"The UK, Australia and Canada have formally recognised a Palestinian state... The UK has become the first G7 country to move towards full recognition of a State of Palestine, with France and others expected to follow at the annual UN General Assembly next week." www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

The Dem Party’s response to the billionaire takeover of America is: - Launching a billionaire-funded deregulatory agenda called “abundance” - Launching a billionaire-funded Substack to create “arguments” - Launching a billionaire-funded think tank shitting on grassroots groups

Haida Gwaii shows how to resist Conservative fearmongering on Indigenous rights | Canada's National Observer: Climate News www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/14/o...

Haida Gwaii shows how to resist Conservative fearmongering on Indigenous rights www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/14/o...

Our first gathering was an engaging, tender affair, with both interesting discussion of the content and heart-open sharing. You can still join the conversation! rowecenter.org/radical-mind...

Which is to say: Even racoons love this book. @jkrowe.bsky.social , you're a big hit across species. Everyone else: Join our upcoming reading group! #Mindfulness #FearOfDeath #Booksky #SocialJustice #ContemplativePractice #MindfulnessPractice #SystemicOppression rowecenter.org/radical-mind...

I was at the cottage last month and my own copy of Radical Mindfulness was defiled by racoons, after also destroying (and eating!) a box of chocolates. You can't really see in this image, but there are tiny claw marks on the cover and chocolately paw marks on the pages.

"The fury of the public has been building for decades, piling up a list of elite crimes like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bank bailouts and a broken health care system. It’s no wonder, then, that the Epstein obsession does not seem to have an off switch." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/m...

“In a landmark advisory opinion on Wednesday, the United Nations' top court said countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, and nations harmed by its effects could be entitled to reparations.”

As the climate scientist Kate Marvel says, this battle for our lives doesn’t need optimists, it needs heroes — people of courage, which she defines as, “the resolve to do well without the assurance of a happy ending.” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/11/o...

There's always money for the military. But climate? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/09/o...

The Ugly Underside of Alberta Separatism via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Victoria woman launches campaign for B.C. Green Party leader www.vicnews.com/home/victori...

Green burials: eco-friendly or colonial? Discover their impact on Indigenous land rights in BC. @jkrowe.bsky.social and Gillian Cawron, MA student @uvic.ca vic.ca School of Environmental Studies #uvic #greenburial #Indigenous www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Advancing climate policy – however that looks, or sounds, isn’t about a moral highground or anything. It’s just smart policy." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/02/a...

Power and important article! www.sower.world/green-burial...

Why we built the Climate Backtracker: Canada’s quiet climate retreat www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/26/o...

Right-wing authoritarians are gaining ground across the world, and one body of research has an unusual explanation for why that's the case: our collective death anxiety. Green burials, however, might be able to help solve the problem. My latest for Sower ⬇️🧪

🚨 New report: Entrenched Interests exposes fossil fuel ties on the boards of 5 major Canadian public pension funds – including CPPIB, OTPP, AIMCo, PSP & OMERS. These links pose serious governance risks. #ClimateRisk #Pensions #cdnpoli

"Terrified people make perfect constituencies for politicians like Netanyahu because they can be convinced that the unrelenting massacre and starvation of Gazans are necessary to keep Israel safe." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...

"Canadian oil and gas is a concentrated industry controlled by a wealthy few, primarily Americans. More pipelines would therefore mean more sales of fossil fuels to other countries, with the beneficiaries mostly American." thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

For me, living through wildfire smoke with young children — knowing it was preventable — feels like a kind of slow-motion moral injury, writes Andrew Szava‑Kovats www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/20/o...

Israel Intercepted the Madleen. What's Next? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires?

The Election Was a Warning. Canada Needs Dramatic Change via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

"Musk’s power weakens when we don’t buy his stuff, when we turn his cars into pariahs and when we refuse his orders and turn to mass noncompliance. Eventually, it becomes too costly for him to keep doing what he’s doing." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/the-...

"Renters cannot wait for market forces to self-correct. Recognizing and regulating tenant unions is the most direct route to balancing power, safeguarding homes and treating housing as a human right rather than an asset class." thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

A wealth tax "could raise huge amounts of revenue to put towards building infrastructure and critical social investments, while blunting the growing power of the wealthiest few and creating a more level playing field on which working-class Canadians can thrive." thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

"Life is Death is Life" is very short. it's in this open access book.

For those interested in confronting death with care (not like these right wing purveyors of bad death and bad life), this book is an edifying read. "Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital" by @jkrowe.bsky.social

"With US imperialism at the door, will Canada reflect on its relationships with Indigenous nations, and recognize that its honour is only as good as its commitment to reconcie its relationship with the Indigenous nations upon whose lands it calls home?" www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/23/o...

The Rise of Psychedelic Capitalism via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

A Fresh Opportunity to Get Elections Right via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

New piece from @alexisshotwell.bsky.social gleaning wisdom for our times from Ursula Le Guin.

Free workshop this Thursday! Empathy is more than kindness or understanding—it is the felt experience of being with another, allowing their reality to touch our own. Empathy helps us connect, resolve conflict, and nurture meaningful relationships. Register: kelly-butler.com

"In 2018, B.C. had a shiny new climate plan. Not anymore. What remains of the CleanBC program is a shambles. If a “plan” means having targets and a credible pathway to attain such targets, then the sad truth is that B.C. no longer has a climate plan." www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

"This is the truth that most federal politicians are still afraid to say out loud. If we’re actually going to address housing affordability in this country, and especially overheated markets like Vancouver and Toronto, prices have to come down." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/15/o...

This is a crucial moment to speak up and make it clear that Prime Minister Carney must put the public good ahead of corporate profit. I just sent him and my MP a letter using 350 Canada's quick tool. Add your voice now! win.newmode.net/350org/carney

It's a shame that conspiracists miss the real “conspiracy”: "that some wealthy people fund think tanks, influencers and political campaigns that further their self-interest by advocating low taxes and by vilifying the government programs on which taxes are spent." thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

BC's Latest Clean Power Project Call Wins Support via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...

The global far right is "a ruthless, anti-democratic force that exploits the genuine difficulties people all over the world are experiencing in the face of rapid change and converging crises." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/03/o...

"Our schools and universities should devote substantial resources to improving media literacy as we confront the challenges posed by the rampant manipulation of information to undermine public confidence and spread misinformation." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/06/o...

Finally–some Canadian statistics on the outrageous wealth held by so few.

"Politics at every level is the art of casting the appropriate lights and shadows over the facts in a self-beneficial way. So don’t be surprised when Pierre Poilievre candy-coats the bitter pill of the party’s loss, and his personal loss in the riding of Carleton." thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

"Today, the top one per cent in Canada own 25 per cent of its wealth — more than the entire middle class combined. Inequality is at its highest level in recorded Canadian history." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/05/o...

"Perhaps Smith is so keen to toy with Alberta separation because it’s a convenient and dramatic distraction from her own internal government troubles, where two of her former political friends have chosen to keep themselves separate from her government." thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

"Trump...has effectively given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say...The return to full-fledged war would come after Israel already cut off all supplies of food, water and medicine" this era is so bleak www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...

“Since breaking the cease-fire with intensified bombing on March 18, the Israeli military has pushed Palestinians in Gaza into smaller and smaller enclaves, expanding “no go” military or evacuation zones to about 70 percent of their territory.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/o...

"I would say that 95 percent of things that are effective in making people happy and that have been shown to be true through happiness interventions are because they make people feel more connected to other people.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/m...