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Funds are always scarce in #bced, but ten years ago, we had about $2,000 a year for our #English dept. This year? About $500. For everything.

I know #FNESC just got the news and has some work to do on this, but they’re still listing King in their recommended authentic Indigenous texts. Educators beware.

With the one-time funding we received to support the new #bced Indigenous Studies courses, our school purchased several books by Thomas King.

I’d *really* like to get that money back so we can buy some actually #authentic #Indigenous texts.

#pretendian #thomasking #indigenousstudies

After running to get a nonexistent AED from a school office to help someone in potential cardiac distress, I am very grateful to see this changing.

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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.

Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large

Ann Coulter's statement that "We didn't kill enough Indians" is a call for violence against Native people.

An image with a black and white background and a Latin American immigrant and a title Schröinger's Immigrant. On the left, it reads, "Lazily collecting all the welfare." On the right, it reads, "But also somehow taking all the jobs."

Canadian mother reportedly detained in the U.S. as Trump-voting husband feels 'totally blindsided' Cynthia Olivera told officials that the couple can pay for her fly her to Canada, where she would live with a cousin in Mississauga.

I will never understand voting for something you’re ok happening to other families but not yours…

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Masking doesn’t just harm us - it harms our relationships (or what we perceive to be relationships).

Because the people who know the mask don’t know us.

And the people who meet the real us don’t understand the shame we carry.

So we feel unseen in both places.

And alone in all of them.

Book concept: People start finding books in a Little Free Library that were never written or published in this world. Some are exactly what the "borrower" needs. Some are a delight. But some are dangerous. And the Little Free Library just might have a sinister agenda...

The families of Chelsea Poorman, Noelle O’Soup and Tatyanna Harrison are calling for a coroner’s inquest - saying they have faced roadblocks in obtaining accurate, or any, information about these #mmiwg cases from police, coroner and MCFD. #reddressday

VSB / Vancouver School Board folks: Check your work email!

Sent out after school yesterday: perpetrators may have “unlawfully obtained employee names, bank account details, pay amounts and employees’ VSB identification numbers.”

#bced #vsb #vancouver #school #board #identityfraud #bcpoli

"A writer has to write until they find out who they are. There's no way around it and you can't as a writer know how long it will take to find you. That's why it happens right away for some and not for a while for others. The only rule in #writing is persistence." - Wrtr #amwriting #author #writer

The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships.

The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”

My first reaction in thinking the same was to hope I was overreacting. That disappeared pretty quickly.

Writing: It's amazing and wonderful how people carry things from books throughout their entire lives. Even so much as we remember books from different times in our lives when things happened, and we needed them. - Wrtr #amwriting Be #Writing #author #writer #authorsky

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. - Earl Nightingale - Keep Writing. ~ Background photo shows a person standing on top of a stone outcropping above a wide flowing river.

Calm the negative, write. Write just the first paragraph. Then the next paragraph. Being an author is just the small fact of continued writing. - Wrtr #amwriting #amediting Be #Writing .. #author #writer #authorsky

But…why?!?

Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.

Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing. - Heather Sellers

Write your first and even your second draft without worry. Remember it is the essence of the story that is all-important to get down first. Things will evolve and change later, including the #writing, and edits.- Wrtr #amwriting #author #writer ~ Keep change notes. You write best without worry.

Hi from #Canada, #Utah #educators. Just sharing a picture of my very not-a-flag #pride #classroom door :-)

#translivesmatter

Speaking on CBC’s On the Coast today Paul Finch, president of @bcgeu.bsky.social says members have described a toxic culture + lack of oversight at CLBC and passed a resolution at last year’s convention mandating the union to campaign to move CLBC back into government. #bcpoli #bcgeu #clbc

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

Cut Off U.S. Energy and Resources Now: No Electricity, No Critical Minerals, No Oil and Gas  | Canadian Labour Congress WINNIPEG – Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, issued the following statement today:  Donald Trump’s reckless tariffs are an attack on Canadian workers and our economy. With 2.4 mil...

Canada’s biggest labour organization is calling on the federal government turn off the taps, “cutting US access to critical Canadian resources—including electricity, lumber, critical minerals, oil, and gas—until the tariffs are lifted”

75% of Canadians support restricting US access to our resources

It’s hard not to think we are witnessing the end of America - the America that we’ve known and appreciated.