pants on fire www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

ABC caught spreading disinformation in support of their rubber-stamping of the latest VPD budget increase. This while imposing brutal cuts to public services across the city. Zero means zero integrity. #EvictKenSim #vanpoli #Vancouver

Not now, carnivorous death ball

i was immediately suspicious because releasing police stats is not the responsibility of the mayor's office and of course, "police stats" are cop lies

is there any REAL data @isabellazavarise.bsky.social ?

are you fucken kidding me. this is your DATA? you had a sign printed. must be true because SYSTEMIC VIOLENCE is through the roof. this isn't DATA

I have been trying to raise awareness about the recent cuts to pandemic preparedness by provincial institutions in BC for the past 1½ months. Most of the cuts were not announced to the public beforehand and media coverage has been scant. 1/?

B.C. fined $759K for safety violations in fatal, near-fatal wildfire incidents

they lied

"[A]bductions of unhoused Chicagoans [are] difficult to verify and track." "[A]bductions by federal agents are not separate from the city's approach to encampment sweeps but rather a continuation of it." #Illinois #USA #Policing #Housing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Breaking: Alberta's police watchdog has cleared two RCMP officers who shot and killed a 15-year-old Indigenous boy in Wetaskiwin last year. ASIRT says Hoss Lightning was pointing a backpack at the officers, which they believed to contain a gun. It did not. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/a...

Somewhere in B.C. right now

Absolute nonsense. The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most profitable industries on the planet, every single new drug that comes to market is the result of some funding from taxpayers to discover or develop it, yet many Canadians can’t afford these same medicines.

BREAKING: The BC Labour Relations Board has ruled that all research assistants at Simon Fraser University are workers and members of the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU). TSSU successfully organized research assistants twice over the last six years. www.tssu.ca/grad-student...

I've seen it suggested that city council should approve the dramatic increase in the police budget because the province will step in and overrule them. City council should deny the increase rather than complying in advance. Make provincial politicians take responsibility if they want to.

“To pay for VicPD’s demands, the city is even looking at cutting a children’s book prize, and a poet laureate and youth poet laureate program that only costs $8,000 (keep in mind that VicPD spent $22,000 on a retirement party this year)” 🚨➡️ defundvicpd.org/2025/11/06/c... #yyj #DefundVicPD

i recommend reading this by @nolore.bsky.social noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-big-cr...

Trustee @reddyforchange.bsky.social, a labour council group and a parents' rep are disappointed after requests to improve Vancouver school board transparency resulted in... private meetings and deletion of meeting recordings. #vanpoli Reporting by @kehyslop.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

the police are defunding us

Last weekend in Terrace, British Columbia, police made six arrests at a fundraiser for a youth basketball trip. The officers in question are being accused of denying medical care and being violent during these arrests. Some of it was caught on video.

“We’re not fighting against the individual man under the uniform,” Olivia Ikey said. “We’re fighting against the system behind this man with the uniform and how we can improve the reality of this person that will come to serve and protect our community.” www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

The police are defunding our cities

Sim is putting out his re-election campaign, with help from Lorraine Lowe, who was one of the biggest voices of the Chinatown community outraged by DTES violence. She now sits on the police board, and defends Sim's record as mayor.

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Cops Don’t Stop Violence: A free resource sharing research on the manipulation of data on crime and violence (these are not the same), and exploring data, talking points, and narratives that highlight the fact that police don't stop violence: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

“Police consistently perpetrate violence while failing to create safety for the vast majority of the population, no matter how much money we throw at them. Their actions reflect their core purposes: to preserve racial capitalism, and to manage and disappear its fallout.”

So is @moderation.bsky.app OK with people advocating for murder of people who have drugs on them? Eh @aaron.bsky.team @jay.bsky.team?

NDP interim leader Don Davies says his caucus will keep the minority Liberal government alive in the first of three confidence tests of the federal budget today.

Gutting the planning and sustainability depts and freezing the permitting dept - wtf. Those jobs are the fulcrum for our development, innovation, and int’l reputation. “Back to basics” just means going backward. Even our more dysfunctional past councils didn’t try to pull this #%^.

“Sim argued that the city's work to prioritize public safety is having the desired effect...” yes, since the desired effect of Sim's policy choices has always been to eliminate the poor www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"I'm proud of this one." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“Herriot said that nearly half of people who regularly access the unregulated drug supply do not have an opioid addiction, and access the market recreationally only a few times a year, while the other half accesses the market due to addiction.” everyone needs a safe supply

"Herriot...stressed the importance of regulation and expanding safer supply as interventions to make substances on the market safer..." @vanislandhealth.bsky.social @josieosborne.bsky.social @victoria.ca

City of #Vancouver looking to cut $50 million in spending - but VPD still get a big boost. Story by Dan Fumano, 📈 #dataviz 📉 by me! #vanpoli vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

The way it's just taken for granted that police budgets get to up by double-digit percentages every year while every other department has to go weeping to Council, hat in hand like Dickensian orphans, to justify their very existence, is wild. #yyj #VictoriaBC

UPDATE: The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it will move forward with “complete depopulation” of hundreds of ostriches at a British Columbia farm after the owners lost a bid to have their case heard by the Supreme Court of Canada. cheknews.ca/supreme-cour...

Canada’s NDP is fundraising on the backs of a U.S. mayoral win.

Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.

“They have been basically starving all of these public amenities for years of their required maintenance and upkeep,” said Jon Girard of the Protecting Our Vancouver Aquatic Centre Society in an interview Tuesday. - the police have defunded the public

It's important to remember that Eby only became premier because the party executives put their thumbs on the scale so hard they broke it. It's embarrassing. He should never stop being embarrassed by it.

her platform was a program for systemic change

What establishment Dems tried to do to Mamdani, the BC NDP successfully did to Anjali Appadurai. She was poised to win the leadership race by actually getting people to join the party. The old guard didn't like that, so they crushed the next generation to maintain their grip on power.

political bravery

Lesson to all the people who told us a pipeline was the price to pay for good climate policy: it can all be undone the moment the winds change. It's more important than ever to stop building fossil fuel infrastructure no matter how governments try to spin it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"giving people something to vote for instead of against" is like the #1 rule of successful electoral campaigning and yet, AND YET

Don’t let an investment banker define investment. That way lies inequality and economic stagnation.