In light of all the things in Vancouver that are cancelled or curtailed this year in exchange for hosting the equivalent of, to quote the mayor, "30 or 40 Super Bowls", this story by our colleagues in Montreal is worth reading www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

great video from Patrick Boyle on Canada's economic stagnation and real estate trap www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0jq...

Technology company Plex took its 120 employees to Honduras for a weeklong bonding experience. It was a disaster from the moment they arrived. on.wsj.com/4shYrh4

"20 yrs ago the world took a year to add 1 gigawatt of solar. Now it takes just half a day. Solar costs have fallen by around 90% over past decade, & as costs fall, installations accelerate. Nowhere is this clearer than in China 🇨🇳. It now accounts for well over half of global solar installations"

Things are moving fast in the energy world thanks to the latest war. I cover a lot of the highlights of the past week in this piece.

here it is. one single picture that perfectly captures why we have a housing crisis. it’s not blackrock. it’s not the developers. it’s the boomers who will yell at any politician who wants to build more housing

This likely ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation left ICE hub Mesa, AZ, and landed in Myanmar a few hours ago. This would be the first Myanmar deportation I’m aware of since last April. The last group was immediately detained; some were tortured. Also stopped in Thailand, now airborne.

If you are unaware what happened in Serbia today. There were local elections today, masked and armed thugs of the ruling party gathered at polling stations who then intimidated and assaulted opposition members, election observers, and voters.

I continue to need to point out that normie libs are hugely invested in anti-fascism because it's about basic decency for everyone. People keep on not understanding that Trump specifically makes normie libs angry to the point of violence regardless of what leftists have told themselves

Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying https://theonion.com/rising-conservative-star-just-guy-wearing-nazi-armband-1849855062/

Kash Patel emails (1.1 GB) The first tranche of emails from the mailbox of Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, which was hacked by Handala, a hacking group that is believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence. ddosecrets.org/article/kash... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

Tonight Susan Bonner of CBC News' Your World Tonight signed off for the last time and it was very moving ❤️ ... Susan is a class act, all the way. Take a listen:

i guess those celebrating soras death didnt get the memo that some of us need daily personalized greetings from james bond—for mental health

Recall the explicit excuse people made for Trump withdrawing aid from Ukraine was “he’s not pro-Putin, he just is an isolationist who hates foreign conflict.” Anyone care to revisit that claim now? Perhaps there’s a different reason???

the left nimby program in a nutshell 1: "decommodify housing" 2: sadly, no new housing is built 3: i inherit my parents' house

Ghana's FM, Ablakwa: "Many Africans have been lured into the Russia-Ukraine war, which is not ours. They seek jobs, end up on the frontline. Over 1,700 Africans are involved, 272 Ghanaians were lured, 55 have died, 2 are held as POWs by Ukraine. This should've never happened."🔚

Gidley: I would argue this world as a whole lot safer without a nuclear capable Iran than ever before. Mockler: Is Russia getting more money and Iran getting more money making us more secure? Yes or no?

it's so crazy (it's really not) how every single "imagine if Russia did this" guy doesn't ever pay attention to Russia doing this so consistently that it basically doesn't get reported on outside of Ukrainian media unless it's as a major feature that collects hundreds of said incidents

oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...

more oblivious unseriousness from the Lewis for NDP camp

over at the newsletter I wrote about how Jack Dorsey is a pointless dipshit:

Here is a clip of @avilewis.ca and @naomiaklein.bsky.social being gleeful that the Alberta NDP only had one term in govt. Sure, I get it. They think my record as Environment Minister is something to be ashamed of. Coal phase-out, renewables, indigenous equity, energy efficiency etc…

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Unable to defend his decision to ease sanctions on Russian oil, Trump attacked the Ukrainian president. In fact, Zelenskyy does want to "make a deal"; Putin refuses. Zelenskyy agrees to a ceasefire; Putin refuses. Zelenskyy agrees to a face-to-face meeting; Putin refuses.

Posted by the Tla’amin Nation on Facebook. This is epic. 𝗠𝗣 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙣 𝙂𝙪𝙣𝙣: “𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙭, 𝙗𝙪𝙙.” www.facebook.com/tlaaminnatio...

Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

With all the wars and crises going on in the world, let's discuss arts. Russia is back at the Venice Biennale. This is not just art - it’s a cultural-information operation: an effort to make the presence of an aggressor state appear "normal" again.

"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."

John Mearsheimer: "I think Trump is not that interested in fighting wars." How did this one turn out?

say what you will about the ideology of pharaonic egypt, it, unlike the USSR, figured out how to feed its population using some of the most productive farmland in history, whereas marxism-leninism somehow un-discovered agriculture

disappointed that this scorpion has betrayed his base of frogs.

People who moved to the UAE for tax purposes are now, I assume, closely examining a map of the region.

Tulsi Gabbard in 2019: “Trump seems determined to go to war with Iran”

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. https://to.pbs.org/49InZww

Russian casualties are now between 1.1m and 1.4m, of whom 230,000-430,000 are dead. According to @economist.com

NEW: The Chinese-language messages that accused non-ABC Vancouver councillors didn't start with Lenny Zhou, who has since apologized for them. They started with the mayor.

Vancouver council is meeting today, which means they will once be providing text updates *only* for subscribers of a website under investigation by multiple countries for child exploitation Staff were told by council months ago to post elsewhere, but haven't And they're doing it for 12 accounts

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

8 visits to Kremlin. 0 visits to Kyiv.

I've spent years fighting for homes and a more affordable, equitable Vancouver. Now I want to take that fight to City Hall as your councillor. Go to www.PeterForCouncil.ca and join OneCity so you can support Peter For Council and help me get on the ballot! youtu.be/-d7WFFoqb0c

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST TRUMP'S GLOBAL TARIFFS ENACTED UNDER A FEDERAL LAW MEANT FOR NATIONAL EMERGENCIES

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney is spearheading discussions between the EU and a major Indo-Pacific trade bloc after calling on middle powers to join forces. The aim is to short-circuit Donald Trump’s tariffs. 🔗 politi.co/4ayYnTn

Bro what the fuck

I want to ask you to take a moment and read this: there is no power station left in Ukraine that’s not damaged by Russian bombing. Not one. Thank you for your attention.

EXCLUSIVE: A Ukrainian dad escaped Vladimir Putin’s drone and missile attacks back home only to be grabbed by a band of laughing ICE stooges in a Walmart parking lot in Minneapolis.

Tonight, Vancouver council will have a public hearing for a school 19 years in the making There's some community opposition to the project — but there's also the bigger question of why it takes the provincial and municipal governments 19 years to approve a single school www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...