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***Breaking News***
@RachelNotley @MarieFrRenaud @JanisIrwin
ADLC has been informed by Minister Andre Corbould the agreement with Alberta Education will be renewed for 2 more school years 2020-2022. Thereafter, the service agreement will be concluded."
UCP PLANS TO SHUTTER THE ALBERTA DISTANCE LEARNING CENTRE

If you have an ill child or bullied child who needs to study at home rather than attend school, the Alberta government does not care about you. It is shutting down the Alberta Distance Learning Centre.
If you live in a remote place or your work puts you on the move, and makes it difficult for your children to be registered in an attendance-only school, the Alberta government does not care about you. It is shutting down the Alberta Distance Learning Centre.
If your child failed a course or two that they need to redo, so that they can go on to the next grade or perhaps be able to attend university or college the next semester, the Alberta government does not care about you. It is shutting down the Alberta Distance Learning Centre.
The ALDC was once treated as an important Alberta institution. It was headquartered in Edmonton until 1980. But late in 1979, there was a provincial by-election in Barrhead-Westlock. It had been necessitated by the MLA (Hugh Horner) getting a plum job from....
.... Joe Clark during his brief prime ministership. Barrhead had given the Tories over 80 percent of the vote in the provincial election earlier in 1979 and so the Tories expected their candidate, Ken Kowalski, to romp to victory.
His main challenger was Nick Taylor, the leader of the provincial Liberals, a party with no seats in the legislature at the time and pretty much zero profile. Taylor asked residents of that seat what the oil boom had brought them and Kowalski only narrowly beat Taylor.
Within months, the Lougheed government announced a policy for provincial agencies. Athabasca University was moved to Athabasca; the Environment Council of Alberta was moved to Vegreville; and the predecessor of the ADLC, the Alberta Correspondence College, was moved to Barrhead.
And now the UCP, which takes voters in rural Alberta for granted, and could care less about the educational needs of students who are not severely normal, has decreed that there will be budgeting for the ADLC for just this year and next....
.... with the 2021-22 budget lopped in half from the 2020-21 budget. And then the ADLC will almost certainly disappear.

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Jan 14, 2021
I have an emergency that I would like my Twitter Family's #Help with.

I am worried about my friend Jenn and her co workers that run @HarvestHillsYYC.

They have run themselves ragged and need help.

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There's a reason why Jenn and the team have not posted or shared a lot lately on their social media accounts.

She is probably going to kill me for doing this (RIP @Hell_Berta)......but I need to do something for them. I can't sit back and watch them burn themselves out.
As everyone knows, Jenn was in a car accident in Dec. and she was hurt pretty bad. I am talking grade 3 concussion bad and really really bad whiplash and other injuries.

She is at home recovering and her fellow board members and dedicated volunteers have picked up and helped.
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Nov 11, 2020
If you can help @HarvestHillsYYC Please do. They're unfairly being targeted by UCP Conservative Party Trolls & are being harassed by people who are going after their organization.
They've even gone as far as demanding Jenn retract any & all statements she made in regards to being critical of the current Alberta Government.

We are indeed dealing with a cruel & heartless government.
These EVERYDAY heroes, are the very people that are stepping up & filling the GAP that our government is refusing to fill.

The @Alberta_UCP can't see the damage that is being done to the province that I & others love so much. From Doctors to Parks, Everything is being attacked.
Read 12 tweets
Oct 1, 2020
This is Cara's Story. **Names have been changed upon request and for protection**

Cara has gone through a lot as a child. Growing up she had difficulties in coping with traumatic experiences that she and her other family members both lived with and went through.
Ever since she was on AISH, Cara and others we have talked to all recognized that all the AISH workers that our daughter and others have had to work with have always reinforced to their clients the lifelong message that many clients were unworthy of support, care & medical care.
Cara and her sister grew up in a home that had a mother with serious mental health diagnoses as well as an alcoholic father who left when Cara was 9 and her sister was 6.
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Sep 27, 2020
*Husband after a night out drinking with friends. He caught an @Uber home*

Hubby: (wakes me up when he comes into the room wanting to give me a kiss before he goes to his side of the bed, only to step on the cats tail which sets a whole shitshow into motion)
Manages to go to his side of the bed and lays down only to giggle like a school kid passing gas in class for absolutely no reason.

When asked why he was giggling he looked at me and said I farted and it was silent but it’s deadly cause I ate an onion and bean dip at Rogers.
He then continued to giggle for a solid ten minutes.

Once he settled down he got undressed and comfortable and then promptly fell asleep.

You’d think it stops there but ooooooo no. It gets worse.
Read 6 tweets
Sep 26, 2020
Credit Facebook: Leslie Lascelle

**Please read**

This is what happened when I got home tonight. I cried. I cried at work yesterday. I also cried 3 different times last night after getting home from work.
I am an Office Administrator at an elementary school and this is how my day has gone. I'm crying because the work and expectations that have been put upon us with the added ridiculous time frames are overwhelming.
I'm crying because I am having to answer the phone and hear the concerns and frustrations of parents who are upset at the policies put in place to protect their children while they are at school.
Read 13 tweets
Sep 21, 2020
If people donate a total amount of $1000 I will take a picture of me in my @Hell_Berta hoodie from @BallerGearCA later on tonight!

Etransfer:

HarvestHillsCaresCalgary@Gmail.Com

PayPal:

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#YYC #FeedYYC #Alberta #Canada #Edmonton #RedDeer #Leduc
As a teaser here is a picture of my favorite chocolate! Let’s get donating! #Chocolate #Aero #Nestle #MilkChocolate #Indulge Image
Yes I am still feeling sick. Yes I am still in iso. My hubby was kind enough to let me sit in his truck while he worked on it in the driveway! He said that way he can keep an eye on me and stop me from anymore online shopping!
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