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Debbie Benson YEG
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Progressive Canadian; Retired Teacher; Opinions are my own, willing to listen to other perspectives, open to learning! She/Her 🇨🇦 🌈 🌎
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TIME TO FIGHT BACK @timetofixit.bsky.social · 21h
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Aletheia S.R. @aletheia225.bsky.social · 5h
No living being should go hungry.

In the world of abundance and greed, there's plenty of food to feed EVERYONE.

Greedy, frightened, soulless bastards.

Woe to you!
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🇨🇦Truth Matters with Tom from Canada🇨🇦 @daddo21.bsky.social · 1h
Let's see what Gruppenführer PP says about this 😂😂🤣🤣

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Billion-dollar government deals with Stellantis, NextStar for EV battery plant revealed | CBC News
Confidential government deals worth billions of dollars to help fund a Stellantis-backed electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor, Ont., carry dozens of conditions that, if violated, give federal off...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h
“A Jackie Robinson moment… what an exciting opportunity…”
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h
Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Duane Bratt @duanebratt.bsky.social · 1d
Not just the Charter (Sections 2 and 7-15), but also bypassing the Alberta Bill of Rights that was amended with great fanfare last fall by the Smith government. Plus the Alberta Human Rights Act.
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Duane Bratt @duanebratt.bsky.social · 1d
Here is Bill 2 Back to School Act. docs.assembly.ab.ca/LADDAR_files...
docs.assembly.ab.ca
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 1d
It will be interesting to see how overriding charter rights, forcing a rejected labour deal on workers, and threatening substantial fines will impact Alberta's plan to add and recruit 3,000 new teachers over the next 3 years.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 1d
The first (and until today only) time Alberta invoked the notwithstanding clause - in 1998
- the public outcry was so great that Premier Ralph Klein reversed his decision in less than 24 hours. FWIW.
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The UCP government has invoked time allocation and on a bill removing Albertans' Charter rights.

And they're using the notwithstanding clause to do it.

Here's why that is a dangerous precedent. And why real conservatives need to stand up against it.

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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
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 1d
As said in my replies on Twitter: SkyPalace -》SkyLounge
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 2h
I think I am still running on adrenaline. It has been a whirlwind of a 90 day campaign.
But it is you, Albertans, who shined.

Yes, we received nearly half a million signatures, but we also built a #ForeverCanadian movement, a community.

Thank you!
 
#ableg #cdnpoli
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Debbie Benson YEG @dbenson77.bsky.social · 2h
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Large class sizes remain unresolved in Alberta — and that's just where the issue begins | CBC News
Ballooning class sizes aren’t just a top concern for Alberta’s striking teachers, who are being legislated back to work. It's also an issue raised by Ontario elementary teachers preparing to start new...
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Debbie Benson YEG @dbenson77.bsky.social · 2h
Listen to Vassy Kapelos hold Alberta’s Education Minister’s feet to the fire. She came prepared with actual facts! Well done journalism! The interview starts 15 minutes in.

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Doug Ford defends anti-tariff ad that infuriated Trump | Power Play for Tue. Oct 28, 2025
YouTube video by CTV News
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🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦 @beppil007.bsky.social · 6h
It’s like waving a gold bauble in front of a crow.

South Korea gives Trump a gold crown, and he munched on a ‘gold-adorned brownie’.
America, you look ridiculous.
#TrumpIsUnfit
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Reg Curren @regcalgary.bsky.social · 1d
A picture is worth one word in this case, and it's spelled R-E-C-A-L-L... #ableg #teachers
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A picture speaks a thousand words.

Your Minister of Education yesterday. The premiere was also relaxing in the VIP lounge of the airport when human rights were stomped on by this crew of jagaloons.
Alberta minister of health with "foreign sounding name" sleeping in the legislature during working session.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 9h
Contrary to Dr. Sigalet's contention here, Peter Lougheed would most certainly *not* have approved of Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause in Bill 2.

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Is Alberta justified in using the notwithstanding clause to legislate teachers back to work?
The case for why Premier Lougheed would’ve approved of Premier Smith’s use of Section 33
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Andrew @dartsmaster.bsky.social · 11h
John Major: Tories to blame for Reform’s rise www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/joh...
John Major: Tories to blame for Reform’s rise
"The electorate believes we have taken them for granted"
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 6h
Let’s this sink in. Bill 2 overrides:

• The Labour Relations Code;
• The Public Education Collective Bargaining Act;
• The Alberta Bill of Rights;
• The Alberta Human Rights Act;
• The Education Act.

All without vigorous debate or consultation with Albertans.
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Braid: An appalling, unjust law drives Alberta teachers back to work
Alberta teachers are going back to work, but the law that drives them lingers as a dangerous attack on rights, writes columnist Don Braid.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 9h
Time to suit up Alberta!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #abed

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Ready to Resist
Danielle Smith and her UCP government have stripped teachers of their constitutionally protected right to strike and bargain collectively. This is a government that is: This is NOT what Albertans…
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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 1d
Breaking: Expert researchers supervised by RFK, Jr. expose a link between taking Tylenol, divorce, political ambitions and frivolous suits.

#satire

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Texas sues Tylenol company over autism claims
This lawsuit comes a month after U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism.
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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 9h
My oldest works with special needs kids in the public school system

When you have over 30 kids in a kindergarten class, 10 with special needs, kids are going to fall through the cracks

Those kids grow up to be adults who can't read

The teachers were trying to save their future

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 8h
Three letters: PNG
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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 18h
Can we just send him home?

Like, "This isn't working out, try sending us someone that's not a complete asshole?"

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U.S. ambassador to Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at Ontario’s trade representative, witnesses say | CBC News
The U.S. ambassador to Canada delivered an expletive-laced tirade at Ontario's trade representative at an event in Ottawa on Monday, multiple witnesses tell CBC News
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