solar is so cool man. I climbed up on my shed roof last week and installed a panel to charge my yard tools and now I’m mowing my lawn with power I stole from a fucking star

a good portion of what people mean by “crime” is “visible homeless people, some of whom are behaving erratically“

This is evil collective punishment.

Notable info, as Eby/Carney/Sim excitedly push for massive data centres in downtown Vancouver, where folks are already dying from extreme heat: www.techradar.com/pro/arizona-...

Straight from the end-times fascist, exit-as-strategy playbook that’s hollowed out societies in the UK + the Americas, all so rapacious oligarchs and their toadies can devour more and more as the planet burns www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Horrific. Automated enforcement is the only way to require civilized behavior from motorists. Cops are too expensive to scale.

~ “Environment Canada says 2026 could be one of the hottest years on record, with above-normal temperatures and below-average rainfall expected across B.C.’s South Coast.” 🥵 apple.news/ACA5r_iSCQta...

This is laughable, coming from someone who has been winking at the MAGA-aligned separatist movement for years. People who are losing sleep over climate change are not the ones tearing our country apart: we’re trying to save it. This summer Canada could well be burning faster than we can build it.

Going to see The Mandalorian and Grogu for a second time tonight. FUN.

ICYMI, decided global folks needed a reality-check on how the struggle to confront the climate crisis is going in 🇨🇦. In short, the climate movement has found the last year disorienting – reeling from the disconnect between the promise and reality of Carney – but it's getting its bearing back.

And let's be clear for the few here who think Democrats shld "just focus on affordability": these Democrats voted to actively punish trans people. That's not "focusing on affordability." That's going out of your way, bucking your party, to hurt people.

If you buy a flight to a US World Cup host city, there’s a chance the Trump regime won’t let you land there. That’ll help with the low ticket and hotel sales, I’m sure! 🤡

Memo to the global community: Canada has officially abandoned climate action. PM Carney has systematically dismantled all the insufficient policy we had in place. A clear-eyed and devastating piece by my brother, @sethdklein.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This person is responding to a post about using e-bikes that includes the qualifier, "Sure, not every person and not every trip." There is no amount of carving out exceptions that matters. There's something about bike discourse that makes a lot of people lose all ability to reason or process nuance.

real contest between him and Musk as the most villainous and destructive corporate welfare bums

"Motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all, and shrink them for only a few." —Ivan Illich (happy 100th anniversary of his birth!) (photo: #Brasilia)

The federal gov't is paying $473M. Considering only 2 Canadians cities are benefitting, and Canada wasn't even allocated 1/3 of the matches, it's clear the tax dollars could've been better spent directly on soccer programs & infrastructure. #cdnpoli #WorldCup2026 #CanMNT www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Not only did two neo nazi teens attempt to copycat the Christchurch mass shooting, the world's richest man falsely blamed trans people for it. Not a single outlet covered that he spread that disinformation.

Same PR strategy as the petro-hostage governments of Canada, BC, AB, Sask, etc. Shameless, monstrous, and time-tested messaging!

Every time I see these spending headlines I get so angry about the unfunded need and suffering in this broken country awash with wealth

“Vancouver’s mayor has repeatedly estimated the 7 games over a month will be “the equivalent of 30 to 40 Super Bowls in the city,” but when CTV News reached out to Ken Sim’s office to discuss the hotel numbers, we received no response.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

"Greenland didn't exist, until Donald Trump put it on the map." - Trump’s imperial envoy to Greenland, working to ease tensions apparently apple.news/A5RIHAVbrTKS...

Missed this news last week - it’s good! > 4 new BC wind energy projects will generate enough electricity to power 350,000 homes and draw $4.3 billion in private investment.  apple.news/A4sKLJhCrRla...

When someone attacks a synagogue, a certain segment of people go searching for something that synagogue has said or done in support of Israel, to prove why the attack is actually justified. This article is the Islamophobic equivalent, and it's equally horrific and racist. nypost.com/2026/05/18/u...

I anticipate this ending up as a replacement for the Orban-funded far-right propaganda network. Get ready, Canada.

When Omar El Akkad talked about this kind of position in “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” the examples of people saying “you can only speak out about an atrocity when it’s too late to stop it” were a lot less explicit

Canadians who haven’t yet clocked the FIFA scam will come to regret what we’ve enabled - at enormous public cost www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Happy long weekend everyone, here is the line of people waiting for the 257 at 10:10am at Granville. It is about to round the corner at Seymour making it about 35m long. It will arrive at this stop with many seats filled, and still has to make stops after this. We need more buses.

Zero sympathy for Gregor Robertson here. “Lay down with dogs”, etc.

Cuba is an independent nation with agency. If this report is even accurate, Havana is simply exercising its own sovereignty to help protect itself from its incredibly hostile and aggressive neighbour.

Librarians literally saved my life

wherever you live, fight for speed cameras and automated enforcement of traffic laws.

Countries where Signal is no longer available: • Russia • China • Iran • ...Canada? "Secure messaging service Signal, which uses end-to-end encryption, is warning it would withdraw from Canada if asked to compromise its users’ privacy under Bill C-22"

Canada should not be hosting a war bank. Rachel Small makes a compelling case in convo with @desmondcole.bsky.social breachmedia.ca/by-hosting-a...

Wild developments here with competing claims about whether Ukrainian AI is responsible and the degree to which killer drones can be maliciously redirected. apple.news/AxEtLR3LfQsW...

Great work NYC! Now compare: $12B deficit in NYC: tax the rich, close it. $13B deficit in BC: no wealth tax, no excess profit tax… but tax the poor, cut 15,000 workers… and still bleeding. Fiscal responsibility IS possible on the left, but you need to actually try.

1/ It’s time to build affordable homes, a national network of public grocery stores, electric buses and an east-west clean energy grid. Not massive corporate AI data centres unleashed without any democratic debate. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A robotic mower that hasn't arrived, hasn't been tested, and hasn't mowed a single fairway just ended the careers of six people who'd spent a decade maintaining an 18-hole golf course. Four months earlier they won a first contract after a ten-day strike. Maybe it's unrelated? </s>

Just as we predicted. Federal excise tax cuts have been ineffective in reducing gas prices. New Democrats proposed a better policy: tax the $90 BILLION windfall oil profits and use that money for real relief for struggling Canadians. x.com/jimbostanfor...

Boycotting US goods and travel makes Canada stronger. If you buy Canadian, you support our home-grown businesses. If you travel in Canada, you support our tourism industry. Please keep boycotting and build a stronger and more resilient Canada. 🍁🍁🤍❤️

Predicament here in BC where a rightward-lurching BCNDP keeps validating conservative framing and winning none of their voters. They’re ceding terrain, gaining no ground, and undermining decades of messaging and public education. Disaster in waiting.

The federal government is spending more than double this amount keeping Canada’s journalism industry “afloat” too even though informing people about their democracy and other matters of public interest is not a big money maker either

Wait until you hear about how much money the police bleed

Thread here that gets at why Canadians and others are declining business travel to an adversarial and authoritarian USA. This seems to be largely missing from reporting about why Air Canada and other airlines are cancelling flights -- it's not just about the price of jet fuel.

Three thousand times less kinetic energy to deliver me a donair is a real benefit, and I want it. But not like this. barrett.bryansoron.ca/notes/vibe-g...

Jeff Bezos and his wife are the lead sponsors of tonight's Met Gala. Now seems like a good time to remind folks of all the ways Bezos is shafting American consumers and Amazon workers — and how his wealth is putting our democracy at risk. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos

The fact that our leaders can’t get together and say “hey, literally everyone (including the leaders at these companies!!) want this to happen more slowly so how about…you can’t build an AI data center unless it meets requirements including zero CO2” is embarrassing.

No surprise here! Stay away from Trump’s America. apple.news/Ara3q6RIJR_m...

Kudos to @thenarwhal.ca on the launch of this series. Promises ot be super-informative. The full series page is here: thenarwhal.ca/series/who-p...