Robyn
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as @cityofvancouver.bsky.social mulls removing change tables for budgetary reasons (?), a reminder that my husband and I have been mapping crowdsourced change table locations for the last two years for "fun!" vancouverchangetables.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
as @cityofvancouver.bsky.social mulls removing change tables for budgetary reasons (?), a reminder that my husband and I have been mapping crowdsourced change table locations for the last two years for "fun!" vancouverchangetables.com
Dipping in and out of watching the Council meeting today, but caught Nan with a soft spoken banger of a speech.
Nan Gregory, an older Point Grey resident, voiced what she wants her city to be. She’s opposed to the proposed property tax freeze, as all speakers so far have been.
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Dipping in and out of watching the Council meeting today, but caught Nan with a soft spoken banger of a speech.
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Breaking: ABC Vancouver just voted unanimously against a staff recommendation to finance a DTES Community Land Trust and aquire an SRO building under community control, against the requests of community members and advocates.
This is going to make homelessness worse.
#vanpoli
This is going to make homelessness worse.
#vanpoli
November 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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The American empire that has sheltered capital for so long is starting to crack. This is a moment of opportunity as well as of peril. A little bit of optimism of the intellect is called for, if only to jump-start the optimism of the will.
newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
David Harvey, On Sraffa’s Trail, NLR 152, March–April 2025
David Harvey recalls a lifetime of encounters, actual and intellectual, with the enigmatic Piero Sraffa. Interlocutor of Wittgenstein, Keynes and Robinson; devastating critic of neoclassical economics...
newleftreview.org
May 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The American empire that has sheltered capital for so long is starting to crack. This is a moment of opportunity as well as of peril. A little bit of optimism of the intellect is called for, if only to jump-start the optimism of the will.
newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
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and to people, events and political currents that open doors to new ways of thinking, hopefully more adequate to confront the central contradictions of our times. It is, however, one thing to open doors but quite another to pass through en masse, to explore what might exist on the other side.
May 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
and to people, events and political currents that open doors to new ways of thinking, hopefully more adequate to confront the central contradictions of our times. It is, however, one thing to open doors but quite another to pass through en masse, to explore what might exist on the other side.
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For anyone aware of the tragedy at Vancouver Lapu Lapu festival, here's a thread of GoFundMe's available to help support the many victims. (copy pasted from my friend 'J' in the Vancouver Filipino community)
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April 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
For anyone aware of the tragedy at Vancouver Lapu Lapu festival, here's a thread of GoFundMe's available to help support the many victims. (copy pasted from my friend 'J' in the Vancouver Filipino community)
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Poilievre vows to stay on as party leader for reasons of being otherwise unemployable #CanadaVotes #cdnpoli
April 29, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Poilievre vows to stay on as party leader for reasons of being otherwise unemployable #CanadaVotes #cdnpoli
Pierre Poilievre has a face that needs glasses.
April 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Pierre Poilievre has a face that needs glasses.
Sean Fraser is toning down his Nova Scotia accent on CBC right now, and I'm upset!
April 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Sean Fraser is toning down his Nova Scotia accent on CBC right now, and I'm upset!
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Wade Grant won! Musqueam nation - hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaker (a Salish dialect, the Native language most of Metro Vancouver). The first Coast Salish person in parliament, AFAIK.
April 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Wade Grant won! Musqueam nation - hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaker (a Salish dialect, the Native language most of Metro Vancouver). The first Coast Salish person in parliament, AFAIK.
We should all be thanking Chrystia Freeland, yes?
April 29, 2025 at 3:39 AM
We should all be thanking Chrystia Freeland, yes?
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I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.
April 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.
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Pierre
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Loses his seat
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April 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Pierre
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Loses his seat
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You can tell CBC has never cast a ballot in Vancouver civic election
April 29, 2025 at 2:47 AM
You can tell CBC has never cast a ballot in Vancouver civic election
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Gunn is a guy who might not lose, but deserves to lose
I know this likely won't last, but enjoying it for now. Aaron Gunn is (temporarily) losing.
April 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Gunn is a guy who might not lose, but deserves to lose
Seeing Cheryl Gallant losing, even with a total of 12 votes counted, is giving me a little bit of life
April 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Seeing Cheryl Gallant losing, even with a total of 12 votes counted, is giving me a little bit of life
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In Canada, when our head of government needs to make an extremely important decision, we call that "going for a long walk in the snow."
April 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
In Canada, when our head of government needs to make an extremely important decision, we call that "going for a long walk in the snow."
🙏 Malpeque please, no
Atlantic Canada went 24-8 for the Liberals last election.
Conservatives would like to hold everywhere they won last time, plus maybe Cape Breton, Malpeque on PEI, or a couple rural Newfoundland ridings.
Liberals would like to take Miramichi and South Shore-St. Margarets.
Not a lot to say yet!
Conservatives would like to hold everywhere they won last time, plus maybe Cape Breton, Malpeque on PEI, or a couple rural Newfoundland ridings.
Liberals would like to take Miramichi and South Shore-St. Margarets.
Not a lot to say yet!
justin are you willing to call the election Right Now, what about in 3 minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
🙏 Malpeque please, no
No one warned me I’d have to see Jason Kenney’s face today 😖
April 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
No one warned me I’d have to see Jason Kenney’s face today 😖
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Have been looking at the polls closely and it's clear they predict you should go and vote right now if you haven't already.
April 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Have been looking at the polls closely and it's clear they predict you should go and vote right now if you haven't already.
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Please help us correct misinformation!
Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans".
We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community.
Find out more @ translifeline.org
Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans".
We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community.
Find out more @ translifeline.org
Home - Trans Lifeline
Radicalcommunity care Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for our community that’s been divested from police since day one. We’re run by and for
translifeline.org
April 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Please help us correct misinformation!
Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans".
We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community.
Find out more @ translifeline.org
Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans".
We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community.
Find out more @ translifeline.org
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Fundraiser for Trey Helten’s partner and son, for anyone able to contribute.
Even if you don’t chip in, please take a few seconds to read about Trey and maybe think — how can you help others off this murderous conveyor belt? This isn’t normal.
chuffed.org/project/1296...
Even if you don’t chip in, please take a few seconds to read about Trey and maybe think — how can you help others off this murderous conveyor belt? This isn’t normal.
chuffed.org/project/1296...
Support for Trey Helten’s partner and kids. Ashtrey forever.
The Downtown Eastside is reeling.
chuffed.org
April 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Fundraiser for Trey Helten’s partner and son, for anyone able to contribute.
Even if you don’t chip in, please take a few seconds to read about Trey and maybe think — how can you help others off this murderous conveyor belt? This isn’t normal.
chuffed.org/project/1296...
Even if you don’t chip in, please take a few seconds to read about Trey and maybe think — how can you help others off this murderous conveyor belt? This isn’t normal.
chuffed.org/project/1296...
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if you are feeling helpless, a simple but incredibly valuable thing that many of us can do after a catastrophe is sign up to donate blood and plasma. www.blood.ca/en
Canadian Blood Services | Canada's Lifeline
There are many ways to join Canada's Lifeline. Discover how you can make all the difference for someone in Canada today.
www.blood.ca
April 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
if you are feeling helpless, a simple but incredibly valuable thing that many of us can do after a catastrophe is sign up to donate blood and plasma. www.blood.ca/en