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

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip "I would suggest the NDP deal with their leadership issue or the whole party is going to meet its demise as a whole and I believe if that happens it would take decades to recover"

Eby is our very own provincial Carney. They are both playing the "lesser evil" and largely getting away with it. The BC Conservatives are here to be his "greater evil" enablers, as conveniently pointed to by Macarenko in the interview posted, just like PP in Ottawa.

the premier insists this is needed because “the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled late last year that the mineral rules in the province are ‘inconsistent’ with the DRIPA legislation” but for some reason he's not amending the Mining Act

hmmmmmm

#bcpoli

The public library reference desk, where you can help a child with some Lilo & Stitch coloring pages while also helping an adult with tenancy dispute forms and raging about shitty landlords.

This is a strange way to say that you support genocide.

police expenditures in Canada are over $20 billion annually.

Harris campaigned with Cheney and look how that worked out.

The left is cheering for leaders they don’t really believe in It is strange to see progressive voters rooting so wholeheartedly for Prime Minister Mark Carney and Hungary's Péter Magyar, leaders who, let’s face it, lean pretty heavily to the right.

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/20/o...

It’s not a loss. It’s the cost of a service. Unless you’re doing headlines on hue much roads and police and fire departments “lose,” you have no basis for framing it that way here. Try not being stenographers for reactionary talking points, eh?

Why are you acting foolish? Public services don't lose money. Give the workers a raise, have you seen how expensive everything is these days.

Why would anyone expect a public service to make money?

If we're going to use this as a standard, how much money did the RCMP and the Canadian Armed Forces "lose" in the past eight years?

photo of an orange dog in front of a marina

trying to tell the dog that i lived at this marina when i was young

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏

Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

This unusual looking sea slug has an unusual name–Bullock's Hypselodoris. hese vibrant creatures are nudibranchs, a type of shell-less marine gastropod mollusk often referred to as sea slugs.

THIS COULD BE US

Healthy accountability is triggered by evidence, points upward at power, and happens in public. Disordered accountability protects insiders and aims its punishment outward. What the document does is argue for the second while calling it the first.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

Points 9, 18 and 19 go after accountability directly. Scrutiny of public figures gets reframed as a kind of cultural sickness driving talent away from public life. The problem becomes the people doing the scrutinising, not the people being scrutinised.

While Vancouver drags its feet on improving four measly bus routes, a true world-class city, Vienna, is looking to speed up 29 tram lines and 135 bus routes, basically its entire surface transit network. The city will invest 2 million Euros annually until 2030 on transit acceleration measures.

A real radicalizing moment for me was back in 2013 when I picked up a second job during the holiday season. I was ringing up purchases and heard people complaining about a guy panhandling outside. And yet, Salvation Army had a bellringer right outside the door.

The opinions on homelessness from people who have never experienced it do not matter more than the people who have experienced it. "It's a mental health issue" Why yes, being exposed to the elements and potential for experiencing violence affects your mental health. A real "water is wet" statement.

My husband goes through the world with a positivity and openness that makes him friends whatever he goes, and it makes his experience of the world so much better (and mine by proxy). It's crazy to watch and has made me a believer n how much our approach to the world shapes it. It's not naive at all.

An Open Letter to Members of the Legislative Assembly Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

"First Nations should not be asked by the Crown to compromise their human rights. No other segment of society is asked to put their rights on hold while the government seeks to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada to undermine those very rights." www.ubcic.bc.ca/open_letter_...

Pancreatic cancer usually kills within a year or two of diagnosis. In this trial, nearly all 8 responders are still alive six years later. The 5-year survival rate is usually only around 12%. We should be increasing federal funding for mRNA research, not cutting it.

All week, CBC has been asking "What does Carney's new majority mean?" But when they ask this, they're not asking how it will affect people, justice, enviro, rights, etc. They're asking how it affects other parties/politicians & their strategies, which is telling of how CBC approaches politics.

While I do think there needs to be a center-left alliance to beat fascism in USA, the center needs to move sharply left on 50 million issues.

Centrists have made it clear that they want leftists to abandon their values, but it's actually centrists who must develop values, which requires moving left

As long as some people can "invest" in real estate, housing will be too expensive.

Investors push prices up because that's how they increase profits. A profit-driven system will always push prices as high as possible until a crisis point is reached.

The purpose of a system is what it does.
#cdnpoli

it always surprises me when people react really viscerally to the idea of destroying systems and institutions that either no longer serve us (and can't be reformed), or never existed to serve humanity in general. putting the destruction of a system on the table shouldn't be a radical position

i gave a talk ~1 week back, unpacking an idea @tressiemcphd.bsky.social mentioned in November at the Urban Consulate in Detroit - that an optimistic future is one where we can exercise autonomy over our lives & consent is not some immaterial issue - a future with refusal. and a guy got mad about it!

NYC study shows men are 2.6x more likely than women to bike to work. When protected bike lane coverage is high, women’s cycling rates rise significantly faster than men’s.

When protected lanes are limited or fragmented, women’s participation drops sharply.

Good bike investments give women choices.