Bernie (the Canadian one)
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🇨🇦 It's what I do: I read and I know things/ British Columbia/politics/writing/public access scholarship/Revolution/Green/urbanism/Gramscian public intellectual/resilience/I could go on/ he/they/🌈/315ppm
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The mayor on CBC right now talking about not getting involved in "operational issues". Yet, he did get involved in pushing through Task Force Barrage.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/vi...
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/vi...
Task Force Barrage approval process marred by ‘missteps’: police board
At a meeting where Vancouver council approved $17 million in overspending by the police department, the mayor and police board faced some tough questions.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The mayor on CBC right now talking about not getting involved in "operational issues". Yet, he did get involved in pushing through Task Force Barrage.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/vi...
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/vi...
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Liberal MP for Victoria Will Greaves said he has been getting correspondence from constituents for months — but particularly within the past week or so — that “is almost universally opposed to lifting the tanker ban..."
BC Liberal MPs face pressure from voters over pipeline, tanker ban
Liberal MP for Victoria Will Greaves said he has been getting correspondence from constituents for months — but particularly within the past week or so — that “is almost universally opposed to lifting the tanker ban..."
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November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Liberal MP for Victoria Will Greaves said he has been getting correspondence from constituents for months — but particularly within the past week or so — that “is almost universally opposed to lifting the tanker ban..."
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Quebec bleeds doctors, as Alberta invents new methods of overreach canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/26/q... by @nicktsergas.ca
Quebec bleeds doctors, as Alberta invents new methods of overreach
Alberta’s project is qualitatively different. It goes further.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Quebec bleeds doctors, as Alberta invents new methods of overreach canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/26/q... by @nicktsergas.ca
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Maya's case was raised in the B.C. Legislature last week by Green Party legislator Jeremy Valeriote, who echoed her mother's calls to ensure that teens who request their medical records are provided professional support to interpret the records.
Maya, 17, got mental health records by FOI, then killed herself. Her mom wants reform
Maya's case was raised in the B.C. Legislature last week by Green Party legislator Jeremy Valeriote, who echoed her mother's calls to ensure that teens who request their medical records are provided professional support to interpret the records.
cheknews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Maya's case was raised in the B.C. Legislature last week by Green Party legislator Jeremy Valeriote, who echoed her mother's calls to ensure that teens who request their medical records are provided professional support to interpret the records.
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"A recent study by @ccpamb.bsky.social shows that one way to strengthen families is to get more parents involved in adult basic education." www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...
Opinion: Adult basic education keeps youth out of crime
A recent study by Marni Brownell and colleagues at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, titled Crossover Kids in Manitoba: The Intersection of the Child Protection System, Youth Criminal Justice Sys...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"A recent study by @ccpamb.bsky.social shows that one way to strengthen families is to get more parents involved in adult basic education." www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...
The face of a dog that has stared into the abyss
Lifeguards rescue black lab who was swept out to sea for more than an hour #California
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www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/1...
Lifeguards rescue black lab who was swept out to sea for more than an hour
Lifeguards rescued Sadie the dog after she fell into the sea and was swept out to sea by a strong current for more than an hour.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The face of a dog that has stared into the abyss
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"[the tax implies] ... the government is [working] to combat housing [unaffordability], but there are core issues ... particularly the failure to invest in non-market housing … that [are] not fundamentally being addressed federally or provincially,” @marclee.bsky.social www.biv.com/news/real-es...
B.C. speculation tax to rise in 2026 as Carney axes federal version
Policy divergence revives questions about efficacy and legality
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November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"[the tax implies] ... the government is [working] to combat housing [unaffordability], but there are core issues ... particularly the failure to invest in non-market housing … that [are] not fundamentally being addressed federally or provincially,” @marclee.bsky.social www.biv.com/news/real-es...
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I’m sorry but I can’t stop laughing, yeah we would sled down hills in the winter with whatever we had on hand, toboggans, crazy carpets, tubes 😂 someone always got injured because of jumps on the hills or wipeouts #Canada
Credit to momodoulk
Credit to momodoulk
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I’m sorry but I can’t stop laughing, yeah we would sled down hills in the winter with whatever we had on hand, toboggans, crazy carpets, tubes 😂 someone always got injured because of jumps on the hills or wipeouts #Canada
Credit to momodoulk
Credit to momodoulk
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New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controvers...
theins.press
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
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The back and forth between levels of government continues, as an unauthorized dump on Cowichan Tribes land remains an environmental threat to the Cowichan River.
Province probing Cowichan dump site as cleanup deadline passes
The back and forth between levels of government continues, as an unauthorized dump on Cowichan Tribes land remains an environmental threat to the Cowichan River.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The back and forth between levels of government continues, as an unauthorized dump on Cowichan Tribes land remains an environmental threat to the Cowichan River.
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British Columbia's deputy premier says the province continues to follow a Team Canada approach, but it also needs to be "respected as a province" amid growing tensions among Western premiers.
Deputy premier Sharma says B.C. needs to be “respected” by Ottawa, other provinces
British Columbia's deputy premier says the province continues to follow a Team Canada approach, but it also needs to be "respected as a province" amid growing tensions among Western premiers.
cheknews.ca
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
British Columbia's deputy premier says the province continues to follow a Team Canada approach, but it also needs to be "respected as a province" amid growing tensions among Western premiers.
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Ubuntu extended their LTS (paid) support to 15 years, meaning that you could support a Ubuntu version from 2014. Ubuntu 24.04 would have support til 2039.
Meanwhile Microsoft is obsessed to phase away computers from 2017.
Meanwhile Microsoft is obsessed to phase away computers from 2017.
November 26, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Ubuntu extended their LTS (paid) support to 15 years, meaning that you could support a Ubuntu version from 2014. Ubuntu 24.04 would have support til 2039.
Meanwhile Microsoft is obsessed to phase away computers from 2017.
Meanwhile Microsoft is obsessed to phase away computers from 2017.
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It would have been nice if someone asked Doug Ford to explain how he plans to order these charity audits given charities are overseen federally by Canada Revenue Agency
Ford says he will audit ‘left-wing radical groups’ opposed to government legislation | Globalnews.ca
Ford's warning came after members of the tenant advocacy group ACORN interrupted the legislature to protest a controversial omnibus bill that shortens some eviction timelines.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
It would have been nice if someone asked Doug Ford to explain how he plans to order these charity audits given charities are overseen federally by Canada Revenue Agency
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people are angry that chatbots are being thrust on them; that the industry is unregulated; that it’s deskilling young people; is being used as a weapon against labor and popular gAI is built on theft of the work of millions of artists and authors.
You don’t get to demand civility.
You don’t get to demand civility.
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
people are angry that chatbots are being thrust on them; that the industry is unregulated; that it’s deskilling young people; is being used as a weapon against labor and popular gAI is built on theft of the work of millions of artists and authors.
You don’t get to demand civility.
You don’t get to demand civility.
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Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
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I've had some people ask... so here's a merch sale!
All Relentless Decency items at shop.todmaffin.com are cheaper.,
I know Black Friday isn’t Canadian, but neither's that KD in your kitchen and I didn't say anything.
Anyway, I'm bad at this so let's pretend this was charming.
All Relentless Decency items at shop.todmaffin.com are cheaper.,
I know Black Friday isn’t Canadian, but neither's that KD in your kitchen and I didn't say anything.
Anyway, I'm bad at this so let's pretend this was charming.
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I've had some people ask... so here's a merch sale!
All Relentless Decency items at shop.todmaffin.com are cheaper.,
I know Black Friday isn’t Canadian, but neither's that KD in your kitchen and I didn't say anything.
Anyway, I'm bad at this so let's pretend this was charming.
All Relentless Decency items at shop.todmaffin.com are cheaper.,
I know Black Friday isn’t Canadian, but neither's that KD in your kitchen and I didn't say anything.
Anyway, I'm bad at this so let's pretend this was charming.
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If you aggregate EU member state capabilities along with the UK, integration that is already happening in some areas, then you quickly get something that is closer to a first tier military power.
1 Can't emphasize this enough. EU is home to multiple "second-tier" great powers — who are only "second-tier" because they chose not to make large investments in military capabilities — and is itself an economic & diplomatic great power. NATO is the most powerful security confederation in history.
It sure seems like Vance leads a faction that is enamored of 🇷🇺's cultivated cultural conservative "soft power", reflexively anti-Atlanticist, and stupid enough to think that wedging 🇷🇺-🇨🇳 is a) realistic and b) worth trashing our relationship with the world's third largest economy.
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
If you aggregate EU member state capabilities along with the UK, integration that is already happening in some areas, then you quickly get something that is closer to a first tier military power.
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1 Can't emphasize this enough. EU is home to multiple "second-tier" great powers — who are only "second-tier" because they chose not to make large investments in military capabilities — and is itself an economic & diplomatic great power. NATO is the most powerful security confederation in history.
It sure seems like Vance leads a faction that is enamored of 🇷🇺's cultivated cultural conservative "soft power", reflexively anti-Atlanticist, and stupid enough to think that wedging 🇷🇺-🇨🇳 is a) realistic and b) worth trashing our relationship with the world's third largest economy.
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
1 Can't emphasize this enough. EU is home to multiple "second-tier" great powers — who are only "second-tier" because they chose not to make large investments in military capabilities — and is itself an economic & diplomatic great power. NATO is the most powerful security confederation in history.
It's a start....
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November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
It's a start....
Colour me impressed at her ability to hold on to a grudge.
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Colour me impressed at her ability to hold on to a grudge.
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An Important Information Film. Please share widely so that more people receive the information.
Tickets: www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs
Tickets: www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
An Important Information Film. Please share widely so that more people receive the information.
Tickets: www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs
Tickets: www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is continuing to issue recalls for pistachios as it investigates a salmonella contamination, with over 80 products being recalled.
More than 80 pistachio products recalled in salmonella contamination investigation
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is continuing to issue recalls for pistachios as it investigates a salmonella contamination, with over 80 products being recalled.
cheknews.ca
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is continuing to issue recalls for pistachios as it investigates a salmonella contamination, with over 80 products being recalled.
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The federal government and Alberta have reportedly inked a framework deal to allow for an oil pipeline to B.C.’s coast.
Rob Shaw: B.C. blindsided by reports of new oil pipeline deal between Alberta and Ottawa
The federal government and Alberta have reportedly inked a framework deal to allow for an oil pipeline to B.C.’s coast.
cheknews.ca
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The federal government and Alberta have reportedly inked a framework deal to allow for an oil pipeline to B.C.’s coast.
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Farage really on the ropes there.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Farage really on the ropes there.