Megan Ragan

Mother, Teacher, animal lover 🐕❤️

[Jeromy (Pathfinder) Farkas @JeromyYYC]

The Province just imposed the biggest property tax increase in Calgary history, and it shows up on your City tax bill.

Calgary's increase: 1.2%.
Province's increase: 21% this year, nearly 60% in four years. And another big hike is coming next year.

It's time for the provincial government to send their own tax bill.

[Megan Ragan @mega_shoe]

@ThisIsntUtube @IAmPoliticsGirl

[NCAA March Madness @MarchMadnessMBB]

Hang it in the Louvre 🖼️

#MarchMadness

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Ron Weasley yelling “Expensive Petroleum” while filling up his car might be the peak of comedy

[Dr. Lynora Saxinger MD FRCPC Infectious Diseases @AntibioticDoc]

PSA
In Alberta you now need to sign up to get public health advisories for your area. It is not clear to me if there will be regular media-social media public health announcements outside this process.
See link:
https://t.co/r3kqvjeLs5

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

“Can I bring my baby to the interview?”

The message came in at 11 PM:

“Hi, I have an interview with you tomorrow at 2 PM. My childcare fell through. Can I bring my 8-month-old? I understand if you need to reschedule.”

Old me would have rescheduled.
Unprofessional. Distraction. Red flag.

New me replied:
“Absolutely. See you tomorrow.”

She showed up with her baby on her hip.
She apologized three times before even sitting down.

Ten minutes in, the baby started crying.
She tried to soothe him while answering questions.
She apologized again.

I stopped the interview and said:

“Hey. You’re managing a fussy baby, answering complex questions, and staying calm under pressure. That’s literally the job. Handling chaos while staying professional. You’re already proving you can do it.”

Her eyes filled with tears.

We hired her.

She’s been with us for a year now.
The most reliable team member we have.

Why?

Because when you’re used to handling a screaming infant at 3 AM and still showing up to work the next day, workplace stress feels like nothing.

Working parents, especially mothers, are some of the most organized, efficient, and resilient people you’ll ever hire.

Yet we lose them because our hiring processes are built for people with zero caregiving responsibilities.

If your interview process can’t accommodate a parent facing a childcare issue, you’re not filtering for professionalism.

You’re filtering for privilege.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

This seems relevant to Smiths pipe dreams for sure.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith]

Today’s forecast #Budget2025 deficit for 2025-26 of about $78 billion is slightly smaller in today’s dollars as @stephenharper’s $55.6 billion deficit in 2009-10.

The more you know.

#cdnpoli

[Instant Weather Alberta ⚡️ @IWeatherAB]

#abstorm 12:13p ZOMBIE WATCH ISSUED by Zombie & Creeper Containment Canada (ZCCC):

Please be on high alert for Zombies this evening across #Alberta. There is also a slight chance of ghouls, witches, creatures and random pop-culture icons.

Latest model data is suggesting there is a new hybrid of Zombie that prefers candy to brains.

Two best survival options:

1) Turn your lights out, pretend you're not home and don't answer your door.

(This, however, may anger the older Zombies that like to carry eggs and toilet paper...)

2) Disguise your home with pumpkins, spiders, ghosts, etc., and provide these Zombies, ghouls and creatures with the sustenance they require to continue on their quest for groaning and walking slowly, or whatever...

(This is the best option and should hopefully save you from angering the older Zombies... but it's not a guarantee.)

Our Zombie Spotters will be in the field tonight, relaying us the latest ground-truth and we'll post any of the latest Warnings from the Zombieologists at Zombie & Creeper Containment Canada.

- Adam (Alberta Zombie Watch)

[Megan Ragan @mega_shoe]

@AlbertaCanada60 @shawnsearle Not misinformation. A simple Google search can clarify this for you.

[Megan Ragan @mega_shoe]

@AlbertaCanada60 @murds72 Alberta Education

[Megan Ragan @mega_shoe]

@AlbertaCanada60 It's an association, not a union.

[Megan Ragan @mega_shoe]

@ChadOhman @TheBreakdownAB That was supposed to be laughing 🤣😂

[Megan Ragan @mega_shoe]

@ChadOhman @TheBreakdownAB 😭

[Barbara Larochelle 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @BarbLarochelle]

Sounds like the education minister is spinning the exact same line that teachers always get: this is how much $$ there is, period. ‘If you teachers don’t want us to spend it on more teachers and building schools, and just take it for your wages, you decide.’ Always the same. 1/6

[Megan Ragan @mega_shoe]

@AlbertaCanada60 The job isn't hard. It exceeds challenging, it is exhaustive, it is unable to render completion or success on any given day. Wood is hard.

[Megan Ragan @mega_shoe]

@MaidRita15466 @AlbertaCanada60 "They" are mandated by the government in basically everything "they" do. Teachers didn't make the job more challenging, society did.

[Megan Ragan @mega_shoe]

@StSebastianCCSD

[Megan Ragan @mega_shoe]

@ABDanielleSmith @calgaryherald @citynewscalgary @cmcalgary @TheBreakdownAB

[Megan Ragan @mega_shoe]

The rhetoric of shaming and disrespect for teachers comes from the top. I'm sick of this "drama teacher" line used as an insult. Rather than debate to create a better Canada, the UCP propagates hate for citizens. Stop trying to win votes for 5 mins, work as a team.@calgaryherald

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

I now realize this was unfair to say.