Programs like this one are what "nation building" actually looks like. And it only cost $1.5 million. Don't worry, though, surely that money will be better spent on a border guard searching for all that fentanyl Canadians ship to the US. #cdnpoli

This is so disappointing 🙁 Archives make up a huge part of so much of my research as an archaeologist. They're invaluable resources and there should be far *more* funding put towards their preservation, not less.

Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone. @wgreaves.bsky.social www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

The projects were as diverse as Canada. All that is over to “save” ~$1.5m/yr. It’s not about efficiencies or savings. It’s an attack on every community that has tried to document its past. You can find all the projects on the DHCP website. See if your community is there www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

How about the Kaatza Historical Society here on Vancouver Island.: $45k for Digital Access to Forest Worker History. Or the National Youth Orchestra - they received $10k for a project titled “Preserving the Sounds of Canada.” Seems worthy to me

In Thunder Bay, the Friends of Grain Elevators received $50k to create a project titled: Voices of the Grain Trade Oral History: Preservation and Increased Access. Or the group History of Disability Rights Nfld & Labrador got $31k for a project Preserving the Disability Rights Movement there

Thanks to the DCHP that Carney has axed, many Indigenous nations were able to record and preserve oral histories and upgrade and conserve their archival collections. For example, the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation received $32k over 2 years for an oral history project

The thing about ending the Documentary Heritage Community Program (DCHP) is that this is not big savings for the Carney government. The program gave out about $1.5m annually across the entire country. $1.5m! Peanuts! Just $15m in 10 years. But its impact was huge. I’ll post some examples below:

I'm sure it will be a splendid operation! the only thing I trust about all of this is the citizens assembly.

via city update: Council reviewed correspondence received from the Southern Interior Local Government Association (SILGA) welcoming resolutions for consideration at its annual convention, to be held this year in Revelstoke from April 29 to May 2.

Stephen Harper says the US is a "hostile" regime and Canada must urgently reduce its economic ties and hit back with counter tariffs. He says business leaders are fooling themselves if they think things will go back to normal. When I find myself in the same trench as Stephen Harper it's serious.

Name them shame them

Friends! Opposition motion-Food affordability! & we've got stuff like this: "Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The member is not allowed to use names, including his leader's name." It's gonna be energy, land speculation, industrial carbon tax & Kody Blois! he destroyed Barlow in the debates!

Super excited to finally see this out in the world!

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

Listen to this girl talk! love it! Go, Mia! cfjctoday.com/2026/01/30/w... and Marty did his thing at the end. Go, Marty! He is so amazing interviewing youth.

My kid who swims fly struggled for so long to go sub 30! Go, Mia!!! Huge accomplishment! h/t the wren news: Kamloops swimmer Mia Wittal set a prov record in the 11 &12-year-old girls’ div for the 50-m butterfly... hopes to beat McIntosh’s record of 28.64 seconds & her dream is to go to the olympics.

Great resource put together by the Kamloops Food Policy Council in collaboration with local organizations. The meal calendar also lists places offering hot meals, food hampers and hygiene products for youth. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I started sabbaticast.brennaclarkegray.ca this month as a way to track and report out on my sabbatical in the open, because I think open scholarship helps all of us who spend a lot of time thinking, "Am I doing this right?"

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

For @evansolomon.bsky.social, who wants us all to trust AI.

I'm sure there's some heinous shit I don't know about Firefox, but don't tell me right now because I'm switching all my browsers

@slownotempo.bsky.social is performing at the end of the month. Get your tickets now! www.chambermusiciansofkamloops.org/concerts/who... #Kamloops

Higher hoods reduce visibility and increase pedestrian crash severity. Bright headlight glare reduces visibility for others. Governments need to take action to protect people. My motion to Council this Thursday: pub-victoria.escribemeetings.com/filestream.a... #safety #urbanism #yyj

trundle, trundle, trundle 😍 🌿

When I saw Liam at the Dilley Detention Center, something was clearly wrong. He was lethargic, not eating, and depressed. Thankfully, Liam and his dad are back home in Minneapolis with their family. No child should ever endure this. We will not stop until this cruelty ends.

A reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days

👍🏼 www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Kamloop... The parties will be due back in court in the next 30 days to schedule another hearing on awarding damages and costs.

Hundreds of Bellingham cyclists braved the rain Saturday to ride in memory of Alex Pretti, a Minneapolis cyclist who was killed by federal agents earlier this month.

straight up Gestapo shit

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Wanted to send a 👋🏼 from the North Shore to all you downtown and uptown hooligans but my companion is freaked out by selfies. I love the river. Every day here is like a brand new place. What it smells like. How it feels. What it looks like. I miss January already. It suits me.

Was just thinking how often Mike O’Reilly says "let the market dictate"... I'm also reading about tech companies having unltd access to our kids & how our MP voted against limiting online advertising to kids & how a former Kamloops mayor and school trustee endorsed O’Reilly. Just morning ☕ thoughts.

This post has been on my mind for a few days now, so I’m going to say something about it. 🧵

Talking AI and other tech tools with Israel opens Canada up to international censure, isolation and even indictment. And it offers a stark contrast with the kind of story the Prime Minister is telling about Canada these days.

Israel has been using AI to mass target Palestinians for years. It has used the genocide in Gaza to accelerate this technique, ramping up the speed of AI targeting to create what Israeli journalists called a “mass assassination factory”. www.democracynow.org/2023/12/1/is...

Liz Cronin of the Victoria Transit Riders Union, a grassroots organization that's pushing for fare-free and excellent transit in Victoria and across BC. victoriatransitridersunion.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S7F...

Erica McLean is a Gitxsan member and Prince George school trustee, and she and the whole community are failed by over-resourced and under-useful police who seem unable to assess risk. Or identify cars. Or people. Or stop being racist bullies. Disband RCMP, start w BC fr www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

THIS IS INEXCUSABLY TERRIFYING!! RCMP are bad police and this is bad policing. Down with the whole lot.

'Truly amazing:' Port McNeill photographer Anthony Bucci snags top Canadian Geographic prize vancouversun.com/entertainmen...

By the way no one locally has actually organized this, some sort of campaign is trying to astroturf it

We're easy to find. Promise :) "He said he plans on beginning a “listening tour” where he’ll meet with as many employees, students and parents as he can find across the district." www.castanet.net/news/Kamloop... #Budget2026 #SD73 #Kamloops #Thompson

I hope that the Kamloops Chronicle will bring a parents' perspective into their reporting. It would be a shame if all we got were press releases from the School Board office. Leading up to the local general election would be a fantastic time to learn the public education file.

Liam is sick with fever & shows extreme lethargy, according to reports from his parents—he did not wake up throughout the entire visit from his representatives—this child is clearly experiencing severe shock—he should be in an emergency room, not squalid rooms with moldy food and contaminated water.

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images. This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree