Demetrius
@dreametrius.bsky.social
Registered Social Worker in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Posting about books, drugs, poverty, AOP, and decolonization. Views are my own.
This is a great thread on the public outlash on the city property tax freeze.
I'm dropping in to Vancouver city council today and can't live-skeet everything, but it's worth noting that there are currently over 600 speakers signed up to speak to the budget, which proposes finding $120 in savings to support a 0% property tax increase. #vanpoli
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This is a great thread on the public outlash on the city property tax freeze.
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Worth noting that because Sim brought forward his proposal for a property tax freeze requiring millions in cuts with just weeks left in the budget process, this is not up for public debate and is not outlined in the documents available to councillors when they vote on this
SCOOP: Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes in his proposed 2026 budget.
Great source work by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson to uncover this
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/n...
Great source work by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson to uncover this
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/n...
Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Worth noting that because Sim brought forward his proposal for a property tax freeze requiring millions in cuts with just weeks left in the budget process, this is not up for public debate and is not outlined in the documents available to councillors when they vote on this
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He should have said we need to be talking more about this instead of saying the media is not talking about it. But I've also read articles about the new art gallery on CBC without ever realizing it was previously housing the homeless. Something I only know now because of your post about his video.
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
He should have said we need to be talking more about this instead of saying the media is not talking about it. But I've also read articles about the new art gallery on CBC without ever realizing it was previously housing the homeless. Something I only know now because of your post about his video.
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Specific usage of words do matter. Which is why it's a shame you selectively cropped the initial clip to make it look worse to match your narrative. I had to Google using the watermark to watch the whole thing. The videos primary message is not one of anti-media but of the oppression of poor people
November 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Specific usage of words do matter. Which is why it's a shame you selectively cropped the initial clip to make it look worse to match your narrative. I had to Google using the watermark to watch the whole thing. The videos primary message is not one of anti-media but of the oppression of poor people
Should have done some regional brackets. That could have included a few outliers. I see Ogopogo more BCish than Sasquatch (as a White settler tbf).
@jmcelroy.bsky.social
What the heck? Sasquatch but no Ogopogo?
This is a travesty!
#justiceforogopogo
What the heck? Sasquatch but no Ogopogo?
This is a travesty!
#justiceforogopogo
July 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Should have done some regional brackets. That could have included a few outliers. I see Ogopogo more BCish than Sasquatch (as a White settler tbf).
I would say that this article was a good and foundational read for my Social Work education at UVic.
My 2016 essay "Beyond Territorial Acknowledgments" is the top read on my website ever since it got picked up as a reading for university courses - I'm hoping people are reading the updated version!
apihtawikosisan.com/2024/11/revi...
apihtawikosisan.com/2024/11/revi...
apihtawikosisan.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I would say that this article was a good and foundational read for my Social Work education at UVic.
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My 2016 essay "Beyond Territorial Acknowledgments" is the top read on my website ever since it got picked up as a reading for university courses - I'm hoping people are reading the updated version!
apihtawikosisan.com/2024/11/revi...
apihtawikosisan.com/2024/11/revi...
apihtawikosisan.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
My 2016 essay "Beyond Territorial Acknowledgments" is the top read on my website ever since it got picked up as a reading for university courses - I'm hoping people are reading the updated version!
apihtawikosisan.com/2024/11/revi...
apihtawikosisan.com/2024/11/revi...
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Here's my new piece. It's a deep dive into why Millennials have been infantilized and why teenagerness has been extended into young adulthood: it's a tool of social control to render entire generations incapable of organizing to fight back.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/inventing-...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/inventing-...
Inventing the whiny, entitled Millennial
How avocado toast became a weapon of generational warfare that stripped Millennials of the autonomy and capacity to resist.
noraloreto.substack.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Here's my new piece. It's a deep dive into why Millennials have been infantilized and why teenagerness has been extended into young adulthood: it's a tool of social control to render entire generations incapable of organizing to fight back.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/inventing-...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/inventing-...
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I see that Poilievre did an interview with Jordan Peterson that included talking about inflation and house prices. I did an explainer on those talking points a while ago:
thetyee.ca/News/2023/12...
thetyee.ca/News/2023/12...
Fact Checking Poilievre’s ‘Housing Hell’ Video | The Tyee
Experts say the Conservative leader understands young people’s anger but isn’t offering any fixes.
thetyee.ca
January 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I see that Poilievre did an interview with Jordan Peterson that included talking about inflation and house prices. I did an explainer on those talking points a while ago:
thetyee.ca/News/2023/12...
thetyee.ca/News/2023/12...
My wife's grandma tells us a lot of stories of her time in Vancouver. One of my favourite is of her mother who was referred to as False Creek Mom as she fed people during the great depression out of her garden.
She said people still recognized her a long time after. I cry just thinking of it 😥
She said people still recognized her a long time after. I cry just thinking of it 😥
December 28, 2024 at 4:15 AM
My wife's grandma tells us a lot of stories of her time in Vancouver. One of my favourite is of her mother who was referred to as False Creek Mom as she fed people during the great depression out of her garden.
She said people still recognized her a long time after. I cry just thinking of it 😥
She said people still recognized her a long time after. I cry just thinking of it 😥
I've been out of school since April and I'm already missing reading academic social work articles. I think I have a problem.
December 22, 2024 at 1:13 AM
I've been out of school since April and I'm already missing reading academic social work articles. I think I have a problem.
Anyone read Miriam Toews's A Complicated Kindness? What sort of vibe is it? #booksky #canadianlit
December 8, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Anyone read Miriam Toews's A Complicated Kindness? What sort of vibe is it? #booksky #canadianlit
December 8, 2024 at 4:51 AM
A reminder to all the Canadian peeps out there that Conservatives all over the country want to make our healthcare more and more like the American system. #PeopleNotProfits.
December 7, 2024 at 10:52 PM
A reminder to all the Canadian peeps out there that Conservatives all over the country want to make our healthcare more and more like the American system. #PeopleNotProfits.
Proponents of involuntary treatment omit the risk of OD and death when people enter it. People take risks in recovery but also can consent to take OAT which can prevent OD. Are you forcing people to take medications? Mental health act detainees can refuse meds.
www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
Forced into treatment
As involuntary treatment gains political traction in Canada, CBC News goes to Washington state to find out how it can help — and what can go wrong
www.cbc.ca
December 4, 2024 at 7:22 AM
Proponents of involuntary treatment omit the risk of OD and death when people enter it. People take risks in recovery but also can consent to take OAT which can prevent OD. Are you forcing people to take medications? Mental health act detainees can refuse meds.
www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
You all fell for one of the classic blunders. I posted this to get a bunch of great reading suggestions from great Indigenous authors. #booksky #indigenouslit
What's an #indigenous authoured book that has stuck with you and you can't stop thinking about? #booksky
I actually have three:
* Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
* Moon of the Crusted Snow by @waub.bsky.social
* Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
I actually have three:
* Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
* Moon of the Crusted Snow by @waub.bsky.social
* Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
December 3, 2024 at 4:40 AM
You all fell for one of the classic blunders. I posted this to get a bunch of great reading suggestions from great Indigenous authors. #booksky #indigenouslit
Anecdotally, with my time at Vancouver's health authority, it was the combination of the pandemic and IV drug use that led to the increase of HIV infections in Vancouver.
Missed in this article is the opioid crisis moving us from just reducing harm to literally trying to keep dying from ODs.
Missed in this article is the opioid crisis moving us from just reducing harm to literally trying to keep dying from ODs.
December 2, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Anecdotally, with my time at Vancouver's health authority, it was the combination of the pandemic and IV drug use that led to the increase of HIV infections in Vancouver.
Missed in this article is the opioid crisis moving us from just reducing harm to literally trying to keep dying from ODs.
Missed in this article is the opioid crisis moving us from just reducing harm to literally trying to keep dying from ODs.
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I accidentally bought some books today and you know what, it did fix me temporarily
December 1, 2024 at 12:46 AM
I accidentally bought some books today and you know what, it did fix me temporarily
My current top wishlist item is "your favourite novel" and I'm hoping I'm in for a very wonderful surprise.
I need to make a wishlist for Christmas since some of my family refuse to do what I actually want (donations to my fav charities) and insist on buying me something as well.
I didn't have much time to read this year and I want to rectify that next year so I'm going to ask for books.
#Booksky
I didn't have much time to read this year and I want to rectify that next year so I'm going to ask for books.
#Booksky
December 1, 2024 at 12:51 AM
My current top wishlist item is "your favourite novel" and I'm hoping I'm in for a very wonderful surprise.
@jenstden.bsky.social I once saw a tweet of your bookshelf of Vancouver reads. Do you still have a list of them and is it okay if I ask if you can share it?
December 1, 2024 at 12:49 AM
@jenstden.bsky.social I once saw a tweet of your bookshelf of Vancouver reads. Do you still have a list of them and is it okay if I ask if you can share it?
My partner wanted to watch Alien Romulus #filmsky. I deal with too much shit in my real life to deal with these types of movies. Yes, I admit that I may just be a scaredy pants.
November 30, 2024 at 4:14 AM
My partner wanted to watch Alien Romulus #filmsky. I deal with too much shit in my real life to deal with these types of movies. Yes, I admit that I may just be a scaredy pants.
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Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved.
We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.
We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.
November 29, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved.
We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.
We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.