Pretty tidy way to eliminate the possibility of "inadvertently failing" to produce documents as directed by a court, if you ask me 💁‍♀️

Basically, a cabinet minister or senior cabinet staff can write that certain information - such as, say, documents provided to an education minister to inform a decision and related communications - is covered by cabinet confidence and make it so, shielding it from document disclosure requests

Worth noting this type of embarrassment may be a thing of the past for the BC government In future, these types of documents may be covered by cabinet confidence and unavailable to those requesting reviews of government decisions Bill 16 received royal assent on May 21 #bcpoli

Another great @bobbybroccole.bsky.social video. "Hire 100 cops" wasn't a Vancouver innovation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiXI...

Content warning: when rumors started flying a few days ago, I searched for heavily cited sources of the false claim the shooters had been trans, and ended up on this NY Post clip. Although the Post never made the claim, people cited the video as if they had. Neither YouTube nor the NYP intervened.

Today I have an update about the influencers connected with the alleged Russia-backed Tenet Media. They’re more powerful than ever, and two in particular now frequently speak in support of Alberta separatism. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

What happened to "Canada is not for sale"? thewalrus.ca/trump-wants-...

Talk about timing! The deputy police chief whose text messages were revealed in court this morning also retired today A VicPD spox said the department knee about his texts, deemed them inappropriate

And what they "inadvertently" left out was evidence of collusion between the ministry and the cops. Whoops! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Remember when BC's education minister fired the Greater Victoria school board for refusing to reinstate the cops in schools program? Trustees filed for a judicial review Minister Besre now says ministry staff "inadvertently failed to provide all necessary documents" for that review 😬 #bcpoli

Canada is denying refugees - who should have been let in under current rules - entry into Canada, handing them over to ICE to be detained for months. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"They've basically opened up the entire Canada Labour Code… When you look at the consultation documents, there are a lot of things there that have been on corporate Canada's wish list, including new limits on the right to strike…" www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

As predicted - "I'm moving forward and bringing that conservative voice into the (Liberal) tent" nationalpost.com/news/politic...

This isn't a one-off, it's a daily practice for those looking to dominate the news, shaping policy through public opinion. YouTube is a petri dish for destructive rumors, and the more evidence mounts of the damage the platform is doing, the less interested they seem to be in doing anything about it.

None of the comments, no matter how egregious, have been moderated, included those which call for the extermination of trans and Muslim people. Sorting them by likes shows how the rumor grew, and how they adopted and reshaped new information to fit the conspiracy. This is YouTube's business model.

I wonder how many people are improperly charged sales tax on medical devices. Stunning that "oh sorry, we'll fix that right away" isn't the default customer service answer when being sent tax publications and legislation showing that tax was improperly charged. How do you not have policies? smh

Irredeemable nation acts in the only way it knows how. www.independent.ie/irish-news/d...

Recycling fraud continues. There needs to be more of these investigations. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Jen did great work actually reaching out to these reps to ask them why the fuck they’re selling us out, so my anger is absolutely not at her. But holy shit what the fuck is the point of an equality caucus? At least the republicans have enough of a spine to tell me to my face they want to kill us

Just treated myself to a new dress, death before detransition and fuck Labour.

As a reminder, she endorsed conversion therapy citing a case of a young woman in Calgary who wanted to get rid of "unwanted lesbian activity."

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Another day in right wing ai slop facebook...

The wrong people are dying.

I went on @meidastouch.com and talked to @charlieangus104.bsky.social about my deep dive into the connections between US ambassador Pete Hoekstra’s political network and the app at the centre of the massive data breach involving 3 million Alberta voters You can watch here 👇

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

CCLA Testifies on Bill C-9 Before the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights "Equity deserving groups have repeatedly been the first to feel the weight of overly broad and punitive laws adopted in the name of protecting vulnerable communities" www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T_-...

I think about this often

The most important response when anyone says that a toilet ban is “unenforceable”; “Assholes will be deputized” It will be enforced by violent rightwing men entering women’s toilets after anyone who “looks” trans. Cis & trans women will be assaulted in the ladies. This is a feature not a bug.

if you love something somebody online made, please tell them. I feel like it's said a lot, but people don't let it actually sink in. and please, don't worry about not having much to say. even saying that you enjoyed it means way more than you might think. 🩷

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Even violence, state or otherwise, will not stop me living my life. I will not change a single thing about how I've been living for over a decade regardless of what some new garbage "guidance" might say. If they made it illegal to breathe I'd still do it. Fuck you

On the tube

The Freedom of the Press Foundation is calling on the federal Liberals to abandon plans to pass the mass surveillance Bill C-22. freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Holy Cow!!!! How much was the fix in? The UCP released a media release announcing their separatist referendum before the committee had even voted! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

The committee is still in session, they have not yet voted, yet the UCP caucus has released this… This isn’t democracy, it’s authoritarian theatre. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Alberta data breach is wider than first thought.

TODAY at 6PM ET: "I'll Be Watching You": A webinar on everything that's wrong with Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, with tech and online privacy experts! Register at luma.com/qgvc95xz Take action at iclmg.ca/stop-c-22/ and share. Thanks!

Looks like the site is dead. (and exit scamming?) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Right wing facebook has been completely taken over with people reposting AI slop from pages from other countries, most of it often years old. These people found a better dopamine poker than Farmville. Who said AI wouldn't create any jobs? /s

Hey guys check this out (Nov 2025 study) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I did a deep-dive into US ambassador Pete Hoekstra's links to the Alberta separatists' voter ID app Hoekstra repeatedly promoted the app at 2024 Trump rallies Hoekstra helped them organize presentations, is connected with the app's founder and the founder's wealthy step-father was a past donor 👇

"Durán said extreme ideas like fascism, eugenics and racism are being "cleverly marketed through ‘debate’ and ‘just asking questions’ journalism,” and he questioned whether Yarvin was truly challenged on his authoritarian ideas at the conference…" thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

This only makes a small difference given how few government-assisted refugees there are in Canada. Many more claim asylum within the country or at a port-of-entry (airport or border station). But it remains good news regardless. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Gender is innate and immutable but also so fragile that it can be destroyed by drinking out of a straw 🤔

The Vancouver Orphan Kitty Rescue Association (VOKRA) garage sale is coming up. Always a great source of cheap cat (and some dog) supplies and you support a great charity as well. May 23rd 11 AM TO 5 PM May 24th 11 AM TO 4 PM 2028 Wall Street, Vancouver

Mood.

Can't help but notice the sharp increase in family members posting on Vancouver Downtown East Side social media pages looking for loved ones since Vancouver began removing people from the DTES for FIFA. City denies this but so many people are trying to find family members.

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Juniper was a trans refugee. She fled from New Mexico to Seattle — and was murdered in a state that’s increasingly an “escape point” for trans people fleeing anti-trans laws in the United States. She deserved so much better.