“Mobilizing Canada” (per @sethdklein.bsky.social) to address the emergencies we face – whether it’s the climate, housing, poison drugs, or grocery prices – is the one thing politicians won’t commit to. The PM wants to mobilize capital, instead. buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #cdnhist #bcHist #yyj

Teen girls now say "having lots of money" is important in life at the same rate as boys. There used to be a huge gap. I think that’s due to young folks being more materialistic but rather they are aware of how stupendously expensive life is with high housing and energy costs.

Imagine talking about any other public service this way. Does the government keep public hospitals “afloat”? What about when it gave Marine Atlantic $169 million to support its operations in 24/25? The media does the bidding of those who want to private Canada Post when they adopt this framing.

“It’s worse than what Harper did, I agree,” said Steven Guilbeault, the Liberal MP and former environment minister. “This goes beyond what Harper proposed when he was in power, yes, that’s true.” www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

Friday news dump: "Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to make it easier to kill off endangered species, pollute waterways and risk human health, all in the name of fast-tracking private-sector development projects." www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

Smart, thorough column, IMO

A journalist’s investigation leads to a chilling discovery: in residential schools, malnourished children were deliberately kept hungry for research. The story broke, then faded. Years later, its full scope has resurfaced. https://ow.ly/PSwV50YPwH3

I'm listening to the BC Conservative leadership debate. Ian Black asked Kerry-Lynne Findlay about being endorsed by Tara Armstrong, saying Armstrong used "language that was a direct lift from Nazi propaganda and we lost the election in 2024 due in part to some blatantly racist comments." #bcpoli

This is literally madness and we cannot let this happen. It will transform Canada in to a shelled out hellscape, in the service of a dead empire's whims.

How mad is the NDP at SD61's court win? Try to pass a law to say "nuh-uh!" mad.

ReUseTechBC has been amazing supporting trans folks in the lower mainland. They're doing a fundraising auction after the feds cut some of their funding. Some great deals on there including a Nintendo Switch currently at $60. www.32auctions.com/ReuseTechBC

Wait until the people worried about the postal system operating at a loss find out we’re paying more than a billion dollars to host a handful of World Cup soccer games

Why are Canadian media reporting on Canada Post as if they've all been given a script to follow? Journalists are interfering with the union's contract ratification vote by parroting Canada Post management's talking points and telling Canadians that it isn't viable.

I'm about to hit send on this edition of Pulse Check, your #cdn public health newsletter. Feat. 2 provinces with public health emergencies, one marking 10 years, while calls to declare another go ignored. PLUS latest headlines & a satire bit. Hope you signup: pressprogress.ca/pulsecheck/

Agreed. It's the democratic equivalent of lead in the drinking water. The longer we wait to remove it, the more lasting the damage will be.

That's it? $6.1B in eight years? We gave Ukraine $25B in four and didn't even get daily mail out of it.

Carney’s fuel tax pause rewards polluters. Instead of capturing windfall profits for the public good, Ottawa is bankrolling fossil fuel companies and starving services needed during the #climatecrisis. New from @silasxuereb.bsky.social: ricochet.media/politics/car... #cdnpoli @c4tf.bsky.social

Liberal tent now encompasses any political beliefs anyone has ever, or will ever, have (podcast)

fucks sake jim.

Climate Change Carney is at it again! Let's incentivize use of the restricted resource that is becoming more scarce instead of limiting it and providing alternatives, sounds like a genius plan. Could have increased the tax and redirected it to transit, but no. Instead we can keep driving cars.

It's seems like every other day there's another Canadian service or institution being destroyed by the Liberals. I really wish people would start paying attention. #cdnpoli

"Rising costs, limited job prospects push B.C. immigrants to seek new homes abroad" as told by Daisy Xiong via @bivnews.bsky.social #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre www.biv.com/news/economy...

police expenditures in Canada are over $20 billion annually.

Canada Post isn't supposed to make a profit. it's a public service.

Further evidence of the "masks off" spirit that has re-entered lobbying oil and gas in BC: Not only is Trans Mountain back on the table, but they're also the primary sponsor for the trade show at the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities Conference this weekend. #yyjpoli #bcpoli

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

I'm sure this is terrible – it's about AI and the Ford government – but I don't have the energy to read this further example of bullshit right now. But I do have time to point out that, if one uses Roman numerals, "1P1P" becomes "I pee, I pee". Which is fitting on multiple levels.

Extremely weird and revealing joke from Carney, even if he's riffing off the progressive conservative allegations. He's not beating em!

They* don't call him Cave Easy for nothing! How can anyone believe anything he says? *I first heard the nickname from @kwardvancouver.bsky.social

"The movement of people between industry and government is common. In 2025 alone, records show roughly 60 former B.C. government officials held active in-house lobbying roles in the private sector." It's an open secret that governments in this province and country are owned by industry.

I feel like if there was a big conference claiming to be against hate, and their keynote speaker had been among the top influencers of the guy who did the largest faith-based massacre in Canada, and that massacre had targeted Jews, there'd rightfully be a huge uproar.

"Hope isn't a plan, and nostalgia is not a strategy," Carney says near the top of this video, which then spends more than half of its runtime mythologizing Canada's distant past, waxing nostalgic about construction in the mid-20th century, and replaying the greatest hits of Lib soundbites. #cdnpoli

The funniest part is Carney even says this is central bank language IN THE VIDEO, yet people are still so caught up in their idolatry of him they don't care.

There have been many articles celebrating the increase in pay for WNBA players. So I decided (because I am an economist!) to remind everyone that 8 years ago 20% of gross revenue was an outrage. And the gender-wage gap in the NBA still persists. wagesofwins.substack.com/p/on-the-oth...

In 2005, Duncan Cameron wrote a piece arguing how the NDP needs to transform itself to be a workers' party. One of the changes was to end the dual provincial/federal membership and I think he's right: its a major roadblock to success.

Port landlord and garbage people make a lot. Otherwise, cruise tourists account for less than 2% of tourist spending locally. Cruise riches are mythology but when misinformation about benefits and deliberate ignorance of impacts comes from local government & tourism, tough to get the truth heard.

”...a bunch of corporations will seize on the excuse of supply chain disruptions to make out like bandits, first and foremost among them the oil and gas companies. War profiteering is always the way, unless policy puts a stop to it.”—Seth Klein writes. Read the article at the link in thead.

Banning algorithmic pricing ought to be a no-brainer call for any government: people don’t like to be ripped off, surveilled, or treated differently from their peers. Algorithm pricing does all three of those things.

2025 Cruise Ship Season, year in review. #yyj #healthcrisis #climatecrisis

Pre-amalgamation, Ottawa was a progressive city.

social housing units built by year in Canada, 1972-2010 - by number of units - as % of all housing built

This season, Victoria will see 330+ cruise ships arrive. There are 60 days this season with 3 or 4 ships in port. Get all your breathing done now, folks, as the Polluting for Profit Armada will be with us until Oct 18. You'll hear 'think of the money' but remember the cost to the community.

The current FOI act allows the public to request government records — and has compelled the province to disclose documents revealing the Greenbelt land scandal, the Skills Development Fund controversy and others. The changes would restrict access to those kinds of records.

notice where income and housing costs become completely untethered from one another

"Remember when council voted to hire 24 officers instead of 26? What if we did 26." Motion failed, with only Alto and Gardiner backing. I saw Manak isn't going to run for mayor. Good, but Alto has staked out the pro-police line anyway. There's room for a progressive candidate, hopefully!

My latest: Public funding for private schools growing faster than public schools When analyzed on inflation-adjusted per-pupil terms, from 1999-2000 and 2025-26 B.C. spending on public schools increased by 32% compared to 50% for private schools www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #bcpoli

As an example of this, we still lack clarity on the weapons used in Tumbler Ridge, and their legality. This should be very easy information to provide to the public, and very important info that affects public policy and safety.

Doug Ford: "God Bless the Weston Family" #cdnpoli

I'm quoted in this for signing & sharing a testimonial about an incident in which Vancouver Police edited their press release after I'd published an article about it to make it look like I had lied. Anyway, long live the Wayback Machine! www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/jour...

Thursday afternoon and still nothing.