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I can’t believe the grifter grifted me
I cant believe a wombat ate my face off!!!!
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Red Deer parents unhappy about new public school supplies fee
Parents of some children at Red Deer Public Schools (RDPS) are being asked to pay an extra fee this school year.The board is asking for an extra $150 to cover "consumable items for non-core courses" for students in Grade 6 to 12 taking optional courses.
"Foods or recreation ed, there are a lot of field trips, shop classes where there's consumables like the cost of wood," said Colin Cairney of RDPS.
A similar fee was charged until eight years ago, when Alberta Education gave the division a grant to cover the costs.
Four years ago, the United Conservative government stopped that grant.
Since then, RDPS has dipped into its reserve fund to cover the costs, something it says it can no longer afford to do.
"There was quite a number of school divisions that, at that point, decided to resume charging those fees, and we just held off as long as we can," Cairney said.
Parents aren't happy about paying an additional school fee on top of the cost of school supplies.
"I think it's going to be a significant burden on some families, for sure," said Jennifer McMullen, a parent of a child who attends a Red Deer Public School.
"There are going to be a lot of families that won't be OK. That might mean the difference between paying the $150 school fee and then maybe paying a part of their electric bill."
The New Democrat children's services critic says the buck stops with the government on the funding shortfall.
"School boards are struggling and they've got more students than ever. And the current funding model from the UCP means that not every student who walks through the door is not actually funded," said Rakhi Pancholi.
In a statement to CTV News Edmonton, the press secretary for the minister of education says funding to RDPS is projected to increase even as enrolment decreases.
"In the 2023/24 school year, Red Deer Public School Division's enrolment is projected to decline by two students while funding is projected to increase by $5.7 million, or 5.4 per cent," Gabrielle Symbalisty wrote. "Over 98 per cent of Alberta Education’s operating budget flows to school boards, who have the flexibility they need to manage their resources."
The province's School Fees Regulation prohibits boards from charging fees for instructional materials like textbooks, but they have the flexibility to charge other fees to manage their resources.
Both RDPS and the minister's office suggest parents who are having difficulty paying school fees speak to their school principal about options.
With files from CTV News Edmonton's Nav Sangha
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Russia faces domestic fuel crunch, braces for more shortages
Russia, one of the world's biggest oil producers, has faced shortages of fuel crucial for gathering the harvest in some parts of its southern breadbasket and the situation may get worse in coming months, market sources told Reuters.
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This is a very worrying sign for global food securityRussia faces domestic fuel crunch, braces for more shortages
Russia, one of the world's biggest oil producers, has faced shortages of fuel crucial for gathering the harvest in some parts of its southern breadbasket and the situation may get worse in coming months, market sources told Reuters.www.reuters.com
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Yeah I don’t think it’s gonna make him super popular.
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Bullied by her own party, a Wisconsin election official’s GOP roots mean nothing in volatile new climate - MinnPost
The Republican clashes in Wisconsin exemplify ongoing discord seen across the country, with elections officials shunned, berated and even driven away by members of their own party over their defense of the integrity of the 2020 election.
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New move by the Republican Party to insist that anyone interviewing trump should have to read him his Miranda rights
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Legal Experts Have A Field Day With Trump's Megyn Kelly Interview
The former president thought he was speaking his truth, but some thought it sounded more like a confession.
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In a thread reversal:
She ated all the wombatses
She ated all the wombatses
I can't remember if it was a Michigan or Wisconsin guy (from up by Lake Superior area), a life long Republican, well liked and respected farmer, church deacon, community member, and a local councilman or similar. This seems like years ago, but he spoke his mind about something Trump had done, not clear if it was election lies or whatever. He simply said something like "No, that is not true." And all his neighbors turned on him. People he's literally grown up with or known all his life. And being a fairly rural, remote area, that's nearly everyone there. He was a decent, upstanding man regardless of his politics, and they found even the tiniest of deviation intolerable.Bullied by her own party, a Wisconsin election official’s GOP roots mean nothing in volatile new climate - MinnPost
The Republican clashes in Wisconsin exemplify ongoing discord seen across the country, with elections officials shunned, berated and even driven away by members of their own party over their defense of the integrity of the 2020 election.
It started before Trump. There is always some friction between rural conservative and urban liberals, with absolute geographic lines blurred my migration. Gingrich, the Tea Party, and Fox started the exacerbating the division, and now Trump has blown it up.
It is a toxic cancer that right-wing media are feasting on to the devastation of social harmony.
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Another interviewer should have read Turnip his Miranda rights :
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‘It Was My Decision’: Trump Claims Full Ownership for Directing the Effort to Overturn the 2020 Election
Former President Donald Trump assumed responsibility for his attempts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election.
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This wombats a scomo of a wombat:
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Ex-Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson claims Rudy Giuliani groped her on January 6
Exclusive: in a new book, Hutchinson describes incident in which the former New York mayor put his hand ‘under my blazer, then my skirt’
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x-gay activist jailed for alleged homosexuality
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Mr Elisha Mukisa, who has yet again dragged himself into another gay maelstrom. Photo / Courtesy
Elisha Mukisa and another man were on Tuesday arraigned before the Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court and charged with engaging in homosexuality. They denied the charges and have since been remanded to prison.
A man who rose to prominence for his fervent anti-gay rhetoric now finds himself entangled in a controversy of Uganda’s first major case since the enactment of the controversial anti-homosexuality law.
Elisha Mukisa and another man were on Tuesday arraigned before the Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court and charged with engaging in homosexuality. They denied the charges and have since been remanded to prison
Prosecution led by Ivan Kyazze, alleges that between the months of December 2022 and July 2023, within the jurisdiction of Kisaasi in Nakawa Division, Kampala, Mukisa engaged in a sexual act with Kitimbo Ramon Mwesigwa, who is of the same gender.
In March, Mr Mukisa appeared as a victim of homosexuality before the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament which was scrutinising the then anti-homosexuality bill. He was flanked by religious leaders including the president of the National Pastors’ Platform of Uganda, Pastor David Kiganda, another homosexuality victim Suleiman Kasolo, and Arising for Christ Ministries pastor Solomon Male.
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Miami man fired his rifle in the air again and again to celebrate Gov. ’ signing of Florida’s permitless carry law, authorities say.
Police responding to the July shooting then shot him “several times,” putting the man in the hospital, where he was arrested months later.
Christian Labaut, 37, is now behind bars at the Metro West Detention Center after his Friday arrest at Jackson Memorial Hospital. He was charged with 48 counts of discharging a weapon in public and a slew of other charges, including resisting an officer with violence.
According to an arrest report, Miami police responded on July 7 to an Upper East Side apartment complex near the 7800 block of Northeast 10th Avenue, where they found a man in body armor wielding a gun and firing into the air. Witnesses told officers that the man, who police later identified as Labaut, announced he was celebrating the new law while spraying a hail of bullets.
The permitless carry law, which took effect on July 1, allows people to carry concealed guns in public without training and removes additional background checks. It was signed into law by DeSantis in April.
Police say an officer asked Labaut to stop shooting his rifle and show his hands. The officer, according to the arrest report, kept giving commands, but Labaut ran off into the apartment’s hallways.
The officer, whose name is redacted in the report, then shot Labaut “several times,” according to police. Labaut was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where he was being treated until his arrest.
Police responding to the July shooting then shot him “several times,” putting the man in the hospital, where he was arrested months later.
Christian Labaut, 37, is now behind bars at the Metro West Detention Center after his Friday arrest at Jackson Memorial Hospital. He was charged with 48 counts of discharging a weapon in public and a slew of other charges, including resisting an officer with violence.
According to an arrest report, Miami police responded on July 7 to an Upper East Side apartment complex near the 7800 block of Northeast 10th Avenue, where they found a man in body armor wielding a gun and firing into the air. Witnesses told officers that the man, who police later identified as Labaut, announced he was celebrating the new law while spraying a hail of bullets.
The permitless carry law, which took effect on July 1, allows people to carry concealed guns in public without training and removes additional background checks. It was signed into law by DeSantis in April.
Police say an officer asked Labaut to stop shooting his rifle and show his hands. The officer, according to the arrest report, kept giving commands, but Labaut ran off into the apartment’s hallways.
The officer, whose name is redacted in the report, then shot Labaut “several times,” according to police. Labaut was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where he was being treated until his arrest.
I'm not even surprised anymore by this sort of thing happening. Like many of their ridiculous initiatives, stupid outcomes like this seem quite inevitable. And I won't be surprised when an even bigger and tragic incident occurs.
I just hope those voters who don't particularly pay attention to what's going on, but fall under the influence of conservative media and whose only political awareness is lighted shaded red, do actually start to notice the state of things and how what they do see from their news sources doesn't jibe with reality. Then this fever dream might start to abate, and we can return to normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.
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Laughs in fluent wombatese
no sympathy for that worm
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Excuse me, what have worms ever done to deserve such a comparison?
at my *in' plants!
