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@jlnelson.bsky.social

Math teacher,dad…Oilers hopeful, Archers listener.

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No school for 3 weeks with no plan to return is an insult to families across Alberta.
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi No school for 3 weeks with no plan to return is an insult to families across Alberta.

Parents, the UCP kept your kids out of school for over 3 weeks and hasn't taken a single step since to improve learning conditions.

What an insult to you, your kids and their teachers.

And now they’re going to force teachers back to those same conditions.

youtube.com/shorts/843Gc...

26.10.2025 19:37 — 👍 74    🔁 28    💬 1    📌 0
Map of Canada showing which provinces have class size caps. Shocker: Alberta is the only province with NO CLASSROOM SIZE LIMITS
#ATA

Map of Canada showing which provinces have class size caps. Shocker: Alberta is the only province with NO CLASSROOM SIZE LIMITS #ATA

Hey #BlueskyAlberta!
#Daniellesmith wants AB to think teachers are just in this for themselves.
This isn’t greed.
We NEED smaller class sizes! We NEED a commitment to properly funded education in our province going forward.
They can’t keep blaming teachers.
#AbEd
#SupportTeachers
#StandforEducation

24.10.2025 02:57 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

This is bonkers.

MLA’s have been forbidden from speaking to their constituents? How is this in any way a representative democracy?

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

23.10.2025 18:51 — 👍 224    🔁 103    💬 12    📌 5

UCP: “We must have recall legislation!”

Result?

24.10.2025 01:47 — 👍 54    🔁 12    💬 5    📌 1
Are you in favour of the Alberta government legislating teachers back to work?
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213 total votes   Added a day ago

Yes 80 votes 37.56%

No 129 votes 60.56%

Unsure 4 votes 1.88%

Are you in favour of the Alberta government legislating teachers back to work? View related story 213 total votes Added a day ago Yes 80 votes 37.56% No 129 votes 60.56% Unsure 4 votes 1.88%

The Albertan Poll:
Are you in favour of the Alberta government legislating teachers back to work?

#AbPoli #ILoveAbTeachers #Soilidarity #FUCP
www.thealbertan.com/polls/are-yo...

24.10.2025 00:23 — 👍 15    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1
Teacher rally for public education

Teacher rally for public education

The UCP does not have a mandate to destroy public education

23.10.2025 22:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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American vs Canadian spellings:

Colour.
Colour.

Honor.
Honour.

MAGA.
#UCP.

#ableg #abed #abpoli #abhealth #ATAStrike

19.10.2025 17:33 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Interesting thread as to why the UCP is so resistant to address class sizes.

22.10.2025 19:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is #Alberta under the #UCP.

#AbEd #AbLeg #AbPoli

@thebreakdownab.bsky.social @jaredwesley.ca @jlisayoung.bsky.social @lisab0923.bsky.social @albertandp.ca @thetyee.ca @carrietait.bsky.social @jantafrench.bsky.social @mbellefontaine.bsky.social @rachelgilmore.bsky.social

21.10.2025 23:28 — 👍 32    🔁 16    💬 4    📌 2

Smith / #UCP: We can't afford another $2B over 4yrs.

Public - that's $500M / yr.

Smith / #UCP - So?

Public - You put $500M / yr into PRIVATE schools.

Smith/ #UCP - were hoping you wouldn't notice that.

We noticed. Put tax dollars into PUBLIC schools.

#ableg #abed #abpoli #cndpoli

22.10.2025 15:20 — 👍 287    🔁 127    💬 7    📌 5
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Forever Canadian has apparently reached their goal of 300,000 signatures.

x.com/PeterGuthrie...

#Alberta

22.10.2025 01:22 — 👍 270    🔁 87    💬 21    📌 8

Got off the plane and walked into a drug store in Ottawa and got my COVID vaccine in under 5 minutes. No line up. No appointment. No cost.

Was even asked if I wanted Moderna or Pfizer.

It’s unconscionable that we can’t get this same level of service in Alberta.

20.10.2025 20:40 — 👍 787    🔁 196    💬 42    📌 8

Last year we could go to any pharmacy and get covid vaccines

But Smith has to appease her anti-vax base and destroy Alberta's healthcare at the same time

So yes, this is new
And it sucks

20.10.2025 14:15 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Can a reporter, ANY reporter ask Danielle Smith if she thinks 45 kids in a class is acceptable, even with an EA? There’s some low hanging fruit questions that should be posed to Smith during pressers.
@ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social
@globalnews.ca
@cbcnews.ca @calgaryherald.com

20.10.2025 00:25 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Forever Canadian Official Campaign Website Forever Canadian campaign is a grassroots coalition of Canadians aimed at reinforcing Canadian unity. It is a proactive vehicle to secure Alberta's continued place in Canada.

If you haven't already signed the #ForeverCanadian petition you can find a location this coming week in the link below

Come on Alberta, we can do this

Time is running out

Make a plan
Sign in person
#ableg #abpoli
www.forever-canadian.ca/sign-the-pet...

18.10.2025 21:35 — 👍 93    🔁 64    💬 1    📌 4
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Tim Cartmell says he's not the UCP candidate. He insists he's not corrupt.

But while the UCP battles scandal after scandal, their donors are flooding to one place, Tim Cartmell.

When voting ask yourself: is Tim working for me, or the UCP-aligned corporations that paid him?

18.10.2025 18:03 — 👍 21    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1
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6 years ago today, the government stopped collecting class size data. Since then, class sizes have ballooned & supports have decreased, all while there has been no data to document it other than teachers' & students' lived experiences. This is shameful. Let the government know. #SupportABTeachers

18.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 14    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

Happy No Kings day to those who celebrate.

www.nokings.org

18.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

As much as Smith tried today to spin the children’s medication debacle as being the result of former premiers or leadership races or byelections…

It was all her idea.

How do we know?

She said so.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

18.10.2025 02:57 — 👍 263    🔁 133    💬 16    📌 6
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Braid: Judge's report on health procurement scandal finds official had conflict of interest As judge find conflict of inters, Premier Danielle Smith continues to deny any responsibility for health procurement scandal.

The judge probing health procurement found conflict of interest but says he couldn't investigate fully. That's now left to the auditor general. This isn't over yet. Column.
calgaryherald.com/news/braid-j... #ableg #abhealth #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg

18.10.2025 00:47 — 👍 47    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 2
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When asked if she would take any responsibility for the Tylenot™️ scandal she created...

She blamed a former leader, a leadership race & a byelection.

Smith was elected leader in Oct 2022

She won her byelection in Nov 2022

The purchase was in Dec 2022

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

17.10.2025 23:29 — 👍 290    🔁 139    💬 31    📌 10

UCP says NO to classroom caps and ratios…but WE say, caps/ratios MUST be part of the resolution to this labour dispute. #abed #WeAreTheATA

17.10.2025 17:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For the success of my own students and for my own burnout prevention I don’t need a reasonable average class size , I need a cap. Exceedingly large classes are bad for kids learning.

16.10.2025 20:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From the DM’s…

The graphic ain’t wrong.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

16.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 118    🔁 67    💬 4    📌 6

This!

#abed #ableg #abpoli #ATAStrike #albertateachers

#UCP math ain’t mathing.

16.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
Teacher protest in supportive public education in Alberta coincides with Danielle Smith’s state of the province address to the Chamber of Commerce

Teacher protest in supportive public education in Alberta coincides with Danielle Smith’s state of the province address to the Chamber of Commerce

The privacy screens around Danielle Smith’s state of the province address are her iteration of handing out earplugs. Rude. Fund public Ed in Alberta!!

16.10.2025 17:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The UCP ads make their offer of 3000 extra teachers sound reasonable
Until you realize that 3000 teachers is about 1 extra teacher per school

That's NOT going to solve the problem of overcrowding
Not even close
#able

15.10.2025 19:59 — 👍 57    🔁 25    💬 4    📌 0
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When asked about the UCP's statement on the last offer by the ATA which said teachers need to expect a deal that is "rooted in reality"...

ATA President Jason Schilling held very little back in his response.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #abed

15.10.2025 22:20 — 👍 163    🔁 81    💬 13    📌 9

Knack isn't a great candidate but he's a damn sight better than Cartmell or Walters.

Saw a poster for Jaffer earlier with the line "Freeze the Greed" which is rich bc as mayor he's the sort who would reduce red tape by letting anyone applying for permits pay him $5K for the go-ahead on whatever.

15.10.2025 04:43 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

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