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genxer22.bsky.social
Vic GenXer
@genxer22.bsky.social
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Climate & social justice warrior. Double Green Party riding! Prov BC MLA R. Botterell. Canada MP. E. May. Settler crone grateful to reside on unceded Wsanec territory on Vancouver Island! #yyj
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Vic GenXer @genxer22.bsky.social · Aug 10
TSX & Treasury 🇨🇦!
U.S. based Multinat'l corps willing to headquarter here & denominate into 🇨🇦CAD? backed by our Gold?!
+ > 🇨🇦 production?

- Big 3 U.S. auto makers
- Big Pharma. Need cleaner water for meds. + an FDA.
-Services

🇨🇦 Unyoke ourselves & maybe 60 other nations from being
Pegged by USD!😉
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 1d
Great to see @emilylowan.bsky.social & the @bcgreencaucus.bsky.social calling for higher taxes on billionaires and ultra-wealthy. It is time to #TaxTheRich and fund affordable homes for all (and other good stuff)! www.timescolonist.com/local-news/b... #bcpoli #yyj
B.C. Greens call for tax reform to ensure ultra-wealthy 'pay their fair share'
“This government must choose which side they’re on: the side of austerity and oligarchs, or the side of the working class,” new Green Leader Emily Lowan said.
www.timescolonist.com
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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 7h
They literally have all the money and resources at their disposal to crush you, and they control the legal system.

We wrote about who Doug has tapped to pick judges, but it mostly got shrugs.

www.corruptario.ca/fords-picks-...
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 22h
The price tag is becoming clear for the Trump administration’s effort to keep coal power alive. The Campbell coal plant in Michigan, which was supposed to retire in May, is running under a federal order at a cost of $80 million for Midwestern consumers.
Trump’s Order to Keep Michigan Coal Plant Running Has Cost $80 Million So Far - Inside Climate News
Midwestern electricity ratepayers will pay the still-mounting tab under a plan Consumers Energy reported to regulators and investors.
insideclimatenews.org
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Vic GenXer @genxer22.bsky.social · 23h
🇨🇦 Thx eh our cousins in America! We're rooting for you vs 🍊🥰
I really do have #bluejays fan cousins in Cleveland🥰
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Vic GenXer @genxer22.bsky.social · 23h
🇨🇦 Thx eh our cousins in America! We're rooting for you vs 🍊🥰
I really do have #bluejays fan cousins in Cleveland🥰
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 1d
Boy, that court ruling on Aboriginal title is bringing all the racists to the yard, each telling a more lurid false tale than the last...
In today's episode, they claimed a bank denied a loan because of the decision, which the bank said was nonsense.
Councillor says $100M project denied loan over Cowichan case, bank says not a factor
A Richmond, B.C., councillor says a company based in the city has been refused financing for what she says is a $100 million project because of uncertainty over their site
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 3d
Canada’s deficit is projected to rise by $17B, yet ordinary folks face cuts to essential services while the ultra-rich and corporations avoid billions in taxes. Closing loopholes and taxing offshore wealth could fully fund health care, housing, and education—proving the crisis is a political choice.
A deficit paid by workers and a bailout for the wealthy
Canada’s deficit is projected to rise by $17 billion, yet ordinary Canadians face cuts to essential services while the ultra-wealthy and multinational corporations avoid billions in taxes. Closing loo...
canadiandimension.com
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 2d
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Jamaica invested heavily in climate disaster insurance. It looks about to pay off | CBC News
Jamaica’s decade-long effort to build layers of financial protection in case of natural disasters might help the country access millions of dollars in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Melissa — an...
www.cbc.ca
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Vic GenXer @genxer22.bsky.social · 2d
DeHavilland jobs Here #yyj also temporary since they building new campus outside Calgary. Due 2028.
www.wingsmagazine.com/de-havilland...
De Havilland preparing to begin aerospace campus construction this fall
De Havilland Aircraft of Canada is just steps away from beginning the first phase of construction for their aerospace campus, set to be established in
www.wingsmagazine.com
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Pabàmàdiz @karynpugliese.bsky.social · 2d
Carney’s critical minerals push meets Indigenous realities as Canada races to rival China’s supply dominance www.aptnnews.ca?p=279074 #indigenous #cdnpoli
Pressure on Indigenous communities to allow mining will increase
The loan-guarantee program isn’t built for mining, and First Nations lack infrastructure and capital — as Canada races for critical minerals.
www.aptnnews.ca
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Castanet.net @castanet.net · 2d
Most Canadian workers support equity efforts despite some backlash: report (Canada)
Most Canadian workers support equity efforts despite some backlash: report - Business News
A majority of Canadian workers say they view equity, diversity and inclusion favourably, according to a new report, even in the face of some backlash.
www.castanet.net
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 2d
BC and Ottawa are failing to address the intersection of environment and health in LNG regulations, writes @traceysaxby.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/29/o...
Canada’s LNG industry is less regulated than you might think
A pattern is emerging with each new study on LNG that reveals significant gaps in what we know about the long-term impacts of the industry — particularly on human health.
www.nationalobserver.com
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genxer22.bsky.social
Vic GenXer @genxer22.bsky.social · 2d
Good AM from Sidney, BC😉 Sorry, eh FYI
DeHavilland been trying to hire for 6 months.
Scarce available or affordable housing within 2 hr drive, Rental or under $1 Mil to buy.
No transit to #yyj airport in muni North Saanich. YYJ won't allow bus stop.
City Victoria 27 km due south.
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Dr Tom Harris @drtomharris.bsky.social · 3d
Whilst headlines quite rightly cover the devastation from Hurricane Melissa, a storm made more deadly through climate change, spare a thought for Vietnam where 1.7 meters (yes 5’7”) of rain fell in 24 hours.

phys.org/news/2025-10...

#climatechange #hurricane #Melissa #Jamaca #Vietnam #flooding
Record Vietnam rains kill four and flood 100,000 homes
Flooding triggered by record heavy rains in central Vietnam this week killed at least four people and inundated more than 100,000 homes, the environment ministry said on Wednesday.
phys.org
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Daemon Primarch MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 2d
Fucking finally, someone actually caring about Sudan enough to do this. Only took you until October 2025 after the war started in February 2023.
sarajacobs.house.gov Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 3d
The UAE needs to be held accountable for its arming of the genocidal RSF. That's why I have introduced my Stand Up for Sudan Act that would block sales to the UAE until they stop sending weapons to the RSF.
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SusanDe @susande.bsky.social · 3d
This doesn't seem like a good idea.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d
They’re ordering the National Guard of all 50 states and US territories to prepare for riot control.

In three days over 42 million Americans lose their food assistance.

Starving people don’t starve quietly.

Take care of your neighbour. Take care of each other.
Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’
Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest
www.theguardian.com
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 3d
Yesterday the US Senate aggressively challenged Trump’s failed economic policy, voting 52-48 to roll back his tariffs on Brazil.

Late this afternoon Trump suffered another humiliating rebuke, as the Senate voted to roll back his tariffs on Canada, 50-46.

thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Live updates: Senate votes to terminate Trump’s Canada tariffs
The Senate on Wednesday evening voted to repeal President Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Canada, after the upper chamber passed a similar resolution on Brazil the day prior.  A handful of Senate …
thehill.com
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 2d
It's not a coincidence, it's a crime.

Fossil fuel companies have known since 1954 that their pollution would cause mass catastrophe and mass casualty. But they lied, and lied, and lied to keep polluting.
weatherprof.bsky.social Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 3d
From 1980-2002 THREE storms acheived extreme rapid intensification.
From 2003-2025 EIGHTEEN storms achieved extreme rapid intensification.
6X increase!
It’s not coincidence, it’s climate change!
(source of data Dr Kieran Bhatia x.com/bhatiakieran...)
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Castanet.net @castanet.net · 2d
B.C. hikes levy on oil and gas industry to $24M for 'orphan' site cleanup (BC)
B.C. hikes levy on oil and gas industry to $24M for 'orphan' site cleanup - BC News
The B.C. government has raised the fee it charges oil and gas companies to clean up abandoned "orphan" sites across the province.
www.castanet.net
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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 3d
Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)

The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
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Chuck Compston @chuckoff.bsky.social · 2d
Just a reminder that all Sun papers, except for the Winnipeg Sun which is now owned by a Manitoban, NP and right-wing citywide rags like The Calgary Herald, etc, is owned by American hedge fund, Postmedia.
Trust none of them. There are very few papers left that are run by Canadians for Canadians.
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🇨🇦🦋Cranky Canuck🦋🇨🇦 @jupitess.bsky.social · 3d
Pete Hoekstra needs to be expelled from Canada. He isn't a diplomat when he is firing F-bombs at elected Canadian officials at any level; he is overstepping and needs to go. Please write your MP and request that Hoekstra be expelled!

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
U.S. ambassador to Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at Ontario’s trade representative, witnesses say | CBC News
The U.S. ambassador to Canada delivered an expletive-laced tirade at Ontario's trade representative at an event in Ottawa on Monday, multiple witnesses tell CBC News
www.cbc.ca
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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 2d
THEY WERE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ABOUT HIM
hrw.org Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · Mar 19
In his first major move as Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney eliminated roughly a third of all cabinet positions, including the crucially important Minister of Women and Gender Equality.

This decision marks a major setback for women’s rights in Canada.
Canada Cuts Gender Equality Minister
In his first major move as Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney eliminated roughly a third of all cabinet positions, including the crucially important Minister of Women and Gender Equality.
www.hrw.org
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 2d
So great that the Post is just openly stoking racism.
Jamie Sarkonak: The secret reason Alberta teachers went on strike — skyrocketing immigration The number of students who can't speak English keeps rising 'We’re just the victims,' Richmond property owners unleash fury over Cowichan ruling Amy Hamm: The crowd of hundreds wasn't interested in reconciliation
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