Quintessential Canadian story. We decided to build a road where there's no business being a road. We fight the avalanches by literally shelling them. We cancel said program because of austerity and no ministry wants to take responsibility. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Give CBC a billion dollars

When Carney announced his cabinet and I made a post saying it was a major red flag that the man had a Minister for AI, but does not have a Minister for labour, partisan hacks came for my throat. But this is what that gets you!

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...

I am constantly horrified by this government, and utterly bemused by people who think that Carney is better than Poilivere. They clearly haven’t been paying enough attention to what he is actually doing. @althiaraj.bsky.social has been one of the few journalists honest and pointed about this.

Between BC walking back from harm reduction and Vancouver shutting the door on overdose prevention sites, BC is following this trend.

I spoke with @philofwrite.bsky.social to make sense of several high-profile examples of white supremacist ideas showing up in the B.C. legislature and a national newspaper. “It is very significant - it is giving validation to these ideas.” thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Census time. May 12 deadline. If you got the long form, wear it like a badge — it runs our economic research, our equity policy, and the population data Alberta's boundary fight depends on. Harper tried to kill it in 2010. We have a long memory. deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/l...

At a time when we are seeing international criminal justice systems under attack and ICC judges sanctioned, picking Louise Arbour - the former Supreme Court justice and ICTY prosecutor as Governor General - I hope - sends a message. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Yes Mr Zuckerberg, I am an adult

the B.C. Coroners Service posted two reports on April 24 and I guess nobody noticed? I did just now. it should've been A HUGE SCANDAL #bcpoli Deaths of Individuals Experiencing Homelessness in British Columbia (2016-2024) www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/b...

“The truth about B.C.'s unceded land (and your home)” This is grounded in the law, not politics. And until policymakers actually understand it, they can’t deliver the property rights protections that British Columbians deserve. This is VANCOLOUR Thursdays at 9pm @cheknews.ca 📺

April 2025: The NDP believes the bar for official party status should be 7 MPs. March 2026: The NDP believes the bar for official party status should be 6 MPs. April 2026: The NDP believes the bar for official party status should be 5 MPs.

It's easy to say from Vancouver but y'all hockey fans could relax a bit once you accept that Canadian teams just aren't allowed to win the Stanley Cup

Oh the transphobe is back to tell us the real issue is young women who don't like to be raped and sexually harassed. Great work platforming this bullshit Globe and Mail.

“I have been lost for many, many years, and guess what put me back on track? Pathways, and that motherfucker stood there and tried to call me out as some kind of plant," said Michael MacDonald referring accurately to the mayor of Kamloops, who tried to discredit him infonews.ca/news/7622965...

Boycott the vote. Gordon Campbell faced embarrassment for his racist 2002 treaty referenda and Smith deserves the same.

Canada's most syndicated newspaper, the National Post, published an overwhelmingly positive review of the infamously racist novel Camp of the Saints today. The book is a standard in white nationalist book lists and is nearly only sold by white supremacist publishers. nationalpost.com/opinion/jami...

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

In which @hankgreen.bsky.social discovers the Calvinist ethic of suffering (and then rightly rejects it). youtu.be/jXO5axomU7Q

A network of 20 inauthentic YouTube accounts has racked up nearly 40 million views by peddling lies, grievance, division and narratives normalizing the prospect of Alberta’s secession and annexation by the United States. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports. #abpoli

Joint statement from Premier Eby and the First Nations Leadership council on DRIPA Eby has backed off changing or suspending the law this spring Changes may be put forward in the fall session, but Eby told reporters there's no guarantee the two sides will come to an agreement about how to proceed

My favorite bit: "The Food Dude problem. A recurring feature of Poilievre’s economic messaging — especially around grocery prices and the carbon tax — is his reliance on a certain Dalhousie professor whose name I will not write here, because in Canadian economics we do not say his name."

It's April 20 and you know what that means 👀 British Columbians can now file applications with Elections BC to recall their provincial MLAs 💁‍♀️ #bcpoli

For Albertans mad that Smith is going to permanent DST (and not standard time): Under permanent standard time, Edmonton's winter solstice sunrise will be at 9:48am but its summer solstice sunrise would be at 4:05am. Everything is a tradeoff - let's just stop time changes.

Finally read David's excellent reflection. It brings into striking contrast for me the irony that people like Paul Kershaw, quoted here, champion affordable housing but want to shred retirement supports. But that will only make us more dependent on housing as a retirement vessel.

What a week of rich data! Yesterday, PRRI released its religious census data, which showed, overall, a pretty stagnant picture of religious identification and disaffiliation. Except, among women under 30. @bmietana.bsky.social did a great job summarizing the survey. religionnews.com/2026/04/15/s...

Why meet often if they're only there to rubber stamp the Chief's wishes

It’s fairly telling of the order of things that Canada almost immediately defaulted to the government taking a financial hit to provide gas price relief, without paying for it through a windfall tax even being floated as a serious possibility.

It's always wild to think about how many people are still alive who were born before we figured out plate tectonics.

Fantastic story. BC United continues to exist purely for the drama. www.vancouverisawesome.com/the-mix/bc-u...

Terrebonne voters might be about to do the funniest thing

The anti-Indigenous rhetoric coming out of BC politics right now is troubling. It's being led by the right, as I've explained, but the NDP's lack of leadership and courage in confronting it is equally troubling, I argue for @canadiandimension.bsky.social: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

From unions, to law & justice groups, to enviro orgs, local gov leaders, faith groups, academics and more – 130+ civil society leaders across BC are urging the #BCgov to recommit to implementing the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act ✊ wcel.org/DeclarationAct #bcpoli #DRIPA

The BCNDP is facing the largest caucus revolt since the baker's dozen uncermoniously deposed Carole James as leader. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Important piece here. I have photos of me (as a much younger EngPhys student) in 2007 with physicists Lee Smolin and Lawrence Krauss, who both appear in the files (the latter also left his job following sexual harassment allegations). Not proud of that in hindsight.

I look forward to Naheed Nenshi blaming Avi Lewis for the fact the ANDP is losing to the UCP 53% to 36% when 56% of Albertans say the province is on the wrong track. It can't have anything to do with the fact Nenshi's own popularity is a mere 35%. leger360.com/in-the-news-...

Why was Brad West scheduled to speak at a far-right event in Coquitlam this weekend? West apparently cancelled due to a family emergency but ostensibly would otherwise join in? This event is very clearly not simple "education" given the INCREDIBLE bias of its speakers.

One would assume but I didn't realize Tara Armstrong's expose-the-advocacy-groups bill was so explicitly targeting everyone she doesn't like. www.leg.bc.ca/parliamentar...

I presumed it's out of order to introduce the exact same bill as is already on the order paper, but apparently the BC Legislature doesn't care.

Carney is being asked whether *any* politician is welcome in the Liberal caucus and he’s basically saying yes. There’s no line in the sand — as long as they tell *him* they support Liberal values, they’re welcome to the Liberal Party to grow his majority power. Yikes.

One simple improvement to Facebook would be to make all page posts only open to established followers by default. So much rage you see there is from drive-by profiles reacting to pages pushed into their algorithms (or it's bots).

'Fire John Rustad' launched Aug 19, 2024. 9 days later, Kevin Falcon suspends the BC United campaign. Falcon hired the leader of the Alberta Republican Party to make this happen. For this disinformation campaign, the smallest slap on the wrist from Elections BC.

Maybe Marilyn Gladu finally got her COVID vaccines

Can we parents agree to start telling kids the Easter Bunny only visits tidy houses? If Santa can keep them kind...

Mark Carney is running the exact same budget but gets nothing but praise from our pundit class.

The BC government has begun using AI to process FOI requests. While AI use is currently limited to identifying certain types of personal info and reviewing older documents, the company that developed the tools says there are plans to expand it. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Maybe this Avi Lewis guy is onto so m things

Cardassia is the Alberta of the Star Trek universe, which puts Vulcan, AB, in an uncomfortable position.

Right after they finish with trans youth, their moving on to target youth with ADHD and autism to satisfy their austerity driven eugenics project. They don't even dignify us with new talking points.