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Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · Nov 15

The Skip Is Chris Bluesky pictures-I-took thread starts now.

Alberta skies cannot be beat. Go wide or go home.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

So while they haven’t said the words Notwithstanding Clause, they’ve described the only scenario where it applies. That’s the quiet part.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

Great question. The “threat” isn’t in a press release — it’s in the legal logic.

When Finance Minister Horner floated back-to-work legislation on Oct. 15, he implicitly floated Section 33. You can’t override Charter-protected collective bargaining (Section 2(d)) without it.

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Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

And let’s be honest — there’s nothing strong and free about that.

Thank you for your time.

#ableg #abed #abpoli #cdnpoli

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

If you believe in democracy, this is your line in the sand.
Call or write your MLA. Talk to your friends and neighbours. Show up at rallies.
Because the moment we accept that rights can be negotiated away for political convenience, we lose more than a contract.
We lose the Canada we were promised.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

The Premier swore an oath to uphold the law, not suspend it.
The Finance Minister swore to protect the public purse, not weaponize it.
And the Education Minister swore to serve students, not sacrifice them.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

This is not strong leadership. It’s cowardice dressed as resolve. It’s the act of a government that knows it’s lost the moral argument and is trying to rewrite the rules instead.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

So yes, you all need to be fucking mad as hell right now.
Because if Alberta opens this door, no one in Canada gets to close it.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t about a paycheque. It’s about whether your child’s classroom still functions in five years.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s also stop pretending this is about kids being out of school.
Teachers are locked out because they’re fighting for class-size limits, proper supports, and respect — the very things that make learning possible.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

And once that precedent is set, the Charter stops being a shield. It becomes a suggestion.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

If Smith crosses this line, it opens a Pandora’s box that can’t be closed. Every province watching will see that they can do the same. Every federal politician who’s ever mused about “getting tough” will see that the cost of trampling rights is zero.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t have to be vulnerable now to be vulnerable next.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

Today it’s teachers.
Tomorrow it could be nurses, journalists, or public-sector workers.
And one day, it could be you.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

Because this isn’t about teachers anymore. It’s about the idea that any government can wake up one morning, decide that a group of citizens is too loud, too inconvenient, too organized — and flick their rights off like a light switch.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

And that should terrify you.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

To even threaten it during negotiations tells every Albertan exactly what this government thinks of the Charter: that it’s optional. That rights are conditional. That democracy is only valuable when it’s obedient.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

It was designed as a provincial safety valve, to be used only in the rarest and most extraordinary of circumstances — not as a partisan crowbar to pry rights away from workers.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s be crystal clear about what that means.
The Notwithstanding Clause was never meant to be a convenient button governments press when democracy gets messy.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

If that doesn’t make your blood boil, it should.
Because this wouldn’t just be unprecedented in Alberta — it would be the first time in Canadian history that a government used Section 33 to silence a labour group in the middle of bargaining.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

The Alberta government is now openly floating the use of the Notwithstanding Clause — Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — as a way to force teachers back to work and strip away their right to bargain for the most basic classroom conditions.

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 1d

Good evening. I'll get right to it.

You all need to be fucking mad as hell right now.

Because what Danielle Smith’s government is threatening to do in Alberta isn’t a negotiation tactic. It’s a constitutional crisis in the making.

#ableg #abed #abpoli #cdnpoli

Chris @skipischris.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve got a Knack for getting shit done early — and a Liu patience for democracy’s parking lot.
Ballots in. pihêsiwin handled. #edmontonelections

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The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 12d

Two opportunities for Calgary & area public education lovers! Let’s put our awesome signs & #RedForEd garments to good use! (1/3)

#Red4Ed #SupportAbTeachers #PublicEducationMatters #AbStudentsDeserveBetter #AbEd #AbLeg #AbPoli #AbTeachers

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HMV Guy ‘97-99 🇨🇦🍁 @zerocool6687.bsky.social · 16d

The fucken balls on these MFs. I live in AB surrounded by assholes feeling like they have been personally slighted as this Anti-Canada rhetoric continually comes from these grifters…

This is lvl99 audacity man…

Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 16d

I guess there's no Alberta oil or Saskatchewan potash, either
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal | CBC News

Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.