East Van doc
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East Van doc
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· Nov 18
"We all have that choice, and most of us make it. There is cruelty to survive, to fight against, but there is gentleness more than anything, our roots deep and entangled. That is what we hold inside, what we take with us, the way we look after each other" Charlotte McConaghy
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A hometown newspaper returns for New Westminster, Burnaby and the Tri-Cities, BC
#coquitlam #portcoquitlam #portmoody #anmore #belcarra #burnaby #newwest #newwestminster #localnews #newspaper #saveourlocalnews #journalism #reporters #democracy
#coquitlam #portcoquitlam #portmoody #anmore #belcarra #burnaby #newwest #newwestminster #localnews #newspaper #saveourlocalnews #journalism #reporters #democracy
Are you ready for it? Freshet News print edition coming Dec. 18 - Freshet News
Freshet News - a new print newspaper - is coming to New Westminster, Burnaby and TriCities in December 2025
www.freshetnews.ca
December 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
A hometown newspaper returns for New Westminster, Burnaby and the Tri-Cities, BC
#coquitlam #portcoquitlam #portmoody #anmore #belcarra #burnaby #newwest #newwestminster #localnews #newspaper #saveourlocalnews #journalism #reporters #democracy
#coquitlam #portcoquitlam #portmoody #anmore #belcarra #burnaby #newwest #newwestminster #localnews #newspaper #saveourlocalnews #journalism #reporters #democracy
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Long-acting buprenorphine injections (brand name Sublocade) are not “like a vaccine for overdose.”
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Long-acting buprenorphine injections (brand name Sublocade) are not “like a vaccine for overdose.”
What kind of guidelines have no listed authors and no references? 🤔
Squamish mom finally sees involuntary care guidelines put in place that may have saved her daughter
Squamish mom finally sees involuntary care guidelines put in place that may have saved her daughter
Premier David Eby announces guidelines for involuntary care for youth.
dlvr.it
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
What kind of guidelines have no listed authors and no references? 🤔
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The FIFA Peace Prize is most correctly viewed as some of the world's most corrupt people recognizing what the world's most corrupt men values most: fake recognition based on lies
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The FIFA Peace Prize is most correctly viewed as some of the world's most corrupt people recognizing what the world's most corrupt men values most: fake recognition based on lies
Fuck you @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social
“This is truly one of the great honours of my life.”
FIFA President Gianni Infantino gifted U.S. President Donald Trump a gold trophy, a medal and a certificate.
Trump is the winner of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino gifted U.S. President Donald Trump a gold trophy, a medal and a certificate.
Trump is the winner of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize.
December 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Fuck you @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social
Another clinical practice that I have to learn about (let alone provide feedback on) from the newspaper as opposed to any health agency
B.C. to require prescribed alternatives (safer supply medications) be taken under supervision of a health care worker beginning Dec. 30.
As of July, 3,282 people were in B.C. accessing a prescribed alternative, down from peak of 5,189 in March 2023.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
As of July, 3,282 people were in B.C. accessing a prescribed alternative, down from peak of 5,189 in March 2023.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
December 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Another clinical practice that I have to learn about (let alone provide feedback on) from the newspaper as opposed to any health agency
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Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
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November 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
@risingaction.bsky.social looks like sold out immediately, I was in the queue right at ten am
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
@risingaction.bsky.social looks like sold out immediately, I was in the queue right at ten am
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Just because this seems to be a thing that won't die--there is no difference between a #fractured and #broken bone #medsky
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Just because this seems to be a thing that won't die--there is no difference between a #fractured and #broken bone #medsky
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What I am gathering through listening in is that other fees will increase to support the freeze on property tax, such as community centre fees. The park board's general manager noted that they hope to keep the fee increase minimal, considering they're already on the high side for Canadian cities.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
What I am gathering through listening in is that other fees will increase to support the freeze on property tax, such as community centre fees. The park board's general manager noted that they hope to keep the fee increase minimal, considering they're already on the high side for Canadian cities.
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Kathryn Harrison, a UBC prof focused on environmental issues, talked about the death toll of the 2021 heat dome and raised concerns about cuts to climate change work that is ongoing at the city.
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Kathryn Harrison, a UBC prof focused on environmental issues, talked about the death toll of the 2021 heat dome and raised concerns about cuts to climate change work that is ongoing at the city.
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a spectacular and necessary read
Today the Supreme Court of Canada cleared the way for the H5N1 outbreak on the BC ostrich farm to finally be contained. Unfortunately, the deaths of the ostriches won't end the disease their followers have spread.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/release-th...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/release-th...
Release The Ostriches' Grippe
The Supreme Court of Canada has cleared the way for the ostrich cull, but fascist extremism isn't so easy to euthanize
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
a spectacular and necessary read
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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This is a great point. There's so much resistance to increasing ventilation/air purification in classrooms to lower levels of Covid & other illnesses for kids & staff, & so much resistance to masking in healthcare
BUT they'll get busy ventilating chicken barns against avian flu
because profit
BUT they'll get busy ventilating chicken barns against avian flu
because profit
We'll protect chickens from H5N1 but not kids in schools and patients in clinics from Covid?
Sound about right....
'He pointed to one research project studying air filtration in barns.'
#BCpoli #H5N1 #Covid #Covid19
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Sound about right....
'He pointed to one research project studying air filtration in barns.'
#BCpoli #H5N1 #Covid #Covid19
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Avian flu strikes farms in B.C.'s Fraser Valley, with 7 outbreaks this month | CBC News
Avian flu has broken out in at least seven locations across B.C.’s Fraser Valley this month, with six cases cropping up since Thursday, and local farmers are doing all they can to protect their flocks...
www.cbc.ca
November 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
This is a great point. There's so much resistance to increasing ventilation/air purification in classrooms to lower levels of Covid & other illnesses for kids & staff, & so much resistance to masking in healthcare
BUT they'll get busy ventilating chicken barns against avian flu
because profit
BUT they'll get busy ventilating chicken barns against avian flu
because profit
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This plus a zero percent property tax increase means DEEP cuts to Vancouver services
the police want $17,000,000 more for THIS YEAR'S budget
something shady is happening with this process
cc @isabellazavarise.bsky.social
@copevancouver.bsky.social @onecityvan.bsky.social
council.vancouver.ca/20251105/doc...
something shady is happening with this process
cc @isabellazavarise.bsky.social
@copevancouver.bsky.social @onecityvan.bsky.social
council.vancouver.ca/20251105/doc...
November 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This plus a zero percent property tax increase means DEEP cuts to Vancouver services
@freshetnews.bsky.social @theresamc.bsky.social any update on the timeline for memorial park at old NWSS site? Thought it was supposed to be in progress now...?
November 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
@freshetnews.bsky.social @theresamc.bsky.social any update on the timeline for memorial park at old NWSS site? Thought it was supposed to be in progress now...?
It's amazing how totally different playoff baseball is than regular season, it's not even the same sport
October 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
It's amazing how totally different playoff baseball is than regular season, it's not even the same sport
🚨 EXTRA! EXTRA! Freshet News is now online 🚨
🗞️ We’re bringing local news back to New Westminster, Burnaby and the Tri-Cities!
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#newwest #newwestminster #burnaby #tricitiesbc #coquitlam #portcoquitlam #portmoody #anmore #belcarra #news #localnewsmatters #journalism
🗞️ We’re bringing local news back to New Westminster, Burnaby and the Tri-Cities!
👉 Visit freshetnews.ca
#newwest #newwestminster #burnaby #tricitiesbc #coquitlam #portcoquitlam #portmoody #anmore #belcarra #news #localnewsmatters #journalism
October 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr
Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says
For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.
n.pr
October 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr
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For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.
Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.
We can’t afford to NOT do it.
Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.
We can’t afford to NOT do it.
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.
Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.
We can’t afford to NOT do it.
Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.
We can’t afford to NOT do it.
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According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.
Just the start.
Common sense.
Just the start.
Common sense.
October 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.
Just the start.
Common sense.
Just the start.
Common sense.
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I'm genuinely baffled no company has started to make a line of aggressively dumb devices. Internet-connected ONLY when needed (TV is about it), no software, no firmware.
Capitalism is supposed to give us choices, and there HAS to be a large market that does not want to log into a toothbrush.
Capitalism is supposed to give us choices, and there HAS to be a large market that does not want to log into a toothbrush.
I went to buy a dehumidifier recently and the only one that was available seemingly required an Internet connection, how about you make shit dry you fucking asshole
October 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I'm genuinely baffled no company has started to make a line of aggressively dumb devices. Internet-connected ONLY when needed (TV is about it), no software, no firmware.
Capitalism is supposed to give us choices, and there HAS to be a large market that does not want to log into a toothbrush.
Capitalism is supposed to give us choices, and there HAS to be a large market that does not want to log into a toothbrush.