"The problem is absentee land ownership, and it doesn’t matter if those owners are from China or Chicago, Rio or St. Louis — what we all need is people. People to live here and to care for the land, to raise animals and crops and kids, and to be a part of a community." ambrook.com/offrange/per...

Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy. Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference. Or both.

In honour of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (today, Nov 25), the incredible team at When Love Hurts have debuted their new podcast to reach more women and more professionals with lifesaving information. #ViolenceAgainstWomen🎙 www.whenlovehurts.ca/2025/11/impo...

Sorry November but I can’t do this current news cycle AND cold toes at the same time, one of you has got to go

Gosh, Josh, this was a DELIGHT to read. I laughed (on billionaires: "So put up or shut up...or put up and shut up. You're fine. You'll never not be fine.") & I got misty-eyed (on losing 💙ed ones to MAGA: "You are not required to build a bridge to a place you don't want to go in the first place.") 👏🏻

Omg I laughed so hard. Women Ruin Things, someone get on that book title! 🤣 (as a woman, I find this ironically funny)

I am so tired of how ppl are using cynicism to justify shitty positions. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social nails it - "Cynicism is often just premature defeatism about what can happen all dressed up as confidence about what will happen..." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/categories-a...

I also yearn for this! "I yearn for more films that show how the world actually does get changed – and less nonsense about violence on the left." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-kings-no-...

An upcoming training opportunity for helping professionals who support women experiencing partner abuse. I had the chance to sit in on this course back in February and found it so moving! I want everyone to take it. #WhenLoveHurts www.whenlovehurts.ca/product/trai...

More of this in the world, plz! So beautiful! @loveheylola.bsky.social 💛

#globalsumudflotilla www.politico.eu/article/ital...

Discovered this, from @99pi.org, through a recent @civileats.com salon, during which a convo sprang up about what constituted a #FoodSwamp. This, of course, led us to talking about #FoodDeserts, which also brought up an interesting convo about #FoodApartheid. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/634-...

"What they need, in other words, is something far less curated. Something more like a layered, unruly, unapologetically useful ecosystem." -- layered and unruly! Yes! I love this. 🐝 ediblevancouverisland.ediblecommunities.com/food-thought...

I keep hearing about the YouTube show, ‘Surrounded,’ and have only seen/heard a few clips from it. My sense is that this is not a productive way to have discourse. Interesting to hear the takes on Commotion w/ Elamin Abdelmahmoud this week. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Excited to be bringing Trouble in the Headwaters to communities across BC! Here's all the info for the Penticton screening on Sept. 8th.

JFC. How many people will needlessly die before someone realizes, “hey wait a minute that cancer research was maybe a good idea?” 🤬

BC Wants Value-Added Mills. We Discovered a Big Obstacle via @thetyee.ca Great investigative reporting by Ben Parfitt: thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...

Exactly this: “While the MAHA Commission is seeking to address a serious problem, whether it can successfully prevent and treat chronic disease depends on which factors the members deem to be driving the problem, what policy solutions they will choose to pursue, and who they will hold accountable.”

Wish I could be there! ✊

Fight cynicism! -- "When you don't assume the outcome, you recognize that you may be able to participate in shaping it," says @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...

We must take this seriously -- "Misogyny is not just a cultural or emotional problem. Instead, it increasingly functions as an ideological gateway, connecting personal grievance with broader calls for violent extremism." @karmvirpadda.bsky.social

Vancouverites! Run, don't walk! 🌲

16% of Fraser River water quality impacted by #wildfires, finds study: The research raises questions over how a range of contaminants may start to negatively impact fisheries, shellfish farms and humans that consume them. @northshorenews.bsky.social www.biv.com/news/environ...

Trouble in the Headwaters, a film by @danieljpierce.bsky.social, transports viewers to expansive clearcuts in the Kettle River watershed — and reveals their hidden impacts downstream. Our latest newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-t...

I love how Dr. Ross says this: "This is where bad news has strong potential to contribute to good news." 🧪 The more we know, the more we can take action.

Save the grasslands! 🌾 grist.org/economics/ho...

HNC recently convened nearly 200 people from across sectors for a two-day ‘collective action’ event to explore the connections between housing, social health, and resilience. The recap is up + more is coming in our June newsletter! 🫧 www.heyneighbourcollective.ca/2025/05/symp...

Listening to the Canadian Federal candidates' debate. 😵‍💫 I wonder what this would look like if it were 4 women on stage instead. Bloc Québécois' candidate Yves-François Blanchet saying, "Clean oil is a fairy tale," might be the only thing anyone has said this evening that has made any kind of sense.

attending!

So good, @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social ! 🎃💥

I'm glad I caught this when I did - I was *just* researching my options for voting in this election. It will be my first federal election as a Canadian citizen, and I want to make sure I'm doing the best I can, given the limitations of the system. 🗳

The researchers say there are many reasons why medical gaslighting disproportionately affects women and that most of them have more to do with systemic problems within the medical profession than with individual practitioners. #MedicalGaslighting canlyme.com/2025/03/its-...

So worth a watch to understand the impossible.

This is the best thing I've read all day. 💯

A POISON LIKE NO OTHER reveals the emerging, ubiquitous health threat of microplastics. THICKER THAN WATER is a global tour of the plastic pollution crisis and what must happen to reverse it. This month only, get both for just $40. Free shipping too! islandpress.org/2for40

Supporting freshwater salmon habitat in BC: Our #water, and the incredible fish that return to our #watersheds, are one of our greatest natural resources and are an integral part of strong and resilient local economies. www.raincoast.org/2025/03/poli...

This magazine purge project is going to take me a while, but that's OK - Mayhem 5 is up! 🗞 In it, I rant about reproductive rights, vegetarianism, and I wonder why alive Magazine would throw Greenpeace under the bus. Curiouser and curiouser! open.substack.com/pub/foodando...

While running errands today, I caught sight of a school group with vests, buckets, gloves, and garbage pickers, out doing a little community cleanup. Warmed my heart; I needed that. 🚯

I appreciate Senator King addressing this with Tulsi Gabbard. It is enraging that #climatechange was scrubbed from the threat assessment. ☁️

‘Verisimilitude’ has come up twice today for me, in entirely different contexts, and I find that interesting. Verisimilitude. What a word! 🤓

“Occurrences in the environment” - Tulsi Gabbard’s idea of climate change. Just some little blips, no need to worry! And definitely not a national security threat. Omfg. 🙀 🤦‍♀️

🎈 This Signal bullsh*t is very unfunny but the USA Today headline below is so ridiculous - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social’s retort is 👌

We've been hearing from fans of Hakai Magazine that they aren't receiving the weekly bioGraphic newsletter. Privacy laws meant we couldn't automatically move people to the new newsletter. So if you've been missing our weekly issue, make sure to sign up here! www.biographic.com/newsletter-s...

I think about this cartoon ALL THE TIME!!!

Why all young people should get the HPV vaccine—girls and boys medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03... "Amazingly, this disease is now almost entirely preventable through vaccination and screening." #VaccinesWork

Living for Lyz's weekly dingus, it helps me cling to my sanity. lyz.substack.com/p/tampon-str...

We are surrounded by wicked problems. >.< www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/wick...

This an interesting line of inquiry - learning new things is hard, getting out of our grooves takes work, and it’s easier to bypass. But bypass, we cannot. 🧠 www.wired.com/story/virgin...

The science on sunscreen is sound! 🧴 www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

“Don't buy it. Don't do it. Our noncompliance is our power.” He can’t DO THIS 💩, so why are we listening to him? Why isn’t every reporter interrupting their own news breaks to exclaim, “are you freaking kidding me? I have report on this?!” 🤯