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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A mind-boggling — 31x — increase in public spending on for-profit nursing agencies in BC’s public health care system From $8.8m in 2018 to $272m in 2024 via BC Nurses Union www.bcnu.org/news-and-eve... #bcpoli

While politicians argue, First Nations are growing B.C.’s economy by protecting the environment. From @thenarwhal.ca thenarwhal.ca/environment-...

The federal government said it would protect 25% of land and water by 2025. By December 2024, it had conserved 13.8% of land and fresh water and 15.5% of ocean areas, falling well short as habitat loss continues and pressure mounts to expand critical mineral production. thenarwhal.ca/canada-misse...

Painful to think that all that disinformation has culminated in the decimation of decriminalization and safe supply — not just in BC but nationally. Thousands a year still dying, and countless workers’ lives ruined, for Alberta to protect its profitable war on drugs.

Someone should write a story tallying all the times that Poilievre, Smith and other conservative politicians compared Alberta vs BC drug poisonings using false numbers. Here’s what was actually going on:

Alberta Health Services docs obtained via freedom of information request show that up to 85 percent of provincial EMS dispatches for drug toxicity were not reported by the Alberta government, @drugdatadecoded.ca reports: drugdatadecoded.ca/up-to-89-per...

B.C. daycare providers warn they may have to leave $10-a-day program if forced to cut wages of educators theprovince.com/news/bc-dayc...

What is happening in Minneapolis is a fascist shitshow, writes Dave Zirin, but there is also mass grassroots resistance. The latter story should be told and celebrated, too. https://bit.ly/4sJaV2G

Unsurprisingly, police culture of no accountability yields pretty brutal behaviours www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I wrote this post about Del Manak's legacy as chief. It seems relevant today when he's made it clear he's considering a mayoral run. www.needsmorespikes.com/blog/del-man... #yyj

We’re already seeing declining population in Canada because the racists were so effective at blaming migrants for the cost-of-living crisis and the government cut immigration rates as a result. It’s foolishness.

British Columbia's newest far-right party has become embroiled in conflict, after suddenly removing its leader. OneBC’s implosion appears to stem from the firing of a staffer accused of posting neo-Nazi propaganda: pressprogress.ca/dallas-brodi...

A Victoria Police constable was paid $93,468.70 in overtime alone last year, on top of their base pay of $229,916.97, CHEK News has learned.

Giving ministers the power to exempt pet projects from any law on the books except for the Criminal Code isn’t nation-building. It’s a disaster waiting to happen. The fact that they‘re trying to sneak this through without any explanation is particularly incriminating.

Premier Eby will have announcement tmrw about "strengthening access to involuntary care for young people." CMHA: "lack of evidence to support effectiveness of involuntary treatment for substance use disorder... evidence suggests it leads to an increased risk of death..." bc.cmha.ca/news/involun...

an important & damning record of the impacts of the toxic drug crisis and persecution of unhoused community members — please read!

"We are not a pandemic, we are not a disease. We are people," one resident said. Until we fund housing, healthcare, and harm reduction instead of police and sweeps, we'll keep pushing people into the margins and blaming them for being there. That should not be controversial.

"It does save lives, but saving those lives for what purpose?" asked Nanaimo Mayor Leonard Krog during a city council debate about overdose prevention sites and the province's approach to harm reduction in the toxic drug crisis on Monday night.

Essential read if you want to know what ‘the rush for critical minerals’ looks like for Indigenous communities and remote watersheds in Canada. This one’s about my First Nation but who’s next. Great reporting by @sevawood.bsky.social @thenarwhal.ca thenarwhal.ca/eskay-creek-...

Rustad's response posted to Twitter Same tone he took this morning, when he was asked about his possible removal under similar circumstances #bcpoli

The BC Conservative Party just announced they have removed John Rustad as their party leader. Comes hours after Rustad said he was staying on despite 20 MLAs calling for his removal, arguing there was no mechanism for the party to turf him as leader after winning his leadership review.

“The answer is still no. No pipelines in British Columbia, no further fossil fuel pipelines, period,” said Stewart Phillip, grand chief of Syilx Nation and president of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.

Expanded affordable child care has added an estimated $5.8 billion to B.C.’s GDP since 2019 — about 1.3 per cent of the entire provincial economy. Why we need more quality $10aDay child care in BC.... vancouversun.com/opinion/opin...

At COP30 Canada just got awarded the fossil of the day — first time since 2014 (the harper years). Clear sign of how Carney’s pro fossil fuel agenda and backsliding on climate policy is being noticed internationally.

Chatted with a couple of Indigenous elders on the streets of Winnipeg tonight that expect to be displaced tomorrow. Without exaggeration, this is ongoing colonial violence happening in cities across Canada. And in freezing temperatures, it's among the most overt forms of social murder.

“At $73 billion in direct impact on the national GDP, Canada’s cultural industries contribute more than oil and gas extraction at $71 billion.” www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

More debilitating cuts than any in the Harper era. But he's got Parliament cornered. I wonder if he realises how quickly the wind can blow. Liberals' own entitlement and hubris usually does them in more effectively than opposition parties.

The political war on safer drugs. Canada’s toxic drug crisis has led to tens of thousands of deaths and cost the health and justice systems billions. But politics keep getting in the way of solutions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XJ-... via @cbcnews.ca