Survey linked below: The Government of Alberta is trying to do some book banning bullshit, with the examples of "explicit content" given being entirely queer examples.

They know what they're doing. Let them know that you know, too.

https://www.alberta.ca/school-library-standards-engagement

Well, #Alberta's #Banning #Library #Books.

Sorry, "they're creating province wide standards to ensure age appropriate of library material after dozens of books containing explicit sexual content were found in #Calgary and #Edmonton #Schools.

What are the "sexually explicit books" in question? Four #GraphicNovels about young people "discovering their sexual identity."

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/extremely-graphic-sexual-content-found-in-books-at-k-9-schools-province-says

#ABPol
#CanPol
#Fascism
#BookBanning
#DanielleSmith
#AlisonBechdel
#MikeCurato
#MaiaKobabe

So "Separatists release potential referendum questions" got the front page treatment.

I mean, we can all come up with "potential" referendum questions. So do we all get to be on the front page if we cook something up tomorrow!?*

*maybe Wednesday, I'm quite busy tomorrow

Able-bodied Canadians (especially Albertans): please take notice, and please take action, however you personally see fit to do so.

From Inclusion Alberta:

"The Government of Alberta’s decision to claw back the Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) – a federal benefit intended to help lift Canadians with disabilities out of poverty – from AISH recipients is punitive, mean-spirited and undermines the benefit’s fundamental purpose. Now, to add insult to injury, they have informed AISH recipients they must apply for the benefit, which requires going through a time-consuming and complex eligibility process that requires applying for the Disability Tax Credit (DTC) which often can cost as much as $300, so that, should they be eligible, the government can reduce their AISH by the corresponding amount. This is an unconscionable decision to take money meant to improve the lives of people with disabilities and redirect it to government coffers."

“At the same time as this government is cutting income taxes, it is effectively adding close to 10% tax on disability by clawing back up to $200/month of what would be the combined amount of AISH and CDB,” says Inclusion Alberta CEO Trish Bowman. “What moral justification could there possibly be for leaving Albertans with disabilities to live off less than MLAs receive for their taxpayer-funded housing allowance? To suggest the amount of AISH alone is adequate shows just how out of touch this government has become with the realities of people with disabilities and their families.”

You can read this media release further, at the below link:

https://inclusionalberta.org/connections/media-release-government-of-alberta-requires-people-with-disabilities-on-aish-to-apply-for-federal-benefit-and-will-reduce-aish-for-those-who-receive-it/

#CanPol #ABpol #disability #Alberta #Edmonton #Calgary #RedDeer #ableism #austerity

Edit: To apply for the CDB on the online portal: all you need is your SIN (social insurance number), your 2024 tax assessment (one line of information), and your bank information (they probably already have it from your tax return auto-deposit information).

Linking my thread on 132 Avenue because this is what the United Cons are targeting now:

https://c.im/@yaygya/112950070896043791

They can't erase us. We will not disappear, we will not cease to exist just because some Nazis say so.

This is a really big can of worms. My personal suspicion: Smith didn't this just for hockey tickets. #abpol
https://open.substack.com/pub/lisayoung/p/carrie-tait-is-the-bob-woodward-of?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Nancy Green was Aunt Jemima...

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1167-a2a7-cc4e-60e556473191

After reading this, it would seem that Trump has already broken internatiol law. What happens now?

So much for this:

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Message to #Alberta Premier Smith: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a #fascist logic’ https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-12-15/judith-butler-philosopher-if-you-sacrifice-a-minority-like-trans-people-you-are-operating-within-a-fascist-logic.html

"As I understand it, all of the rules have been followed," Smith said at a news conference Friday

Yeah, because SHE CHANGED THEM.

Alberta premier defends ministers accepting Oilers playoff tickets from Parol importer | Edmonton Journal

#ableg #abpol

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/alberta-premier-oilers-playoff-tickets

@MarkhamHislop invited all four candidates for the NDP leadership to talk with him about energy. Nenshi declined.

This is very telling. I have long felt that Nenshi's leadership bid was strangely superficial. Lots of smiling selfies, slogans, and safe criticisms of the UCP. And now given the chance to show there was more to his bid than that, he refuses. This is not leadership.
#abpol #abpoli

https://energi.media/markham-on-energy/nenshi-declines-interview-about-skimpy-energy-and-climate-ideas/

Just voted in the Alberta NDP leadership election, with Kathleen Ganley as my first choice. Feeling very happy that I have been able to do something positive for Alberta and for the NDP today. #abpoli #abpol