@tag_mann

Gifted napper, baker, and ice cream eater. (she/her)

Joined April 2009
Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
Schools are only as strong as their teachers. But the latest data show shortages are widespread. In some countries, up to 4% of teaching positions were vacant as the academic year began, leaving schools relying on non-fully qualified staff. Learn more: oecd.org/en/publications/edu…
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
Outsourcing surgeries and imaging to private for-profit clinics in Ontario didn't drop wait times for most procedures. Wait times worsened for cataract surgery and MRI. CT scan didn't improve. Profiteering just doesn't work. @a_longhurst ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/w…
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
Mark Carney wants to make Canada a destination for global investment. To this end, his new omnibus bill casts the right to strike as an obstacle to the “national interest” — and organized labor as a barrier to national strength rather than its foundation. jacobin.com/2026/09/carney-c…
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
The AFN strongly condemns the display of racism and hate by white nationalists today at Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc. We call for a full investigation and for governments and Canadians to join us in pushing back against racism. There is no place for this in today’s society. We must stand together against ignorance, racism and lies, and stand up for First Nations rights, for truth, and for reconciliation.
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
Federal Minister of Jobs Hajdu cites "crisis" as the reason for stripping workers rights and selling leases on our airports. Neoliberalism is the ideology that workers rights should be stripped away and all public services and assets—airports, water and electrical utilities, schools and hospitals, should be given to private corporations so they can profit by selling our services back to us. Of course no one would vote for this, so the standard excuse is to cite a "crisis" as the reason for the sell-off. #onpoli #cdnpoli
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
American historian Anne Applebaum on MAGA's campaign against Canada in the context of Alberta’s separatism vote. Worth your time. #bcpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli anneapplebaum.substack.com/p…
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
Question for @LDoerkson: if you don't raise any taxes, how will you fund healthcare and education when costs rise due to inflation? #bcpoli
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
Rmbr, when asked why he issued a lock-out notice to the Air Canada Flight Attendants last year, the Air Canada CEO basically said he assumed the govt would legislate them back to work anyway. So, the PM/govt is now just making that easier, when big business assumed it all along.
She is 100% correct. Collective bargaining works BECAUSE workers have the ability to strike, and employers have to respect that power, even if it's rarely used. Without it, bosses will refuse to bargain in good faith because Carney will just bail them out
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
She is 100% correct. Collective bargaining works BECAUSE workers have the ability to strike, and employers have to respect that power, even if it's rarely used. Without it, bosses will refuse to bargain in good faith because Carney will just bail them out
CLC President Bea Bruske: "If there is no leverage to actually force both employers and unions to come and bring their best foot forward to have those difficult conversations, because one side believes that they can resolve this issue in another way, those conversations are not going to happen."
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
I'm going to keep pointing things out about this one because it has layers. Under this ABC government, homelessness increased by 15%. 42% of respondents during ABC's tenure said an eviction in Vancouver caused their homelessness: council.vancouver.ca/2026041… #vanpoli
A whole campaign built around the slogan “Evict Ken Sim” to viciously malign him. “Scapegoating the poor and homeless. You know, that was us.” When Ken holds an “Evict Ken Sim” button, it hits hard. His family faced real evictions and financial instability over and over again, growing up as immigrants with little to their name. And the family who lived through those struggles with him didn’t sign up for these personal attacks. Ken got into politics so his kids, and other kids growing up in Vancouver, have a chance to build a future here. That’s why safety and affordability are at the heart of ABC Vancouver’s campaign. The full change we all wanted hasn’t happened yet. There is still more work to do. The Public Safety Plebiscite is the next step on safety: stronger City laws against open-air hard drug use and a call for secure medical treatment, including voluntary and 100+ involuntary care beds. On affordability, it means a 0% property tax increase, help for families and a thriving economy where people can earn enough to get by and build a future here. Real change takes leadership that can face difficult battles and even brutal personal attacks that hit closer to home than you would ever want and keep going. Because Vancouver is worth it. #ABCVancouver #PublicSafety #Affordability
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
Looks Like The Minister Didn't Get The Memo From Prime Minister Carney NEVER talk about the Airport Fees going up NEVER, EVER tell the truth about what happens after Government Privatization of Airport Facilities Put a STAMP on this post & come back in 4 years when fees go up
Transport minister won’t guarantee prices won’t go up after airport privatization, promises fees will be ‘partially regulated’ cp24.com/news/canada/2026/09…
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
In my view, it's fairer and more accurate to judge a person by their actions rather than their words. Taking that approach I can confidently conclude that 1. Prime Minster @MarkJCarney does not support Canadians' Charter Rights and Freedoms, 2. puts no to little value on environmental protection, has no intention of doing anything significant to address climate heating, 3. puts corporate and investor profits ahead of workers' rights, 4. does not want Canada play any meaningful role in global issues of human rights, crimes against humanity, preventing genocide, or poverty and hunger, 5. is indifferent, even antagonistic, to indigenous people's issues and especially indigenous children. To mention just a few areas that matter to progressive voters.
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
Your Ontario tax dollars are helping a private company buy thousands of condos at deep discounts that are not available to local households Canadian households cannot compete with a $1.3B private equity fund theglobeandmail.com/business…
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
This lawyer explains why so-called guardrails Carney includes in this bill create a cog in a machine built to deny workers their right to strike. Then ministers, in deciding what the “national interest” is in quashing a strike, can consider the “impact on the Canadian economy.”
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
Members of Parliament are back in Ottawa for a fresh session of clip farming in the House of Commons. The first order of business? An omnibus bill that labour leaders warn will weaken Canadian workers’ right to strike, and that environmental groups say will bulldoze nature:
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
“But prime minister Mark Carney is using our fear and disorientation around the trade war to push through a series of unpopular measures that he did not run on, has no mandate for, and would never get away with under normal circumstances.” 2/2
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 retweeted
The right to strike is non-negotiable. Employers already hold enormous power over jobs and investment. Workers balance that power through collective bargaining, including the right to strike. @MarkJCarney , workers’ bargaining power is part of Canada’s national interest.
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