Today, Alberta's Finance Minister issued inappropriate comments about collective bargaining to the media. Below is AUPE President Guy Smith's response:

This is horrifying. Either a total lack of understanding about how system works or advocating for government interference in research & results?

System not perfect. But this… ?

It seems like she doesn’t like what the science says so therefore it must be wrong. Huh? cc…

This is fucking authoritarian.

It doesn’t fit with academic freedom at all. Hell, it doesn’t fit with democracy.

Smith wants to control every aspect of life.

What a failure.

Despite being corrected that grants are determined by academic panels and not Justin Trudeau, Smith not only doubles down on that…

She then says that with the powers of Bill 18 she will block renewals of grants if they don’t align with UCP views.

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It seems most fitting to share this today.

In 1994, we called it #femicide .

Today, we still #CallItFemicide .

30 years later, we're still trying to battle #MVAWG & #femicide with little leadership from #governments .

In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson
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Premier Danielle Smith and Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver told ABmunis members that Alberta Government intends to introduce political parties at the municipal level, possibly during this session of the Legislature.

Rather than introducing political parties, ABmunis has…

Interestingly, the Fair Deal Panel argued forcefully against the type of law the Government of Alberta introduced today.

You can read the full report here: open.alberta.ca/publications/f…

The federal tri-council research funding agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, & CIHR) are among the most prestigious & sought after in Canadian academic circles. If this law applies to those, you may as well shut down AB's universities b/c no one will want to work at them.

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Jesus! The impact on SSHRC grants didn’t occur to me.

This will crush a majority of social science research in the province, research that we do in order to make the province a better place to live, work and raise a family.

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1. Crescent Moon bridge by Yier Wang

This whole thread is beautiful and amazing, but this one hurts my head.

Danielle Smith said she 'hoped it wouldn't come to that' when asked if the government would use the notwithstanding clause to shield their anti-trans policies. AB now seeks to intervene in the SK UR Pride case to argue for limiting judicial oversight. alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…

ICYMI heading into two years since an AHS senior leader, who also owns a private clinic in Edmonton, dissolved the ENT job my husband successfully applied for. The job to this day remains empty despite the year long wait to see ENT in AB. Update here-
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Huge congrats to Pierre Poilievre for securing the coveted Alex Jones endorsement!!!!

It can’t have been easy to dogwhistle conspiracy theories often enough to clinch the support of a Sandy Hook shooting denier, but my god, Poilievre did it.

For those following the story, here is another update on the ENT surgeon who successfully applied for a surgical job in Alberta and was never sent his contract.

The job remains unfilled. No explanation.

We remain in Nebraska, waiting to hear news.

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What an atrocious outcome for a case that has huge repercussions for our public healthcare system. This is an epic failure of the whistleblower process. Friends of Medicare Alberta Medical Association (AMA)