Minister says @christineboyle.bsky.social "Any sudden changes to Vancouver’s approach introduces confusion, costs and delay for builders" The changes in Ken Sim's motion are both unnecessary and disastrous for the city's climate goals www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Ken Sim is once again trying to gut Vancouver's climate plan this Wednesday He wants to allow fracked gas for space and water heating in all new buildings After his previous attempt failed, he's now using vague claims and misleading statements to try to get it passed THREAD

Today Vancouver council is set to approve a staff recommendation to back away from their push to become a Bitcoin friendly city. Here's my story about it, along with an extended montage about what Ken Sim has said about Bitcoin on various podcasts in the last two years.

Sean Orr is all but certain to run for council instead of mayor, but him getting thousands more views for his announcement than Azaroff’s ultimatum post is an affirmation to COPE supporters that they have their own leverage in these conversations

How Vancouver's left is doing this week

It's way too late in the day for formal votes such as the one proposed by OneCity. Plus, ultimatums sap trust among those you claim to want to work with. And progressive parties will absolutely eat each other's lunches, confusing and alienating voters if they run more candidates than seats.

If Greens, COPE, and OneCity hope to remain relevant, an agreement is needed asap, with a joint statement agreeing to: 1. Endorse whichever progressive mayoral candidate is polling best at the end of July. 2. Run 3 candidates/party, with a 4th candidate going to the mayoral candidate's party.

I think it would be a less confusing and time consuming for everyone if OneCity just came right out and said that the only Unity outcome they’re interested in is COPE and the Greens ceasing to exist as independent political parties and encouraging their members to vote for OneCity.

I had my concerns about such a young candidate but I'm tired of being told that a better world isn't possible and that we need to be "reasonable" while the world burns around us. Emily is saying all the right things that our current leaders lack the courage to say. Vote for Emily! #cbcpoli #cdnpoli

Join up with volunteers in Victoria this Friday July 18th!! 💚 Postering, canvassing, cool people and good times ⚡ Check out @teamgreenforemily on Instagram for details!

Still buzzing from our launch. We’re off to a strong start - 150 community members attended, 130k views on our launch video, and raised over $14,000 in just over a week. Let’s do this thing. Go to emilyforbcgreens.ca to sign up to vote⚡️

‼️The Eby government is about to approve the American-owned Ksi Lisims gas terminal, fed by the PRGT pipeline. Here's what you need to know. We need to reclaim our economy, tax the oligarchs, be in solidarity with impacted Nations and *actually* support workers. Join our fight at emilyforbcgreens.ca

So excited to be at the launch party for Emily Lowan's campaign to lead the BC Greens! I haven't seen so many young people at a fun partisan event since the old Work Less Party parties. EmilyForBCGreens.ca #bcpoli #nopipelines

🚨 Announcing Emily Lowan for BC Green Leader 🚨 Emily is a 24-year-old organizer and climate justice fighter from Victoria. Her campaign — Fight the Oligarchs, Fund Our Future — is a bold call for people-powered change. Want to vote for Emily? Become a member by August 10 at bcgreens.ca/join

Emily’s campaign is exactly the change that the BC Greens need! I'd encourage everyone to support her campaign and get more involved emilyforbcgreens.ca

I’m Emily Lowan & I'm running to be the next leader of the BC Green Party. I’ve spent the last decade organizing for climate justice & Indigenous rights. Our movement needs a political vehicle to change the conversation: to centre the people, not the corporate lobbyists. youtube.com/shorts/1B-Ny...

"We’ll continue to fight to protect our territory with all actions needed, in the courts and on the ground” - Gitanyow Simooget (Chief) Watakhayetsxw She adds they've denied access to pipeline construction on their territory before and will continue their efforts thenarwhal.ca/prgt-pipelin...

This decision means that the PRGT pipeline can proceed with an environmental assessment from over a decade ago The pipeline is owned my Trump's billionaire donors and opposed by Indigenous communities along the route Shame on the BC NDP for allowing this project to go ahead!

Community resources for the Filipino community: vanfilemergency.my.canva.site

Stop the cuts to library hours! The people have spoken. Ken Sim & his billionaire-backed party have no mandate to continue underfunding our vital public services. People waited hours in line to send a message. Sign & share: votecope.ca/libraries #FightForVancouver #vanpoli @seanorr.bsky.social

If the Jewish Fed and CIJA thought they actually had anything on @seanorr.bsky.social, they would have used it during the by-election. Instead they waited to launch a sneak attack on a brand new councillor with an historic mandate. The cynicism is deep. And deeply predictable. /1

Why is an ABC Vancouver politician contacting a person making death threats against Councillor Orr? This person claims to know Orr's address, is doxxing him, and advising people on how to break into his home. Does ABC Mayor Ken Sim condone doxxing and murdering public officials? #vanpoli

The billionaires backing politicians like Ken Sim are sacrificing our future to enrich themselves. Sean Orr will fight for civic governance that takes the long view and protects our city, our local green space, and our planet for future generations. votecope.ca/platform #vanpoli #VanVotes2025

Pretty funny that Justin Trudeau is moments away from retiring and starting to get great press for standing up to Trump and then out of nowhere decided to scream "I AM A ZIONIST I LOVE COLONIZATION!"

Costs of Ken Sim's personal VPD detail total $226K since November, says VPD chief www.biv.com/news/economy...

Join us on March 6 for a breakdown and analysis of the 2025 BC budget from our research team: @iglikaivanova.bsky.social, @1alexhemingway.bsky.social, @verosioufi.bsky.social and special guest @emikonewman.bsky.social from @climateunit.bsky.social bit.ly/bc-budget | Please spread the word! 😄

How can anyone take this man seriously? He both shows contempt for democracy and admits no one is at their launch party. He jokes about taking bribes. He thinks by-elections are a joke and is counting on you not showing up to the polls. Let’s show them that Vancouver DOES care

Ken Sim is now being driven to work, personal appointments and campaign events in a SUV driven by his own VPD security detail Over the last 5 months, it has cost $226,000. If it continues until the next election, the cost will be over $1 million www.biv.com/news/economy...

Outside Vancouver City Hall there was protest. Inside Mayor Ken Sim & his ABC party took another big step toward clearing the Downtown Eastside to make way for luxury condos. For our right wing mayor, Musk & Trump are both convenient distraction and political inspiration. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Amazing to hear councillors say "we need to do more" then vote to do less

Moving to a witness-only safe supply program in BC is a mistake. This is essentially how methadone is dispensed and amounts to a huge, well-documented barrier that keeps thousands from accessing life-saving meds. BC will have still more corpses www.theprogress.com/news/bc-gove...

Holy eff Supposedly left-center NDP has just fired the *entire* Victoria school board in order to reverse the ban on cops in schools. The democratically elected school board was supported by Victoria Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils to keep cops out of schools. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

As I posted already over on the bad site, I am officially throwing my hat into the ring for the @copevancouver.bsky.social nomination! Please consider signing up/donating/volunteering and let’s tell ABC and the billionaire booster class that Vancouver is not for sale!

one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies

Saying that more border guards need to be hired to protect Canadian's jobs is a deeply racist message Trying to position yourself to the right of the Conservatives on immigration is incredibly stupid politics This tweet should be the end of Jagmeet Singh's career is NDP leader

as a fun moral question can anyone explain to me an ethical difference between being an insurance company CEO and firing a gun blindly into a crowd

$7M is about five days of the VPD, or 0.314% of the $2.2B City of Vancouver operating budget

It's one thing to see this kind of need in Alberta or Ontario given provincial leadership but BC? Whenever I hear progressives defend the Eby government I think ... but you're just as bad as the worst.

eby decided from the beginning of his leadership he didn't want to deal with the overdose crisis, and effectively allowed sturko & falcon to dictate the narrative his entire time as leader even though they lost electorally cons still won as eby has adopted a good chunk of their talking points

The living wage in Metro Vancouver has risen to $27.05 this year That's $9.65 more than the minimum wage of $17.40 The last time the gap was that large, Christy Clark was premier

who wants to take bets on how long until chapman says something racist about transit and/or car insurance?

If we listened to this Pod Save America host we would have rejected women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement

Education is supposed to be funded by the public, not by student tuition. Heads of these institutions get themselves into those six-figure-salary roles by promising their govts that they will NOT ask for more provincial funding, they'll squeeze it out of students/faculty.

An obvious point that needs to be made about universities/colleges panicking and slashing programs because they can't milk as many international students for tuition: this was never how education was supposed to be funded.

The Beaverton salutes The Onion for buying InfoWars. And we're pleased to announce that if enough of you join our Patreon, we'll buy Postmedia.

god damn this is gonna be so much work can’t marc cuban or whoever the fuck just buy twitter and fix it

Seeing the differences between all the platforms like Bluesky, X, FB, Threads, Mastodon, etc. it’s really wild how much user behaviour / culture is a direct product of design / algorithms Basically, we’re products of our environments