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M A Shane

@mindfultalk.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 Ph.D. LGBTQ2S+ Ally. SUPPORT ALBERTA TEACHERS! Pro social justice, public education & politics. Cruelty is not state craft. Chaos is not strength. Stupidity is a moral failing (Bonhoeffer). Slava Ukraini! Living & working on Treaty 6 land.

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M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 2d

Canadians! Free yourself from doom scrolling & instead revel in the wonderful R H Thompson's interview with the incomparable Canadian artist Ronnie Burkett, master puppeteer. Via the Canadian Theatre Museum's YouTube channel. #Canadianart #abed #yeg #yyc #ywg

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Ronnie Burkett on investing a puppet with life (Part 3 of 20)

YouTube video by Canada's Theatre Museum

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Charlie Dog! @charlietotherescue.bsky.social · 18h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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Judy C @53swimmer.bsky.social · 19h

Yes! Of course the UCP wouldn’t deliver a useful resource for home learning! It’s just a token to pretend they’re supporting parents. UCP would rather waste our tax $ on inappropriate materials, than invest them in improving public education! #abed #ableg

M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 20h

Of course it is! How could it be otherwise? #UCP have no respect for teachers or students. #ableg #albertateachers #abpoli #PublicEd

Jamie @jamieb1000.bsky.social · 1d

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‘A big mess’: Expert, parents criticize Alberta tool kit for students during strike

#abpoli #ableg #teachers #strike
#FireTheUCP #FireSmith #Alberta

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Kreggly 🇨🇦 @kreggly.bsky.social · 1d

By my calculations, if the Alberta teachers strike lasts 4 weeks, Dani Darko will have given out as much money to parents as @albertateachers.bsky.social are asking for to property fund education.

The UCP is evil and sick and obviously has the money, they just don't think public school matters.

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M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 20h

Of course it is! How could it be otherwise? #UCP have no respect for teachers or students. #ableg #albertateachers #abpoli #PublicEd

Jamie @jamieb1000.bsky.social · 1d

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‘A big mess’: Expert, parents criticize Alberta tool kit for students during strike

#abpoli #ableg #teachers #strike
#FireTheUCP #FireSmith #Alberta

‘A big mess’: Expert, parents criticize Alberta tool kit for students during strike

An education expert is criticizing online lessons the Alberta government has curated for students during a provincewide teachers strike as “incoherent.”

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M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 1d

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M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 1d

Worth rereading.

#ableg #abpoli #abed

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freedomseeder25.bsky.social @freedomseeder25.bsky.social · 2d

Book tifas, unite!

Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves

A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement. According to The New York Times, "Terr...

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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 2d

Today, I drove the Unity Bus to Red Deer, Innisfail, Sylvan Lake, Rimbey and Rocky Mountain House. Alberta is energized by the #ForeverCanadian movement.

Volunteers, thank you for your hard work and commitment to Canada!

We’re proving that political engagement can be positive.

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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 1d

I am meeting so many #ForeverCanadian volunteers across our province. We are gathering signatures and getting closer to 300,000. If you can, please donate to keep Alberta in Canada at:

Forever-Canadian.ca

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 2d

💙 Chicago ✊🏼 #iceout #chicago

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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timethiefmedia - Canadian forever🍁conservative never @timethiefmedia.bsky.social · 1d

#abpoli Alberta tool kit for students during strike. An education expert is criticizing online lessons the Alberta government has curated for students during a provincewide teachers strike as “incoherent.” looniepolitics.com/a-big-mess-e...

'A big mess': Expert, parents criticize Alberta tool kit for students during strike - Loonie Politics

EDMONTON — An education expert is criticizing online lessons the Alberta government has curated for students during a provincewide teachers strike as “incoherent.” Maren Aukerman, an education professor at the University of Calgary, says the nearly 200-page “tool kit” hops from one topic to another without context and barely aligns with the provincial curriculum. It […]

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M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 1d

Another fair point.

M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 1d

Fair point.

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M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Committee keeps faith with all past laureates and maintains their integrity. Yeah!

M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 1d

#abed #albertateachers

Sebastian Salazar @hangarcat.bsky.social · 1d

Classy move by the local FC!

𝙎𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝘼𝙡𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖'𝙨 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 🍎🍏

We have made a limited number of tickets available for Alberta educators to join us for our Friday, October 10 home match vs. Forge Football Club.

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M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 1d

Well now, there's a thought. Would have to put up with socialized medicine and multiculturalism, though. :)

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Karen Klassen @kklassen.bsky.social · 2d

Teachers on strike in Alberta, UCP digging in for a long fight open.substack.com/pub/davebert... "...some of the private institutions receiving generous public funding include elite schools tailored to Calgary’s wealthiest families and charge more than $20,000 in annual tuition."

Teachers on strike in Alberta!

Breaking the ATA is in the official UCP policy book

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Andrew Knack @andrewknack.bsky.social · 1d

Great morning standing with Alberta Teachers at the All Out for Education Rally.

It was so wonderful to see so many people supporting teachers, students and families!

Andrew knack standing with teachers, Joanne Wright and someone dressed as animal from the muppets at the All out for Education rally

Andrew Knack with teachers, Janis Irwin and MP Heather McPherson at the all out for education rally.

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M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly this! This is the road to social disaster the #UCP would have us follow.

Don't abandon our kids to the nightmare this anti-public education dreck brought on in the US! #NoMAGAinCanada #ElbowsUp #cndpoli #abpoli #ableg #abed

The Voice of Reason @calvindragon.bsky.social · 1d

This is what the Alberta Teachers Association is on strike to prevent.

Carl Ott, Author @bubba687.bsky.social · 2d

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M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant!

M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes. 😉

M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 2d

#ableg #abed #abpoli #ableg #cndpoli #UCP

Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 2d

EDMONTON – An education expert is criticizing online lessons the Alberta government has curated for students during a provincewide teachers strike as “incoherent.”

'A big mess': Expert, parents criticize Alberta tool kit for students during strike

EDMONTON – An education expert is criticizing online lessons the Alberta government has curated for students during a provincewide teachers strike as “incoherent.”

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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rockymountaincat @rockymountaincat.bsky.social · 2d

There's a petition for challenging the use of public funds for private schools, locate it and sign it:

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta teacher prompts petition on province's private school funding | CBC News

If high school chemistry teacher Alicia Taylor gets her wish, Albertans will vote in a referendum on whether to end public funding for independent schools.

www.cbc.ca

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