The February event list for Metro Vancouver Highlights: - Lunar New Year celebrations - BC Family Day - Dine Out Vancouver - Matriarchs Uprising Festival - Just for Laughs - Black Futures Month Hackathon

Calgary Stampede security ejected PressProgress Alberta reporter @stephenmag.bsky.social after Alberta separatist leader Jeffrey Rath walked out of an interview Stephen had questioned Rath's claim that Mark Carney was "threatening war on the United States" and invoked "Article 5 of the NATO treaty"

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The Asian American Journalists Association stands with the National Association of Black Journalists.

When I resigned as co-chair of the National Association of Black Journalists convention after their decision to platform Trump, I took a lot of heat for it. I was told “Black journalists are going to expose his racism and save America” Today, the Trump regime is arresting Black journalists.

Reading Arno's piece this morning, it occurred to me how unsettlingly disconnected from even a generous interpretation of the truth many Conservative supporters have become. I don't mean that in the partisan kind of way; it's genuinely distressing to see people fleeing from shared reality.

🎉 We did it! Fantastic teamwork by ONC and CSIC Catalunya has led to the successful deployment this week of a second subsea observatory offshore of the Juan Carlos I Spanish Antarctic Station 🇦🇶 📡 Data is now streaming from both observatories into ONC’s open data portal, Oceans 3.0.

As has been proven time and again across the globe, the targeting of journalists never ends with the most vulnerable. Instead, the targeting of marginalized journalists normalizes and facilitates attacks on the free press at large. Read our full statement at nwu.org/lemon-and-fort

Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

Vancouver councillor Pete Fry has announced he’s running for mayor. Here’s my interview with him on his candidacy, priorities, and the current state of the race. And we’ve got a BONUS FRIDAY podcast episode with him coming out today as well.

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📢📢 Need a marketing boost? Email [email protected] today! 🗞️ Our next newspapers are out on Feb. 19 and March 26, 2026. #newwest #newspaper #burnaby #coquitlam #portmoody

Vancouver-based companies brace for anti-ICE protests

"Vancouver’s estimated costs... have swelled from roughly $240-million in 2022 to $624-million shared between all three levels of government." Remarkable contrast with Vancouver's recent austerity budget. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

A key figure in Alberta’s separatist movement said Premier Danielle Smith indicated to him that if the province goes it alone, she’d stay on as its leader. The title she’d prefer? Prime minister. #abpoli

As Okanagan officials warn about an invasive 'pine beetle of the water,' the B.C. government says it doesn't have enough money to ramp up enforcement to ensure invasive mussels don't arrive in the province's lakes. Today in @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...

“We are here to ask the courts for ... further articulation of what press freedom means in this country,” Linnitt said. “And on the other side, we have a team of lawyers for Canada and a team of lawyers for the province who are here trying to prevent that from happening – on the taxpayer’s dime.”

I was reminded of this investigation I did with @ethancox.bsky.social and @brishti.bsky.social the other day, watching police indiscriminately attack protesters and then make up excuses after the fact. It happens here, too.

Quick thread on some of the more disturbing revelations from @arnokopecky.bsky.social's call with Mitch Sylvestre this morning.

A match made in heaven 🍩 🗞️ Stop by Yum Gourmet Donuts in Sapperton to pick up a sweet treat and a copy of our latest edition! Do you have a storefront in #NewWestminster, #Burnaby or the Tri-Cities? DM or email us to be a drop-off location for Freshet News: [email protected] #coquitlam

What the world can learn from Paris’s cycling revolution. momentummag.com/what-the-wor...

Of course she did. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Fifth column www.ft.com/content/11dc...

Oooh, can't wait for VPD and its union to revive "stranger attack" 5X a week leading up to the elections. #vanpoli

Terrific new video! "How a Small Canadian City Tripled Cycling Rates in Just 11 Years" Oh the Urbanity!: Victoria, British Columbia has rapidly become "the strongest cycling city in North America that isn't widely known for it." (nextcity.org/urbanist-new...) Everybody benefits!

Freshet News co-founder Cornelia Naylor joined a class of Grade 7 students at Capitol Hill Elementary in Burnaby as a guest reader to celebrate literacy week. 📖 What better way to celebrate literacy than reading your new local newspaper! 🗞️ #burnaby #newwest #coquitlam #literacy #newspaper

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Exclusive: The Trump administration has held covert meetings with fringe separatists from the oil-rich Canadian province as a rift deepens between Washington and Ottawa. ft.trib.al/zYlleOJ

The best cycle lanes are wide, beautiful and completely separate from other roads. This type of infrastructure is common here in the Netherlands. They often connect cities and offer a great alternative for driving.

At BC Booklook, a (hopefully) entertaining interview about "Cheapskate in Lotusland." bcbooklook.com/living-cheap...

Jim Pattison Developments says sale of warehouse to ICE 'still subject to certain approvals' vancouversun.com/news/jim-pat...

The @bikepackingcom.bsky.social folks put together a map of all the Alex Pretti memorial rides happening this weekend. Find one near you! @bikesky.social

A Yellow Warning for Rainfall is in effect for Port Coquitlam. Full notice ➡️ https://ow.ly/xCqM50Y4Zym ✅ Clear debris from catch basins ✅ Drive with caution and check conditions Report issues ➡️ https://ow.ly/eAhk50Y4Zyn

“If I were a CEO, I wouldn't want my name or my brand associated with what's going on... There's just a plain ethical issue. There's a question of right and wrong and whether it's right for a company, or for anyone, to be contributing... to the activities that are going on.” #CdnPoli #BCPoli

UFCW 1518 has written to the Jim Pattison Group about the decision to sell a Pattison-owned warehouse for conversion into an ICE processing facility. We stand firmly against practices that dehumanize people anywhere — including the harms reported by victims impacted by ICE.

I made the news. Join me in encouraging Pattison to do the right thing and not facilitate an ICE prison. Don't shop at his stores or buy a car from him until he calls off this deal. Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...

I came home and published this blog post and then my website went down for 45 minutes, I kid you not. Failures FTW today.

Bradley and Ruchie are continuing their work in the #Antarctic alongside our partners @csiccat.bsky.social . Thanks to perfect weather and incredible teamwork from the base crew, they successfully deployed our first observatory yesterday. ONC has been receiving live data since 9 a.m. today! 📡

Freshet News co-founder and New Westminster resident Mario Bartel is a guest speaker at PechaKucha #38 in New West 📸 Tickets for the Feb. 7 slide show and talk at the Sapperton Community Hall at 8 p.m. are now on sale via Eventbrite.ca 🎟️ #newwest #newwestminster #newwestminsterbc #pechakucha

Metro Vancouver’s rental market has softened sharply, with vacancy rates climbing to their highest level in more than three decades – and Coquitlam is emerging as one of the clearest examples of increased local supply. More in the Tri-Cities Dispatch: buff.ly/fTRp2I9 #Coquitlam #TriCitiesDispatch

I spoke to a woman who lives near this warehouse. The concern is that the plans for this facility mean that ICE is getting ready to come to her city (Richmond, Virginia). Allie Carpenter asked BC residents to help pressure the company to not go through with this sale. thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...

Canadian news is reporting Jim Pattison's collaboration with ICE now: www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... #CdnPoli #BCPoli. If you shop at any of his grocery stores, or were thinking about buying a car, write to him: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

#bandname Bison in the Snow (genre: roots rock)