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SPRING BEAN MARKET March 7th 11am - 7pm & 8th 11am - 5pm @The Leonardo Da Vinci Center 195 Bay St. Victoria BC A curated market featuring BIPOC. Queer. & Disabled artists Raffle Prizes, Sticker Rally. Live Performances, and more! Opening ceremony and song by Brianna Bear Singing and performances by: Opal Dar • Gwiz• Wanderlost Nu Metal Cow Boy Tarot by The Crows Nest & The Judgment Empress & Over 50 Amazing Vendors! Entry by donation Proceeds to Masks 4 Victorio & Victoria Disability Arts Collective Masks required

Spring Bean Artisan Fair here in #yyj today for queer, BIPOC, & disabled creators, at the Leo Da Vinci Centre, 195 Bay. MASKS REQUIRED.

Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

People are making comparisons with Maple MAGA. Need to get real progressive ideas into everyday discourse.

They're stealing the voice of Sinead O'Connor, who risked her own career in 1992 by speaking up about child sexual abuse in the Catholic church, so let's make this theft an occasion to keep talking about Trump in the Epstein files.

Two people on bikes riding towards camera, and on person on a mobility scooter away from camera on Fort St (2 way) protected bike and roll lane.

Person on bicycle passing person on mobility scooter on Pandora protected bike and roll lane.

On a short visit to downtown #VictoriaBC today, I saw three people riding mobility scooters on the protected bike and roll lanes. Only got photos of two. You don't have to ride a bicycle to use 'bike lanes'! #yyj #pwd #bcpoli

David Eby, on camera, admits that he axed the carbon tax because of corporate lobbying. Cutting it made life more expensive for workers and cheaper for big polluters.

He says BC is too dependent on resource extraction - and yet their plan is to triple down on American-owned gas projects.
#bcpoli

BC "has the second-lowest provincial income tax rate for the highest-income earners." #TaxTheRich #bcpoli

It's amazing people will claim "Canada and the USA have the same culture" and then on something as fundamental as "do you trust your fellow citizens to be good" we are further apart than any other two countries

Russia is not an immortal human. Neither is the USA. This is a complex situation involving a lot of individual fascists, many backed by various fossil fuel interests. 'What would Mandela, or Gorbachev, say about this moment' is a question worth considering.

I really don't like posting about this stuff so often and I hesitated when I saw this earlier this evening. The timing of this isn't a coincidence. Our PM was clearly stung that people have said this week that he lacks principles. That's what this is.

Yup. And, at the same time, people who live in smaller apartment buildings tend to be happier (all else being equal). For me, a tower in Victoria's James Bay or Vancouver's West End (both surrounded by water) sonds great. As does a smaller building in a nice but less spectacular location.

Transit Oriented Development, but without transit. Sigh. A failure by all levels of government, federal, provincial, regional, and municipal.

"Who could possibly have predicted that letting a real estate lawyer with very little experience and even fewer morals do President Donald Trump’s bidding would turn out poorly?"

Fascists are normally incompetent. But Trump's gang keep lowering the bar.

U.S. May Have Committed War Crime In Sinking Of Iranian Ship The Geneva Conventions say nations have a duty to “take all possible measures” to help rescue victims of shipwrecks. A U.S. submarine left that to Sri Lanka.

“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”

A beige and brown graphic with a gold border. Large serif headline reads: How Proportional Representation Holds Parties Accountable to Their Members. Below, smaller text explains that under proportional representation it is easier for elected members to leave, form, or join another party, creating competitive pressure that encourages engagement, transparency, and alignment with stated values. At the bottom it says: Learn more at fairvote.ca.

When parties know their members can leave without triggering a false majority crisis, they have to listen.

Proportional representation reduces blind party discipline and rewards collaboration over control.

That is real accountability.

Pandora bike lanes to be fast tracked after update from Victoria staff Cyclists using the corridor along the Shelbourne and Pandora might see more safety improvements after fast tracking bike lanes in the area received initial approval.

Good news! Fast track for Pandora bike and roll lanes extension. (We need to celebrate when delightful #climateaction gets fast tracked, as backtracking is more common these days) cheknews.ca/pandora-bike... #yyj

Avi Lewis speaking at a podium with arms outstretched; orange campaign signs reading "Lewis for leader / pour chef" visible on podium and screen.

Crowded Ottawa auditorium with diverse audience seated at a Lewis for Leader campaign event.

Leah Gazan and Lori Idlout at a podium with an orange "Lewis for leader / pour chef" sign; Lori speaking into a microphone, at an Ottawa campaign event.

Dr Yipeng Ge, wearing a black-and-white keffiyeh speaking at a podium with an orange "Lewis for leader / pour chef" sign at an Ottawa campaign event.

Last night's event in Ottawa was electric. More than 800 people in the warm and resonant Dominion-Chalmers Centre.

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Ben Stiller is calling out the White House after it used a clip from Tropic Thunder in a video promoting the Iran war.

“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,” Stiller wrote.

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#GreenSky #ClimateSky

Tired of dystopian sci-fi? You might like Solarpunk. A recent literary genre imagines what happens when our climate changes—and so do we.

" #Solarpunk poses a fascinating question: What would a world that had seriously tackled climate change look like?" @clivethompson.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Rachel Maddow called Bill a genius of exposition. Which rings true to me. Who else finds such clear, concise, vivid ways to sum up where we are and where we could and should be?

Re the photo, train crew was going too fast and slammed on brakes too late to avoid a crash. But soon enough to avoid a complete disaster with major loss of life. Too late *and not too late*!

"If you rule out the fast phase out of #fossilfuels, then you have to either remove carbon from the atmosphere, or reflect sunlight. Who decided that #geoengineering was more feasible than rapid fossil fuel phase out?" @jamesgdyke.info

Trump is good at flooding the zone with horrible, dangerous, decisions. What is the latest on the Epstein-Trump files?

In a recent novel, it was a rich man who made the train late. . . and rich men who incentived risk taking to make up time. Making the photo even more appropriate as a metaphor.

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

"Yes we can avoid further dangerous climate change, we can stop the destruction of nature, we can begin the transformation of our societies so that they live in balance with the Earth system"

Great post as always. That we haven't prevented it doesn't make it unpreventable

The photo tells a story. A train crash that was fatal, but not a total catastrophe. Brakes slammed on just in time to save most of the passengers (but not people in street below). Too late and not too late.

"If you rule out the fast phase out of #fossilfuels, then you have to either remove carbon from the atmosphere, or reflect sunlight. Who decided that #geoengineering was more feasible than rapid fossil fuel phase out?" @jamesgdyke.info