What, and I mean this with all seriousness, the fuck.

I love that this is a real campaign post by a real former mayor of BC’s second largest city who is running again this October

I like this GIF and I really need a bit of help

Best to do nothing then I guess. Problem solved.

are you fucken kidding me

Canada was swept up in it too. Our bicentennial gift to the US was a book of hundreds of stunning photographs from along our shared border. Ours was one of the many Canadian families who owned a copy. The title was Between Friends / Entre Amis. Today even the title itself would be hard to imagine.

check out this wacky bug

these antlered flutter flies (Toxonevra superba) are so weird. feels like i stumbled into a strange ritualistic dance

ok there's a dead skunk somewhere near Broadway between Cambie and Heather you'll notice

most of this piece is about the process of separating people from the unregulated drug supply - detox, healthcare, treatment etc the supply remains unaddressed, unpredictable & lethal our government has chosen to accept that we have chosen a forever emergency and it will get worse

In a lot of ways, it reminds me of how a lot of folks reacted to the explosion in home prices last decade by going “well, Vancouver has always been expensive”. If you’re comfortable or in the middle of things, it’s easy to get detached and not realize when things have dramatically changed.

"War. Whores. Fish. Fear. Long ago, the four mongers lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the warmongers attacked."

The PM whose government hands 2SLGBTQ+ refugees over to ICE attends Pride parade

We need much more analysis like this. "When Prime Minister Mark Carney looks around his cabinet table, he sees nothing but homeowners and plenty of landlords." #CdnPoli

@jodypaterson.bsky.social What a wonderfully honest, clear, blunt, caring story, Jody. Oh, and well written. I mean, there's that. www.timescolonist.com/islander/slo...

ok I thought conrad black was dead but he's not?

now THAT'S advocacy

Get his ass

for them, each of us and all of us are merely another resource, capital to extract: bodies, minds, futures www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... bsky.app/profile/hano...

its really important to recognize that the BCNDP government does not give the tiniest of fucks about the unregulated drug deaths emergency, unless it hurts them politically so what are some ways to hurt them politically look at examples of advocacy success ? what happened

A tale of two jails where inmates face the same life threatening withdrawal crisis. In rural Pennsylvania, they let a woman suffer and offer only OTC meds for relief. “It was hell.” An hour away, in Pittsburgh, they send a man straight to the ICU. My first story for @statnews.com

Pretty sure cracking into these at halftime helped the lads get it over the line. #RSACAN

All "drug paraphernalia" laws are intrinsically anti-harm-reduction and anti-public-health.

This might be the best book review ever written.

ITS A BIG GAY PRIDE MIRACLE: Canada advances to the round of 16 in the World Cup for the first time ever! 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (for the men)

chapter 2 of _The Hunchback of Notre Dame_, by Victor Hugo it's a theory of history, in a work of fiction, written at a certain time & place. grain of salt we all live at a certain time & place. we all live in history it's ten pages: This Will Kill That arch3150.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Streets are opening up for Pride, you mean.

An emu chick that drew attention on Vancouver Island after being born with an extra set of legs has died after a sudden decline in its health. https://cheknews.ca/four-legged-emu-that-captures-hearts-on-vancouver-island-euthanized-after-sudden-decline-1333182/

This was never in good faith. Don’t negotiate with fascists. There is no compromise, doing so will only lead you to become more fascist. Pay attention. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I don’t love doing media request things (I’m not great at it) but very happy to help w/background on this fun one www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/pos... Our data centre paper can be found here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Pouring one out for the space sex geckos

Robin D.G. Kelley recommends three books every radical should read

it's so easy to say nothing. for most people, anyway but instead we have city councillors chiding their constituents for engaging in democracy, all while spreading misinformation using a 19th century depiction of the horrific, public electrocution death of NYC telegraph lineman John Feeks

"expungement removes the punishment from the officer’s file and limits its use in future discipline. It does not erase the underlying finding, it does not let the officer pretend [it] never happened, and it does not shield the officer from being asked ... whether a finding of misconduct was made."

I like this GIF and I really need a bit of help

Union representative enters Kamloops council race, hopes to be the voice of working people #Kamloops

Fire causes ‘heavy damage’ to homeless shelter in Mission

Hello, I am a centrist Democrat. I appeal to 'the center,' which is an ambiguous blob-like thing that exists only in the minds of Democratic strategists whose brains stopped working in the 1990s. Progressives keep winning. Feel my fear! My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

This is the exhibit that is finally going to get me to Winnipeg. On until Nov. 2028.

Here in Europe with my shoes melting into the sidewalk, I'm reflecting on Vancouver. Once a climate leader, we're now run by ideologues who tear out bike lanes and put in gas pipes. No city can solve the climate crisis alone but if Vancouver can't lead, why would anyone try? It makes me sad.

what is she doing what is the point of this seriously

thinly veiled threats and ultimatums or ultimata, if you like

that does reveal what makes the government move: they don't do things because they should, or because of evidence, or because people are dying but attention in the media, public pressure, public advocacy, direct action they do things when they have no other option they're a bad government get em

Ford didn't *hire* AI AI are not workers because they're not human this false equivalency in the headline humanizes a machine process and therefore dehumanizes ALL OF US

That Cdns mayors are modelling PM Carney & oil/gas evangelist Pr Ford l, should demonstrate the hold corps have on our leaders. Whilst their supporters dig their heads deep in the sand of corp cesspools: “In August 2025, the province launched Ontario’s www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/11/n...

This is an unfathomable amount of electricity

welp.

🚨🚨This post contains links to two short but shocking videos, one excellent one from @punterspolitics.bsky.social, on how the tech sector has got its teeth into #Auspol. If you want management of data centre planning - water, energy demand, noise etc, must watch. open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2... #A

affordable internet for all, feds can‘t do it. remember the track record of past tech “for all”.

The government plans to reduce annual heatstroke deaths to below 1,000 as extreme heat pushes the five-year average above 1,500.