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Email the Minister of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills to tell them to stop the cuts on post-secondary campuses, and fix education. Because #CutsSuck. Especially in the wake of today's announcement that they'll do a review of the whole sector, signalling cuts likely to come www.cutssuck.ca

this seems like a foolproof and universally beloved plan until ken sim puts in a salary cap freeze to keep ticket prices low and makes the fourth line full of cops "to keep the stars safe"

Bold of Ken Sim to take credit for solving "crime" during today's council meeting when VPD & ABC have withheld & manipulated data over the last 3 years. Which one is it? Crime is down, but VPD needs money more than residents & service providers because crime? www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

VPD’s councillor montague goes after opposition councillors for trying to use negate property tax increases as an “ATM”. the VPD has been using property tax revenue as an ATM to the tune of nearly half a billion dollars.

the budget increases economic inequality in a city where billionaires steal from homeless people

This is what taxes could prevent thetyee.ca/News/2022/01...

The most opposed budget in Vancouver history has been passed. This is precisely why people have lost faith in the council meeting “democratic process.” When a decision is cooked to empower the wealthiest class and the armed force funded to protect them, it doesn’t matter how many show up against it.

Budget amendment by ABC councillor Zhou would cut $8 million from capital budget for "Energy Retrofits for non-city buildings" and put it to filling potholes and other "core services". Opposition councillors upset that it could cancel upgrades in buildings where people died in the 2021 heat dome.

The UCP is liable for the murder of trans youth all across Alberta.

It was sickening to see @lennynanzhou.bsky.social chastise @lucymaloney.bsky.social over showing emotion in the council chambers while talking about *130 people dying* during the heat dome. ABC making moves like this is ridiculous. Showing emotion over needless death doesn't "cause division"

cool to see the rich paying 0% on property, while unhoused people get displaced and their possessions mulched by the VPD... cool cool, not at all dystopian and cruel and heartless...

The mayor makes policy based upon magical thinking, responds to objections with resentment rather than argument, and his entire party follows in lockstep. Electoral justice will mean the complete destruction of the ABC party.

gonna hold off on sharing excerpts until Monday, but you can always just read the essay today – IMHO it's my most comprehensive one to date on this subject!

S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall

Do The Right Thing After Hours Blue Velvet Variety

It's our last chance to stop Ken Sim's plan to slash city services to give a hand-out to the super-rich. Send a letter to City Council to join your neighbours in fighting back: votecope.ca/stopsim

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

Let’s be clear on this: Danielle Smith is ripping up the Charter of Rights & Freedoms to take away rights from the most vulnerable people in Alberta. And she’s doing it to protect herself from the militant wing of her own party, nothing more. Hope it’s all she’s ever remembered for in the long run

The Alberta Government is normalizing the use of the notwithstanding clause in an attempt to ignore the rule of law. Use your voice. Protect the Charter. Stand up for human rights. Democracy depends on it.

It was clear from their opening statement that they were only considering whether the amended proposal met the DPB's own instructions. The important community concerns brought to them over two days of hearings? Not heeded.

"The right’s gripe isn’t just that trans people exist, but that their existence is tearing down the old world—of good men, obedient women, traditional family structures—& unleashing a new, godless age of chaos & precarity on you." smart piece by @schuylermitchell.bsky.social

The courage to withstand, as feminists, the reformulated myth of the black rapist at the core of Zionism’s femonationalist gambit is also a profound antifascist commitment. We are, quite simply, drawing a line... - me on the NYT contributor strike/boycott for New Arab www.newarab.com/opinion/no-o...

“The fifth estate obtained internal Health Canada reports that reveal the federal government was advised by its own experts to expand access to a greater range of safe and regulated drugs for people across Canada.” From CBC: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In an ideal society the leaders would be the wisest and most virtuous of people. In a less than ideal society they would be chosen more or less at random, as by chance. In our actual society, they are... well I'm not sure exactly how to describe it, but let's just say we are "totally fucked".

I have some work in the online auction to support student and professional programming at the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts Audain Gallery. You can bid on it (and other things), or buy this elegant set of pinback buttons. www.sfu.ca/sca/events--...

I honestly have not seen this since I saw it, age 9, in a theatre with my sister. It blew my mind and i thought it was brilliant but I don't want to ruin that by ever seeing it again, at all.

Literally, listen to any interview with a billionaire where they babble absolute fucking nonsense, completely inarticulate word salad, and not a single followup question is asked after they finish saying it.

A failed UCP candidate is suing @pressprogress.ca for reporting and quoting things she said. With no anti-SLAPP protection in Alberta, they've been drawn into a long, costly legal battle. If you believe in accountability and a free press, and can spare it, give them your support.

I’m reporting from B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver. There is no sentencing today. Nyx and Kalicum + lawyers will be launching a constitutional challenge to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. That starts Nov. 24. Story TK for @pressprogress.ca

Breaking: the founders of DULF have been found guilty of three counts of drug trafficking. @michellegamage.bsky.social will have the full story later today thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

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

If the property value has increased, it still apparently counts as "revitalization"

Super rich people love to threaten to leave if so-and-so gets elected as though they actually pay taxes.

BREAKING: The BC Labour Relations Board has ruled that all research assistants at Simon Fraser University are workers and members of the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU). TSSU successfully organized research assistants twice over the last six years. www.tssu.ca/grad-student...

Unlike the Mayor’s crypto nonsense (which was a performative time-waster), the ABC party's latest gimmick is going to cause immediate harm, as well as already creating ridiculous chaos in the budget process. Kick them out!

City of #Vancouver looking to cut $50 million in spending - but VPD still get a big boost. Story by Dan Fumano, 📈 #dataviz 📉 by me! #vanpoli vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

The Vancouver Police Department has already gone $17 million over budget. Now they're asking for a $50 million increase. The park board, meanwhile, is bracing for $15 million in cuts. #vanpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How can Canadians see what NYC just did and settle for a guy who just cut taxes on private jets and yachts?

When I was probably ten years old, an older kid in the neighbourhood called me "bender" and refused to let me in to a community event. I had no idea what he was talking about until many years later -- I thought there was some family with the last name Bender that he was mad at (there wasn't).

Yes, No, or Maybe? "Surrey developer pauses 1,000 homes, says prices can’t drop any lower and suggests a condo ‘bailout’ is needed" as told by @shinebox44.bsky.social #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre surreycitizen.com/surrey-devel...

From the "we knew that, but thanks" department

Remake of Trains, Planes, and Automobiles is coming soon

New awareness campaign

the police want $17,000,000 more for THIS YEAR'S budget something shady is happening with this process cc @isabellazavarise.bsky.social @copevancouver.bsky.social @onecityvan.bsky.social council.vancouver.ca/20251105/doc...

I Love, Tom T. Hall, 1973 youtu.be/eBnSdlM131g?...

Dave Eby and other centrist fauxgressives have to be watching this, no? #bcpoli "Poll predicts Keir Starmer will LOSE his seat to the Green Party at next election"

Restrictions on aid have not been lifted, and there is no indication that they will be. War crimes continue. What is your plan now, @mark-carney.bsky.social ? It is already too late for many Palestinians, but not all. Take action now! @hedyfry.bsky.social

"We call on the Israeli government to immediately lift restrictions on the flow of aid..." That was nearly 3 days ago @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social. Still, starvation deepens. Do I understand "immediately" differently? When will you act? #Gaza