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Sean Carleton
about 9 hours ago
ICYMI: in light of the rise in residential school denialism and anti-Indigenous racism, Phyllis Webstad, Willie Sellars, and I sat down for a conversation about how to confront denialism and put truth before reconciliation:
youtu.be/RorHgy5Kl5c
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Truth Before Reconciliation: Addressing Residential School Denialism
YouTube video by GreenpeaceCanada
https://youtu.be/RorHgy5Kl5c
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Climate Change Steves
10 days ago
Carney shouldn't pay any attention to David Eby's lust for LNG.
#SiteC
Dam destroyed 10,000 acres of the best farmland & produces power for fracking the Montenay gas fields & producing LNG. Exported gas produces far worse emissions than coal major study finds
www.nationalobserver.com/2024/10/09/n...
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Exported gas produces far worse emissions than coal, major study finds
Research challenges idea that sending liquefied natural gas around the world is cleaner alternative to burning coal
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/10/09/news/exported-gas-far-worse-emissions-coal
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This is why we need to keep calling it what it is: FRACKED METHANE GAS
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Mark Z. Jacobson
1 day ago
Why carbon capture increases CO2, air pollution, fossil mining, fossil infrastructure, energy costs, and social costs. CC is neither needed or helpful. The Myth of Carbon Capture and Storage Podcast with
@jennyyeremiy.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X5M...
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The Myth of Carbon Capture and Storage: Justifying New Fossil Fuel Development
YouTube video by The Gravity Well with Jenny Yeremiy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X5M6buGFKc
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈
2 days ago
👀 Louisiana citizens have filed suit against the state over carbon capture laws* it says are unconstitutional, alleging they give private companies the power to take private property from residents:
www.wbrz.com/news/save-my...
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Save My Louisiana sues state, claims carbon capture laws violate state constitution
Nonprofit organization Save My Louisiana filed suit against the state over carbon capture laws it says are unconstitutional, alleging they give private companies the power to take private property fro...
https://www.wbrz.com/news/save-my-louisiana-sues-state-claims-carbon-capture-laws-violate-state-constitution/
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Epstein, Trump … and Mark Carney’s Ksi Lisims LNG. Fracked methane gas is a path to faster mass extinction - stop this nonsense!
www.dogwoodbc.ca/news/epstein...
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Epstein, Trump … and Mark Carney’s Ksi Lisims LNG
The scandal surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump is fueling backlash to an American-owned gas project in Canada, after Prime Minister Mark Carney
https://www.dogwoodbc.ca/news/epstein-trump-carney-ksi-lisims-lng/
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
5 days ago
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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Brent Toderian
4 days ago
“My name is Brent Toderian. I’m a resident of Vancouver. I’m also a city planner, a former chief planner for Vancouver, and now an advisor to cities across Canada & around the world. Council knows I don’t make a habit of this. I can count on one hand the times I’ve spoken to council as a citizen.”
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Fracked methane gas extraction is a disaster that
#Canada
will not recover from Carney's selling us out.
www.theenergymix.com/canada-recei...
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Canada Receives Fossil of the Day Award at COP30 Climate Summit
Canada received Tuesday’s Fossil of the Day award at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The award, bestowed by Climate Action Network International, recognizes the country deemed to have done ...
https://www.theenergymix.com/canada-receives-fossil-of-the-day-award-at-cop30-climate-summit/
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦
5 days ago
We should all be calling for Dallas Brodie’s resignation from the Legislature
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West Coast Environmental Law
5 days ago
“Calling projects like Ksi Lisims and
#LNG
Canada in the ‘national interest’ ignores the harm they are causing to Canadians and the reality that they drive the
#ClimateCrisis
instead of solving it.” — West Coast Lawyer
@singingwithin.bsky.social
#cdnpoli
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LNG project, mines, hydro dam, power lines among latest major project referrals
TERRACE, B.C. — The federal government announced Thursday the latest list of major building projects to be considered for fast-track approval under legislation passed in June — a list focused entirely...
https://www.biv.com/news/lng-project-mines-hydro-dam-power-lines-among-latest-major-project-referrals-11482685
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@pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
. Free Palestine!
www.straight.com/city-culture...
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Crips for eSims for Gaza helps keep Palestine connected
A Vancouver-based writer coordinates a massive mutual aid campaign.
https://www.straight.com/city-culture/crips-for-esims-for-gaza-helps-keep-palestine-connected
5 days ago
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Canadian Civil Liberties Association
about 2 months ago
Today, 37 civil society organizations, including CCLA, signed a joint letter urging the government to reverse course on Bill C-9 and pursue community-based approaches that protect vulnerable groups without compromising rights and freedoms. Read more here.
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Civil Society Groups Demand Federal Government Rethink Bill C-9 - CCLA
https://ccla.org/press-release/civil-society-groups-demand-federal-government-rethink-bill-c-9/
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Civil Society Groups Demand Federal Government Rethink Bill C-9 - CCLA
https://ccla.org/press-release/civil-society-groups-demand-federal-government-rethink-bill-c-9/
6 days ago
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Tell Premier Eby and Mayor and Council that Chinatown matters - Acquire 105 Keefer / 570 Columbia
#Vancouver
share.nwmd.social/s/9D3kxAe4
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Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza?utm_campaign=success&utm_id=105356&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_source=chuffedreferral
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
6 days ago
llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong...
. what is remembered lives.
@pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved
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#AliceForever
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Alice Wong was Crips for eSims for Gaza, and Everything to Us
by Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
https://llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong-was-crips-for-esims-for
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If you love libraries, community centres, parks, arts and culture in Vancouver, and don't want to see them cut in order to increase the police budget by half a BILLION dollars, send a message to let city council know that their cuts are not what people voted for:
www.votecope.ca/stopsim
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Stop Ken Sim's Cuts — COPE Vancouver
https://www.votecope.ca/stopsim
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Alice Lastname
9 days ago
mainstream media is taking zero notice of Bill C2 thats going after privacy rights in the name of 'border security' and targets Land Defenders or Bill C9 which targets Palestine protests and Police direct power to lay Hate Crime charges for subjective reasons
bccla.org/policy-submi...
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CIVIL SOCIETY JOINT LETTER: Bill C-9 Threatens Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Freedom of Expression in Canada - BC Civil Liberties Association
The Honourable Sean FraserMinister of JusticeHouse of CommonsOttawa, OntarioK1A
[email protected]
CIVIL SOCIETY JOINT LETTER: Bill C-9 Threatens Freedom of Peaceful Assembly andFreedom of Expr...
https://bccla.org/policy-submission/joint-letter-bill-c-9/
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Jimmy Thomson
9 days ago
An expensive project to export Canada’s resources, getting subsidy after subsidy. A way to diversify Prairie exports away from a single buyer, but with major opposition from affected First Nations. Promises of prosperity. Icebergs. My column this week, about the historical echoes of Ksi Lisims.
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This LNG project sounds familiar — and not in a good way
More than a century ago, Prince Rupert, BC was poised to become the hub of the Pacific, thanks to a megaproject with eerie similarities to what's coming now. What happened?
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/17/opinion/lng-prince-rupert-history
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Redeye
8 days ago
ON AIR in an hour! Sheryl Nestel, co-author of a new report on a pattern of anti-Palestinian racism and genocide denial at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. + Karen Price on a report that highlights a lack of progress in protecting old growth forests in BC. 100.5FM or
coopradio.org/listen
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Alexander Chee
9 days ago
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong,
@sfdirewolf.bsky.social
with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
10 days ago
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense!
neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class
9 days ago
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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Tiny birds, and their tiny superfood, could decline due to irreversible effects of Vancouver port expansion. What happens to the birds will also happen to the people--we are part of the land, not separate from land:
thenarwhal.ca/roberts-bank...
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Port of Vancouver expansion threatens superfood ecosystem | The Narwhal
Roberts Bank Terminal 2 could lead to ‘irreversible’ change in the Fraser estuary, a critical feeding ground for western sandpiper flocks
https://thenarwhal.ca/roberts-bank-terminal-western-sandpiper/
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The Tyee
10 days ago
“This budget is basically just ’Trust me bro.’” Vancouver city councillors got an earful Wednesday and Thursday from residents opposed to a proposed budget that would freeze property taxes and is expected to increase fees and cut services.
@jenstden.bsky.social
reports.
#vanpoli
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The ‘People’s Filibuster’ Comes to Vancouver City Hall | The Tyee
Over 600 people signed up to speak to Mayor Ken Sim’s tax-freeze budget. Most were opposed.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/11/14/Peoples-Filibuster-Vancouver-City-Hall/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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APTN News
10 days ago
The Carney gov't is proposing six more large-scale infrastructure projects—three of which directly impact Indigenous peoples. Hear more on APTN News Brief:
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APTN News Brief: November 14, 2025—Carney gov't proposes more infrastructure to be fast-tracked by Major Projects Office
Our lead story: PM Mark Carney proposes six more large-scale infrastructure projects—three of which would, if built, directly impact Indigenous peoples—supported by a so-called Major Projects O...
https://pod.fo/e/352bf9
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Amanda Follett Hosgood
10 days ago
In Terrace yesterday, Prime Minister Mark Carney sidestepped questions about US ownership and First Nations opposition to the Ksi Lisims LNG export terminal, which has been added to a list of projects the feds plan to expedite. My latest for
@thetyee.ca
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thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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Ksi Lisims LNG Makes Federal List of ‘Nation-Building’ Projects | The Tyee
The prime minister sidestepped questions about US ownership and First Nations opposition at a northern BC presser.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/11/14/Ksi-Lisims-LNG-Nation-Building-Projects/
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The Tyee
10 days ago
While PM Carney’s fast-tracking initiative has been touted as a response to U.S. President Trump’s trade war, critics have pointed out the projects are largely backed by foreign-owned corporations — and include substantial U.S. investment.
@amandafollett.bsky.social
reports.
#uspoli
#canpoli
#LNG
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Ksi Lisims LNG Makes Federal List of ‘Nation-Building’ Projects | The Tyee
The prime minister sidestepped questions about US ownership and First Nations opposition at a northern BC presser.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/11/14/Ksi-Lisims-LNG-Nation-Building-Projects/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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David Suzuki Foundation
10 days ago
Ironically, PM Carney skipped COP30 in Brazil, to announce that the federal government will fast-track the American-owned Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia. 👎😒 Media release>
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Canada is a
#ClimateDisaster
as it approves fracked methane gas that PREVENTS the transition to renewable energy we need. Shame on Carney.
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UBCIC
10 days ago
"The government must stop using legislation to silence our voices and start working with us toward a sustainable and just future." Chief Marilyn Slett, UBCIC Secretary-Treasurer
www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_object...
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UBCIC Objects to Canada’s Latest Addition of B.C. LNG and Related Resource Developments to Major Projects List
Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights
https://www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_objects_to_canadas_latest_addition_of_bc_lng
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The Breach
17 days ago
Mark Carney's budget will make Trump and Canada’s corporate class happy, but it does little for working people. Martin Lukacs and
@desmondcole.bsky.social
break down the Liberals' Stephen Harper-esque moves, from public service layoffs to corporate handouts.
breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for...
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A budget for tanks, banks, and oil barons ⋆ The Breach
Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole discuss the Liberal government’s Harper-esque budget
https://breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for-tanks-banks-and-oil-barons/
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David Pugliese
11 days ago
The day pipeline security followed me — and what I learned later about Canada’s spy agency:
thenarwhal.ca/csis-resourc...
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The deepening ties between CSIS and resource companies | The Narwhal
As the federal government earmarks resource extraction projects in the ‘national interest,’ the companies building them are deepening ties to CSIS
https://thenarwhal.ca/csis-resource-projects-surveillance/
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David Naimon
12 days ago
Congrats to Omar El Akkad & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson both shortlisted for the 2025 Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each Omar:
tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Leanne:
tinhouse.com/podcast/lean...
@biidaasamose.bsky.social
@haymarketbooks.org
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Charlie Smith
12 days ago
There is a lot of wisdom on so many levels in this article. It touches on loss of identity after being fired, how writing keeps some of us sane, and the disgusting purge of racialized, progressive voices from mainstream media.
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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC
13 days ago
We’ve just learned that Mayor Ken Sim plans to eliminate Vancouver’s entire Climate and Sustainability Office under his “Zero Means Zero” budget. This would gut the city’s climate team and undo decades of work that protect residents’ health and safety.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/n...
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Brent Toderian
17 days ago
“In his final budget before facing voters next October, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is presenting a property tax freeze and $50 million more for police, & major cuts to arts, culture, community services & sustainability.” Brutal austerity for everything else, but $50 million more for over-budget cops.
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'I'm proud of this one': Mayor Ken Sim talks budget with $50 million more for police amid property tax freeze | CBC News
In his final budget before facing voters next October, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is presenting a property tax freeze, and $50 million more for police, balanced by major cuts to arts, culture, community ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ken-sim-interview-2026-budget-9.6968795
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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors
13 days ago
Sign up here to speak to Council in opposition to mass layoffs and cuts to public services:
vancouver.ca/your-governm...
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Request to speak at a Council meeting
Request to speak at a Council meeting
https://vancouver.ca/your-government/request-to-speak-at-meeting-form-3.aspx
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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors
13 days ago
🚨Local union leaders sounding the alarm on ABC's cuts. “This proposed budget would not only have a serious impact on workers, but it will also likely have far-reaching consequences for public services throughout Vancouver’s communities and neighbourhoods.”
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Vancouver facing 400 job cuts amid mayor’s property tax freeze
The City of Vancouver expects to cut hundreds of full-time positions to accommodate Mayor Ken Sim’s “Zero Means Zero” property tax freeze for 2026.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/vancouver-facing-400-job-cuts-amid-mayors-property-tax-freeze/
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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors
13 days ago
Help us stop Ken Sim's cuts. Sign up to speak to Council:
vancouver.ca/your-governm...
#vanpoli
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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC
13 days ago
The only opportunity for the public to comment on this budget is at a special council meeting this Wednesday, November 12, at 9:30 am. And the deadline to register is Tuesday at 5pm! Sign up to speak here: 2/
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Request to speak at a Council meeting
https://vancouver.ca/your-government/request-to-speak-at-meeting-form-3.aspx
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CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC
13 days ago
Vancouver City Council is set to vote on an austerity budget that would cut $120M from services protecting health, climate, and equity. Vulnerable residents, clean energy programs, and more of the services we value are at risk. 1/
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑
2 months ago
Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company Exclusive: Sarah Wynn-Williams faces $50,000 fine every time she breaches order banning her from criticising Meta ...then I will do so for her: META SUCKS!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Dr Emma L Briant
2 months ago
Sarah Wynn-Williams faces $50,000 fine every time she breaches order banning her from criticising Meta
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David Kuhne
2 months ago
In her book Sarah Wynn-Williams writes about how people in Zuck’s orbit would let him win at games and he was too thick to see what was going on. Our billionaire ruling class is so petty that’s the kind of thing that must’ve really set him off when he read it.
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Elisheva
about 1 month ago
“Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism” by Sarah Wynn-Williams
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Jimmy Thomson
13 days ago
Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.
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The highest value is more time with a livable climate that supports biodiversity. Dredging the Burrard inlet only fuels climate disasters and speeds up mass extinction. Disappointing to see the BC NDP throw us all under the bus
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Plans to dredge Burrard Inlet remain uncosted, says Vancouver Fraser Port Authority | CBC News
A spokesperson for the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority says plans to dredge Burrard Inlet remain uncosted, but that the work could start as soon as next year, following additional consultations, permi...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/burrard-inlet-dredging-vancouver-fraser-port-authority-9.6973492
13 days ago
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now
14 days ago
Another thing I want to mention is that eSims are becoming incrementally more expensive over time…
#ConnectingGaza
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