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Cake day: November 15th, 2023

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  • Wonderful information. And if you posted the vaccination rates for India, you’d notice that the single LOWEST Indian province has a rate 10% higher than Alberta (79% vs. 69% in Alberta); and that the overall vaccination rate against Measles in India is 93.5% - significantly higher than Canada.



  • I’m a middle-aged hard-left Albertan, and I don’t exactly know where to stand on this point.

    On the one hand, I’ve been fighting against the UCP (and fucking Klein before that) for my entire life. I’ve marched with my gay friends in the '80s, stood against racists and transphobes on the streets of Calgary, demanded meaningful responses from my conservative MP/MLA/Councillor, tried to affect elections with information, and more - and I’m not fucking done yet! Better yet, there are MILLIONS of us in this province!

    At the same time, I look at the US and think “OK, you tried and weren’t successful. Time to quarantine the entire fucking country until it grows up.”

    So do I apply the same logic to my own province?

    Look, we don’t deserve the support of the rest of Canada after an almost unbroken streak of shithead conservatives, but neither does Ontario or Saskatchewan or Nova Scotia. What we NEED is for people to remember the rest of us fighting, and to help us so we can help N.S. and fight against fascists EVERYWHERE!

    I’m not looking for sympathy, I’m looking for someone to have my back so I can have theirs.

    We’re better together. As a progressive nation. As a world leader. As a line in the sand against fascists.