Look, in 2024, the Chief Medical Health Officer for Northern Health only made $341,039 in 2024, excl expenses. You can't seriously expect a CMOH to track <<checks notes>> measles for that pittance, can you? /s

Drop something ELECTRIFYING

pickup trucks for the average person should not have been allowed to advance past this. if you need anything bigger, you should have to provide some kind of documentation showing you have the license and need for special heavy machinery, otherwise you get the 1990 toyota hilux

"Dawn Farrell, CEO of the Major Projects Office, explained a little more at the news conference. The office’s main focus, she said, is helping to secure financing that makes the projects competitive internationally." thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-c...

Thanks to @kristaloughton.bsky.social and others for making this point. Victoria is an expensive city to live in, and if we want people from all walks of life to be able to serve, council has to pay well. You shouldn't need to be wealthy to be able to serve.

Muting so many words this week

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

Do you appreciate that we put a lot of effort into spreading the word about relevant #envhist, #envhum, and #cdnhist events? Consider supporting our fundraising campaign so that we can continue to offer this service. fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...

As the PM makes big resource extraction announcements today, Im thinking about the findings of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

“I am living proof of what happens when parents ensure their Deaf child is offered full language access and genuine choice from the very beginning of life.” B.C. government decisions are making that kind of access and choice harder to find. Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli

As the PM makes big resource extraction announcements today, Im thinking about the findings of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Wow. Arms financing. Wanna kill people but don't got the cash? @mark-carney.bsky.social's got you covered. This is the new Canada. This is what we do. DEATH. Utterly fucking craven and depraved.

As far as I can tell, the difference between Carney’s housing plan and what Canada did in the Second World War is that the housing that was built was *publicly owned* (at least until the Liberal government later reversed it) thediscourse.ca/cowichan-val...

Back in May, CBC Arts reached out to me asking if I would be interested in joining the CBC Creator Program. After months of work, the pilot episode of my series on art heists is officially live. Join me for a deep dive into this bizarre story of art crime! 🎨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePxc...

Ken Sim's austerity budget is so severe that they're going to be REMOVING EXISTING BABY CHANGING TABLES Vancouver, is this really who we are?

Shamefully & at the root of what's holding back progress: the 4 largest Global North oil & gas producing countries — the US, Canada, Australia & Norway — are overwhelmingly responsible for driving up global oil & gas production, collectively up 40% since the Paris Agreement...

Another way to make your voice heard: Let City Council know you want them to reject VicPDs proposed 14% budget increase, including hiring 25 more officers. Put that money into the community supports and services that actually keep people safe! www.change.org/p/reject-vic... #yyj #DefundVicPD

Hey @emilylowan.bsky.social - why still on “X”?

A commentary by the CEO of the Museum of Vancouver. "Instead of recognizing the economic impact and social benefits of investing in the arts, the Carney government is continuing a decades-long trend of squandering the power of Canada’s arts, culture and heritage industries."

“At $73 billion in direct impact on the national GDP, Canada’s cultural industries contribute more than oil and gas extraction at $71 billion.” www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

When you work a federal job that is front line (talking to the public) you understand that people actually expect certain levels of service and they notice when that changes. I’m sure AI will fix that, though.

everyone living around light pollution and clouds right now:

Some thoughts on Remembrance Day buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #bcHist #cdnHist

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

The Stump Ranchers thediscourse.ca/comox-valley... #EnvHist #BChist #CdnHist #Comox

Way too much press coverage of "AI" is spent debating the hypemerchants' claims of speed & efficiency & scale of impact, & not nearly enough is time spent on 2 very basic questions: Are these systems outputs anything like correct? And, if & when they get things wrong, how much harm will that cause?

I missed the detail that Mark Carney ditched the luxury tax on private jets, yachts, and vehicles over $100,000 in the budget, though I also can’t say I’m surprised. The banker-in-chief is serving his Bay Street buddies.

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

The Cowichan sweaters are world renown for their beauty and warmth, but that very fabric of authenticity is being tested by Eddie Bauer with a similar sweater for sale on their website.

Excited to see AI's results in the Canadian government!

3/ We got photos of all of them and got to work finding their names. CBC verified our identifications and added two. By bringing in the CBC, we were able to reach a much larger audience to talk about the threat of white nationalism in Canada. Read CBC's reporting here:

Some thoughts on Remembrance Day buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #bcHist #cdnHist

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

This is one of the best explainers on the ongoing saga out of BC. Too few mainstream news articles touch on the connections to the Convoy, or the fact that it’s really the same movement, with ostriches. The farmers are saying this is just starting. it’ll be interesting to see where it goes now.

we keep falling for it bsky.app/profile/t0us...

FIFA’s private Vegas buffet coming soon to Vancouver - courtesy of a small $650 million donation from the BC NDP government!

🚨 From our latest post, which looks at medical doctors affiliated to 🇨🇦 universities who served in the IOF as per @davidemastracci.bsky.social 's findidfsoldiers.net. This pediatric orthopedist + Prof at UBC Medicine went to serve during the genocide. More details: substack.com/home/post/p-...

NEW📍Israeli soldier hosted by Students Supporting Israel - a group at Toronto Metropolitan University - reshared a story on Instagram admitting he was the one who smashed the glass. He cut his own arm & then played victim. Instead of doing any investigating, Canadian media ran with his narrative.

lol why put it this way

Here's hoping both Esquimalt and Victoria push back hard this year. It's bonkers there's zero discussion of reducing the police budget & instead we have to worry about crime reduction measures like bike valet being cut

Hey! Don’t forget, free Palestine

Hey! Don’t forget, free Palestine

I shall say this only once: wearing a poppy ≠ remembrance and it should always be your personal choice whether to wear one or not.

Full article is up. “There is no issue that the Crown has proven the essential elements of the offence of [possession for the purpose of trafficking],” Murray said. “However, this case is not that straightforward.” Read more at @pressprogress.ca pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

I wrote about the need for a Youth Climate Corps in 2023, & it has only grown greater. Instead of investing in the military industrial complex, policing, and more state oppression, we need a robust climate corps! Young people deserve good work and a dignified future. rabble.ca/columnists/w...

Conservative MP thinking of crossing floor wakes up with severed head of a John A. Macdonald statue in his bed

The Works Progress Administration literally created pots to piss in. The Jasper County Fairgrounds in Rennselaer, Indiana, has a “Roosevelt Privy,” an outhouse built by WPA workers and sold for $5, or about $110 today. Still a cheap bathroom.