J Gatner
@jgatner
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I am an educator in a rural K-9 Catholic school. I enjoy making music, cheering for the Leafs and finding innovative ways to engage students.
Alberta, Canada
Joined June 2010
As someone downstream from the tar sands, I assure you there’s no such thing as ethical oil.The tailings dams have been leaking into the Athabasca river & poisoning our people & the land for decades.The industrial emissions also create an oil spill each Spring when the snow melts
Kids to learn Alberta is 'most ethical producer of oil in the world' in school
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Nate Horner wants us to believe AIMCo’s board richly deserved to be summarily fired. A glance at board members’ resumes suggests this is unlikely to be the case – so what’s really going on? https://t.co/hrqiz3tBkk
#ableg #abpoli @aimcoinvests
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Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner wants us to believe he sacked the CEO and entire board of the Alberta Investment Management Corp. last Thursday because, as his news release put it, “the corpor...
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Dave Grohl tells where he got the drum beat for Nirvana's hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
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10 richest Canadians combined net worth has ballooned to $261 Billion compared to a paltry $60B in 2004. @CAEHomelessness could end homelessness across canada for $4.4B a year for the next decade. https://t.co/92Cl3e0dNA
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Join our campaign to build a safer, more affordable, welcoming city for everyone.
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Nate Horner is not qualified.
Ms. @ABDanielleSmith - give teachers their pensions back. The @Alberta_UCP clearly lied about the benefits of having our pensions controlled by AIMCo, and that AIMCo was not to be controlled by government. Another UCP failure to add to the long, long list of failures. #Ableg
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This is now the SECOND complete change of management in AIMCo under the UCP, the first after losing billions in wildly stupid risky investments. But they told us teacher pensions were safer with them after they stole them, and they want them to run our CPP.
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What if we took the worst FOIP system in the free world and somehow make it shittier? https://t.co/34u3kIED94 via @edmontonjournal
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Oh, and say goodbye to getting even the background factual information a minister's decisions relies on. Next time they repeal the coal policy they are making sure they won't have to tell anyone a goddamn thing about it.
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@ChrisLaBossiere There's nothing here about "control of media." It's about properly regulating companies that transmit information and prevent them from being gamed/weaponized by bad-faith actors. And our country is at stake here. I'd have thought you would understand that more than most.
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No, they’re not conservatives. Conservatives do not blow $80 million on fake Tylenol, waste money on frivolous lawsuits just to prove their relevance, deny science, or accuse US of “chemtrails”Conservatives don’t buy private schools and don’t interfere with banking. #ableg
@LukaszukAB They are conservative. We are used to the progressive kind not the regressive kind.
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PARENTS WILL HAVE TO OPT-IN FOR SCIENCE 9?!?! May talk to more than just your inner circle of culture-war generals before you table laws maybe?!
Preserving children’s rights in schools is just as important as it is in all other areas of their lives. That’s why our government is tabling the Education Amendment Act as one of the 3 pieces of legislation to preserve the rights of all children and youth in our province. If
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Time Change Weekend 🕰 As the TimeLords adjust our clocks, here’s my pocket watch from 1756… …and the story behind it…
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only one handful of deer chili per child
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Joy often requires effort to find, while sadness comes easily. Yet, pursuing joy is worthwhile—it's what we truly need as it illuminates the path through difficult times. From the Yukon, Canada, I am sharing good winter vibes and positivity with everyone! ❄️
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In the presence of the heart of Christ, I ask the Lord to have mercy on this suffering world. May He pour out the treasures of his love, so that our world may regain the most important and necessary thing of all: its heart. #DilexitNos
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ENCYCLICAL LETTER DILEXIT NOS OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ON THE HUMAN AND DIVINE LOVE OF THE HEART OF JESUS CHRIST
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In Pope Francis new encyclical DILEXIT NOS (He loved us) where the Holy Father reflects on the Heart as love and God’s love for us, this is my favorite paragraph after my first read.
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