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Found at the intersection of climate policy, local government, and public engagement. IAP2 licensed trainer. Paddler who would like to pet all the dogs please. She/her. Vancouver, BC Posts are my own
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I'VE SEEN ENOUGH SEAN ORR AND LUCY MALONEY HAVE WON THE 2025 VANCOUVER COUNCIL BYELECTION

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Whoever is doing this in the UK deserves an award.

submitted 45 days ago • 54 comments

A few days ago, I looked at how the international border through The Great Lakes was determined. But what about the border west of Lake Superior? It took decades to determine and wasn't just "drawn with a ruler by some guy". Let's learn more! 🧵1/13

submitted 45 days ago • 21 comments

The Canadian Canoe Museum in #Ptbo makes TIME's list of the world's greatest places to visit in 2025. The magazine just published its seventh annual list of 100 'one-of-a-kind spots and experiences around the globe'. kawarthanow.com/2025/03/14/t...

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Many Indigneous nations have specific legal systems in place to limit the accumulation of wealth and to ensure redistribution of resources. Colonizers banned those practices - like the Potlatch - for a long time. Seems like they need our guidance.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Summary of why Canada is angry. And make no mistake, we are furious

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

WATCH: The gloves are off! It’s been an under-reported scandal for quite a while that Pierre Poilievre refuses to apply for security clearance. It was a scandal EVEN BEFORE the most recent efforts to undermine Canada’s democracy, sovereignty and economy from Trump, Musk and the GOP. Share this.

submitted 49 days ago • 19 comments

Dear Canada, I felt compelled to make something. To stick up for, and to honour. To show our strength, beauty, genius, empathy, light & heart. It's made with deep gratitude for the people and places of this beautiful land. Vive le Canada 🇨🇦❤️✌️💪 vimeo.com/1056619122/f...

submitted 49 days ago • 141 comments

The agreement is a 'huge step in the right direction,' says Elected Chief Jen Thomas, adding that it will give the Nation a voice in future discussions on topics of shared interest

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A beaver dam in British Columbia shows its ability to hold back sediment pollution during heavy rainfall, sediment damages freshwater habitat. Two pairs of beavers are making a new wild home in Studland #UK & their unrestricted www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #nature #climatecrisis

submitted 50 days ago • 12 comments

US/Canada vehicle crossings saw a pronounced drop in year over year volumes of Canadian residents, especially in the same-day segment. In total this February there were about 350k fewer Canadian residents crossing into the US than the year prior (23% drop). Not much change for US resident crossings.

submitted 50 days ago • 5 comments

Eby added that if U.S. President Donald Trump is so interested in Canadian water then B.C. is going to help him out by letting him “keep his watery beer.” globalnews.ca/news/1107462...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

What a different world we could have.

submitted 51 days ago • 800 comments

Man, Mike Myers really gave Canadians a rallying cry, huh?

submitted 51 days ago • 6 comments

I really wish we could reframe govt spending to govt investments. We’re investing in roads, in schools, in making sure everyone has food and shelter, in cancer research, in access to electricity and internet. The govt is investing in the people.

submitted 51 days ago • 8 comments

governments should spend money, literally all their fucking money. on taking care of the people from whom they got the money. on building cool shit for the people from whom they got the money to use, like highways and public works. this is real easy how can these people be so bad at this

submitted 51 days ago • 63 comments

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

submitted 54 days ago • 124 comments

Elon Musk stealing canadian taxpayers money “Over a three-day period, Tesla reported selling 8,600 vehicles at four locations across the country, resulting in $43 million in government rebates.” motorillustrated.com/suspicious-t...

submitted 53 days ago • 43 comments

She's finally going home. Morgan, I'm sorry it took so long. I'm sorry for the pain your family had to endure knowing you were in that landfill while Canada left you there like garbage. Especially sorry to your baby, Elle. But, you get to go home. Indigenous people are not disposable. #MMIW

submitted 53 days ago • 19 comments

We need some better language for pushing back against what the administration is doing. They’re not “ending DEI.” No. They're firing women and people of color in the military. They’re forbidding whole fields of research. They’re erasing trans people from existence.

submitted 53 days ago • 65 comments

OK this ad is actually very good lmaoooo www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFJ4...

submitted 53 days ago • 34 comments

Attention policy makers: As a business owner in Canada, I could take advantage of pretty good tax breaks if I had a car. But I don’t want a car and choose to live where I don’t need one. That’s better for everyone. But there are no tax breaks connected to my public transit pass. That’s bad policy.

submitted 54 days ago • 16 comments

A reporter asks Trudeau about Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly’s characterization of the current U.S. situation which she called a "psychodrama." "How would you characterize it?" Trudeau, speaking for a weary nation, “Thursday."

submitted 54 days ago • 177 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 55 days ago • 1575 comments

We need beauty more than ever in these trying times. So the database of beauty is the National Gallery of Canada’s collection of 87000 pieces. You can search by artist , medium , date , or category. It’s pretty neat. www.gallery.ca/collection/s...

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John Lewis wrote, "Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.”

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us. That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

submitted 56 days ago • 369 comments

Enjoy your sewage water

submitted 56 days ago • 15 comments

If I cut my feet off, then I won't need shoes. That's all savings.

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The richest man in the world calls people who get help from government programs the “parasite class.” But Medicaid’s beneficiaries aren’t parasites. Half of them are children. If we’re talking about people who depend on government, Elon Musk is the biggest “parasite” of all.

submitted 60 days ago • 225 comments

If this was really about government efficiency then we’d investigate highway widening projects before high speed rail & congestion pricing

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Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...

submitted 65 days ago • 42 comments

I can. In fact, the Canadian version is so great, I can't think of an American equivalent. 🧵

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There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men. Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.

submitted 68 days ago • 29 comments

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

submitted 72 days ago • 377 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 73 days ago • 2930 comments

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It's winter. It's over 110°F

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

From the New Yorker

submitted 74 days ago • 18 comments

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 78 days ago • 402 comments

In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Wait till they hear about how we got penicillin. You want to study mold? Like on bread? What a waste!

submitted 79 days ago • 15 comments

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

submitted 80 days ago • 189 comments

Dear Elon, we’re out. The Tyee will no longer be posting to X (formerly Twitter) and we’ve removed the X sharing buttons from our stories. Here’s why.

submitted 81 days ago • 34 comments

Congestion Pricing is creating tremendous benefits. Subway Ridership: ⬆️ 13% Bus Ridership: ⬆️ 6% (⬆️ 21% weekends) Transit Crime: 🔻36% Fatal Car Crashes: 🔻44% Trip Times: 🔻10-30%

submitted 83 days ago • 45 comments