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thetyee.ca
A small, oily fish at the heart of B.C.’s coastal food web will likely disappear without an immediate moratorium on commercial herring fishing, say Saanich First Nations Hereditary Chiefs and conservation groups.

Judith Lavoie reports. #bcpoli
‘We Are Going to Fight to Save the Herring’ | The Tyee
The DFO proposes to expand the fishery. Environmental groups and the W̱SÁNEĆ fear disaster.
thetyee.ca
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
tightlywound.bsky.social
“When public policy on substance use and treatment of people who use drugs is based on stigma and morality, rather than evidence and respect for fundamental human dignity, harmful policies result. The health crisis facing people who use drugs is created by these bad policies…”
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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vimhs.bsky.social
#BritishColumbia Human Rights Commissioner says the #BC government takes a #stigma-based approach to the #opioidcrisis that is “a violation” of #humanrights, focusing on #criminaljustice and #involuntarycare rather than #evidence-based action cheknews.ca/b-c-human-ri...
B.C. Human Rights Commissioner says stigmatizing drug use is a violation
British Columbia's Human Rights Commissioner is criticizing the province's handling of the deadly opioid crisis, saying it takes a stigma-based approach that is "a violation" of human rights.
cheknews.ca
November 14, 2025 at 4:28 AM
tightlywound.bsky.social
Resource extraction has real known impacts on the safety of local communities. Violence, drugs, housing costs, traffic, sex trafficking, wild food scarcity all go up when a project moves in.
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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ricochetmedia.bsky.social
Canada’s next extractive industry: How #AI is following the fossil fuel playbook.

Ottawa is betting on artificial intelligence. Just like #BigOil, Big Tech is building infrastructure that will be nearly impossible to dismantle.

New from @terraloire.bsky.social:

ricochet.media/climate/cana...
Canada's next extractive industry: How AI is following the fossil fuel playbook
Ottawa is betting nearly a billion on artificial intelligence, ignoring warnings of its environmental risks. Just like Big Oil, Big Tech is building infrastructure that will be nearly impossible to di...
ricochet.media
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
tightlywound.bsky.social
Fuck. This. Shit.
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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jcblue88.bsky.social
Amazon workers are going on strike for their freedom and safety. Let’s help them with a boycott of you are not already boycotting.

#boycottamazon

youtu.be/AI1kjUKL11Q?...
Workers Plan to Shutdown Amazon Over Christmas
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
tightlywound.bsky.social
this this this this this
teedixie.bsky.social TeeDixie ✊🏼 #Resist @teedixie.bsky.social · 4d
People moan about AI taking people’s jobs, so interact and keep demand high for in person jobs
- Go to the post office when you need to renew/post/register things
- Go to the bank and get money out
- Go to the shops and spend money, stop buying online
- Go use public transport
- Go to the library
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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jameswsthomson.com
Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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nberlat.bsky.social
"truly it was out of curiosity"
Truly it was out of curiosity: why a person with unlimited resources exhibits so little appreciation or even awareness of the things that most people value as giving meaning to life. Just minimally well to do people donate to charities, local museums & libraries & the like; they support the commonweal. & unlike the very wealthy these people pay high income taxes.
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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nationalobserver.com
NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.
Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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joewrote.bsky.social
Confirmed match-fixing in the NBA, MLB, and UFC. Multiple studies showing sports betting increases debt, bankruptcy, and even domestic violence.

Legalized gambling was a huge mistake.
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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drugdatadecoded.ca
With @theglobeandmail.com choosing to continue manufacturing consent for forced abstinence — guaranteed to increase violence in the short-term and overdose deaths in the long term across Victoria — here’s what I dug up after the last time:
drugdatadecoded.ca/bc-governmen...
BC government faces legal challenge as national news media promote forced abstinence
Two long-form articles in national news outlets are promoting the BC government's "secure care" policy the same week that the government faces a pivotal legal challenge on its expansive interpretation...
drugdatadecoded.ca
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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climateconnections.bsky.social
Joe Rogan spent a whole podcast episode spouting climate misinformation. @dananuccitelli.bsky.social broke down the tactics Rogan and other climate deniers use so you can call them out when you hear them.
Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change  » Yale Climate Connections
Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics. 
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
tightlywound.bsky.social
“They poured as much obfuscating verbiage over the budget disaster as they did concrete in the Peace River.”

Les Leyne coming in with the banger line of the weekend ☄️We must keep and cherish journalists so they can keep doing the good work like this.

www.timescolonist.com/opinion/les-...
Les Leyne: Site C 'lessons' the blandest, most blameless account possible
When it comes to burying a compelling story in 250 pages of stupefying technical explanations, the report is a literary doublespeak masterpiece.
www.timescolonist.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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lukelebrun.ca
Hi Bluesky 👋

Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP

It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history

I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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jonthompson.bsky.social
Nishnawbe Aski Nation chiefs voted unanimously to demand that Canada and Ontario meet with them over the law-defying Bill C-5 and Bill 5.
But it's clear they see this as existential. If it's not met at the table, it will be met in the courts and on the land.
ricochet.media/indigenous/l...
‘Now or never’ for Ontario First Nations to stand up to resource extraction bills
Legal experts warn that laws are undemocratic and unconstitutional, while leaders across the north call for a united front to defend their lands and sovereignty
ricochet.media
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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canadiandimension.bsky.social
Canada’s debt is modest, self-financed, and stable. Yet we are told to accept austerity as the “responsible” path forward. Deficit panic is really a strategy to limit what’s politically imaginable—universal services, public housing, and climate action.
The deficit is not an economic problem—it’s a political weapon
Mark Carney’s new budget exposes how Canada’s political class weaponizes the deficit to protect elites and justify austerity. Despite alarmist rhetoric, Canada’s debt is modest and self-financed. The ...
canadiandimension.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
tightlywound.bsky.social
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bengoldfarb.bsky.social Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 9d
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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ricochetmedia.bsky.social
Zohran #Mamdani was just elected mayor of New York City!

It should now be a wake-up call to Canadian progressives — proving that people-first politics rooted in fairness, affordability, and real unity is the way forward.

#Canada #NDP #DemocraticSocialism #DSA

ricochet.media/politics/zoh...
Zohran Mamdani’s victory should be a wake-up call to Canadian progressives
Mamdani's win proves that people-first politics rooted in fairness, affordability, and real unity is the way forward
ricochet.media
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
tightlywound.bsky.social
Which is why I will always encourage my teens to get their boosters, whenever available. I would have better luck getting my dogs to wear masks, so this is our only hope for these social kids.
November 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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kwardvancouver.bsky.social
Fraser Institute, Canada Strong and Free, Macdonald Laurier Institute, Canadian Taxpayers Federation....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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kwardvancouver.bsky.social
comments on bylaw enforcement in the city of Victoria from people without housing

#yyj
BYLAW Ideas: • Bylaw officers (and VicPD) should have to go thru extensive psychological testing to ensure total neutrality • There should be some training for Bylaw and Police from people with lived experience • Train Bylaw with folks with lived experience • Disrespectful language is common “parasite” “you people” “you’re lazy” • Bylaw takes our stuff and disposes of it – often not all of it is there when picked up Comments: o There are a couple of good ones of all the bylaw officers; most are terrible o Everything gets taken – purse, tent, sleeping bag, ID; they target folks o They are not keeping us safe or helping us o Blue fences on Pandora – block garbage cans, some garbage cans have been removed o People see us a degenerate pigs o Bylaw doesn’t need to exist, we can take care of ourselves o We’re being bullied and threatened o There is a high-pitched noise coming from McDonalds that extends up to Bay Street o We need you to hire people with lived experience so that they can learn what it’s really like o We are sworn at by Bylaw and Police o Bylaw is supposed to follow the law and be neutral o Hire more people with lived experience; we need bylaw trained by people with lived experience o Bylaw used to come before their sweep to let us know that they will be coming. They didn’t used to steal our belongings. o They have three bins – garbage, stuff for the person to collect, and for bylaw to have They take our naloxone kits – unhoused leave kits where we need them and they are being removed by Bylaw because they want us to die o Pressure the province to pay for support o Bring back the program to bridge the gap between Police, Bylaw and the unhoused
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
tightlywound.bsky.social
Exactly this
nberlat.bsky.social Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 12d
study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
November 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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bookshop.org
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM