It’s alarming to me how many people who would identify as progressive are supportive of this. It’s “ineffective and harmful policy” that won’t do what’s it’s purporting to and will do and enable a lot of things we don’t want. #cdnpoli

“At the same time this is a black and white question of voter suppression. If the government does not create the conditions for people - all people - to cast a secret ballot then the government is failing at democracy not just accessibility.” #vanpoli

How to defeat authoritarianism—lessons from Hungary Two stand out: • Organize BROADLY. • Don’t mince words. Gift link:

I love a Qing dynasty coin cos it says right on it when and where it’s from—in this case the Beijing mint between 1661 and 1722. That’s an 8,500 km journey to get buried (then excavated!) in the heart of Nlaka’pamux territory at Lytton, BC. #archaeology

every GenXer in #bcpoli right now

y’know, you may hear the BCNDP call KLF Maple MAGA and think it’s over the top partisan rhetoric, and then you see this #bcpoli

Wow

This story is just so appalling. MoE conspired with cops to fire democratically elected trustees, over program that cops themselves had said was low priority. And then they withheld evidence from the courts. And it seems everyone is keeping their jobs! #bcpoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has recognized coercive control as a form of intimate partner violence. The decision will especially help BIPOC women who face particular barriers in reporting and seeking compensation for abuse. pressprogress.ca/supreme-cour...

Wab is just unparalleled in this country as an effective political communicator. #cdnpoli

Zero consultation. Zero environmental review. Zero public benefits. Billionaires will get a publicly funded payday. Sign our petition below.

"At the root… lies a technocratic and post-humanist mentality that tends to regard the human person as an object to be manipulated or a resource to be optimized, removing all safeguards against the unchecked pursuit of profit. What prevails is efficiency, rather than… freedom and human dignity"

"Our first task is neither to demonize nor idolize technological tools, but to utilize them on the basis of a fundamental principle, namely that truth is a common good and not the property of those with power or influence. We must therefore promote an ecology of communication."

The contemporary Catholic tradition calls this "integral ecology": as Francis writes, “the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” cannot be separated.

On Reddit, Orange County residents are very justifiably angry that local authorities are posting vital evacuation information on X and Instagram…which both require accounts if you want to be able to view videos easily and completely. How many people use neither? This has got to stop.

Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

“Nobody wants a parasocial bestie who shills for the plutocrats who are nullifying their votes, degrading their educations, jacking up their power bill, stealing their wages and rigging the system. There is no feminist case for scaring people into adopting A.I.”

If you thought "I bet Ken Sim is all in on AI", you would be correct

"Public lands have to be used for public housing. For non-market housing, there's some really important levers like community land trusts...So that the people that work in the city can stay in the city and build a life here.” - @stephanieformayor.bsky.social www.biv.com/biv-rss-link...

“Cheryl Weeks, a plaintiff and former Vancouver police officer, said she and other prospective class members have found it ‘astounding’ that their claims of sexual harassment are being compared legally to a ‘dispute over a pension plan.’” From Darryl Greer: www.timescolonist.com/local-news/b...

“It would avoid us doing drugs in public, doing drugs around children, around elderly folks, just around people who don't want to be around drugs. Right now, we're on the street corners, we're on the sidewalk, and it's inhumane.” www.biv.com/biv-rss-link...

“We need to dream bigger. We need to fight harder. We can win what people really need and do it with integrity.” -Stephanie Allen

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Five each from COPE, Greens, OneCity, plus three each (so far, I think?) from TEAM, Allam's Vancouver Liberals, and Bligh's Vote Vancouver, is a very crowded not-Ken-Sim's-party field.

“The report says the costs associated with femicide totalled $27.6 million annually, while workplace sexual harassment “contributes an additional $86 million each year through reduced productivity and employment churn.” cfjctoday.com/2026/04/14/g...

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

"The panic now visible in British Columbia is not evidence that reconciliation has gone too far. It is evidence that reconciliation has begun to have material consequences." @khelsilem.bsky.social in @macleans.bsky.social: macleans.ca/politics/can...

Sean Orr has filed legal action against Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim for saying to media without evidence that Orr was dealing drugs on Christmas Day

Here’s my full video on Day 5 of the Ken Sim and Sean Orr saga. A bit of today’s news, a bit of historical context to the story, a bit of answering @seanorr.bsky.social’s challenge to me earlier this week. I *think* the story will recede now, but given the weirdness of it all, we’ll see!

Drip, drip, drip… Ken Sim, in his lack of forthright disclosure, or what some might call lying, seems determined to keep this story going 🤔 #vanpoli

I can’t overstate how strongly I oppose this. Yes, time change sucks, but if we’re doing away with it, ALL of the science says permanent standard time is the way to go.

Many suggest government’s role is providing assistance to people in (a) crisis, limiting our vision of public goods and the state. Like Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, "Public goods should never be means tested. That's the entire point of a public good! And should be as permanent as anything imaginable.“

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Amending BC's Declaration Act would "set back our collective reconciliation efforts by decades," say dozens of civil society groups and prominent Canadians in a joint statement "Now is not the time to cede ground to those who cynically spread fear and doubt about that vital work" #bcpoli

We do not have to fall over ourselves saying that we love technological progress. The onus is on them to explain to us why we should be excited about new technology while there are microplastics in every mother's breast milk and our rivers are drying up

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

it's incredible to contemplate the volume of civic funding and effort spent appeasing: - people who find the sight of poverty more offensive than evidence-based public health policy - drivers who think bad traffic is a human rights violation - residents who recoil from shadows like reverse-vampires

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Great politics should look like a party you want to join

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

I’ll be interested to watch how these sentiments & people play out in the upcoming BC Conservative leadership race. We’ve already seen people with despicable hate-based views elected as BC Conservatives. Shouldn’t have to say it, but new leader should have zero tolerance for it. We’ll see. #bcpoli

‘HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS,’ EMILY DICKINSON famously wrote, and that often leads to pictures of doves sitting quietly and looking sweet, but what if hope is an albatross that can soar for years without stopping, or an osprey that can haul a thrashing salmon out of rough waters?

Two that come to mind for me: It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding), Bob Dylan I Left My Wallet In El Segundo, ATCQ

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