My People! We've reached the stage in this election where regular (aka "not political", aka privileged) folks are complaining about the state of their social media feeds! BWAAAHAHAHAHAAA!
Now, I'm not sure if this is a specific part of their platform, but in the first two years of their mandate the Alberta -NDP have cut child poverty in half. Why aren't more people talking about this?!
Benefits help slash Alberta's child poverty rate by Trevor Tombe on CBC
(Click here for an interesting juxtaposition to the previous conservative government who didn't do anything to reduce the poverty rate in over 20 years)
Benefits help slash Alberta's child poverty rate by Trevor Tombe on CBC
(Click here for an interesting juxtaposition to the previous conservative government who didn't do anything to reduce the poverty rate in over 20 years)
Well, if there is one thing I know for certain, people really hate it when a policy directly impacts women positively. I mean, shitty people hate it, and then they get on Twitter and tell the whole world. The NDP instituted a subsidized daycare program a few years ago, and vowed to expand it as part of their 2019 platform.
NDP vows to subsidize all child care spaces in the province by Bill Kaufman, Calgary Herald
From what I could tell, those shitty people's main concern was that "if you can't afford kids, don't have them" and also, "I'm not paying for your kid's daycare." Oh! Can't forget my favourite: "it costs too much." Oh geez, have I got news for you! There are loads and loads of evidence that subsidized daycare more than pays for itself simply in getting moms back into the workforce sooner. Here is one such article!
Quebec-style child care could boost economy: Bank of Canada Head on CTV
Twitter got all fired up, and there were lots of folks - parents - sharing their #whatIpayforchildcare stories. This thread in particular is excellent:
Read the whole thing here.
And what do the UCP have to say about daycares? They want to "remove red tape for operators" aka less regulations on daycares. Is that seriously a thing people want?!
NDP child care plan shows vast gap with UCP policy by Don Braid, Calgary Herald
The Alberta party wants to introduce a voucher program for child care. When I hear "voucher" I think of the voucher program in the states for "school choice", aka pouring more money into charter schools and leaving the public system underfunded, so I don't have high hopes that this policy will get the money to the folks who need it most. But I've only heard bits and pieces about it. I will say that with the heat between the UCP and NDP, I've barely heard anything related to the other party platforms.
In addition to all the policy announcements, I cannot even keep track of how many racist, homophobic, misogynist UCP candidates we've seen ousted from the running. It's a lot, but there are still more! And lots of them are still running! Friendly reminder that Caylan Ford thinks white supremacists are hard done by, and Eva Kiryakos thinks transgender folks trying to use the bathroom are "brainwashing kids into accepting perversions as an alternate lifestyle". To note: it's not a "smear" when people are just reporting things you actually said. The people who have replaced these candidates in their ridings aren't any better, so don't get too excited.
NDP vows to subsidize all child care spaces in the province by Bill Kaufman, Calgary Herald
From what I could tell, those shitty people's main concern was that "if you can't afford kids, don't have them" and also, "I'm not paying for your kid's daycare." Oh! Can't forget my favourite: "it costs too much." Oh geez, have I got news for you! There are loads and loads of evidence that subsidized daycare more than pays for itself simply in getting moms back into the workforce sooner. Here is one such article!
Quebec-style child care could boost economy: Bank of Canada Head on CTV
Twitter got all fired up, and there were lots of folks - parents - sharing their #whatIpayforchildcare stories. This thread in particular is excellent:
And what do the UCP have to say about daycares? They want to "remove red tape for operators" aka less regulations on daycares. Is that seriously a thing people want?!
NDP child care plan shows vast gap with UCP policy by Don Braid, Calgary Herald
The Alberta party wants to introduce a voucher program for child care. When I hear "voucher" I think of the voucher program in the states for "school choice", aka pouring more money into charter schools and leaving the public system underfunded, so I don't have high hopes that this policy will get the money to the folks who need it most. But I've only heard bits and pieces about it. I will say that with the heat between the UCP and NDP, I've barely heard anything related to the other party platforms.
In addition to all the policy announcements, I cannot even keep track of how many racist, homophobic, misogynist UCP candidates we've seen ousted from the running. It's a lot, but there are still more! And lots of them are still running! Friendly reminder that Caylan Ford thinks white supremacists are hard done by, and Eva Kiryakos thinks transgender folks trying to use the bathroom are "brainwashing kids into accepting perversions as an alternate lifestyle". To note: it's not a "smear" when people are just reporting things you actually said. The people who have replaced these candidates in their ridings aren't any better, so don't get too excited.
And the media continues to do a poor job in calling out this crap. Macleans recently published a related article about media and their role in "both sides" reporting when it comes to white supremacy.
The moral cowardice of Canadian media is leaving racism unchallenged by Andray Domise (Macleans)
Well, that's probably enough for now! I'm going to put out another one of these next week, and then I'm off on vacation for about 8 days! Nothing exciting will happen in that time, I'm sure....right?!
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