This is a very, very good reality check about DRIPA, Aboriginal Title, and the Cowichan Tribes decision
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This is a very, very good reality check about DRIPA, Aboriginal Title, and the Cowichan Tribes decision
John Horgan, I'm real sorry you're dead and I respect that you were the BC premier but you are wrong
This is a great thread on the public outlash on the city property tax freeze.
Maybe makes our city a better place to live, now and in the future.
Worth noting that because Sim brought forward his proposal for a property tax freeze requiring millions in cuts with just weeks left in the budget process, this is not up for public debate and is not outlined in the documents available to councillors when they vote on this
You did too with your original post.
He should have said we need to be talking more about this instead of saying the media is not talking about it. But I've also read articles about the new art gallery on CBC without ever realizing it was previously housing the homeless. Something I only know now because of your post about his video.
Specific usage of words do matter. Which is why it's a shame you selectively cropped the initial clip to make it look worse to match your narrative. I had to Google using the watermark to watch the whole thing. The videos primary message is not one of anti-media but of the oppression of poor people
Really @jmcelroy.bsky.social is assuming a lot of intent behind the video. It is good that more attention is being brought to it especially in spheres where they don't follow many happenings. I was surprised myself on the first CBC article I read about the parking lot didn't mention the housing.
Crib!
That could be.
Should have done some regional brackets. That could have included a few outliers. I see Ogopogo more BCish than Sasquatch (as a White settler tbf).
Raven vs Orca is a hard choice.
I would say that this article was a good and foundational read for my Social Work education at UVic.
My 2016 essay "Beyond Territorial Acknowledgments" is the top read on my website ever since it got picked up as a reading for university courses - I'm hoping people are reading the updated version!
apihtawikosisan.com/2024/11/revi...
Here's my new piece. It's a deep dive into why Millennials have been infantilized and why teenagerness has been extended into young adulthood: it's a tool of social control to render entire generations incapable of organizing to fight back.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/inventing-...
Especially since the CPC's solutions are just neoliberal business as usual that continues to just benefit the rich.
My partner is pretty annoyed at all the people just on the SkyTrain that don't look up from their phones and watch what's going on in Vancouver. Not watching the scenery is anathema to her.
I see that Poilievre did an interview with Jordan Peterson that included talking about inflation and house prices. I did an explainer on those talking points a while ago:
thetyee.ca/News/2023/12...
AITA for blowing up a Romulan ship and lying about it to bring them into the Dominion War?
Asking for a friend.
Yeah. According to the story, they eventually were unable to share any surplus food as they were just surviving themselves.
My wife's grandma tells us a lot of stories of her time in Vancouver. One of my favourite is of her mother who was referred to as False Creek Mom as she fed people during the great depression out of her garden.
She said people still recognized her a long time after. I cry just thinking of it 😥
To scratch that itch I've been reading Corrina Sparrow's (very very good) dissertation Reclaiming Spaces Between: Coast Salish Two Spirit Identities and Experiences. #TwoSpirit #Indigenous #socialwork Link 👇
dspace.library.uvic.ca/items/fc788a...
I've been out of school since April and I'm already missing reading academic social work articles. I think I have a problem.
Muppets Christmas Carol is definitely my top.
Anyone read Miriam Toews's A Complicated Kindness? What sort of vibe is it? #booksky #canadianlit
Free for whoever claims it first. #nintendo #nintendoswitch #nso
A reminder to all the Canadian peeps out there that Conservatives all over the country want to make our healthcare more and more like the American system. #PeopleNotProfits.
