Whether it's Tylenol causing autism or puberty blockers leading to permanent sterilization, populist leaders like Trump and Smith have zero qualms about spreading medical disinformation. The lack of humility is only surpassed by the lack of compassion for those in need of proven treatments.

And that's exactly how it's done. Management threatens your jobs, you stop doing them. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Today's a real good day for aspiring NDP leadership candidates to present an alternate vision for our publicly run postal system. Also a reasonable time for CUPW to significantly escalate job action.

A bold government would ban exploitative delivery services and subsume that work into Canada Post. Solve two problems at once.

"This situation is unsustainable. Canada Post is effectively insolvent, and repeated bailouts are not a long-term solution." Lightbound added. This is the most neoliberal BS. It's a crown corp & a public service. It's not a bailout, it's funding a basic function of a sovereign country.

If you told me I could have a great review of my new book from the NYT or from Cory Doctorow, I'd take the latter in a heartbeat pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...

#bcpoli has been lacking ambition and hope for a while. I think there's a lot of structural challenges for Lowan to overcome (both in the Greens and more broadly) but her campaign was genuinely impressive and I'm very interested to see where she takes the party over the coming years.

The proper framing here is Canada has more robust privacy protections than many countries despite lobbying by cops and the security state. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

So 1200ish BC Conservatives voted in their leadership of 8000 total members. Incredibly that makes their base possibly smaller than the BC Greens who had 5500 members and added 4500 through their leadership race.

The state of the next Vancouver election (based on registered/announced parties): Affordable Housing Coalition, Liberals, Conservatives, ABC, NPA, COPE, Greens, OneCity, TEAM, VOTE Socialist, Vision, Vote Vancouver But there's still over a year to go, so there's time for more parties to announce.

In a surprise twist, Elenore Sturko lost the BC Conservatives leadership review today.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

He should know. He's leading the assault.

Canada finally recognizes the state of Palestine, pointing out that Israel is doing everything it can to erase it from the map (but not using the G word) www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Not the first officially in the race (shout out to farmer Tony McQuail) but Avi announcing does make it a race.

We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

"In the United States of America, if you say 'mint majesty tea with two honeys' is an extremely weird order, they'll fire you from your job and doxx your home address"

Name a more iconic duo www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

If they made Andor season 3, we'd get the side plot where they cancelled that Coruscant talk show because the host mildly criticized Dr Gorst.

To be fair, snitching on your left-wing coworkers like it's 1953 is exactly what Charlie would've wanted. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Credit where due: Chyrstia Freeland didn't stand for Kirk

Of course the Conservatives first member statements had to be to honour Charlie Kirk. The surprise is most MPs giving him the standing ovation. Not Chrystia Freeland though.

Global News laid off 26 journalists in B.C. and Alberta today. In B.C. the layoffs include virtually all of the online team, along with many others. The business is increasingly cruel, and the hollowing out of newsrooms providing fair and reliable information continues to suck.

Countries that ban social media for minors are abdicating their responsibility to regulate the algorithms that manipulate and exploit us all. Not that any jurisdiction has really taken on big tech but treating it as just a kids problem is ignoring the real issue.

To be clear, this move brings us back to the very pointed targeting of LGBTQ2S+ graphic novels that got us here in the first place. Books that were on the government's radar thanks to far-right advocacy groups like Action4Canada.

My new gay religion's holy texts are every queer graphic novel set to be banned by Danielle Smith's revised book ban. As I've now declared these holy scriptures, they must be allowed in Alberta high schools.

Looking forward to Mark Carney's austerity/investment budget.

We have state-run liquor stores but you tell me we can't have the government run a grocery store? I like a good drink but food does feel a bit more essential here.

The Mark Carney stan bots on Threads are something else.

HAHAHAHA UHHHH WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK??????

The Carney Liberals really are the Tory Junior party. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?

Listen, Mackenzie King only invited Adolf Eichmann so we could have a better understanding of the German's economic plans. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It's incredible how lacking political imagination is in Canada. Instead of clear nation building investment projects, we get a Major Projects Office that will spur private investment in... we still don't know what. But I guess that's the point, not to build a country but to line corporate pockets.

Some good back to school news in Alberta as they chickened out on their wide-ranging book ban. I doubt this fight is over though. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Solidarity with teachers & workers

Parents are quietly paying for lockers and classroom kleenex boxes as our schools are continually defunded by successive provincial governments.

“The Tyee is just learning about this now because it took 16 months for the Vancouver Police Department to release requested data about how many of its officers were trained on decriminalization.” thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

Harm reduction often gets conflated with treatment in discussions about addiction and toxic drugs They are not the same thing Countless lives have been saved through clean needles and overdose prevention sites but BC’s policies are always shifting Pt 3 in my series www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Every dollar more that the banks pull in in profits is a dollar less that the average person has. Of course the press pretends like thisbis à benign stat.

What an absolute piece of shit Carney turned out to be. I don't think he's stupid, he knows the climate crisis is real, he knows every summer Canada is on fire, he knows about wet bulb temperatures and rising oceans, and he truly doesn't care.

More seriously, this story is fascinating as it draws out the inherent contradictions in municipal politics. We expect mayor & councilor to do politics but also restrict how they can. It will need to be addressed by BC. That said, violating rules is definitely a no-no and adds to ABC's baggage.

CityNews is really scraping the bottom of the barrel for political analysis with this commentator. vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/08/26/v...

Two further passages from the report. The first shows every ABC councillor denying the email from the Mayors' Office that said "Team Voting Rules" was ever listened to, or was a rule in the first place. The second shows the one councillor who did not cooperate with the investigation.

Vancouver’s Integrity Commissioner has found Mayor Ken Sim and ABC councillors broke the code of conduct on multiple occasions for coordinating amendments to controversial motions in separate private online conversations ahead of public council meetings

Okay it turns out I'm in Melbourne the weekend of the local Nazi rally but we're very much NOT HERE FOR THAT. Fuck these fascists and fuck the local cops giving them cover - and the politicians backing the cops/considering giving them more power. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

It's incredibly wild that (of the three) Macron is the principled voice.

We can't afford to keep cutting taxes

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