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andiyeg.bsky.social
Canadian. PhD student at the U of Alberta. MA, MSW, RSW. Vanier Scholar, SSHRC CGS D, CGS M. Health care, education and labour. DMs open, e-mail me at [email protected]
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Anyone done a wellness check lately on Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's Chief of Staff Rob Anderson? His response to both articles, particularly the benign CBC story, is not what would be expected from a chief of staff who are generally the calm, rational voice of reason.

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Two years in Omaha, Nebraska together.

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Meanwhile, in two-parent families, high childcare costs can also push moms to the Right. If couples can't afford care, gender norms and pay gaps usually lead moms to be the ones who stay home. And once they're home, they become targets for Right-wing messages saying it's best for moms to stay home.

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Friends I can no longer remember people’s names. At all.

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I'd like to remind people of when Mens Rights Activists in 2016 tried to interfere in the MMIW inquiry by claiming it was sexist against men - and how that claim was never sincere. apihtawikosisan.com/2016/12/with...

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Do you have questions about equalization, why we have it, and how it works? In 2021, I recorded a great panel with some very smart Albertans, including @trevortombe.bsky.social @jaredwesley.ca @ericadams99.bsky.social and Ken Boessenkool, explaining it all. Perhaps just as relevant today! #ableg

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

There is value in asking big questions about Alberta’s future and doing so in a way that brings people together. However, the “Alberta Accord” and “Alberta Next Panel” are likely to do the opposite. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

The University of Alberta Graduate Student Association spends tens of thousands of dollars of our membership fees on travel expenses. @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I wrote about how there is a lack of spending transparency, and a waste of our money.

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Canadian music you may have forgotten about... Matt Mays & El Torpedo-On the Hood

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Patron of Midwest American youth sports, somehow.

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One of the most important pieces of public health messaging on this has to be that vaccination is not just for individual benefit, but protection for your friends, family and the community. We will see on Monday what direction Alberta takes.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Losing your riding as the party leader and then running for a perceieved "safe seat" in a different province than the constituents you have been representing for decades is not only weak but embarrassing.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Having fun reminiscing about Down With Webster today? The band couldn't have existed without Much Music, a network that was decimated by greed and the Canadian Government refusing to support Canadian art and journalism. Now is an opportunity to reinvest so we can have nice things like this, again

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May we never have to see a leader of a major Canadian political party lazily campaign on the inflammatory promise of "defunding the CBC" ever again.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Yeah, status is something that needs an audience. To FEEL their high status, powerful men need to be SEEN at important meetings, to be seen flying first class, to be seen being busy and urgently needed. Remote work functions as a masculinity threat bc it cuts off the SIGNS and SIGNALS of men's power

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The demonization of remote work also serves as a way of legitimizing expensive travel and meetings for those in the top of the organizational hierarchy. Your CEO just HAS to travel to Miami multiple times a year on a first class ticket, and your Premier has to go to Asia.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The University of Alberta paper @thegateway.bsky.social is phenomenal.

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Go Oilers! (Obviously).

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Despite our letter, and multiple official members requesting the survey be suspended immediately, the U Alberta GSA has ignored its own members and councillor demands, sending out another request for students to fill out the survey today.

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🧵The Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) at the University of Alberta has distributed a survey to ask for students’ opinions on its proposed 2025-26 budget. The budget has many controversial items, including cuts to the associate vice-president labour, who is responsible for collective bargaining.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

If you were making a reading list of KEY qualitative methods articles and books, what would you include?

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Today, I filed a Law Society conduct complaint against Alberta’s Justice Minister and lawyer Matthew Lindsay. Both, in my opinion, engaged in criminal obstruction of justice on the private surgery contracting file. Shortly, I will lay information with the RCMP. #ableg

submitted 21 days ago • 36 comments

What is Danielle Smith going to do in Japan and South Korea to improve the lives of Albertans?

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

A 10-year-old, a house painter and a mom who are running out of #HIV pills. HIV medications were supposed to be exempt from U.S. aid cuts. In Zambia, for example, those on the ground say otherwise. www.npr.org/sections/goa... via @npr.org #GlobalHealth

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