Kirk Tousaw
@kirktousaw.bsky.social
I helped legalize cannabis in Canada and won some precedent setting medical cannabis cases. Now I practice law in British Columbia and run a cannabis company called Great Gardener Farms. Dad and husband. Deadhead. Lions fan. He/him.
This seems like an important decision expanding the definition of landlord to include property managers who are now on the hook.
Property manager on the hook for $32K payment to wrongfully evicted tenants, B.C. court rules
Property manager on the hook for $32K payment to wrongfully evicted tenants, B.C. court rules
A property management company has been ordered to pay wrongfully evicted tenants more than $32,000 in compensation after failing to convince a B.C. judge the owners should be held liable instead.
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This seems like an important decision expanding the definition of landlord to include property managers who are now on the hook.
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Or we could have a government which doesn’t allow monopolies and massive wealth inequality.
The only surefire way to stop oligarchs buying up the things we love is to drop those things the moment oligarchs buy them & that requires changing habits and massive self-discipline.
It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient.
It’s really hard. But there it is.
It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient.
It’s really hard. But there it is.
December 9, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Or we could have a government which doesn’t allow monopolies and massive wealth inequality.
This is well said. Boycotts are great and yes do it.
Laws are better.
Laws are better.
Our only response isn’t as consumers.
December 9, 2025 at 7:10 AM
This is well said. Boycotts are great and yes do it.
Laws are better.
Laws are better.
Well this is horrific. If this procedure can be performed anywhere she should have it and SK should pay for it.
A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
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There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
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Sask. woman considers MAID because she can't get needed surgery for rare disease | CBC News
For the past eight years Jolene Van Alstine has suffered from a rare form of parathyroid disease, normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism (nPHPT). It causes extreme bone pain.
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Well this is horrific. If this procedure can be performed anywhere she should have it and SK should pay for it.
You’d think after a couple hundred plus years of interpretation there wouldn’t be much new constitutional ground left in the US. I studied constitutional law - and mostly US law - at James Madison College @michiganstateu.bsky.social. This is a new one to me.
OK, seriously. This is wild.
Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;
Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;
December 9, 2025 at 6:53 AM
You’d think after a couple hundred plus years of interpretation there wouldn’t be much new constitutional ground left in the US. I studied constitutional law - and mostly US law - at James Madison College @michiganstateu.bsky.social. This is a new one to me.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremacist rhetoric, it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany."
December 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Rep. Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremacist rhetoric, it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany."
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This feels like the central toxicity of these dude-gurus: They're feeding men an ideology that immediately casts it as "virtue signaling" whenever anyone states a moral value of any kind. An explicitly nihilistic worldview and a recipe for lifelong misery.
December 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This feels like the central toxicity of these dude-gurus: They're feeding men an ideology that immediately casts it as "virtue signaling" whenever anyone states a moral value of any kind. An explicitly nihilistic worldview and a recipe for lifelong misery.
Im not just comfortable with murder I want to do more murder. This sociopaths only regret is he doesn’t get to push the button.
WELKER: Is there any hard evidence showing this particular boat was headed to the US?
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Im not just comfortable with murder I want to do more murder. This sociopaths only regret is he doesn’t get to push the button.
If you need to change the law to protect people from being sued for allegedly harm reducing and live saving interventions, then maybe your interventions are not as great as you are pretending they are.
December 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
If you need to change the law to protect people from being sued for allegedly harm reducing and live saving interventions, then maybe your interventions are not as great as you are pretending they are.
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“The Lovejoy Trap is […] also frighteningly effective at packaging extreme inhumanity as being necessary “for the children.” It leapfrogs right over any discussion of the facts because it feels like life or death.”
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-lovejoy-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-lovejoy-...
December 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
“The Lovejoy Trap is […] also frighteningly effective at packaging extreme inhumanity as being necessary “for the children.” It leapfrogs right over any discussion of the facts because it feels like life or death.”
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-lovejoy-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-lovejoy-...
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This is from the story published in local media throughout this province:
“It is not, but it is almost like a vaccine against overdose for a period of time,” Eby said.
THIS IS DANGEROUSLY IRRESPONSIBLE MISINFORMATION and Alex explains here:
bsky.app/profile/unfi...
“It is not, but it is almost like a vaccine against overdose for a period of time,” Eby said.
THIS IS DANGEROUSLY IRRESPONSIBLE MISINFORMATION and Alex explains here:
bsky.app/profile/unfi...
so for BC journo's anyone telling you that long acting buprenorphine, aka sublocade, is a vaccine for OD's is being incredibly misleading in a very dangerous way
it is true that in the first week a patients tolerance from sublocade is quite high, but that's not true in weeks 2 & 3 #bcpoli
it is true that in the first week a patients tolerance from sublocade is quite high, but that's not true in weeks 2 & 3 #bcpoli
oh fuck, i wasn't 100% sure so i didn't want to say it, but that's not even what they're talking about... they're talking about using sublocade (which holy shit is not a vaccine for overdoses)
December 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
This is from the story published in local media throughout this province:
“It is not, but it is almost like a vaccine against overdose for a period of time,” Eby said.
THIS IS DANGEROUSLY IRRESPONSIBLE MISINFORMATION and Alex explains here:
bsky.app/profile/unfi...
“It is not, but it is almost like a vaccine against overdose for a period of time,” Eby said.
THIS IS DANGEROUSLY IRRESPONSIBLE MISINFORMATION and Alex explains here:
bsky.app/profile/unfi...
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It has been 36 years today since a psychopathic anti-feminist killed 14 women and injured 13 others at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. 💔
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
Polytechnique survivor ‘worried’ about social climate 36 years after antifeminist massacre
While Nathalie Provost says much has changed since an antifeminist gunman entered her Polytechnique classroom and killed her classmates 36 years ago, she worries about worsening social tensions.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It has been 36 years today since a psychopathic anti-feminist killed 14 women and injured 13 others at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. 💔
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
Unless you are sent by trump in which case you are heroes deserving of pardons.
Patel on J6 arrest: "When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life."
December 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Unless you are sent by trump in which case you are heroes deserving of pardons.
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The proper framing for this policy change is “Government insists that drug users die”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The proper framing for this policy change is “Government insists that drug users die”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Just a straight up Klan rant at this point. His ability to control his impulses is declining by the day.
Trump goes on another racist rant about Somalis: "Ilhan Omar should be thrown the hell out of our country, and most of those people -- they have destroyed Minnesota. It's a hellhole right now. Those Somalians should be out of here. They have destroyed out country ... go back to your own country."
December 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Just a straight up Klan rant at this point. His ability to control his impulses is declining by the day.
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Around 90% of Somalis in Minnesota are US citizens. Republicans call them "illegals" because they aren't white.
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Around 90% of Somalis in Minnesota are US citizens. Republicans call them "illegals" because they aren't white.
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Remember Walkerton and the changes since to ensure water safety?
“Municipalities run drinking water systems under strict rules created after the Walkerton scandal in 2,000, when contaminated water killed seven people and sickened more than 2,000.”
No privatization of our water!
#onpoli
#Water
“Municipalities run drinking water systems under strict rules created after the Walkerton scandal in 2,000, when contaminated water killed seven people and sickened more than 2,000.”
No privatization of our water!
#onpoli
#Water
"The new corporation could set water rates for municipal residents, as a privately owned, for-profit organization. Municipalities would have to transfer all their water and wastewater assets, staff, debt, contracts and infrastructure to the new body." 🤮
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/28/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/28/n...
Ford government dives into municipal business as it eyes water services
The province has assumed sweeping new powers to seize control over municipal water systems — one of Ontario’s largest public assets, worth $175.8 billion — raising fears the move could pave the way fo...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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America does not have capital punishment for selling or smuggling drugs and none of these people were arrested or tried. There could have been mountains of cocaine in open view on the deck of the boats and it still would have been murder of unarmed civilians.
Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
December 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
America does not have capital punishment for selling or smuggling drugs and none of these people were arrested or tried. There could have been mountains of cocaine in open view on the deck of the boats and it still would have been murder of unarmed civilians.
Sleepy Don is too old to be president and maybe the media should give him the Biden treatment. Or is that just what they do to Democrats that aren’t promising to keep their corporate taxes low and their billionaire owners’ taxes nearly non-existent?
Sir, why are disturbing the dear leader's nap. Shhhhh.
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Sleepy Don is too old to be president and maybe the media should give him the Biden treatment. Or is that just what they do to Democrats that aren’t promising to keep their corporate taxes low and their billionaire owners’ taxes nearly non-existent?
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The entire War on Drugs has never been about drugs. It’s always been a cover for racism and exploitation.
Dismantling drug prohibition has never been more urgent or existential for people who don’t use illegal drugs.
Dismantling drug prohibition has never been more urgent or existential for people who don’t use illegal drugs.
Money…
How much he charged for 🇭🇳 former president pardon?
It’s not about drugs.
It’s all about the money.
How much he charged for 🇭🇳 former president pardon?
It’s not about drugs.
It’s all about the money.
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The entire War on Drugs has never been about drugs. It’s always been a cover for racism and exploitation.
Dismantling drug prohibition has never been more urgent or existential for people who don’t use illegal drugs.
Dismantling drug prohibition has never been more urgent or existential for people who don’t use illegal drugs.
It’s nice of him not to interrupt her stream of nonsense but wow what a bunch of garbage. And the answer is you arrest and prosecute not extrajudicially murder.
Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It’s nice of him not to interrupt her stream of nonsense but wow what a bunch of garbage. And the answer is you arrest and prosecute not extrajudicially murder.
Every single thing about this is stupid.
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Every single thing about this is stupid.
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this is by far the least cool anyone has ever made doing drugs look
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
this is by far the least cool anyone has ever made doing drugs look
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Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social