Maybe its not ok to publish police media releases word for word with “police say” added at the end as news stories www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

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This is the intent of policy choices that maintain and/or exacerbate the material conditions of people without housing. “encampment evictions make things worse!” THATS THE POINT Who benefits? Policy choices aren’t random. This was long in the planning Like a campaign

Duncan! I can't wait to see you this Monday to kick off our Jobs, Justice, Climate Tour of Vancouver Island! Join us at The Oak Taphouse on Monday, Feb 9, to connect & organize for the future we deserve. This is a people-powered movement, so bring friends! RSVP: avilewis.link/van-island-t...

This does raise several troubling questions and the most important one is To whom are you accountable and why haven’t you been clear and transparent about this www.providencehealthcare.org/en/media/3261

Narcotic is a cop term. It has no real meaning outside of cop land. Using it in healthcare is lazy as hell, mostly because it has no real definition, and at best it means “drugs that DEA stays up my ass about”.

[*blinks repeatedly* in mass homelessness]

“And once misinformation hardens into policy, the damage is no longer rhetorical. It is human.”

This is an incredibly dangerous precedent and she should absolutely appeal. But the fact that the Crown pursued these charges -- to a jury trial no less -- also points to an escalation of repressive anti-protest prosecutions in the Palestine solidarity context

“faith”

Liberal MP, Bruce Fanjoy, started an epetition to have security clearances mandatory for party leaders. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #cdnpoli

Minneapolis residents are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods. Called filter blockades, they’re pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets, and they’ve already earned the ire of Trump border czar Tom Homan (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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no that’s not news come on this is ridiculous aaaaaaaaaaaah

Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?

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Meanwhile, Canada is doing even worse than the US: health-infobase.canada.ca/measles-rube...

“in order to protect our core democratic values we need to continuously steal the land. British Columbia IS colonialism and genocide. its right there in the name.”

Israel team, U.S. Vice President Vance booed at Milan Games opening ceremony reut.rs/45URTMZ

I will keep adding entries as they are revealed by detailed searches into the Epstein files. My thread focuses on researchers and academics who, well after Epstein's 2008 conviction, have sought contact with, received funding from, and let themselves be promoted by him.

So when David Eby says DRIPA threatens "core democratic values", he is talking about protecting non-Indigenous property rights and exploitative corporate resource use at the expense of Indigenous peoples' futures. That's not we voted for and it's sure af not what FNs have been promised. Booooooooooo

The whole point of DRIPA is to bring BC law into alignment with UNDRIP, so we can stop intentionally and egregiously violating Indigenous rights. Eby asking the courts to undermine his own reconciliation law so BC can maintain a shitty 150 year old mining regime is another win for the lobbyists.

BC legislators passed the law UNANIMOUSLY in 2019, when EVERY MLA from EVERY party voted for it as a route to reconciliation. Eby's plan to rewrite DRIPA and have the Supreme Court put limits on it is a shameful betrayal of First Nations and an unacceptable return to the colonial status quo.

The Post’s Ukraine reporter Lizzie Johnson wrote on X from Ukraine, “I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a war zone.”

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

People in Greenland are taking Trump’s threats seriously. Residents were told to stock up on supplies, just in case. APTN’s Angel Moore reports after returning from Greenland on the latest Nation to Nation.

Twenty-nine years after the Ladysmith Secondary School newspaper The Parallel Connection was printed, the school's new Newspaper Club has resurrected the paper to better engage with their peers and community.

here’s the report, which i stupidly stupidly stupidly read this CARElessness with city-owned land throughout the worst years of “Vancouver’s Housing Crisis” while Vancouverites couldnt afford the rent lives changed, lives diminished, lives ended people died vancouver.ca/files/cov/20...

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Transport Canada can choose whether to use its EV rebates to further enrich a dangerous fascist — whose vehicles for the Canadian market are made exclusively in the US and China — or to help develop the Canadian industry. But there's no sign the new system will exclude Tesla. Why not?

we need accountable and effective civilian police oversight rather than whatever the fuck the Vancouver Police Board for too long. we need to elect people to the board. next meeting is Feb 12 seriously watch a past meeting. you’re the public vancouverpoliceboard.ca

British colonists committed genocide against Australia's Indigenous population in Victoria, a landmark Aboriginal-led inquiry has found www.bbc.com/news/article...

maybe it would be a good idea to consider the last civic elections cycle and think through the consequences of whatever the fuck happened there and get involved raise the bar because for fucks sake

Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone. @wgreaves.bsky.social www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto

LOOK WHAT I JUST FOUND IN THE ALLEY

really

these conditions are horrifying. this is an amazing story of community organizing strategy and commitment, as well as another example of the criminalization of mutual aid @lataco.bsky.social

Happy 45 anniversary of the Toronto bathhouse raids to all who celebrate. Our current police chief was one of the officers behind the 2000 "Pussy Palace" lesbian bathhouse raid. History is not so old.

DEA "has announced its intent to place [2-FDCK]—a structural analog of the anesthetic and antidepressant ketamine—into Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, effectively banning it." "Prohibition enforced through emergency orders is not public health." #USA #Drugs #Healthcare

Dan McQuade, who sadly recently passed away from cancer, had a brilliant article about exactly this topic defector.com/the-myth-of-... He provides a lot of info on why this myth persists, and yeah, it’s maddening. RIP Dan

Been a hot minute since this was my main beat but an immediate and enduring lesson from writing this in the summer of 2020 is that many of the tools of policing have their origin & are in feedback loop with the tools of colonial riot control, across decades www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

the cop shot and killed Eishia Hudson, a 16 Indigenous youth, after she had crashed into a median *AFTER*

Just FIFA events? ICE has an office in Vancouver. they’re active here and we have no idea how other than their own vague statement. they’re HERE. @seanorr.bsky.social And Pete www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

BIG UPDATE: Francisco’s lawyer Yanni Nicolidakis-Mustafa says "BC Cancer has agreed to treat Francisco on an urgent basis… He is still waiting for a bed to open up for him, but they have taken note of the urgency of the matter and are moving quickly to get him into treatment.” @thetyee.ca Impact!!!

The government’s goal is to reduce the number of people employed in public service by 10% that’s decimation as a military strategy, eliminating 10% of an enemy breaks social relations, structures, contracts etc leading to irrevocable system collapse 5-D chess tho www.canada.ca/en/governmen...

Defence Against Morbidity and Mortality Defence Against Homelessness Defence Against Exploitation Defence Against Lawlessness Defence Against Abrogation of s.35 Obligations someone please steal this idea.

Watch live: Details about arrests of at least 7 Toronto police officers to be announced this morning

if that voicemail from Doug Ford isn’t a song about Doug Ford’s outrageous corruption, anger management issues, bee-swallowing speeches and recently thwarted ambitions by now you don’t, in fact, deserve Doug Ford governments you deserve worse

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