karen ward
@kwardvancouver.bsky.social
once called « Canada's only public intellectual »
drug policy researcher & advisor ⁕ historian ⁕ artist ⁕ schemer ⁕ disorganizer
institute for the history of possible futures
https://free-futures-society.org/
drug policy researcher & advisor ⁕ historian ⁕ artist ⁕ schemer ⁕ disorganizer
institute for the history of possible futures
https://free-futures-society.org/
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I really liked the part of Carney’s speech where he admits that the old world order was largely built on bullshit. Just after he was introduced as, essentially, a grand wizard of the old world order.
January 21, 2026 at 5:13 AM
I really liked the part of Carney’s speech where he admits that the old world order was largely built on bullshit. Just after he was introduced as, essentially, a grand wizard of the old world order.
where’d you stash the real Scott Moe
Scott Moe on national unity: "The challenges that we're facing today are not coming from Ottawa in our perspective, they are coming from other countries around the world. We need to work together to defend our Canadian economy and our Canadian way of life."
January 21, 2026 at 4:29 AM
where’d you stash the real Scott Moe
when the BCNDP formed a minority government in July 2017, I was at VANDU doing the Tuesday Education & Action group so my first question I asked was, “what’s needed to improve your housing situation?”
And this guy Gary growls, “I need some fucken duct tape to fix the cardboard house I live in.”
And this guy Gary growls, “I need some fucken duct tape to fix the cardboard house I live in.”
New low barrier shelter spaces opening in Victoria, thanks to CARGA (the agreement between the BC Greens and BC NDP)
#bcpoli
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
#bcpoli
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
Supporting new shelter spaces in Victoria
Province, City of Victoria take action, invest together for community safety and well-being
news.gov.bc.ca
January 21, 2026 at 2:46 AM
when the BCNDP formed a minority government in July 2017, I was at VANDU doing the Tuesday Education & Action group so my first question I asked was, “what’s needed to improve your housing situation?”
And this guy Gary growls, “I need some fucken duct tape to fix the cardboard house I live in.”
And this guy Gary growls, “I need some fucken duct tape to fix the cardboard house I live in.”
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today @kwardvancouver.bsky.social told me about the ice cream factory that used to be in mt. pleasant
January 21, 2026 at 2:19 AM
today @kwardvancouver.bsky.social told me about the ice cream factory that used to be in mt. pleasant
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I don't understand all the people applauding Carney's speech at the big capitalist convention.
Daniel's thread sums up my read perfectly.
It's admission that capitalism is a lie, and that Carney was an informed yet willing participant.
Daniel's thread sums up my read perfectly.
It's admission that capitalism is a lie, and that Carney was an informed yet willing participant.
"Every morning, the shopkeeper places a sign in his window: “Workers of the world unite.” He doesn’t believe in it. No one does."
Is an interesting way to tell everyone that we live in a society that is based on a lie.
Is an interesting way to tell everyone that we live in a society that is based on a lie.
January 21, 2026 at 1:54 AM
I don't understand all the people applauding Carney's speech at the big capitalist convention.
Daniel's thread sums up my read perfectly.
It's admission that capitalism is a lie, and that Carney was an informed yet willing participant.
Daniel's thread sums up my read perfectly.
It's admission that capitalism is a lie, and that Carney was an informed yet willing participant.
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If you want to see if someone treats politics like a team sport, watch how they respond to journalism that is less than positive about a party or a politician they like.
It's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
The vitriol when you do anything other than uncritically praise Carney on threads is unmatched.
It’s also fascinating how they manage to trigger my imposter syndrome with the perfect combo of deep, unrelenting condescension and attacks on my journalistic skill lmao
The groupthink there is brutal
It’s also fascinating how they manage to trigger my imposter syndrome with the perfect combo of deep, unrelenting condescension and attacks on my journalistic skill lmao
The groupthink there is brutal
January 20, 2026 at 11:37 PM
If you want to see if someone treats politics like a team sport, watch how they respond to journalism that is less than positive about a party or a politician they like.
It's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
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It’s not just McBride.
I’m not sure the public realizes how deeply the 🇨🇦 + 🇺🇸 military integrated.
So if CAF are carrying out Trump’s orders on exchange - what happens if there’s a conflict between the two country’s interests?
My latest in The Economist: www.economist.com/the-americas...
I’m not sure the public realizes how deeply the 🇨🇦 + 🇺🇸 military integrated.
So if CAF are carrying out Trump’s orders on exchange - what happens if there’s a conflict between the two country’s interests?
My latest in The Economist: www.economist.com/the-americas...
January 20, 2026 at 9:02 PM
It’s not just McBride.
I’m not sure the public realizes how deeply the 🇨🇦 + 🇺🇸 military integrated.
So if CAF are carrying out Trump’s orders on exchange - what happens if there’s a conflict between the two country’s interests?
My latest in The Economist: www.economist.com/the-americas...
I’m not sure the public realizes how deeply the 🇨🇦 + 🇺🇸 military integrated.
So if CAF are carrying out Trump’s orders on exchange - what happens if there’s a conflict between the two country’s interests?
My latest in The Economist: www.economist.com/the-americas...
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We can't build power by only asking for votes at election time. We need to be organizing in our communities 365 days a year.
That means turning every one of our 343 riding associations across the country into hubs for community organizing and mutual aid.
Join our movement: avilewis.link/join
That means turning every one of our 343 riding associations across the country into hubs for community organizing and mutual aid.
Join our movement: avilewis.link/join
January 20, 2026 at 11:28 PM
We can't build power by only asking for votes at election time. We need to be organizing in our communities 365 days a year.
That means turning every one of our 343 riding associations across the country into hubs for community organizing and mutual aid.
Join our movement: avilewis.link/join
That means turning every one of our 343 riding associations across the country into hubs for community organizing and mutual aid.
Join our movement: avilewis.link/join
I can’t afford this fancy place
January 20, 2026 at 11:06 PM
I can’t afford this fancy place
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I have many:
It’s convenient to say this now that a western country is being threatened with U.S. imperialism
These are the same leaders that praised the toppling of Maduro so the hypocrisy is clear
No one is talking about the Indigenous ppl of Greenland and implications for them
It’s convenient to say this now that a western country is being threatened with U.S. imperialism
These are the same leaders that praised the toppling of Maduro so the hypocrisy is clear
No one is talking about the Indigenous ppl of Greenland and implications for them
January 20, 2026 at 9:07 PM
I have many:
It’s convenient to say this now that a western country is being threatened with U.S. imperialism
These are the same leaders that praised the toppling of Maduro so the hypocrisy is clear
No one is talking about the Indigenous ppl of Greenland and implications for them
It’s convenient to say this now that a western country is being threatened with U.S. imperialism
These are the same leaders that praised the toppling of Maduro so the hypocrisy is clear
No one is talking about the Indigenous ppl of Greenland and implications for them
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By securing $30 million through our agreement with the government, the B.C. Greens are helping make sure communities like Victoria have the resources they need to move people from encampments into stable housing with ongoing support and overdose prevention services.
#bcpoli
#bcpoli
New low barrier shelter spaces opening in Victoria, thanks to CARGA (the agreement between the BC Greens and BC NDP)
#bcpoli
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
#bcpoli
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
Supporting new shelter spaces in Victoria
Province, City of Victoria take action, invest together for community safety and well-being
news.gov.bc.ca
January 20, 2026 at 8:05 PM
By securing $30 million through our agreement with the government, the B.C. Greens are helping make sure communities like Victoria have the resources they need to move people from encampments into stable housing with ongoing support and overdose prevention services.
#bcpoli
#bcpoli
Financial pressures? Wait until every Canadian client and vendor end all their contracts with you
Let’s make sure the workers get severance pay
“financial pressures“?
fuck you
Let’s make sure the workers get severance pay
“financial pressures“?
fuck you
Hootsuite has been pursuing business with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the United States, more than five years after employee backlash forced the Vancouver tech company to cancel a contract to provide social-media management services to the agency.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Vancouver company Hootsuite seeks business with ICE amid financial pressures
Company has secured a project with ICE that involves ‘social listening’ after cancelling a contract in 2020 over employee backlash
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Financial pressures? Wait until every Canadian client and vendor end all their contracts with you
Let’s make sure the workers get severance pay
“financial pressures“?
fuck you
Let’s make sure the workers get severance pay
“financial pressures“?
fuck you
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Hootsuite has been pursuing business with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the United States, more than five years after employee backlash forced the Vancouver tech company to cancel a contract to provide social-media management services to the agency.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Vancouver company Hootsuite seeks business with ICE amid financial pressures
Company has secured a project with ICE that involves ‘social listening’ after cancelling a contract in 2020 over employee backlash
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Hootsuite has been pursuing business with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the United States, more than five years after employee backlash forced the Vancouver tech company to cancel a contract to provide social-media management services to the agency.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Police can enter your home & capture you & take you to be locked away during a mental health wellness check! Happened to me. Policing is this insidious!
January 20, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Police can enter your home & capture you & take you to be locked away during a mental health wellness check! Happened to me. Policing is this insidious!
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Canada is gearing up for major land grabs and we need to be prepared for the inevitable police repression that comes with protecting "critical infrastructure" (i.e. capital investments) such as this: bsky.app/profile/jeff...
ummm isn't this Carney's former(?) gig?
"... will acquire up to $100 billion of AI infrastructure assets, deploying investment across every stage of the value chain—from energy and land to data centers and compute." bam.brookfield.com/press-releas...
"... will acquire up to $100 billion of AI infrastructure assets, deploying investment across every stage of the value chain—from energy and land to data centers and compute." bam.brookfield.com/press-releas...
Brookfield Launches $100 Billion AI Infrastructure Program
Brookfield Launches $100 Billion AI Infrastructure Program
bam.brookfield.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Canada is gearing up for major land grabs and we need to be prepared for the inevitable police repression that comes with protecting "critical infrastructure" (i.e. capital investments) such as this: bsky.app/profile/jeff...
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Oh Carney made a good speech?
Let’s just check his actions as PM against what was said in the speech…
Let’s just check his actions as PM against what was said in the speech…
a woman says computer says no in front of a palm tree
Alt: Gif. woman says “computer says no”
media.tenor.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Oh Carney made a good speech?
Let’s just check his actions as PM against what was said in the speech…
Let’s just check his actions as PM against what was said in the speech…
Andrew Coyne demands an answer
Who is Andrew Coyne?
January 20, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Andrew Coyne demands an answer
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Canadians say our border agents are nothing like ICE
This low bar ignores our partnership with ICE, and the deaths, deportations, and detentions overseen by the Canada Border Services Agency, or CBSA
Our latest at @breachmedia.ca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Wu...
This low bar ignores our partnership with ICE, and the deaths, deportations, and detentions overseen by the Canada Border Services Agency, or CBSA
Our latest at @breachmedia.ca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Wu...
Canada’s border agents don’t deserve a pass
YouTube video by The Breach
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Canadians say our border agents are nothing like ICE
This low bar ignores our partnership with ICE, and the deaths, deportations, and detentions overseen by the Canada Border Services Agency, or CBSA
Our latest at @breachmedia.ca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Wu...
This low bar ignores our partnership with ICE, and the deaths, deportations, and detentions overseen by the Canada Border Services Agency, or CBSA
Our latest at @breachmedia.ca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Wu...
”No, I’m Spiderman. You’re the impostor.”
”No you are the impostor!”
“No, U!”
www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/carney-...
”No you are the impostor!”
“No, U!”
www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/carney-...
January 20, 2026 at 4:44 PM
”No, I’m Spiderman. You’re the impostor.”
”No you are the impostor!”
“No, U!”
www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/carney-...
”No you are the impostor!”
“No, U!”
www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/carney-...
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Grok, the gas-powered deepfake-generating "anti-woke" chatbot that used to refer to itself as "MechaHitler," attracted a substantial investment from Canadians' pensions.
Canada's pension plan invested $416 million in Musk's deepfake porn-generating AI
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) ploughed about $416 million last year into xAI, Elon Musk's AI company. The money helped fund the billionaire's push to build three of the world's larg...
www.nationalobserver.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Grok, the gas-powered deepfake-generating "anti-woke" chatbot that used to refer to itself as "MechaHitler," attracted a substantial investment from Canadians' pensions.
Can’t be on both sides of a rupture, can’t wait out a rupture, can’t take a wait-and-wait approach to a rupture
unless you’re determined to drug us all into the abyss with you
Carney’s lack of decisive action makes his words empty
unless you’re determined to drug us all into the abyss with you
Carney’s lack of decisive action makes his words empty
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Can’t be on both sides of a rupture, can’t wait out a rupture, can’t take a wait-and-wait approach to a rupture
unless you’re determined to drug us all into the abyss with you
Carney’s lack of decisive action makes his words empty
unless you’re determined to drug us all into the abyss with you
Carney’s lack of decisive action makes his words empty
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This post to Truth Social requires an immediate response from the international community and either impeachment or invocation of the 25th amendment by Congress. Republicans, you are sleepwalking the world towards an entirely preventable catastrophe.
January 20, 2026 at 3:02 PM
This post to Truth Social requires an immediate response from the international community and either impeachment or invocation of the 25th amendment by Congress. Republicans, you are sleepwalking the world towards an entirely preventable catastrophe.
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"The time for a strong stance on climate change will always be now, we owe it to our children, grandchildren, and all future generations." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip @ubcic.bsky.social #bcpoli #climatesky
Media Release: @bcclimateemergency.bsky.social ’s annual Progress Report offers stark warning to the BC government and residents of B.C. bcclimateemergency.ca/press-releas... #bcpoli #cleanbc #climatesky
January 20, 2026 at 4:52 AM
"The time for a strong stance on climate change will always be now, we owe it to our children, grandchildren, and all future generations." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip @ubcic.bsky.social #bcpoli #climatesky
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'Failures Wanted': A Museum of Personal Failure is coming to Kingsgate Mall
'Failures Wanted': A Museum of Personal Failure is coming to Kingsgate Mall
Pieces include a wedding dress, reject paintings and tie rod ends from a failed car repair, curator says
dlvr.it
January 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM
'Failures Wanted': A Museum of Personal Failure is coming to Kingsgate Mall