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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 29m

This private school has better athletic facilities than some towns. Let's stop claiming we need to fund private schools; it’s nonsense. Danielle Smith dislikes public education. #yeg #yyc #yql #abpoli #ableg

Webber Academy Athletic Park | Explore Sports & Recreation Today

Discover Webber Academy Athletic Park in Springbank, a premier sports complex with baseball fields, soccer pitches, and a state-of-the-art indoor facility for community and student activities.

www.webberacademyathleticpark.ca

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📎Robin (Fella) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @trashcanman.bsky.social · 4h

#YQL #Lethbridge #Vote #ABPoli

And that was easy, all done voting here in Lethbridge! I wish the workers luck with the whole stupid hand counting every ballot...what a joke.

Get out there and vote people!

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 6h

Public education when funded properly helps kids without having to pay for your education I was a kid with a Disability that was supported in a public education and I will always support that over having pay to get the help I need #abpoli #ableg #yeg #yyc #yql

MsDizzy_22 @msdizzy.bsky.social · 6h

Yes! This is awesome and is so needed. Don't fall for the AISCA executive director saying that this will hurt children with disabilities. We need children at public schools. If something's wrong with the public system, then fight to fix it...
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#publicschools #abpoli #yeg #yyc

Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 1d

Elections Alberta has approved a citizen-initiated petition application to gather signatures in support of the proposal to end public funding to independent/private schools.

Calgary teacher Alicia Taylor says she brought it forward because it could help improve funding for public schools. #AbEd

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 6h

Unless you send your kid to a private school like Webber Academy then the Alberta government will fund the school with taxpayers dollars even though you have to 20k for admissions #abpoli #ableg #yeg #yyc #yql

M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 7h

UCP spends LEAST tax dollars per PUBLIC school student in Canada.

#UCP spends MOST tax dollars per PRIVATE school student in Canada.

Every.
Canadian.
Kid.
Is.
Better.
Funded.
Than.
OUR.
Kids.

Smith is ok with that.
Teachers are not.

#ableg #abpoli #abed #yyc #yeg #albertateachers

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 6h

This is a load of crap John can go and fuck off no funds for private schools or independent schools 🤬

Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 6h

It's a public petition that gets put out without any discussion or any opportunity for us to present context to it," said John Jagersma, executive director of the Association of Independent Schools and Colleges in Alberta (AISCA).

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 6h

Anyone who thinks it was a exercise in democracy is fucking delusional 🤬

timethiefmedia - Canadian forever🍁conservative never @timethiefmedia.bsky.social · 7h

#abpoli The #AlbertaNextpanel was not an exercise in democracy. Absolutely nothing about these townhalls were actually democratic. Much of the point of this series of panel discussions has been an act of mass distraction. looniepolitics.com/the-alberta-...

The Alberta Next panel was not an exercise in democracy - Loonie Politics

Danielle Smith may think that she’s being super clever in trying to incite a separatism referendum.

looniepolitics.com

Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 6h

If a private school can afford to build a 500-seat theatre like Webber Academy has, while rural schools can't afford a library, then there are no public funds for private schools 🤬

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 6h

Smith hates public education; she's proved it time and time again🤬

M A Shane @mindfultalk.bsky.social · 7h

UCP spends LEAST tax dollars per PUBLIC school student in Canada.

#UCP spends MOST tax dollars per PRIVATE school student in Canada.

Every.
Canadian.
Kid.
Is.
Better.
Funded.
Than.
OUR.
Kids.

Smith is ok with that.
Teachers are not.

#ableg #abpoli #abed #yyc #yeg #albertateachers

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 6h

The Minister of Education should at least be trained in education, as is the case for the Minister of Health

Musicbaum @musicbaum.bsky.social · 7h

The #Alberta Education Minister says " #teachers have to make trade offs" in the labour dispute. It's not the teachers he's "trading off." It's the #students. #Dipshit.
#ableg #yyc #yeg #albertateachersstrike

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Real Mike - Fake Ezzie 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌻 @fakeezzie.bsky.social · 10h

The rural public school my wife works at, doesn't even have a library.

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 8h

Pierre Poilievre is nothing more than a fucking loser who had to go to the safest riding in the country to get his job back if the conservative government wants to form government they need a new leader 🤬

Doug Johnson 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌦️🏞 @smikooman.bsky.social · 9h

And here we have it. Pierre Poilievre, official coffee and doughnut suppler to the Convoy Party of Canada, laments the judicial system's anti-freedom persecution of the "peaceful protests".

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 8h

No funding for private school

an elderly woman wearing glasses and a blue jacket says nope

ALT: an elderly woman wearing glasses and a blue jacket says nope

media.tenor.com

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 9h

The minister of education is a fucking joke 🤬

Western Hemlox @westernhemlox.bsky.social · 11h

*AB creates "Alberta is Calling" campaign to entice people to come

*People come

*AB Educ. Minister says AB has been "pummeled," "hit" by huge influx of people, and that's why it can't fund education

YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME

#ableg #abpoli #albertateachers

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhaa...

Alberta’s Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides

YouTube video by Real Talk Ryan Jespersen

www.youtube.com

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 9h

How much money did the Alberta government waste on the Alberta next survey and town halls that could have gone to paying teachers what they deserve 🤬 The UCP and Danielle Smith need to go and FUCK OFF

Hazel B. | Meme Resister | Forever Canadian @hab3261.bsky.social · 9h

Two days left to answer the surveys. A new alternative email address can work for the surveys that changed. Mute the useless videos. #AlbertaNext #ABleg #ABpoli

www.albertanextpanel.ca/survey/surve...

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 9h

Smith and the UCP need to go and FUCK OFF 🤬

Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 10h

This "Eby goes off the rails" statement is wild

Smith is putting at risk billions of dollars worth of projects that he's been working on

He sounded frustrated to me
& I know how he feels

Smith is, was, and will always be, an embarrassment to Albertans
#ableg

Don Braid @donbraid.bsky.social · 1d

B.C. NDP premier David Eby goes off the rails, accuses Smith of bringing Trump to Canada via pipeline. An unhinged attack far beyond the earlier pipeline battle. Column. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg #bcpoli #yyc #yeg

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 9h

A school without a library is just wrong I will keep saying it no funds for private schools 🤬

Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 11h

So you're saying that they will build a hospital in Airdrie because every is the biggest city in Alberta without a hospital. When it comes to healthcare Smith is a fucking joke #abpoli #ableg

bettegray.bsky.social @bettegray.bsky.social · 12h

Nothing shows action like a new set on mandate letters for 4 Health Ministers. #ableg

www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

Getting the job done for Albertans: A new era of care

Premier Danielle Smith has issued a new set of mandate letters focused on improving health care delivery for all Albertans no matter where they live.

www.alberta.ca

Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 12h

I look forward to signing it. No private school that has a 500-seat theatre like Weber Academy should be getting taxpayer dollars that should be going to public education, where everyone is accepted

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 12h

a man in a suit and tie says no good will come of this on peacock

ALT: a man in a suit and tie says no good will come of this on peacock

media.tenor.com

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 12h

Any private school that can afford to build a 500-seat theatre like this should not be getting funding from the provincial government

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 12h

But yet they are ok giving taxpayers dollars to a private school that has a 500-seat theatre, there is no reason for Webber Academy or any private schools to receive funding from the provincial government 🤬 #ableg #abpoli

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 12h

If your private school has a 500-seat theatre, there is no reason to have funding from the provincial government 🤬 #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #yeg #yyc #yql

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 1d

Jason Nixon trying to explain why he thinks that it is ok to take 200 from disabled Albertans 🤬 #abpoli #ableg #FuckSmith #yeg #yyc #yql

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Ben Rowley🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @benjaminrowley78.bsky.social · 1d

Smith is nothing more than a rat that is destroying Alberta #abpoli #FuckSmith #ableg