. If anything, it’s the American public that should be taking Trump’s depravity more seriously. We allowed this to happen.”
Trump's Threat to Take Over Canada Is a Scandal
Trump keeps threatening to annex Canada. Americans would never accept such talk from another country.
www.rollingstone.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
“It is, or at least it should be, a damp stain on our national conscience, and your average outraged Canadian is responding rationally. If anything, it’s the American public that should be taking Trump’s depravity more seriously. We allowed this to happen.”