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Educating fellow settlers is on all of us to help undo the damage.
Thanks, helpful contextual lens
Oh yes there were a few reasons in his rationale but the effective disinfo campaigns that fed public hysteria were pretty key to the landscape
Why hasn't there been JWD/Trudeau/SNC level scandal about this premier raising hell because he is concerned about a court decision he doesn't like?
Genuinely would appreciate some scholar helping me understand how this isn't political wing interfering with judiciary.
I don't know for sure who all within the NDP was actively resisting this DRIPA free fall, but I've reason to believe they were Indigenous led and all or mostly women and I just want to say thank you, I see you, inside change is hard.
This!
Given the choice b/w updating a 150+ year old, 1850s era law that basically allows others (today, mostly Big Mining) to lay claim on resources below your land pretty willy nilly
Or: Abandon DRIPA & First Nations
He chose so colonial & reactive to mining lobby disinfo
"There remains another path. You can reject the course of colonial unilateral action and choose to uphold human rights and the honour of the Crown, and insist that the Province meet its legal obligations" www.ubcic.bc.ca/open_letter_...
Looking forward to seeing you campaign to protect newcomer and refugee rights that your government is chipping away at!
Exactly this
How Joseph Trutch Set the Stage for BC's Indigenous Policies ~ @adampolsen.bsky.social
via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
Former Minister McKenna has entered the excess profit tax chat! ✨
an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
On this grim anniversary, amid so much finger-pointing and misinfo over drug policy, worth remembering how many ppl tried to overcome addiction, and were failed
Harley Cartwright, who died Sept 24, 2020, is just one example. The letter his mom found after his death broke me
tinyurl.com/unhsmmr4
@wgreaves.bsky.social As one of your constituents in Victoria, I am joining my community in asking: do you support wasting our public dollars on a dying industry, instead of making the investments everyday people actually need? Will you stand for HomesNotPipelines? bsky.app/profile/lead...
Share a message with your MLA in solidarity with First Nations' Leadership Council: www.bcafn.ca/the-declarat...
Economic growth under capitalism = increased inequality
For decades, status quo politicians across the spectrum have peddled economic growth as proxy for individual prosperity.
The lie? It trickles *up*. (gushes, really)
Imagine going down as the "progressive" NDP premier that let his government fall because he is opposed to principles of reconciliation. (As he was when DRIPA first passed)
How much more can he disappoint us and, I imagine and hope, so many in his own caucus?
First Nations leaders are condemning Premier David Eby’s plan to suspend parts of #DRIPA as a step backward that will increase uncertainty for all British Columbians and create political problems for the NDP.
Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli
DRIPA (Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act) was passed unanimously in by all members from all parties. UNANIMOUSLY. We meant it then and we mean it now. Eby doesn’t get to change that because it’s unpopular with lobbyists and he failed to do anything to educate/prepare the public.
Carney did this with C2 --> C12. Hoping it's enough to throw the public rage off the scent. Same rights eroding damage, fresh packaging.
Prime Minister Mark Carney jokingly says he ‘can outlast’ a mercury-affected Grassy woman calling for justice on decades of toxic dumping.
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It's tough to see the ageism (with dashes of sexism) among some New Dems' minimizing frame on Emily Lowan.
I expect she'll keep being underestimated.
FTR CARGA collapsed under NDP token and broken committments. The expectation of BCG obedience under any circumstance just gives entitlement.
NEW: Canada’s richest 1 per cent have nearly as much wealth as its poorest 80 per cent combined.
www.readthemaple.com/canadas-rich...
‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin
When it comes to the impact of #MeToo, it’s important first of all to recognise that it was not a deus ex machina event out of nothing and nowhere. It was a consequence of the preceding five years of feminist upheaval, which in turn built on earlier feminist work. That upheaval took place as a vast public discourse educating the public about the pervasiveness of gender violence and the fact that it very often does not unfold as “stranger in alley attacks pure young lady”. It got people to let go of a lot of the stereotypes and slanders that protected rapists by blaming victims or portraying them as incapable of bearing trustworthy witness to their experience. It created the editorial willingness to publish stories that exposed movie producer/convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein and a host of other abusers and creeps and unpacked the mechanisms of protection they employed. That in turn resulted in changed laws. Six years after that 2017 upheaval, two women said, in a talk at the Practising Law Institute, “Prior to #MeToo, only three states had passed anti-harassment reforms.” They counted 70 workplace anti-harassment laws passed, in 40 US states and 3,000 pieces of legislation introduced overall that were impacted by #MeToo. A nationwide law passed in 2021 ended forced arbitration of sexual assault and harassment, giving victims the right to go to court. All this legislation created a lot more accountability and victim protection, but it’s the kind of consequence that often goes unnoticed. Unnoticed because it’s complicated, slow, incremental and, for the most part, legislative reform is not a hot headline. The eager obituary writers tended to announce that #MeToo had failed whenever further incidents of high-profile sexual abuse were reported (though the very fact they were reported and in some cases successfully prosecuted may have been a result of these shifts). The single most important impact of #MeToo, I believe, is akin to what many environmental victories look…
"It’s naively defeatist to assume millennia of patriarchy entrenched in law, culture, social arrangements and economics could be or should have been fully disassembled in one lifetime."
The commissioner noted the government was taking longer to respond to fewer requests and failing to meet legislated response timelines frequently
In 2022-23, 43% of requests filed by media were unlawfully delayed
Note that businesses and law firms were getting the fewest unlawful delays #bcpoli
Citizens' Services Minister Diana Gibson says proposed changes to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act will improve how the FOI system functions
Her predecessor said the same thing while defending new filing fees for FOI requests
Spoiler alert: the system got worse #bcpoli
The Defense Department under Pete Hegseth went on a $93 billion spending spree in September, buying:
- $98,329 Steinway grand piano
- $15.1 million ribeye steak
- $6.9 million lobster tail
- $5.3 million Apple devices
- $2 million king crab
@newrepublic.com reports:
newrepublic.com/post/207555/...
When the BC Conservatives voted for a bill to repeal the human rights code, the NDP caucus promptly put out a press release slamming the Cons who "couldn’t muster the courage to stand against it."
Today, 0 NDP MLAs mustered the courage to vote against a bill to close all BC's safe consumption sites