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🎃godless dustbin⚰️
@godfrey.bsky.social
it's not delivery; it's digiornalist
freelance writer/editor/researcher
work in Guardian, G&M, Tyee, Filter
awards n stuff
canadian freelance union member
co-founder: @debriefcomms.bsky.social
justice, drugs, housing, health
they/them/thembo
"vancouver"
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Alberta's role in Canada's loss of measles elimination status embarrassing, former chief medical officer says

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta's role in Canada's loss of measles elimination status embarrassing, former chief medical officer says | CBC News
The latest federal data shows Alberta accounts for 38 per cent of Canada’s cases.
www.cbc.ca
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Scamtech will now help you better hide the fact you're using scamtech to lie to people.
OpenAI has a fix for a telltale sign that you used ChatGPT
For some writers, the em dash had become tarnished because it could indicate ChatGPT use — could an OpenAI update help it lose the stigma?
www.businessinsider.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.

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Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film
Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Yesterday, The Tyee looked at how the industry is struggling to meet demands for wheelchair maintenance and repairs — a situation that can trap people at home or even in bed while they wait.

In part two today, we look at solutions. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports. 🦽 #bcpoli
How to Speed Up Wheelchair Repairs | The Tyee
Systemic changes are needed from government and industry, experts say. In the meantime, users are turning to DIY.
thetyee.ca
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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While PM Carney’s fast-tracking initiative has been touted as a response to U.S. President Trump’s trade war, critics have pointed out the projects are largely backed by foreign-owned corporations — and include substantial U.S. investment.

@amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #uspoli #canpoli #LNG
Ksi Lisims LNG Makes Federal List of ‘Nation-Building’ Projects | The Tyee
The prime minister sidestepped questions about US ownership and First Nations opposition at a northern BC presser.
thetyee.ca
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday?

What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators?

Can we make this a thing?
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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So anyways…

You know how “Last Door” is the UCP’s most favorite recovery group ever?

Looks like their former employee who they allegedly tried to cover up for by deleting complaints from victims got sentenced to 3 years for sexual assault.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Railway jet fuel spill definitely not due to the railway, railway says
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Vancouver has spent decades building up a now well-earned reputation for leadership on environmental sustainability.

Apparently, the mayor and ABC majority don't see the value in it.

Hard to imagine a better way to damage the city's brand.
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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And if you think the Liberals are honestly trying to save the post office by reforming it, ask yourself why they wouldn't replace the CEO who's spent the last 6 years overseeing its slide into irrelevance. That's the first thing anyone who actually wanted to save it would do.
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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SCOOP: 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 in his proposed 2026 budget.
Great source work by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson to uncover this
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/n...
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 2:53 AM
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The +40% bylaw fine revenue, +14% parking fine revenue and +18% program revenue is something. Maybe it is possible.

But it does not feel like a recipe for a city with particularly good vibes.
according to the proposed budget, Vancouver’s climate plan is police
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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"DULF’s pilot project worked,” said the BC Supreme Court judge of the Vancouver compassion club.

She still convicted founders Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx. But some of her comments "may provide fuel" for their upcoming constitutional challenge, reports @godfrey.bsky.social:
“Hung Out to Dry”—DULF Pair Convicted But Plan Challenge
Compassion club founders Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx are convicted, but the judge's comments could fuel their constitutional challenge.
filtermag.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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'Devastating': Chinatown’s last post office set to close vancouversun.com/news/chinato...
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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This farm apparently hid their outbreak. The best thing that could happen for other farmers is for the CFIA to come down like a ton of bricks on any farm that does that. No compensation for lost livestock, lose all their permits, huge fines, etc. Scorched earth when a farm doesn't report outbreaks.
Katie Pasitney, whose mother co-owns the British Columbia ostrich farm where hundreds of the birds were shot dead in a cull ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, says she is focused on creating change for other farmers.
B.C. ostrich farm is ‘ground-zero for change’ as family reels from shooting cull
Katie Pasitney, whose mother co-owns the British Columbia ostrich farm where hundreds of the birds were shot dead in a cull ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, says she is focused on creating change for other farmers.
cheknews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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remember when paul johnson won a journalism award for 'discovering' you could get pills at a place literally named 'pill corner' since the 80s
I didn't exactly have high expectations from Paul Johnson, but jfc this is bad
November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Gizmodo does a great job of teasing out Palantir's CEO's views and summarizing them:

we might completely destroy our economy, our culture, our sense of privacy and individuality—but we’ll be damned if we let anyone else do it to us.

gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo...
Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race
He also had strong opinions about people's
gizmodo.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I didn't exactly have high expectations from Paul Johnson, but jfc this is bad
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Stats Can reporting a 9.3% unemployment rate in Kelowna.

Highest since June 2020.
November 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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its not ‘heroin’
same day dulf is convicted, northern health put out this warning
November 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
same day dulf is convicted, northern health put out this warning
November 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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update on the dulf case

despite the judge recognizing the political theatre that led to the DULF arrests, the court has found them guilty

they still have a charter challenge & im optimistic they'll win there #harmreduction #drugsky #cdnpoli
Court finds DULF guilty for compassion club "heralded as success"
Convictions are on hold as the compassion club founders prepare for a Charter challenge to begin on November 24.
drugdatadecoded.ca
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I guess it's past Halloween now and I can change my name back
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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This is shit
Drug User Liberation Front founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum have been found guilty of all charges. A lot people upset in this courtroom right now.

Defence going to be mounting a constitutional challenge.
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM