The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at libraries across the country – the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of people of color. n.pr/4vFxjvp
Focus on rural communities and the education budget (sorry the word rural was not used… communities outside Calgary and Edmonton was)
Already noticing the use of “parents” frequently, when they are many stakeholders involved in education. Education affects all Albertans.
Alberta Education Telephone Town Hall… here we go 😬
Today is the anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
First, their health minister used confidential info to intimidate a critic. Then another accessed a recall proponent's voting records. Now another wants to know what Albertans are reading in public libraries.
When will UCP libertarians stand up?
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Love reading audiobooks? Trying not to support big tech?
Hey hey 👋 We're an audiobook company that shares profits with indie bookshops. Not only are we a Certified B Corp, Social Purpose Corporation, & 100% employee owned, but our audiobooks are DRM-free—meaning you can listen to them anywhere.
Some current and former school trustees say a new bill eroding school board autonomy signals the Alberta government plans to eliminate elected trustees.
The minister says he has no plans to do so. #AbLeg #AbEd
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Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.
Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!
🌕 💛
Buried in the UCP’s new municipal legislation is the next iteration of the book bans.
Except it’s not a ban, they’re just taking them off the shelves and putting them in a room in the back of the library with a curtain.
And it’s not just libraries “co-located with schools.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Trans rights are human rights. And included in human rights protections from coast-to-coast-to-coast in Canada.
On this Trans Day of Visibility, let us commit to defending these human rights and building a nation that fully includes and supports all trans people.
We’re thrilled to share that The Narwhal’s newest reporter, Leah Borts-Kuperman, is a finalist in the investigative category at this year’s National Newspaper Awards. Leah is nominated for her 2025 stories about contamination issues at Canadian military bases. thenarwhal.ca/2026-nna-nom...
WorldAtlas.com has released its list of “The 10 Driest Cities in Canada”, half of which are in Alberta. Included are Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Calgary, Red Deer, and Edmonton.
“the ban covers more than 200 books, including graphic-novel versions of classics such as Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian opus The Handmaid’s Tale, and George Orwell’s 1984.”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Canada is falling behind on its pledge to protect 30% of land and water by 2030. Indigenous-led conservation initiatives could help close the gap, but an upcoming expiry of federal conservation funding has advocates warning progress might slow even further. thenarwhal.ca/canada-conse...
Just before I left my job at CBC, I scraped more than 23,000 teacher email addresses from hundreds of Alberta school websites.
The CBC's Elise Stolte then sent a questionnaire to each one.
She got more than 6,000 responses!
Those form the basis of a new series.
The stories can be found here:
SNOWDROPS Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you. I did not expect to survive, earth suppressing me. I didn't expect to waken again, to feel in damp earth my body able to respond again, remembering after so long how to open again in the cold light of earliest spring— afraid, yes, but among you again crying yes risk joy in the raw wind of the new world.
after so long how to open again in the cold light
of earliest spring—
Louise Glück
Bar chart titled Read Aloud to Improve Writing. "When students were asked to proofread texts aloud, they found up to 12 percentage points more typos, grammatical mistakes, and errors in word choice, a 2022 study found." The bar chart shows the difference between accuracy during silent and aloud reading: silent, 59%, and aloud, 71%.
Here’s a useful tip to help students improve their writing. ✍️
Ask them to read their work aloud. While it may not feel as natural—or modest—as reading silently, it can help them catch often-overlooked errors, a 2022 study found.
This is one of the BEST things
On a very hot day in June, I took a risk. I made a beeline to the front of the room at ISTE so I could shake hands w/ Jason Reynolds.
Nervously, I blurted out, "I know you have to leave, but my editor would never forgive me if I didn't ask to interview you."
My latest for @edutopia.org:
As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else
Things I said today in my JH classroom:
- don’t blow bubbles inside
- you took 8 minutes to get a drink
- everybody farts
- put the Pokémon cards in your backpack
- your fruit by the foot wrapper isn’t a weapon
- I owe you a candy
- you can draw on your arm when you’re finished your assignment
I think it’s time to break out my puzzle board again.
My living room in Strathmore, AB!
Immigrants are not Alberta’s problem. They’re here legally. They’re the ones serving you coffee at Timmies.
Populist governments need a scapegoat, an “out-group”.
For Hitler it was Jews, for Trump it’s Latinos.
It’s an un-Canadian and deplorable political strategy.
#ableg
Picture of Gurdeep onstage giving a motivational speech
Learning about joy and belonging in education with @gurdeep.ca at #PDTCA2026
Watching Men’s Big Air where the snow is coming down and outside my own window is a blizzard. Winter!
I believe that the development of AI tools is not to make human life easier but to save businesses and corporations money.
We can try to make AI work for us as much as we want, but the technological & business aim is for companies to profit and to pay humans less.
Join us in Calgary next Saturday! Sign our petition in person, and meet with your fellow community leaders!
You asked, we answered. We've got three campaign launch events across Alberta next weekend!
#waternotcoal #coalpetition #alberta #lethbridge
