Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 02/11/2025In my 10 years of teaching I have slowly watched class sizes climb and class complexities create more demand. Teaching has gotten harder each year. What does the next 10 look like? I am passionate and love what I do despite being attacked and told to do more with less. #ABleg #ABpoli #ATA 1125
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 31/10/2025"It has been said that democracy dies in the dark. It is essential that there be open debate on matters of the public interest. The importance of a judicial declaration on a Charter violation is heightened when a legislature fails to provide any demonstrable justification for that violation." 010
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 30/10/2025SavetheCharter.ca Folks, using the notwithstanding clause to override constitutional rights is not something we should EVER take lightly. Please sign this petition to express your concern with this government and let them know your rights are yours for a reason. #Abpoli #Ableg #ATAsavethecharter.caURGENT – Stop Alberta's government from overriding the Charter of RightsAlberta Premier Smith plans to use the Notwithstanding Clause to pass laws that erase rights and silence the courts. 043
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Watching the AFL press conference brought a bit of hope on an otherwise defeated return. Teachers still feel compelled to keep fighting, even though this government has suspended our constitutional right to strike. Democracy is designed to be a painfully slow process to prevent abuses of power. 000
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 28/10/2025"The premier has woken up parents, she's woken up teachers, she's woken up students, she's woken up workers," he said. "She's woken up everybody who wants a better Alberta, and she is going to rue the day that she did this." - Naheed Nenshi #ATA #NotWithstandingClause 084
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 30/08/2025"When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a culture war." #ThisIsAmerica 081
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 19/08/2025I remain hopeful for a resolution, but history shows that negotiating with Putin is rarely straightforward, as it often involves strategic games and hidden maneuvers." #Trump #Putin 1132
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Trump prioritizes loyalty, expedience, and personal vindication-- casting doubt on judicial impartiality when it conflicts with his interests. Needless to say, his idea of justice is certainly not blind, and the scales tip towards whatever is in his favour. #ThisIsAmerica #Trump 0123
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 11/08/2025"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are." – C.S. Lewis 082
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 06/08/2025🔹️When the standard becomes the standard this becomes the mentality. 🔹️This attitude does not stay isolated in one province either— the precedent becomes set across the entire country. #ONTpoli #ABpoli #ABleg 0143
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Our Aim: To save the quality of public education in Alberta. 🔹️Fair wages that keep pace with inflation 🔹️Contractual caps on class sizes and complexity 🔹️Reduced teaching load with more prep time 🔹️Better student support staff in schools #ATA #ABleg #ABpoli #StopTheExcuses 0245
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Alberta's old coal mines contaminating rivers |CBC "Donahue said he's unsure proper regulations can be created to reverse the impacts of coal mining, because there is little historical evidence companies have been able to do so after they've ended operations, no matter how much money they spend." 0155
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 01/08/2025▫️Americans should expect to pay more for clothing, food, vehicles, and electronics as companies pass tariff costs to shoppers. ▫️Even if inflation remains stable in the short term, tariffs function as an added household tax that reduces purchasing power and increases financial strain. #USpoli 1168
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 31/07/2025“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool” 163
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 29/07/2025"Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back." ~ Mitch Albom 5144
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 28/07/2025"But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it."~ Morrie Schwartz 142
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 28/07/2025"Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open." - Laura Bush #ABleg #ABpoli 56720
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 26/07/2025"Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, [...] but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or it takes strength to remember, it takes another type of strength to forget." 082
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 23/07/2025"People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception" 151
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 18/07/2025🔴 "Canada's most notorious white supremacists are training for what they believe is an upcoming race war, branding themselves as 'active clubs'" 🔴 "Called active clubs, they're part of a decentralized white supremacist and neo-Nazi network." 284
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 17/07/2025"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it." - George Orwell Pierre Poilievre gave it a hell of a shot and had a good election run, but for the sanity of the Conservative party give it a rest for a moment-- it's a marathon...Not a sprint. #CANpoli #Poilievre 130
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 16/07/2025"It is fortunate, Charles Dudley Warner wrote more than a century ago, 'that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.'" 071
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 16/07/2025"But we cannot do the hard work of imagining a better world into existence unless we reckon honestly with what governments and corporations want us to believe, and why they want us to believe it." 010
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 16/07/2025"It's a folk singer's job to comfort the disturbed people and to disturb the comfortable people." A message and mentality that we have unfortunately lost over the years for a number of reasons. Happy birthday Woody -- the man who paved the the way for music to be used as a tool for truth. 0123
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 16/07/2025"Books are weapons in the war of ideas." Ministerial orders may lazily put together performative messaging for the public for their own cynical purposes, but at its core everybody is entitled to new ideas and books are the ammunition, the magazines, and the optics to do just that. #ABleg #ABPoli 042
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 15/07/2025"Total case counts in Alberta are at 1,314 as of noon Monday, while the U.S. has seen 1,288 cases this year. Health officials believe Alberta's case counts are likely higher than the confirmed figures." This is the consequence of Alberta's premier catering to the extreme people of her base #ABleg 095
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 15/07/2025One may argue, and one ought to remember, that in any discourse today, people do their damnedest to find the simplest route back to their own biases. When we try to paint the walls gray, only to have them covered again in black and white, how does one continue trying to paint their ideas in colour? 020
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 09/07/2025"The greatest form of activism is to be a living example of the type of people you'd like to see walking this earth" - Ebonee Davis "The only way to deal with an unfree world, is to become so absolutely free that your very existence becomes an act of rebellion.” -Albert Camus 052
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Carney Intends On: ▫️ Capping federal public size ▪️ Implementing a public service hiring freeze ▫️ Reducing public service wage growth ▪️ Dismantling "redundant" services ▫️ Flushing out outdated or low-impact spending #CANpoli #USpoli #Carney #Musk 121
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 09/07/2025"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." - George Orwell 041
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 08/07/2025▪️ Ban causes irreparable harm to trans youth ▫️ Informed medical choice must be protected ▪️ Public interest does not justify the ban ▫️ Status quo (care access) causes less harm ▪️ Injunction granted to pause the ban ▫️ Charter rights violated #ABpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ABleg 🏳️🌈 031
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 04/07/2025No taxation without representation? #DazedandConfused #July4th 051
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 03/07/2025"If you want to know who rules over you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize." 081
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 03/07/2025"don't say it..... don't say it..... don't say it....." CANADA 51st STATE, GOLDEN DOME, TARIFF IS A BEAUTIFUL WORD. #CANpoli #USpoli #Trump 043
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 03/07/2025"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask." #OTD Jim Morrison was found dead in a bathtub. No autopsy was ever conducted. 140
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 30/06/2025The irony of Trump calling the Digital Sales Tax a "direct and blatant attack on our country" then following up with announcing further tariffs on Canada is at best satirical at worst another bone-headed decision. #Trump #USpoli 192
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Know Your Rights! ▫️ You have the right not to be killed Murder is a CRIME! Unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat ▫️ You have the right to FREE SPEECH as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it. #TheOnlyBandThatMatters 020
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Premier Smith continues to battle Transgender kids: "We want to battle this out, and the way you do that is you go to the higher levels of court. If we were to impose the notwithstanding clause, everything would stop. We actually think that we've got a very solid case" Notwishtanding... Really? 064
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Likely targets include: 🔹 Health transfers 🔹 Infrastructure 🔹 Climate funding Social supports like: 🔸 Child care 🔸 Housing 🔸 Canada Child Benefit But at least we will have appeased Trump 😇 #Canpoli #USpoli #NATO 031
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 28/06/2025 1949: Dystopian Idea 🔹 WAR IS PEACE 🔹 FREEDOM IS SLAVERY 🔹 IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH 2025: Real Life Dystopia 🔸 OBEDIENCE IS FREEDOM 🔸 WOKENESS IS BIGOTRY 🔸 REALITY IS FAKE #DonaldTrump #USpoli #BjgBrother 251
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 26/06/2025"You say you'll change the constitution, well, you know We all wanna change your head You tell me it's the institution, well, you know You better free your mind instead But if you go carryin' pictures of [Donald Trump] You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow" #GlobalBeatlesDay 181
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 23/06/2025"My case for books is that they shrink the empathy gap, because when I read Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield isn't my friend or my spouse or my anything, [but] he is as close as I can come to being someone else.” - John Green The medium is the message and the message is read more and hate less 031
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 22/06/2025White Americans, what? Nothing better to do Why don't you kick yourself out? You're an immigrant too Who's usin' who? What should we do? Well, you can't be a pimp and a prostitute too. #IckyICE #Trump 040
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Governance systems and democratic structures, oral traditions and languages, agriculture and environmental stewardship, architecture and infrastructure — the list goes on. Indigenous Peoples of Canada, thank you for your contributions to the world! #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay 0113
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Come you Masters of War Let me ask you one question Is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could? I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul 1185
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 20/06/2025"Algorithims can do plenty, but they can't do it with love and intention." "In choosing your God, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours." 092
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 19/06/2025"Racism is a problem, economic inequality is a problem, not enough rock n' roll on the radio is a problem. But all those problems will become insignificant when the oceans rise in a way that threatens organised human activity." ~ Tom Morello The end is nigh... Until then... Deport racists. 1145
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 19/06/2025What students deserve: - EA support. - Equitable classroom sizes. - Properly funded inclusive classrooms. - EAL supports. - Further access to mental health services. - Safe and accessible learning environments. Common denominator: Alberta Government funding! #ABpoli #ABleg #ATA 063
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Every injustice has its reckoning. In due time, due process will be restored. The scales will shift once more Lady Justice, will lift her blindfold and bear witness. Masks may only mask for so long. #ICE #LadyJustice #USpoli 096
Teags Wish 🇨🇦 @teananners.bsky.social · 18/06/2025"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." 030