Kelly B
@kellyblack.ca
Public history. Museums. PhD. Tidal pool explorer. Vancouver Island - Coast Salish territories. Newsletter: buttondown.com/leftcoastdispatch he/him kellyblack.ca
Why are your elections like this, USA?
There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election.
Go. Check. Your. Ballot.
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Go. Check. Your. Ballot.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Why are your elections like this, USA?
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I missed the detail that Mark Carney ditched the luxury tax on private jets, yachts, and vehicles over $100,000 in the budget, though I also can’t say I’m surprised.
The banker-in-chief is serving his Bay Street buddies.
The banker-in-chief is serving his Bay Street buddies.
Here's what each federal department plans to cut under Budget 2025 | CBC News
Tuesday's federal budget offers a glimpse into how dozens of government departments plan to rein in spending following this summer's comprehensive expenditure review. Here's a department-by-departmen...
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I missed the detail that Mark Carney ditched the luxury tax on private jets, yachts, and vehicles over $100,000 in the budget, though I also can’t say I’m surprised.
The banker-in-chief is serving his Bay Street buddies.
The banker-in-chief is serving his Bay Street buddies.
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In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
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"As Canada and the world permit genocide and accelerate toward conflict, it is worth remembering that we can best pay our respect to the dead by challenging the inevitability of war."
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
"As Canada and the world permit genocide and accelerate toward conflict, it is worth remembering that we can best pay our respect to the dead by challenging the inevitability of war."
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The Cowichan sweaters are world renown for their beauty and warmth, but that very fabric of authenticity is being tested by Eddie Bauer with a similar sweater for sale on their website.
Cowichan sweater knitters concerned over Eddie Bauer replica
The Cowichan sweaters are world renown for their beauty and warmth, but that very fabric of authenticity is being tested by Eddie Bauer with a similar sweater for sale on their website.
cheknews.ca
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The Cowichan sweaters are world renown for their beauty and warmth, but that very fabric of authenticity is being tested by Eddie Bauer with a similar sweater for sale on their website.
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Excited to see AI's results in the Canadian government!
UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Excited to see AI's results in the Canadian government!
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3/ We got photos of all of them and got to work finding their names. CBC verified our identifications and added two. By bringing in the CBC, we were able to reach a much larger audience to talk about the threat of white nationalism in Canada.
Read CBC's reporting here:
Read CBC's reporting here:
MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
3/ We got photos of all of them and got to work finding their names. CBC verified our identifications and added two. By bringing in the CBC, we were able to reach a much larger audience to talk about the threat of white nationalism in Canada.
Read CBC's reporting here:
Read CBC's reporting here:
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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This is one of the best explainers on the ongoing saga out of BC.
Too few mainstream news articles touch on the connections to the Convoy, or the fact that it’s really the same movement, with ostriches.
The farmers are saying this is just starting. it’ll be interesting to see where it goes now.
Too few mainstream news articles touch on the connections to the Convoy, or the fact that it’s really the same movement, with ostriches.
The farmers are saying this is just starting. it’ll be interesting to see where it goes now.
For months, I’ve been following a Canadian ostrich farm ordered to cull its flock after a bird flu outbreak. It was a cause célèbre for MAHA activists, a MAGA billionaire, and, of course, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The trucker convoy with birds ended last night. They lost. www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
Why the conspiratorial right rallied around a flock of ostriches
The anti-vaccine, anti-government crusade to save "the miracle cure birds" is over — and the fringe activists lost.
www.msnbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This is one of the best explainers on the ongoing saga out of BC.
Too few mainstream news articles touch on the connections to the Convoy, or the fact that it’s really the same movement, with ostriches.
The farmers are saying this is just starting. it’ll be interesting to see where it goes now.
Too few mainstream news articles touch on the connections to the Convoy, or the fact that it’s really the same movement, with ostriches.
The farmers are saying this is just starting. it’ll be interesting to see where it goes now.
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we keep falling for it bsky.app/profile/t0us...
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
we keep falling for it bsky.app/profile/t0us...
FIFA’s private Vegas buffet coming soon to Vancouver - courtesy of a small $650 million donation from the BC NDP government!
FIFA is a parastate that acts like a parasite, treating World Cup hosts like its own private Vegas buffet. Zohran Mamdani’s has a chance to challenge FIFA, grounding the fightback in his politically effective crisis-of- affordability approach targeting the 1% www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Zohran Mamdani has upended US politics. Now he should take on Fifa | Jules Boykoff
New York’s mayor-elect has taken on powerful institutions. With the World Cup taking place in his city, he should challenge Fifa next
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
FIFA’s private Vegas buffet coming soon to Vancouver - courtesy of a small $650 million donation from the BC NDP government!
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🚨 From our latest post, which looks at medical doctors affiliated to 🇨🇦 universities who served in the IOF as per @davidemastracci.bsky.social 's findidfsoldiers.net. This pediatric orthopedist + Prof at UBC Medicine went to serve during the genocide. More details: substack.com/home/post/p-...
October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
🚨 From our latest post, which looks at medical doctors affiliated to 🇨🇦 universities who served in the IOF as per @davidemastracci.bsky.social 's findidfsoldiers.net. This pediatric orthopedist + Prof at UBC Medicine went to serve during the genocide. More details: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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NEW📍Israeli soldier hosted by Students Supporting Israel - a group at Toronto Metropolitan University - reshared a story on Instagram admitting he was the one who smashed the glass. He cut his own arm & then played victim. Instead of doing any investigating, Canadian media ran with his narrative.
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
NEW📍Israeli soldier hosted by Students Supporting Israel - a group at Toronto Metropolitan University - reshared a story on Instagram admitting he was the one who smashed the glass. He cut his own arm & then played victim. Instead of doing any investigating, Canadian media ran with his narrative.
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lol why put it this way
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
lol why put it this way
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Here's hoping both Esquimalt and Victoria push back hard this year. It's bonkers there's zero discussion of reducing the police budget & instead we have to worry about crime reduction measures like bike valet being cut
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Here's hoping both Esquimalt and Victoria push back hard this year. It's bonkers there's zero discussion of reducing the police budget & instead we have to worry about crime reduction measures like bike valet being cut
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Hey! Don’t forget, free Palestine
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Hey! Don’t forget, free Palestine
Hey! Don’t forget, free Palestine
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Hey! Don’t forget, free Palestine
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I shall say this only once: wearing a poppy ≠ remembrance and it should always be your personal choice whether to wear one or not.
a woman is standing in front of a bookshelf and talking to someone .
ALT: a woman is standing in front of a bookshelf and talking to someone .
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November 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I shall say this only once: wearing a poppy ≠ remembrance and it should always be your personal choice whether to wear one or not.
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Full article is up.
“There is no issue that the Crown has proven the essential elements of the offence of [possession for the purpose of trafficking],” Murray said. “However, this case is not that straightforward.”
Read more at @pressprogress.ca pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
“There is no issue that the Crown has proven the essential elements of the offence of [possession for the purpose of trafficking],” Murray said. “However, this case is not that straightforward.”
Read more at @pressprogress.ca pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24.
pressprogress.ca
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Full article is up.
“There is no issue that the Crown has proven the essential elements of the offence of [possession for the purpose of trafficking],” Murray said. “However, this case is not that straightforward.”
Read more at @pressprogress.ca pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
“There is no issue that the Crown has proven the essential elements of the offence of [possession for the purpose of trafficking],” Murray said. “However, this case is not that straightforward.”
Read more at @pressprogress.ca pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...
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OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
OVER A MILLION USERS
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT
EVERY *WEEK*
what the fuck are we DOING here
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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I wrote about the need for a Youth Climate Corps in 2023, & it has only grown greater.
Instead of investing in the military industrial complex, policing, and more state oppression, we need a robust climate corps!
Young people deserve good work and a dignified future.
rabble.ca/columnists/w...
Instead of investing in the military industrial complex, policing, and more state oppression, we need a robust climate corps!
Young people deserve good work and a dignified future.
rabble.ca/columnists/w...
We need a climate corps, not more military missions
A climate corps would not only create jobs for youths, but it will also give them an opportunity to help fight for a better future.
rabble.ca
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I wrote about the need for a Youth Climate Corps in 2023, & it has only grown greater.
Instead of investing in the military industrial complex, policing, and more state oppression, we need a robust climate corps!
Young people deserve good work and a dignified future.
rabble.ca/columnists/w...
Instead of investing in the military industrial complex, policing, and more state oppression, we need a robust climate corps!
Young people deserve good work and a dignified future.
rabble.ca/columnists/w...