This Is Kat

@[email protected] Teacher | Mom | Progressive | Nerd | Running late is my cardio | she/her

[Greg Carabine @GCarabine]

This person will vote in October.
#abpoli

[This Is Kat @thisiskat]

@calgaryjohn403 @GCarabine Evaporation and condensation is in the elementary school curriculum in Alberta, not even high school 😬

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

I love Canada 🇨🇦

[Gil McGowan @gilmcgowan]

The International Court of Justice has ruled that workers have the right to strike under international treaties signed by most nations, including Canada. That means the UCP isn’t just overriding our constitution, but international agreements, as well. https://t.co/XolLvE1aPm

[Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhoganyyc]

STATEMENT ON PROVINCIAL ADDRESS

The Premier of Alberta intervened to lower the threshold for getting a separatist question on the ballot. She then intervened to eliminate a review requiring the question be constitutional. She intervenes again tonight after yet another court has told the separatists to slow down and follow the law.

The premier can wrap these actions in the words of democracy, but she is willfully ignoring the will of the vast majority of Albertans who want no part of this separatist conversation.

The simple reality, a reality you would not find in her speech, is this: she has pushed along a question because a group has threatened to bring down her and her party if she does not.

Her internal political problems have become our national crisis.

The Premier asserts her patriotism. I will take her at her word, but I will remind her a patriot puts country ahead of party. A leader steers the agenda, rather than having it blindly dictated to them. An Albertan finds ways to do what’s right, not justifications for doing what’s wrong.

This baffling, referendum-on-a-referendum question will do nothing to settle anything. It adds another layer of confusion. It will divide. It will distract. It will damage.

I hope her government will consider how to step back from this madness before the damage to our province’s social fabric and economy is too great.

Corey Hogan MP
Calgary Confederation

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

La Fierté, c’est aider chaque personne au Canada à vivre en sécurité, ouvertement et fièrement, en étant elle-même.

En cette Journée internationale contre l'homophobie, la transphobie et la biphobie, appuyons la dignité, la sécurité et les droits des personnes 2ELGBTQIA+ du Canada et d’ailleurs.

[Forward Canada @fwd_canada]

While the government claims private options will fix the system, they are actually just handing universal public healthcare over to a U.S.-style private insurance system. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli https://t.co/55yGuX4Y6C

[David McLaughlin @DavidMcLA]

She’s in a political pickle hoisted on her own referendum petard.

[Edmonton Journal @edmontonjournal]

If a separatist group wants to fight this in court, they can pay for their own appeal. It is not the responsibility of Alberta taxpayers to subsidize a political project the government claims it does not even support.

https://t.co/vVQJpxwi88

[This Is Kat @thisiskat]

@simonmaechling @ThomasHall17 Hi, big fan of science and looking forward to learning from you.

[Sharif Haji @SharifHajiMLA]

Bill 25 is being debated now, for the next 48 hours.

It is sold as a solution for schools, but it sidesteps class sizes and complexity.

That means it’s heavy on optics, light on outcomes.

Albertans should pay attention to the final days of session.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

The collapse of trust in science is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre, and destructive social contagions of modern times.

We fed billions, cured diseases and powered nations - yet people ran toward conspiracies instead.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

I’m a chemist.
I need to say this - because it’s getting dangerous out there.

It’s called chemophobia.

And it’s turning scientifically illiterate panic into a personality trait.

People are now terrified of:

• “artificial chemicals”
• molecules made in a lab
• pesticides at parts-per-billion
• ingredients they can’t pronounce

Meanwhile they drink alcohol, inhale smoke, burn fuel, eat plant toxins and scroll on phones built entirely by chemistry.

The hypocrisy is unbelievable.

Chemistry is not some dark force attacking humanity.

Chemistry is:
• medicine
• fertilizers
• vaccines
• materials
• electronics
• clean water
• food preservation
• modern agriculture
• literally your own body

Without chemistry, modern civilization collapses frighteningly fast.

And yet social media has convinced millions of people that “chemical-free” is a meaningful scientific concept.

It isn’t.

And when fear replaces chemistry, people stop trusting:

• vaccines
• medicines
• food safety
• crop protection
• innovation itself

A scientifically illiterate society becomes easy to manipulate.

So yes - I will keep defending chemistry.

Because chemistry is not the enemy.

Chemistry is the reason most of us are alive long enough to complain about it.

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

Legal experts just confirmed Danielle Smith's private healthcare law breaks the Canada Health Act.

Wealthy patients pay to skip the line. Everyone else waits longer.

Protecting public healthcare is the federal govt's job. So why is PM Carney letting Conservatives dismantle it?

[This Is Kat @thisiskat]

This story is genuinely shocking and also not at all surprising.

[Carrie Tait @CarrieTait]

First the scandal, then the surveillance.

Here's my pal @TuThanhHa with a deep dive on the harrassment of a former AHS board member, AHS' former CEO, and reporters from The Globe and Mail.
https://t.co/jFghBXpa7l

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: People don't realize that we are the first generation in the history of our species to see a sunset on another planet.

This is a real photo of sunset on Mars.

[Gil McGowan @gilmcgowan]

Fascinating survey results from respected pollster Janet Brown. Highest support for separatism comes from UCP voters … and rich people who are bad with their money. Can’t make this stuff up. The biggest threat to our province comes from the people currently running our province.

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

Being an expert in your field and being able to teach others what you know are two different skill sets.

[Forward Canada @fwd_canada]

Alberta is now Canada's most unequal province. Our rich-poor gap is so bad that the top 10 percent grab a bigger slice of income here than they do in the United States.

Every time Danielle Smith says the economy is strong, we need to ask: strong for whom?
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

[Allison Jade @da95824]

The teacher shortage is not a lack of teachers.

It's a lack of teachers willing to work under a gov that smears them, takes their rights, and causes poor working conditions.

It is a shortage of job postings due no infrastructure or low funding.

The shortage was created.