Do you have racists in your family who think DRIPA or landback means Indigenous people are stealing white people's homes?

Well good news the government has put together a handy easy to use website to explain why that's silly

dripafacts.ca

"These interests may be resolved through negotiation, challenged in subsequent litigation, purchased, or remain on the Cowichan Title Lands. That is not a matter for this Court to address... It is an issue for the Crown and not the private landowners to resolve." In plain language: the court expressly did not order the removal of any private property owner. The Cowichan Nation's own public statement in October 2025 said the Nation "does not seek recovery of the private fee simple lands." And on February 14, 2026, the BC government and the Cowichan Nation issued a joint statement: "Neither the Cowichan Nation nor British Columbia are seeking to invalidate any privately held fee simple titles on the Cowichan Title Lands through the negotiation or appeal processes."

I'd like to think someone in the government is just subtweeting David Eby here

Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces a criminal investigation by the Justice Department The Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s the subject of a Justice Department criminal investigation and faces possible charges over its use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

The Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups. The SPLC was founded in 1971 and used civil litigation to fight white supremacist groups. apnews.com/article/sout...

The Mixed Signals That Canada Post Workers Are Getting from Their Union As voting gets under way on new collective agreements, CUPW's leadership is divided on whether members should accept the terms

Canada Post workers start voting on tentative agreements today amidst major changes to the postal service and mixed signals from their union.

For @pressprogress.ca I broke down what’s in the agreements and why some CUPW leaders are encouraging workers to vote 'no'

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Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say Attorneys say the Trump and DeSantis administrations are disregarding a court order requiring access to phones and attorneys for detainees.

April 2: guards cut all phone access in the housing units without warning. When detainees protested, CRS officers allegedly punched a man, threw another to the ground, kicked him in the head, and pinned him by the neck. A third detainee's wrist was broken. The entire cage was pepper-sprayed.

wow! I was gonna say every journalist that attends this correspondence dinner is a full-on traitor at this point; but that was before I knew about invisible secret pocket messages! I was wrong, this isn't hypercringe, this is bravery! this is probably what will bring down this administration!

a man in a grey sweater says " okay " ALT: a man in a grey sweater says " okay "

Banning algorithmic pricing ought to be a no-brainer call for any government: people don’t like to be ripped off, surveilled, or treated differently from their peers.

Algorithm pricing does all three of those things.

A friendly reminder that having house prices drop in one segment of one market doesn’t equate to affordability improving across the board.

Few are building homes that target the needs of half of the population, or those whose income sits below the median.

they also had their vision of housing as a surefire investment shattered in 2008 in a way that didn't happen in Canada

also notice the spikes housing costs in the early 1980s and early 1990s, after significant dips in social housing builds

notice where income and housing costs become completely untethered from one another

social housing units built by year in Canada, 1972-2010

- by number of units
- as % of all housing built

aaaaahhhhh

have you tried being a tenant?

overheard some lawyer in a cafe saying "it's so hard being a landlord in BC" and i wanted to yell

This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.

On Monday the Trump admin will launch the tariff refund system for the $166 billion in tariffs they illegally collected.

And all of that money will go to companies.

56,497 ​importers are set to get refunds so far, with no requirement they pass that money along to customers.

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

what if instead of spending another $150 billion on US defence contractors, we spent it on fighting climate change and called it national defence
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

twirling canadianly

Is the Road to Recovery on the Pathway to Hope? Which one do I take to get to the "modern, evidence-based substance use treatment system" vs. the one that goes to the "comprehensive system of mental health and addictions care"?

can you caps it more, maybe?

harm reduction entirely relegated to an afterthought, not one mention of safe supply or prescribed alternatives.

it's hard to distinguish this opinion from the BCNDP party line

Ontario overhauls MAID oversight committee, critics say it’s to remove dissenters Former members say proposed version is designed to be less rigorous and to provide less oversight

If there is one thing you READ today:👇
Ontario is overhauling its body that reviews MAID deaths, narrowing its membership, scaling back its scope & shifting its role away from independent oversight toward supporting the system it is meant to scrutinize

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Emergency decade One worker's reflections between the city and the toxic drug supply crisis.

sharing a short reflection I wrote about working in the toxic drug crisis—which was formally declared 10 years ago today in BC. see those who can make it at Oppenheimer this evening

themainlander.com/2026/04/14/e...

Minister’s, provincial health officer’s statements on the 10th anniversary of the toxic-drug crisis Josie Osborne, Minister of Health, and Dr. Bonnie Henry, provincial health officer, have issued the following statements marking the 10th anniversary of the toxic-drug crisis being declared a public-health emergency:

this absolutely deranged statement of statements which includes a revisionist history of this government's commitment to mass social murder was released this morning, a day early

its not a "toxic-drug crisis," its a PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY

this is disinformation

news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.

For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”

Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)

This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

Do We Really Want Doctors NOT to Have The Right To A Conscience? Especially When It Comes To MAID? I was very glad to be contacted by the National Post about my thoughts on the conscience rights of physicians in the context of MAiD.

"I do not view myself as a consumer or ‘user’ of health care yet I turned docs into providers of a product. I expected my humanity to be acknowledged, respected and valued but I failed to do the same for them. How did this happen?"
@mssinenomine.bsky.social
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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)

Just checked and this is real - Scottish Labour’s manifesto refers to trans people using slurs and commits to a policy of explicit segregation in public life

F-ing depraved. The IDF edited a photo of the journalist they assassinated and made it look like he was wearing a Hezbollah uniform. They explicitly state that it is legal in Israel to murder journalists. The entire Israeli state is a criminal enterprise.