Christine Gillies (she/her)
@cgillies.bsky.social
Lecturer, OCELT, MEd 🇨🇦
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Conestoga lays off faculty, cuts more programs on orientation week
Conestoga issued layoff notices to 11 fulltime faculty and two counsellors this week, and suspended fall programming in areas like manufacturing engineering, sustainable development engineering, build...
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August 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Hi! My name is Monica and I'm a landscape painter from Canada 🇨🇦
This is my art, let me know what you think!
This is my art, let me know what you think!
June 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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The desperation
“We eat this sand. We have no food. We have no flour. Have mercy on us.”
Videos of starving people in Gaza have been all over social media for months. Now on CNN. As Israel blocks aid humanitarian orgs want to facilitate.
Hundreds have been shot and killed trying to get aid.
Videos of starving people in Gaza have been all over social media for months. Now on CNN. As Israel blocks aid humanitarian orgs want to facilitate.
Hundreds have been shot and killed trying to get aid.
June 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The desperation
Everyone needs a little good news 🎶
🧵 GET UP, STAND UP 🧵
As cowardly institutions submit to Trump’s bullying and blackmail, I decided to put together this thread highlighting people and groups standing up to him. Let’s celebrate them. If we stay strong, we can defeat the fascists. 1/16
As cowardly institutions submit to Trump’s bullying and blackmail, I decided to put together this thread highlighting people and groups standing up to him. Let’s celebrate them. If we stay strong, we can defeat the fascists. 1/16
March 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Everyone needs a little good news 🎶
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WARNING: The WRCSB is voting Monday on a motion that would ban pride flags, slogans, and symbols from being hung or shown (even on a sticker!) on school property. Even teacher's personal flags would not be allowed.
Please show up on Monday to show support!!!
Please show up on Monday to show support!!!
March 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
WARNING: The WRCSB is voting Monday on a motion that would ban pride flags, slogans, and symbols from being hung or shown (even on a sticker!) on school property. Even teacher's personal flags would not be allowed.
Please show up on Monday to show support!!!
Please show up on Monday to show support!!!
Reposted by Christine Gillies (she/her)
Good. They need to be held accountable, and recording interactions and debates is one way to do that. Monday's flag motion debate will need to be watched closely. Anyone can see that banning all flags (except 🇨🇦) is just a cover to ban pride flags.
Waterloo Catholic District School Board warned their ban on recording public meetings is unconstitutional
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Ontario school board warned their ban on recording public meetings is unconstitutional | Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms
KITCHENER, ON: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that a letter has been sent to the Waterloo Catholic District School Board (WCDSB), warning them that their prohibition on photo...
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March 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Good. They need to be held accountable, and recording interactions and debates is one way to do that. Monday's flag motion debate will need to be watched closely. Anyone can see that banning all flags (except 🇨🇦) is just a cover to ban pride flags.
So Mariann Budde is a superhero 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
January 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
So Mariann Budde is a superhero 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Yep yep yep
Find out when your next municipal or school board election is because local politics matters.
Vote in a Leadership race, because it matters.
Support your provincial party of choice and talk to your network about it.
It all matters.
Vote in a Leadership race, because it matters.
Support your provincial party of choice and talk to your network about it.
It all matters.
January 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Yep yep yep
Reposted by Christine Gillies (she/her)
Geneviève Bergeron. Hélène Colgan. Nathalie Croteau. Barbara Daigneault. Anne-Marie Edward. Maud Haviernick. Maryse Laganière. Maryse Leclair. Anne-Marie Lemay. Sonia Pelletier. Michèle Richard. Annie St-Arneault. Annie Turcotte. Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz.
#SayTheirNames #Dec6
#SayTheirNames #Dec6
December 6, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Geneviève Bergeron. Hélène Colgan. Nathalie Croteau. Barbara Daigneault. Anne-Marie Edward. Maud Haviernick. Maryse Laganière. Maryse Leclair. Anne-Marie Lemay. Sonia Pelletier. Michèle Richard. Annie St-Arneault. Annie Turcotte. Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz.
#SayTheirNames #Dec6
#SayTheirNames #Dec6
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Well said!
December 2, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Well said!
Our seniors cuddled for the night
November 14, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Our seniors cuddled for the night