🌈 Things I love: data, gardening, speculative fiction, toppling the patriarchy.
Calgary, Alberta
Joined September 2021
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Elle retweeted
“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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Elle retweeted
Going to get a little controversial here, but if your child comes out at school and not to you, your questions shouldn’t be with your child, or with their teacher. You should really be questioning yourself. – at Winnipeg, Manitoba
Elle retweeted
Cis isn't a slur, it's a descriptive adjective just like "apartheid benefactor" or "divorced" or "hated so much by my kids that they changed their name so as to have nothing to do with me"
Elle retweeted
This is why you don't bow down to hate. This is why you don't cancel Pride events or marketing campaigns or anything because loud, angry people want to disrupt progress.
When you bow down to hate, it doesn't go away. It gets emboldened.
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This kind of simplistic messaging and imagery leaves no room to doubt how simple minded the UCP really sees a certain part of their voter base to be.
In 2019, I knocked on +10,000 doors. The majority of people told me they wanted the @Alberta_UCP to bring jobs back. We made progress over the last 4 yrs. & can't afford to go back.
Advance polls are open until 8 p.m. Find one near you: map.elections.ab.ca/ #TeamUCP #RedDeer
Elle retweeted
Nagwan Al-Guneid is an energy expert, a mother and one of the Globe and Mail’s 50 Changemakers reinventing how Canada does business.
She’s also the next MLA for Calgary-Glenmore!
But she’s in a tight race and she needs your support: nagwanalguneid.albertandp.ca… @NagwanYYC
Elle retweeted
Thinking of voting UCP “because of the economy”? Think again! New study shows UCP’s “trickle down” policies have hurt, not helped the Alberta economy. Wage growth, economic growth, investment all dismal under UCP. #abvotes #FireTheUCP #abpoli #abvote action.afl.org/press-release…
Elle retweeted
Video and audio recordings obtained by Global News of David Parker, founder of Take Back Alberta, reveals some extreme views on women and claims the group controls half of the UCP board and the premier's office. @StaySaif has more on how Danielle Smith is reacting to the claims.
Elle retweeted
It’s funny how the conservatives have been in power for nearly 50 years and they keep claiming they’ll cut bloat.
Like, how much time do they need?
If the UCP hasn’t cut the bloat after 4 years, why would they do it in a second term? – at Lethbridge, Alberta
Elle retweeted
FYI “transgenderism” and “gender ideology” are right wing terms that trans people do not use. We are just people trying to live our lives. We are not an “ideology” or “-ism”
