That's hardly fair. An extremely determined and well-organized psychopath - who happens to manipulate the premier's office - has been working on this for a decade. Albertans are pretty fucking wishy-washy and wayyyyyy too right-wing, but the hardcore extremist hatred is being carefully stoked by Nazis. Nazis named Take Back Alberta.

You are falling exactly into their snare.

It's a "mostly reasonable" petition that will get "mostly reasonable" people to support it. In fact, it is a direct, deliberate, methodical attack on the LGBTQ2+ community, and aimed at making them feel unsafe.

If we were going to call this reasonable and ban all religious iconography from the government, then we shouldn't be allowed to sing God Save the King or O Canada on government property. ("God keep our land/Glorious and Free" since 1980).

This is absolutely hate-based, make no mistake.

First off, 851 people (20%) signed the petition.

"Those individuals" who raised this are undoubtedly tied back to Take Back Alberta - or at least, the organizers are.

They will do the same thing that Westlock did: Present this as a neutral "no special interests" policy, and then advertise the shit out of their rational opinion, attacking the woke extremists for forcing their issue on what should be neutral territory.

Then they'll get about a 51% vote - not representative of the entire town, but enough to ban pride symbolism in the town.

Then they'll move onto the next town - maybe Rocky Mountain House or Didsbury or Sexsmith or Brooks. Actually, scratch that - they won't touch a town in Smith's riding for now.

But over time, they'll get the same bylaw passed in another town and another and another, until they can claim most of the rural electoral districts. Then - maybe after getting a few larger towns or even cities (Lethbridge), they'll petition the government. "Clearly the majority of Albertans support this neutrality, so let's make it a provincial law."

And David Parker will sit back, chuckling in his white robe and hat, as he destroys the lives of LGBTQ2+ people, and finishes his second front - banning abortion in the province.

Just saw "The Play That Goes Wrong," and it is a two hour masterpiece of a play within a play.

I see videos of complete productions on youtube. Go watch one.

Make no mistake - Trump would do that and more.

"Yeah, we killed her. We'd killher again if we could. Whatcha gonna do about it?"

There are more people who need transplants than there are organs, so the medical profession has to make decisions about who to deny. This was a reasonable decision, in my opinion.

Have you played Morrowind? Best Elder Scrolls game by far, in my opinion.

And so hard to play, so yeah.

Not gonna happen. It's a lot of work, and they'd rather spend it making new games (for legitimate reasons).

OK, I know nothing about furry social interactions, but non-furry cons - comic, scifi, etc., are all generally quite welcoming.

The best advice I got as an introvert who moved to a different country was that I don't have to be outgoing, I just have to pretend to be outgoing. Acting, essentially. It was surprising how easy it was to fake sociability, to the point that I made a few friends.

Well, there was certainly interest in it...

https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/113/090/643/671/610/758/original/33643069665325c5.png

Or you could, I dunno, fuck off and die.

That is EXACTLY the point - to deny (either deliberately or through omission) basic sex ed to as many students as possible; to block understanding and acceptance of everything other than the straight, white, conservative christian patriarchy.