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Marc Spooner

@drmarcspooner.bsky.social
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Professor, Fac of Ed, University of Regina. Social/ political commentator. Say no to irresponsible austerity! opinions are yours

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13h
So based on Republican commentary, the new defination of socialism is literally anything that helps anyone who isn’t a billionaire.
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 14h
Why would Saskatchewan want to go backwards when we’re leading! Standardized tests needed to boost student achievement? Saskatchewan begs to differ theconversation.com/standardized...
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Standardized tests needed to boost student achievement? Saskatchewan begs to differ
Until recently, the Prairie province has been an outlier with no provincewide mandated testing.
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 18h
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Letters to the Editor, Globe & Mail Oct. 8, 2026
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
With regard to Elon & Saskatchewan/ Settle down you haven’t even been here in over 35 years & with the exception of maybe 3 billionaires connected to our province you’re literally the least in tune human anyone could possibly be to SK or to anyone really for that matter 🤷‍♂️
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
[For Regina and area folks] WOW WEEEE! Back by popular demand! Talkin' about School and Society! Come on out if you've got the time...
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why does Saskatchewan want to go backwards when we are leaders in Canada? Standardized tests needed to boost student achievement? Saskatchewan begs to differ theconversation.com/standardized...
theconversation.com
Standardized tests needed to boost student achievement? Saskatchewan begs to differ
Until recently, the Prairie province has been an outlier with no provincewide mandated testing.
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White House Watchdog @whitehousewatchdog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The U.S. trade deficit reached a 17-month high in August, challenging President Donald Trump's tariff strategy aimed at reducing it.
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Gaping hole blown into Trump's tariff strategy as trade deficit surges
The U.S. trade deficit reached a 17-month high in August, challenging President Donald Trump's tariff strategy aimed at reducing it.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Flaring" is a major contributor to global heating. Flames at oil sites worldwide burn enough methane each year to supply about half of Europe’s annual gas consumption. The flares also spew soot, nitrogen oxides & benzine. Since oil majors pledged to end flaring, it's risen 9%. 1/2
Flares keep burning
By Will Evans and Ben Elgin Norma Lopez Cadena tries to keep her granddaughters indoors - out of sight
from the 65-foot flare burning excess gas from more than a dozen oil wells. At night, she says, the flare rattles the house from about 500 feet away and wakes her family. When the wind shifts, it smells like burnt rubber. The flare tormenting Lopez Cadena towers over the quiet West Texas neighborhood of South Ranchito, in the heart of the oil-producing Permian Basin, where it dances in the breeze day after day like an oversized lighter. When the gas flow
increases, it swells into a thick yellow and sounds like a blowtorch.
"Nobody wants to live next to that," she says.
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why does Saskatchewan want to go backwards when we are leaders in Canada? Standardized tests needed to boost student achievement? Saskatchewan begs to differ theconversation.com/standardized...
theconversation.com
Standardized tests needed to boost student achievement? Saskatchewan begs to differ
Until recently, the Prairie province has been an outlier with no provincewide mandated testing.
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Saskatchewan has an inconvenient truth for our other provinces Standardized tests needed to boost student achievement? Saskatchewan begs to differ theconversation.com/standardized...
theconversation.com
Standardized tests needed to boost student achievement? Saskatchewan begs to differ
Until recently, the Prairie province has been an outlier with no provincewide mandated testing.
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Standardized tests needed to boost student achievement? Saskatchewan begs to differ …what these latest PISA results also suggest, is that standardized testing was never the simple answer for educational attainment. The Saskatchewan advantage? shrlnk.ca/s/3PlWELoo
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Standardized tests needed to boost student achievement? Saskatchewan begs to differ
Until recently, the Prairie province has been an outlier with no provincewide mandated testing.
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They were never the answer
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mandatory standardized tests were never the answer- time to redirect these much-needed funds back into effective areas of impact! Standardized tests needed to boost student achievement? Saskatchewan begs to differ shrlnk.ca/s/UkEa6LQm
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Standardized tests needed to boost student achievement? Saskatchewan begs to differ
Until recently, the Prairie province has been an outlier with no provincewide mandated testing.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 03/10/2026
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The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 30/09/2026
Standardized tests needed to boost student achievement? Saskatchewan begs to differ
theconversation.com
Standardized tests needed to boost student achievement? Saskatchewan begs to differ
Until recently, the Prairie province has been an outlier with no provincewide mandated testing.
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University of Regina @uregina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
University of Regina's @drmarcspooner.bsky.social examines the latest PISA results and what they may, and may not, tell us about improving student achievement in this new article in @ca.theconversation.com. #GoFarUofR
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“What the OECD isn’t stating, but what these latest PISA results also suggest, is that standardized testing was never the simple answer for educational attainment.” theconversation.com/standardized...
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Standardized tests needed to boost student achievement? Saskatchewan begs to differ
Until recently, the Prairie province has been an outlier with no provincewide mandated testing.
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Simon Enoch @simonenoch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On October 1, 2026, the province will raise the minimum wage to $15.70 an hour. That falls far short of the latest living wage rate of $22.50 for Regina, and $21.50 for Saskatoon. 1/3 www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Trying to Keep Up: 2025 Living wage update for Regina and Saskatoon  | CCPA
Regina and Saskatoon’s living wage is considerably higher than the paltry legislated minimum wage in Saskatchewan
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Opinion: PISA, Canada, and the Saskatchewan Advantage  Time to redirect the millions in funding currently bypassing the classroom and going into testing programs back into classrooms… thestarphoenix.com/opinion/opin...
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Opinion: PISA, Canada, and the Saskatchewan Advantage
According to the OECD, a powerful predictor of performance remains student socio-economic background.
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“What the OECD isn’t stating, but what these latest PISA results also suggest, is that standardized testing was never the simple answer for educational attainment.” theconversation.com/standardized...
theconversation.com
Standardized tests needed to boost student achievement? Saskatchewan begs to differ
Until recently, the Prairie province has been an outlier with no provincewide mandated testing.
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wowzers woo. Just 4 more to get to 200! Where are the local community voices Saskatchewan? www.change.org/SaskDemocracy
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Only 6 away from our goal of 200! Where are the local community voices Saskatchewan? www.change.org/SaskDemocracy
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fourteen. 14. 10 + 4. That's all we need to get to 200! How can the LP or the SP have an email listed for letters to the editor, however they provide no space to publish them. How can that be you ask? Where are the local community voices Saskatchewan? www.change.org/SaskDemocracy
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The hell they do!
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI has just exacerbated this problem. Awhile back I observed: Spooner, M. (5 November 2018) The growing, high-stakes audit culture within the academy has brought about a different kind of publishing crisis. Impact of Social Sciences Blog. researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/11...
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
110%!
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
27! 27 the great rock n roll demise club number But also 27 is what we are away from 200! Where are the local community voices Saskatchewan? www.change.org/SaskDemocracy
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hopefully we can get this thing to 201!!! Where are the local community voices Saskatchewan? www.change.org/SaskDemocracy
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 23/09/2026
Conservative billionaires, state legislatures, and compliant administrators have single-handedly made "free speech"-the right to promote discredited viewpoints by hijacking the institutional imprimatur of the academy-as the defining higher ed issue of our time. www.bridgew.edu/the-universi...
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Say It Loud
We live in a society known both for rampant disinformation, as well as information overload. Ideas, good and bad, fly freely across the internet and traditional media. Meanwhile, many complain cancel ...
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They obviously need our potash we should raise our royalties and increase our tariffs
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Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“National interest” cannot become a catch-all excuse to override workers’ bargaining power whenever a lawful strike has economic consequences. That pressure is precisely what strikes are meant to create. theconversation.com/canadas-prop... #cdnpoli #canlab
theconversation.com
Canada’s proposed labour reforms could shift power away from workers in major disputes
Bill C-39 makes it easier for Ottawa to intervene when collective bargaining produces the very conflict that it is designed to manage.
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My new favourite comment- but if the right truly believes this we’re in trouble!
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There’s No Good Reason for Carney to Privatize Canada’s Airports The plan would worsen labour conditions and make flying more expensive. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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There’s No Good Reason for Carney to Privatize Canada’s Airports | The Tyee
The plan would worsen labour conditions and make flying more expensive.
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"As a long-time journalist, i know how important it is to have a public forum. Saskatchewan residents have opinions but no place to discuss them and learn from them. We need a forum!" Joanne
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Postmedia receives millions of dollars in public funding from the Canada Periodical Fund, the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit, & the Local Journalism Initiative- In return, Saskatchewan deserves a robust letters to the editor & local opinions section www.change.org/SaskDemocracy
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PEN Canada @pencanada.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s an uncertain time for libraries across #Alberta with the soon-to-be implemented Bill 28. The bill includes amendments to the Libraries Act, restricting access to certain materials for youth and appointing provincial inspectors to oversee library collections and operations: buff.ly/4CAWmNj
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Bill 28 implementation looms, concerns of library control overreach remains
The Barrhead Public Library is looking to solidify itself as a pillar of the community with various services, programs, and events it provides throughout the year.
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We’re now at 115! Let’s get our voices heard!
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Currently at 97, can we top 100 by noon? Where are the local community voices Saskatchewan? Saskatchewan has few spaces where its citizens may publicly share their views, insights, & knowledge in a curated, fact-checked fashion. please consider signing & sharing: (www.change.org/SaskDemocracy)
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Do you have a connection to Saskatchewan? Do you like reading letters to the editor and op-eds addressing provincial concerns? If so, have I got a petition for you! www.change.org/SaskDemocracy
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Please consider signing
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Saskatchewanians, please consider signing and sharing: Saskatchewan is bereft of spaces where its citizens may publicly share their views, insights, and knowledge in a curated, fact-checked fashion. (www.change.org/SaskDemocracy) www.change.org/SaskDemocracy
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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Quote: "It’s a politics that’s driven more by humiliating one’s opponents than any ideological rationalization. As democratic practices are eroded, the state becomes increasingly synonymous with the private interests of its ruler, who uses it to benefit allies and discipline adversaries." 💥
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No disputing you’re correct, BUT Let us dream briefly !
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yes!
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Me too
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Phewf! Sometimes the answers are right in front of our noses!
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Eat?
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