Reporting by @kehyslop.bsky.social We know about this incident because it mentioned in the appendix of a recent OPCC report. But we don’t know the officer’s name - meaning he could work at schools or with youth in the future and parents wouldn’t be aware of his history. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Just had to check

No deaths in a year That's pretty incredible, given the severity of the toxic drug crisis in BC this past decade

Hugely important thread of info on this. Compassion Club was an overwhelmingly reasonable, considered, and just attempt to stop mass death completely ignored by all levels of government. Every single level of government could be saving lives tomorrow and chooses not to, everyday.

Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all. www.ign.com/articles/uns...

ABC Councillors sure are surprised by the consequences of their actions.

In an interview this week, Ken Sim said that he had a list of all the times he said no to the Vancouver Police Department, and said a lot of their budget increases were out of the city's control. We got the list. We looked at the budget. Here is a fact check. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Health Canada convened an independent expert advisory group in 2020 to provide guidance on safer supply. Health Canada heavily redacted its final report, but unredacted version obtained by CBC shows the expert group said drug crisis is driven by prohibition and recommended expansion of safer supply

Pet peeve: police chief's using the term "boots on the ground" to discuss a civic police force. That phrase is not as generic and fun etymologically as you think it is.

Hey, anyone know why the Police Services budget is $28mil higher today than it was yesterday? We're now looking at $525mil on the budget doc online and during the presentation today, but this was $497mil in all reports/docs before today. @jmcelroy.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/....

There are higher priorities for 50$million Vancouver tax dollars. Like, housing. And schools. And parks.

So I'm now on a temporary layoff as VIVOS fundraises just to survive. Carney promised support of the arts and we'll see soon if that promise is kept, but if you care about media archives, consider donating this 52yr Canadian artist-run-centre and its archive! www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/136539

This is true for most of what AI is "good" at. It's good at writing ad copy because modern ad copy is slop. It's good corporate emails because corporate emails are slop. Slop is slop. AI is just a new slop tool for those peddling slop. Corporate society has been on the slop train for a long time.

At this family friendly event, a lady in an SUV tried to drive through the crowd because her daughter had to get to a soccer game and refused to do a u-turn. This is exactly what we mean when say drivers are entitled in this city. Unreal.

Out at the Willow+16th protest for the women hit while pushing a stroller. During the protest, a women drove her car towards a crowd of parents and children threatening to hit us. On the 15min walk home, 2 cars ran reds. Drivers need to face more consequences for daily failures of safety.

Finally got around to playing with TransLink realtime GTFS data. Kind of fun. Transit in Vancouver is looking pretty good, especially considering this is an hour midday on a holiday weekend, with some lines not running (hello 44) and not all buses reporting real-time information.

Teachers run after school programs for free.

A single Vancouver police officer made $397,258 last year, making $239,258 in overtime on top of their base pay of up to $158,000. This is the wildest FOI I've seen in a long time. Well done Liam Britten for digging this up. #CBC www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Then there's no Alberta pipeline, there's Canadian pipelines - and most of Canada is not so desperately nihilistic as to force unwanted infrastructure projects through territory that doesn't support it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

a group of people were like "i found a way to live my life as a truer version of myself" and instead of being like "that's beautiful, how can i help" people were like "i don't think schools should have books in them anymore"

The most important piece of expensive audio gear you can own is the time you've spent with your gear getting to know exactly what it sounds like in different situations.

I'm here! Say hi!

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

"culture war" is a euphemism for fights picked by fascists

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures. This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

My new hobby: glitching out the main menus for all of my favorite PS2 games. I love how the background to the Frequency logo is just an audio reactive waveform. Switching on the circuit bend that disables all of the textures lets us get a better look!

E-bow The Letter is magical.

Baby needs to sleep through the night sometime soon. Till then, mornings are pretty.

6:20am

SCOOP: The BC government has quietly cut a $20 million fund that schools used to waive fees for vulnerable children, pay for school supplies. Last year, an NDP MLA called the fund 'transformative' and the education minister said parents could 'count on the program's help' thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

‪@tyolsen.bsky.social‬ noticed his kids' school supplies were no longer covered by the district. He looked into the reason and found a $20 million program to help families and improve equity had been quietly shelved by the B.C. government. thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"

Vancouver’s Integrity Commissioner has found Mayor Ken Sim and ABC councillors broke the code of conduct on multiple occasions for coordinating amendments to controversial motions in separate private online conversations ahead of public council meetings

Only a few days left to take this questionnaire and write in your own answers to let this Liberal government know that you don't actually want them to be a conservative government.

My hot take is if there is a single corporation so essential to national interests, then that corporation should be nationalized and its employees should be paid living wages for every hour they work.

Spent my whole childhood obsessed with taking photos, but lost that as HDR became a dominant feature in phone photography. New phone leans heavier into hardware than software, and can disable HDR easily. In love with photography again.

For nearly a year, the Vancouver Police Department has failed to fulfill two freedom of information requests seeking records from Chief Adam Palmer and other high-ranking officials – a situation transparency advocates call highly concerning, and potentially illegal. bc.ctvnews.ca/vancouver-po...

Good for workers here - all workers. Governments don't dictate how unions are allowed to strike when their employer is screwing them around. No union should ever take "please don't" as a serious request. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed. www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo...

This statement is false. Mastercard has enacted several required restrictions of activity on platforms that support it, including the attached screenshots, which all come from the Security Rules & Procedures within their Specialty Merchant Registration Program. www.mastercard.us/content/dam/...

What's the point of commerce if you can't buy things you want?

Terrible news

me when I get beaten to a wonder in Civilization: it's plain to see that someday the video game industry will soon be taken over by Emperor Qin Shi Huang

Officer Visa and Mastercard.

I talked to @halfrobot.com about what credit card companies have been doing to Itch and the impact that could have on the future of games www.404media.co/credit-card-...