Pierre Chauvin
@lechauvin.bsky.social
Former journalist. Part of the Victoria bike cult. Francophone. Photo : Camassia quamash.
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So here's the favour I want to ask: if this post crosses your feed, please take this chance to support the Gitxsan and Gitanyow by watching our latest HGA and passing it on.
Help us put Ksi Lisims and PRGT on the map 🙏
Help us put Ksi Lisims and PRGT on the map 🙏
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November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
So here's the favour I want to ask: if this post crosses your feed, please take this chance to support the Gitxsan and Gitanyow by watching our latest HGA and passing it on.
Help us put Ksi Lisims and PRGT on the map 🙏
Help us put Ksi Lisims and PRGT on the map 🙏
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“Alone in the middle of the street, with no cars to fear and silence reigning, it really does feel like your street.”
An Ode to Jaywalking | The Tyee
An excerpt from Alex Manley’s new book of essays, ‘Post-Man.’
thetyee.ca
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
“Alone in the middle of the street, with no cars to fear and silence reigning, it really does feel like your street.”
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@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
PressProgress: Defend Canadian Journalism
pressprogress.ca
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
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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 🧵
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
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 🧵
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 🧵
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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“To pay for VicPD’s demands, the city is even looking at cutting a children’s book prize, and a poet laureate and youth poet laureate program that only costs $8,000 (keep in mind that VicPD spent $22,000 on a retirement party this year)” 🚨➡️ defundvicpd.org/2025/11/06/c... #yyj #DefundVicPD
City releases 2026 Draft Budget – big cuts proposed to make way for police funding
The City of Victoria has released the 2026-2030 Draft Financial Plan, along with some early budget deliberations by city staff. They’re thinking about cutting all sorts of things. The City is propo…
defundvicpd.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“To pay for VicPD’s demands, the city is even looking at cutting a children’s book prize, and a poet laureate and youth poet laureate program that only costs $8,000 (keep in mind that VicPD spent $22,000 on a retirement party this year)” 🚨➡️ defundvicpd.org/2025/11/06/c... #yyj #DefundVicPD
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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget scales back rules around greenwashing, cuts environmental spending and hints an emissions cap on the oil and gas industry is unlikely. VIA @meyer.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...
How Carney’s first budget impacts the environment | The Narwhal
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget scales back many Trudeau-era environmental programs and creates a youth climate corps
thenarwhal.ca
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget scales back rules around greenwashing, cuts environmental spending and hints an emissions cap on the oil and gas industry is unlikely. VIA @meyer.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...
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Zohran Mamdani draws inspiration from Québec — a reminder that ideas travel, and borders can’t contain hope. 🕊️🕯️
Proud that our little corner of the world can spark big dreams. 💙🤍⚜️
#PolQc ⚜️
#Québec ⚜️
#Canada 🇨🇦
#ZohranMamdani 🇺🇸
Proud that our little corner of the world can spark big dreams. 💙🤍⚜️
#PolQc ⚜️
#Québec ⚜️
#Canada 🇨🇦
#ZohranMamdani 🇺🇸
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Zohran Mamdani draws inspiration from Québec — a reminder that ideas travel, and borders can’t contain hope. 🕊️🕯️
Proud that our little corner of the world can spark big dreams. 💙🤍⚜️
#PolQc ⚜️
#Québec ⚜️
#Canada 🇨🇦
#ZohranMamdani 🇺🇸
Proud that our little corner of the world can spark big dreams. 💙🤍⚜️
#PolQc ⚜️
#Québec ⚜️
#Canada 🇨🇦
#ZohranMamdani 🇺🇸
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The entire US seems to have embraced avowedly left wing policies
Meanwhile #Canada is spending money it doesn’t have on weapons it doesn’t need to support a neighbor that threatens annexation & tariff wars, and the most popular premier spends public money boosting Ronald Reagan
#cdnpoli
Meanwhile #Canada is spending money it doesn’t have on weapons it doesn’t need to support a neighbor that threatens annexation & tariff wars, and the most popular premier spends public money boosting Ronald Reagan
#cdnpoli
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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ok what's next? let's just say after 10+ years in journalism this is the most excited and responsible i feel to contribute to something because i believe in it so much. beating out everyone else's coverage of ICE/tech/your privacy in this dystopia, @404media.co, its an honor to join your badass team
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
November 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
ok what's next? let's just say after 10+ years in journalism this is the most excited and responsible i feel to contribute to something because i believe in it so much. beating out everyone else's coverage of ICE/tech/your privacy in this dystopia, @404media.co, its an honor to join your badass team
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It’s always interesting when firefighters get political. Former Toronto chief Pegg was front & centre at first encampment evictions talking about fire risk but near absent in ongoing road carnage issue. Why that & not road carnage that firefighters attend to daily? Politics.
Has this firefighters’ union done a comparative study to explain why almost every one of the world’s richest nations allows single stair access? Or are they just making stuff up?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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There's a push for single-stair apartments in Canada. Calgary firefighters want the city to reject it | CBC News
Calgary’s firefighters union is trying to prevent what it calls a dangerous housing trend — in which multi-storey housing buildings are being constructed with only one stairwell — from making its way ...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It’s always interesting when firefighters get political. Former Toronto chief Pegg was front & centre at first encampment evictions talking about fire risk but near absent in ongoing road carnage issue. Why that & not road carnage that firefighters attend to daily? Politics.
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My column today, on how police departments' car-first attitude makes them say the darnedest things. Like "leave your e-bike at home."
The scariest part of Halloween is drivers — yet police departments blame bikes and kids
For pedestrians, the message is common-sense — wear bright and reflective clothing, don’t dart into traffic, watch where you’re going — but in its tunnel vision, the overall impression veers into vict...
www.nationalobserver.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
My column today, on how police departments' car-first attitude makes them say the darnedest things. Like "leave your e-bike at home."
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The #yyj police board chair is quoted here saying the event "maintained fiscal responsibility." They are living in a different world. $22,000 could have housed someone for a year! Instead of spending money on things that keep people safe, city councillors let police burn money every day.
The Victoria Police Department spent more than $22,000 in public funds on a celebration for its outgoing and incoming police chiefs this summer, according to documents obtained through FOI by @stephenharrison.bsky.social
Latest:
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Latest:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Victoria police spent $22K on party for outgoing, incoming chiefs | CBC News
The Victoria Police Department spent more than $22,000 in public funds on a celebration that honoured its outgoing and incoming police chiefs, according to a freedom of information request.
www.cbc.ca
October 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The #yyj police board chair is quoted here saying the event "maintained fiscal responsibility." They are living in a different world. $22,000 could have housed someone for a year! Instead of spending money on things that keep people safe, city councillors let police burn money every day.
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Exclusive: A classified U.S. watchdog report found Israeli military units committed “many hundreds” of potential human rights violations in Gaza.
Officials say the report raises doubts about future accountability as it could take years to review credible allegations.
Officials say the report raises doubts about future accountability as it could take years to review credible allegations.
Classified U.S. report finds backlog of hundreds of possible Israeli human rights violations
Classified U.S. report finds backlog of ‘hundreds’ of possible Israeli human rights violations, according to officials, further complicating a process to review credible allegations against IDF milita...
wapo.st
October 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Exclusive: A classified U.S. watchdog report found Israeli military units committed “many hundreds” of potential human rights violations in Gaza.
Officials say the report raises doubts about future accountability as it could take years to review credible allegations.
Officials say the report raises doubts about future accountability as it could take years to review credible allegations.
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While there is some anxiety amongst recreation groups, that fear is being torqued and taken advantage of by resource extraction interests that are accustomed to unfettered access to land in B.C.:
Outdoor recreation groups worry the recognition of Indigenous Rights in B.C. could limit their access to nature — so does the natural resource industry: thenarwhal.ca/dripa-bc-cro...
Does Indigenous Title hinder access to Crown land in B.C.? | The Narwhal
Recognition of Indigenous Title in B.C. has recreation groups — and resource industries — worried about access to Crown land
thenarwhal.ca
October 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
While there is some anxiety amongst recreation groups, that fear is being torqued and taken advantage of by resource extraction interests that are accustomed to unfettered access to land in B.C.:
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To put VicPD’s demands in context, its proposed 2026 budget outpaces inflation for the last five years by $19 million. Victoria spent 23% of its 2025 budget on police. Councillors’ unflinching support for police comes at the expense of services and things like housing that actually keep people safe.
October 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
To put VicPD’s demands in context, its proposed 2026 budget outpaces inflation for the last five years by $19 million. Victoria spent 23% of its 2025 budget on police. Councillors’ unflinching support for police comes at the expense of services and things like housing that actually keep people safe.
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Lindsay Shepherd landed on her feet after being fired from the BC Conservatives for residential school denialism. The Frontier Centre for Public Policy just announced she's their new director of communications.
October 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Lindsay Shepherd landed on her feet after being fired from the BC Conservatives for residential school denialism. The Frontier Centre for Public Policy just announced she's their new director of communications.
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Israel continues to bomb Gaza and deny the entry of aid in a blatant violation of the ceasefire deal.
Canada must hold Israel to account. Email and call your MP today to demand sanctions and a FULL arms embargo.
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Canada must hold Israel to account. Email and call your MP today to demand sanctions and a FULL arms embargo.
✉️: leadnow.ca/campaigns/sa...
☎️: leadnow.ca/campaigns/sa...
October 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Israel continues to bomb Gaza and deny the entry of aid in a blatant violation of the ceasefire deal.
Canada must hold Israel to account. Email and call your MP today to demand sanctions and a FULL arms embargo.
✉️: leadnow.ca/campaigns/sa...
☎️: leadnow.ca/campaigns/sa...
Canada must hold Israel to account. Email and call your MP today to demand sanctions and a FULL arms embargo.
✉️: leadnow.ca/campaigns/sa...
☎️: leadnow.ca/campaigns/sa...
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“It feels really good today to not be going to jail.”
@amandafollett.bsky.social’s in-depth report on why three Indigenous land defenders avoided jail time after an agressive 2021 arrest on Wet’suwet’en lands
thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
@amandafollett.bsky.social’s in-depth report on why three Indigenous land defenders avoided jail time after an agressive 2021 arrest on Wet’suwet’en lands
thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
Supporters Cheer After Indigenous Land Defenders Avoid Jail | The Tyee
Judge rejects the prosecutors’ call for more jail time for protesters arrested at a Coastal GasLink pipeline work site.
thetyee.ca
October 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“It feels really good today to not be going to jail.”
@amandafollett.bsky.social’s in-depth report on why three Indigenous land defenders avoided jail time after an agressive 2021 arrest on Wet’suwet’en lands
thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
@amandafollett.bsky.social’s in-depth report on why three Indigenous land defenders avoided jail time after an agressive 2021 arrest on Wet’suwet’en lands
thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
"The body of Mahmoud Ismail Shabat (...) bore marks of hanging around his neck, his legs crushed by tank tracks"
Only democracy in the Middle East 🤡
Only democracy in the Middle East 🤡
At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials
Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"The body of Mahmoud Ismail Shabat (...) bore marks of hanging around his neck, his legs crushed by tank tracks"
Only democracy in the Middle East 🤡
Only democracy in the Middle East 🤡
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L’ultra violence impunie des colons de Cisjordanie se démontre chaque jour. Un activiste américain et des cueilleurs d’olives pourchassés et violentés.
In the footage, Nathaniel, American activist , who documents settler crimes, is seen fleeing as settlers chase him and attempt to kill him.
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October 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
L’ultra violence impunie des colons de Cisjordanie se démontre chaque jour. Un activiste américain et des cueilleurs d’olives pourchassés et violentés.
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A new CBC investigation reveals that Canadian charities continue to fund organizations, including the Israeli military, that support the ever-expanding settlements in the West Bank.
“We are financing war criminality through our charitable system."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
“We are financing war criminality through our charitable system."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Canadian charities complicit in helping fund Israeli settlement movement in West Bank, critics say | CBC News
Tax deductible donations made by Canadians to groups that financially support West Bank settlements that are illegal under international law are continuing in the face of escalating attacks on Palesti...
www.cbc.ca
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
A new CBC investigation reveals that Canadian charities continue to fund organizations, including the Israeli military, that support the ever-expanding settlements in the West Bank.
“We are financing war criminality through our charitable system."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
“We are financing war criminality through our charitable system."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Our CRD neighbours continue to fail the region and their own unhoused residents.
We won’t let up on the pressure.
We won’t let up on the pressure.
October 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Our CRD neighbours continue to fail the region and their own unhoused residents.
We won’t let up on the pressure.
We won’t let up on the pressure.
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So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...