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Shawna Gawreluck

@shawnagawreluck.bsky.social

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Muskite refugee, Transfusion Medicine Lab Ninja, collector of interesting people & useless facts. Curator of many loud opinions. Firm in the belief that profanity can never be excessive.

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · Jun 30

If the world tells you the ideal is Lauren Sanchez, may you have the strength of soul to be a Mackenzie Scott.

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 21h

My child is making me go back & watch episodes of Mythbusters.

I’ve just realized Adam & Jamie are a perfect compare & contrast example of the power & glory of ADHD & high functioning autism.

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 4d

Madam Premier,

There’s literally a petition 270,000 Albertans have signed to remain in Canada that you are unwilling to put your name on or support behind.

#ableg

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 4d

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 4d

Hey Wainright, think you lost a boy.

#cdnpoli #ableg

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 5d

**clears throat**

Ma’am, the only reason most of us prepare copious amount of tasty snacks, purchase large amounts of alcohol & allow our manfriend to bring over his fellow manfriends is

BECAUSE OF THE DEMONIC SEXUAL HALF TIME SHOW

and the tight player pants.

Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 5d

To fully appreciate how people can live in an absolute information free bubble, know that there were parents in Alberta who sent their kids to school today; some blissfully ignorant, some because of language barriers.

Also know the striking teachers sorted it out for parents.

Unpaid.

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 6d

It’s “Canada’s” coast but “Alberta’s” oil.

🤔

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 9d

So why are teachers & healthcare workers voting down contract offers?

My last raise was 2018

Under the NDP we took 0%’s as an act of good faith.

During covid when our contract expired, we took 0%’s again as an act of good faith.

We acted in good faith.

We demand the UCP do as well.

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 10d

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

Alberta town hall moderator apologizes for 'inappropriate' spanking quip towards Calgary student | CBC News

The moderator of the province's Alberta Next panel has publicly apologized for a remark Premier Danielle Smith has called offensive. Smith now says she considers the matter closed.

www.cbc.ca

Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 10d

How is it that an adult man discussing spanking a teen boy would have a book on this exact topic banned by the same Premier who employs him as the Executive Director of her office?

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 10d

If we can afford $30/day per kid under 12, we can certainly afford $10/day daycare for under 5’s

And if we demand freedom from equalization payments to Ottawa over lack of service then Albertans should receive rebate cheques from the province for unused Ed $ during this strike

Et tu, Premier Smith

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 10d

Evan Li: "if reporters can find me in minutes to contact me for an interview, Bruce McAllister can find me to apologize personally"

two women are sitting next to each other and one of them is pointing at the camera .

Alt: two women are sitting next to each other and one of them is pointing at the camera .

media.tenor.com

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 10d

So does Dave Bautista

And he’s a straight dude who wears pearls.

And no one who wants to remain physically whole would tell him he can’t.

❤️

Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 11d

The hardest part about social media is recognizing that we’re all just getting high off our own supply.

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 11d

*clears throat*

I want my tax dollars to fund cost of living indexed teacher pay, appropriate student to teacher ratios, new schools with funded staff & covid shots for educators & staff.

Much of the $ can be found in Smith’s sideshow pandering to groups she needs to maintain leadership.

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 11d

Just a reminder that the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation is not a holiday to celebrate.

It is an acknowledgement & remembrance.

We need to not lose sight of that.

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 13d

Is it just me or does it seems like the impending US government shutdown & Trump announcing he’ll be speaking to the hastily ordered, in person gathering of every American General, are two events that are just a tad too close together for the comfort of democracy continuing?

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 13d

I’m seeing a number of School Trustee candidates avoid direct questions about any links they have to Take Back Alberta by stating they don’t know who they are

Even if I take the answer as honest & not obfuscation, I can’t vote for someone who is that oblivious to threats to education in Alberta.

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 18d

Please don’t take prenatal medication advice from a man who once prescribed IV bleach to treat Covid.

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 22d

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 23d

I feel it’s incredibly necessary to point out to Jimmy Kimmel & Stephen Colbert that Vladimir Zelenskyy was a comedian prior to entering politics.

#uspoli

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 24d

The irony of the pointlessness if Alberta Registry Offices simply ask our citizenship status like they currently do for our height & weight….

Because nobody lies about our height or our weight 😆

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 28d

Didn’t Jonathan Swift cover this already?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · Sep 11

If you’re a right wing politician, pundit, pretend journalist or social commentator in Alberta discussing Charlie Kirk & you remained silent when Notley’s face was in crosshairs on a golf tee & Phillips was stalked by the Lethbridge cops….

Just know we all see your self serving hypocrisy.

#ableg

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 11

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Sep 11

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

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