Alberta’s forced treatment plan actually gets worse… Because their new prisons won’t be ready until 2030, the UCP is going to use voluntary beds, potentially taking away spaces from people who want them… To force treatment on people who don’t. #abpoli www.thealbertan.com/beyond-local...

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So. FIFA. All this for a field hockey tournament?

AI has pulled back the curtain on capitalism in ways nothing else has

We also need affordable childcare and spaces and places for parents and guardians to get some respite rather than just putting a screen in front of kids for hours on end to get some peace. I know it's not cool and edgy but it's all these little things that will address the problem.

+ Queer kids in small towns find community on social media. Kids in abusive homes escape on social media. What we need is social media literacy starting with parents & working their way down. We need more 3rd spaces. We need investments in community. We need addiction services for all - even youth

This is the best Pride moment I'll ever have. A little gay boy (when you know you know), maybe 7, ran up to me today and said, "What's your style?!" "What's...my style?" "Yes! What STYLE do you have?" "I'm too old to have a style!" He beamed at me. "I change MY style EVERY DAY." And he skipped away.

Claudia Sheinbaum just launched a national EV in Mexico that retails for $5000 US. This is after giving millions of people universal healthcare. Meanwhile Mark Carney is fast tracking Canada into a dystopian AI surveillance state and Donald Trump is trying to go for the war criminal leaderboard

The valuation of SpaceX is based on this page in their filing*. Estimated future market: 28.5 trillion Of that Grok/AI is: 26.5 trillion 93% of the SpaceX valuation is Grok NINTY THREE PERCENT OF THE SPACEX VALUATION IS GROK!!!! * www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Mountains of corpses, you say? I see no mountains of corpses… The fact that this statement represents an almost radically compassionate & sensible perspective from an elected official is… sobering, to say the least. Municipal elxn on Oct 17 across BC. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Majority gov’ts are dangerous & undemocratic and should be illegal. Electoral politics as a whole is an unsustainable model of governance. Who serves in gov’t should be determined through a lottery similar to that used for jury selection to minimize profit motives & policy-by-polling-projections.

Sunset turned out alright at the Mozu Arrow

"What we need to let go of is the idea that we will make the people in power care. They do not, and they will not. They cannot be convinced, they must be overthrown." www.welcometohellworld.com/they-want-us...

Worth noting this type of embarrassment may be a thing of the past for the BC government In future, these types of documents may be covered by cabinet confidence and unavailable to those requesting reviews of government decisions Bill 16 received royal assent on May 21 #bcpoli

AI is bad and ruining human knowledge, sorry to those trying to convince us otherwise.

When Canada could be collecting $90 billion in profit, those are not foreign "investors", those are foreign profiteers who we are paying rent (subsidies) to for their ownership of our oil, while they also collect the profits from selling it. We've been turned into tenants in our own country.

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

Carney talks a big game, but when it comes to actually standing up for Canadians against authoritarian regimes doing or threatening to do us harm, he defers to the will of the bullies & tyrants every time. Carney ain’t nothin’ but a cowardly, obsequious little sheep in wolf’s clothing.

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

What a pathetic statement. An independent investigation by Israel into its own war crimes is an oxymoron. Canada must sanction Israel, including ending the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement, and implement an immediate comprehensive arms embargo on Israel.

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despair is not a synonym for political clarity!! yes! it’s cool to care, it’s not cringe to dream. be realistic when you talk logistics but believe in impossible beautiful futures the rest of the time! we can all take turns being hopeful, you don’t have to do it full time. but you do have to try.

The Cure Owen Pallett Sonic Youth Sinead O’Connor Billy Bragg PJ Harvey The Sadies Siouxsie & the Banshees Beastie Boys Tanya Tagaq

That’s how you know it’s bad

This is where they squeeze the last bit of money they can before jumping out and letting the whole industry crash into flames behind them.

these are advance teams. this is annexation

there is NO "flow of fentanyl into the U.S. these are federal agents of a country that has repeatedly indicated its desire to annex this one a country that has claimed to be Stopping the Drugs in all their military operations in this hemisphere

Yankee go the fuck home.

This is a scam. OpenAI has been spinning fantasies even as the company nears a debt-riddled collapse; as with SpaceX, the plan is now to offload the wreckage into everyone's 401K plans and run like hell. There is no path to profitability, and no way to pay back the current debt. It. Is. A. Scam.

Cancelling $1.4 billion of already-allocated funding that would have supported the construction of 4600 units of affordable housing is an odd way of "working to build more...housing", you murderous lying ghoul. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Oh no! I was lucky enough to have known Cris in my former life as music festival producer, when I booked her band e.s.l. to play in Dawson City. It was always a treat to bump into her at other everts over the years & to follow her artistic evolution. This is so sad.

NOTHING MATTRESS #DTES

It is insane that person who is funding the world’s white supremacist movement & is daily spewing racism, who killed 100,000’s last year by yanking USAID without warning, is regularly discussed in Corporate Media as an industrialist, without any mention of the white supremacism or mass murder.

Ontario's Housing Strategy.

incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people

I'm not a political scientist but I think the best strategy is to call the separatists reactionary losers at every turn. Do not engage with their project as a serious political alternative.

"In 2024, about 70 per cent of HIV transmission in Manitoba was related to injection drug use." I'm sure it's just a coincidence...

Carney's—capital's—agenda is the destruction of any hope of a future more egalitarian society in Canada. Along with environmental destruction and accelerationism, in perfect accordance with the global fascists and oligarchy that remain Canada's closest allies. #cdnpoli

"People who use unregulated drugs are residents, constituents and voters." I feel like this needs to be repeated again and again until we finally get it.

Same story, three provinces, same cause: Each one signed on to the Alberta Recovery Model in 2024. Why do we accept eugenic public policy in 2026?

Today, on International Harm Reduction Day, we honour everyone working to keep people alive, safe, connected, and cared for. This work is hard. Many are carrying grief, exhaustion, and uncertainty. But we are stronger together, and none of us do this work alone. #harmreduction

Vancouver City Hall seems like a great spot for a semi-permanent pop-up OPS - close to the Skytrain, lots of good food options in the area, nice view.

economic inequality is the root cause of survival crime which in this case inadvertently caused a widespread Telus outage in B.C.'s north

"What LLMs offload is the generative reasoning process itself - the forming of ideas, the weighing of arguments, the construction of a response to an open question. Previous tools replaced specific skills but this replaces the process that generates them." #fuckai #jailtechbros tinyurl.com/p7p9mzr9

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.