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Public well-being must include sustainability: #environment + social inclusion. It's foundational for civil society, income equality, and good governance.

#climatechange #sustainablecities #sustainablefood #architecture
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Carney said the Major Projects Office would develop a strategy for “Pathways Plus” — essentially marrying a major investment in carbon capture with a new pipeline to export oil from Alberta — which seems like it will see a breakthrough tomorrow.

Here's a refresher on why it's a very bad bet.
Carney's latest pipedream explained
Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to see the Pathways Alliance project built in exchange for a new oil pipeline to the BC coast — a risky bet on the country’s economic future.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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“The emails, the correspondence that we're receiving from people, are constituents sitting down and actually writing their thoughts and I think that actually speaks volumes in terms of how committed people are to this issue,” MP Will Greaves said. From @natashabulowski.bsky.social
BC Liberal MPs face pressure from voters over pipeline, tanker ban
Liberal MP for Victoria Will Greaves said the feedback he's getting from constituents "is almost universally opposed to lifting the tanker ban and is deeply skeptical of building another pipeline to t...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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“The answer is still no. No pipelines in British Columbia, no further fossil fuel pipelines, period,” said Stewart Phillip, grand chief of Syilx Nation and president of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.  From @sonalg.bsky.social
BC First Nations denounce reported Alberta-Ottawa agreement
Ahead of Thursday's expected announcement, Indigenous leaders in the province are accusing the federal government of making a "back room deal" to force through a pipeline to the province's northwest c...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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This is what happens when just 36.3% of people show up to vote in an election with one united right-of-centre party. You may avoid politics, but it can come to bite you in the ass. Eighty percent of success is showing up.

#vanpoli #Vote2026 #TaxTheRich
Vancouver's 2026 draft budget has PASSED.

Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed.

Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others.

Full story to come.
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Truly cannot wait to see the departure of these smarmy ABC Vancouver councilors & mayor next election. Through this whole budget process they have been so cynical and disrespectful to the public.

Every question from the public is "misinformation" and "disinformation" and "fear mongering" to them😒
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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We’re disappointed to see the City of Vancouver approve a devastating austerity budget, with no clarity on what services, programs and plans will be cut. Despite hundreds opposing this budget by speaking in person or writing in, Mayor Sim and ABC party chose to push it through anyway.
#VanPoli
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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this is going to harm so many people. vancouver is going to be recovering from this harmful budget for years.
JUST IN: Ken Sim and ABC have voted through a Budget that makes deep cuts. 

This austerity budget makes Zero Sense.

Press release: www.votecope.ca/news/zero-se...

#vanpoli #FightForVancouver
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Vancouver council has passed the austerity budget. Sets the table for a contentious election in a year's time. vancouver.ca/news-calenda...
Vancouver City Council approves 2026 Budget with 0% property tax increase
Today, Council approved the City’s 2026 Budget, which includes a 0% property tax increase while prioritizing frontline services and continuing planned investments in critical infrastructure.
vancouver.ca
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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🚨 Fake CBC “headlines” are spreading in conservative spaces — fabricated to look real & discredit CBC.
They’re meant to seed doubt, not truth.
Always verify: real CBC stories have links.
🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://cbch...
#SaveTheCBC #cdnpoli
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Boo!
Vancouver's 2026 draft budget has PASSED.

Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed.

Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others.

Full story to come.
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Canada should be focused on nation-building. Instead we are getting sucked into a needless pipeline war to appease Moe and Danielle Smith.
If the PM tries to kill the tanker ban without consulting BC premier Eby or First Nations he will be in for the fight of his life.
And he will lose.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Land value comes from from the community through public investments, services and growth and a land value tax ensures publicly created wealth goes to the community for a fairer economy.

Hear from @1alexhemingway.bsky.social & other experts. Nov 27, 6 PM @sfu.ca Burnaby
www.commonwealth.ca/....
BC Housing & Land Value Tax Panel 2025 — Common Wealth Canada
Meet housing and LVT advocates in Vancouver and Victoria, November 2025
www.commonwealth.ca
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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It's Budget Day in Vancouver.

#VanPoli
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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We just submitted an open letter to Vancouver Council signed by 250+ residents, including >100 physicians & other health professionals, urging them to withdraw the proposed 2026 budget. The budget puts climate action, public health, & community safety at risk. @womentcities.bsky.social
CAPE, CANE + WTC Letter to City of Vancouver on 2026 Budget.pdf
drive.google.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Last day to add your voice to the most opposed city budget in Vancouver history!

ABC's slash-and-burn budget harms the whole city, including:

-the Equity Office
-Climate and Sustainability Department
-Britannia Community Centre
-Vancouver Public Library
-Parks Board.

All to help the filthy rich.
It's our last chance to stop Ken Sim's plan to slash city services to give a hand-out to the super-rich.

Send a letter to City Council to join your neighbours in fighting back:
votecope.ca/stopsim
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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“There’s LOTS of confusion out there in the community about the details and intentions of this budget, but there’s also a legitimate fear of a mismatch between the values of Vancouver citizens, and the values embedded in this budget.” #VancouversBudget
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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VANCOUVER: “Over 60!businesses have signed an open letter to council, asking the city not to make a controversial budget cut to the Department of Planning, Urban Design and Sustainability.”

See my comments to Council today in the thread below. This budget won’t save money. It’ll cost FAR too much.
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Here is the report from the Vancouver Park Board detailing increases to fees and charges for recreation services in this year's "Zero Means Zero" budget.

parkboardmeetings.vancouver.ca/2025/2025112...
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Swagger "proposed" #Vancouver 2026 budget

“People who pay for this expect the money is going to go back into the park systems, making our community centres, our arenas better. But the city is taking that money out of the park board and putting it into other priorities of the city.”

#VanPoli
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Yikes. BC Residents May Have to Cover a Property Tax Break for Pipelines.

You know, because these fossil fuel corporations don't get to make enough profit on the basis of public/Indigenous land & resources. via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
BC Residents May Have to Cover a Property Tax Break for Pipelines | The Tyee
After lobbying, BC Assessment slashed its appraisals of the industry’s infrastructure.
thetyee.ca
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Fossil fuel enthusiasts keep arguing that we need to increase our exports of LNG and oil to address energy poverty in the developing world.

I call bullshit — and I bring my receipts. #abpoli #cdnpoli

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/25/o...
The energy poverty trap
Will more oil and gas production in Canada help alleviate energy poverty in the developing world? Of course not — but that hasn't prevented Danielle Smith and other industry champions from pretending ...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Fires are still burning in the Arctic in the winter. The climate catastrophe is here.
Spending political energy to massively increase pipeline production in Canada is not nation-building. It is planet burning.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests
Blazes that smoulder in the permafrost, only to reignite, are extending fire season though winter, leaving vegetation struggling to recover
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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This deal isn't about "reducing the heat."
That's the whole issue about building a pipeline to burn another million barrels a day of toxic bitumen on top of the million barrels we added thanks to TMX.
This is a planet burner.
I was a big supporter of Charlie. Then along came Meidas Ca and with that came these headlines.
First -This isn’t a bad deal
Second - the leafs will win the Stanley cup before this pipeline ever gets built.
Third- It’s called reducing the heat - get to the table and let’s move on.
Danielle Smith just suckered Mark Carney into reviving the Northern Gateway pipeline.
This is the antithesis of "nation-building."
There is no economic, political or environmental case for Stephen Harper's dream.
This won't end well.
For Canada or Carney.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025

SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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The perception of Canada has soured as news about fossil fuel subsidies, an LNG project, a gas pipeline and even reports about a new bitumen pipeline all landed during the climate negotiations. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/24/o...
A tough climate summit for Canada
Labeled the "Fossil of the Day" at COP30, Canada faces accusations of pulling back climate policies while pushing forward fossil subsidies and projects. But the committee seemed particularly stung by ...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM