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Ned @neddog.bsky.social · 7h

Why is it so hard to find politicians to put in charge of our public services, who actually support public services?

#abpoli #yeg

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Ned @neddog.bsky.social · 9h

By refusing the class size limit he's saying "We'll hire now, but we won't keep up with growth for the future and you'll be back to the same place in years."

It's like how they inherited the highest minimum wage in the country, then stagnated it into the lowest minimum wage in the country.

#abpoli

Ned Yeung

By refusing the class size limit he's saying "We'll hire now, but we won't keep up with growth for the future and you'll be back to the same place in years."

The class size limit is the important guarantee to maintain hiring into the future, and guaranteeing a future for our kids is what this whole strike is about.

It's like how they inherited the highest minimum wage in the country, then stagnated it into the lowest minimum wage in the country.

Ken Chapman > Reboot Alberta

The Minister of Education Blinked?
"On the second day of a teachers' strike that has temporarily shuttered schools across Alberta, the education minister signalled a willingness to negotiate how many new staff members need to be hired, but added he's still hesitant to agree to limits on classroom sizes."

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Ned @neddog.bsky.social · 11h

My favorite exchange of the day, from downtown #yeg MLA, David Shepherd. He got me good on that one!

#abpoli #education #Solidarity #dadjokes #AppleADay

Image shows a round table inside the MLA office of David Shepherd, beneath the crest on the window, featuring timbits and coffee, and a fan of postcards.

David Shepherd, MLA for Edmonton-City Centre

Teachers welcome…✊🏽❤️ #ableg

Ned Yeung
Shouldn't there be apples? 😉

David Shepherd, MLA for Edmonton-City Centre
Ned Yeung - Nah. Doctors are welcome too. 😉

Ned Yeung
David Shepherd, MLA for Edmonton-City Centre Haha, good point!

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Mike @ksmikey.bsky.social · 14h

This will help

A few years old but still relevant

pressgazette.co.uk/news/road-co...

New crash guidelines urge journalists to avoid 'accident' and refer to drivers rather than vehicles

Road collision reporting guidelines finalised: Journalists urged not to use word "accident" and avoid general negative terms against groups like cyclists.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 14h

#FYI

"According to an online obituary, Alexandra Amaro, 23, was fatally struck by two vehicles outside Dufferin Mall on Dec. 2. She is being remembered as a kind and intelligent young woman who was studying to be a journalist."

h/t @cycletoronto.bsky.social

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

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Ned @neddog.bsky.social · 15h

When the government encourages private school enrolment through the chronic underfunding and overcrowding of the public school system, and the continual undermining of public educators, that takes away "choice" and quality of education for all.

#abpoli #cdnpoli #education #Solidarity #union #strike

Ned @neddog.bsky.social · 15h

I'll repeat it as many times as it takes to get through. The province with the LOWEST per student public education funding is the ONLY province which funds the majority costs (at least 70%) of the operation AND construction of private schools.

#abpoli #cdnpoli #education #Solidarity #union #strike

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Ned @neddog.bsky.social · 17h

Boom!

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

#abpoli

Alberta teacher prompts petition on province's private school funding
Chief electoral officer approved proposed independent school funding petition on Tuesday

Janet French · CBC News · Posted: Oct 07, 2025 9:23 PM MDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

Image: A woman with long, blonde hair wears a grey jacket and a white shirt.

Image caption: Alicia Taylor is a high school chemistry teacher concerned about public education funding. She successfully applied to start a petition to request a provincial referendum on whether to end the practice of public funding going to independent schools. (Submitted by Alicia Taylor)

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.

"I think it's wrong to have the highest rate of funding for private schools in a province where we have the lowest rate of funding for public schools," the Calgary teacher said in an interview on Tuesday.

Last month, Taylor applied to Elections Alberta to petition for a referendum on the practice of using public funds to operate independent schools — also called private schools.

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Ned @neddog.bsky.social · 1d

You know they're the same people behind the mask, right? New ICE agents were recruited from White Nationalist miltia groups, and that's how Trump's ICE adopted the same garb and methods in the first place.

Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 1d

From concealed identities to sanctioned violence, the echoes between ICE raids and Klan terror are too loud to ignore…

hartmannreport.com/p/is-ice-tod...

Is ICE Today’s Klan?

From concealed identities to sanctioned violence, the echoes between ICE raids and Klan terror are too loud to ignore…

hartmannreport.com

Ned @neddog.bsky.social · 1d

An estimated 25% of property tax in Edmonton goes directly to the Alberta government for EDUCATION, in 2025, and the city has no control over how it's spent.

Smith will do anything to get out of funding public education. Tim Cartmell wants to enable her.

#abpoli #yeg #education #union #Solidarity

r/Edmonton
ThroatNo2636

Tim Cartmell believes the UCP doesn’t owe us anything. Remember this as the teachers strike and Smith doesn't pay her city taxes.

Photo/Video
“They (UCP) don’t owe us (Edmontonians) anything. They used to benevolently give it to us, they've stopped,' he said Wednesday,
Councillor Cartmell

This is a real quote from a real Edmonton City Councillor in the Edmonton Journal defending her government not paying their property taxes to Edmonton.

She flies to Maralago to sell us out to Trump. He runs to the Legislature to sellout Edmontonians to her.

Your property tax bill includes municipal taxes, collected by the City to pay for City services, and provincial education taxes, which the City collects on behalf of the Province to fund public and separate schools.

These two taxes change at different rates each year, and are added together to make up the total tax amount property owners must pay.

A typical detached home, assessed at $465,500, will pay $394 per month in property taxes in 2025. Roughly 75% of this amount—or $296—will help pay for City services, and the remaining 25%—or $98—will go to the Government of Alberta to support education.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 2d

My father was supposedly one of the smartest people in the world, and he hated that elitist nonsense.

He loathed the idea that intelligence is something you're born with, a single trait that can be measured. It leads to eugenics and bad policy.

My latest newsletter:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...

You're Not as Smart as You Think You Are

First, some housekeeping! I have written a novel about a trans witch who teaches her broken-hearted mother how to do magic. She also researches a mysterious...

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Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 2d

Same for "math ability". It's not a single type of ability, it can't be measured on a linear scale, and the mythical "far end of the bell curve" is lost in the fog of the margin of error.

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Ned @neddog.bsky.social · 1d

The truth is that our schools are overcrowded and the least funded in all of Canada, and this is a mess the government has created.

www.facebook.com/reel/1777593...

#abpoli #cdnpoli #Solidarity #union #strike

83K views · 1.5K reactions | Funny thing that truth. | Jason Schilling

Funny thing that truth..

www.facebook.com

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Ned @neddog.bsky.social · 2d

The government wants to pay you stay home during the strike, then they want you to enroll your kids in private homeschooling programs, so your children don't fall behind. This is taking them out of the public system, as is the goal. Do not enroll your kids in their suggested home education programs.

Quick facts

Students who choose distance education non- primary enrollment continue to be registered at their local school while earning additional credits from another school authority.

If families choose to enroll their children in a home education program during the teacher strike, they would no longer be registered at their public, separate or francophone school.

If they end the home education program, they are not guaranteed to return to the same school they attended prior to making the change to home education.

School authorities are required to accept returning resident grade 1-12 students and must place them in a school within the school authority.

@thebreakdownab

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Ned @neddog.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago is under siege and martial law.

#uspol #fascism

Trump authorises deployment of 300 National Guard troops to Chicago

Christal Hayes

Video shows armed military with assault weapons and gas masks surrounding a Latino man on the ground in pain with tear gas smoke all around.

Watch: Protesters face off with ICE agents in Chicago, Illinois

US President Donald Trump has authorised the deployment of 300 National Guard troops to Chicago in Illinois, to address what he says is out-of-control crime.

Casalmon ces X
This is not normal. Armored trucks are patrolling the streets of Chicago once
again today. #news #politics - in Chicago, IL, United States.

Image shows an armoured truck with a soldier in fatigues sitting in the hatch with a chemical gun aimed at people walking down the street.

Mike Nellis
@mikenellis.bsky.social
Multiple videos from this weekend show ICE tear-gassing Chicago police
officers.

Things feel like they're spiraling fast across the city.

Video still shows two Chicago PD officers grimacing as one rubs his eyes.

BG On The Scene
Chaotic scene as some in the crowd throw projectiles towards law enforcement vehicles departing on the South Side of Chicago - at Chicago.

Video still shows a big cloud of smoke around parked vehicles.

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Ned @neddog.bsky.social · 2d

LOL. Fair reason.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3d

The specific provision is section 2 of the Calling Forth Act of 1792:

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

For more background on the judicial review provision, and on how President Washington expressly relied upon it in putting down the Whiskey Rebellion, see:

www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/427_pa9s...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 3d

With parents looking for options for kids during the strike…

It’s a good time to remind everyone affected to choose carefully.

Cause there could be very real consequences.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

NEW inside CBS—

Staff are insulted executives will spend $150 million to buy The Free Press & make self-proclaimed “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief, while many of them are set to be laid off.

“If I wrote 90 percent of what’s on The Free Press, I would get flagged and fired,” one says.