Nurse Mom. DV Survivor. Disability/Mental Health Advocate. Concerned for every Albertan. She/her 🇨🇦🌻🦋💜
May 26, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
As a woman, I am not interested in the party which put an older white man overseeing Status of Women.
As a mother, I am not interested in a party who cut essential supports for kids with disabilities, created a horrific curriculum, danced in the fountain due to GSA rules.../1
And attacked #ABDoctors so many left AB leaving many people without needed doctors.
A party which cited masks as the source of the #StudentMentalHealthCrisis yet ignore that students remain in crisis even though masks were removed.../2
Dec 20, 2020 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
Long thread *you are warned.😉
But powerful.
We need to rest this education break. And refresh.
Students will need our support. Educators will need our support. Parents will need support.
These are unprecedented times. Children learn daily. That is how they are built. /1
However, to learn optimally children need to be doing well mentally & emotionally. Students need to connect 1st then learn. Safe spaces are needed to process this year.
The following letter was put out by an upstate NY superintendent (Voorheesvile). It is a needed read.
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Dec 19, 2020 • 5 tweets • 11 min read
What a FABULOUS idea!
I would love it if we can add a moment of silence & a candle vigil for those who lost their lives in 2020 due to Covid.
Tag some friends.
Dec 31 at 8pm
Raise a glass & toast the solstice.
I identify as centrist. Every fed election since 18 I have voted Liberal. That option will never fly in AB even though many voters fit there. Which leader currently has highest popularity?? Fed Liberal. The central one. WTF AB. Quit attacking centrists. It is not helping. #ableg
I support a strong private economy. That often involves tax policies which support business. I support small/med business over large corporations. Tax the bigger ones more. Help the smaller ones.
I support O&G (NOT as the only resource) & definitely a move to Green Energy. /2
Oct 22, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
If we truly want to have struggling Albertans do better, & AB as a whole come out of its struggles, we need to step outside our own perspectives & dialogue with those around us. (I know - weird concept). Know what doesn't help at all? Attacking each other & making assumptions. /1
We all have our own concerns when it comes to what we consider the biggest issues for AB. *Newsflash - we do NOT all have the same concerns.* (So wild to consider.)
I can say- there often is common ground when we take the time to dialogue on issues. Start there with people. /2
Oct 14, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
I am done.
I am kind. Compassionate. Gracious. I truly believe we ALL do the best we can with what we have. When we know better, we do better, when we can.
But I do not think any UCP MLA is learning or wanting to do better. They continually do worse. #ableg /1
I am done with UCP creating needless stress & struggles for our most vulnerable with changes to #AISH. I have heard of 2 deaths by suicide directly due to UCP cuts. There will be more. Those on #AISH matter to me. They deserve compassion, not cuts. Support, not distress. /2
thestar.com/edmonton/2019/…
A study released, cited in above article, relates a 16% increase in death by suicide rates for every 1% increase in unemployment. Albertans voted UCP primarily due to promises of job creation. Albertans have been hurting for years now, due to the global economic downturn in O&G
Mar 13, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Alberta. We are in a battle like no other.
Choose to side with govt who run to ONT to ask for money and CONTINUE to disrespect and fight with frontline workers in a GLOBAL PANDEMIC.
Or choose to rise and ROAR.
OUR FRONTLINE WORKERS NEED OUR VOICES TO RISE.
We have FRONTLINE STAFF showing up for us without ceasing. With NO idea how they will be paid or if they will have jobs soon. Lacking sufficient equipment. Lacking fricking sufficient PHONING CODES to look after us. Bearing emotional and financial fatigue caused by this govt.
