School board trustee at SD22. Opinions my own.
Joined December 2018
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Encouraged by how many folks on #VernonBC Main St were excited to vote. We were out for 8h today rallying support for quality education, and it's not over. Polls are open until 8. Who are you going to bring out?
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Campaigning for quality education in #VernonBC and feeling the love. We caught Kathy fixing our sign up on her walk home. Vote Wed the 5th 8-8 at the Schubert Center. Apathy Costs Too Much❤️
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In this #ClimateEmergency, trying to go net-zero. Then I'll work on actual zero. Home, work, shopping habits, areas of influence. This link helped with the "home" part.
greenenergyfutures.ca/episod…
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More federal transit money, e-buses could be climate lifesavers via @DavidSuzukiFDN davidsuzuki.org/story/more-f…
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Italian education minister announced "traditional subjects...will also be studied from the perspective of sustainable development".
independent.co.uk/news/world…
"Eligibility for subsidized internet access...would put more money back in the hands of low-income families"
#equality #municipalinternet
jacobinmag.com/2019/12/broad…
Opening doors for improving student outcomes. A look at genetics and income.
york.ac.uk/news-and-events/n…
Students are making a difference in the world of plastics and their local footprint.
castanet.net/news/Kelowna/26…
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"Despite an Exxon scientist warning in 1981 that climate change could cause 'effects which will indeed be catastrophic — at least for a substantial fraction of the earth’s population,'" they worked on a PR campaign to make people question it's validity.
thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/11/…
Canada used to put human needs before corporate profits. I want that Canada back!
#equality
thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/11/…
"We should dispense with “work ethic” as it’s currently understood, and we should replace it with something way better: taking pride in and deriving meaning from the nature of our work itself, not from the mere ability to perform it without complaining."
jacobinmag.com/2019/10/work-…
"Reducing poverty by 50 per cent is simply not enough. We need to recognize and eliminate the systemic barriers that create and prolong poverty."
#JobGuarantee
rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/vie…
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Who's telling you what to think? "the behavior of the... social media accounts makes dear that IRA influence operatives consistently used hot-button, societal divisions to stoke anger, provoke outrage and protest"
#CriticalThinking #education
intelligence.senate.gov/site…
"More than £9.7m has been spent" on cheater devices so the sulphur from the ships is "re-routed from the exhaust and expelled into the water around the ships... bulk carriers, container ships and oil tankers... have historically been the worst polluters".
independent.co.uk/environmen…
"sea-level rise could be worse than we thought... Floods that used to happen every century will now happen, in some places, every year." -IPCC (the scientists)
youtube.com/watch?v=-VYrhw6e…
theatlantic.com/science/arch…
The miniscule faction who are corrupt, and their entrenched old guard, are afraid that we will pay attention, interconnect, and act. So lets do that.
Exposure to bad air can harm our #education equivalent to missing a year of school.
"the longer people were exposed to dirty air, the bigger the damage to intelligence."
theguardian.com/environment/…