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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦
@wellgoodelsie.bsky.social
980 followers 4.7K following 930 posts
Canadian sociologist with a background in health, food, technology & the intersectionality in inequality. Vote because it is important. I vote with my ballot, my feet, my dollar, my time, my attention. If you don’t vote, don’t complain. Salty & sweet.
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 9h
Canadians deserve better discourse around #energy. We need more discussions like this interview with @maxfawcett.bsky.social from @energimedia.bsky.social
Great discussion about energy transition. Thank you!

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Lazy Canadian Intellectuals Misread the Global Energy Transition
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 16h
This sale of Dominion Voting Systems to the Republican machine raises my eyebrows. Does anyone else think this is … odd?

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Dominion Voting Systems, at centre of false 2020 election claims, sold to former Republican election official | CBC News
Voting technology company Dominion Voting Systems (DVS), founded in Toronto and a target of conspiracy theories in the 2020 U.S. presidential election spread by Republican Donald Trump and his allies,...
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 1d
Love this! Political engagement should be positive. We certainly need more of positivity like this. Thank you everyone who has signed and supported.
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 1d
She’s their butcher. She butchers everything she touches.
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 1d
Knowing how many students are in #Alberta classrooms is the most efficient way of funding each student. The #UCP is not about efficiency or effectiveness. This article helps explain some of the issues that the UCP created by and for themselves. This is incompetence. #AB

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ANALYSIS | Alberta stopped tracking class sizes. Then it changed its funding formula. Now, it's a teachers' strike issue | CBC News
Get a rough idea of how much Alberta’s teaching staff has grown compared to how much student enrolment has grown since the funding formula for school boards was changed.
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 1d
The #Alberta #teachers #strike is a result of poorly designed metrics that do little to improve classrooms, let alone maintain existing standards for classrooms. The problem with #education is a #UCP lack of funding as a result of an inadequate system of funding. Pathetic

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Alberta schools will be funded on three-year average enrolment, province says | CBC News
Alberta schools will receive per-capita student funding based on three-year average enrolment, the education minister said Tuesday, as she promised every district in the province will get more operati...
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 3d
Thank you @leadnowca.bsky.social for creating a great video. Affordable housing and housing for all is a huge need across our nation. Our community has grown from coast to coast to coast. The need is big

Looking at you @MarkJCarney to deliver Homes For All in Budget 2025 👀
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Leadnow @leadnowca.bsky.social · 4d
📣 Say it with us: the rent is TOO DAMN HIGH.

That’s why we are fighting for #HomesForAll — and demanding the government invest in housing solutions that work for us.

Share this video, then join the Homes for All campaign 👉 leadnow.ca/HomesForAll

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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 3d
As an aside, now that the Calgary police department has thrown their support behind UCP supported Sonja Sharp, I wonder what the connection is between the surprise (and not very transparent) departure (forced resignation?) of Calgary’s previous police chief? It smells bad. Just saying. Thoughts?
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 3d
They think they are winning because they refuse to listen to any criticism or opinion that differs from theirs and they shut it down. Not being aware of the opinions of all of your Alberta neighbours is not the same as winning.
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 3d
Getting into some good trouble to force the bad troubles hand into legislation.
#AIregulation #technology #peopleandplanetbeforeprofits

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Sora2 is already causing AI chaos #news #newsupdate #aivideos #ai #techtrends #jakepaul
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 6d
Nepotistic favouritism. Am I surprised? No. What are we not hearing about?
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 8d
Sadly, this was coming. The #Alberta government needs to do more. Or at least shut up about healthcare and let the doctors talk to the public and the media.
#ABpoli #healthcare #measles

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Premature baby dies of measles in Alberta outbreak's 1st death | CBC News
Alberta is reporting its first measles death since outbreaks of the highly contagious illness began in March. The province says a baby, who was born prematurely after the mother became sick, died shor...
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 8d
Exactly! It’s shameful regardless of where it’s happening. It’s not a problem that any Canadian should ignore.
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 8d
This is where #Alberta money is going. It’s going to oil companies, their lobbyists, expensive cancelled contracts, contracts that failed and sucked our coffers dry. It’s not going to #education or #healthcare .
#Albertapolitics and their corruption is where it’s going.

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ANALYSIS | After losing billions of dollars on Keystone XL and tank cars, Alberta is pursuing another pipeline | CBC News
After months of Premier Danielle Smith vowing to find a company willing to develop a new oil export pipeline, the Alberta government itself is taking the plunge. The move is already drawing both prais...
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 13d
Ugh. It’s time the people and the planet we live on are prioritized over profits. How does this benefit us, the people, and our land that sustains us?
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 16d
This frightens me greatly. I think of how much of earth’s history was shaped by an anoxic atmosphere and single cell organisms. What we have here on earth is precious to us and everything we know.
#history #sustainability #PeopleandPlanetoverProfits

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Oceans have crossed 'safe' acidic threshold, scientists warn | CBC News
The latest Planetary Health Check report says ocean acidification has reached risky territory. Experts say it will reduce our oceans’ ability to absorb the carbon we emit and also weaken the shellfish...
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 18d
Another reason to regulate the tech industry. AI scams will continue to spread if governments don’t step in.
#AI #technologicalfallacy #AIregulations #technology

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Unravelling at the seams: when online fashion orders don't come as advertised | CBC News
Sponsored ads on Facebook are leading users to fashion retail websites. Customers think they're ordering discounted clothing from a high-end boutique that's closing. Instead, they end up with cheap it...
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 22d
I’m not surprised, but I’m disappointed, sad, and angry that this is such a typical response from the #ABgov

#ABpoli #Alberta #compassionandcareforall

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Alberta looks to use notwithstanding clause on its 3 transgender laws: memo | CBC News
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's office has directed officials to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause in amending three laws that affect transgender people, says a leaked government memo obtai...
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 22d
WTF is this and what business does the #Alberta government have in launching smear campaigns against our teachers? #Education is greatly valued by Albertans and funding has been a big battle between the government and education for almost as long as I can remember.

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Alberta set to launch ad campaign against teachers as threat of strike escalates | CBC News
The standoff between the Alberta government and its 51,000 teachers — with each side accusing the other of lying — is set to turn into an all-out advertising war.
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · 26d
#ElbowsUp #Canada

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U.S. outdoor group's application to use B.C. land sparks debate amid 51st state talk | CBC News
People on Vancouver Island have been hotly debating an application from a U.S.-based organization that runs wilderness trips for a licence to camp on 77 parcels of Crown land on Vancouver Island and t...
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · Sep 3
I’m so behind this because it’s long overdue.

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70 leading Canadians, civil society groups ask Carney to protect Canada's 'digital sovereignty' | CBC News
Dozens of experts, academics and organizations have released an open letter urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to swiftly "defend Canada's digital sovereignty" and protect the country from the whims of...
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · Aug 30
A feel good story about summer grilling and BBQ season. Crazy how their personal number became associated with the grill’s customer service. They handled it with class!
#BC #Canada #goodnewsstory

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Customers started calling a B.C. couple at home asking for help with their barbecues. They decided to help | CBC News
A couple in B.C.'s Okanagan answered hundreds of calls for a Canadian barbecue company after their number was listed as the customer service line.
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · Aug 30
Does this same challenge apply to our elected representatives? Has Marlaina been challenged yet?
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · Aug 29
Marlaina, is it vicious compliance or is it a problem with the list? I think it’s a problem with the list because the bible is the most violent and most sexual book I have ever read. If we’re banning graphic, violent, and sexual books the bible is the culprit book #ABpoli

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'Vicious compliance': Alberta premier decries Edmonton Public Schools' banned book list | CBC News
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith slammed the Edmonton Public School Board Friday morning for its banned book list, which features more than 200 titles.
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Elsie Wellgood 🇨🇦 @wellgoodelsie.bsky.social · Aug 16
Let your gf know that Raven is such a cool name to pick. (Says the lady who feeds the crows and magpies who visit her).