Vince Gasparro, the Parliamentary Secretary for "Combatting Crime," just announced that the Irish band Kneecap are banned from entering Canada, 3 days after he met with Israel lobbyists.

Just in time for @thenarwhal.ca's webinar on housing & climate change, a new story about designing for the wildfires of the future! Read it & then listen to @sevawood.bsky.social talk about it at 12pt: thenarwhal.ca/housing-and-...

B.C. just approved one of its largest LNG projects yet. Ksi Lisims LNG will ship 12M tonnes of gas a year overseas. Ministers say it will benefit the Nisg̱a’a Nation — but also admit it will worsen greenhouse gas emissions. #bcpoli

the website that lists Rachel first as someone allegedly celebrating Kirk's murder screenshots a tweet where she explicitly condemns violence & says she hopes he survives. for that she's receiving death & rape threats

real question: why are they talking about confining children to the roof of the school? the proposal shows it adjoining Hinge Park, which has playgrounds and fields

I'll be moderating this discussion with @sobittersosweet.bsky.social and @sevawood.bsky.social, who both reported on the intersections of climate change & housing policy this summer. Join us!

when confronted with information that contradicts one's deeply-held beliefs and biases, it's important to consider the facts, no matter how challenging. that said I emphatically reject any zodiac that classifies me as a pisces. absolutely not. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I've had so many near-misses with my kids: drivers who turn right on red, run stop signs, are looking at their phones instead of the crosswalk... I worry about the worst-case scenarios but also about the burden of anxiety shouldered by tiny children who should be able to walk & bike in safety

now that it's September I can freely admit I'm excited for my first book event of the fall: chatting with R. F. Kuang about her latest novel, Katabasis, for @writersfest.bc.ca: writersfest.bc.ca/event/kuang-...

“We want safe supply and end of prohibition,” said Samona Marsh, the president of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). “Respect us. Respect the agency of the individual, [the] collective agency of the community.” Hero. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Around 250 media outlets from 50 countries, plus journalists and press freedom orgs, are uniting today to demand that Israel abides by international laws to protect journalists as civilians, and that Israel allows foreign journalists into Gaza. #protectjournalistsingaza #letreportersintogaza

I used to think pockets on toddler clothes were pointless superfluities... until my 2-year-old began carrying an Emotional Support Hot Wheel with him everywhere

one of the most revealing arguments I've seen on this issue is from people who say they would not mind if the park is closed — as long as the First Nations are also prohibited from accessing their homelands, medicines and traditional foods

my unified theory of parenting in the era of brain-deadening technology, or: how I got so many novels read this summer

it's only 8am and my day is already derailed by viewing photos of a "Vancouver loft for bibliophiles" that appears to be filled entirely with fake books

since we're talking about Brian Montague — who refused to participate in an investigation from the integrity commissioner — a reminder that he does not even live in Vancouver :)

Vancouver’s Integrity Commissioner has found Mayor Ken Sim and ABC councillors broke the code of conduct on multiple occasions for coordinating amendments to controversial motions in separate private online conversations ahead of public council meetings

looking forward to being back at @wordvancouver.bsky.social this year, sharing all my best tips on how to pitch (number one: please don't write "Dear Sir/Madam" at the top): www.wordvancouver.ca/room-c420/pi...

one more week of summer break, the perfect time to revisit my argument for dismantling the school calendar thewalrus.ca/is-summer-br...

something that becomes very obvious once your kid starts kindergarten is that schools still operate as if all children have one parent (guess which one) at home

finding out thru the parent grapevine that the first “day” of school is actually only an hour — something that would be helpful for working parents to find out from an official source (perhaps the school) in advance

Our society is so addicted to cars & driving we can’t even bring ourselves to hold dangerous drivers accountable for killing people

please start your Friday with rescued baby seals!! my personal fave is Rabbit Blanket

Also worth noting here that VPD actively participated in the fearmongering Vancouver island Dying "documentary" via a VPD crime analyst's participation, and then refused to release records related to it. Both its star and producer now hold positions with federal and provincial conservative parties.

two scandals here: VPD fuelled panic over stranger attacks even as they fell dramatically in 2022, and then refused to release records about them for 14 months, which is against the law

the top choice for programs and services to cut in last year's budget survey for both residents and businesses was DECREASE THE POLICE BUDGET so this they changed the questions so you'll have to write it in #vanpoli

the @cityofvancouver.bsky.social budget survey does not even include an option of raising property taxes more than 5% in order to *increase* the service delivery. (An increase of 5% on a $2m property is less than $300 a year.)

filling out the @cityofvancouver.bsky.social budget survey and very curious to know who came up with these ethnicity categories... what the hell is "Indigenous general"?

"The @theglobeandmail.com published an editor's note stating that calling the famine in Gaza "forced starvation" was "inaccurate." This followed a pressure campaign by pro-Israel group HonestReporting Canada. Amnesty, UN, WHO, and others all say it is man-made famine imposed by Israel." Jason Toney

my second baby was born during the worst wildfire season on record (so far) and I think all the time about how my kids will remember summer. thanks @balkissoon.bsky.social for writing about this specific sadness & anger, and talking about it on Front Burner: www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

aside from all the stupid and specious arguments in here, it’s pretty funny to pretend that Air Canada had won the “hearts and minds” of anyone before the strike

a really great and well-researched story from @zoeyunker.bsky.social about the context and implications of the Cowichan decision, including how the namesake of Port Moody, B.C., secretly bought a Cowichan village site that should have been a reserve: thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

I'm sure Marsha Lederman has received many appalling emails and I don't want to minimize how awful that is, but I am astonished that she believes it's a uniquely Jewish experience. For instance, every Indigenous person who talks about residential schools (or anything!) gets a deluge of these emails.

three years ago today I had a fun day on Granville Island for @thetyee.ca and wrote about it: thetyee.ca/Culture/2024...

reminded of last fall when Ken Sim refused to accept the facts in a report produced by his own city staff on natural gas heating & building costs, because they contradicted his beliefs. thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-mi...

every once in awhile this old viral tweet resurfaces on an Instagram meme account & more than two years later it remains an unbeatable pairing

“No one should accept being forced to work for free, for hours and hours, every day. No one should accept being forced to work for poverty wages for years in a profession, just to earn a dignifying living. That’s what this is about,” said CUPE Air Canada Component president Wesley Lesosky.

loved editing this story by @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social about the Shawanaga First Nation species-at-risk program — a reserve with fewer than 200 residents, many of whom pitch in to monitor and support these nocturnal neighbours.

delighted to inform this person who is mad about an interview I gave on @vancolour.bsky.social almost a year ago that in fact, I do own property in B.C. and yes, I am still in favour of the legal recognition of Indigenous rights and title.

for @chatelainemag.bsky.social, I wrote about my quest to understand my sudden, soul-crushing premenstrual insomnia & why so many of my friends in their 30s & early 40s were experiencing similarly miserable cycles: chatelaine.com/health/perio...

Every single degree Celsius of increased global temperature is associated with a 4.7% increase in domestic violence, the UN found. When wildfires — like those raging across Canada for months now — cut off roads and communication, it “prevents any kind of escape or intervention,” a B.C. expert said.

A rundown of how major Canadian news outlets headlined the IDF killing Al Jazeera journalists (and which wire service they used): CBC News: Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif among journalists killed in Israeli strike (Thomson Reuters)

outrageous to consider this American-owned publisher receives massive amounts of federal funding to launder Israel's war crimes & justify the murder of five journalists. appalling even by the rock-bottom standards of one of the worst news outlets in Canada.

also the first day of school is coming up, if any of my editors would like to commission a story where I stand outside of my kid's elementary school and document the erratic driving & parking behaviour like I'm on the world's worst safari

I also love to imagine speed-limited cars and speed-limiting infrastructure on every road, both of which are possible but thwarted by the intractable delusions many drivers have that their behaviour is uniquely justified, all on display in the replies here

Israel claimed responsibility for killing five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif, in a strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the total journalists killed to 237 since the war began. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/1490et

new post about the complacency and negligence that has become normalized through the government's response to the unregulated drug deaths emergency it should upset you

Across Canada, extreme heat causes physical and mental stresses that lead to a documented rise in violence. That includes intimate partner violence, @rebeccaga0.bsky.social reports, which threatens women, girls and vulnerable communities the most. thenarwhal.ca/heat-domesti...

So in the absence of any official policy, a community festival was told they’d need to pay two cops $437/hour each, with no justification or oversight from the city

Breaking: the team investigating the Kuper Island Residential School in BC has confirmed 171 children deaths at the institution, 50 more than previously known. As a residential school historian and someone fighting residential school denialism, here's a 🧵 www.timescolonist.com/local-news/a...