Happy International Worker’s Day🌹✊ American billionaire Warren Buffett once said “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning." Call me naïve, but I believe that the working class is starting to win again.

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...

What's wild is that the only group that actually violates property rights in Canada is corporations. They can drill through your land and excavate you from your home and send the RCMP if you protest. Yet racists want us all to be mad at Indigenous people who didn't take anyone's property title away

I feel so disconnected from the genpop in how often this Prime Minister angers me. (hello gen x babes) Today, uplifting a right wing Indigenous Rights eroding disinfo frame on the Cowichan decision. Which he entirely did not need to weigh in on. It was gross posturing.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Boosting the incredible resources on DRIPAfacts.ca! 📝 Share far and wide to combat coordinated misinformation campaigns. DRIPA is the path forward for human rights in BC. Send this to your family, co-workers and friends so we can collectively defend this critical legislation in the coming months.

Friends of reconciliation: please repost this! Or direct from DRIPAfacts.ca Educating fellow settlers is on all of us to help undo the damage.

Why hasn't there been JWD/Trudeau/SNC level scandal about this premier raising hell because he is concerned about a court decision he doesn't like? Genuinely would appreciate some scholar helping me understand how this isn't political wing interfering with judiciary.

I don't know for sure who all within the NDP was actively resisting this DRIPA free fall, but I've reason to believe they were Indigenous led and all or mostly women and I just want to say thank you, I see you, inside change is hard.

This! Given the choice b/w updating a 150+ year old, 1850s era law that basically allows others (today, mostly Big Mining) to lay claim on resources below your land pretty willy nilly Or: Abandon DRIPA & First Nations He chose so colonial & reactive to mining lobby disinfo

"There remains another path. You can reject the course of colonial unilateral action and choose to uphold human rights and the honour of the Crown, and insist that the Province meet its legal obligations" www.ubcic.bc.ca/open_letter_...

Exactly this

How Joseph Trutch Set the Stage for BC's Indigenous Policies ~ @adampolsen.bsky.social via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Former Minister McKenna has entered the excess profit tax chat! ✨

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

On this grim anniversary, amid so much finger-pointing and misinfo over drug policy, worth remembering how many ppl tried to overcome addiction, and were failed Harley Cartwright, who died Sept 24, 2020, is just one example. The letter his mom found after his death broke me tinyurl.com/unhsmmr4

@wgreaves.bsky.social As one of your constituents in Victoria, I am joining my community in asking: do you support wasting our public dollars on a dying industry, instead of making the investments everyday people actually need? Will you stand for HomesNotPipelines? bsky.app/profile/lead...

Economic growth under capitalism = increased inequality For decades, status quo politicians across the spectrum have peddled economic growth as proxy for individual prosperity. The lie? It trickles *up*. (gushes, really)

Imagine going down as the "progressive" NDP premier that let his government fall because he is opposed to principles of reconciliation. (As he was when DRIPA first passed) How much more can he disappoint us and, I imagine and hope, so many in his own caucus?

First Nations leaders are condemning Premier David Eby’s plan to suspend parts of #DRIPA as a step backward that will increase uncertainty for all British Columbians and create political problems for the NDP. Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli

DRIPA (Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act) was passed unanimously in by all members from all parties. UNANIMOUSLY. We meant it then and we mean it now. Eby doesn’t get to change that because it’s unpopular with lobbyists and he failed to do anything to educate/prepare the public.

Prime Minister Mark Carney jokingly says he ‘can outlast’ a mercury-affected Grassy woman calling for justice on decades of toxic dumping. Hear more on APTN News Brief:

It's tough to see the ageism (with dashes of sexism) among some New Dems' minimizing frame on Emily Lowan. I expect she'll keep being underestimated. FTR CARGA collapsed under NDP token and broken committments. The expectation of BCG obedience under any circumstance just gives entitlement.

NEW: Canada’s richest 1 per cent have nearly as much wealth as its poorest 80 per cent combined. www.readthemaple.com/canadas-rich...

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin

"It’s naively defeatist to assume millennia of patriarchy entrenched in law, culture, social arrangements and economics could be or should have been fully disassembled in one lifetime."

The commissioner noted the government was taking longer to respond to fewer requests and failing to meet legislated response timelines frequently In 2022-23, 43% of requests filed by media were unlawfully delayed Note that businesses and law firms were getting the fewest unlawful delays #bcpoli

Citizens' Services Minister Diana Gibson says proposed changes to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act will improve how the FOI system functions Her predecessor said the same thing while defending new filing fees for FOI requests Spoiler alert: the system got worse #bcpoli

The Defense Department under Pete Hegseth went on a $93 billion spending spree in September, buying: - $98,329 Steinway grand piano - $15.1 million ribeye steak - $6.9 million lobster tail - $5.3 million Apple devices - $2 million king crab @newrepublic.com reports: newrepublic.com/post/207555/...

When the BC Conservatives voted for a bill to repeal the human rights code, the NDP caucus promptly put out a press release slamming the Cons who "couldn’t muster the courage to stand against it." Today, 0 NDP MLAs mustered the courage to vote against a bill to close all BC's safe consumption sites

Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure to have major environmental fallout, experts warn

I just sent a @Leadnowca.bsky.social letter to senators to Vote YES to lower the voting age. Bill S222 is on a razor's edge of passongtthe senate, making your voice powerful. Send one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/bill...

🧵 The Trump-Vance Administration has singularly launched a regime change war on Iran and deployed US military forces and assets by fiat without Congressional authorization. 1/6

There are really no words to describe the horrors that this war on Iran will unleash. Yet the Canadian government is supporting this illegal catastrophe launched by a country that is threatening to annex us.

More Canadian children are living in poverty, including nearly half of children on reserve: campaign2000.ca/new-release-...

The military is still just killing random people on boats in the Caribbean. No trials, no evidence. 137 kills so far

I regret viewing that game as a referendum on whether there is any justice in this world.

The BC NDP’s budget is hidden austerity for the working class. Eby has chosen the broken status quo. This budget raises taxes on working people, abandons $10-a-day childcare, and puts thousands of public servants out of work. #bcpoli /1

The Socratic method strikes again

Now (and always) is a good time to reach out and hug your trans loved ones and community ❤️

In the wake of the Tumbler Ridge shooting, false claims about trans people spread online by the likes of Elon Musk, Libs of TikTok, Matt Walsh, Andy Ngo, The Post Millennial and others. Great reporting by @samedwards.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...

Disgusted by the level of anti-trans misinformation already spreading about the shooting in Tumbler Ridge. I wrote about it after Charlie Kirk in September, and I hate that I’m probably going to have to write about it tomorrow xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

Verified Tumbler Ridge fundraiser organized by Parent Advisory Council

How telling, tragic and not at all surprising this focus on a shooter's gender the anomalous time they are not cis male.

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI. one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."

In light of Jean Chrétien's most recent denialist comments - story to come, basically he downplays the harm of the IRS system - I went down the rabbit hole researching how far Indigenous leaders lobbied him, as Minister of Indian Affairs in the 1960s and 1970s, to close the system 🧵

People power works. Thanks to everyone who came together to force Pattison’s hand this week. #bcpoli

Great @maddow.bsky.social recap on our successful Pattison ICE boycott🧊🚫 To keep up the pressure against ICE in Canada - follow @democracyrisingnow on Hootsuite actions, keep sharing and educating your community, and donate to relief funds for families impacted by ICE.

Joshua, a 17-year-old from Saanich is missing and police are asking for the public's help with their search efforts.

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