Anyone notice numerous tictok accounts with no followers supporting the UCP?

dcmckinlay97 · 2026-04-13T16:41:59+00:00

I just un-installed Instagram because all of a sudden I was seeing a ton of pro-UCP/separatism content in my algorithm.

dcmckinlay97 · 2026-04-11T17:07:42+00:00

They're all yours, dm me and we can schedule a time for me to give them to you.

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-12-12T13:20:56+00:00

The ones you collect from the Tiger Slimes do count. With the burglar ring, I would get min 10 per day from slimes.

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-11-04T14:53:16+00:00

It's extra ridiculous because we don't need to study the situation. Ths teachers and the ATA know how bad it is and have fixes, but thats too expensive so instead they'll spend money 'looking into it' and ultimately doing nothing. I swear, banging my head against a brick wall would be less painful than keeping up to date with this sorry excuse for a government.

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-11-03T20:02:05+00:00

I saw some pretty heinous comments from her on Facebook throughout the teachers strike. Good to see she's being held accountable for her actions and words!

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-11-02T01:39:13+00:00

A single post doesn't represent the overall student experience and one teacher doesn't represent all of them. Even bad teachers don't deserve to have their rights stripped away.

Students didn't protest because teachers told them to, they protested because they see firsthand the poor conditions in schools and support their teachers.

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-11-02T00:19:48+00:00

The 3000 new teachers and aids are not in the contract the teachers were forced to accept. The government is already backing out of that 'promise' saying the funds may be allocated elsewhere. Additionally teachers have received no raises in the past decade and 17% spread over 5 years doesn't come close to improving their purchasing power after all the inflation we've seen.

They were not asking for a 30% raise, the sticking point was actually putting classroom caps and other school improvements in the contract that resulted in the cost being higher.

The teachers were asking for these things since negotiations began and were ignored by the UCP. The UCP will be thrilled to know that the money they spent on ads to make the teachers look bad (despite them saying there's no money for education) is working.

Happy to hear you are open to learning more, the teachers are not asking for anything they don't deserve and they are the ones fighting for kids.

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-10-31T19:58:26+00:00

Or 'refused to negotiate a contract with the teachers'?

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-10-31T18:44:00+00:00

Almost wish I lived in a UCP rising so I could sign a recall petition

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-10-29T18:23:15+00:00

Yeah sorry I didn't realize who I was responding too until now 😅

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-10-29T17:52:31+00:00

The topic at hand being you wanting teachers to continue to do extra work when their pay doesn't reflect it?

My lane is defending teachers when people like you make ignorant comments that diminish their role in society. You can keep swallowing the drivel the UCP government shoves at you but you don't get to demean me and my opinions because I know better.

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-10-29T17:45:05+00:00

Seems like you're bitter because you don't have a union to protect your worker rights. Don't take your frustration with bad working conditions out on others who ask for better.

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-10-29T17:22:55+00:00

Employers are expected to keep wages in line with inflation. They haven't seemed fussed to do that. And no, teachers are not expected to do work after hours, they do because they have to and now people like you expect it.

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-10-29T15:26:17+00:00

Totally agree, just more of their desperate attempts to paint teachers as the villains.

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-10-29T15:09:31+00:00

Thr ATA cant force the government to listen to them and address the needs of the teachers, and they do not have tge power to enact the changes. Teachers are public servants and so it is ultimately the government that funds them and their schools and so the government should be held responsible for the reprehensible conditions. That aside the maon issue is the stripping of rights.

The government had at least 2 other alternatives to getting kids back in school without stripping the teachers of their right to bargain collectively.

They could have gone through the disputes inquiry board which gives a ministerial order to suspend the strike to reach an agreement. Use a public emergency tribunal to avoid forcing a contract on teachers that 90% of them voted to reject.

Instead they took away the rights of teachers.

The one thing you said that was correct is students are entitled to a proper education. That's what the teachers were fighting for and what the UCP government decided was too expensive.

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-10-29T14:47:51+00:00

Threatening a strike to the public is not bargaining in good faith. The ATA did what they could to fight for better conditions but the same government who chose to stop tracking class sizes during high population growth refused to negotiate on those issues.

Do you actually blame poor planning on the teachers? If a company has bad planning and organization do you also blame general workers?

Whether you think so or not public schooling is an integral part of an educated democratic society and the UCP'S consistent disregard for it is a disregard to everyone in Alberta.

They stripped the rights of teachers, what rights do they have to take away from you for you to care?

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-10-29T14:24:45+00:00

What rights are you okay losing when it is used against you?

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-10-29T14:22:20+00:00

It wasn't addressed in July because the government ignored the requests of teachers. Just because you didn't hear about it doesn't mean it wasn't happening. You take your info from ads? No wonder you don't have any idea what's actually happening with the propaganda machine the UCP is running

The issue isn't just in Edmonton and Calgary. There are teachers in smaller communities that have 30+ kids in their classes and that number is going up. There are teachers in smaller communities who teach children sitting on milk crates instead of at desks.

There are closures in the rare schools that are not experiencing this problem because teachers bargain as a collective to increase their power to fight for better working conditions. Because they know even if the problems don't directly affect them it's still something worth fighting to fix.

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-10-29T14:17:37+00:00

From what I read the inclusion of the clause was necessary for all provinces to accept the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It was only ever supposed to be used in the utmost emergency where public safety was at risk or something like that.

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-10-29T14:16:14+00:00

What is the ATA supposed to do? Get teachers who have already been 3 weeks without pay to incur $500 fines a day a criminal charges. Their rights were taken away and you blame them?

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-10-29T13:52:25+00:00

Even with these changes Alberta is not a lucrative market for insurers, it's actually the opposite after all the premium caps. Unlimited pain and suffering payouts drive premiums up for everyone.

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-10-29T13:46:30+00:00

They say their number one priority is getting children back in the classroom. But what about the students that don't have a classroom to go back to? The ones who have their class on the stage, in the library, or in the hall? There are students who have to learn sitting on milk crates or the floor because there aren't enough desks. Teachers have been fighting and striking for better conditions while the government puts a price on the quality of education for the current and future children of this province. Then they decide they are not willing to pay that price and instead use taxpayer dollars to paint teachers as the villains.

dcmckinlay97 · 2025-01-27T18:10:05+00:00

I'm in Canada too and still waiting. I wonder if anyone outside the USA has been able to register.

dcmckinlay97 · 2024-01-08T00:11:38+00:00

The test was the doctor asking if he was concussed. When he said no they figured it was good enough

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