when you refuse solidarity with those being targeted by fascists, it empowers fascists.

MO’S SUMMER SIDEQUESTS: GRANVILLE BRIDGE, VANCOUVER

hi can anyone please spare 21$, thank you etransfer: [email protected] meanwhile i have uploaded rule of law pikachu, enjoy

this exists it is called thinking

this failure of political imagination is a comms strategy for expanding police power and police budgets

A great resource for people who want to translate technical and bureaucratic expressions from English to French here vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca The Grand dictionnaire terminologique is maintained by the Office québécois de la langue française.

Finally, I'm also supposed to be premiering the new French-language book translation (thank you Prof. Rutland!) of my work on police body camera propaganda at a festival in Montreal on Sunday September 21, but the local police are apparently trying to mess with the permits. Will keep you posted.

if people didn't ignore reality, they'd have to confront it honestly

My favorite sign of the night.

im doing that thing again where i aimlessly walk around Vancouver for hours at 2:30am without my glasses

getting h1b is already like a lottery this is ridiculous. i see some tech ppl celebrating this cuz they feel like there’d be more tech jobs available to US workers but h1b workers are often the most exploited and first on the line for 996 type hours. with them gone, next up is u.

RCMP assistant commissioner charged with assault, choking in B.C.

this 72-page book, The ABCs of Media Literacy, is given to every grade nine student in Finland media literacy is a core component of the national curriculum. everyone has the toolbox and training needed for practicing responsible citizenship its CIVICS (a bullshit detector) abcsofmedia.com

the mayor announced a new way to bribe him and he would like some bribes now. "send me bribes," the mayor said, while revealing his t-shirt which read "I ❤️ bribery"

America is a protection racket

Victoria radio host Al Ferraby facing two child luring charges

Canada's true crisis is the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in an impossible economy. I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together. We need a government that serves the many, not the money. Join in. lewisforleader.ca/ youtu.be/IVy99oiYszY

Abstract verbalizations about personal liberty, freedom of the press, and so on, will not be convincing in most parts of the world.

Excellent deputation by @michaelhoffman.bsky.social regarding the Bathurst Bus priority project. He brings up the anti side's use of AI but also drops a little bomb: the petition they submitted was signed by one person 25 times for each property he owns in the area! More astroturf than in SkyDome!

If you have to use a legal loophole to circumvent both the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Alberta Bill of Rights, it is safe to say that you are a fucking monster.

3 weeks on the job and the new police chief is already demanding more of the municipal budget. This is outrageous.

he said precisely this

so we need to protect and expand libraries everywhere

are we sure that the driver of the SUV wasn't a harm reduction service? because that's why the government shut those places down, thinking of the children. safety the thing about automotive dominance

The question to ask is: Why do the escalating economic costs of climate change not enjoy the same priority in public and policy discourses like concerns about fiscal sustainability? Debts are at least reversible, climate change is not.

So uh Did I miss anything important while I was gone, Victoria #yyj

look at what she actually did.

About Duterte, she basically said America is going the same direction as the Philippines under him who had a ruthless “war on drugs” using extrajudicial killings of over 6,000, just to name one atrocity. He’s now in The Hague for crimes against humanity. (I’m going down the Philippines rabbit hole.)

Proof of life, and Wheels and Roses updates coming NEXT WEEK🥳✨🛼🍊

Vancouver Island transit strike ends as union and employer accept deal

The first time an Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause, public outrage forced a reversal in less than 24 hours. I wish to God Albertans would show the same moral fury now, when school children are outed & bullied by the government that is supposed to protect them. #ableg #abpoli

hey EVERY REACTIONARY IN CANADA here's your entire campaign again and again and again

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

How can we fix this spot? A super easy one would be speed & red light cameras. Indeed, it's one of the spots that we called for the City to have one, before Brian Montague and ABC voted instead for "more study" (still waiting on those studies). (3/4) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

this is the kind of thing that makes you feel something needs to be done about the notwithstanding clause

"Policing follows power." "[I]nvolved in [Abraham Global Peace Initiative] are several prominent figures from police forces [..] across Canada." "AGPI also facilitates trips for police" to Israel. #Ontario #BritishColumbia #Manitoba #Canada #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Policing #Genocide

TLDR: Ben Mulroney DONATED nearly the maximum allowable amount to the Conservative Party of Canada — and is now the interim host of one of Canada’s top political shows. I’ve got the receipts:

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And more Americans. Trump read the pedestal plaque on the Statue of Liberty: "... your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me ..." And then Trump said "Yeah, kill all those, too".

A statement from Jenny Kwan, Vancouver East NDP MP, said that none of the [NDP] MPs participated in the standing ovation. Kwan said ... “anyone with a platform should always be mindful that political rhetoric that is incendiary, racist and dehumanizing is unacceptable.”

you'd think the @liberalca.bsky.social would immediately be accountable and transparent and simply acknowledge what happened and respond intelligently but now someone has to make a list. www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/f...

A Grassy Narrows First Nation member is still looking for answers from Ontario regarding mercury poisoning in her community. In a video shared online, Chrissy Isaacs can be seen shouting questions at Premier Ford as she is led out of the event by security.

It’s the disrespect of art and humanities that have made society dumber and less empathetic Also I’d like to know what the poster is doing for democracy

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