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'Vicious compliance': Alberta premier decries Edmonton Public Schools' banned book list | CBC News

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith slammed the Edmonton Public School Board Friday morning for its banned book list, which features more than 20

The UCP (the party in power in my province) is demanding that books with sexual content be removed from school libraries.

They gave schools a timeline of one month to remove said books but gave no list of which books to take out, only a guideline of what type of book they want removed, meaning that librarians have to individually go over every book in their libraries (in my province, school libraries typically only have 1 staff member, if any).

The government also didn't give any extra funding or resources for schools to use in complying with the order.

So schools started compiling lists of books to pull so each librarian doesn't have to go over each book in their library individually and reinvent the wheel over and over.

And the government is mad that districts are making lists of books to pull as per the government's orders.

How else do they want librarians to get this done, let alone in 1 month?

As it is, my school library will be closed for the first month of school so I can go over the books, and I'm just an elementary school librarian. I can't imagine the stress the high school librarians must be under.

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That one time I got to fulfill an immigrant dream of mine (regarding racist bullies)

When I was 12 or so, I was at a day camp (probably for spring break or summer or something, idk) and these white girls decided to make fun of this girl who had just moved from China and barely spoke any English.

She had seaweed in her lunch, and the girls were pretending it smelled awful and pretending to gag at the "smell." They clearly expected me to join in, but little did they know that, despite my pasty skin, I was a newly arrived immigrant too (from Brazil to Canada, two years prior).

And, on top of bullying not being ok to begin with, I remembered being bullied in much the same way when I couldn't speak English (except it was about my clothes instead of my food).

Well, I was fluent now, and boy did I let them have it.

I called them out on what they were doing and called them racist bullies to their faces. The queen bee tried to choke out a reply about how it wasn't her fault that the food smelled bad, and I was having none of it.

"No, it doesn't. You're just saying that because it's different and you need an excuse to pick on her because she can't speak up for herself."

After the girls sheepishly left, I turned to find the new girl smiling at me. She offered me some of her lunch, and we sat together for the rest of the day.

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I'd just like to take this moment to brag about the fact that I attended the same high school as the guy who plays Green Lantern in the new Superman movie.

We were 10+ years apart, but same high school. I've seen his graduation picture. He had a mullet.

That's all. Carry on.

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Random Fact #6,459

In Canada, it's become common for towns and cities that have airports to use the airport code when tagging stuff on social media related to the location in question.

As far as I know, this began with the city of Edmonton (Alberta) as a way to distinguish itself from Edmonton in the UK, Edmonton in Australia, and Edmonton in the US. We needed a way to distinguish ourselves in social media because it was very annoying and time-consuming to have to sort through the Edmonton tag for relevant posts about Canadian Edmonton.

So nowadays instead of using the #Edmonton tag, most people in my city use tags like #yeg, #yeglife, #yegfood, #yeglocal, #yegevents, and so on. There are even several community groups and businesses that now have YEG in their names:

[atheostic]

Places of Worship Around the World: Edmonton, Canada

Al-Rashid Mosque

Al-Rashid Mosque is the first mosque ever built in Canada.

It first opened in December 1938, when Canada's Muslim population totaled about 700 people (nowadays it's estimated that there are around 1,053,945).

If you're looking at that mosque and thinking "Huh. That's a weird-looking mosque..." you're not wrong, and there's a reason behind the unorthodox shape of the building: it wasn't designed/built by a Muslim.

It was designed by Ukrainian-Canadian contractor Mike Drewoth, who modeled the architecture after the Eastern Christian (Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox) immigrant churches of the time.

Here's what it looked like upon first opening:

The building shown above is now mostly unused for worship and is maintained for historical purposes, as the Muslim Edmontonian population has long grown too large to be accommodated in the original building. The primary building that's used nowadays looks like this:

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Is this thing on

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Edmonton, AB, Canada

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The sky is too beautiful not to post. #art #artist #artlovers #artlife #myart #artistsoninstagram #skating #yeg #yeglife #yegliving #winter #canada #night #beautifulnight #edmonton #edmontonliving (at Victoria Iceway Skating Trail) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXcoCXRLA2D/?utm_medium=tumblr