It's amazing people will claim "Canada and the USA have the same culture" and then on something as fundamental as "do you trust your fellow citizens to be good" we are further apart than any other two countries
Russia is not an immortal human. Neither is the USA. This is a complex situation involving a lot of individual fascists, many backed by various fossil fuel interests. 'What would Mandela, or Gorbachev, say about this moment' is a question worth considering.
I really don't like posting about this stuff so often and I hesitated when I saw this earlier this evening. The timing of this isn't a coincidence. Our PM was clearly stung that people have said this week that he lacks principles. That's what this is.
Yup. And, at the same time, people who live in smaller apartment buildings tend to be happier (all else being equal). For me, a tower in Victoria's James Bay or Vancouver's West End (both surrounded by water) sonds great. As does a smaller building in a nice but less spectacular location.
Transit Oriented Development, but without transit. Sigh. A failure by all levels of government, federal, provincial, regional, and municipal.
"Who could possibly have predicted that letting a real estate lawyer with very little experience and even fewer morals do President Donald Trump’s bidding would turn out poorly?"
Fascists are normally incompetent. But Trump's gang keep lowering the bar.
“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”
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When parties know their members can leave without triggering a false majority crisis, they have to listen.
Proportional representation reduces blind party discipline and rewards collaboration over control.
That is real accountability.
Good news! Fast track for Pandora bike and roll lanes extension. (We need to celebrate when delightful #climateaction gets fast tracked, as backtracking is more common these days) cheknews.ca/pandora-bike... #yyj
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Last night's event in Ottawa was electric. More than 800 people in the warm and resonant Dominion-Chalmers Centre.
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Ben Stiller is calling out the White House after it used a clip from Tropic Thunder in a video promoting the Iran war.
“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,” Stiller wrote.
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" #Solarpunk poses a fascinating question: What would a world that had seriously tackled climate change look like?" @clivethompson.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/environment/...
Rachel Maddow called Bill a genius of exposition. Which rings true to me. Who else finds such clear, concise, vivid ways to sum up where we are and where we could and should be?
Re the photo, train crew was going too fast and slammed on brakes too late to avoid a crash. But soon enough to avoid a complete disaster with major loss of life. Too late *and not too late*!
"If you rule out the fast phase out of #fossilfuels, then you have to either remove carbon from the atmosphere, or reflect sunlight. Who decided that #geoengineering was more feasible than rapid fossil fuel phase out?" @jamesgdyke.info
Trump is good at flooding the zone with horrible, dangerous, decisions. What is the latest on the Epstein-Trump files?
In a recent novel, it was a rich man who made the train late. . . and rich men who incentived risk taking to make up time. Making the photo even more appropriate as a metaphor.
I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.
"Yes we can avoid further dangerous climate change, we can stop the destruction of nature, we can begin the transformation of our societies so that they live in balance with the Earth system"
Great post as always. That we haven't prevented it doesn't make it unpreventable
The photo tells a story. A train crash that was fatal, but not a total catastrophe. Brakes slammed on just in time to save most of the passengers (but not people in street below). Too late and not too late.
"If you rule out the fast phase out of #fossilfuels, then you have to either remove carbon from the atmosphere, or reflect sunlight. Who decided that #geoengineering was more feasible than rapid fossil fuel phase out?" @jamesgdyke.info
It's incredible to me that the embrace of fossil fuels is not considered deviant.
Construction cones and equipment at intersection (small cross street is up on a retaining wall with pedestrian ramp up).
Looks like a marked crosswalk with signal is going in at Cook and Kings. Yay! #yyj
Looks great. I'm more excited for these as walking routes than cycling. Victoria's long forgotten Greenway network is finally being built!
Transit Oriented Development. But without transit.
Over 160 schoolgirls are dead. Anthropic and Palantir executives must immediately testify and tell the public whether their AI is responsible.
A tale of two cities: earlier today, City of Victoria voted to accelerate the construction of bike lanes on Pandora. Tonight, Saanich council is train-wrecking the Active Transportation Plan with a 25% cutback, supported by Couns. Brownoff, Brice, Chambers, Westhaver and Harper.
