I know we don't want this to be true. We don't want the US gov to be fascist and violating rights. We certainly don't want to accept that children are being terrorized in the process. But all of the above is true. Denying the truth is to be complicit. Ignoring the truth is to be complicit.

History has many painful lessons.

"More than a century ago, a Canadian official sat down and wrote one of the first damning reports on his country’s emerging system of residential schools." thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

Full story on Lindsay Shepherd, the BC Conservative staffer who wrote an offensive post about Truth and Reconciliation day symbols. #bcpoli This story goes into her full history, including inviting Faith Goldy to speak and appearing on a white supremacist's podcast. thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

BC Conservative staffer Lindsay Shepherd has now deleted her X post complaining about a Truth and Reconciliation flag being flown at the legislature, but of course I screenshot it. This is what she posted. Some background on Lindsay here: thetyee.ca/News/2024/09...

A Tyee investigation has found that even under normal circumstances LNG Canada’s emissions will mean Kitimat residents will be subjected to high levels of nitrogen dioxide — a harmful pollutant that can irritate lung tissues and damage airways — above Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards.

Newsom: "I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is."

@steveburgess53.bsky.social: U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra wants more courtesy from Canadians? Fine, Pete. Next time you see a sign reading “Piss off, neighbour,” maybe we’ll drop the “u.” #uspoli #canpoli

The youngest members of the flock. #BarristerFarmer

Remember this: Try #Fascism #Antifa m.youtube.com/watch?v=wQd4...

#Trumpjugend Trump's own Hitler Youth. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Want to have a little arty fun? Check out CBC Gem's short film contest. Watch all 9 short films. Vote for your favourite. Shout out to "Sounds of Glass" by Morgan Abele. Voting ends 9pm (pacific) on Sunday, Sept 14th gem.cbc.ca/short-film-f...

This is the best comment that I've heard about today's events.

Cargo shop Thamesborg has run aground in the Canadian Arctic. Hull breached on ship transiting the north west passage from China to Baie Comeau. www.marineinsight.com/shipping-new...

Save this for the ICC JD Vance endorses murdering civilians: "I don't give a shit if you call the killing of civilians a war crime"

WTF #Liberal party. WTF.

Dear World We're sorry. This is really fucked up.

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Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.

Northern Ontario #FirstNations are building a village in the path to the Ring of Fire. Communities along the #Attawapiskat River are reclaiming the land to stop Doug Ford’s massive mining project. New from @jonthompson.bsky.social: ricochet.media/indigenous/l... #onpoli #RingOfFire #mining

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...

"There are many projects to try to conserve water and use it for irrigation. But in order to conserve water, first it has to rain." Farmers cannot fight climate change alone.

Accurate

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

JD Vance Asks National Guard Member If He Can Touch Gun https://theonion.com/jd-vance-asks-national-guard-member-if-he-can-touch-gun/

Also relevant for BC and the history of resource-extraction jobs. #BCpoli

"If Canada had upheld its promises... these matters would not be as complex or unresolved as they are now. This is why First Nations are — and always have been — the architects of certainty in British Columbia." - Good take from @khelsilem.bsky.social here. khelsilem.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

The fact that an indicted war criminal has been invited to the US to meet with the President to look at maps of the country he invaded tells you Putin has already won.

Retire. Just retire. The Dem establishment isn't built for this fight or made for this moment. You go all in on Epstein because it is a massive scandal that is weakening and dividing MAGA. Or Pelosi is protecting folks she knows might be exposed.

Not a word of a lie

This so-called new normal is seriously messed up. When will we realize that we are the frogs in the boiling water and that only we can change it?

STATEMENT: We strongly condemn Israel’s targeted assassination of journalists in Gaza. And we call on our media colleagues everywhere to join us in speaking out. ricochet.media/media/statem...

‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces. 🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

The Israeli military has issued a statement saying that they struck Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Anas al-Sharif and accused him of being part of a Hamas cell. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/o5rzvs

The Trump admin is moving from denying climate change to rewriting it. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a longtime oil industry executive, announced plans to “update” past National Climate Assessments, the gold-standard, peer-reviewed reports that lay out the risks of the climate crisis in detail.

Experts have called ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ a concentration camp. The Canadian company GardaWorld is helping to staff it. In a reported column for @thetyee.ca, @rachelgilmore.bsky.social reveals the company has received millions in Cnd government contracts this year. #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Columbia’s capitulation to Trump begins a dark new era for US higher education | Moira Donegan

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticised France’s ‘reckless decision’ that he said ‘only serves Hamas propaganda’.

Israeli forces killed at least 115 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, most while waiting for food, in one of the deadliest aid-related incidents since May aje.io/phqwl6

The new #Superman movie is great. Stand with Jarhanpur.

Carol Linnitt, co-founder of The Narwhal, flew to Vancouver in April, took a glass elevator up a glimmering skyscraper and entered a boardroom full of lawyers. There she was grilled, for hours, about details of The Narwhal’s press freedom lawsuit against the RCMP.