France Sizzles in a Week of Punishing Heat That Is Already Causing Deaths www.theenergymix.com/france-sizzl...

I’m honoured beyond words. An in-person colloquium on my first book Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects. About the organizers and the event and a link to registration. www.yorku.ca/events/monst...

Hours have been extended at three downtown indoor spaces for people experiencing homelessness. If we can do this for the World Cup, we should be able to do it all the time. - @seanorr.bsky.social vancouver.citynews.ca/video/2026/0...

"We can build a city that makes us proud, that takes care of people, and pushes the envelope and innovates to make life better for everyone.. I will fight every single day to make this city more affordable for people." - @stephanieformayor.bsky.social www.votecope.ca/stephaniefor...

cities can do things quickly if they want to. and doing nothing is also a choice.

NEW: Suzie Mah's motion to save the affordable and inclusive hockey program at Britannia high school was defeated by a vote of 3-4 at School Board tonight. The two Green trustees voted with ABC and ex-ABC trustees to defeat the motion. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

B.C. and Ontario have enacted laws that extend some protections to gig workers, and platform giants like Uber and DoorDash appear to be lobbying to keep similar policies from being adopted in other provinces. #bclab #onlab

“If cities can move quickly for FIFA, they should be able to move quickly and fairly for their residents too.”

Four years after Vancouver city council passed a motion endorsing a citywide restorative justice project, the framework for implementing the alternative justice model across schools, housing, policing, neighbourhoods and parks was released last week. #vanpoli

HISTORY.

Knicks!

What timeline are we on where the man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people becomes a trillionaire a year later? Because it’s not one I think people are going to sit back and swallow www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo...

truthout.org/articles/us-... horrifying and murderous inhumanity of RFK

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

PELLEY: “.. And about four hours after our deadline, Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent?” @nytimes.com #$PSKY www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

I like this piece from @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social. She’s right that our conditions shape the candidates we get. “Are we trying to stop things before they get worse or not?” I think Mainers understand the hand they were dealt by local and national political conditions. Many other folks don’t.

Minister condemns riot but urges review of police anti-racism guidance following Henry Nowak death – UK politics live

‘misuse of the influence of his office’

Transparency in City Hall. Demand to know where and who ABC + Ken Sim are cutting! #kensimcity

Of note at council this week: Integrity Commissioner report, Vision Zero safety plan, changes to EHT and election bylaw. On Wednesday: UNDRIP task force report + cooling rights. I have 3 motions: strengthen TRPP, low income transit pass, transparency around budget. Also accessibility week motion

ABC just voted to ignore the Integrity Commissioner's recommendations and let Ken Sim completely off the hook for Misuse of Office and Harassing Conduct. On October 17th, we're going to elect @stephanieformayor.bsky.social and restore integrity at City Hall.

In October, this nonsense ends. A COPE-led council majority will make sure that the Integrity Commissioner has the power to take real action and hold politicians accountable that betray the public trust, regardless of how many friends they have on council. @stephanieformayor.bsky.social

Meet COPE's Team for Mayor and Council! Stephanie Allen is a housing policy expert with a background in non-profits, co-ops, and land trusts. She's fighting for better public services, democratic and community housing, and government that empowers residents to have a real say in their city. 1/

Pivot’s Legal Observer Program is going live! www.pivotlegal.org/legal_observ... 1/4

“The Province is yet again capitulating to unfounded moral panic, this time citing a fabricated barrier of needing to strike community consultations prior to the implementation of a life-saving health service.” - Caitlin Shane, lawyer with pivot legal society

My second @thetyee.ca piece today is on the city's World Cup Human Rights Action plan. The city *just* sent me their responses, so we will be updating the piece shortly. A lot of criticism of the plan from the @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social & @bccla.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

One of the most depraved aspects of U.S. policy towards Cuba is the effort to coerce developing countries into expelling Cuban doctors. Ending these programs not only punishes Cuba, but it also harms some of the world's poorest and most medically underserved people.

I know what it’s like to be 80. We have reason to worry about Trump’s health. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/01/trump-what-its-like-to-be-80

I didn’t know there were FIVE ICE detention hunger strikes going on all over the country.

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

The veil continues to be lifted on the symbiotic relationship between corporations and the state. We see it federally, provincially and locally. Looking at budget, policy and outcomes. They try to distract us but we see it, name it and resist. Solidarity. Love. Justice.

And Paul Willcocks' take on the Ministry of Education colluding with the Victoria Police Department to fire Greater Victoria's elected school board, 1.5 years after the board decided to end its own School Liaison Officer program. And they almost got away with it. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026... 2/

@thetyee.ca has a twofer on cops in schools today. My piece on why the recent external evaluation of the Vancouver School Board/Vancouver Police Department's School Liaison Officer program, is what BC Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender has been asking for: thetyee.ca/News/2026/05... 1/

Avi Lewis: "Canada is now living a new chapter of the shock doctrine story. It's also known as the political strategy of flooding the zone. The Carney government right now is pursuing an agenda of shocking scale and speed."

“The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its capacity to scan irises as part of its mass deportation efforts… flush with an influx of funding, [DHS] is gathering biometric data from people it detains. The agency awarded a $25 million no-bid contract last week to BI2 Technologies…” NO BID.

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the US is taking “unprecedented” measures to secure ownership over Canadian mines, turning Canada—and the First Nations from whose lands the minerals are sourced—into a US mining territory, the Canadian government is funding & fast-tracking these projects breachmedia.ca/elbows-up-ca...

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

Read this brilliant new piece by @harshawalia.bsky.social in Boston Review: www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

In 2026, fascism in the US is rising while “the left” descends further into powerlessness, goofiness, and irrelevance—but, author @williamcson.bsky.social argues, it doesn’t have to stay that way.

1/ Right now, a bill called C-22 is moving through Parliament. It would let police pull information on who you talk to, when, and where, all without a warrant. It's at committee this week. 🧵

I'm not running for mayor for status, swagger, or the cool jacket. I'm running for mayor for the people of Vancouver. Because this: vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

Attended the opening of Ho’-kee-melh Kloshe Lum, a new building offering 87 affordable rental homes, 25 supportive homes with rent held at the shelter rate, and 56 market-rate rental homes. It underscores how important the Community Housing Fund is. @lucymaloney.bsky.social @ptfry.bsky.social

talking with some people just off the block, saying that the cops don't even give people ten minutes to load up their stuff and clean up or anything, they swarm in, grabbing everything, throw it in the truck & busting people "that mayor. he could have come down here and talked with us." #vancouver

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