Mayor Herbert Anscomb and Sir Arthur Currie at tree planting ceremony in Mayor's Grove, Beacon Hill Park. City of Victoria Archives, M10237.

So. Uh. What’s the deal with Venezuela these days?

Making people meet with JD Vance for 20 hours violates the Geneva conventions

Mark Carney has been in power for a year. His government's stated policy is to minimize regulation on AI. He rushed an AI consultation that privileged business interests, not Canadian values. Experts in its social effects were sidelined into a consultation that was summarized by AI.

The Mayor’s Grove & the General’s Tree buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #yyj #VimyRidge #bcHist #Cdnhist

Back to see my Norton Simon Museum Doppelgänger, 8 years later. Dammit, he hasn’t aged a bit!

these closures are the implementation of the policy choice to exclude a specific group of people from the category of *the public* – this is dehumanization and it is a choice being made throughout Canada Ontario 1/

That’ll fix it

as if we needed even more reasons to want Orban go down in flames

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment. Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

Great, now I'm horny for -

A startling recreation of the North Bersted Iron Age warrior wearing his (not at all) ostentatious crested helmet The warrior's damaged vertebrae suggest that he wore this hat quite a lot in life © Artas Media 2019 📷 March 2026 at the #Novium Happy #FindsFriday

I still have my job (for now), but dozens of my colleagues are gone via layoff, non-renewal of term positions, and early retirement. Dozens. This is one mid-sized community college in B.C. Every post-secondary institution in the province—and country—is facing the same thing. The damage is immense.

here are the 4 guys who went into the capsule to check out the astronauts, in case anyone needs any more competence porn They're using the John P. Murtha for recovery, because the ship has a floodable well deck (aka *moon pool*) they can use to retrieve the capsule

A lot of Canucks feel pride at a Canadian astronaut on a moon mission. The Carney government is milking this opportunity to associate itself with those good feelings while cutting nearly a third of all funding for Canada's space agency. www.canada.ca/en/treasury-...

My week kind of went sideways on pretty much every front but I did do some photography this week, and a blog post is coming, but for now it's on my portfolio: photos.gersande.com/vigil-pour-l...

The Newfoundland Regiment suffered enormous casualties at Beaumont-Hamel in 1916 www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/b...

”’My narrative used to be, there’ll be bad fire years and there’ll be quiet years. I’m now beginning to think at a national scale most years are going to be bad fire years,‘ said Flannigan, a professor of wildland fire at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C.”

launch of a new research initiative: the Kootenay Gay History Project csn-rec.ca/news/84311-k... @cndhistassoc.bsky.social

Check out today's Daily News podcast! Statscan is finally analysing corporate ownership in the housing market, worker dead in NS poultry operation and a crazy, mind-blowing amount of money is invested in Israeli apartheid by Canadian financial institutions. sandyandnora.com/daily-news-a...

Heritage & art blogs have not yet picked this particularly bizarre case up, so I'm sharing a news article for now. Not everyone might be aware Iran has synagogues, some of them old & still in use. Others destroyed by the IDF during the Jewish holidays; Torah scrolls found under the rubble.

Huge BDS win on cultural front Giller Prize is no longer partnered w Indigo Books, Azrieli Foundation & Scotiabank In 2023, comrades were arrested protesting the Giller. Then, thousands of writers & book workers refused participation. Giller has now separated from all genocide-invested sponsors.

Please help me celebrate 2 years of survival since diagnosis with stage 3 ovarian cancer on April 23, 2024!! Friends & fellow warriors please send a postcard or card with a photo or art from your city or country! I want to make a map of friends around the world! #fuckcancer 💙🌎💙🌎💙🌎💙🌎💙🌎

Sapper Eugene Kelly wears Proto breathing apparatus in a Rescue Dugout of the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company, Hulluch tunnel system, France, 31 January 1918. He holds a canary in cage to detect carbon monoxide. Kelly was killed in action #OTD 10 April 1918. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Nobody tell the "descendants of slaves" or "Pretendians" that our American Negro heroes were proud to be African. And Paul Robeson's father was actually an enslaved person. But Robeson was also a lawyer, NFL player, actor, singer, spoke 20 languages, and valedictorian at Rutgers Univ

Do you care about ethical investing? Do you know what your pension fund managers are investing in? - bsky.app/profile/lead...

Moral clarity from a Canadian political party leader on Israel is honestly hard to wrap your head around because it's been that rare

An ACA member has shared details on a meeting focused on identifying ways to advocate for Canadian galleries, libraries, archives, and museums amid federal funding cuts. The meeting is open to historians, archivists, genealogists, curators, registrars and librarians. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I WANT SANCTIONS ON GENOCIDERS, @wgreaves.bsky.social. Pay some fucking attention, @mark-carney.bsky.social.

Wild that the BC NDP is going to burn up what ever political capital it might have had with First Nations in order to satisfy the mining industry and convoy-conservative types.

"We cannot stand with this Government when it destroys the hard work that we have built together. B.C. First Nations will not be played for fools." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip www.ubcic.bc.ca/fnlc_opposes...

Convoy/anti vaccine people are at it again in Cowichan, spreading misinfo about Bylaw changes. Not that the bylaw update is all good, but the regional district is behind on comms and they filled the gap. Glad The Discourse is there to offer analysis and info for residents. Support local journalism!

Cue the “Canada became a nation overnight at the Battle of Vimy Ridge” posts. The First World War battle began this day in 1917.

Just watched this talk: Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of “AI.” Absolutely worth 50 minutes of your time.

Roosters. Food trucks. RVs as homes. A 322-page zoning bylaw is sparking debate in the Cowichan Valley. We took a deep dive to figure out what’s actually changing, and what isn’t. #cowichanvalley

Enough toilet paper for when you shit a mile. But if you shit a marathon, you're going to need 26 cases.

3/ Canada must bring sanctions against Israel, cancel the Canada-Israel free trade agreement, implement a real two-way arms embargo, and use every diplomatic and economic tool at our disposal to rein in Israel.

The scale of the killing in Israeli strikes on Lebanon Wednesday is "horrific", the UN rights chief said, urging the international community to help end the unfolding "nightmare." www.barrons.com/news/scale-o...

Look at this posh skrunkleton. Postcard from my collection, 1912. 🎩

If you still support Israel at the point where they're destabilizing the entire planet so they can do multiple genocides you're completely lost

The federal government has ended funding for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. See how Indigenous leaders are standing up for the cause, tonight on APTN National News. Watch live: www.youtube.com/@aptnnews

If I travelled through time to the year 2016 and told 2016 Me that this would be what the Liberal Government will look like in the year 2026, I would ask 2026 Me if I was high on shrooms

Israel called today's operations in Lebanon ETERNAL DARKNESS and we are still being told that this fascist nation can be reasoned with. This is just a fact: either Israel is stopped or expect the war to continue and expand. Those are the options.

this woman is an absolute *freak*. Her crossing the floor into Carney's "Liberal" government is NOT any kind of good news

I've joked that Carney has taken so much of Poilievre's platform that he's only left with cutlure war issues. With Gladu, Carney has brought a culture warrior into the tent. 🤷‍♂️

ah yes a tent so big that even conspiracy theorists and pro conversion therapy pushers are welcome into LPC caucus