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BC Climate Emergency Campaign @bcclimateemergency.bsky.social · 1d

The final webinar in our LNG Unpacked series is Oct 23 @ 12pm!

Join guests Iglika Ivanova @bcpolicy.bsky.social & Ismail Askin @workersolidaritybc.bsky.social to learn about how LNG expansion is impacting cost of living, jobs, workers, and our bills.

REGISTER: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 3d

#Nonprofit leaders from across BC wrote this open letter in September with growing concern for the future of their sector and the communities they serve.

- 1 in 3 nonprofit workers is food insecure
- The average salary in the community nonprofit sector is 31% lower than the national average

Open Letter: The Safety Net Is Tearing — Funders Must Act Now — BC Poverty Reduction Coalition

BC’s nonprofit sector is in crisis. An urgent funding shortfall is threatening the survival of essential community services across the province, with over 200 nonprofit leaders calling for immediate a...

www.bcpovertyreduction.ca

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Amanda @amandagadams.bsky.social · 1d

Sectoral bargaining could be a game-changer for BC's most vulnerable workers. @verosioufi.bsky.social explains in @thetyee why labour laws designed for 20th century workplaces leave cleaners, care workers, and gig workers behind. @bcpolicy.bsky.social
thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Could This One Change Give Vulnerable BC Workers More Power? | The Tyee

Sectoral bargaining could level the playing field for today’s employees.

thetyee.ca

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 3d

This is very cool and super valuable. Congrats to the team at @nationalobserver.com for launching this important new tool.

Check it out folks 👇

Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 3d

Today, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more.

Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Amanda @amandagadams.bsky.social · 5d

Nobody throws a party like Growing Chefs! I was so happy to be able be a guest at their From Farms to Forks gala this year. They always manage to bring together such an incredible
community to do great work for BC kids, families, restaurants, and producers.

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Amanda @amandagadams.bsky.social · 5d

With the need continuing to grow, charities are struggling to find funding for key programs in BC communities.

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Programs on the chopping block as B.C. charities face funding crisis

Many who work in B.C.’s non-profit industry say they’re grappling with a decline in donations paired with a growing demand for their services – forcing them to make challenging financial decisions.

www.ctvnews.ca

Amanda @amandagadams.bsky.social · 11d

Looking forward to this (free) webinar tomorrow.

BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · 11d

TOMORROW—Our 2nd fall webinar: The Housing Crisis Is Solvable features @1alexhemingway.bsky.social & Sarah Ellis on where urgent action is needed with lessons from efforts to create new non-profit housing.

Learn why recent policy has fallen short.

Oct. 1 noon PT: REGISTER
bcpolicy.ca/events

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Redeye @redeyeradio.bsky.social · 11d

A good thing to listen to on this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Harbinger Media Network @harbingermedia.bsky.social · 11d

On a new ep of Vancouver's long-running👁‍🗨 @redeyeradio.bsky.social👁‍🗨 Bob Joseph talks about his best-selling 2015 book '21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act' and this year's follow-up '21 Things You Need to Know About Indigenous Self-Government'.

www.listennotes.com/podcasts/red... 🔶

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Amanda @amandagadams.bsky.social · 11d

This year's National Truth & Reconciliation Day marks a big milestone: This school year’s graduating class will be the first in BC to complete their K–12 public education with the history of Indian Residential Schools fully integrated into their curriculum.

Continue your education:
nctr.ca

Home - NCTR

About the NCTR The NCTR is a place of learning and dialogue where the truths of the residential school experience will be honoured and kept safe for future generations. The most important service we p...

nctr.ca

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Yellowhead Institute @miskoaki.bsky.social · 24d

September 30th is National Day for Truth & Reconciliation. As we approach this day, how can we avoid symbolic performances of reconciliation and equip ourselves to work toward transformative change? Check out these resources and more on our website: yellowheadinstitute.org. Linked in bio.

A red text box at the top reads: "Education Resources". Title text reads: "How Do You Like Your Reconciliation?" A venn diagram demonstrates 4 overlapping circles. The circles include 1. Symbolic: Centres "efforts" by Canadians. 2. Easy: Low-hanging fruit, quick wins. 3. Transformative: Centres Indigenous self-determination, 4. Impactful: Empowers Indigenous peoples.

Overlapping with Symbolic, easy, and impactful is: renaming
Overlapping with symbolic and impactful is: contrition: accountability + apology.
Overlapping with Easy, impactful: funding, data transparency, sharing power.
Overlapping with easy, impactful, and transformative: non-existent.
Overlapping with impactful and transformative: justice for Indigenous peoples, land back.
Overlapping with easy and transformative: Settler fantasy.
Overlapping with symbolic and easy is: exploitative, performative "allyship", and inclusion.

A dotted line separates the diagram and text that reads: "As we approach National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, consider where the actions you’re taking or observing fall according to this diagram. Are they transformative, impactful, symbolic, easy or somewhere in-between?"

A yellow text box reads: "Map / Education Resource". Title text reads: "The Yellowhead Treaty Map" A star designed by Michelle Sound is displayed. Next to it, text reads: "Covering every treaty since 1763, the Treaty Map depicts three eras of Treaty Making in Canada, Pre-Confederation, Confederation, and "modern". Each treaty contains descriptions on the context, terms, negotiation, and implementation of the treaty." A yellow text box contains the URL: treatymap.yellowheadinstitute.org.

A dotted line separates text at the bottom that reads: "When you recite a land acknowledgement, are you actually engaging with what it means to occupy stolen land? Are you encouraging your audience to learn about how the territories you live on were dispossessed and remain contested?"

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BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · 12d

BC is a low-tax province.

Canada’s lowest personal income taxes for income up to $150,000; sales tax that provincially ranks 3rd-lowest; middle-ranked corporate tax rates.

Our deficit stems from deliberate policy choices that cut revenues says @iglikaivanova.bsky.social.

Opinion: B.C. has a revenue problem, not a spending problem

Experience from early 2000s shows that underfunding public services and failing to address poverty leads to higher economic and social costs

vancouversun.com

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Amanda @amandagadams.bsky.social · 13d

Fantastic weekend reading, curtesy of my favorite local bookshop. Only halfway through, but highly recommend.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 16d

Public services aren’t “bailouts”—they’re infrastructure. Rural mail and home delivery are services we depend on, not corporate handouts.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News

With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...

www.cbc.ca

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BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · 17d

What’s needed to tackle the housing crisis?

Next week—a webinar with senior economist @1alexhemingway.bsky.social and Sarah Ellis, Squamish Community Housing Society, for housing policy analysis & a practitioner's perspective on creating non-profit housing.

Oct 1, 12 pm PT
bcpolicy.ca/events

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Amanda @amandagadams.bsky.social · 18d

B.C., this isn't your typical doom-and-gloom housing discussion!

@1alexhemingway.bsky.social, Senior Economist at @bcpolicy.bsky.social , teams up with Sara Ellis, Executive Director of Housing Squamish, to break down actionable policy solutions that can actually work.
zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · 22d

Join a demonstration of unity across movements. Hear from our Racial Equity Researcher @verosioufi.bsky.social. There is power in numbers!

#DrawTheLine for people, for peace, for the planet!

Sat 2 pm @ VPL (W Georgia/Homer) to Science World
RSVP drawtheline.world

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West Coast Environmental Law @wcelaw.bsky.social · 23d

BC government wants to hear residents’ opinions on what may be fast-tracked under the new Infrastructure Projects Act (BC #Bill15). Take the 15–20min survey and share so more environmentally-minded voices are heard! See this helpful guide on taking the survey ⬇ #bcpoli

IPA Survey Guide — Organizing For Change

www.organizingforchange.org

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BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · 23d

Our racial equity researcher @verosioufi.bsky.social will speak about people over profits at Saturday's Vancouver event.

Sat 2 pm @ VPL (W Georgia/Homer), march to Science World for a community gathering.

See you there!

Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 23d

Great CP piece ahead of this Saturday's Draw the Line actions:

"What's taken shape, organizers say, is a level of cross-country collaboration not seen in recent memory among progressive civil society groups..."
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/pro...

Progressive groups rally 'common front' to march, challenge elements of Carney agenda

Canada-wide protests are planned this weekend, a coalition of progressive civil society groups say, in what organizers call an emerging "common front" to elements of the new Liberal government's agend...

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

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BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · 24d

People over profit. Fund families and communities. Hear our Racial Equity Researcher @verosioufi.bsky.social on the need to invest in people, public services and good jobs.

#DrawTheLine on Sat, 2 pm @ VPL (W Georgia/Homer) to Science World.
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2...
RSVP drawtheline.world

Draw the Line: Tell the Carney Government to Pick a Side | The Tyee

For people, for peace, for the planet. An invitation to join the Sept. 20 mass day of action.

thetyee.ca

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Amanda @amandagadams.bsky.social · 25d

Excited to join @iglikaivanova.bsky.social as Co-Executive Director of @bcpolicy.bsky.social & together lead this amazing team to advance our shared vision of rigorous analysis meeting lived experience, research serving movements, & policy solutions that put people & planet before corporate profit

BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · 25d

We excitedly announce that Iglika Ivanova and Amanda Adams are our new Co-Executive Directors!

They bring complementary strengths to advance our research on social, economic, environmental and racial justice and believe people are ready for bold policy ideas. #bcpoli

Rising to meet the moment: From BC Policy Solutions’ new Co-Executive Directors

We are excited to introduce ourselves as the new Co-Executive Directors of BC Policy Solutions and to share our vision for this pivotal moment in BC’s history.

bcpolicy.ca

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Amanda @amandagadams.bsky.social · 25d

New here and just getting to know my way around.

a cartoon character with a plant growing out of it 's head is saying `` hello '' .

ALT: a cartoon character with a plant growing out of it 's head is saying `` hello '' .

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