Tracey Carr 🇨🇦

mom of 3, wife of 1, teacher of many| I ❤ Public Education and Health Care Heroes|she, her|

[Paul Stewart II @PaulStewartII]

Yes. It can’t be emphasized enough.

If you want Canada you must vote. Saying it isn’t enough.

Everyone needs to vote.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

"Madness. Total madness." -- Bob Fife on federalist premier Danielle Smith putting a separatism question on a ballot and then campaigning against it

[Shelby Grace @ShelbyGraceOSh2]

The happenings in Alberta today further prove why everyone should be thankful we don’t have a Conservative government running the country. What a shit show and absolute embarrassment @ABDanielleSmith and her party are.

#ableg #abpoli

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

If you’re wanting to know why #ForeverCanadian is asking people to sign up on their website again…

This video explains it!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[peter mackay @peterfmackay]

@demetriosnAB Dude, Program Unit Funding - aka PUF funding - which is the earliest and most crucial "early intervention" funding we have in Alberta was DECIMATED by your government and has never come close to recovering. Maybe address that before boasting.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[KimBearley (she/her) @BearleyKim]

@cspotweet I don't care about sunrise in the summer, it's already early and I'm asleep. I care about kids walking to school in the dark in winter. I care that EXPERTS agree that this will be detrimental to our mental & physical health. I care that our premier is playing at Dictator.

[Alberta NDP @albertaNDP]

Now is the moment to GET LOUD:

Email the Premier.
Call every UCP MLA.
Share this thread.

Don't let Danielle Smith and the UCP steal your voice and rig the election. #abpoli #ableg

[Flavio E. @FlavioEvan]

@PierrePoilievre Your screenshot features a commentary piece claiming @MarkJCarney printed too much money and left a mess resulting in 11.1% inflation. The timeline and hard data show a completely different sequence of events. Mark Carney left the BoE in March 2020. During his entire seven-year tenure, UK inflation averaged just 1.6%.

The 11.1% peak hit a 41-year high in October 2022 under his successor. The Telegraph deliberately confuses correlation with causation by linking his previous monetary policies to this spike. Quantitative easing in the 2010s was a standard macroeconomic stabilization tool used by all central banks.

The actual drivers of the 2022 inflation surge were the massive post-pandemic supply chain collapse and the global energy crisis following the invasion of Ukraine. Blaming a retired central banker for global supply shocks two and a half years after his departure requires ignoring basic linear time. Every major G7 nation faced these exact same inflationary pressures simultaneously.

As for the claim that "Now it is Canada's turn", we can look at the actual data from his first year as PM. He secured over 20 new economic and defence partnerships. He officially launched Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) negotiations with India, accelerated Mercosur free trade negotiations with a target completion by autumn, and established a value-based recalibration with China. Canada is currently executing a $1 trillion investment plan focused on energy, AI, and critical minerals.

I prefer looking at trade statistics and macroeconomic realities over imported political commentary. The math speaks for itself.

Sources:
1. UK Office for National Statistics: Historical CPI Inflation Data 2013 to 2024.
2. Bank of England: Historical Monetary Policy Records.
3. Global Affairs Canada: CEPA Negotiations Launch November 2025.
4. Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada: Advancing Trade March 2026.

You really went back to the MAGA style playbook for this one, didn't you?

[Greg Clark 🇨🇦 @GregClarkAB]

Each time Alberta has established an Electoral Boundaries Commission to redraw election maps the government has accepted the commission’s majority report, so I was surprised and disappointed to learn that a committee of MLAs has instead been tasked with creating a new map. /1

[Marni Panas 🇨🇦 @marnipanas]

My taxes pay for roads I'll never drive, hospitals I'll never use, child care I no longer need, universities I'll never attend, social programs I'll never use. And I'm MORE than OK with that and the privilege I have living in a democratic society that cares about each other.

[Tracey Carr 🇨🇦 @TLC_67]

Now we know why they invoked the notwithstanding clause.

[Sharif Haji @SharifHajiMLA]

They used the notwithstanding clause against teachers for protesting.

Now they want to tell those same teachers exactly what to say in the classroom.

Democracy under the UCP government.

[Peggy Wright @PeggyBevClare]

This government is pulling the welcome mat out of our public schools. Instead of hiring teachers or reducing class sizes, they’re removing words like “welcome” and “diversity” from education laws. That tells you everything you need to know.
Our kids deserve better.

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg.

Albertans never asked politicians to micromanage classrooms

They asked for funding, smaller class sizes and support for students

Instead we get Bill 25?

This isn’t about “removing politics” from schools: It’s about UCP politicians controlling them, Big Brother style

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

So it turns out if you answer "yes" to the UCP's phone spamming of the province...

You get to do a secret "push poll" survey.

That frames the questions in such a way that you're either supporting them or you're an anti-freedom monster.

Fun!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Katy E 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MargTokar]

This govt continues it corruption and its waste of our money right in front of Albertans.

The ASG is a private surgical group. Sam Mraiche has shares in their clinics.

They lobbied this govt for 2 new clinics, Lethbridge & Red Deer.

/1

[Katy E 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MargTokar]

Reposting this. Albertans must never forget that @NatePike laid out much of this story in Oct/24, and got sued by Mraiche’s for it. @CarrieTait picked it up & ran with it. Thanks to these journalists. We owe them both.

[Mark Dorin @mark_dorin]

Hon. Minister @BrianJeanAB, with respect you misled the world today. I am high privy to the lease contract that I terminated according to its terms. I am privy to every licensing, surface rights and regulatory decision (including countless flaws) since 1951. You are not.

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[Tracey Carr 🇨🇦 @TLC_67]

@YYCCowboy Happy Birthday! Thanks for ALL you do! 🎊🎁🎊

[Tracey Carr 🇨🇦 @TLC_67]

@Devin_Heroux @cbcsports @worldcurling @CurlingCanada 👏🥌👏🇨🇦👏🥌👏