Karen Nakaska 🇨🇦

Alberta Funds Public Schools A Citizen Initiative petitioning the Government of Alberta to improve its Public Education funding model.

Have you signed the Alberta Funds Public Schools Petition yet?

More signing locations up all the time at abfundspublicschools.ca/cgi-bin/publ...

#ableg #abpoli

Tuberculosis outbreak declared in inner-city Edmonton: Primary Care Alberta | CBC News Provincial health officials have declared an outbreak of tuberculosis in Edmonton's core, after lab tests confirmed two inner-city residents had the same strain of the infectious disease.

Alberta declares a tuberculosis outbreak in Edmonton.

This combined with such an increase of homelessness is terrible.

This comes just days after Canada lost its measles elimination status—with Alberta having highest case concentrations.

PUBLIC HEALTH LEADERSHIP NOW!

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The #UCP ARE ON THE RUN FROM #RECALL ACTION. They've suddenly become more accountable and compromising...because they are finally afraid we, their NORMAL constituents, are able to hold them to account...keep up the #recalls they are only playing nice. It's only because we are pushing hard. #abpoli

Today Elections Alberta requested $13.5 million to be able to administer recalls and referendum.

The UCP committee in charge revised their request to just over $1 million.

And then voted it through.

The UCP just defunded recall/referendum.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Part of a general UCP policy of gutting or defunding (or in some cases both) accountability mechanisms. We see the same thing in access to information where inadequate funding leads to delays & dysfunction as demonstrated by @drewyewchuk.bsky.social in many @ablawg.bsky.social posts.
#abpoli #ableg

No way this will discourage us Albertans!

We knew they wouldn’t play fair in this process

Keep up the pressure Alberta!

#Alberta #ABLeg #ABPoli #FireTheUCP #YEG #YYC #RedForED

Horner says meeting public education's needs would cost an extra $2 Billion.

Helpfully he put a number on the amount the #UCP has cheated our kids.

They owe our kids $2 Billion! Where from? Don't care. Get the oil companies to clean up their mess? Get tax $ out of private schools? #abed #abpoli

Out of all the things we simply "don't have the money for," evidently already wealthy coal companies aren't on that list #abpoli bsky.app/profile/sola...

Danielle Smith bet on the wrong pig. We should be a leader in renewables, but her O&G buddies didn't want that.

#ABPoli #ableg

Let's run through just ONE example of what will enfold with govt's new TESTING PRIVITIZATION PLAN
Simplifying in broadstrokes a common example:
Take a 35yo female with heavy pelvic bleeding and irregular menses, who has no FM doc.
🧵 1/10
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“The wording of the bill is passive & vague, so anyone can make a complaint to the governing sports division or board, & the athlete or their parents—if the athlete is a minor—will have to provide their birth registration documents to prove that their sex at birth was female”

What the FUCK #abpoli

My heart is with the family and the EMS crew, who faced unimaginable moral distress due to systemic failure. Unplanned closures are literally killing people. #RuralHealthCrisis #ABleg #ABpoli

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
1/7

#UCP = MAGA

UCP/MAGA want quality education only in private schools.
then public school kids are perpetually disadvantaged; a permanent underclass of exploitable labour.

Think! And then get in #UCP's way.
Don't let AB kids suffer as US kids do. #ableg #abpoli #ableg

UCP spends LEAST tax dollars per PUBLIC school student in Canada.

#UCP spends MOST tax dollars per PRIVATE school student in Canada.

Every.
Canadian.
Kid.
Is.
Better.
Funded.
Than.
OUR.
Kids.

Smith is ok with that.
Teachers are not.

#ableg #abpoli #abed #yyc #yeg #albertateachers

#abpoli The #AlbertaNextpanel was not an exercise in democracy. Absolutely nothing about these townhalls were actually democratic. Much of the point of this series of panel discussions has been an act of mass distraction. looniepolitics.com/the-alberta-...

The lists we keep, and the ones that keep us Lists can chronicle our growth, or a society's regression.

Alberta’s new book bans mirror the same fear-driven politics seen in U.S. states like Florida. #abpoli #albertabookban

A 3rd YYC area opportunity in the next couple of days to show off your #RedForEd gear & those awesome signs!

#AbStudentsDeserveBetter #FightForPublicEducation #StandUpForPublicEducation #ProtectPublicEducation #AbEd #AbPoli #AbLeg #Alberta #Okotoks #PublicEducationMatters #Red4Ed #SupportAbTeachers

#ableg #abpoli #abed #yyc #yeg #albertateachers

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This private school has better athletic facilities than some towns. Let's stop claiming we need to fund private schools; it’s nonsense. Danielle Smith dislikes public education. #yeg #yyc #yql #abpoli #ableg

Opinion: Crisis capitalism comes for Alberta’s classrooms When teachers are supported, students thrive, families prosper, and the province grows stronger.

"Education now risks becoming the next frontier: Starve the public system, watch it struggle, then present privatization as the solution. Alberta’s actions follow that script." #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

From a purely economic perspective, making the annual COVID vaccines free & accessible makes the most sense
#ableg #abpoli

Support Public Education in Alberta!

#Cdnpoli #abpoli #yeg #yyc #ymm #RedDeer #strathco #shpk #fortSask #StAlbert #Leduc #StonyPlain #SpruceGrove #Lethbridge #MedicineHat #Brooks #ColdLake #Camrose #Drumheller #Banff #Jasper #GrandePrairie #PeaceRiver #Airdrie #AlbertaTeachersStrike #ATA #ABed #UCP

#AlbertaTeachers know a strike:

is the last resort to save their classrooms
is a generational chance to preserve public education
means no strike pay
is a fight for OUR kids

This strike is in defense of OUR kids' futures.

Tell #UCP to stow that "greedy teacher" dreck. #abed #ableg #abpoli

Pollutants from leaking wells cause “cancer, strokes, dementia, heart attacks, heart failures, an increase in birth defects and premature births. . .every day the regulator lets industry dodge its cleanup obligations is another day that Albertans are going to face further harm.” #abpoli #ableg

Visit stoptheexcuses.ca to learn how you can support teachers, students and public education in Alberta.

Apparently the Alberta gov's decision to remove technology from voting this year has nearly doubled the cost of the election this year vs 2021.

Real red-tape cutting cost savings here. 🤡

As seen on today's AMA. www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/s/...

#abpoli #yyc #cdnpoli #ableg

For anyone saying the new PC’s don’t have the potential to be a game changer…

Here’s the voting intentions without them in the mix…

The UCP cruise to another majority

But with the PC’s in the game?

The UCP are quickly relegated to third place.

No wonder Smith is scared!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

“Independent schools”
- #UCP

“Private schools”
- Everyone Else

Alberta siphons tax $ from public education for PRIVATE schools.

Imagine what classroom would be like with that $

Your “parental choice” is private schools? Fine.

Pay for it yourself. #abed #ableg #abpoli

A school that charges $20,000 for attendance has no legitimate need for public funding. #abpoli #ableg #FuckTheUCP #FuckSmith #NeverVoteConservatives #yeg #yyc #yql