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Email Senators: Vote YES to lowering the voting age Sixteen-year-olds can enroll in the Armed Forces, drive a car, provide sexual consent, and be tried as an adult in court. And yet, they can't vote. Any day now, the Senate will vote on Bill S-222 –...

There is a bill in the Senate to lower Canada's federal voting age to 16. Email senators now!

You saw it too? I watched in horror, just waiting for them to hit someone. Cars and pedestrians all over the place

Missed that. Bad cop, no doughnut

Hey #vancouver, what was all the high-speed police cruiser business about an hour or two ago? Cop car went up Commercial Drive at at least 100km - looked pretty unsafe. Another eastbound on Broadway

Not typical

The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment-or at least much handicap-to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need. Michael Parenti

Council's priorities: property tax breaks for mansion and compound owners; bail out Westbank on woodwards retail imminent foreclosure; expensive fireworks display; incoherent press conferences

Mayorbot says he saw a meme and believed it was true. That's really his defense.

Just watched Ken Sim's news conference about the lies he told about Sean Orr (and, via Lenny Zhou, about all non-ABC councillors)

We are one press conference and a media availability in, yet no closer to answers or accountability. Sim took three questions and bolted from the mic 🧵

Totally. Not to mention they made it hard for people to choose PST or DST by more or less not including it in the questions, IIRC. Which is not dissimilar to how they deliberately fudged the Pro Rep referendum.

Daylight Saving Time Affects Night Owls More Than Early Birds Researchers find Daylight Saving Time affects night owls more than early birds, disrupting sleep patterns for a longer period of time.

Oddly some say DST is bad for night owls but I've never found that, quite the opposite www.chronobiology.com/daylight-sav...

However those of us night owls, who feel permanently discriminated against by the whole early-bird-catches-the-worm 9-5 capitalism thing, are so happy for more daylight while conscious

Only one Liberal MP spoke out publicly against Carney's outrageous endorsement of the illegal US-Israel war on Iran:

Victoria MP Will Greaves. And it's a good statement.

Carney can't afford to eject even 1 MP from caucus so backbenchers have a little more leverage right now. #cdnpoli

Someone has to have said Down By Law (1986) already

DHS's Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by a group called "Department of Peace" and info about ICE contracts with over 6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org!

Enjoy 🧊🔨 ddosecrets.org/article/ice-...

This isn't the first time that Ken Sim has been involved in a smear campaign against @seanorr.bsky.social. Sean's interview is worth a listen - for its honesty, grace, and concern for the public who are harmed by Sim's dirty tricks

IMO we need more humanity like Sean's in politics. Solidarity.

That sounds nice! I often think of the walk we did in Strathcona that January, watching the hummingbird in the mahonia flowers. Glad you're well!

This is despicable. You know very well Israel and the US are the key source of conflict in the Middle East. So much for your fine words in Davos.

"The system's power comes not from its truth, but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true, and its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack"

- Mark Carney

mark carney telling canadians in iran to shelter in place with their elbows up to avoid harm from the strikes that he supports

May everyone involved burn in hell

Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Nobody likes a smart ass, Ken

At the risk of dating myself with this adjective, these right wing freaks are so square it’s just painful

How do all these kids who are aping a 1950s Red Scare-era Joe McCarthy ever get laid? Genuine question

Conservative MP searches for ‘antifa’ in federal government, Canadian Armed Forces - National | Globalnews.ca Federal departments and the Canadian Armed Forces must answer by April how many members of anti-fascist groups work for the public service and the military.

In that tie?

globalnews.ca/news/1168850... #cdnpoli

Vancouver's mayor outdoes himself with a dishonest, cowardly, and weird polical smear. I'm sure that he won't respond to a call to resign as he has already amply demonstrated his lack of moral compass! Foul behavior.

Hi @daveunger.bsky.social! Happy birthday, and I'm glad to s you on here.

Spain to check Gibraltar arrivals under post-Brexit border deal Arrivals at the Rock's airport would have to show their passport twice under a new UK-EU treaty.

FAFO old chap

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How is this not a resignable offence?

October 17 can’t come fast enough for a party with this much contempt for Vancouver citizens