COVID-19
Red Deer Public Schools keeping Educational Assistants on for an extra month
From Red Deer Public Schools
Red Deer Public lays off support staff on June 1
Saturday’s announcement that the provincial government was reducing funds to school divisions across the province will result in the layoff of educational assistants effective June 1. There will be no more assignments for substitute teachers. Contracted services by our bussing contractor are suspended for the remainder of the school year.
Funding from the province to Red Deer Public Schools has been reduced by $1.45 million. In total, the government is expected to reduce funding to Alberta school jurisdictions by a total of $128 million, which will be directed to support the province’s COVID-19 pandemic response.
“When classes were cancelled two weeks ago, the focus of all our staff shifted to continuity of learning and supporting our 11,000 students having to learn from home,” said Board Chair Nicole Buchanan.
“Red Deer Public understands that our province and nation are significantly impacted by the many challenges we are facing in 2020. We are keenly aware of the significant challenges that students, the families we serve and our community are facing,” said Buchanan.
With online learning for 11,000 students off to a successful start last week the division wanted to ensure all students were actively engaged in learning. “We received really great feedback after a week of learning from home. When we established our plans for continuity of learning, our educational assistants and support staff played an important role in the delivery,” said Superintendent Stu Henry. “Our top priority is to continue to provide great teaching and learning to our students while they are home.”
Given the funding reduction, the District looked at all aspects of its budget to maximize student learning. “We wanted to support continuity of learning as much as possible. Through overall cost savings through reduced operations within our schools and the division, we are now able to defer the layoffs to educational assistants until June 1 rather than May 1 as originally planned,” said Henry. “This will allow us to use educational assistants to maintain our plans to support learning from home, particularly in these early stages. We can also provide targeted support to students with special needs, including those PUF students in pre kindergarten.”
While the initial announcement identified where reductions should take place, decisions have been left to school boards to determine where the reductions are best made. “We are still meeting our funding reductions announced by the government. Yes, these funding reductions are tough, but by respecting the local autonomy of school boards to make the best decisions, the government knows that we are in a far better place to make decisions that maximize student learning and have the least impact on students as well as staff,” said Chair Buchanan.
Today the District informed staff of the following layoffs:
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258 Educational Assistants – effective June 1
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Substitute Teachers – no more assignments effective March 31
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Contracted services by our bussing contractor are suspended for the remainder of the school year
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At this point, we are not anticipating nor planning further reductions to staffing.
“We are incredibly proud of how staff in all of our schools have responded to these challenging times, said Chair Buchanan. “‘We’re in this together’ is the rallying cry for this pandemic crisis. Our support staff have played an important role throughout the school year and had really stepped up as we’ve responded to this unprecedented pandemic. While they still face layoffs June 1, fortunately we have been able to minimize the impact of this funding reduction to students and staff. Yes, we will get through this together!”
6 more cases of COVID in Central Alberta, 57 in total – (April 1 update)
Alberta
Alberta health ministry to ‘consider’ report calling for end to COVID shots for healthy kids
From LifeSiteNews
The report recommended halting “the use of COVID-19 vaccines without full disclosure of their potential risks” as well as outright ending their use “for healthy children and teenagers as other jurisdictions have done,” mentioning countries like “Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the U.K.”
Alberta’s health minister says she will “consider” the findings of a report published last week which recommends the immediate halt of the COVID shots for healthy children and teenagers.
In a statement sent to the media, the office of Alberta’s Health Minister Adriana LaGrange said that the provincial government will “review and consider this report and its findings,” while at the same time noting that “no policy decisions have been made in relation to it at this time.”
The statement came in reference to the Alberta COVID-19 Pandemic Data Review Task Force’s “COVID Pandemic Response” 269-page final report, which was released last Friday. The report, which was commissioned by Premier Danielle Smith, recommended the halting of “the use of COVID-19 vaccines without full disclosure of their potential risks” as well as outright ending their use “for healthy children and teenagers as other jurisdictions have done,” mentioning countries like “Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the U.K.”
LaGrange’s office noted that the report’s findings build on efforts it says the government has already made to “enhance Alberta’s ability to respond to future public emergencies.”
Among the recommendations of the task force was the call to “[f]urther research to establish the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines is necessary before widespread use in adults and children,” the establishment of “a website and/or call-in center for the vaccine injured in Alberta” as well as establishing a “mechanism for opting out of federal health policy until provincial due process has been satisfied.”
The report also noted that “[c]hildren and teenagers have a very low risk of serious illness from COVID-19. COVID-19 vaccines were not designed to halt transmission and there is a lack of reliable data showing that the vaccines protect children from severe COVID-19.”
It is worth noting that Alberta Health Services (AHS) is still promoting the COVID shots for babies as young as six months old.
LifeSiteNews has published an extensive amount of research on the dangers of the experimental COVID mRNA jabs, which include heart damage and blood clots.
The mRNA shots have also been linked to a multitude of negative and often severe side effects in children and all have connections to cell lines derived from aborted babies.
Danielle Smith still silent on report
At the time of publication, Premier Danielle Smith has still not commented on the bombshell report.
Smith’s lack of commentary on the issue comes despite the fact that she was the one who commissioned the report last year, giving the task force a sweeping mandate to investigation her predecessor’s COVID-era mandates and policies.
After assuming her role as premier in late 2022, Smith promptly fired the province’s top doctor, Deena Hinshaw, and the entire AHS board of directors, all of whom oversaw the implementation of COVID mandates.
Under Smith’s predecessor Jason Kenney, thousands of nurses, doctors, and other healthcare and government workers lost their jobs for choosing to not get the jabs, leading Smith to say – only minutes after being sworn in – that over the past year the “unvaccinated” were the “most discriminated against” group of people in her lifetime.
The Alberta Medical Association, seemingly took to the offense on the Alberta COVID-19 Pandemic Data Review Task Force, final report – that I call the Dr. Gary Davidson report, and made their statement on X Monday.
Because this is what professional organizations do, when they’re butthurt.
Take to social media and make wild and accusatory claims.
So…moving into the twice posted statement of the AMA, today – once with the President signature – which was taken down off of X, because I guess her phone was ringing off the hook…they got completely Scorched Earth Ratioed on…
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And into the one that is still currently posted…
Their full statement looks like this:
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Can we pick it apart?
Line by Line…
Absolutely!
Starting with – “It speaks against the broadest, and most diligent, international scientific collaboration and consensus in history”, to which, can be addressed by Michael Crichton:
“Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.”
And even the report addresses this very thing, on a number of different points.
- Not all patients are the same;
- Not everybody was at risk;
- Their claims, when couldn’t be supported by information, were opinion;
- Alberta Health and Alberta Health Services, weren’t entirely in agreement on everything;
- Children were never at any risk from CONVID;
- The jabs never provided any benefits to them;
- You don’t burn children to keep adults warm;
- Only the Elderly were Ever at Risk; and even in this,
- (The majority of mortality came in a population that had over 3 comorbidities)
I mean, I can do this all day long.
I’ve been doing it throughout the entire scamedemic and before the first Canadian had taken a jab, on December 14th, 2020.
Busting out Israel Data…showing that these “safe and effective”, experimental jabs, were neither safe, nor effective…
Dr. Shelley Duggan, President of the AMA, claims that the Task Force Report is Anti-Science, Anti-Evidence and sows distrust…while apparently failing to have actually READ THE REPORT, given that it’s literally CHOCK FULL of Science and Evidence, forgetting that even before this report landed…only 6% of Canadians were “Up-to-date on their latest jabs.
In 2020, I’d stated that the largest victim of this pandemic, would be medical practitioners and faith in the medical community, and I was NOT WRONG.
They’ve set their house on fire…while pointing at others for causing this destruction…
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If you haven’t got your copy, you can get it →HERE.
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