"During the hearing, the judge questioned why consultation wasn’t done sooner, since First Nations have been sounding the alarm over the prospect of separation for more than a year." globalnews.ca/news/1184816...

Every PR piece on this AI data centre cluster brags that it’s “clean”, powered by BC Hydro… But with historic drought, we are now importing coal electricity from US. Taking cue from AB’s Smith, lobbyists have pushed Eby to hook up data centres to LNG, to absorb predicted oversupply by 2030🔍 #bcpoli

As summer approaches and temperatures begin to climb, Victoria city council is preparing to debate whether rental housing should be required to stay below a maximum indoor temperature.

Meantime, those of us who are proudly woke celebrate Lund for putting his own life on hold for months, all in order to fight for an important cause he truly believes in. #cdnpoli #abpoli

We are losing generations of labour that people before us dedicated their lives to — forcing the provinces, territories, and country to actually give a damn about the environment & codify that in law (laws that were already being skirted, distorted, or outright broken before Carney). This is so bad🐟

politely declining a cal invite from my institution to an emergency session on mother's day sun to follow up on a sat aft email re: a shutdown of canvas cloud for the 1500 for-credit courses/15K students in a summer term that starts tomorrow because -in a surprise move- instructure suuucccckkksss 💅

In 2015 @unibergen.bsky.social opted for a self-hosted open source version of Canvas, and so today our student data is safe. But UiB was planning to switch to Canvas Cloud - the hacked subscription service - this autumn, DESPITE it costing more than running it ourselves. jilltxt.net/uib-self-hos...

1/8 🇨🇦 BIG TECH VS. CANADA'S SOVEREIGN CLOUD 🇨🇦 While all eyes are on President Trump's threats, a deeper danger lurks. U.S. Big Tech is entrenched in Canada & Carney’s dream of digital sovereignty may already be dead on arrival. Donald Gutstein reports #BigTech #DataSovereignty #CdnPoli #TechSky

my employer has given us 24(?) hours to extract hundreds of hours of labour off of canvas to pivot to using zoom...but my asynchronous course was commissioned by the employer to meet their reconciliation goals & cannot be exported because everything is in proprietary canvas format. Ask me anything.

The data center isn't getting built in our town!! We defeated it!! I so needed this win right now.

you cannot braid, bridge, weave, ‘influence’, or reconcile Indigenous sovereignty to an AI industry that a) sees First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people as handpicked ‘advisors’ and ‘stakeholders’ rather than rights-holders or b) was always intent on getting its hands on native lands and waters here

(No words, just the sound of my head exploding)

New Theory Says We've Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang https://gizmodo.com/new-theory-says-weve-been-overcomplicating-the-big-bang-2000741777

So corrupt. Remember when John Horgan retired and went straight to the board of Teck Coal? The NDP is run by corporations for their own interests. thenarwhal.ca/bc-teck-lobb...

wrote about colonizers in space for @thewalrus.ca! thewalrus.ca/with-the-art...

Draw your own conclusions, but the president of Palantir Canada sits on Carney's council for Canada/US relations. And the feds also did a deal with Palantir, via a homegrown proxy.

🆕 NEW—Part 0 of "Beyond Fires & Floods: Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes" 📻 HEAR co-convenors @candiscall.bsky.social + @rickharp.bsky.social lay out BFF's origins and objectives, ahead of the series’ first instalment of many to come! podfollow.com/mediaindigen...

“Many discussions still approach AI primarily as a digital technology, but in many of these countries, AI is becoming visible through the infrastructures that sustain it: data centers, mineral extraction, energy demand, water-intensive cooling systems, and digital labor chains…”

On March 24 the AER sent out the final ToR for the environmental impact statement for Northback's Grassy Mountain Mk 2 coal project to all the commenters on the draft. But there was a snag. The AER did not use the bcc function. Today it boldly announces that it has done nothing wrong. 1/2 #abpoli

After lobbying by a mining group, the B.C. government is reviewing conservation measures across the province. Conservationists worry it could water down protections and derail new protected areas. thenarwhal.ca/mining-lobby... #bcpoli

Happy Birthday to Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, who is currently raising money for dental work, which you can donate to here. He’s had three bad teeth pulled in the past month. fundrazr.com/campaigns/52...

That's a wrap on the third iteration of Intro to Critical Indigenous Fish Philosophy! (soon to be a dedicated course+not a special topics). This year we thought co-constitutively about physiology, physics, Indigenous philosophy, governance, kinship, biochemistry, evolution/diffraction, stories, hope

And make sure to record your claim number when you submit. Print the screen as a .pdf. Not everyone is getting the confirmation email.

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🚨 A new frontier of coordinated disinformation. Fossil fuel industry front groups are using AI platforms to flood clean air regulators with fake public comments—submitted under real residents' names, without their consent. @robbonta.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

If you're angry about Nenshi supporting pipelines wait until you learn about what the BC NDP are up to.

Yesterday in the B.C. legislature, @jervaler.bsky.social called the financial history of Quest University “an elaborate shell game, a web of fraud centred on one of Quest’s original benefactors, diamond oligarch Stewart Blusson.” I've been investigating those claims: theijf.org/article/ques...

The BC NDP government is cutting environmental assessments to fast-track industrial megaprojects. That means compressed timelines for project reviews and fewer opportunities for the public, First Nations, and experts to weigh in. 1/2 🧵 #bcpoli #environment

After 6 years of calling his apartment home, Mark is being kicked out because of greed and negligence. BC is Canada’s eviction capital because of the corporate landlords who put profit over people. Vacancy control, now. Bargaining rights for tenants, now. Ban REITS from owning homes, now.

“Here we are, six years after every province and territory in Canada declared states of emergency because of #COVID19, and yet we have not learned basic lessons from the pandemic.” 🦠

A community fishery in Cambodia was struggling. There weren't enough fish to make ends meet, until local fishermen started planting a specific type of tree. n.pr/4tchbzt

The Yoto Daily podcast fact-checking itself and issuing errata and retractions to a couple of its recent Five Fantastic Facts: doing more than a good majority of UK, US, and Canadian media to ensure accuracy. ✅ (Ps: the Walrus is one Canadian outlet that has very thorough fact-checking procedure)

The heroic work that folks are doing in our communities to teach kids how to regulate their nervous systems totally gives me hope we can come back to co-constitution and community. The late Dr Larry Ward had important things to say about this. youtu.be/Dfp4_2w9yUc

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

This is a very important and disturbing story. So it seems the Carney gvt will allow new AI data centers to generate their own electricity by burning gas. If this is the future, our climate goals are f-cked.

WATCH: Independent climate & energy researcher @ketanjoshi.co breaks down the truth behind #BigTech’s popular claims that AI can solve the climate crisis. #GreenSky

Check out the incredible speakers who will be sharing their wisdom on March 31 for the national launch of "LNG: Not in Our National Interest"! Register here: stand-earth.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Sharing my latest newsletter.👇 I did some digging into what's holding up a final investment decision for Ksi Lisims LNG - potentially Canada's next major 'carbon bomb.' Turns out the 🇺🇸 owners of the proposed project are hoping for public investment from 🇨🇦 govt. open.substack.com/pub/sethdkle...

Alexander Jeglic says Indigenous Services Canada failed to provide timely answers to procurement officers' questions in some cases and allowed some contracts to go out to companies not listed in the Indigenous Business Directory.

Thinking a lot right now about Barad’s concept of the ‘metaphysics of individualism’ (which pervades all post-Enlightenment structures) and about how narcissism (not the DSMV diagnosis, but colonial euro-American individualism noted above) is a singularity trapping us all in a world of ego.

Meanwhile in Canada, Carney is making massive cuts to DFO, PHAC, Environment and Climate Change, Agrifood, closing research stations, etc. Worse than Harper.

Three years ago, the BC government promised an independent investigation into long-standing misconduct allegations within the BC RCMP. A report is expected in the coming weeks. But the province says it will review the findings before anything is released. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

Finally had the quintessential Vancouver Island experience: fast ferry was cancelled due to weather and raced, Fast and Furious style, to Tsawwassen to catch the second last ferry home. And made some friends along the way ☺️

Carney met 17X with big oil in a year compared to Trudeau’s 2 in his final 2 years, & JT implemented, award-winning climate policy. All of our progress & more is in the burn pile. Our future is being set ablaze, destroyed by this Liberal government.

New polling on AI data centres shows cost concerns dominate. 66% of Canadians believe they will increase electricity prices, including 33% who think costs will rise a lot. In an affordability-focused country, that’s a major barrier. Details: abacusdata.ca/canadians-s...

As a retired airline Captain I flew into LGA and NY airspace hundreds of times. It is some of the world’s busiest airspace. To have only one ATC in the tower at LGA is criminal negligance. Not only is the airspace crowded and chaotic, so are the ground operations. Sean Duffy’s FAA owns this 100%

It begins! Long awaited first episode of @mediaindigena.bsky.social introducing Beyond Fires & Floods: Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes, a series of amazing panels @rickharp.bsky.social and I organized at UBC podfollow.com/mediaindigen...

"Pacific Northwest old-growth stores more carbon per acre than any terrestrial ecosystem on the planet." There are five hours left to leave a public comment against clearcutting our old growth. morethanjustparks.com/oregon-old-g...

It’s a shame that mainstream ‘Indigenous science’ streams erased (Pam Colorado, Robin Wall Kimmerer) or under-cited (Gregory Cajete) Deloria’s cogent and brilliant insights into things like quantum physics (in the 1970s no less) because it means that work lost the Critical Indigenous Studies lens