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Support for wetlands, bats, pollinators, electric fences for farmers to deter grizzly bears & more: way to go, Central Kootenay Regional District!

Your face isn’t public property. BC’s Court of Appeal just ruled against Clearview AI for scraping billions of social media photos to build a facial recognition database without consent. Big win for digital privacy in Canada. Consent still matters. Read More: https://loom.ly/fTbgneE

If I were a head of state, I would think setting a precedent that assassination is a legitimate tool of state competition would be unwise

Adventure ahoy… going to take advantage of the free water taxi which lands in Mansons and walk about on Cortes today 🌊🌞⛴️ #funinthesun #islandhopping

Last week, for the first time in 20 years, a man died from a treatable snake bite on my home island of Martinique. He had asked chatGPT what to do instead of going the hospital. He missed the 6 hours treatable window.

Evergreen reminder: hug your people.

Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that

More of this please.

Damn why did no one else think of that www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Congrats! New EA Director alert!

after failed military incursion, us government responds with economic sanctions

We've completely lost the plot

Really incredible in the worst way, that employee concerns dismissed and OpenAI failed to report to RCMP. My assessment after listening to the six o’clock news: Evan Solomon sounds like a weak tech bro unlike David Eby, demanding accountability and regulatory change 💪

Vancouver council is meeting today, which means they will once be providing text updates *only* for subscribers of a website under investigation by multiple countries for child exploitation Staff were told by council months ago to post elsewhere, but haven't And they're doing it for 12 accounts

MLA for Cowichan Valley, Debra Toporowski (Qwulti’stunaat) rose in the House today to speak against residential school denialism. Thank you for sharing your and your family's truth, and for your powerful words.

It's one thing to have big, bold ideas. But we also have to show up. Physically go to every riding. Say hello, sit down, listen. No matter how small the community. This is the critical work of rebuilding. We have to show up for each other. #ndp #cdnpoli #votetanille #atlanticcanada #ruralcanada

UBC studies highlight the importance of forests in flood, drought prevention (BC)

This may be my favourite stat of this Olympics

None of them are good but this one is nuts. A retired white British tourist with a valid visa locked up for two months As she says, if it can happen to her it can happen to anyone www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We met Hasan Piker, the biggest left wing streamer in the world. As the 99%, we’re not out numbered, we’re out-organized. When we stand together, we have more power than we think⚡ #politics #hasanpiker

My experience of local government is getting a report — staff providing data/analysis/options — is the first step in finding appropriate solutions. This sounds like cart-before-the horse conjecture?

I'm in B.C. and we literally had ads at the bus stop paid for by Alberta trying to convince people to move there but now Alberta needs to get out of the constitution because too many people have moved there www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies. It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

Must read...also I worry about our upcoming BC local government elections this fall.

This is like something out of Dickens. But worse?

“Unadministered” … this is about Bear Smart communities — there are places, like the one I rep, which have been waiting and hoping to be included in the WildSafe program. Makes me wonder if that program is also dead. Any news, @randeneneillmlabc.bsky.social ? 🤞😅🤞

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Absolutely devastated for the people of Tumbler Ridge and area. Thoughts are with them.

Ring pissed off the WeRateDogs guy, almost gotta admire the level of malice that requires

Divisive disinformation from Rustad. Plus, ‘rookie MLA’ Hartwell expressing appreciation for Chiefs and councillors who attended and she’d like to ‘meet all of them so she CAN FIND OUT WHO THEY ARE AGAIN’ (my emphasis) #awkward #knowyourriding #bcpoli BC is better than this: we’re stronger together

For real.

The United States is purposefully blockading Cuba from accessing fuel that powers everything from grocery stores to hospitals. People will die. Children will die. What's being done to the people of Cuba is monstrous. The people in power were ok with it in Gaza and now they're doing it to Cuba.

If the WSJ is noticing it must be true www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

I truly admire Bruce Fanjoy's desire to remain Poilievre's #1 troll

Every two weeks I write a Director’s Report on local government//regional district news relevant to the Discovery Islands. Here’s a link to the report in inboxes today: mailchi.mp/6e7c80634fb7... With photos from recent explorations on Quadra Island.

New Brunswick dumps X "government agencies around the world have launched probes into X, and its parent company xAI, for the way its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was used to generate and share sexualized images of people without their consent." www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #cdnpoli #yyj

Canadian Tire fined $1.3 million for using misleading reference prices on 'discounted' items montrealgazette.com/business/can...

Vancouver International Airport just set a record year for travel despite a 7 per cent drop in travel to the U.S. Travel to the Asia Pacific region rose by 15.6 per cent www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

in order to save this country we are probably going to have to do things that make rich men sad 😔

Cleanup at Port Alice's bankrupt pulp mill has cost the public $170 million and counting. BC said this was a "symptom of a wider problem" facing taxpayers, and vowed to close the legal loopholes that allowed it to happen. Now it's quietly halted that process. My story for @thetyee.ca #bcpoli

Incredible workmanship 🙌🙌

[butterfly meme] is this deescalation? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

For anyone wondering if public pressure works. Bravo to all Canadians who said “no” to a Canadian-based company being involved in fascism.

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Exactly this: “Rather than a leader focused on criticizing Canada, the majority of Canadians wanted one who promised to stand up against the American threat. Similarities between Poilievre and Trump — sometimes rhetorical, other times substantive, and sometimes both — deepened the suspicion.”

First Nations Chiefs are calling on Alberta’s premier to resign, accusing Danielle Smith of conspiring with separatists and violating Treaty rights “I hope you have your bags packed. When this referendum is defeated, I will gladly walk you to the border.” #fyp

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Yesterday I was asked about Jim Pattison Group’s potential ties with ICE. I have a clear message for them: I urge them to do better on behalf of British Columbians. The world is appalled watching this situation unfold, especially the deaths of citizens at the hands of ICE. We cannot watch in silence