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Dr Lindsay Tedds
@lindsaytedds.bsky.social

Policy prof. Feminist. Gender, Policy, Taxes, Life, Equity, intersectionality. Personal account. TBI survivor. Government-funded. Difficult/Immodest/Condescending. 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪www.lindsayTedds.ca

Political science 36%
Economics 31%
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Seems a good day to announce INCLUSIECON answering the question:How can researchers, policy practitioners, and civil society partners we transform Canada’s tax-and-transfer system into a more fair, inclusive, and effective foundation for reducing inequality and addressing complex “wicked problems”?

Don’t forget cancelling the census long form!

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I’ll add the Conservatives oppose climate change science, want increased private healthcare and now oppose birthright citizenship (being born in Canada makes you a Canadian citizen - they want to end that). There are more policies that are part of the Conservative platform but these are a few.

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A hat-tip to @althiaraj.bsky.social for spotting the poison pill in the draft budget legislation in Parliament apple.news/Ai261EfiGREW...
and to a good friend for sharing her piece.

I read the bill last night and then I blogged. open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
I'm reading the BIA Part 1. What, you're not?
FML - It's Saturday night and here I am...
open.substack.com
I guess this is a normal thing for an otter to worry about?

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On this day in 2003, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance merged to form the Conservative Party of Canada. The party's first leader was Stephen Harper, who served as Prime Minister from 2006 to 2015.

The new data show Alberta, not Ontario as previously understood, has the highest case count of any province, despite having a much smaller population. Ontario publicly reports probable cases.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
Alberta government rejected expert advice to report probable measles cases, documents show
New data show at least 450 probable cases were identified in the province, bringing the total to nearly 2,500 since the outbreak began last spring
www.theglobeandmail.com

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Of babies infected w/Hepatitis B, 90% develop chronic infection.

Of those, 1 in 4 will DIE.

They lose the ability to get rid of toxins & make important proteins. Their skin yellows, their abdomen swells, they’re uncomfortable. A fate no one deserves.

One we can avoid w/ vaccination.

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This is so disgusting.

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Is the UCP a separatist party?

Former PC cabinet minister Mark Norris admits there are reasons to think that but instead argues they're a party of "half-wits" given how many mistakes they've made, and how often they have to fix their own legislation.

Thoughts?

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

I was 17. In university. Suddenly realizing there were people (men) who thought I didn’t deserve to be were I was and they could be my peers. They could be evaluating me. It changed me.

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Progress on combatting intimate-partner violence stalling under new government, advocates fear

By Molly Hayes in @theglobeandmail.com

#GiftLink 🎁

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a0344d6...
Progress on combatting intimate-partner violence stalling under new government, advocates fear
Thirty-six years after the Polytechnique killings, stats show the biggest threats to women are the men closest to them
www.theglobeandmail.com

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DYK 10% of my department are woman who are full profs. Almost 50% are men. In 2025.

The man who killed them didn’t earn it. Felt entitled to it. Killed them because of it.

I was in first year university when these women were killed in an anti-feminist attack at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Most of the victims were engineering students, along with one employee. This is why I care about representation. I earned it so did they.
Geneviève Bergeron, 21
Hélène Colgan, 23
Nathalie Croteau, 23
Barbara Daigneault, 22
Anne-Marie Edward, 21
Maud Haviernick, 29
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, 31
Maryse Laganière, 25
Maryse Leclair, 23
Anne-Marie Lemay, 22
Sonia Pelletier, 28
Michèle Richard, 21
Annie St-Arneault, 23
Annie Turcotte, 20

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back aching after four hours of baking, not even 30 yet smh

The 1. Fruit salads 2. Misogyny on display in A Few Good Men is A+

I am going to rip the eyes out of your head and piss in your dead skull is a line I would really like to use IRL someday

youtu.be/5DHFqAouFFQ?...
I'm gonna rip the eyes out of your head and piss in your dead skull
YouTube video by Marcin Kawa
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There are now active campaigns gathering signatures for recall votes on 17 UCP MLAs and one NDP MLA.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
3 more UCP MLAs and 1 NDP MLA face recall petitions | CBC News
Elections Alberta has given the official green light to four more recall campaigns, which can begin collecting signatures on Saturday. The new additions make 18 active campaigns, including the first o...
www.cbc.ca

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I was one of those experts that spoke to a Legislative Committee on this matter in 2020. Kenney is right that he set a high threshold (which Smith lowered). But the argument made for recall was to hold MLAs accountable between elections, not just breaches of ethical behaviour.

Jason Kenney and his government was advised by experts that, as written, the recall legislation would be used as it currently is. He didnt care because he wanted it used as such against the NDP 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney says recall legislation being misused | CBC News
The architect of Alberta's politician recall legislation says it was never meant to be used as a political weapon, but as an "ultimate tool of accountability" if a politician engages in illegal or une...
www.cbc.ca

I think you know what I mean I this case

Of all the things I have to navigate at least I can navigate this. Like I have the knowledge and expertise to be in control on this.

Of all the things I have to navigate at least I can navigate this. Like I have the knowledge and expertise to be in control on this.

Every medical expense claim over about $8k I expect to be reviewed. I don’t expect to be denied when I have this much back including benefit docs from Ucalgary with the premiums on top
Of pay stubs and a letter but here we are

Imagine…

They did. It was denied because they didn’t fill out box 85 on the T4

The compliance time on this over the other $13k despite CRA having third party confirmation is just 🤯. But I won’t give up, I wont

Employer provided a letter that was denied because they didn’t fill in box 85. Box 85 is elective. Employer is cranky about having to reissue T4. Me reminding them of EDIA commitments… for a lousy 15% nonrefundable tax credit a couple hundred