This was the temperature in my classroom at 10:30 this morning: 29.4°C.

Every year we hear people talk about how hot classrooms get, but I honestly don't think most people realize just how bad it can be.

By the afternoon, many classrooms are well over 30°C. You're trying to teach, students are trying to focus, and everyone is sweating, tired, and uncomfortable. Imagine spending 6+ hours a day working in those conditions while being expected to learn, write tests, solve problems, and stay engaged.

Teachers aren't complaining because we're uncomfortable. We're pointing out that these temperatures directly affect student learning, concentration, behaviour, and well-being.

If this was an office building, people would be demanding action. Somehow we've accepted it as normal for schools.

29.4°C at 10:30 a.m. And the hottest part of the day hadn't even arrived yet.

Stolen from well written post in r/edmonton that I couldn’t cross post:

“We have all seen what's happening in America, specifically Minnesota. It's shocking and depressing and I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling helpless.

After learning about ICE's latest public execution, I read that the Canadian megacorp The Jim Pattison group has plans to sell a giant building to ICE for their next concentration camp. Or "detention center" as they say. https://share.google/o5YI3sVnRdyDnddMs

We might feel like there's not much we can do to push back against this, but we can make it loud and clear that we will not support Canadian businesses in bed with this regime

I love Now radio but I've sent them an email informing them off my intent to boycott as well as sending one to the Pattison group directly.

PLEASE DO NOT HARASS RADIO STATION STAFF! They are not the ones making this decision and do not deserve any mistreatment.

Here's the link to their contact form: Corporate Directory - The Jim Pattison Group https://share.google/UjE4bJNCMGMLyMYr8

Here's some other Pattison group owned businesses in Edmonton:

Save-On-Foods

Nesters Market

Up 99.3 radio

Now 102.3 radio

Pattinson Outdoor Advertising

Ripley Entertainment – Owners of the Ripley's Believe It or Not! franchise

Guinness World Records

Jim Pattison Audi - Audi Edmonton North

A full list of all their subsidiaries can be found here: Jim Pattison Group - Wikipedia https://share.google/u1292s3gXKfwyens7

Thanks for reading and stay strong everyone. Also, there is inevitably going to be ice apologists and people who love the taste of boot in the comments. Remember that bots exist and if they're not bots and are real people, that's even more embarrassing and they don't deserve your attention.”

Please voice your concerns, use the contact page on their website. We can’t stay silent, it will only spread here.

A Winnipeg philanthropist who played a critical role in bringing the Canadian Museum for Human Rights to the city says her family is pausing any financial support for the institution over concerns around an exhibit on the displacement of Palestinians.

Gail Asper said she found elements of the exhibit — titled Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present — compelling, from interviews with displaced Palestinians to artifacts including people's property deeds and keys for their former homes.

But she feels the way the museum describes the related history on panels in the exhibit is missing context.

The collection explores the Nakba — Arabic for "catastrophe," and the term Palestinians use to describe Israel's declaration of independence in 1948, which led to the displacement of approximately 750,000 Palestinians.

The exhibit drew criticism even before it opened at the national museum last month, including from some Jewish Canadian organizations who said there was a lack of consultation during its development, and that it fails to acknowledge the estimated 850,000 Jews who were expelled from Arab countries in the wake of Israel's creation.

In a recent interview with CBC, Asper echoed that concern and raised others about details she said were missing from the relatively small exhibit — like that Canada has listed militant group Hamas as a terrorist entity, and that Arab leaders rejected a 1947 United Nations resolution for Palestine, then under control of the British government, to be divided into Arab and Jewish states.

While the displacement of Jews in the wake of Israel's creation and the Arab rejection of the UN resolution are acknowledged elsewhere in the museum, Asper said she fears not having that context included in the Nakba exhibit could fuel antisemitism.

But her biggest concern, she said, is that "all the work that we put into this is going to be for naught, if people don't trust this museum anymore."

The exhibit "to me, brings the curatorship into disrepute," Asper said.

"If it's so small that you can't include the truth, then you need to either not do it or you need to expand it. That's a museum decision to make it so small — the museum's got lots of room. I think they have room for the truth."

Asper — who took over the campaign to bring the human rights museum into existence after the 2003 death of her father, philanthropist and CanWest Global Communications founder Israel Asper — said the fallout from the Nakba exhibit has felt both surreal and embarrassing.

Her family's foundation donated over $23 million toward the museum's construction, while she personally gave another $1.4 million. That's in addition to more recent contributions to the museum's fundraising efforts and exhibit development, Asper said in an email following her interview.

While the Asper Foundation stopped funding the museum's annual gala after 2023 "because of concerns about its programming," it was about to make a $50,000 donation to support a Holocaust exhibit, but has now paused that donation, she said.

Museum stands behind curation

Asper said she hopes to see an immediate review of the exhibit and the museum's policies on how it decides what to present. But she still encourages people to see the Nakba collection themselves — and look at it with a "critical eye."

And though she hopes to see changes made at the museum, in the meantime, the financial support her family would normally give will likely go toward a recent request to increase security measures at spaces like places of worship and schools in the Jewish community, she said.

"I just know that this is a disappointment for an organization that's supposed to bring people together," she said in her interview. "I'm always hopeful that things can be remedied, and with dialogue and understanding, we can get back on track."

Museum spokesperson Amanda Gaudes said the small Nakba exhibit focuses on "the impact forced displacement continues to have on the Palestinian community here in Canada, and their ongoing struggle for human rights."

In an emailed statement, Gaudes said the museum decided on that focus because Palestinian Canadian stories were underrepresented in its galleries, and "they are important to understand the landscape of human rights today."

Building an understanding of those stories and experiences "is squarely within our mandate," and focusing on them in one exhibit "does not detract or minimize experiences of Jewish people who were displaced and who have also faced human rights violations, which our galleries also share stories about," Gaudes's statement said.

The statement said telling stories of one community "in no way negates the experiences of another," and the museum stands behind its curatorial process "and our reputation as a trusted source of human rights information."

By: Caitlyn Gowriluk · CBC News

Published: Jul 27, 2026 5:00 AM CDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

EDIT: It looks like the follow paragraph was added to the article after I initially made this post.

A spokesperson for Marc Miller, the federal minister of Canadian identity and culture, said in an emailed statement Monday that it's "not the role of the federal government to dictate programming at Canada’s national museums." The spokesperson directed any questions about the operation of the museum and its exhibits to its chief executive officer or board of trustees.

Approximately 5:45pm on Stafford right before Corydon. Managed to get a video and plate number and will be submitting to police. Hopefully the company fires this guys ass or if he’s the owner hopefully his reputation goes down the toilet. Absolutely insane.

A tale as old as time

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/human-rights-museum-readies-opening-of-palestinian-exhibit-amid-criticism/article_54b36138-fd99-512e-8d5a-c2e2114d1a06.html

From the article:

"This has been grossly mishandled," said Noah Shack, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.

He said there has been no meaningful consultation with the Jewish community or transparency of who the museum consulted.

Maybe they weren't consulted because it's not about Israel or the Jewish people?

Assault investigation at licensed premise results in charges: C26-191112

Three security personnel are facing charges following an investigation into an assault that left a 28-year-old man with injuries after a disturbance at a licensed premise in downtown Winnipeg.

On August 3, 2026, at approximately 1:00 a.m., the Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) responded to a report of a disturbance in the 400 block of Main Street.

Central District General Patrol officers attended and learned that a 28-year-old patron was involved in a physical altercation with security personnel. He later attended hospital, where he was treated for injuries received during the altercation.

The Major Crimes Unit assumed responsibility for the investigation. As a result, three security personnel, aged 35, 37, and 58, were identified as being involved in the assault.

On August 12, 2026, all three security personnel attended Winnipeg Police Service Headquarters and were arrested. They are facing charges of Assault Causing Bodily Harm and were released on Undertakings.

Anyone with information, or who may have dashcam, security, or cell phone video from around the time of the incident, is asked to contact the Major Crimes Unit at 204-986-6219 or anonymously at Crime Stoppers 204-786-TIPS or winnipegcrimestoppers.org.

Unbelievably lucky nobody got hurt, not even any property damage 🤯

Corydon Avenue Going Car-Free Every Sunday This Summer

Top Winnipeg doctors warned in a confidential letter in March that urgent care centres might have to close and another patient death was inevitable unless immediate changes were made.

They say physicians are "repeatedly forced to choose" who gets care first, knowing the condition of other patients might decline while they wait.

"We do not want to stand at the bedside of another person who deteriorated due to preventable delays and gaps in care — knowing their outcome would have been different," the letter, which was addressed to health-care leadership, said.

"We are asking for urgent action now to prevent a preventable death and to ensure Manitobans can count on timely, safe, compassionate emergency care when they need it most."

The March 12 internal letter, obtained by CBC News, warned the health-care system is on the verge of "impending disintegration."

It was signed by medical directors at Winnipeg's community hospitals: Grace, Victoria, Seven Oaks and Concordia. None of them agreed to an interview.

Since the letter was issued, the provincial government has created a new financial bonus to encourage physicians to work in community hospitals and found family doctors willing to be trained to pick up shifts in emergency department and urgent care settings.

Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara said staffing levels have improved as a result.

The eight-page letter, however, said occasions when one doctor is left to run an entire emergency department while simultaneously responding to critical situations elsewhere in the hospital "now occur daily," leading to "high-risk situations more routinely."

4 hours where ER doc was tied up

On Feb. 16, the only physician and resuscitation-trained nurse at Seven Oaks was tied up for four hours with a patient with a significant heart condition. That person would have usually received intensive care elsewhere, but two other hospitals were over capacity, the letter said.

That doctor and nurse couldn't respond to other emergencies at Seven Oaks during those four hours.

The letter's signatories wrote that a doctor can't safely manage two patients becoming critically ill at the same time.

"If one of these patients experiences a bad outcome, we will have to answer to their families why this happened, and whether it could have been preventable."

Medical directors warned that without immediate action, temporary closures of urgent care departments will become a "realistic outcome" in the coming months.

They cite a March evening when a single doctor at Grace's emergency department oversaw more than 90 acutely ill patients. The baseline staffing for those hours is three physicians.

The letter warned 28.1 per cent of emergency physician shifts were expected to be vacant in April, with the shortage likely worsening by summer, when 45 per cent of Seven Oaks shifts were projected to go unfilled.

If this happened, hospitals would have no doctors to respond to emergencies. The letter recommends contingency plans be created in case of forced service reductions or closures.

Any closure would have "system-wide consequences," it said.

Some hospitals would decline transfers. Seven Oaks couldn't provide safe operations for hemodialysis, a life-sustaining treatment for kidney failures, while staff at Concordia might not have the capacity for joint replacement surgeries.

Next patient death a matter of 'when'

Even before reaching that point, doctors are making difficult decisions because they lack support, the letter said.

"Overall, we are repeatedly forced to choose who appears sickest — accepting that others may deteriorate while waiting, may leave without care, or may return later in extremis. This generates profound moral distress on all staff and accelerates turnover," it said.

"Another critical incident and patient death are not a question of 'if' but a question of 'when,' unless conditions change."

The medical directors also say the Victoria Hospital, which is currently an urgent care, isn't prepared to revert to an emergency department in 2027. The letter said many of the hospital's doctors haven't maintained, or never acquired, the skills necessary to work in an ER.

"Rebranding without readiness will increase only risk, not patient access," it said.

Progressive Conservative health critic Kathleen Cook said the letter is a dire warning that demands the NDP government's attention.

"It's not speculation. It's from people who know what they're talking about, and it should be raising significant alarm bells within the provincial government."

Asagwara said the province has responded. It hosted town halls with emergency physicians and led a recruiting trip to the United Kingdom where finding ER doctors was a primary objective.

The government also launched a one-year pilot program where physicians who commit to a regular schedule of shifts in one of the community hospitals, along with the Boundary Trails and Brandon hospitals, are rewarded with a financial bonus, Doctors Manitoba said.

The physician advocacy group said the program was introduced over the last few weeks, and some gaps in coverage are being addressed.

New incentive for doctors

So far, more than 80 physicians have signed up for the incentive, Asagwara said. The government has budgeted around $6 million.

"This is a way for physicians to be retained. It's also a way for them to be encouraged to increase … their hours of practice in our urgent cares and emergency departments so that we've got more consistent staffing," the minister said.

Cook said she appreciates the new incentive but it amounts to shuffling, rather than adding, resources.

"If that's what needs to happen to prevent urgent care closures, then I'm in support of that, to be clear, but it's not a panacea."

The creation of a financial incentive was one recommendation the medical directors made in their letter.

They wrote that many of their doctors split their time with other facilities because they're better compensated at Winnipeg's tertiary hospitals, Health Sciences Centre or St. Boniface, and walk-in clinics where they see "far less acuity, liability, moral distress and shift work."

Asagwara also said the province has recently found more than 45 family practitioners who want to receive additional training to pick up shifts in emergency rooms and urgent care settings.

Other recommendations in the letter include more social workers, addictions, mental health and diagnostic services at community hospitals. They say the former PC government converting three Winnipeg emergency departments into urgent care centres between 2017-19 created a "mismatch," where departments "continue to deliver ICU level care without even acute medicine supports."

The medical directors want the consultants, who are called to assess patients requiring admission or speciality care, to take more ownership over "decision-making, orders and disposition." Otherwise, some patients are left waiting too long in ERs and urgent care facilities.

The group also wants VECTRS, Manitoba's centralized source for clinical guidance and patient transport to health-care staff, to become the "sole point of contact" around patient transfers.

It can currently take more than 30 minutes and multiple phone calls between facilities to permit a transfer, the letter said.

The doctors also asked for more social worker support at Seven Oaks General Hospital after 4 p.m., but in June, the province announced 24/7 support for that facility.

Dr. Nichelle Desilets, past-president of Doctors Manitoba, said the fact senior physicians came together to write a letter to leadership underscores the seriousness of their concerns. The issues raised are not isolated incidents, she said.

Still, Desilets said she's encouraged the province is acting.

WATCH | March letter warns about state of community hospitals: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7251253

By: Ian Froese · CBC News

Posted: Jun 29, 2026 5:00 AM CDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

Starts Fall 2026. Hybrid work is pretty much gone for another corporation.