taking 10 minutes to care about the world cup and watching the highlights so I can laugh at the US president Doing Corruption only for the team to lose embarrassingly

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Here are 10 stories about power, law, & institutional secrecy in Canada Every week, our Post Facto newsletter sends readers these roundups (plus our own reporting) Subscribe here to get our next one www.defactomedia.ca/newsletters/ & check out the stories from the last week of June below:

but meeting climate goals is "not sustainable" according to Carney

Now's a good time to revisit this piece by @natashabulowski.bsky.social on how it worked out the last time the government linked environmental promises to an oil pipeline:

"build national unity around fossil fuels, will you?" — nature

we must accept more extreme weather and more deadly natural disasters to achieve a few tenths of a percentage point of additional gdp growth in the short term 🥰

Uniting the country in our patriotic evacuation zones to support people fleeing wildfires and heat domes

she's saying this approach is not only WRONG, it is ineffective: this police operation will not result in its stated goals (crack down on open drug use to allow Winnipeggers to feel safe in public spaces) this is happening in every city in this country one MP speaks up. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

my parents were both middle children so you'd think they would've produced at least a majority middle children with those genes. yet only one of three of us is a middle child. weird!

sorry we need to destabilize the global climate for global stability?

Yesterday he said Canada is so extremely fragile we can't have a climate plan anymore.

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I just published House Arrest for Ramming a Police Car? medium.com/p/house-arre...

are you fucken kidding me

it's so easy to say nothing. for most people, anyway but instead we have city councillors chiding their constituents for engaging in democracy, all while spreading misinformation using a 19th century depiction of the horrific, public electrocution death of NYC telegraph lineman John Feeks

A Q&A with Dr. Jennifer Baumbusch on the anniversary of the deadly 2021 BC heat dome about her memories, lessons learned and her research on heat. substack.com/@mssinenomin...

$750M for 7 soccer games, but we can’t afford $565k for classroom supports. What are we even doing here folks? cheknews.ca/sooke-school...

And this is why I am always going off about people needing to stop thinking of Canada as "benign" peacekeeper or an "unwilling" imperialist partner. Former DHS head Kristi Noem has just been hired by BC mining company, NovaRed Mining headquartered in Vancouver. globalnews.ca/news/1190912...

cars still kill kids and allowing the auto industry to create the illusion that drivers own the streets was a devastating loss for our culture.

The RCMP and CSIS at the committee table as witnesses during Bill C-22 clause-by-clause review. The Privacy Commissioner of Canada deliberately excluded by Liberal MPs. Pretty telling of the government’s view on striking a balance on lawful access. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/bill...

a profoundly moving and very sad story harm reduction is not about reducing harms of drug use, but the harms of drug 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒚 the practice of harm reduction builds justice and is love read it www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

But srsly this is a deeply shameful amendment from Peter Meiszner. Lowering speeds is pretty much the MAIN POINT of this. That's what saves lives. And, as explained, it wouldn't even have a significant impact on overall travel time. Utterly cowardly behaviour from Peter Meiszner. He's a bad Peter.

"Developers and investors are not facing an affordability crisis, yet governments are treating them as if they are — shifting costs onto taxpayers to protect the profit margins of private interests." www.thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Taleeb Noormohamed telling the Tyee AI creates a "pyramid of opportunity" feels like a marketing spin on pyramid schemes

london drugs, the PHARMACY, is a registered lobbyist with the province and regularly lobbies for stricter criminal and “mental health” policies they updated their registration details for this last week theijf.org/lobbying-reg...

listen to every word

Bleakest thing from that Shaw column:

How I feel about it.

VERY relatedly, The Tyee now has a bit of a reporting hole that we will need to fill. If you're a journalist who has knowledge of the BC interior and is open to do some work, please message me.

first @propublica.org, now @thetyee.ca finally doing podcasts!

Very cool to hear that @thetyee.ca has launched a podcast, hosted by @harrisonmooney.bsky.social I will follow for sure. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Hard to believe Bovino is heading to Europe to speak at a conference on Remigration alongside several people who are avowed admirers of Hitler.

murderous cowards

BREAKING: Three-judge district court reaffirms earlier rulings, even in light of Callais, that Alabama’s 2023 congressional map cannot be used because it is “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination” and that the court-ordered map is, again, to be used in the 2026 elections.

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

this is a really delightful way to spend half an hour of a Saturday morning

Immigrants have become the scapegoat for economic precarity. This misdirected blame “takes the spotlight away from the affordability crisis, from the way the economy is structured, and the way that corporations are channeling wealth away from services and people” —Syed Hussan Read the full story:

Last weekend, migrant workers from across BC shared stories in a small Victoria living room Stories of farms where they say supervisors pursue sexual favours Where a work injury can get you blacklisted Where bosses won't pay, & threaten deportation if you object www.defactomedia.ca/a-two-tier-s...

icymi: since Ken Sim was elected mayor, VPD immigration checks have been through the roof. community members say the practice puts undocumented migrants at risk of facing violence @defacto-ca.bsky.social investigation by me and @emmaarkell.bsky.social www.defactomedia.ca/vpd-immigrat...

free campaign slogan idea: One Fewer BC

Transit police are calling immigration on transit riders—and most of the time they aren't documenting it Freedom-of-info docs indicate Transit Police calls to CBSA have risen. But in available 2024 data, 91% of calls didn't go into daily duty reports as required www.defactomedia.ca/transit-poli...

can the weather just be chill* already *warm

Zool Suleman is a long-time immigration lawyer & the executive director of BC non-profit MARU He spoke to De Facto about what our newly reported data reveal about police collaboration, Vancouver’s “access without fear” movement, & immigration detentions. www.defactomedia.ca/a-troubling-...

check out the second investigation by me and @emmaarkell.bsky.social, and the third part in @defacto_ca's debut series on immigration enforcement. we found transit police appear to be breaking their own policy on documenting calls to CBSA over 90% of the time www.defactomedia.ca/transit-poli...

my hot take it that it should be easier to fire or demote someone in a leadership role for this kind of ethical breach than it is to fire/cancel the contract of a regular reporter or freelancer for that same breach leaders should be held to a higher standard, not a lower one

When we say "burn it down" we mean systems of oppressions, not our province, which inevitably will burn down faster as we waste water building facilities so people can ask AI for a recipe. Hard to make that soup Karen without water.

translation: please, we desperately need to pay off all these GPUs and investors are starting to ask questions