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It's from the Barbie movie. In the movie it was "He's just Ken" and then "his job is beach". 🤷🏻‍♀️

He's just Garnett. His job is college.

(I don't even know if you'll get that reference lol.)

I saw someone say it looks like when you throw a sleeping bag over your shoulders to sit around the campfire, and yes, 100% that. 😆

"Could I *be* wearing any more clothes?" 😆

More than 30% of votes cast in Lacombe in 2023 were NOT for the UCP. When you add to that all of the minors and people who were unable to vote for whatever reason, the predictable "guess they shouldn't have voted UCP" comments are pretty crappy. (This post on Instagram has at least a few of those.)

Just unfollowed and blocked someone because the guy while disagreeing with a female kept repeatedly using her first name in his comments. It felt demeaning and frankly misogynistic and just fucking gross. Disagree, sure, but don't do that. Geez.

So many people have been predicting a spring election. I have to wonder if she let the cat out of the bag with her May 2026 MLA resignation. 🤔 Or is that a standard amount of notice for that role?

Danielle Smith is "Ungoverning" Alberta And trying to break the very idea of Canada

If you read nothing else I write, read this.

Canadians outside Alberta, pay particular attention. If Smith succeeds, she will infect other provinces with "ungoverning."
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/danielle-s...

This is exactly what I was saying to my husband this evening. If it has occurred to them, it worries me that they'll find a way to make it harder and harder for any other party to even stand a chance of winning an election.

This is just so sleazy and totally obvious it's intended to benefit the current AB government.

Respectfully, this feels a bit dismissive. I don't think that's what you were going for, but for those of us who have had our Charter rights stripped this month, it feels insensitive. I'm concerned about our measles status too, but people losing their Charter rights is more alarming at the moment.

Has Carney himself made any kind of public statement(s) about Danielle Smith's flagrant abuse of the notwithstanding clause? Anything at all? The Albertans affected are Canadian citizens who have had their Charter rights stripped. Seems like that should merit some kind of response from our PM.

ATA President Schilling's response should give everyone pause.

#ableg #abpoli

Yes! Me too. Calgary and Edmonton schools are so extremely overcrowded. The NDP already has Edmonton, and the UCP's complete failure to care about these overcrowded schools should lose UCP votes in Calgary. 🤞🏻

That's a good point. Cushy appointments after ruining this province.

I sure hope so, though looking at what they're trying to do with the electoral boundaries definitely has me worried. My riding would become an absolute nightmare.

I suppose that could work in our favour if she continues trying to appease her squeaky wheel far right base. Come election time, the rest of us living in reality can vote her and her party out.

I can't decide if turfing her before an election is good. If they have a different leader they get to act like a whole different party, like they don't own every garbage decision over the past 6 years. They certainly did that when they booted Kenney and were successful.

I suppose the Premier ousting two MLAs for sticking their necks probably helps keep the rest in line.

And yet...
I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but it has me both stumped and worried. Is this a scorched earth situation? What on earth are they thinking/planning? Why do they not seem to care that there is growing dissatisfaction with them and their crap priorities?

Thoughts? (5)

This is not a government that seems at all worried about re-election. They've got the Alberta Republicans and the rebirth of the PCs threatening to chew chunks off either end of their own party. The NDP's popularity has also grown in recent weeks. You'd think this would have them worried. (4)

This same government has totally messed up priorities that don't align with the public's priorities. Albertans are worried about cost of living, healthcare, education, to name a few things, but the UCP is zeroed in on anti-trans legislation, a provincial police force, separation, etc. (3)

As a teacher, I'm thinking specifically of the whole lot of them voting to use the NWC when the majority of the public was not on their side during the whole strike. And then I think of the absolute disdain shown by the Premier, ditching the whole ordeal and flying off to Saudi Arabia. (2)

I've been thinking about the UCP and why they're making some of the choices they have been lately, and honestly, I'm confused. There are a handful of UCP MLAs who won their seats by not very many votes, and yet they still refuse to stick their necks out or even engage with their constituents. (1)

PowerSchool is the system that a lot of divisions, including the one I teach in, use for attendance, reporting, etc. It has nothing to do with curriculum.

A person in jeans and red Converse holding a potato wrapped in a red ribbon with a yellow ATA sign on the floor that says WE SUPPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION. WE SUPPORT OUR FUTURE.

RED-y to go! ❤️✊🏻
#IYKYK

Thank you, Sarah! ❤️✊🏻

Alberta NDP to 'vigorously' oppose back-to-work legislation if brought forward as session returns Thursday The Alberta NDP say it will "vigorously" oppose any back-to-work legislation brought forward during the fall session.

“We [need] Albertans to understand who is standing up for students, who is standing up for parents, and who is standing up for teachers."

Alberta's New Democrats stand with teachers. Period.

edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Wanda at Community Health in Lacombe is a superstar. After several phone calls back and forth, she managed to book all three of us (on three separate days 😵‍💫) to get our vaccines. The UCP is 100% responsible for how much time and effort this took. Just absolute chaos.