Trump 2025 is very much like Chairman Mao 1976, as described in Doonesbury:

In BC governments are increasing support for nutritious school lunches that respect cultural diversity and dietary needs. The benefits are clear. In NZ, the current coalition government is doing exactly the opposite. The consequences are also clear. @stuff.co.nz www.canada.ca/en/employmen...

With all of these recent felt #earthquakes, many people are asking "does this mean the big one is coming?". These earthquakes are not connected - some are shallow, some deep, all are on different faults and even different tectonic plates. They are far from the locked subduction fault. So no... ⚒️🧪

"The #ComoxValley Point in Time #homelessness count is taking place this Friday. ...Volunteers and service providers survey individuals facing housing instability to collect data on #demographics, #health, and #housing needs" #VancouverIsland #BC #Canada www.comoxvalleyrecord.com/local-news/c...

Find me at Words on the Water in Campbell River next week! I’ll have a Friday evening panel, a Saturday morning reading/Q&A, and Saturday Evening Literary Cabaret in addition to a couple of high school visits! #CrushedWildMint www.wordsonthewater.ca

Canada's southern border is 8,891km. The average width of a human is 75cm. Linked arm to arm, it would take 11,854,667 of us to cover the border from east coast to west. There are more than 40 million Canadians. What a great show of solidarity that would make, eh. Eh? We'd be visible from space....

Our wonderful Tante Olivette! www.lereveil.com/actualites/6...

Some very good advice here

Kia ora! www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Denali. Nothing and no one can change that.

Watching Taranaki Maunga 3rd reading livestreaming - so sad not to be there. www.facebook.com/TeKorimako/v...

Nuučaanuł ancestors practiced land care, protecting and growing Indigenous biological wealth over thousands of years. We have a responsibility to care for the next generations of future life, including next seasons insects, birds, bears and salmon. “Land Use Plan?….Longterm Land Care Instead!”

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #766: Writing is a community. Participate in it if you can. Engage with other writers. Lift them up, and they’ll do the same. Try to go it alone, or treat other writers as rivals, and you’re more likely to sink than swim.

Your organization may have gaps in your policies around the copying and sharing of published content. Our licence can help you fill them. Learn more here: accessforbusiness.ca/biotech-phar...

The likely result is trashed landscapes, coupled with unmet housing need and soaring rents. Had the government set out to destroy people’s faith in democracy and hand the next election to the far right, it could scarcely be doing a better job.

The fundamental problem is that Starmer's government just won't confront powerful economic interests. So it tries to fudge the issue: we'll let housing continue to be used for investment, second homes, AirBnBs etc, we'll let rents keep rising, but if we build loads, something's bound to change!

Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The default position in our economy is homelessness. When you come of age, if you fail to work, fail to qualify for any government program, and fail to receive sufficient gifts of wealth from your family or anyone else, you will be destitute." Universal basic income is a new default. No one <$UBI.

Good morning everyone! Be strong, be upright, hold fast to your anchors of truth, kindness, compassion and integrity. We can overcome anything together, from the ground up.

Bill Wilson was one of the most significant First Nation leaders of his time. I am deeply saddened to learn of his passing. His profound impact on Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples of British Columbia and Canada will live on for generations. (1/2) vancouversun.com/news/bill-wi...

New Zealand needs to bring legislation to ban the import of slave-labour produced products back to the table urgently: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Citizens of Aotearoa/New Zealand: please submit on this draft bill as well as the so-called Treaty Principles bill. www.linkedin.com/posts/kather...

Decolonize facebook page. Start calling "christianity" and "catholicism" European mythology.

For all the talk of Canada getting annexed, one thing we do share with our neighbours is an undemocratic FPTP system that gives one party disproportionate power while millions go unheard. It's time to lead North America democratically by adopting PR —where every vote counts.

🚨 Trudeau cannot step down until the federal government passes equivalent legislation to BC’s Rising Tide Agreement through a consent declaration in the Supreme Court to cement Aboriginal title over the entirety of Haida Gwaii for all time (under section 35). #Indigenous #Haida Pass it on!

An excellent Indigenous-led organization I will be so lucky to have been working with for ten years in 2025! nanwakolas.com

Dec. 25, 1921: Chief Kwakwaka'wakw held a potlatch ceremony at Alert Bay, BC in defiance of the government's ban on the ceremony.

Feliz Navidad todo el mundo!

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I've had worse temporary offices, although I am not sure about the neighbours...

If I followed you on here, I unfollowed you on that other place.... sorry not sorry.

Yes!!!

Let's do this everywhere in Canada!

Also, this made me snort my coffee.

Just for fun (ahem) here are pictures of my in-print books (others all available in Canadian libraries) including my most recent, three-time award winner This Place is Who We Are, with @harbourpublishing.bsky.social

When we dwell on fears and anxieties, they can grow and overwhelm our thoughts, affecting our daily life. However, there's a simple solution: movement. Physical activity, whether through exercise, dance, or walking in nature, can shift your mental state and break the cycle of worry.

Well, that was kind of fun blocking Elon Musk's account this morning... if it was the real EM, that is. Either way, bye.

Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!

Oh WHAT a pleasure to check in on this forum every morning and not have to flinch in horror. Gilakas'la, huy ch q'u, thank you all of you lovely people!

Welcome to Walking Eagle News: Journalism so deeply and profoundly Indigenous, assholes constantly dress up like us and go to music festivals. (Eagle cries in distance)

Money doesn’t grow on trees, but in the coastal rainforests of British Columbia, salmon do.

Good morning BlueSky family! Thrilled to be moving over to a better place and better space.