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27 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
So far today I’ve seen that Dr. Hinshaw is giving a talk tomorrow to the AMA about how we’re moving from pandemic to endemic with covid (news to the WHO) and Kenney declaring we’re ‘doing very well’ and ‘leading Canada out of the pandemic’. 1/4
Since lying and doubling down has been UCP’s only strategy, they’re going full throttle on the gaslighting to try to cover the colossal error they made in throwing everything open for the Stampede, now that cases are growing exponentially, just like *everyone* predicted. 2/4
They have their bots out, chiming in to every thread that we don’t need to count cases anymore and just keep an eye out on the hospital numbers. Those are lagging indicators, so the hundreds of new cases we’ve had over the last few days aren’t in hospital yet. 3/4
They want to change the channel on this so they can start cutting public sector pay, privatize health care, and get on with their agenda of grifting while destroying Alberta. Don’t let them. UCP screwed up. Big time. Call them out and block the bots. 4/4

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29 Jul
I don’t want to see anyone get suffer or die from covid, but I do have a wish list of things I’d like to see happen as a result of or complement to today’s dangerously reckless health announcements:
—companies considering investing/relocating here change their minds 1/4
—Albertans ‘managing their own risks’ by staying away from non-essential businesses with no covid protocols in droves.
—UCP supporters letting Kenney and the gang know they have lost their support for good
—Kenney confronted about this EVERYWHERE he goes or speaks 2/4
—other provinces closing their borders to Albertans
—UCP’s fundraising efforts to be absolutely decimated
—schools to develop their OWN protocols, including masking for students
—worldwide mocking and derision of Kenney and UCP, as they deserve 3/4
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28 Jul
We expected it and everyone else’s numbers are up too. It’s the people who aren’t vaccinated. We need more people vaccinated. Who’s surprised?
The “threat is shifting” Hinshaw says. The rising case numbers have “caused some anxiety”. Could she be any more of an automaton?
Hinshaw says “Today we are in a very different place.” We have to weigh the impacts of interventions, she says. In other words, UCP doesn’t want to do anything about this wave. We’re on our own.
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Barbara Larochelle Profile picture
13 Jul
UCP: Hey, big companies, we’re going to cut your taxes!!

Companies: Great!

UCP: Please like us.

Companies: Whatever.

UCP: Because we told people this will create jobs.

Companies: Yeah, well we have some other things we need to do with the money first. Rough year.
1/5
UCP: Oh, for sure, for sure. Um…and then could you create some jobs?

Companies: We don’t know. Covid, oil prices, all the excuses.

UCP: Well, how about if we cut your taxes EVEN MORE?

Companies: That would be great.

UCP: So, about those jobs? 2/5
Companies: Look, we need to buy back stocks, pay shareholders and also update our production methods first.

UCP: Production methods?

Companies: Yeah—automation. It’s the 21st century.

UCP: Oh right. We forgot. So the automation will create jobs, yeah?

Companies: Uh…no. 3/5
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Barbara Larochelle Profile picture
9 Jul
🧵 The education minister is now forming Teacher and Parent Advisory Councils because she wants to ‘hear their unique voices and perspectives’ on education. I think the word ‘unique’ is a clue as to what she is after. She has heard loud and clear that most teachers 1/6
in Alberta have no confidence in her leadership. So, the ‘unique’ voice is presumably the 1% who would say something else? Tens of THOUSANDS of parents, teachers, actual curriculum experts, ethnic & cultural groups and more have written, met with MLAs, tried to meet with her, 2/6
responded to her survey, made phone calls, written articles and submitted reports. The new curriculum is a failure to an overwhelming majority of everyone who has examined it. School boards have submitted hundreds of pages of detailed, objective analysis, going through it 3/6
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9 Jul
Let’s parse this ridiculous and insulting claim. UCP says the nurses currently cost $141 million per year more than ‘comparator provinces’. (in a province where *everyone* makes more). And we’re expected to believe that reducing this figure by 3% will help 1/5
prevent Alberta’s finances from ‘running into the ground’. Really? Taking $4-5 million away from nurses puts even a fraction of a dent in how much UCP threw away on KXL? Or corporate no-job tax cuts? Or the money losing refinery? 2/5
How much are the pay increases for the new loyalty-rewarding ministries plus all their new staff going to cost? How much is your Open for Summer Tour costing us? Nurses, like the teachers you will no doubt attack next, have been losing their buying power year after year. 3/5
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12 Jun
One of the many problems feedback groups identified with the curriculum is inconsistency. For example, different terminology is used to refer to the same concept in different grades. It makes it harder to scope & sequence. 1/7
Or, a learning outcome from one grade matches better with a similar learning outcome in a different grade and subject area. Teachers integrate subject matter for more in-depth learning (and it maximizes time!) For example, a science topic might fit in with Social Studies. 2/7
The fact that we have members on the curriculum advisory panel who are apparently just *now* reading other parts of the curriculum that were not their particular interest provides some insight into how these inconsistencies occurred. 3/7
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