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13 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
1/4 I need to reiterate the obvious: I completely support healthcare workers who tirelessly work to save the lives of so many Albertans.

Recognize their efforts for more than the last 2 years. All of us have benefited from their expertise & compassion. cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
2/4 Politicians have a role to play during this pandemic. We must unequivocally support healthcare providers & the mitigation measures they have recommended.

Yet, councillors like Farkas, Magliocca & Chu use “civil liberties & freedoms” for political gamesmanship.
3/4 Their votes have spurred on protesters, giving their energy to division at a time when true leaders would stamp out misinformation. While Premier Kenney holds the greatest responsibility for not acting, these local politicians are complicit for fanning flames of dissent.
4/4 Stop comparing the pandemic to the Holocaust. Stop promoting inaccuracies & blatant lies.

Get vaccinated. Respect healthcare workers. Exercise your personal responsibility for your fellow human beings.

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16 Sep
1/I’m not sure how many tweets this is gonna take so bear with me.

The provincial government has driven us straight into the most hellish pandemic situation in the country, but no one is resigning? Halfhearted apologies with no responsibility or accountability acknowledged?
2/And their idea of a press conference was to spend ten minutes outlining a lockdown & then basically yelling “Psych!”

Why wouldn’t you lead with: if you can prove you’re vaccinated, you can have access to services & amenities.

Just say: vaccination passports.
3/Instead, they’re gonna run with: “restrictions exemption program”, possibly the dumbest thing they said today. Right up there with “no one could have predicted this”.

This total failure of a government is still unwilling to take responsibility for dereliction of duty.
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24 Jun
1/Last summer, the Premier asked Calgary to make its own decision on masks, stating that provincial mandates made no sense because of varying contexts in municipalities. Now he’s upset that we’re prioritizing our duty of care for Calgarians. cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
2/Perhaps the Premier’s advisors could brief him on what Council actually did. We asked Admin for rate/trend data so we could make an empirically sound decision, because the CMOH was not present. We’re taking duty of care seriously.
3/In Calgary, we have to make sure staff like our transit operators & front line responders have safe work conditions. Will that require masks? We posed that question. Admin responded that they are monitoring closely & will advise.
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3 May
1/Why is Alberta the most shameful example of failure in North America at this stage of the pandemic? It’s simple. Our leader has failed us. His party has failed us. Not one elected member of the governing party in this province has the courage or compassion to say: “Enough.”
2/Not one member of the UCP has stood up & represented their constituents. Not one has said their constituents deserve better access to vaccines as they serve on the front lines. Not one has said our children, teachers & school staff are in harm’s way.
3/Not one member of this governing party has stood up for healthcare workers, firefighters, police officers, emergency medical responders, restaurant staff, retail clerks… the list goes on. Their pandemic mitigation strategy has been & continues to be a gamble - with our lives.
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29 Mar
1/Allow me to highlight this nugget from the new #abed curriculum: “Freedom of religious practice is encouraged, but acceptance comes less easily - in part, because newcomers bring new and unfamiliar religious faiths and practices.”

A thread on this load of crap...
2/Newcomers bring with them similar hopes & dreams for their future in our city, province or country. They wish for their family to thrive & give back to community. They have the same understanding of kindness & compassion as “us”.
3/It’s when governments in 2021 write that newcomers are somehow bringing unfamiliar beliefs to “our” land... that’s when willful othering becomes blatant. “They” are not bringing strangeness to “us”. “We” are not different from “them”. Stop trying to divide us.
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17 Mar
1/With the Guidebook for Great Communities coming to #yyccc on Monday, I have worked with several councillors & Admin to address what we’ve heard from communities. Attached is an amendment we will propose to clarify location of single detached homes & the engagement process.
2/With so much misinformation being circulated, we also worked on a one-pager to demonstrate the evolution of the Guidebook over time. Please see below.👇🏼
3/For further clarity, there is also a myths & facts sheet to assist in dispelling the misformation that has been circulated. See here.👇🏼
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15 Mar
1/Calgary’s public high school education system gets hit again, with the proposed cancellation of an International Baccalaureate (IB) program. The savings? $16,600. Apparently, our kids aren’t worth that kind of money but $12 million to fight Bigfoot on Netflix is a fine idea.
2/March 17 is the last public opportunity for feedback on proposed programming cuts for public high schools in Calgary. These cuts are aimed at popular “alternative programs” like IB, French Immersion, Spanish Bilingual & Arts-Centred Learning.
3/The proposition is that these cuts will save money & maximize space in schools bursting at the seams. By removing “alternative programs”, high schools can warehouse more kids from growing communities for the general program. Allow me to unpack the issues with this plan.
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