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12 Jan, 6 tweets, 3 min read
So far this week in Alberta politics (#abpoli #ableg):
1. COVID PCR testing shut down except for a very few because the need has overwhelmed the resources available. After all, it's not like we had 4 previous waves to anticipate this and prepare. 1/6
globalnews.ca/news/8500884/a…
2. UCP announces it will be up to employers to decide if COVID infected workers should return to work while infected. This is the "free market economy" in which employers are trusted to "do the right thing". But, the right thing for who? 2/6
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed….
3. UCP will proceed w/ regulations for safe injection sites which will make them less accessible & lead to more preventable deaths. Among other restrictions, they are requiring site users, to provide identification, details of which will be collected. 3/6
4. Schools receive large boxes of paper facemasks which staff are having to repackage in baggies. That means people are touching all the masks that will be distributed to children. And they are not N95 respirators. 4/6
5. UCP eliminates traffic court, making convictions automatic, with limited and costly avenues to appeal. 5/6
calgaryherald.com/opinion/column…
It's only Tuesday, people!
And I feel I have missed a few things. 😲
6/6
 #FireTheUCP

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The UCP's curriculum is very bad. It was designed to be very bad. It is not that the UCP hasn't a clue about how children learn, or that they refuse to take advice from experts (although both of these are also true),
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/column…
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...it's that they have a political, ideological plan for education, and this very bad curriculum is designed to further that.

The curriculum has overwhelming numbers of "outcomes" at each grade level, much of which has to do with rote memorisation. 2/6
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So, lots of people say "take whatever time you need to grieve", others say "everyone's got to go sometime, get over it" and I can't believe he's gone & keep having melt-downs. At what point do you decide something is wrong with you & seek remediation? (My brother/bff died Dec 16)
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So, here's an idea. I'm sure people will come along and poke holes in it, but I am throwing it out as a starting point. We should have a high-speed rail corridor from Vancouver to some ferry terminal on the east coast, following the transCanada route. With vehicle cars. 1/4
So you get on in a city and you get off in another city, and you have your vehicle there. Say you are going from Vancouver to Regina. You put your car in to go in a Regina bound car carrier, and you get on the train. 2/4
You can read, sleep, play games or watch movies on your phone, and when you get to Regina, the Regina-bound cars are unloaded and you collect yours and go on your way.
It would take a ton of vehicles off the highway. It would reduce accidents caused by fatigue. 3/4
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21 Dec 21
PSA: Even if you do not have much, write a will. Tell someone in your family where it can be found. Choose an administrator/executor and ask them if they are willing to do this. Make sure they know where your will is too. Name a Power of Attorney and do the paperwork. 1/6
You don't have to be rich to have a will or choose a power of attorney. Having your wishes all laid out is one of the kindest, best things you can do for those you love. 2/6
No one wants to think about becoming incapacitated, or dying, but it happens. Do you want your family to be floundering after you can no longer look after things? It doesn't have to be expensive. There are DIY will options that are completely legal. 3/6
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13 Dec 21
Wait, what? The powers that be in Alberta's Education Minister's office have decided that "financial literacy" is going to be taught in gym class? Gym class is about basketball and field hockey and creative dance and such. Kids are trapped in desks too much as it is. 1/8
Kids need more, not less, time moving around and being physically active. For some kids, gym class is all the exercise they get. Children learn better when they have movement incorporated into their school day. 2/8
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8 Dec 21
@CPC_HQ What is unacceptable are the mandatory minimum sentencing laws enacted by your party when last in government. Laws which perpetuate the grossly disproportionate representation of Indigenous and people of colour in our prisons. 1/
@CPC_HQ You don't care about victims of gun violence. If you did you wouldn't be so cosy with the firearm lobby. This is about mandatory minimum sentencing and the ability of judges to do their jobs without parliamentary interference of influence. 2/
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