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Petition e-5353 - Petitions

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#meme

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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HEY YOU! YES YOU!

IM BEGGING, HANDS AND KNEES FOR EVERYONE TO SIGN THIS PETITION !!

🦖 Save Our Dinosaur! Help Us Keep the World's Largest Dinosaur in Drumheller 🦖

Change.org

for 25 years, the "worlds largest dinosaur" in Drumheller, the dinosaur capital OF THE WORLD, has stood over the city. for 25 years, Tyra has stood as a centerpiece of Drumheller. she is what makes it such an amazing city. without her, what is drumheller?

#Drumheller #tyra the dinosaur #petition #change.org

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Media release: Government of Alberta depriving tens of thousands of AISH recipients poverty relief by clawing back Canada Disability Benefit

For immediate release – March 20, 2025 The decision by the Government of Alberta to claw back the Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) dollar for

Inclusion Alberta

The decision by the Government of Alberta to claw back the Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) dollar for dollar will deprive support from tens of thousands of Albertans with disabilities who live in poverty. Alberta is the only provincial government to have announced that it will claw back the CDB from adults with disabilities who receive provincial income support. Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Manitoba and Nunavut have all committed to allowing adults with disabilities to keep the benefit that the federal government will begin paying in July 2025. The decision to claw back the federal benefit intended to reduce poverty comes at a time when the provincial government has cut funding for self-advocate and family organizations, and has ignored calls to disclose how many 1000’s of children and adults with disabilities and their families are without needed disability support and to provide a plan to address the growing waitlists.

#cdb #canadian disability benefit #disability #abpoli #read later

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strongintherealgay

You don't have to like weed but I find people who are vehemently anti-weed but claim to be left leaning infuriating. If you go into a rage because you smelled someone smoking pot, how the fuck do you expect to form community with people addicted to meth? It's easier to say you hate smokers than to say you hate all drug users in leftist spaces because one makes you sound a bit like a square while the other is the writing on the wall. You aren't anti-weed, you're anti-drug user and anyone who uses substances is not safe around you.

strongintherealgay

I know dozens of people who use meth, coke, and fentanyl. While heroin is harder to get I do know some folks who use it when they can. Some of these drug users are my neighbors, some are my clients, and some are my friends & family. One does not cease to be human just because they use a substance you find scary.

Community doesn't mean you need to invite them to your home and look away if they smoke there. It means you don't call your property manager because you suspect your neighbor uses. It means you don't require drug tests for homeless shelters and housing services. It means the very idea of someone who smokes meth in your community doesn't make you go, "what the hell."

Genuinely kind of a wild thing to see in the replies as someone who has been professionally practicing harm reduction for years.

strongintherealgay

Considering recent events over here in the States, this seemed like a good time to bring this back. Over the next four years, expect an increase in discourse around "undesirables." This will include but not be limited to drug addicts.

cowboymalewife

Also, from someone who works at a smoke/head shop: WAY MORE PEOPLE ARE DRUG USERS THAN YOU THINK. Way more people are addicted to opiates, meth, whippets, cocaine, you name it, than you have been lead to believe, and on top of that, they are often the "normal" or "functional" people you see every day, not just the person tweaking out at the gas stations. Judges, bank tellers, grandmas, teachers, the nice lady who runs your bakery— all of them. You are ALREADY IN COMMUNITY WITH THESE PEOPLE. Start fucking acting like it.

blackwoolncrown

I'm gonna keep repeating this: 'community' is not a fucking friend group.

It's not a clique. It's not you and the people YOU think are cool and funny.

Drug users are your neighbors whether you're too much of an obnoxious self-righteous asshat to be aware of that or not. You don't *get* to say drug users don't deserve to be meaningfully connected to and included in the populations they call home (which is what community actually means, btw) and the mere assertion that you can is a big part of why ppl seek connection in drugs in the first place.

It doesn't matter if ppl use or not but tbh if we really wanted to cut down on addiction all we'd need to do is have fewer stuck up motherfuckers who look down on 'undesirables' in the first place.

'community' is not a fucking friend group.'community' is not a fucking friend group.'community' is not a fucking friend group.'community' is not a fucking friend group.'community' is not a fucking friend group.'community' is not a fucking friend group.

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Best Bird in B.C. contest returns for a second year | CBC News

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Great news for British Columbians who love birds! The Wildlife Rescue Association of BC is currently running their Best Bird in BC competition. You can vote on your favourite songbirds to help decide which songbird is BC’s favourite! The first round of voting is open until March 24th (tomorrow!).

Vote Here!

More info available in this CBC article:

Last year, the Anna’s hummingbird was voted best bird in B.C. This year, Wildlife Rescue is turning to songbirds, hoping a sing-off will hel

#bc #not politics #birds #nature #best bird bc

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my radical belief is that the disabled and the elderly should be paid at least the average cost of living, regardless of the life they lived. regardless if they ever worked or what work they did or if they were responsible with their choices in life or not

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Hundreds of nurses rally outside Ontario hospitals to demand safer staffing levels | CBC News

Hundreds of nurses rallied outside several Ontario hospitals on Thursday to demand that CEOs improve patient care by implementing safe staff

Hundreds of nurses rallied outside several Ontario hospitals on Thursday to demand that CEOs improve staffing levels across the province. The Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA), which represents 68,000 registered nurses, health care professionals and student affiliates, said it wants hospital leaders to implement registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratios to ensure quality of care. Such ratios represent the maximum number of patients that can be cared for by one nurse in a particular hospital unit. "Safe staffing saves lives and it makes your nurses want to stay," said Liz Romano, an intensive care nurse at Toronto General Hospital for nearly 45 years and bargaining unit president for the ONA at Toronto General and Toronto Western Hospitals.

#onpoli #nursing #ontario #healthcare

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Northern B.C. researchers creating queer history documentary and archive for region | CBC News

The project will include two components — a documentary film and an accessible historical archive to serve as a lasting resource for future

#Queer history #LGBTQ history #LGBTQ #History #cdnpoli #bc news #bcpoli #love this for them!

Researchers in northern B.C. are working on a new project to fill a significant gap in the recorded history of the region's 2SLGBTQ plus community. The Northern B.C. Queer Connection Society, a non-profit organization based in Prince George, has secured $299, 999 in federal grant funding from the Women and Gender Equality Canada for their queer history project. It will include two components — a documentary film and an accessible historical archive of documents, photographs and memorabilia to serve as a resource for researchers, educators and the public. The project will run until March 2027 and collaborate with local historians and filmmakers.

Continue Reading.

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A shadow war on libraries

The Valleyview Library Board has voted to close the library.

Some Canadian politicians and influencers, inspired by an American-born movement, are trying to roll back 2SLGBTQ+ rights in Canada — one bo

cbc.ca

The Valleyview Public Library has been a vital community hub since 1970-and the Board has voted to eventually close the Library, and later move it into a future school.

From the CBC article above: The space afforded to the library will be half its current size and potentially be subject to restrictive provincial rules around 2SLGBTQ+ expression in schools.

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I've emailed the librarian asking if there is anything the community can do to force the Board to reverse this decision and reached out to other local activists.

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Northern Alberta residents pack small town meeting over library's future

Updates on this:

www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org

Highlights from the above article:

"The library will still be a public library. It will not be a school library, it will be run by the library board," Lymburner [Valleyview Mayor] said. "So, the teachers will not be able to tell the librarians what to do or anything like that."

However, in a recording of a Jan. 29 library board meeting obtained as part of The Fifth Estate investigation, library directors were told the school board will control the space.

He said depending on the final agreement with the school board, the school might pay for library staff salaries.

Among the concerns of residents was the lack of transparency from the town council, which conducts much of its business behind closed doors or via email and did not post contact information for councillors on the town website.

Last year, councillors even passed a motion banning all recordings of council meetings. Following the town hall, Valleyview's municipal website was updated to include councillor emails and the mayor's phone number. Some Valleyview residents expressed a long-running complaint that they cannot speak during public meetings, including library board and town council meetings where politicians were making important decisions.

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This person on tiktok has some great footage from recent Valleyview Library Board meetings.

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Contact Valleyview Town Council members:

Mayor: Vern Lymburner mayor@valleyview.ca 780-552-3356

Councillor(& current Board Chair): Samantha Steinke ssteinke@valleyview.ca

#libraries #valleyview public library #valleyview #abpoli #ab news

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I'm a simple bitch. i believe the purpose of government should be to improve the lives of its citizens and protect its most vulnerable members. unfortunately i live in a day and age where this gets me labeled an enemy of the state

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Alberta Education Budget Falls Nearly $1 Billion Short to Meet Basic Needs, Teachers Say

Private school funding expected to increase over 30% by 2028

PressProgress|Rumneek Johal

Public education funding is not keeping pace with inflation, advocates say, and the situation is getting worse with the latest budget. Classroom conditions are deteriorating in Alberta public schools while private and charter schools received a funding boost in the 2025 budget which passed Thursday, according to the teacher’s association president. The Alberta Teacher’s Association, which represents over 50,000 members in the province, says Alberta’s 2025 education budget fell short nearly a billion dollars from what would be needed to bring per student funding up to the national average.

#education #ata #ab budget 2025 #abpoli

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Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton says funding cuts forcing pause on intakes for some services | Globalnews.ca

The organization said people who are current clients, who are on the waitlist for services, or who have an intake booked, will continue to b

Global News

A non-profit organization in Alberta’s capital that supports people impacted by sexual violence says it has been forced to temporarily suspend intakes for some of its clinical services because of provincial funding cuts. “We are deeply disheartened by the reality we are facing as an agency, and understand that this news may land heavily for our community,” the Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton (SACE) said in a post on social media on Monday, adding the pausing of intakes was “a difficult decision.” SACE said the services impacted will include adult counselling, child and youth counselling, and some “core therapeutic groups.”

#SACE #sexual assault centre #sexual violence centre #edmonton #abpoli

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Alberta budget bill cancels planned benefits for adopted children, changes legal aid funding | CBC News

The Alberta government is backing away from a program that would have provided dental, optical and other health benefits for adopted childre

The Alberta government is backing away from a program that would have provided dental, optical and other health benefits for adopted children. "This is basically stopping a program that never started," Finance Minister Nate Horner said of the change at a news conference on Monday. The move is part of a bill introduced in the legislature on Monday that would enable the government to enact its proposed budget.

#abpoli #ab budget 2025

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not enough people understand that disability benefits are basically what it would look like if you turned "if you're too sick for school you're too sick for video games" into an official public policy