As a big fan of you and your posts, I’m always delighted to read them and be inspired to act more like you, and I can’t wait to buy your book and encourage all the library systems to stock it. Sending a message as a stranger to also encourage you to give yourself grace amidst chaos.
A Conservative town hall in Smithers was meant to discuss DRIPA, the groundbreaking Indigenous rights legislation the party wants to repeal.
Instead, the community came out in force to correct misinformation and call for unity.
My latest for @thetyee.ca.
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“The only people, frankly, benefiting from the current model are organized crime and some of these private residential treatment centres who are charging exorbitant amounts to families... without any evidence that those are effective,"
Read @thetyee.ca full article here: thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...
In light of Jean Chrétien's most recent denialist comments - story to come, basically he downplays the harm of the IRS system - I went down the rabbit hole researching how far Indigenous leaders lobbied him, as Minister of Indian Affairs in the 1960s and 1970s, to close the system 🧵
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
As anti-Indigenous politics intensify in Canada, the far-right is weaponizing residential school misinformation to undermine truth and reconciliation.
What appear as isolated historical “debates” are part of a coordinated strategy to erode confidence in Indigenous testimony and survivor truth.
If Carney gives a dime to this we should riot on Parliament Hill.
“Drug policy must mature in this province, not regress. While 5 people die every day from the toxic drug crisis in B.C., the NDP government is backing away from evidence-informed policy supported by many, including its former chief coroner, Lisa LaPointe,” said MLA Valeriote.
#bcpoli
If the problem was really “public drug use,” the obvious public health response would have been drug consumption spaces
Another thing I think more people should be doing in their communities given the state of things is skilling up on People's First Aid. Elise Granata wrote a few weeks ago about CPR as a civic responsibility. I think we need to broaden that out. open.substack.com/pub/grouphug...
In 2019, BC MLAs unanimously passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
It was hailed as a watershed moment for reconciliation
Now, the government is vowing to change the law to block the courts from enforcing it and the official opposition is calling for DRIPA's repeal #bcpoli
The BC Greens reject any amendments to weaken the Declaration Act. The work of reconciliation is complex, but that is precisely why we cannot weaken the framework designed to make it real. #bcpoli #UNDRIP
READ MORE:
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"In other words, once the four AI tools locked onto a person’s age, race, or gender, those factors would form the backbone of the tissue analysis. In effect, AI would go on to replicate bias resulting from gaps in AI training data."
Eby screaming YOU WERE USING YOUR RIGHTS WRONG SO WERE TAKING THEM AWAY
kinda wacky how he hates the law
Agree 100%
For those living in communities without Defund PD campaigns, these kinds of budget inflations are happening everywhere, and we are losing invaluable services to fund them. Community based services make our world safer for everyone. More police is not what we need.
47 VPD officers were paid more than $100K in OT last year, including 7 constables who more than doubled their possible $140K salaries. One sergeant raked in $239K in OT on top of possible $158K salary.
Meanwhile, the force went $6.5M over its $400M+ budget.
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BC folks! Outstanding piece here by @iglikaivanova.bsky.social, co-ED of @bcpolicy.bsky.social.
BC has a revenue problem, not a spending problem
The solution to BC’s fiscal challenges isn’t spending cuts. Instead, BC needs progressive revenue measures.
Read on 👇
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Evidence should speak for itself.
It should never be smothered.
This is a sample of Carla 's Anderson's baking. Up The River is the the name of her bakery. They're at the Come Toward The Fire Festival this weekend.
Sorry, public libraries, we’ve got 7 soccer games in Vancouver to pay for! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
4/ Just maybe you could rally for support under an "elbows up" strategy (this would have some logic - tarriff-reduced economic slowdown is partially responsible for the huge deficit)
But nothing we're seeing on the trade file suggests he's prepare to keep his elbows up. So now how do you sell it?
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So here's the thing Bluesky..... for a site that swears up and down it's better than Twitter, you're falling into the same bullshit as Twitter.
If you are a scientist and interested in outreach, this is a great opportunity to reach an interested public! And if you are a science teacher, it’s a great way to bring the experience of working scientists into the classroom!🧬⚛️🧪🥽🎢
Mount Polley’s tailings dam was 12 metres above the max height defined in its environmental certificate when it collapsed in 2014.
Current construction will raise it to 19 metres above EAC-specified height.
A First Nation is fighting the expansion in court.
@thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...
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several people at a press conference in front of a Uniform background
former Burnaby Now, New West Record and Tri-City News reporters announcing a campaign to launch a cooperatively owned and run publication covering the communities that have lost their local news publications
