Billionaires pay less, so we pay more. It has to stop. Add your name to demand Canada’s wealthiest pay their fair share. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/U1Pi3miX

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is silencing SA victims with NDAs. archive.ph/857qb

A growing number of tech companies have found a way to unlock additional (and much-needed) cash: a special purpose vehicle, it’s a legal entity that allows a company to take on a lot of debt without having to hold it on its own balance sheet. Last used before the bank crisis. archive.today/MRlqh

B.C.’s energy regulator has the power to grant exemptions — without notifying the public. Experts are raising the alarm about the process, saying the regulator is playing soft with fossil fuel companies that break rules. thenarwhal.ca/b-c-quietly-...

A Vancouver Landlord Keeps Being Allowed to Evict Tenants. Why? | The Tyee thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Carney’s Pipeline Deal Lifts Up Alberta and Demotes BC to Second-Class Status | The Walrus thewalrus.ca/alberta-bc-p...

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:

PSA For you "DEI is bad" people Equity is bad only when it's you with the privilege and you want to keep your position in life If you're screaming about DEI you likely have all the privilege and none of the struggle In a true democracy everyone participates and has rights

Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business. archive.today/94yDh

Great to have @nathangrayson.bsky.social back on the show to understand how video games are part of Saudi Arabia reputation-laundering effort. We also discussed the @aftermath.site refresh that you should definitely check out!

I missed the detail that Mark Carney ditched the luxury tax on private jets, yachts, and vehicles over $100,000 in the budget, though I also can’t say I’m surprised. The banker-in-chief is serving his Bay Street buddies.

Sign the petition to establish policies to safeguard domestic control of media. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

For years, the Liberal Party of Canada has promised to end charitable status for anti-choice organizations like unregulated ("crisis") pregnancy centres. www.bchumanist.ca/antichoicech...

Internal documents have revealed that Meta has projected it earns billions from ignoring scam ads that its platforms then targeted to users most likely to click on them.

The ‘Anti-Woke’ Tax That All Americans Are Paying. “Tariffs are the most obvious example” but also food prices rising due to the immigrant crackdown, rising energy prices bc of the regime’s anti-solar bias. And the tax is flowing into corporate coffers. [theatlantic.com]

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Sinclair Broadcasting Corporation TV stations akl reading thr same script written by corporate headquarters as news. www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

@unocha.org should be investigating this.

It's cool how Nexstar and Sinclair are making the point in real time that it would be incredibly dangerous for any one company to have a monopoly on the distribution of television shows, given the implications for free expression. Unfortunately I think this administration will view that as a plus.

Does the City of Surrey not do any auditing?

We’re being pushed into groups. It makes it easier for us to hate each other.

You have a rare opportunity to protect 100 acres (40.5 hectares) in Desolation Sound—one of British Columbia’s most dramatic and world-renowned marine areas.

Bluesky is dying, science edition... [Narrator: Bluesky is not dying.]

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

A flirty Meta AI bot invited a retiree to meet. He never made it home. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Ditto - Your life in lists: An app that allows users to create and share lists, transforming them into shared experiences. onditto.com/invite/LB7K_O

Scrolling through Instagram means experiencing a Frankenstein-like app of disjointed features stitched together. It’s an AI search tool! It’s a shopping app! It’s a map to find your friends! It’s getting on my last nerve.

I was just at a party and now people I’ve never met before tonight are being suggested by Facebook as a “People you may know”. Facebook is clearly tracking who comes close to me/my phone.

How much more evidence of genocide do Western governments and press need to acknowledge reality?

This is pretty cool. When you are traveling and charging your phone using untrusted usb ports, put this on your charging cable to prevent downloading or uploading to your phone!

Does Google not make street view updates anymore? Last update on my street was 2017. Was every year previously.

Stupidity, warned Carlo Cipolla, wields more power than any organized gang or industrial military complex and seems to be a constant force in history. In other words, the non-stupid should never underestimate the role of stupidity in world events, writes Andrew Nikiforuk for the Weekender.

Underground mine where workers trapped was on BC fast-track list | Canada's National Observer: Climate News: archive.is/voris

"Complicity is the US’s foreign policy in Palestine." — Francesca Albanese

Just listen to how Stephen Colbert answered this question off the cuff.

Nothing makes countries not want to develop nuclear weapons more than bombing them with impunity because they don’t have the threat of nuclear weapons.

An act of war weeks in planning but unauthorized by Congress against a country that Trump's own director of intelligence testified under oath was not close to getting a nuclear weapon.

Correction. Last should read: “We must not be dragged into another war Israel started”.

*israel takes a quick break from genocide to attack iran, killing dozens of civilians* mark carney: iran’s missile attacks are a threat to peace 🫠