Canada has lost its measles elimination status. A sad day, a win for anti-vaccine ignorance and politicized public health, a new age where children, families, and communities will face additional health risks for no good reason other than the comfort of joining others with similar fact-less beliefs.

If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead. He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.

And we’ve only gotten started

It's actually insane that the feds are promising to put more than double the amount of money they're putting into childcare, into AI. Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?

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There's something a bit medieval and also let them eat cake about their willingness to let us get sick in irrationally high numbers I don't know what it is but it's not public health. Also this neutral shrugging over losing our measles elimination status bsky.app/profile/tbra...

Our minimizing public health officials are “disappointed” that Canada could lose measles-elimination status! If only there was something they could do about it…

You know what’s scary? The cognitive dissonance experienced listening to the CBC morning show “reporting” on Vancouver ghosts and then the Current’s scientist guests rightfully indignant about scientific misinformation. Any kind of scientific misinformation primes the populace for believing BS, CBC

Please help us save Chinatown's post office, closing (like many local businesses) due to exorbitant rents! Please sign and share. Thank you! #vanpoli savechinatownyvr.substack.com/p/help-save-...

Chinatown businesses are closing one by one due to high rents. First Floata, my dim sum place, now our post office. I must pick up parcels on Commercial Drive now; how do disabled Chinatown seniors do that? Barely regulated speculation & financialization of real estate, everyone! #vanpoli #bcpoli

One year ago

Retired 80-something senior I chat with over coffee in McD's has caught #shingles, beginning in & around their right eye. Went to VGH emergency 3am Tues - 10hr wait. Taking prescribed meds but it's spread to their left eye! Luckily no pain. Wonder what vaccine costs. I should pay for it!

I'll be speaking at the 2nd night of hearings on #105Keefer (now renamed 570 Columbia, as if anyone is fooled). Beedie's luxury condos are up before the Dev't Permit Board again. How many times will we have to fight this thing? It's a disaster for Chinatown. Enough! Social housing now. #vanpoli

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

Let’s also note that even other Oligarch-owned major MSM papers recognized the import of the story. Seriously, shame on NYT for attempting to diminish the power of the people.

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

This is outrageous

My developmentally disabled sister was admitted to hospital in a @vchhealthcare.bsky.social hospital 3 days ago with pneumonia. Didn't have Covid. Now suddenly she does, in an unmasked hospital amidst a massive Covid wave that VCH is telling no one about. MURDEROUS #bcpoli @josieosborne.bsky.social

For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes. I encourage everyone to read the whole thing #CanadaPost www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

While other #bcpoli parties stay mired in the status quo, the BC Greens have moved on—congratulations to Emily Lowan for her big win. This is a massive win for progressives who care about the climate, housing and equality in this province too

EMILY WON!

1/3 Elder #Vancouver Fairview couple who became #homeless late 2023 (hoarding issues) got into a new place before winter 2024 but they said it was too small & ended up on street spring of 2025 for inability to pay rent. Then got free basement suite in East Van. Landlord suddenly evicted them Aug...

If the first thing out of your mouth when 619 of the most vulnerable people in BC die horrific deaths in a heat dome is “fatalities are part of life,” no amount of access journalism sycophancy is going to make me want to read your self-serving book

Heroes

War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. Bitcoin Mining Is Environmentally Friendly. Mayor Ken Sim everyone #vanpoli

Jordan Peterson has somehow come down with a crippling combination of consumption, Dutch elm disease, "wandering scrotum" and zebra mussels. He is being shipped via barge to a "health palace" in Macedonia where he will be submerged in Windex

ANCHORAGE…

WCK founder @chefjoseandres.bsky.social joins our team on the ground in Gaza. José visited to advocate for an increase in aid, including the ability for WCK to serve 1 mil meals daily in Gaza. Since Oct. 2023, we’ve served more than 145 mil meals—but more is needed. #ChefsForGaza

I agree 100% with every word in your skeet! And it's important to stress that accessible public washrooms are NOT a niche homeless issue. They are part of a healthy public realm - for ALL residents - all ages & all walks of life - bus drivers, posties, cabbies, construction workers - everyone!

Just to reiterate: We need more public washrooms so my friend Stanley doesn’t have to suffer this kind of indignity

We need more Public Washrooms

Amazing if true. You do have to make a login in order to comment but it's worth it. I know several people who were killed by maskless healthcare settings - admitted to hospital for another serious issue, then contracted Covid there and died of it. Hospitals shouldn't be killing us. #cdnpoli

The full list of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, in video form. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Complaints by Vancouver Fire & Rescue about fire risks posed by vacant buildings seems of a piece with previous concerns regarding OD response & lockable torch lighters. Firefighters are really talking about having to increasingly fight the effects of #Vancouver's willful neglect of extreme poverty!

B.C. needs to invest $17 billion to make sure seniors in the province are properly cared for over the next decade, according to a new report. It’s an extraordinary cost, but not taking action will add up to an even greater impact. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli

So many parallels between the Chicago heat wave of 1995 and the BC heat dome disaster of 2021. This 2002 Baffler story puts a human face on the victims and points to policy failures and societal and political neglect as root causes

After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)

Happy birthday to one of the workers at the building surrounding my homeless parkade sleeping spot in #Vancouver Fairview! There was a birthday cake and the last person out of the building was deputized to bring me a piece! Thank you! 😋

Tech firms torrented millions of pirated books to train their AI models. Now authors are fighting back. My story on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

If you’re looking for a way to help consider a donation to the courageous #ChefsForGaza at World Central Kitchen

CBC has apparently just given up

WCK is serving meals at Ard Al-Insan camp, home to cancer patients and people with disabilities. As families face displacement and serious health challenges, we’re working to get meals to people most in need. Dima, 14, was excited for comforting mujaddara. #ChefsForGaza

EXCLUSIVE: Democratic voters who skipped the 2024 election favor candidates like Bernie Sanders and AOC. Polling shows they believe inequality is at the heart of America’s problems and health care should be available to everyone.

anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately

the other thing is that no one who fetishizes manual labor actually cares to improve life for people who are in those circumstances! no support for unionization or a generous welfare state! no interest in policies that make life easier for people who work their hands or afford them more autonomy!

I guess it was just as privileged as the "if it's Tuesday this must be Belgium" approach in question here, but it was a completely different thing. That type of encounter could alter your entire world view and sensibility. I crossed Iran at 20 - wasn't planned - and haven't taken MSM seriously since

Boomer out here side-eyeing certain local reporter regaling the the country about the “conceptual” project necessitating spreadsheets + massive planning for a year of travel when back in the olden days we blithely set off for these year-long journeys without the internet + Instagram

The horrific deaths of some of our most vulnerable citizens are being memory-holed because the attitude of then-premierJohn Horgan, quoting the faux-kind Bonnie Henry, was a callous “fatalities are part of life.” Forgetting these human beings is a scandal

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

Banish me? Banish your dotage, banish usury, That makes the Senate ugly!