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Advocates accuse Doug Ford's government of targeting the homeless with its new Bill 6. It "doesn’t actually solve homelessness, it just punishes people," says @dianacmcnally.bsky.social.

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The health care conglomerate is facing mounting financial problems – and ongoing consumer anger over high costs and denied claims.

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With deadly, rights-stripping forced treatment legislation set to pass in Alberta tonight, please read and share this critical perspective from Dr @bonnierae.bsky.social 🙏 thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

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Check out our locals section - new #CRACKDOWN

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In 2008 Gregor Robertson was elected on a promise to “end homelessness.” Instead he proceeded to give hundreds of millions in developer tax breaks, refused to increase CACs and DCLs & doubled the police budget in a naked war on the poor. Now we face Carney’s austerity agenda with Gregor at the helm

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Great to see cuts to City’s grant for school meal programs reversed by unanimous vote. Now bring back Renters Office, restore library hours, end the supportive housing ban, become a Living Wage employer again, and invest in desperately-needed social infrastructure. #vanpoli

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Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is sidestepping questions on how the budget for a five-million-dollar task force aimed at cracking down on the Downtown Eastside was approved. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

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The federal election shows that our electoral institutions were never created or kept in place with democratic objectives in mind. Canada’s voting system is a pre-democratic holdover and it remains in use because it serves those that benefit from it.

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This is one of the best articles I've read in a long time. Many don't get the underlying eugenics of the far right (beyond COVID). Read this.

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"as intersecting and seemingly unending crises continue to become more urgent, the acuity and nature of this violence has changed in shape. Both the frequency of gendered violence and lack of remaining space for respite is alarming" the mainlander.com/2025/04/29/gbv/

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Aaron Gunn coming up the middle thanks to "strategic voting" on Vancouver Island feels like both an immediate effect and larger metaphor for the way unprincipled action (disguised as "strategy") has opened a wider and wider space for the Right in recent years

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He's also the contemptible self-hating closet case who once boasted about preventing gay men from visiting their dying partners in hospital.

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NEW: Former premier Rachel Notley and Amazon Labour Union founder Chris Smalls offered contrasting visions of the federal NDP's inevitable rebuild at Tuesday's rally in Edmonton. www.readtheorchard.org/p/will-the-f...

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To solve the housing crisis we need to turn away from neoliberal doctrines. Our own history teaches us that the only way to restore housing affordability is to create non-market housing alternatives that anchor prices and push the investor class out of the housing system.

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VPD whistleblower says Task Force Barrage was ‘entirely motivated by politics’ City Councillor Sean Orr urges Ken Sim to put real public safety over political games www.votecope.ca/news/vpd-whi... #vanpoli

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what a cool economy we live in www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

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Came across this text b/w lobbyist Gurpreet Vinning & Mayor Sim's staffer Trevor Ford. Vinning wanted this kept quiet: Rogers wants to get more government contracts. Were they trying to sweeten the deal by giving money to things Sim cares about? I have questions. vancouver.ca/files/cov/20...

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Sean Orr had the most votes at 14 of the 25 polling locations, sweeping East Van and winning at False Creek, Marpole-Oakridge and the West End. Ken Sim's billionaire-backed ABC got trounced in every corner of Vancouver. #vanpoli #EvictKenSim

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Rally and march tomorrow (Monday)—please join us to commemorate the thousands of lives lost to this senseless drug war, nine years after the BC government and Provincial Health Officer declared a public health emergency in 2016

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NEW: As Shell finalizes the sale of its onshore oil and gas operations in Nigeria, critics say the company's exit is a strategic move to avoid responsibility for hundreds of spills that have resulted in an "environmental genocide."

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Your new City Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social has had a busy week: “Launched a campaign to restore public library hours, did some intensive training at City Hall, met some folks who I’ll be sharing a workplace with — and now back to the dishpit.” #FightForVancouver #vanpoli

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NEW: John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US. www.midnightsunmag.ca/from-trade-w...

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While Canada committed itself to anti-fascism on the world stage in the 1940s, its government was showing its contradictions internally, Owen Schalk details. Art by Kumé Pather. briarpatchmagazine.c...

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For our cover story, Anmol Swaich and Tyson Singh Kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ trace the harmful roots of drug policy towards racialized communities and advocate for community-based models of care, not institutionalization. Art by Kira Buro briarpatchmagazine.c...

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The question about polls vs. groundwork, for me, will be most interesting in Ottawa Centre, where 338Canada pegs the riding as Liberal safe, but where provincially, Joel Harden won with the biggest margin of any seat in the province, and now he's running federally. 338canada.com/35079e.htm

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BC overdose response being defunded by the same law enforcement organizations whose practices drive the crisis www.policeoversight.ca/p/bc-overdos...

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It's really disheartening to see the new chief coroner fall back on the old saw of positioning harm reduction as somehow opposed to treatment. This represents a complete misunderstanding of what harm reduction is. We'll gladly come to any table you want to lay out, sir. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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I wrote something for @theglobeandmail.com about my experience photographing the toxic drug supply crisis and the people I love who continue to fight for evidence-based solutions. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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This story should be leading the news in a historic election like this. Lab services - an essential part of our healthcare system - long ago outsourced to for-profit private companies. thetyee.ca/News/2025/04... #vanpoli #cdnpoli #vancouver #vancouvercentre

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Stop the cuts to library hours! The people have spoken. Ken Sim & his billionaire-backed party have no mandate to continue underfunding our vital public services. People waited hours in line to send a message. Sign & share: votecope.ca/libraries #FightForVancouver #vanpoli @seanorr.bsky.social

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A further, and somewhat odd update for folks: - The city emailed me, claiming it is only a 62% reduction in staff, and asked where I got my info from - I told them I got it from the city clerk when she briefed city council, where she said it two times So we'll see what they say

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60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

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Israel executes 15 medics, and it doesn't even ruffle the surface of our election conversation? Shame. Canadian-made arms reach Israel via the USA, despite Liberal promises to halt that. Enough is enough. We need a real arms embargo. End Canada's complicity in genocide.

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The ongoing state of impunity enjoyed by Canadian mining operations abroad reinforces the “Canada Brand” that mining-affected communities in Latin America are all too familiar with: a state of affairs in which standing up for community rights is often a deadly venture.

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poilievre says he'd pay for a $250M/year program in part by taking away funding from a fraction of a program that received less than $62M over 5 years www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

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Thank you to the people of Vancouver who showed up for democracy, despite everything. #vanpoli #EvictKenSim

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I am SO excited to vote for @seanorr.bsky.social today in the #CityOfVancouver byelection. He's exactly who we need on Council. Dedicated, sharp as hell, hardworking, loves this city, and he knows it needs a Council who cares for its people. Housing is a priority & he'll hold Ken Sim accountable.

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Today! Vote in the civic by-election until 8 tonight. 2 city council seats are open, but you only need to vote for 1, and that vote should be for Sean Orr! vancouver.ca/election/202...

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I just advance voted for @seanorr.bsky.social and you can too until 8PM at Vancouver city hall

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Unpopular opinion but hell no I am not voting for the random corporate lawyer running for OneCity in the Vancouver by-election

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a carbon tax except it's corporate profits

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Anyone know what's up with the CCPA BC office getting closed down?

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Sometimes I feel like I'm on linkedin when I scroll here maybe bluesky is the unconscious of linkedin

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VOTE @seanorr.bsky.social to fight for housing, public services, climate action, and to restore integrity to City Hall. Advance voting is open 8am-8pm at City Hall (12th and Cambie). #FightForVancouver #vanpoli

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wowow peter linebaugh’s afterword to the 2022 translation of critique of the gotha program is off the chain !! ⛓️‍💥 🌼

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New Review: Perfect Victims Spars with the Politics of Respectability themainlander.com/2025/03/28/p...

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Vancouver doesn’t have to be this way. High rents and homelessness are not inevitable. We can make housing affordable if we’re willing to fight for it. Check out our Fight for Housing platform: www.votecope.ca/fight-for-ho... #vanpoli #VanVotes2025

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New article - hard truths about Ken Sim’s dtes plan themainlander.com/2025/03/18/h...

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