Leofish posted:

The premier of Prince Edward Island just lost his seat to a guy named Bloyce.

Oh, also it looks like a PC minority unless the Greens manage to work some kind of coalition with the Liberals.

And it doesn't look like PR is going to pass on the Island either.

cowofwar posted:

PEI is old af so unsurprising outcome

Risky Bisquick posted:

Not every conservative is upper class but okay cool take.

Kraftwerk posted:

Hi guys - it’s semi related but I want to talk about some things Helsing said earlier.

Recently some friends have approached me and told me that I’m a great writer and I’m good at shutting down right wingers and advocating for progressive causes on my social media. I told them that structures within existing parties are designed to prevent any true progressives from gaining any kind of momentum.

To that end I remembered what helsing said about how what we absolutely need right now isn’t a top down change by magically waiting for some left wing leader to inspire our politics. Instead we need to build a progressive movement from the ground up at the grassroots that can apply pressure on the political system.

So instead of tilting at the windmills on Facebook- I thought I’d ask you guys to help me brainstorm some ideas on how we can build a homegrown progressive movement here in Canada.

I’m talking about networks similar to how we have momentum in the uk or the Justice Democrat’s, DSA and our revolution in the US. How does one start building a movement and winning over followers for this idea?
Would it require us to have a progressive network similar to TYT in the USA?

Kraftwerk posted:

So instead of tilting at the windmills on Facebook- I thought I’d ask you guys to help me brainstorm some ideas on how we can build a homegrown progressive movement here in Canada.

I’m talking about networks similar to how we have momentum in the uk or the Justice Democrat’s, DSA and our revolution in the US. How does one start building a movement and winning over followers for this idea?
Would it require us to have a progressive network similar to TYT in the USA?

infernal machines posted:

Teachers' Union Thug is one hell of a name.

Also, as someone who works with OSSTF, lmao.

Tsyni posted:

I'm working on a job site in North Vancouver where I overheard some "carpenters" trying to figure out their time and a half wage on $26/h.

Math is just a luxury.

Mr. Apollo posted:

Both of my parents were teachers and one of my sisters is a teacher. A big problem, from what I understand, is parents who raise hell if it’s suggested that their kid could benefit from extra help/being put into a separate class/be held back a year/whatever. The parents insist there’s nothing wrong with the kid, the problem is with the teacher. The principals rarely back the teacher and give into the parents’ demands that the kid stay in the regular class with everyone else. Basically the board is scared of lawsuits so it would rather go along with what the parents want than risk an expensive lawsuit.

Arabian Jesus posted:

These activist networks already exist in individual areas. I believe the Courage Coalition is probably the closest thing we have to something resembling Momentum. Getting something organized on the national level is far more easier said than done but I think it would be a huge step for left politics

Awful CompSloth posted:

Serious question how do the 3 parties in PEI compare? I find it interesting that the Greens talk about "fiscal responsibility" while still portraying themselves as progressive, and what about the PCs? Are they ever to the left of the liberals? I feel like it might have been that way with Progressive Conservative parties in decades past but I don't know much about it.

mila kunis posted:

Are they still active?

Pinterest Mom posted:

"public transit plan for the whole island" (lol)

just another posted:

I am extremely suspicious of any study that claims social promotion is a net good, or that streaming is a net bad, relative to the current system. I know too many students who have been made more at-risk by being forced into regular classrooms in the name of "inclusion", which is only ever a money saving philosophy when uttered by the Ministry or the school district.

Tsyni posted:

trying to figure out their time and a half wage

PT6A posted:

dealing with adults daily for whom "multiply by two, divide by three" is a big ask,

Jan posted:

incontinence 100 posted:

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this was the most hosed up way to calculate this.

Jan posted:

pokeyman posted:

I laughed to tears listening to someone explaining Charlottetown's transit system (T3, aka Take Transit Today) and their bafflement trying to use it. This was a few years back so maybe it’s better now, but it was just amazing. The schedule was unreadable, certain stops would disappear from certain routes at wacky times, and people acted all surprised to hear the "next stop" chime because you were supposed to just holler at the driver.

berenzen posted:

There's a bunch of studies (I'll have to see if I can look them up), that show that holding children back grades can actually harm them in a bunch of ways. While they might work better intellectually, they end up showing a lot more psychological stressors; they end up separated from their friend group both physically and socially. And they could be strong in basically everything but mathematics.

Honestly, the best solution is reducing classroom sizes, which allows teachers to recognize struggling students in a given subject area, and help them. You can then curate classes from there to put students of similar excellence levels together, which benefits both the students that are struggling- as teachers can spend more time on given subject matters- and the students that excel.

And math is fairly difficult for a significant portion of the population, particularly once they've left situations where they're forced to use in on a regular basis. The fact of the matter is that math is a language, and it's fundamentally different than any other sort of language, as it's computational in nature, which is unlike any other language used by humans except for coding languages. So as a result, you need to try and teach kids to think differently than they normally do. This can be fairly difficult for some people, because their brains just might not be wired in a way to let them do that well. To add on top of everything, in order to keep fluency with math you need to practice it, which our society seems to try to get you to actively avoid (the cynical part of me wants to say so you spend more money than you have on useless poo poo for the gods of capitalism). So people end up losing the ability to do even the most basic math, particularly if they struggled with it to begin with.

Pinterest Mom posted:

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/peipc/pages/1574/attachments/original/1555084646/PC-2019_Platform.pdf?1555084646

This is a red-rear end red tory platform, yes. Rent vouchers for low income folk, "public transit plan for the whole island" (lol), cutting taxes but mostly for low income people, a priority on mental health services, engagement with indigenous PEIers, queer folk, feminists, universal pre-k.

Awful CompSloth posted:

drat, that seems like the most uh Progessive uh... Conservative platform I've ever seen. Now I'm wondering wondering if the Green party is secretly more conservative than them.

Tsyni posted:

He just mixed up multiply and divide. Some people have different ways of calculating numbers in their heads that they use for all cases even if it might make more sense to add half to 26.

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

With regard to minority governments, is it possible in Canada/the provinces to just not form a coalition? Can the PCs in PEI govern by appealing to a few Liberal and/or Green MLAs as it suits them? I mean, there’s something to be said for such an arrangement, it means that the interests of the electorate are well represented and there’s no “have vs have-not” situation where some ridings are just absolutely ignored for 4 years, but is it functional or even possible as a government?

Can the liberals and greens form a coalition government and overrule the plurality of the PCs?

I understand this is a somewhat unique situation haha

zapplez posted:

God drat

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/ndp-leader-jagmeet-singh-says-he-was-sexually-abused-as-a-boy-1.4391091

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

With regard to minority governments, is it possible in Canada/the provinces to just not form a coalition? Can the PCs in PEI govern by appealing to a few Liberal and/or Green MLAs as it suits them? I mean, there’s something to be said for such an arrangement, it means that the interests of the electorate are well represented and there’s no “have vs have-not” situation where some ridings are just absolutely ignored for 4 years, but is it functional or even possible as a government?

Can the liberals and greens form a coalition government and overrule the plurality of the PCs?

I understand this is a somewhat unique situation haha

quote:

The Prime Minister’s Office is using a private party database called Liberalist in its background checks on candidates for judicial appointments, a tool that allows them to see whether would-be judges have supported the Liberal Party in recent years, records show.

The Liberal Party designed the database to be used for partisan purposes, such as helping Liberal candidates track and reach their supporters during election campaigns.

However, confidential documents obtained by The Globe and Mail show the PMO’s appointments branch is also using it to look into the partisan background of applicants for judicial positions. The documents, which were provided by a source, were produced by the PMO and show the results of database checks on judicial applicants. Liberalist is the only one of the databases that is not accessible to the public.

https://outline.com/YDmVqU

just another posted:

Under the current model, (some) spec. ed. students receive targeted funds based on their particular designation. This makes it real easy to have conversations like "Jimmy brings in $8000.00 to this school every year. Where is this money being spent to help Jimmy?"

Pixelante posted:

In practice, it really doesn't work this way. Even if Jimmy's designation brings in funding, it's not tied to him--which schools are very quick to point out. Of course, they use the argument the reverse way too: your kid's designation doesn't bring funding, so of course you can't have an EA 1-on-1 despite problems. I cannot count how many times I've had either argument while supporting parents in IEP meetings.

Last I heard, the new model is under review and the soonest anything will change is September 2020. I'd love to talk more about it, though. Hit me up at pixelant3@gmail.com if you want to talk shop.

quote:

Because of our strong economy, more families are choosing to make B.C. their home. Our public schools are growing, with more kids than ever entering our classrooms. We acted quickly to ensure school construction projects got underway, with more than $1 billion invested since September 2017. This historic funding will add thousands of new seats, so we can get kids out of portables in some of our fastest-growing communities.

By hiring 4,000 new teachers and 1,000 new educational assistants, students are also now benefiting from smaller class sizes. I often hear from parents who tell me they see a huge difference in their child’s learning development because they have more one-on-one time from their teachers.

just another posted:

True. In my case, those conversations happen at the school level rather than at the district/hiring level. "Under review" is a bit of government misdirection, though -- the current working groups are "implementation" working groups and the grapevine says that the superintendents have already been informed that it's going forward in the 2020/2021 school year.

quote:

Are you in education, too?

Pixelante posted:

This year the big fight has been schools sending kids with disabilities home because the supports aren't in place for them. It violates the School Act, but it's happening in every single school district in BC.