In Vancouver politics, sometimes what one municipal party sees as an “ultimatum,” another sees as a “cheeky” way to inspire faster inter-party negotiations in the hopes of achieving a progressive win in the coming fall election. #vanpoli
With the Canada-Alberta MOU Prime Minister Mark Carney has given up many of Canada’s hard-won climate and environmental policies to appease Alberta Premier Smith and the fossil fuel industry. Tell the federal government to reject a new pipeline and uphold environmental policies bit.ly/3MKVypS
I have many opinions but here’s one: the makeup of this generation is their parents removing all boundaries from the parenting process thus offering no preparedness or accountability for this generation of youth
If joking about Charlie Kirk is considered “violent rhetoric,” how do we describe open calls to hang members of Congress?
A 3x3 grid of #SaveTheAI posters featuring the dimensions of water, air, electricity, jobs, and coal. Five in English, one each in French, Spanish, Mandarin, and Arabic. Other languages available not shown here.
📣 Friends, fans, enemies!
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Speak out against Ken Sim’s budget #vanpoli:
Submit comments to Mayor and Council via vancouver.ca/your-governm...
Share ideas and feedback through www.shapeyourcity.ca.
Writers! Give @TWSSFU a follow & enter into your 2025 calendars the upcoming #TWSsprints and #TWSOchat sessions. Twitter Sessions: 2nd Sunday of each month -- TWS Twitter Chats #TWSOchat 4th Sunday of each month -- TWS Writing Sprints #TWSsprints
What did it all mean? A good read below. Watching from Canada, there is a sadness about the Women’s marches, and BLM marches and all the other marches despite which Trump got elected.
Join us in congratulating our graduates at the FCAT Convocation celebration on October 9th!
The Convocation ceremony will be held at Convocation Mall at Burnaby Campus at 9:45am, with a reception to follow at the SW corner of the Reflection Pond.
Register now: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/R5D37FG
“Gaia-24,” the opera inspired by Russia’s 2023 destruction of the Kakhovka Reservoir dam in Kherson Oblast, is set to make its return to the Kyiv stage in late November at the Lesia Ukrainka National Academic Drama Theater.
I don't believe in God. I'm an atheist.
BUT I believe that people with great influence should use it to do good for nature, life in general, humanity, and the planet.
That's why I think this is a good thing.
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who got kicked out of their own people
Global warming caused by humans is an observed fact. Yes, science still needs to learn more, but it's no more in overall doubt than the theory of gravity. And it's bad. Willful ignorance, enforced by those who choose to deny science, is an existential threat to our civilization.
Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing.
#twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...
Fire in the hole: Indigenous crews blasting the Alaskan rainforest to save it.
After a historic land buyback by the US Forest Service, Tlingit crew members are demolishing culverts to restore streams, salmon runs & cultural history in the Tongass national forest.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Looking to deepen your practice on urban issues?
The Fall 2025 @sfucity.bsky.social courses & workshops are now open and featuring:
Financing Urban Growth
Real Estate Development
Planning and Zoning Law
Drafting Design Guidelines
Transit Oriented Development
www.sfu.ca/continuing-s...
echoing this key takeaway, in solidarity against-a-i.com
so much needed! thank you for the ideas and the solidarity.
sunday mid-august is just about the sundayest.
balm for the sundays:
this solidarity guide to back-to-school support against the AI assault
against-a-i.com
Applications are still being accepted for the Postdoctoral position until this Friday!
This is the way the World is ending, not with a bang but a whimper
Scientists discover blue whales singing less because they are starving
The Global Climate Crisis is killing off their krill & plankton food
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
"Susanne Calabrese, a lawyer for Ecojustice, argues [David] Yager’s various appointments and roles put him at odds in crafting the [#MAS], which she says furthers industry interests over the public’s."
You too can request an investigation into potential conflicts of interest👉 https://bit.ly/46jfb07
dystopia: "put resources behind AI while it strips funds for actual public education. invest in AI while it strips funding for scientific research. sponsor creation of vast data center infrastructure but ensure AI will be propped up by energies of the past."
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/trumps-ai-...
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF
Hear from Daniel Ahadi and Jennesia Pedri about the new course they developed - CMNS 200: Professional & Strategic Communication!
This course invites all students to build their professional communication skills, which are valuable across all industries.
www.sfu.ca/communicatio...
Ontario wants to develop Wasaga Beach Park—home to endangered Piping Plovers—for tourism and housing.
🚨 No Plovers = no healthy beach. 🚨
Speak up before Aug 11 to stop this reckless plan 👉 bit.ly/3ICMYHU
#ProtectWasaga #SaveThePlovers #EndangeredSpecies #Ecojustice 🕊️🌊
Proofs are in! Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry will be published by @commonnotions.bsky.social this fall. It describes/theorizes/circulates experiences of research that feeds into labour organizing within & against digital capitalism.
www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward...
A win is a win! 👏
After the Ford government’s attempt to appeal, the court has ruled in favour of upholding a temporary injunction first granted in April 2025.
In other words, Ontario continues to be prevented from removing 3 major bike lanes on Yonge, University, and Bloor in Toronto.
The time has come—first anti-malaria pill down the hatch as @librarianjones.com, @captainlibrary.bsky.social & I prepare for our adventure to Kenya to build a library. Learn more about this work and get updates for our journey at buildinglibraries.org. TY to all who helped make this happen! #TLsky
