Road with Cypresses - 1890 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14976

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24. pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...

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If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead. He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.

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Public officeholders in Canada serve diverse communities Any statement from a politician challenging mainstream Canadian values like diversity and multiculturalism should be highly concerning to the public Canadians have a right to know about the views and values of those seeking public office

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

Sorry to Liberal partisans who will have to defend this as is their rote function after a decade of talking up climate change mitigation.

As the dust settles on Carney’s first budget, it’s become increasingly clear which Canadians he thinks need to make “sacrifices.” Hint: it’s not the ultra-wealthy. In fact, it’s clear why someone who still considers himself a conservative feels at home in this Liberal government:

Most of the Tesla shareholder proposals are like "Tesla is an incredible company, but maybe we should make sure we have some basic accountability or make sure we aren't exploiting child labor" and the board recommends against all of them

The trump regime will rank among the cruelest in history.

Fine. But god it provided comic relief.

Did you know 80-90% of Canadians support a wealth tax on the rich, yet this budget just CUT taxes for middle- and upper-income earners. 40,000 job cuts, gutting Indigenous services, and cuts to environmental programs doesn't really scream Canada strong... 🤔 @climatekeith.bsky.social

Mark Carney's budget will make Trump and Canada’s corporate class happy, but it does little for working people. Martin Lukacs and @desmondcole.bsky.social break down the Liberals' Stephen Harper-esque moves, from public service layoffs to corporate handouts. breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for...

Just in case you thought the NDP had a shred of integrity left.

"This budget seems to have a case of mistaken identity [...] Instead of making historic investments to modernize and update health and social care, they are asking under-resourced systems to increasingly do more, with less." Read the latest from @danyaalraza.com : www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Wayne Gretzky and Bobby Orr support Donald Trump. Just a reminder that 'Sports Legend' does not equal 'Good Person.'

This story is so consequential because of the political hit job their arrests & charges represent. They were working in the open, validating their non-profit model with academic rigour. But a right-wing moral panic built enough steam for VPD to drop the hammer. 2/ Legal fund: dulf.ca/dulf-aid-2/

Unlike the sandwich, the case was baloney. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Mark Carney’s apology to Donald Trump: Far from ‘elbows up,’ it seems Canada has no elbows at all theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney's new budget transforms Canada into a military and oil nation while cutting 40,000 public sector jobs. Only the RCMP, National Defense and Canada Border Services will be protected from the cuts

"It’s unusual enough to qualify as what’s called a marine heat wave,” said Dr. Christopher Harley about the return of the North Pacific blob. “I hate to say it, it’s the new normal and I’m starting to get used to it." @ubcoceans.bsky.social @zoology.ubc.ca globalnews.ca/news/1150938...

Good, the Onion is funny and has more news.

NYC.....

Very concerning – deep-sea mining could be doing untold damage to the ocean's ability to support life

Why stop there? How about privatizing the federal government? Put out tenders and distribute the highest bid to Canadians. At least we'd be honest about what's going on.

Since April's election, oil and gas lobbyists notched at least 177 meetings with federal officials — a third of which were in September alone. If the budget is any indication, they successfully persuaded Mark Carney's government.

Talk about easy.

The thing about Bill Gates is that he's in the Epstein files.

2023: ABC refunds millions of dollars of Empty Homes Tax to developers 2025: ABC refuses to use EHT money for its intended purpose, putting 81 affordable homes for women and children at risk What an astonishing decision by Ken Sim and ABC.

I would like to see a CSI episode on this.

Police have a blank cheque in this city…their budget keeps going up and up and up…..and no one says “boo”…57 police officers earned more than $100,000 last year in just overtime alone…that is simply wrong! #vanpoli

I mean, who needs pools and community centres when you got cops #vanpoli vancouversun.com/news/vancouv...

Can't stop thinking about the fact that the government is literally slashing public service jobs while bringing in AI for use in the public service. They are literally doing, as a government, what we scream at tech bros for doing to their employees. Pretty gross!

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

Will this be available on streaming?

I know I've said this before, but from advertorials to false equivalence the media really needs to own up to its role in warping the climate issue. www.thenation.com/article/envi...

Mark Carney is billing it as an “investment budget,” but with plans to cut $60 billion in program spending and eliminate 40,000 jobs (10% of the federal public service), @dtcochrane.bsky.social says it’s more like an austerity budget Our podcast live from inside the budget media lock-up yesterday:

It's called stochastic terrorism.

In many respects, this is the most harmful budget from a climate perspective since the Harper era, writes Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood

Fossil fuels burned anywhere = climate chaos everywhere. This is what climate injustice looks like. via @greenpeaceafrica.org

A reminder that the sketchy BC public health event today may well be intended as a (publicly funded) PR exercise to puff up Dr Henry's "leadership" CV in preparation for another run at Dr. Tam's job. Last time the Liberals were heading into an election, but now our votes won't count for a while so 🤷

Funny how austerity never reaches cabinet level. The less you have the more it'll affect you.

A reminder that anti-greenwashing legislation is overwhelmingly popular (93% support), but hated by oil executives www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/pr...

This budget hurts people. 40,000 jobs cut. Services cut. Indigenous services gutted. Nothing for the environment. But American big-tech billionaires? They get tax breaks. We can still fix this. Mark Carney can still amend this budget and choose fairness.

If Hakeem Jeffries stays in place the obituary stays as well.

#ClimateChange #cdnpoli #MarkCarney

Prior to January 2025 planes falling out of the sky into cities was extremely unusual.