Dermot Foley
@djosephfoley.bsky.social
Former ESG Manager, portfolio manager and shareholder activist at Vancity. Energy and climate policy analyst. Proud to support DEI for corporations and government.
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If only there were...some sort of..... coalition...of progressive electors... with a long-standing commitment to Vancouver's working class.
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If only there were...some sort of..... coalition...of progressive electors... with a long-standing commitment to Vancouver's working class.
The spectacle outside Universal Ostrich Farms was a pathetic stepchild of the so-called “freedom convoy,” complete with virtually non-stop livestreaming on over-the-top Facebook accounts and constant coverage by radical-right Rebel News. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: The ostrich saga was for the birds
Government’s decision to cull 300 birds in B.C. was for the public good
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November 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The spectacle outside Universal Ostrich Farms was a pathetic stepchild of the so-called “freedom convoy,” complete with virtually non-stop livestreaming on over-the-top Facebook accounts and constant coverage by radical-right Rebel News. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Bloomberg round-up: Financial analysts say Trump’s effort to cut off food aid under the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program threatens to damage major grocers and their suppliers going into the holiday season.
#shutdowncrisis
#shutdowncrisis
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Bloomberg round-up: Financial analysts say Trump’s effort to cut off food aid under the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program threatens to damage major grocers and their suppliers going into the holiday season.
#shutdowncrisis
#shutdowncrisis
More free man on the land pseudo lawyering unravels in court cases. Tax evasion scam promoted as educational seminars: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
B.C. couple who ran bogus anti-tax school lose CRA assessment appeal | CBC News
A B.C. couple who ran educational seminars promoting the bogus notion that people don't have to pay taxes have lost their appeal against tax bills on $1.4 million in revenue from the scheme.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
More free man on the land pseudo lawyering unravels in court cases. Tax evasion scam promoted as educational seminars: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This is one of the best articles I’ve read regarding the false argument about land claims and private property. It’s clear that municipal officials and elected councillors are promoting hysteria as political cover for their own failings. They should have negotiated a solution for the Cowichan.
Interesting article on the political fallout from the Cowichan decision. #VanPoli #BCPoli #LandTitle www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
ANALYSIS | 'Cloud' of tension between Aboriginal title and private property ownership lands in B.C. | CBC News
Decades ago one of B.C.'s top judges described tensions between the legal concept of Aboriginal title and the reality of private property ownership as a "cloud." Last week, just as Southin predicted, ...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This is one of the best articles I’ve read regarding the false argument about land claims and private property. It’s clear that municipal officials and elected councillors are promoting hysteria as political cover for their own failings. They should have negotiated a solution for the Cowichan.
Electoral-vote.com: Cheney was a Reagan-style Republican who—in the name of "winning"—unleashed political forces he ultimately could not control. McConnell laid the groundwork for modern MAGA by personally stacking the Supreme Court; Cheney did it by turning elections into culture-wars referenda.
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Electoral-vote.com: Cheney was a Reagan-style Republican who—in the name of "winning"—unleashed political forces he ultimately could not control. McConnell laid the groundwork for modern MAGA by personally stacking the Supreme Court; Cheney did it by turning elections into culture-wars referenda.
From Jewish Currents: “It is anybody’s guess whether the leadership of today’s Democratic Party will be able to recognize, in Mamdani’s vision of an egalitarian, culturally rich, diverse, and affordable New York City, ….
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
From Jewish Currents: “It is anybody’s guess whether the leadership of today’s Democratic Party will be able to recognize, in Mamdani’s vision of an egalitarian, culturally rich, diverse, and affordable New York City, ….
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Stunning @desmog.com story from @geoffdembicki.bsky.social - showing how oil major ExxonMobil bankrolled climate science denial in the global south prior to crucial global summits...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Stunning @desmog.com story from @geoffdembicki.bsky.social - showing how oil major ExxonMobil bankrolled climate science denial in the global south prior to crucial global summits...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
Bloomberg: “Even before AI can improve productivity profitability, it’s beginning to have an effect on jobs. Amazon.com Inc. and Meta have announced almost 15,000 AI-related job cuts.” #artificialintelligence
Amazon.com
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October 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Bloomberg: “Even before AI can improve productivity profitability, it’s beginning to have an effect on jobs. Amazon.com Inc. and Meta have announced almost 15,000 AI-related job cuts.” #artificialintelligence
Food price inflation is largely driven by climate change. Over the last 25 years agricultural productivity has fallen due to environmental factors caused by climate change. The House with Catherine Cullen - Oct. 25, 2025: What’s spiking food prices? www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Food price inflation is largely driven by climate change. Over the last 25 years agricultural productivity has fallen due to environmental factors caused by climate change. The House with Catherine Cullen - Oct. 25, 2025: What’s spiking food prices? www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Trade war! What trade war?From Bloomberg - As one Chinese expert recently put it, when asked by the geopolitical analyst Tina Fordham about the risk of losing access to US consumers: “We don’t care. China has been here for 5,000 years. Most of the time, there was no United States, and we survived.”
October 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Trade war! What trade war?From Bloomberg - As one Chinese expert recently put it, when asked by the geopolitical analyst Tina Fordham about the risk of losing access to US consumers: “We don’t care. China has been here for 5,000 years. Most of the time, there was no United States, and we survived.”
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“It will take time for scientists to determine exactly how much #ClimateChange supercharged #Melissa, but they can already say the storm has been feeding on warm ocean temps made up to 800 times more likely by global heating…The hotter the ocean gets, the more energy that can transfer into a storm.”
How Hurricane Melissa got so dangerous so fast
As the storm threatens Jamaica, "the role climate change has played in making Hurricane Melissa incredibly dangerous is undeniable."
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October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“It will take time for scientists to determine exactly how much #ClimateChange supercharged #Melissa, but they can already say the storm has been feeding on warm ocean temps made up to 800 times more likely by global heating…The hotter the ocean gets, the more energy that can transfer into a storm.”
Despite growing pressure on the Cop system of global environmental governance, Guterres said it played a crucial role.
“The alternative is a free-for-all,” he said. “And we know what free for all means. #climate
“The alternative is a free-for-all,” he said. “And we know what free for all means. #climate
October 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Despite growing pressure on the Cop system of global environmental governance, Guterres said it played a crucial role.
“The alternative is a free-for-all,” he said. “And we know what free for all means. #climate
“The alternative is a free-for-all,” he said. “And we know what free for all means. #climate
In his only interview before next month’s Cop30 climate summit, António Guterres acknowledged it is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the target in the Paris climate agreement, with “devastating consequences” for the world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
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October 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
In his only interview before next month’s Cop30 climate summit, António Guterres acknowledged it is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the target in the Paris climate agreement, with “devastating consequences” for the world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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“The B.C. Conservatives are again dealing with controversial comments perpetuating residential school denialism, this time from a high-profile staffer who had a key role in shaping the party.” #BCPoli
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BC Conservative Staffer Slams Truth and Reconciliation Flag | The Tyee
Stoking residential school denialism, Lindsay Shepherd calls flag at BC legislature ‘a disgrace.’
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September 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“The B.C. Conservatives are again dealing with controversial comments perpetuating residential school denialism, this time from a high-profile staffer who had a key role in shaping the party.” #BCPoli
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China is using existing technology for a new Great Leap Forward “China is making and installing factory robots at a far greater pace than any other country, with the United States a distant third, further strengthening China’s already dominant global role in manufacturing.
September 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
China is using existing technology for a new Great Leap Forward “China is making and installing factory robots at a far greater pace than any other country, with the United States a distant third, further strengthening China’s already dominant global role in manufacturing.
Karl Marx once wrote that the bourgeoisie created its own gravedigger in the immiserated proletariat. Today’s tech elite seems intent on realizing that prophecy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
AI will make the rich unfathomably richer. Is this really what we want? | Dustin Guastella
The ‘knowledge economy’ promised cultural and social growth. Instead, we got worsening inequality and division. Artificial intelligence will supercharge it
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September 16, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Karl Marx once wrote that the bourgeoisie created its own gravedigger in the immiserated proletariat. Today’s tech elite seems intent on realizing that prophecy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“To allow universities to be bossed by political operatives in this way undermines the basic ideals of the university as well as [its] important links to the future of critical thought, dissent, and democracy.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
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September 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“To allow universities to be bossed by political operatives in this way undermines the basic ideals of the university as well as [its] important links to the future of critical thought, dissent, and democracy.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Back to the 1950’s when academics, scholars, artists and administrators were hounded out of the country by an alcoholic, paranoid congressman. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Back to the 1950’s when academics, scholars, artists and administrators were hounded out of the country by an alcoholic, paranoid congressman. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Another landlord exposed for disingenuous evictions: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
B.C. judge overturns eviction of 73-year-old renter, citing landlord's 'questionable' practices | CBC News
A vulnerable tenant won a B.C. Supreme Court challenge to overturn an eviction, as the judge said the Residential Tenancy Branch arbitrator did not adequately assess if the landlord’s eviction notice ...
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September 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Another landlord exposed for disingenuous evictions: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Vancouver has dangerous levels of smoke right now. #vancouver
September 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Vancouver has dangerous levels of smoke right now. #vancouver
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The famous Mr. Mittens at English Bay, Vancouver. #Vancouver #EnglishBay
September 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The famous Mr. Mittens at English Bay, Vancouver. #Vancouver #EnglishBay
George Monbiot: Why does capital love fossil fuels? It's not hard to explain. They exist in a small number of discrete locations, where the right to exploit them can be owned and monopolised. Most can be extracted commercially only at scale, excluding small competitors. #clinatechange
August 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
George Monbiot: Why does capital love fossil fuels? It's not hard to explain. They exist in a small number of discrete locations, where the right to exploit them can be owned and monopolised. Most can be extracted commercially only at scale, excluding small competitors. #clinatechange
Here’s what happens to a public amenity after a change of corporate owners.
August 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Here’s what happens to a public amenity after a change of corporate owners.