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once called «Canada's only public intellectual» drug policy researcher ⁕ historian ⁕ artist ⁕ schemer ⁕ disorganizer ⁕ ephemera vancouver bc canada institute for the history of possible futures https://free-futures-society.org/

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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

07.03.2026 10:34 👍 906 🔁 378 💬 23 📌 26
That's especially the case in Kitsilano, he said, which has an active citizenry and has been the beneficiary of what he refers to as "precious" RT zoning, which encourages the preservation or renovation of older dwellings.

That's especially the case in Kitsilano, he said, which has an active citizenry and has been the beneficiary of what he refers to as "precious" RT zoning, which encourages the preservation or renovation of older dwellings.

My precioussss…

One Zone to preserve them all, One Zone to guard their character, One Zone to hoard for kith and kin, and in nepotism bind them.

06.03.2026 17:07 👍 41 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0

oof.

07.03.2026 08:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

that's a good stick

07.03.2026 07:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

MOTIVATING THE SABOTEUR

07.03.2026 07:35 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

BC government “drug” policy, and crippling income inequality more generally:

07.03.2026 07:20 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Should welfare be cut off to drug offenders until they go to rehab?
Yes 82.85%
No 11.9%
Unsure 5.25%
Castanet.net

Should welfare be cut off to drug offenders until they go to rehab? Yes 82.85% No 11.9% Unsure 5.25% Castanet.net

Should welfare be cut off to drug offenders until they go to rehab?
Yes 82.85%
No 11.9%
Unsure 5.25%
Castanet.net

Should welfare be cut off to drug offenders until they go to rehab? Yes 82.85% No 11.9% Unsure 5.25% Castanet.net

I— I can’t with this!
Why do conservatives/antisocials think making poor people poorer has no consequences, what the actual fuck www.castanet.net/news/Poll/60...

07.03.2026 07:11 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

compelling widespread desperate survival crime by stripping of basic rights is, in fact, a choice

let's see what happens!

07.03.2026 07:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

I must admit I find comfort in the emergent worldbuilding of the microtargeted clickbait slop articles Google shows me because now they're all about clearly fictional infrastructure projects. They're building a tunnel from Japan to New Zealand. They're extending light rail to Hell.

01.02.2026 19:50 👍 63 🔁 4 💬 6 📌 0
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Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta Call for Clarity Following Canada-Alberta Announcement on Project Approvals

07.03.2026 06:39 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

"upgrades" is debatable

and yes

07.03.2026 06:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
progress of members bills. no link to armstrong's

progress of members bills. no link to armstrong's

where's the bill? you introduced it on Thursday. did you not submit it to the clerk? is it even written

www.leg.bc.ca/parliamentar...

07.03.2026 06:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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recallarmstrong.ca

"we'll take the poor people's welfare income and housing! that is compassionate support"

what's this tara

recallarmstrong.ca

07.03.2026 06:10 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

a bill to make 100,000 people do desperate survival crimes every day throughout the province seems like a not good plan, tara

07.03.2026 06:05 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

they could at least be familiar with the Constitution but WHATEVER

07.03.2026 05:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the details were discussed at Victoria council earlier this week. I'll find the documents and we can print them out and wave them around

07.03.2026 05:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

WHERE IS IT

www.leg.bc.ca/parliamentar...

07.03.2026 05:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Last night I went to the B.C. Housing led meeting on the “Tiny Home Village” proposed on 20th Street in New West. The meeting was filled with coordinated attendees who came to spread misinformation drilled into them by the bigoted chaos agents known as NWP in #newwest. Some of the misinfo incl: 1/

07.03.2026 05:27 👍 19 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1

what are the odds that the AUC is dissolved on Monday

07.03.2026 05:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

true, and a stark indictment of Canada's political class

07.03.2026 05:04 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

will look into this

07.03.2026 05:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ten or fifteen years ago, people resigned under pressure

bsky.app/profile/stew...

07.03.2026 04:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

thing is, nothing (even [gesturing dramatically]) is disqualifying for public office

07.03.2026 04:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

07.03.2026 04:47 👍 37 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1

I have more government documents that are also gross but in different ways

07.03.2026 04:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
see link for the text on the map of the feet

see link for the text on the map of the feet

there's a map!

www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/b...

07.03.2026 04:37 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Jamie Sarkonak: Chief justice says existence of Canada's border is discrimination
NP COMMENT

Jamie Sarkonak: Chief justice says existence of Canada's border is discrimination NP COMMENT

*siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh*
No, that is not at all what he said, but far be it for the grifting assholes on the Post's editorial page to actually read something in anything other than bad faith.

07.03.2026 04:25 👍 24 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1

donorbox.org/urgent-emerg... friend requested we boost this initiative because *gestures frantically*

give to the migrant workers in lebanon from asia and africa who are facing down violence from isntreal

05.03.2026 21:35 👍 24 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 0

slow news day? nothing much else to report on in the world, just piss it away

07.03.2026 04:23 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

they brought him on the file in 2023, Myles died in 2015.

this is a mess by design and delay

07.03.2026 04:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0