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“He [Nikolaides] said when presenting a topic of historic or political significance, teachers must ensure “both sides of the debate are accurately represented” so students can formulate their own opinions.”
So teachers need to ensure they present the Nazi argument accurately without opinion as just another side of the “debate” so students can form their own opinions about the historic and politically significant events of the 1930s? 🤔

Dene Tha’ First Nation secures court injunction, alleging lack of consultation on transfer of roads to Mackenzie County.
DTFN Chief Wilfred Hooka-Nooza: “Bistcho Lake is one of the last places where DTFN members can practice their way of life as promised by Treaty 8. Mackenzie County’s plan to transform the ice road to Bistcho Lake from primitive access in a largely abandoned oil and gas field into new public recreational access for outfitters and wealthy tourists to exploit Bistcho Lake, and others, will cause novel adverse affects to DTFN’s Treaty rights. The Government of Alberta had a duty to consult DTFN before this occurs, which, so far, it’s refusing to do.”
“On March 24, 2025, the Government of Alberta confirmed it transferred control over portions of the remote and rugged oil and gas winter access road to Bistcho Lake from various oil and gas companies to Mackenzie County without consulting DTFN.”
https://denetha.ca/2026/03/30/dtfn-press-release-regarding-bistcho-lake/
Extra info about yesterday's late breaking update to the ‘mafia style’ allegations levelled at the AER, and more from Duff Conacher’s fight for a stronger democracy in Canada.
Spilling the tea…in my new Substack post.

The final recommendations of Alberta’s Electoral Boundaries Commission released yesterday are probably about the best that could be expected given the ridiculous limitation that only two additional seats could be added to the Legislature’s current 87 despite the province’s burgeoning population. After all, the commissioners had to draw the lines somewhere, and the way they […]
"...the fact that the UCP-appointed chair of the commission felt the need to write that it was unconstitutional and wrong tells you what you need to know..."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/electoral-boundary-commission-dallas-miller-9.7143937

Alberta’s electoral boundaries commission issued a final report Thursday that proposed removing two rural seats from Alberta’s political map, but it was accompanied by a starkly different “minority report” alternative that proposed splicing several big-city ridings with rural seats.