Kareem Hassib | 🇨🇦 | 🇯🇵🇪🇬
@kareemhassib.bsky.social
UBC Senator & Urban Studies Student | Board of Directors @ BCCLA | Transportation Advisory Committee @ City of Vancouver | Executive @ BCYND & UBC NDP | Musician | Toronto-born, BC-raised🇨🇦
Still, the city built the Dunsmuir & Georgia viaducts, demolishing the historic Black Hogan’s Alley neighborhood, expecting the freeway would eventually connect to the viaducts.
To this day, Vancouver is the only major North American city without an inner-city freeway.
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To this day, Vancouver is the only major North American city without an inner-city freeway.
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September 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Still, the city built the Dunsmuir & Georgia viaducts, demolishing the historic Black Hogan’s Alley neighborhood, expecting the freeway would eventually connect to the viaducts.
To this day, Vancouver is the only major North American city without an inner-city freeway.
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To this day, Vancouver is the only major North American city without an inner-city freeway.
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The community in Chinatown pushed back, and activists tirelessly organized and worked with sympathetic municipal officials on the inside to make the plan unappealing for the federal government to fund. It worked.
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September 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The community in Chinatown pushed back, and activists tirelessly organized and worked with sympathetic municipal officials on the inside to make the plan unappealing for the federal government to fund. It worked.
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"Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening."
— Chico Mendes
— Chico Mendes
July 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening."
— Chico Mendes
— Chico Mendes
Also, wealth in this sense isn't even a good metric for quality of life - Americans work way more hours for less benefits than Europeans and are thus "richer" in one sense, but are more miserable.
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June 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Also, wealth in this sense isn't even a good metric for quality of life - Americans work way more hours for less benefits than Europeans and are thus "richer" in one sense, but are more miserable.
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GDP, which includes money that the average person never sees via manufacturing and industry, doesn't reflect the wealth of the average person. On top of that, being a tax haven causes an influx of corporations who are based somewhere only on paper, which skews statistics.
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June 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
GDP, which includes money that the average person never sees via manufacturing and industry, doesn't reflect the wealth of the average person. On top of that, being a tax haven causes an influx of corporations who are based somewhere only on paper, which skews statistics.
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Most obviously, when you don't take into account inequality in wealthy distribution, while AVERAGE (mean) wealth may be higher in one place, because of a more unequal distribution, MEDIAN wealth could be way lower, as is the case with the U.S.'s insane wealth inequality.
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June 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Most obviously, when you don't take into account inequality in wealthy distribution, while AVERAGE (mean) wealth may be higher in one place, because of a more unequal distribution, MEDIAN wealth could be way lower, as is the case with the U.S.'s insane wealth inequality.
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Also, if you live in an urban riding (below are examples in BC) & are thinking of voting strategically, there’s a good chance the Conservatives aren’t even a threat.
These races are really NDP vs Liberal, in which case, there's no reason to not vote NDP if you're a progressive.
These races are really NDP vs Liberal, in which case, there's no reason to not vote NDP if you're a progressive.
April 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Also, if you live in an urban riding (below are examples in BC) & are thinking of voting strategically, there’s a good chance the Conservatives aren’t even a threat.
These races are really NDP vs Liberal, in which case, there's no reason to not vote NDP if you're a progressive.
These races are really NDP vs Liberal, in which case, there's no reason to not vote NDP if you're a progressive.
OpenAl/Meta use so much more hardware, have 100x more financial and human resources, and still manage to create a worse final product.
www.ftc.gov/system/files...
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January 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
OpenAl/Meta use so much more hardware, have 100x more financial and human resources, and still manage to create a worse final product.
www.ftc.gov/system/files...
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The solution is to crack down on corporations that abuse the program and enact more labour protections for immigrant workers.
(And fellow Canadians, this applies to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program too.)
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The solution is to crack down on corporations that abuse the program and enact more labour protections for immigrant workers.
(And fellow Canadians, this applies to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program too.)
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January 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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The solution is to crack down on corporations that abuse the program and enact more labour protections for immigrant workers.
(And fellow Canadians, this applies to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program too.)
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The solution is to crack down on corporations that abuse the program and enact more labour protections for immigrant workers.
(And fellow Canadians, this applies to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program too.)
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…of more easily exploitable workers who may overwork to avoid the risk of deportation. This also leads to suppressed wages in certain industries, while corporations pay out less benefits, increasing their bottom line.
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January 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
…of more easily exploitable workers who may overwork to avoid the risk of deportation. This also leads to suppressed wages in certain industries, while corporations pay out less benefits, increasing their bottom line.
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