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Sources, method & limits.

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How claims are handled

PRIMARY

Law, policy & official process

Use the Government of Alberta or the original governing body whenever possible. Date-stamp rules that are changing.

RESEARCH

Empirical claims

Use peer-reviewed original research when available. Distinguish association from causation, provider perspectives from population facts, and samples from whole populations.

CONTEXT

Commercial/public claims

Use the creator's own public website for statements about their own products or public project. Do not infer motive from the existence of monetization.

COMMENTARY

Jokes are jokes

Lines like “engagement-wing” are commentary, not research findings. The site intentionally labels or separates empirical claims from satire.

Important limitations

Political anger is not a diagnosis. People can be angry for legitimate reasons. Media-literacy cues are prompts to verify, not proof that a claim is false.

Monetization is not proof of dishonesty. A creator selling merchandise demonstrates a commercial relationship to audience attention; it does not establish that any particular claim is knowingly false.

Men are not a monolith. Findings from men's-health samples are not claims about every man. Social-media and existential-isolation studies cited here are observational/cross-sectional where noted.

Values work is not political persuasion. The toward/away exercise asks whether your behaviour fits your own freely chosen qualities. No value or political position is scored as correct.

This site does not adjudicate teacher conduct. Questions about professional discipline belong to Alberta's regulated process.

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References

  1. Government of Alberta. (n.d.). Alberta Teaching Profession Commission – Making a complaint. Retrieved August 19, 2026, from https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-teaching-profession-commission-making-a-complaint
  2. Government of Alberta. (2026). Removing politics and ideology from Alberta classrooms. https://www.alberta.ca/removing-politics-and-ideology-from-alberta-classrooms
  3. McLoughlin, K. L., Brady, W. J., Goolsbee, A., Kaiser, B., Klonick, K., & Crockett, M. J. (2024). Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online. Science, 386(6725), 991–996. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adl2829
  4. Roozenbeek, J., van der Linden, S., Goldberg, B., Rathje, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2022). Psychological inoculation improves resilience against misinformation on social media. Science Advances, 8(34), eabo6254. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abo6254
  5. Seidler, Z. E., Wilson, M. J., Rice, S. M., Kealy, D., Oliffe, J. L., & Ogrodniczuk, J. S. (2022). Virtual connection, real support? A study of loneliness, time on social media and psychological distress among men. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 68(2), 288–293. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764020983836
  6. Storey, Q. K., Kealy, D., Seidler, Z. E., Oliffe, J. L., Rice, S. M., & Ogrodniczuk, J. S. (2022). Connecting and healing: The role of existential isolation in mediating the impact of the therapeutic relationship on Canadian men's mental health outcomes. American Journal of Men's Health, 16(6), 15579883221136980. https://doi.org/10.1177/15579883221136980
  7. Chan, C. G. Y., Sharp, P., Jenkins, E., Gao, N., & Oliffe, J. L. (2025). Helping men build better intimate partner relationships: Canadian provider perspectives. Health Education Journal, 84(3), 280–292. https://doi.org/10.1177/00178969241310559
  8. Statistics Canada. (2024, June 10). Statistical checkup of Canadian men's health. https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/6413-statistical-checkup-canadian-mens-health
  9. Public Health Agency of Canada. (2026, January 14). Mental health support: Get help. Government of Canada. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/mental-health-services/mental-health-get-help.html
  10. Berta Proud Dad. (n.d.). Wear Your Opinion. Retrieved August 19, 2026, from https://bertaprouddad.com/wear-your-opinion

Practice concepts used as psychoeducation

The “toward / away” framing on this site is adapted from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), where values are ongoing qualities of action rather than completed goals. The site uses the idea as a brief reflective prompt, not as treatment. A resource in the project's research library describes values clarification and committed action as ways of reconnecting with purpose, meaning and identity, while ACT's Choice Point distinguishes workable “toward” moves from responses that pull a person away from the life and relationships they want.

This section intentionally avoids reproducing copyrighted worksheets. It adapts the general concept in original language.

Corrections

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Last substantive source check: August 19, 2026.