Bridget Stirling
@bridgetstirling.bsky.social
UAlberta PhD candidate exploring the politics of childhood and education and the temporality of childhood.
Lover of travel, books, cats, music, coffee, and plants. Keeper of too many shoes.
Not here to cheerlead for your political party.
She/her.
Lover of travel, books, cats, music, coffee, and plants. Keeper of too many shoes.
Not here to cheerlead for your political party.
She/her.
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I've been sitting on this news for a couple of weeks now, and I'm excited to finally share.
I signed the contract today for my forthcoming book, "All Thy Sons Command: Childhood and the Canadian Far Right". I have a dissertation to finish first, but this is huge at this stage in my academic career.
I signed the contract today for my forthcoming book, "All Thy Sons Command: Childhood and the Canadian Far Right". I have a dissertation to finish first, but this is huge at this stage in my academic career.
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i mean it sounds absurd to say that college admissions is the rationale for a standardized testing regime that teaches writing as mad libs and fragmented excerpt reading
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
i mean it sounds absurd to say that college admissions is the rationale for a standardized testing regime that teaches writing as mad libs and fragmented excerpt reading
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Miss Norway at the Miss Universe pageant took me out.
10/10, she should guest host New Scandinavian Cooking
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10/10, she should guest host New Scandinavian Cooking
www.instagram.com/reel/DROqyRn...
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Miss Norway at the Miss Universe pageant took me out.
10/10, she should guest host New Scandinavian Cooking
www.instagram.com/reel/DROqyRn...
10/10, she should guest host New Scandinavian Cooking
www.instagram.com/reel/DROqyRn...
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Let’s be clear on this: Danielle Smith is ripping up the Charter of Rights & Freedoms to take away rights from the most vulnerable people in Alberta. And she’s doing it to protect herself from the militant wing of her own party, nothing more. Hope it’s all she’s ever remembered for in the long run
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Let’s be clear on this: Danielle Smith is ripping up the Charter of Rights & Freedoms to take away rights from the most vulnerable people in Alberta. And she’s doing it to protect herself from the militant wing of her own party, nothing more. Hope it’s all she’s ever remembered for in the long run
🧵 On the LRT today across from a teenage girl with her feet up across three priority seats.
A cop storms onto the train and barks at her to take her feet off the seats. Girl does so, doesn't say anything.
Cop barks at her: "I can take you off this train right now and write a bylaw infraction."
A cop storms onto the train and barks at her to take her feet off the seats. Girl does so, doesn't say anything.
Cop barks at her: "I can take you off this train right now and write a bylaw infraction."
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 AM
🧵 On the LRT today across from a teenage girl with her feet up across three priority seats.
A cop storms onto the train and barks at her to take her feet off the seats. Girl does so, doesn't say anything.
Cop barks at her: "I can take you off this train right now and write a bylaw infraction."
A cop storms onto the train and barks at her to take her feet off the seats. Girl does so, doesn't say anything.
Cop barks at her: "I can take you off this train right now and write a bylaw infraction."
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Oh great, another inadequate healthcare announcement!
Once again, they're touting the failed private surgical facility model. This is just one more ideological attempt to force further privatization on Albertans despite the evidence that it doesn't work.
www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
Once again, they're touting the failed private surgical facility model. This is just one more ideological attempt to force further privatization on Albertans despite the evidence that it doesn't work.
www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
Acute Care Action Plan delivers now
Alberta’s Acute Care Action Plan will add over 1,000 new hospital beds, deliver 50,000 more surgeries, improve capacity and patient flow so Albertans can access care faster.
www.alberta.ca
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Oh great, another inadequate healthcare announcement!
Once again, they're touting the failed private surgical facility model. This is just one more ideological attempt to force further privatization on Albertans despite the evidence that it doesn't work.
www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
Once again, they're touting the failed private surgical facility model. This is just one more ideological attempt to force further privatization on Albertans despite the evidence that it doesn't work.
www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...
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Regaining our elimination status will require more than angrily shaking our fists at those who we have deemed "anti-vaxers."
The reality is much more complicated, and much of it is based in rebuilding Canadian health care.
The reality is much more complicated, and much of it is based in rebuilding Canadian health care.
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Regaining our elimination status will require more than angrily shaking our fists at those who we have deemed "anti-vaxers."
The reality is much more complicated, and much of it is based in rebuilding Canadian health care.
The reality is much more complicated, and much of it is based in rebuilding Canadian health care.
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Childhood vaccinations have declined since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
But what also happened in 2020 was irreparable damage to our public health system that has never recovered.
How many of you are currently without a family doctor?
But what also happened in 2020 was irreparable damage to our public health system that has never recovered.
How many of you are currently without a family doctor?
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Childhood vaccinations have declined since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
But what also happened in 2020 was irreparable damage to our public health system that has never recovered.
How many of you are currently without a family doctor?
But what also happened in 2020 was irreparable damage to our public health system that has never recovered.
How many of you are currently without a family doctor?
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Canada has lost its measles elimination status today. Undoubtedly, part of this is because of misinformation.
But it does not explain the whole story here, and simply attributing this public heath failure to misinformation absolves those in power of their contributing role.
But it does not explain the whole story here, and simply attributing this public heath failure to misinformation absolves those in power of their contributing role.
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Canada has lost its measles elimination status today. Undoubtedly, part of this is because of misinformation.
But it does not explain the whole story here, and simply attributing this public heath failure to misinformation absolves those in power of their contributing role.
But it does not explain the whole story here, and simply attributing this public heath failure to misinformation absolves those in power of their contributing role.
Experts speaking about Canada's loss of measles elimination status: "We have major gaps in our public health infrastructure."
The gap in that infrastructure:
The gap in that infrastructure:
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Experts speaking about Canada's loss of measles elimination status: "We have major gaps in our public health infrastructure."
The gap in that infrastructure:
The gap in that infrastructure:
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
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It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
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> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
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> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
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12 Hangry Men.
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
12 Hangry Men.
So proud of our province for being an international leader once again.
(This is snark. I'm obviously not proud of Alberta's failures on public health.)
(This is snark. I'm obviously not proud of Alberta's failures on public health.)
Canada Is About to Lose Its Status as Having Eliminated Measles. One province with an outsize number of cases has seen a collision of politics and public health policy, by Rebecca Ruiz, Vjosa Isai www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w... via @nytimes.com
Canada Is About to Lose Its Status as Having Eliminated Measles
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
So proud of our province for being an international leader once again.
(This is snark. I'm obviously not proud of Alberta's failures on public health.)
(This is snark. I'm obviously not proud of Alberta's failures on public health.)
This is meant as a threat.
Nick Fuentes says people better be careful about calling him a Nazi "because if I'm a Nazi, then there's millions of young people that are following a fucking Nazi." Um, yeah, that's exactly what we've been warning about!
November 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is meant as a threat.
I'm just a girl standing in front of Albertans asking them to learn what the notwithstanding clause actually is.
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I'm just a girl standing in front of Albertans asking them to learn what the notwithstanding clause actually is.
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At the end of the day I'm not sure how much difference it makes. But it is striking to put out a budget that axes a luxury tax on yachts and adds a co-pay for refugee claimants accessing drugs and dental care.
November 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
At the end of the day I'm not sure how much difference it makes. But it is striking to put out a budget that axes a luxury tax on yachts and adds a co-pay for refugee claimants accessing drugs and dental care.
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Out of budget lockup. I recently wrote: "Ottawa imposes a 10 percent luxury tax on yachts... yet a family buying a semi in Scarborough pays the equivalent of 15 percent in [DCs] and land transfer taxes."
Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.
Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.
November 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Out of budget lockup. I recently wrote: "Ottawa imposes a 10 percent luxury tax on yachts... yet a family buying a semi in Scarborough pays the equivalent of 15 percent in [DCs] and land transfer taxes."
Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.
Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.
This is the nightmare so many of us approaching graduation have thought about as academics from the US have begun to jump ship. Disappointed that the Liberals haven't considered the effects on students, many of whom have had thousands in Tri-Agency funds invested in their development.
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is the nightmare so many of us approaching graduation have thought about as academics from the US have begun to jump ship. Disappointed that the Liberals haven't considered the effects on students, many of whom have had thousands in Tri-Agency funds invested in their development.
Apropos of nothing: people don't take well to rulers who live in extravagant palaces while the citizens don't have enough to eat.
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Women's March on Versailles - Wikipedia
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November 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Apropos of nothing: people don't take well to rulers who live in extravagant palaces while the citizens don't have enough to eat.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%2...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%2...
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"Urban Fantasy" is a recognized sub-genre but "Urbane Fantasy" isn't.
I feel that this is a gap in the market.
I feel that this is a gap in the market.
November 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Urban Fantasy" is a recognized sub-genre but "Urbane Fantasy" isn't.
I feel that this is a gap in the market.
I feel that this is a gap in the market.
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Why are you allowing your MPs on this committee to agree w/ witch-hunting pursuit of DEI amongst our best researchers at a time when you’re trying to attract the best scientists & medical students here, PM Carney?
This is beyond odious.
“The
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This is beyond odious.
“The
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Opinion: How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think
A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Why are you allowing your MPs on this committee to agree w/ witch-hunting pursuit of DEI amongst our best researchers at a time when you’re trying to attract the best scientists & medical students here, PM Carney?
This is beyond odious.
“The
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This is beyond odious.
“The
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...