Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.

Governments have never addressed the reality that “the majority of individuals in B.C. who died from drug poisonings did not have a diagnosed opioid use disorder or use opioids on a daily basis.” governments created ministries of mental health and addiction to deny this fact.

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Please sign the petition to reject the VicPD's proposed budget increase. The VicPD budget is taking a bigger and bigger share of tax revenue, failing to address the root issue while preventing funding for proven crime prevention solutions. #victoriaBC, #yyj c.org/sZqwtBc8Tz

Air pollution is a potent neurotoxin. It harms the brains of children & adults. It even harms the brains of babies before birth. Burning fossil fuels is the leading preventable cause of death and ill health in the world today. Clean energy now! @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social

Wow this is wild 🤯 🧪🎢⚛️🧬

NOAA retirees “volunteering” including one who is working as an “unpaid intern” in order to help. I would like to never again hear anyone bitch about civil servants’ work ethic tyvm.

If you are planning your Halloween costume to be tissue paper or paper machee based you may want to reconsider. Heavy rain expected for Friday night. #BCWeather, #yyj, #victoriabc

Update: Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in southwestern Jamaica — and has tied the all-time record for strongest Atlantic basin hurricane landfall. Hurricane Melissa will be a generational-scale climate disaster and will require an international response to help Jamaicans recover.

The #yyj police board is presenting its draft 2026 budget at 5:00 pm. They want $90 million+, including 25 new officers. It would be an $11 million increase, or 14% (a 52%, $31 million increase from 2021). Budget: vicpd.ca/wp-content/u... 🧵 with highlights before the meeting starts. #vicpdboard

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Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road. "Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!" source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

To survive the Holocaust and nearly immediately set about conducting a new one is the ultimate tragedy of the human condition. Apparently no lived experience can impart the wisdom of "do unto others as they would do onto you", and I think that means we are doomed as a species.

“Emergency info B.C. says there is no threat of tsunami after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake shook the Pacific Basin near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.” vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/09/18/b... - @citynewsvancouver.bsky.social #HaidaGwaii #PortHardy #PrinceRupert #Tofino #Ucluelet #VancouverIsland #YYJ

BULLETIN Public Tsunami Message Number 3 NWS National Tsunami Warning Center Palmer AK 206 PM PDT Thu Sep 18 2025 ...THE TSUNAMI ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... * The Tsunami Advisory is canceled for the coastal areas of Aleutian Islands

An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 just occurred off the coast of Kamchatsky, Russia, very close to the origin of the tsunami-triggering earthquake that occurred there last month. Expect a possible tsunami advisory to follow. #emergencymanagement, #earthquake, #tsunami

An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 just occurred off the coast of Kamchatsky, Russia, very close to the origin of the tsunami-triggering earthquake that occurred there last month. Expect a possible tsunami advisory to follow.

Many sources of wildfire smoke out there, both on the mainland and from Washington State. AQ in Victoria is currently okay, but is forecasted to decrease over the next few days. Dust off your air filtration units and change the filters. #VictoriaBC, #yyj, #airquality, firesmoke.ca/forecasts/cu...

Rare Garry Oak ecosystem for a data center? Seriously, is there not a hardware store parking lot or an off-season Spirit of Halloween available somewhere?

Do you condemn the IDF? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Fascism is not merely a political ideology, but a psychological breakdown—a collective "imp of the perverse." It's a society's self-destructive reaction to an unbearable national lie. 🧵 1/6 #PoliticalPsychology #History

"What do I need to know so I can ignore this?". #BadHasbara youtu.be/JKX8dozBy9s?...

The Mount Underwood wildfire has advanced 4km towards Port Alberni since yesterday. Thankfully, we are expecting rain later today that should slow it down 🤞. #wildfire, #emergencymanagement, #vancouverisland, #britishcolumbia

A new out-of-control wildfire south of Port Alberni is now at 680 hectares in size in under 24 hours. #emergencymanagement, #vancouverisland, #britishcolumbia, #wildfire

The cost of just one of the new highway overpasses exceeds everything ever spent on bike lanes in Victoria. #yyj

“Those in affected areas should watch out for signs of heat stroke, which include a high body temperature, confusion, dizziness or fainting, and very hot or red skin.” vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/08/10/b... - @citynewsvancouver.bsky.social #BCHeat #CampbellRiver #ComoxValley #Kamloops #Nanaimo #YYJ

Knowledge Graphs! Oh yeah, we're deep in some nerdy shit now booooyy. #EmergencyManagment #Policy #Javascript #vis.js

So often a #disaster is only the start of its impact. Even the massive death toll from the destruction of the world trade centre was outnumbered by that of the #pollution it caused. 10,000 #cancers by 2018, for example. #wildfires #airpollution #carcinogens www.latimes.com/california/s...

#DBCalert: Highway 17 Northbound | Closure | Between Exit 19: Island View Rd and Exit 21: Mt Newton Cross Rd | #Central#Saanich | Geotechnical investigation. Until Fri Aug 8. From 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM PDT on weekdays. Exit ramp is closed. Exit 30 to Jus Kun Rd closed.

There's a new fire burning on the North side of Cameron Lake, opposite from Hwy 4. Currently at 60 hectares in size. A evacuation order is in place for the North side of the lake, and so far Hwy 4 has not been impacted. #vanisle, #BC, #wildfire

There's a 460-hectare wildfire currently burning 6km south of Lytton, BC. Image acquired from Sentinel. #BC, #DEM, #greysky, #emergencymanagement wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fi...

The tsunami is still ongoing for Amchitka. That's 20 hours straight of going through a complete tidal cycle every 5 minutes.

As someone who was using the em dash before AI—I feel very attacked right now.

Here we see the Kamtchatka tsunami impacting a tidal gauge at Amchitka Alaska, beginning at 01:30 UTC (6:20pm PDT). For far the maximum height over local tide was 0.4 meters at 0311 UTC, but waves are still ongoing. #BC #EmergencyManagement #DEM

Multiple earthquake clusters ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. Tsuanmi warnings issues for Japan, Russian, Alaska. Advisories in effect for British Columbia and US West Coast. See www.tsunami.gov for more.

Out-of-control wildfire sparks evacuation orders for town of Lytton and Lytton First Nation.

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

After Kristi Noem delayed FEMA’s search and rescue in Texas by 72 hours, the head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue Branch is resigning. Noem’s failures must be investigated, and she must be held accountable.

"Oregon wildfire burns almost 100K acres, approaching rare megafire status...So far this year, there have been 40,934 wildfires [in the West], the highest year-to-date total in at least a decade, according to National Interagency Fire Center data." www.yahoo.com/news/oregon-...

When is this going to end? What is there to even say anymore?

Ukrainian startup says its drones could work on their own by year’s end, thanks to AI Armed with a fresh round of investment from the West, Ukrainian drone autonomy startup the Fourth Law is showcasing new footage as it aims to become the first to reach the latest holy grail o...

"Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain" #emergencymanagemt, #riskmanagement, #DEM apnews.com/article/texa...

“This decision will kill people. It will lead to millions, if not billions, of USD in additional damages per [hurricane] event.” One has to assume, on purpose.

I feel like some people hear about nature-based mitigation solutions and think it's about conservation. Well, no, it's mostly to protect you from nature, not the other way around. #DEM

#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #Ethics #Justice #SocialJustice #bcpoli #abpoli #onpoli #topoli #yyjpoli #yvrpoli #yyzpoli #ClimateActionNow #ClimateChange #Climate #Ecosocialism #Nature #BCClimateAction #capitalism

Happy Pride Victoria! Whether you are queer, gay, bi, pan, trans, NB, or 3Spirit, you are seen, you are welcome, you are safe! #victoriabc, #yyj