once again, we need to get off US tech and platforms as quickly as possible — and governments need to seriously fund the development of alternatives

while the BCNDP was caving to the diversion moral panic and severely limiting its safe supply program, the public safety ministry was acknowledging in budget preparation documents that hydromorphone only accounted for 0.3% of VPD drug seizures by weight

A couple of Canadian journalists (myself included) have started a fundraiser for Trenth Ernst & Tumbler Ridgelines. Since the shooting, he's stopped writing. We're hoping to get him some short-term support for these hard times. Donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-tr...

2026 basically

Some journalists simply report the news At Canada's National Post, they do more than report the news – they also send people weird emails #journalism

The BC NDP’s budget is hidden austerity for the working class. Eby has chosen the broken status quo. This budget raises taxes on working people, abandons $10-a-day childcare, and puts thousands of public servants out of work. #bcpoli /1

Austerity is a choice. Choosing to label it something else is also a choice. Bad choices are being made.

Here’s the really pernicious part of *be seen* pedestrian campaigns. This driver argued the person he hit was legally 100pc at fault cause he was wearing black. Gambit failed, but those campaigns create unrealistic expectations. h/t @davethompsonvic.bsky.social www.timescolonist.com/local-news/d...

You do not need to be in Minneapolis, or LA, etc., to help in this fight. You don't even need to confront ICE/CBP themselves. The arms of this machine are everywhere.

An Israeli org praised by the country’s politicians is trying to get @readthemaple.com shut down. Shurat HaDin has claimed to have issued legal notices to payment processors and written to multiple legal and police bodies “calling for a criminal investigation.” An abhorrent attack on the press.

I strongly suspect the plan for a Cop City in the downtown eastside was in place well before the London Drugs closed down. Nice of them to finally pull back the curtain. London Drugs COO Clint Mahlman has been pushing pro-cop policy via “Save Our Streets” business coalition for years.

I discovered Israeli government procurement documents showing a Canadian group that's sending right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel was granted funds from Israel's foreign ministry The funding came through an arm of the ministry focused on managing “public perception of Israel”

I spent yesterday combing through the social media history of Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old responsible for a mass shooting at a B.C. school. It doesn't explain why the shooting occurred. But it hints at how it might have been prevented. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Including Victoria's very own disgraced journalist Tristin Hopper

Today is David Graeber's birthday. He'd have been 65 years old today. His ideas are still here and his message is more important than ever before which must remind us that a better world is possible.

Verified Tumbler Ridge fundraiser organized by Parent Advisory Council

Tumbler Ridge is a small planned resource community, a winding 90 minute drive from the nearest city of at least 10,000 people. A massive number of people are going to descend there tomorrow. May those that arrive have respect and grace for the unimaginable grief.

Seven people in the high school, not including the shooter, are now confirmed dead. Two additional people have been found dead at a location believed to be connected to the shooting. Just unspeakably awful.

Decriminalization worked. B.C. killed it anyway The province’s drug decriminalization experiment lowered arrests and reduced harm—but it failed a different political test breachmedia.ca/decriminaliz...

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

the soft launch of mass surveillance. don’t fall for it.

The government takes all its cues from private sector. We've been indoctrinated to believe government is inherently inefficient, but all of its worst qualities are from douchebag CEOs with MBAs.

The Liberals clearly want Canada Post to shrivel so private corps can take its place, that's why they won't replace the CEO who's overseen its nosedive over the last 7 years. But they can't actually let it die, so instead they have to keep doing this. It's a great system for losing public money.

Again just so overjoyed that BC Cancer has agreed to treat Francisco. But he's not out of the woods yet: CBSA is still planning on deporting him next week. It's not clear if he'll be able to start/ finish his treatment before then. My update on @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Allongés dans la montagne, des exilés retiennent leur souffle avant de s’élancer, à découvert, sur une piste de ski, alors que les militaires de l’opération Sentinelle verrouillent la frontière franco-italienne. Nécessaire reportage photo d'Hervé Lequeux www.mediapart.fr/studio/portf...

"We're so much better than the US!" *Calls immigration agent on cancer patient at hospital* thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Men are not trash. Perpetuating that narrative helps normalize rape culture by making it seem like it's just inherent to their nature. It's not. Men are human beings. The social system of patriarchal masculinity is what's trash, and it hurts them too. We can change that.

A self-professed media watchdog has been weaponizing antisemitism and trying to poison journalistic standards on covering Palestine. Media workers spoke with @sparksriley.bsky.social about the perils of the relentless intimidation and disinformation manufactured by a ‘digital army for Israel:’

If you're Canadian and shaking your head about the US gov arresting journalists for the crime of doing journalism, well, that happens here too. And instead of just being furious about it, you can donate money to The Narwhal, who are actually trying to stop it from happening here.

Canadians horrified by what ICE is doing should realize the RCMP uses the same tactics domestically against Indigenous people and yet barely anyone speaks up. Journalists have been arrested just for trying to cover it

Sorry, is it still a ceasefire?

Reporters! Every time a politician talks about Heated Rivalry, please follow-up with a question about declining arts and media funding in Canada.

baffling that the media isn’t making more of an issue out of how carney is gutting key federal agencies/depts and what that’s going to mean for gov capacity when we’re supposed to be more independent and capable. food inspection, health canada, statscan, global affairs — all being cut, and more

The risk to North American auto manufacturing is North America's auto manufacturers not keeping up with what global consumers want. You've had tens of billions of dollars in subsidies and supports shovelled at you. Compete or die.

This came in the same budget that axed a luxury tax on yachts. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

The irony of everyone fawning over how Mark Carney is 'standing up' for Canada is that he is simultaneously eroding the few institutions that actually distinguish the Canadian state from the US, and those which theoretically could be used to shield Canadians from the disaster area to the south.

before we go cheering about canada, just as we do for the IDF, we’re providing ICE with its weapons

Following this exclusive (and excellent) piece from David, I've contacted the federal government to ask if they intend to continue subsidizing JSI Telecom in the future. I've also contacted JSI Telecom for comment, adding them to the list of Canadian businesses working with ICE who I've contacted.

I've reached out to all Canadian companies listed here to ask if they intend to continue working with ICE: Hootsuite Roshel Garda Jim Pattison Developments I've also reached out to @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social's team for comment on export permits for Canadian sale of armoured vehicles to ICE.

There is no "immigration problem" There is no migrant problem There is no problem with illegals There is no border crisis Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.

It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.

Will this motivate Canadians to boycott companies that do business with ICE ? @therovermedia.bsky.social did some fantastic reporting on which Cdn companies are profiting from fascism

this is fucking wild. every time they give an inch, he takes a mile. now to see if europeans act like this is acceptable and go back to appeasement or whether they accelerate a break with the US after this experience.

“our tech doesn’t do any of the things we claimed the past few years, but we still need you to use it or the line will go down”

started / going

Carney has spent the past year subtweeting Trump. At a certain point, these words mean nothing if he won't actually come out and say what he's criticizing.

Ever wondered what a downtown pedestrian streets looks like on a Monday evening in the middle of January in Montreal?

Dan David was ahead of his tome- he was decolonizing media decades before we ever used the word "decolonize" #Indigenous #cdnmedia

Climate Change watching the world fight and completely ignore the impending and catastrophic doom coming from mother nature.

"Decriminalization is still good public policy," writes @picardonhealth.bsky.social. "It makes no sense to jail people for having an illness like substance-use disorder – or because they want to get high for the pleasure of it, for that matter." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...