I would love to go and listen to this man speak, but from what I understand it’s $300/head to register for the two day conference in order to be able to listen to Patrick Moore speak. That’s just beyond what I’m willing to pay for my girlfriend and I to enjoy a breath of fresh air. Hopefully I can Google and YouTube the speech after the fact.
Yeah- want to bet that LIE-berals get that $300 per head cost off some "professional development" fund for political hacks and flacks????????
Which would explain why anybody who disputes LIE-beral orthodoxy on any subject is RARELY HEARD FROM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bad enough that LIE-berals and HOGS make efforts to censor speakers at public gatherings...................
they also make very determined efforts to PREVENT ANY access to Cdn media by anti LIE-beral speakers!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an argument proving that we need desperately to get union HOG control out of the classroom!! With some comments of my own in brackets):
Indoctrination in Alberta's classrooms must stop
By Danielle Smith, Calgary Herald
Published November 29, 2019
Some Alberta students are being taught that capitalism and oilsands development are evil, says columnist Danielle Smith.
(Teacher HOGS are displaying the worst sort of CONTEMPT for the public by insulting capitalism - especially since HOGS are engaged in a GROSS CONFLICT OF INTEREST were capitalism and democracy are concerned!! HOGS have a monopoly stranglehold on education and this bigoted bullying of the public by GREEDY HOGS must STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(IN addition - HOGS ARE SELLING THEIR VOTES to LIE-berals in exchange for pay raises and this is a CLEAR CONFLICT OF INTEREST!! HOGS SHOULD NOT BE PERMITTED to vote for their political masters this way!! HOGS would be outraged if a company CEO offered hi employees a pay raise in exchange for each Conservative politician elected - so why close our eyes to HOG BIAS???????)
The efforts to convince Canadians that the Alberta energy sector is the best in class and deserves to be supported are being undermined right here at home. Rather than focus on the detractors outside Alberta’s borders, we need to focus on the detractors within our own publicly funded school system.
(It IS A FACT that Cdn oil companies ALREADY operate under the toughest environmental laws on the planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
I’ve known since I was a teenager that some public school social studies teachers seem to lean toward Marxism. I came home one day from Grade 8 social studies class telling my parents that my teacher thought the Soviet Union was just terrific. My dad had a different view. He didn’t think much of the fact that Joseph Stalin had starved 10 million people, mostly Ukrainians, and he went to the school to let my teacher know.
This story has a happy ending — it firmly cemented for me that authoritarian regimes are the most evil ideologies ever invented by humanity. If you want to give me the old yarn that communism just hasn’t been implemented right yet, I give you the China Papers released this week. Even the Chinese, for all their tolerance of wealth creation and billionaires, have no problem setting up detention camps to surveil, capture, detain and re-educate their Uighur population.
(Not to mention the SLAVE LABOUR CAMPS - that produce consumer goods in competition with Cdn workers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
So I shouldn’t have really been surprised when a parent sent me her Grade 10 son’s social studies unit test this week, chock-a-block full of Marxist themes and anti-oilsands rhetoric.
Some of the assertions in the test were things like, “Free trade is behind many of the ills of the modern world. It makes people poorer and deprives them of power by putting the economy in the hands of transnational corporations. It should be stopped.” And an exercise where a student is supposed to identify irony, showing an editorial cartoon of a T-shirt shop with anti-trade and anti-capitalist slogans on it. Get it? It’s ironic that the shopkeeper makes a profit selling “Capitalism Sucks” T-shirts. The takeaway for the 14-year-old student probably isn’t the nuance of adult hypocrisy. The takeaway is that capitalism sucks.
(One HAS TO ASK: “WHERE is the provincial education ministry comment on such a MASSIVE DIVERSION from standard curriculum?? Are our teacher HOGS such extreme bullies that the ministry IS AFRAID to discipline HOGS who stray SO FAR FROM THE CURRICULUM???????????)
Question 15 is another gem. It begins with the statement: “The proposed (oil)sands development will tear a hole in Canada’s lungs — our vital boreal ecosystem … It is essential that an integrated land management plan be in place that recognizes and protects the integrity of this critical ecosystem.” Then students are asked to choose what the author of the quote probably thinks. Are oilsands the best thing that ever happened to northern Alberta or should they be more strictly regulated? Well, duh.
The student is never asked to ponder whether the statement is true. Is Canada’s boreal forest the “lungs” of the earth? Is continued development going to “tear a hole” in those lungs? With most future development of oilsands to take place with such innovations as steam-assisted gravity drainage, or SAGD, instead of mining, it seems unlikely.
(The questions that NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO ASK are these :”HOW can we reduce our use of fossil fuel without DESTROYING our economy”????????????)
(Secondly: “Why do HOGS and LIE-berals IGNORE THE HARD EVIDENCE that we could drastically reduce green house gas emissions simply by banning air travel as it is BY FAR the dirtiest way to travel”!! Let them go on trains if they must go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(In a related question: “How much will it HURT US if LIE-berals prevent us from driving to work - versus how much will it hurt us to BAN SALES of SeaDoos and ATV`s and riding lawn mowers in order to limit fossil fuel use?????????????????)
So what is the point of this? This is not education. It’s indoctrination. And it’s got to stop.
(Even worse- the indoctrination is for the purpose of ENSURING that HOGS KEEP all their grand fuel guzzling toys and high carbon foot print lifestyle - even if it means the rest of us are IMPOVERISHED and left to starve in the cold and dark!!!)
(As I have said before - a Communist is a person in a hurry - who will shoot you to get you out of the way - but a Socialist is a person with more patience - who will leave you to starve or freeze in a ditch!!! We have only to look at the chaos in oil rich Venezuela to see the LATEST EXAMPLE of Socialist failure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The problem is how to stop it? I was informed when I spoke about this on the air that the test was probably taken from a “test pool” that was written from the formal curriculum. If that is true, it would mean it’s formal curriculum in Alberta to teach that capitalism sucks and the oilsands are destroying the lungs of the earth.
Let that sink in. If it’s an assignment drafted by the individual teacher, then who is responsible for holding them to account? The principal? The principal is in the ATA bargaining unit, they aren’t really a manager so much as a first among equals, so I doubt they would do anything about it.
Contact your trustee? They aren’t really to meddle in operational matters at individual schools. Contact the education minister? She was asked about it in question period on Wednesday, but no doubt she’ll be told she isn’t supposed to meddle in the affairs of individual classrooms either.
This is the perfect mire of a faceless bureaucracy. No one is to blame. No one takes responsibility. There is no way to correct it. And so it continues.
(On the other hand - perhaps the newly installed Conservative govt has not yet got around to confronting the HOG BULLIES about their UNAUTHORIZED CHANGES to the school curriculum?? WE can pray that is the case!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
I was going to start this column by suggesting that the Calgary Board of Education save the 300 teacher jobs on the chopping block by reducing a similar number of administrative staff. After this week, I’ve changed my mind. Let’s start by getting rid of the ones who are administering tests like this.
(TRUE DAT!! Strong regulation of HOG PROPAGANDA IS ESSENTIAL NOW!! Consider the consequences of some kid listening to his parents chat on a lazy Sunday afternoon and then the kid goes to school and REPEATS some of the thoughts typically held by ordinary Cdns - and we should ask HOW MUCH TROUBLE WILL THAT KID BE IN -with ENRAGED HOGS???????????????)
(I have pointed out in the past that teacher HOGS have a DANGEROUS monopoly on our education system - such that they CAN INFLUENCE who gets into college and university courses - simply by PRIVATELY posting critical comments to those in charge of admissions in colleges and universities!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Noted Psychiatrist Jordan Peterson has written and spoken often about the EXTREME POLITICAL “VETTING” being done to ensure that only “suitable” candidates manage to graduate from various courses - meaning YOU AINT GRADUATING - NOR GETTING A JOB - if your values diverge to much from those of your course heads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(As an example - if you want to be a teacher - you NEED a recommendation from A TEACHER - to get into Teachers College!! And if you want to get hired as a teacher - YOU NEED TO BE “VETTED” FIRST- by other more senior teachers AND BY THE UNION THAT CONTROLS ALL HIRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(The UGLY TRUTH at this time is that getting ANY govt job is like being BORN TO ROYALTY!! NO COMMON PEOPLE NEED APPLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
