This should concern us all. The BCNDP has said nothing about this. It is a disgrace if NOLS gets their application approved.

“We want safe supply and end of prohibition,” said Samona Marsh, the president of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). “Respect us. Respect the agency of the individual, [the] collective agency of the community.” Hero. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🎉🎉🎉 Friends, I’m going to take ask a minute of your time to celebrate @milamiceli.bsky.social who I met through @alexhanna.bsky.social in 2022, just a couple of months after we launched @dairinstitute.bsky.social 🧵

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This is a long shot, but does anyone recall the name of the building that was demolished to make way for the Katz building on the University of Alberta campus? I worked in it for my first year (2001) but cannot remember the name. (We then moved to Dent/Pharm which is apparently now ‘Uni Commons’)

I am once again saying that clean energy is inherently cheap, and the reason we don't benefit from that is because the energy market doesn't let us. Great stuff here from my colleague @chrisgalpin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

one of the most revealing arguments I've seen on this issue is from people who say they would not mind if the park is closed — as long as the First Nations are also prohibited from accessing their homelands, medicines and traditional foods

Actually I will reopen this. This culture has real stakes - like the time a pair of men were on a killing spree but rcmp described it as a suspicious death and missing persons and didn’t mention the camper full of bullets where the suspicious death took place www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Good thread about a totally regular experience trying to report on tragic events in B.C. (and probably the rest of Canada). Officials here are so accustomed to getting away with offering nearly zero details. It often takes years for a trial or coroners inquest to get worthwhile official accounts.

Writing my memoirs (for real), and the funniest thing would be to just not mention Carleton University once. 😂 Reader: what’s this uh 7 year gap? Me: oh <kicking the trap door closed over the repressed memories from that period>, nothing. Nothing at all.

Time travel, Alberta edition <takes a pull on imaginary cigarette> I had to travel back in time + tell my 9 year old self that Ralph Klein would look competent in 33 years. Then I sped along to 2008 to tell my 25 year old self Stelmach was relatively cogent compared to <waves at dumpster fire> 😭

I wonder if it's a coincidence that on this same day the AER issued a costs award in favour of intervenors and against Northback Holdings for the Grassy Mtn exploratory drilling hearing in the amount of about $92,000. Perhaps Northback will be seeking a meeting with the CEO.

A reminder that this is the person who wants to open up Alberta’s eastern slope headwaters to deleterious and devastating metallurgical coal mining (portrait by Vincent Namatjira)

Canada is blocking life-saving aid to Gaza. Petition calls on govt to reject militarized aid, ensure UN/NGO access, allow Canadian medics, and deliver aid through neutral channels. Thanks to Doctors Against Genocide & John Mayba for leading. Sign & share:

End Homelessness Winnipeg says a street count revealed the highest number of people experiencing homelessness in the city since 2015. It says a point-in-time census from November 5, 2024, identified 2,469 unhoused individuals, 80 per cent of whom were Indigenous.

Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...

Same regiment that laid siege to the Mohawk community of Kanehsatà:ke in 1990 and took part in the occupation of Afghanistan in the 2000s. Members of the regiment also went to Ukraine in the last half of the 2010s to train soldiers there.

Southern mountain caribou are critically endangered, but the B.C. gov is approving logging in their habitat. These herds can still recover, but only if their forests are protected. Speak up today 👇 #BCPoli #Conservation

"When the integrity commission’s findings can be disregarded, it indicates the system itself isn’t strong enough." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti... #vanpoli

I keep saying "city halls are legally designed to be the most collaborative and least political form of government", and local politicians keep going "but what if that wasn't the case". The controversies differ by municipality but the root causes tend to be remarkably similar.

Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”

Ken Sim (Feb 25 2025): “i think transparency is incredibly important. this is something that shouldnt be feared. we talk about transparency all the time. if we support transparency, I think we support it everywhere. you cant pick and choose.” lol.

Vancouver mayor, councillors violated charter discussing upcoming votes in private: watchdog

Western science — which split itself from western philosophy which itself is secularized western religion, as Vine Deloria Jr (1979) argues — was so busy policing non-western practices as ‘pseudoscience’ and dismissing the need for ethics that it forgot to guard itself against fascism.

Just thinking about my dad’s ship paintings and all the stories he has from moving to Vancouver in the sixties and selling the Georgia Straight for ‘two bits’ on a corner downtown. We got turned down for a local gallery call in Parksville. But I’d love to find a place to show his work.

Posted on behalf of my friend Val Zink. "I can’t in good conscience continue to work for Reuters given their betrayal of journalists in Gaza and culpability in the assassination of 245 our colleagues."

NEW: Scathing integrity report calls out ABC Vancouver and mayor dailyhive.com/vancouver/ab... #vanpoli

"When a municipal government improperly acts with secrecy, the democratic legitimacy of its decision is undermined." We encourage everyone to read the Integrity Commissioner's full report: vancouver.ca/files/cov/co... #vanpoli

Also, that use of personal email addresses by the Mayor’s Chief of Staff is 👀 OIPC just released a guideline urging public bodies to prohibit the use of personal email addresses for the business of the public body. www.oipc.bc.ca/documents/gu... (Cries in Albertan who expected BC to be better)

Does anyone else wonder why we have integrity guidelines/codes of conduct at local/municipal level, not to mention provisions against conflict of interest/inside influence etc in the Community Charter, if politicians and staff are increasingly just ignoring them with impunity? 😳 👀🫠

The logic of elimination in settler colonial theory does not refer exclusively to the physical elimination of Indigenous people. Wolfe was explicit about this but we still have other academics, whose whole job is supposed to be knowing things, critiquing Wolfe as if he didn't clearly outline this.

The link between Private Managed Forest Lands, developers, and destruction of watersheds on Vancouver Island is in this same vein

One of the things I’ve learned a lot about this past year is how in many smaller towns, the sheriff, judge, real estate developer and construction company are either the same person, same family or just as good as. It’s all landlords all the way down.

“A deeply racist system.” A program to bring Palestinians to Canada was capped at 5,000, quickly reached its limit and has been closed since March. Only 1,750 applicants have passed security screenings and 864 have actually arrived in Canada. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

The shuttering of community connections being a single sentence buried deep in the article is a travesty. There need to be very clear lines drawn between a line item in the budget and this man’s death.

“This should be a wake-up call for all British Columbians that our energy regulator is not looking after the public interest,” said Shannon McPhail, Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition’s co-executive director. #bcpoli #prgt www.biv.com/news/resourc...

Investigations into police officers' actions that led to serious harm or injury on Vancouver Island had the longest turnaround time of all jurisdictions for the Independent Investigations Office (IIO) of B.C., according to its annual report.

Social media video showing an RCMP officer repeatedly striking a suspect during an arrest in Port Alberni, B.C., over the weekend is drawing criticism from the community. https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/totally-unnecessary-video-of-arrest-in-port-alberni-bc-draws-community-criticism/

Can David Eby make his contempt for Charter rights and Indigenous rights any more blatant? James Baldwin wrote back in 1966 “I can’t believe what you say,’ the song goes, ‘because I see what you do.’” This NDP government is deeply compromised.

British Columbians deserve healthcare that is truly universal. This policy is built on the foundational understanding that the best healthcare is accessible, preventative, community-centred, and above all, not for profit. [1/4]

something we explore in Critical Indigenous Studies is fact that the settler government can break its own laws with impunity. Kill off an entire fish population? Slap on the wrist, maybe. But for Indigenous peoples the law is swift and punitive. Catch fish in your territory but DFO disagrees? Jail.

Huge kudos to Andrew and Lisa for sticking with this story for months and showing how the VPD slow-walked FOI requests and requests for updated data. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

earlier this year, BCPS declined to charge the officers involved saying they couldn't prove the use of force was excessive. in 2024, they approved charges against 3 different Kamloops RCMP officers, including two for violent crimes and one under the MVA for an incident that killed one person

a man is suing Kamloops RCMP over an incident when he was 15 years old in which an officer deliberately hit him while he fled on his bike www.thebind.ca/p/kamloops-r...

ok Emily is running to be leader of @bcgreens.bsky.social our provincial politics are really sad, the way our governments reject reality (its rather fucked up that we're taking a More Firefighters approach to global boiling FFS) Emily here is for real. have a conversation #bcpoli

meanwhile. at that time.... take a few minutes to read this, @jenstden.bsky.social , if you're wondering if the VPD were neglecting their actual duty. thetyee.ca/News/2023/02...

BC Policy Solutions (@bcpolicy.bsky.social) says that BC could realistically implement Zohran Mamdani's wildly popular affordability agenda for New York City. Let’s make it happen, BC. What policies are you most invested in? (1/4)

This is probably the best piece of reporting out of a mainstream outlet in Vancouver that I can remember. Absolutely nails the vpd. Really needs a more dramatic headline

two scandals here: VPD fuelled panic over stranger attacks even as they fell dramatically in 2022, and then refused to release records about them for 14 months, which is against the law