[But let me assure you, the Albertan government really can do some shitty things.]

Eee! Busy day! Busy week! Awesome times at Chez Anna!

I'm working on a post for disability (LJ Syndicated Feed here) about a press release regarding the recent BC decision to slash funding for students with disabilities (more details), and it hit one of my pet peeves about Canada.

Dear Canadians [Especially my father, omg]

Please stop acting like Alberta is some horrible throwback to evil where only horrible things happen, while the rest of Canada is a post-Feminist post-Racist post-Ablist Utopia of free love and awesomeness.

"Even Alberta is doing a better job than we are!" is not a good response to your government doing something shitty. Alberta also has some of the best funding for people with disabilities (far better than Nova Scotia), and the Western Canadian Chair of Deaf Studies is at the University of Alberta.

I absolutely promise I can rant about Alberta with the best of them, even better than I can randomly blame our weather on Toronto, but Alberta is not entirely made up of Ralph Klein, Ed Not-Klein, and his minions.

Please look to your own, so that you really are better than Alberta on things like disability, gender, sexuality, and race.

Lots of Love, please do something so Toronto stops making our weather so awful,

Anna

Unrelated, but eeeee! Meeting with Dr T. the thesis adviser in, like, and hour and a half! EEEEE!

Originally posted at http://trouble.dreamwidth.org/50949.html. You can comment here or there using OpenID.

[But let me assure you, the Albertan government really can do some shitty things.]

Eee! Busy day! Busy week! Awesome times at Chez Anna!

I'm working on a post for disability (LJ Syndicated Feed here) about a press release regarding the recent BC decision to slash funding for students with disabilities (more details), and it hit one of my pet peeves about Canada.

Dear Canadians [Especially my father, omg]

Please stop acting like Alberta is some horrible throwback to evil where only horrible things happen, while the rest of Canada is a post-Feminist post-Racist post-Ablist Utopia of free love and awesomeness.

"Even Alberta is doing a better job than we are!" is not a good response to your government doing something shitty. Alberta also has some of the best funding for people with disabilities (far better than Nova Scotia), and the Western Canadian Chair of Deaf Studies is at the University of Alberta.

I absolutely promise I can rant about Alberta with the best of them, even better than I can randomly blame our weather on Toronto, but Alberta is not entirely made up of Ralph Klein, Ed Not-Klein, and his minions.

Please look to your own, so that you really are better than Alberta on things like disability, gender, sexuality, and race.

Lots of Love, please do something so Toronto stops making our weather so awful,

Anna

Unrelated, but eeeee! Meeting with Dr T. the thesis adviser in, like, and hour and a half! EEEEE!

Today in Short

"Not only are you getting a scholarship for [basically one semester's tuition and books], you're also getting 130 or 180 hours of guaranteed T.A.ing for another [basically the same amount]."

Yayes!

Today in Short

"Not only are you getting a scholarship for [basically one semester's tuition and books], you're also getting 130 or 180 hours of guaranteed T.A.ing for another [basically the same amount]."

Yayes!

Originally posted at http://trouble.dreamwidth.org/51253.html. You can comment here or there using OpenID.