Not winery co-owner Bonnie Henry calling for warning labels on alcohol

Folding on life-saving measures is bad — folding on them because *Ken Sim* asked you to is worse. When will the cowardice of the BC NDP end?

So anyone who lives in the neighbourhood west of the stadium has to walk all the way back to Science World to get into the official entrance? This explains why the Terry Fox statue is in FIFA jail

Is there anything like this in Vancouver? Or do Vancouverites just get road closures and extra surveillance

Current and former #WorldCup athletes have signed an open letter to FIFA demanding better protections for players from extreme heat, including longer cooling breaks, and climate action from the association, including dropping all fossil fuel sponsors.

Terry Fox is in FIFA jail

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

The John “Site C Sucks” Horgan Dam

The BC NDP are renaming the Site C dam after John Horgan. You mean this John Horgan? #bcpoli

Bakery Leaders Warn Against “Excessive Reliance” On Dreaded Oven Mitts

Portuguese air crew from the repatriation flight to Canada were not given adequate info or PPE like N95s (surgical masks & gloves only) before transporting the passenger who later tested positive for hantavirus - they have now filed a formal complaint www.portugalresident.com/portuguese-a...

What I dread is DBH in charge of handling this, or any, infectious outbreak. How does someone who dreads scientifically proven mitigation rise to the level of PHO?

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

I don't know anyone who is worried that hantavirus is turning into the next COVID as a global pandemic. The concern is that clearly nothing has been learned from COVID. It's the same calm-mongering, the same arrogant claims, the same slapdash mitigations, the same minimizers who got COVID so wrong.

For anyone who needs a list of reasons why people like Dr. Bonnie Henry are uniquely unsuited and ill-equipped to stop the spread of another deadly virus, here she is in her own words: youtu.be/nlNp0la57vE

The counterpoint to calm-mongering is not alarmism or panic. It's never time to panic. And panic doesn't actually happen. The counterpoint to calm-mongering is simply the precautionary principle. That's it. That's all most of us are urging for this and every other outbreak.

Hey everyone! The minimizer who overconfidently "blew it" with SARS (to quote her colleagues) and overconfidently dismissed airborne transmission of COVID as a "tempest in a teapot" (which the UK COVID Inquiry found was a "widespread failure") is "confident there's no additional risk". Feel safe?

PHO Bonnie Henry still the same, however

“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?”

Today, the Integrity Commissioner ruled that Mayor Ken Sim abused his office to personally attack and harass an elected City Councillor, creating a hostile work environment. 1/

What does it take to afford a writing career? For our latest issue, we asked seven writers about the side gigs or full-time jobs they’ve taken on—waiting tables, watching for forest fires, cuddling lonely strangers, and more. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

It was the worst of times

This council: life saving overdose prevention? Nah. Life saving cooling kits? Nah. Food delivery robots flooding our sidewalks? Oh heck yeah dude

As @cityofvancouver.bsky.social cancels funding for it's 4yr-old heat safety kit & DIY air filter distribution program to help vulnerable #Vancouver residents cope with extreme heat, Vancouver Coastal Health is warning participants in today's BMO Marathon about the dangers of extreme heat!

When I taught in this program in 1967-68, they couldn't graduate their students; everyone got jobs after just one year of training. 60-Year-Old Vancouver Journalism School Is Shutting Down via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

Devastating! I graduated from this program 49 years ago—which launched a career in community journalism, government comms, magazine freelancing, editing + eventually earned an MA in Media Studies in NYC. Journalism is necessary now more than ever

What the fuck are we even doing

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë was born #OTD in 1816. Her novel, 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘌𝘺𝘳𝘦, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell. She is the eldest of the the three Brontë sisters whose novels became classics of English literature. #litsky #booksky

I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

This Day in History, 1986: Olaf Solheim's tragic death after being evicted for Expo 86 tourists The retired logger had lived at the Patricia Hotel in the Downtown Eastside for six decades before he was evicted. Then the 2010 Olympics evictions, now FIFA.. vancouversun.com/news/this-da... #vanpoli

Peace, but only during trading hours

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

Crying.

A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭

If the Iranians really want to fuck with us they should offer to open the straights in return for Trump’s resignation.

BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites. This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran (🎥 i24 News)

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

BC &. Canadian media: here's your chance to correct your dissemination of false ideas about how Covid is spread. Most of you participated in that despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, available right from 2020 with the Tacoma and Korean studies. bsky.app/profile/mark... #bcmedia

Keep going. Save yourself.

New York Times copy editors have totally lost the plot

Freudian slip from the New York Times?

Anyone else going to the @un-habitat.bsky.social World Urban Forum? It's the 50th anniversary of UN Habitat's founding conference in Vancouver in 1976. My book about this is finally on its way after many delays. #WUF13Azerbaijan bsky.app/profile/habi...

APRIL FOOLS! I was unable to holdout in this duplicitous facade until the end of the day

Very sorry to learn this. Stephen Lewis was a national treasure: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Find your event - 95% of Americans live within 1 hour of driving to an event.

OK this has to stop. COPE & Vangreens need to find the guts to walk away from the sham negotiation for "progressive unity" they entered into with OneCity. • OneCity isn't "progressive" • This negotiation should never have been entered into at all • OC has sabotaged it once already 🧵 #vanpoli

"The logic [of Trump lifting sanctions on Iran], insofar as there is any, goes like this: the war has crashed the global oil market so hard that the administration needs the enemy’s oil to keep gasoline prices from eating the midterms." (and it gets better) no01.substack.com/p/march-19-2...