"The total cost of the upgrades is expected to be between $171M and $181M... But the premier says the investment will pay off. “All told, we’re expecting about $1 billion in economic impact on B.C.’s economy coming from this world class sporting event,” Eby said." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

No, Telus is NOT taking a harm reduction approach to building AI data centres FOR FUCKS SAKE

Cyclist sues Vancouver Police Department after being hit by stolen cruiser

Look, what are we even doing here? No need to actually have opinions; LLMs will decide what your opinions would be if you could think. No need to actually exist anymore; LLMs will auto/generate the memories would would have if you actually experienced anything.

The Venn diagram of lunatics refusing to do the census ( for privacy concerns) and the people totally okay with the separatist data leak is a perfect circle.

for no reason

There’s a #yyj police board meeting at 5:00 pm. Will follow along here if the audio works. Agenda includes a financial update showing VicPD had a surplus last year. Agenda: www.vicpd.ca/Police%20Boa... Stream: www.youtube.com/@victoriaesq... #vicpdboard 🧵

APTN’s Tina House recently attended a blessing ceremony held by the Squamish Nation at their newly built housing development called Senakw Village in Vancouver. She tells us why this is more than housing, it is a correction to an historical wrong.

Isn’t Sim currently being sued by city councillor Sean Orr after Sim claimed Orr was dealing drugs because AI told him so? Maybe I’m mixed up, but this seems like a bold statement while going through a defamation suit.

If you're in the Vancouver area, you can oppose the latest proposal for data centers in Mount Pleasant. It takes under a minute to let the city know you're against these projects. Spread the word :) www.shapeyourcity.ca/111-e-5

If you thought "I bet Ken Sim is all in on AI", you would be correct

"Public lands have to be used for public housing. For non-market housing, there's some really important levers like community land trusts...So that the people that work in the city can stay in the city and build a life here.” - @stephanieformayor.bsky.social www.biv.com/biv-rss-link...

An Indigenous comedy troupe apparently pranked Lindsay Shepherd, a former BC Conservative staffer who was fired after she complained bitterly about having to view any symbols of Orange Shirt Day (In Canada, Orange Shirt Day commemorates experiences of residential school survivors)

Holy shit, the CIA is doing targeted assassinations in Mexico now, like, semi-officially:

This is so much better than AI data centers. Let's build homes.

Any students & other interested folks in Vancouver for the Cdn Economics Assoc meetings is welcome to attend the Progressive Economics Forum's one-day Summer School, at SFU downtown campus May 28. Registration details here www.progressive-economics.ca/2026/05/pefs.... It's free--even lunch! #cdnecon

excited to be taking part in this event next week!

$5000

The issue with the AI industrial complex is not so much that it seeks to transform machines into sentient beings, but rather that it seeks to turn human beings into machines. The goal is to subjugate us not only physically under the demands of capital, but also to dominate us in the psychic realm

Remember lawn darts?

Remember the Alberta Activist Collective? Remember when their truck got stolen? Remember when it was found an incinerated, burnt out shell? Who do you think did that? #AbLeg #AbPoli

The polish deli had, I shit you not, Chantrelle mushroom flavored chips I bought them

I'm enjoying some prosciutto that I found in the alley fancy

Visited senakw today - omg. It’s pretty epic, and cheap for the location.

giving your cat medicine

we need to have a meeting.

0:52 and every other moment of this

I find myself praying for rain a lot over the last decade. Before that, the rain just came. Last year was a nice vacation from the constant dread of wildfires, but last years wet summer was an anomaly in the last decade.

fo$$iL-fuelled oil & gas industry billionaires have funded this effort for ~50 years. all over the world theyre not reactionaries these are old old men determined to stop time fossil-fuelled

I wrote this essay last fall for print only & I'm republishing it with their permission bc we're talking about didactism in kidlit right now and I have HAD thoughts about the connection between instructive lit and book banning. I'd be honored if you read it. www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2026/5/...

that would make them police

Seven people died from poisoned Tylenol in 1982, and for more than 4 decades every pill in America has been sold in tamper proof bottles.

Happening now. nazi scum is chased by a *lot* of people.

“Mobilizing Canada” (per @sethdklein.bsky.social) to address the emergencies we face – whether it’s the climate, housing, poison drugs, or grocery prices – is the one thing politicians won’t commit to. The PM wants to mobilize capital, instead. buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #cdnhist #bcHist #yyj

Happy Mother’s Day to all incarcerated women

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It is truly the coolest thing. It makes life so much easier for the moms and the little ones, too.

oh we're talking abt drugs on the timeline? if you do drugs we love you, if you're addicted we love you, if you don't do drugs we love you, if you've never done drugs and never want to we love you, but if you demonize people who do drugs or are addicted you deserve to be dropped in a vat of acid -O

Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, reported a 25% increase in profit over last year, by boosting exports through a pipeline that avoids the Strait of Hormuz. Cool.

Carney's—capital's—agenda is the destruction of any hope of a future more egalitarian society in Canada. Along with environmental destruction and accelerationism, in perfect accordance with the global fascists and oligarchy that remain Canada's closest allies. #cdnpoli

Wonder Woman knows the best way to debate a Nazi bsky.app/profile/noth...

You know what social practice is awesome that we stumbled backasswards into but should be doing everything to preserve and expand its spontaneous order: going to college.

I don't only want fully funded libraries but I want fully funded parks, public education, FREE HEALTHCARE, actual affordable housing etc... these are ALL CONNECTED.

Seattle community garden people will send a letter demanding homeless encampment sweeps on behalf of your garden without your consent, then stand over you like a nanny to ensure you relock the tool shed every time you walk back to your patch a few feet away

D. Z. Shaw’s work was a big influence on Speculative Whiteness, so I was really honored to receive this review!

Fascinating bit of Canadian disability history, with a really interesting deliberation on digitization and archives.