On a new 🌾 @albertaadvantage.bsky.social 🌾 the team examine the province's reactionary backlash targeting trans people and children and unpack how it may be rooted in the cultural construction of childhood and education.
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I learned a lot in the research for this and I'm proud of the episode we put together. Reactionary cultural framing of childhood and family life can make it hard to talk about trans issues productively w/o unpacking a lot of that first. We try to do that here.
NEW EP: In Solidarity With Trans Children
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Peoples brains have been so ruined by electoral politics that all the top comments for this article on r/Alberta are just pricks shaming rural Albertans for voting UCP, when: 1) it's O&G companies doing the harm, 2) it's the AER that's failing & 3) The NDP are pushing MORE pipelines! #ABLeg #ABPoli
NEW: Two Palestinian-Canadian students and a Jewish faculty member are taking U of A to court for ordering police to disperse a pro-Palestine encampment in its Main Quad in 2024.
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On the 📣STUDENT POWER📣 series finale @robertalexier.bsky.social speaks w/ scholar Muhannad Ayyash about the Palestinian Exception and on-campus repression and Canada in Decline series author @nolore.bsky.social unpacks the effect of neoliberalism on society.
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NEW EP: Student Power w/ @robertalexier.bsky.social (!!!)
How does student activism differ between Québec and the rest of Canada? How can radical praxis can be maintained in a rapidly turning over student population?
ALL THIS AND MORE:
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Screen shot of a twitter reply from Shannon Phillips (@SPhillipsAB). The text says "There's a Green Party here. Has been for 20+ years, at least."
If you suggest that the Alberta NDP should not be subordinate to the oil and gas industry you get former MLAs in your mentions telling you to give up on the party and vote Green instead.
On a new 🌾 @albertaadvantage.bsky.social 🌾
@robertalexier.bsky.social talks about how her new podcast STUDENT POWER places last summer's Palestine solidarity encampments within the broader history of student activism in Canada since the 1960s.
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The ANDP freakout over the Lewis win reminds me of nothing more so than the PC freakout over the ANDP win in 2015, which is kinda funny.
*Lewis wins*
Nenshi: Even though Lewis was elected, we still like pipelines!
Smith: they say they like pipelines but they don’t because Lewis is an eco-socialist
And here is where I point out: automatically accepting the premise of your enemy’s argument before they even make it is a gift to them
I don't think this man believes in anything beyond his own career.
The Alberta NDP loves to let Conservatives frame their messaging and to boost the right wing narrative. They're scared of their own shadow and would hate to ever be caught standing up for something.
Nenshi's New Energy Plan is UCP-Lite
Early responses suggest the only Albertans interested are UCP partisans and separatist trolls.
Almost no news coverage. Zero. Nada.
A major flop and embarrassment for @abndpcaucus.
#ableg #abpoli
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I just wish there was room in the Alberta NDP for people who wish the province wasn't run by and for oil and gas executives
So a giant fuck you to any and all Albertans who voted for Lewis, because the provincial party couldn't bear to be associated with anyone who gives a shit about the climate.
Yikes
If someone's focus on a political position is electability they've already lost the plot. You need to actually believe in things and want to improve peoples lives, not just vacillating between approved points you don't yourself hold!
reposting this for the Shannon Phillips fans in the chat
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If no one on the "left" side of the political spectrum in Alberta can imagine a party that doesn't kowtow to oil and gas then I don't think we should be surprised if the rest of the country leaves us behind.
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
A Black and Muslim lawyer says that Durham police ripped off her hijab and slammed her head into a desk. She was finishing up legal work in an interview room when it happened “without provocation.”
Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
Here is the independent panel's timeline of how risk was identified with the Bearspaw Feeder Main 20 years before it ruptured in June 2024.
Thank you!
There's another map that seems to show the advisory extends to the other side of Crowchild.
Hey Myke, the maps provided by the city are low resolution and inconsistent. Do you have access to the exact boundaries of the boil water advisory?
🚨 Due to a water main break last night on 16 Ave, Ward 7 residents in the communities of Parkdale, Point McKay and West Hillhurst are currently under a boil water advisory and all Calgarians are being asked to conserve water. Updates available at calgary.ca.
These maps are low resolution, and inconsistent. Can you give us the exact boundaries of the boil water advisory?
Budget drops and cork pops