Vic GenXer
@genxer22.bsky.social
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
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!😉
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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🔴⚠️⛈🇺🇸The atmospheric river is still insisting with local rains in the state of #Washington where it released days of heavy rains causing historical #floods and the evacuation of more than 100000 people,as in #Snohomish ⬇️last 24hrs of #GOES18 via @zoom.earth
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
December 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
🔴⚠️⛈🇺🇸The atmospheric river is still insisting with local rains in the state of #Washington where it released days of heavy rains causing historical #floods and the evacuation of more than 100000 people,as in #Snohomish ⬇️last 24hrs of #GOES18 via @zoom.earth
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
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Crowsnest Highway sustains 'extensive damage' with no opening date as other Interior highways slowly reopen (BC Highways)
Crowsnest Highway sustains 'extensive damage' with no opening date as other Interior highways slowly reopen - BC News
the highway has become flooded at Sowaqua Creek and is closed in both directions from about six kilometres north of Hope to seven kilometres north of Merritt.
www.castanet.net
December 12, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Crowsnest Highway sustains 'extensive damage' with no opening date as other Interior highways slowly reopen (BC Highways)
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My simple test for city housing policy:
1) Do you support turning a parking lot and grocery store next to skytrain into lots of homes, and
2) do you support making it easier to build more non-market housing throughout the city?
Votes are in and only One City of Vancouver party supports both 1 & 2.
1) Do you support turning a parking lot and grocery store next to skytrain into lots of homes, and
2) do you support making it easier to build more non-market housing throughout the city?
Votes are in and only One City of Vancouver party supports both 1 & 2.
Mike Klassen just went full NIMBY in council just now, citing "principles of liveability" (a deeply NIMBY coded phrase) to apparently set the stage to justify his vote against legalizing more affordable social housing.
And sure enough, ABC voted against the Social Housing Initiative. Rank NIMBYism.
And sure enough, ABC voted against the Social Housing Initiative. Rank NIMBYism.
December 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
My simple test for city housing policy:
1) Do you support turning a parking lot and grocery store next to skytrain into lots of homes, and
2) do you support making it easier to build more non-market housing throughout the city?
Votes are in and only One City of Vancouver party supports both 1 & 2.
1) Do you support turning a parking lot and grocery store next to skytrain into lots of homes, and
2) do you support making it easier to build more non-market housing throughout the city?
Votes are in and only One City of Vancouver party supports both 1 & 2.
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Canada’s anti-greenwashing rules protect our health, but they’re under threat.
Send a message to Ottawa: don’t give fossil fuel companies the license to lie to us. Choose truth, health and transparency instead.
cape.ca/action/prote...
Send a message to Ottawa: don’t give fossil fuel companies the license to lie to us. Choose truth, health and transparency instead.
cape.ca/action/prote...
Tell the Prime Minister: Protect Canada’s anti-greenwashing rules - CAPE
Send a message to the Prime Minister to protect and strengthen Canada’s anti-greenwashing rules instead of dismantling them.
cape.ca
December 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Canada’s anti-greenwashing rules protect our health, but they’re under threat.
Send a message to Ottawa: don’t give fossil fuel companies the license to lie to us. Choose truth, health and transparency instead.
cape.ca/action/prote...
Send a message to Ottawa: don’t give fossil fuel companies the license to lie to us. Choose truth, health and transparency instead.
cape.ca/action/prote...
#Abbotsford police: Hwy 1 is now closed in both directions between Whatcom & Sumas Way as flood water has breached the road.
Exiting off Whatcom- Go North.
Exiting off Sumas- go North on Hwy 11.
#bcflood
Exiting off Whatcom- Go North.
Exiting off Sumas- go North on Hwy 11.
#bcflood
December 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
#Abbotsford police: Hwy 1 is now closed in both directions between Whatcom & Sumas Way as flood water has breached the road.
Exiting off Whatcom- Go North.
Exiting off Sumas- go North on Hwy 11.
#bcflood
Exiting off Whatcom- Go North.
Exiting off Sumas- go North on Hwy 11.
#bcflood
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Climate change. Washington fresh on the heels of three severe droughts in a row. It will make flooding worse.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Why the atmospheric river's deluge won't pull WA out of drought
The storm’s strength and expected duration put it within the top 2% for the region dating back to 1959.
www.seattletimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Climate change. Washington fresh on the heels of three severe droughts in a row. It will make flooding worse.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Spotted owls (and other at-risk species) can’t survive without old-growth forests.
So why is the Carney government handing $1.2B to the forest industry in the same year it finally released a recovery plan that requires protecting old-growth habitat?
These two things don’t add up.
So why is the Carney government handing $1.2B to the forest industry in the same year it finally released a recovery plan that requires protecting old-growth habitat?
These two things don’t add up.
December 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Spotted owls (and other at-risk species) can’t survive without old-growth forests.
So why is the Carney government handing $1.2B to the forest industry in the same year it finally released a recovery plan that requires protecting old-growth habitat?
These two things don’t add up.
So why is the Carney government handing $1.2B to the forest industry in the same year it finally released a recovery plan that requires protecting old-growth habitat?
These two things don’t add up.
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Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
www.972mag.com/sebastia-arc...
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
www.972mag.com/sebastia-arc...
Israel preparing largest ever ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
www.972mag.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
www.972mag.com/sebastia-arc...
Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.
www.972mag.com/sebastia-arc...
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While we're all glad you're taking a break from planet-killing pipelines, Sparky, Canada already has the talent. According to the @wipo.int Global Innovation Index, Canada ranks lowest in "Infrastructure, Creative outputs and Business sophistication."
Try again?
www.wipo.int/gii-ranking/...
Try again?
www.wipo.int/gii-ranking/...
December 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
While we're all glad you're taking a break from planet-killing pipelines, Sparky, Canada already has the talent. According to the @wipo.int Global Innovation Index, Canada ranks lowest in "Infrastructure, Creative outputs and Business sophistication."
Try again?
www.wipo.int/gii-ranking/...
Try again?
www.wipo.int/gii-ranking/...
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LIVE - WASHINGTON STATE: “Water reaches roofs in Washington towns, forcing water rescues and evacuations” www.cnn.com/weather/live... - @cnn.com
#AtmosphericRiver #Flooding #SkagitCounty #SnohomishCounty #WashingtonState cc: #Abbotsford #BCFlood #FraserValley
#AtmosphericRiver #Flooding #SkagitCounty #SnohomishCounty #WashingtonState cc: #Abbotsford #BCFlood #FraserValley
Water reaches roofs in Washington towns, forcing water rescues and evacuations | CNN
As many as 100,000 people face evacuations from flooded waterways.
www.cnn.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
LIVE - WASHINGTON STATE: “Water reaches roofs in Washington towns, forcing water rescues and evacuations” www.cnn.com/weather/live... - @cnn.com
#AtmosphericRiver #Flooding #SkagitCounty #SnohomishCounty #WashingtonState cc: #Abbotsford #BCFlood #FraserValley
#AtmosphericRiver #Flooding #SkagitCounty #SnohomishCounty #WashingtonState cc: #Abbotsford #BCFlood #FraserValley
BC & WA Flood Upgrades (not) done since 2021:
Can Fed govt absent- flood mitigation plans
#Abbotsford govt "deeply aggrieved"
🇨🇦 rejected funding despite promises by Trudeau right after 2021.
WA: Nootsack River needs dredging & floodwall at 🇨🇦 border.
Great fast analysis by @tyolsen.bsky.social
Can Fed govt absent- flood mitigation plans
#Abbotsford govt "deeply aggrieved"
🇨🇦 rejected funding despite promises by Trudeau right after 2021.
WA: Nootsack River needs dredging & floodwall at 🇨🇦 border.
Great fast analysis by @tyolsen.bsky.social
Are we in a better position than 2021? @tyolsen.bsky.social with a very speedy, very useful analysis of the fraser valley / nooksack flooding for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
The Fraser Valley Is Flooding Again. Are We Ready? | The Tyee
As the Nooksack spills north, some lessons learned, and ignored, since the 2021 disaster.
thetyee.ca
December 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
BC & WA Flood Upgrades (not) done since 2021:
Can Fed govt absent- flood mitigation plans
#Abbotsford govt "deeply aggrieved"
🇨🇦 rejected funding despite promises by Trudeau right after 2021.
WA: Nootsack River needs dredging & floodwall at 🇨🇦 border.
Great fast analysis by @tyolsen.bsky.social
Can Fed govt absent- flood mitigation plans
#Abbotsford govt "deeply aggrieved"
🇨🇦 rejected funding despite promises by Trudeau right after 2021.
WA: Nootsack River needs dredging & floodwall at 🇨🇦 border.
Great fast analysis by @tyolsen.bsky.social
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Got to meet @lukaszukab.bsky.social today, who was visiting and watched #QP from the gallery.
(And he agrees that Danielle Smith is the Viktor Orbán of Canada).
(And he agrees that Danielle Smith is the Viktor Orbán of Canada).
December 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Got to meet @lukaszukab.bsky.social today, who was visiting and watched #QP from the gallery.
(And he agrees that Danielle Smith is the Viktor Orbán of Canada).
(And he agrees that Danielle Smith is the Viktor Orbán of Canada).
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Always on point, the brilliant and courageous @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, who has been warning us for years and has been right about everything, sigh. 30 minutes.
New interview on the old kleptocracy youtu.be/Hx2jh93_1Fs?...
Transnational Kleptocracy: What Happens After Trump, Sarah Kendzior
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Always on point, the brilliant and courageous @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, who has been warning us for years and has been right about everything, sigh. 30 minutes.
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Aaron Rupar is proof that some of the best journalists *are* stenographers. The simple act of recording and publishing the words that they themselves utter - especially when they are as risible as Noem's - is profoundly important.
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Aaron Rupar is proof that some of the best journalists *are* stenographers. The simple act of recording and publishing the words that they themselves utter - especially when they are as risible as Noem's - is profoundly important.
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This should come as no surprise to anyone who’s been remotely paying attention.
December 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This should come as no surprise to anyone who’s been remotely paying attention.
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I see ICE have discovered Starlight Tours, one of the grossest racist practices Canada’s police has used against the indigenous.
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I see ICE have discovered Starlight Tours, one of the grossest racist practices Canada’s police has used against the indigenous.
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@bcndpcaucus.bsky.social lied, promised Walbran valley ancient ecosystem wouldn’t be logged.
Con @mark-carney.bsky.social won’t enforce Species At Risk Act on Vancouver Island, order is log it all.
Conservative mantra:
Cleanout resources fast for donors & f*ck sustainability & future generations.
Con @mark-carney.bsky.social won’t enforce Species At Risk Act on Vancouver Island, order is log it all.
Conservative mantra:
Cleanout resources fast for donors & f*ck sustainability & future generations.
RCMP are burning down the camps of forest protectors (incl. Elder Bill Jones' cabin) while everyone is distracted by the new pipeline outrage.
RCMP busted Cougar Camp in the upper Walbran Valley yesterday.
FACT: The BC NDP are far worse on old growth protection than BC Liberals were.
#bcpoli
RCMP busted Cougar Camp in the upper Walbran Valley yesterday.
FACT: The BC NDP are far worse on old growth protection than BC Liberals were.
#bcpoli
December 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
@bcndpcaucus.bsky.social lied, promised Walbran valley ancient ecosystem wouldn’t be logged.
Con @mark-carney.bsky.social won’t enforce Species At Risk Act on Vancouver Island, order is log it all.
Conservative mantra:
Cleanout resources fast for donors & f*ck sustainability & future generations.
Con @mark-carney.bsky.social won’t enforce Species At Risk Act on Vancouver Island, order is log it all.
Conservative mantra:
Cleanout resources fast for donors & f*ck sustainability & future generations.
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“Let’s build more pipelines!”
-dumbest politicians ever.
-dumbest politicians ever.
Major highways to Vancouver were closed early Thursday amid flooding and landslides that Canadian authorities said could block more roads. Here's what to know.
Canada Closes Highways to Vancouver After Flooding and Landslides
The atmospheric river over the Pacific Northwest brought a deluge to British Columbia, forcing road closures and evacuations in Canada.
nyti.ms
December 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“Let’s build more pipelines!”
-dumbest politicians ever.
-dumbest politicians ever.
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NOOKSACK THREAD: As dawn breaks, western Sumas Prairie is on evacuation order. The lakebed is on alert. From border cams you can see Sumas, Wash., immediately south of Abbotsford is not flooded. Which is good.
December 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
NOOKSACK THREAD: As dawn breaks, western Sumas Prairie is on evacuation order. The lakebed is on alert. From border cams you can see Sumas, Wash., immediately south of Abbotsford is not flooded. Which is good.
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Don't confuse Vancouver Island with Vancouver, which is currently an island.
December 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Don't confuse Vancouver Island with Vancouver, which is currently an island.
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Simon Fraser University wants only non-union faculty at its new medical school.
SFU contends that it's so new and different that the existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply.
pressprogress.ca/sfu-medical-...
SFU contends that it's so new and different that the existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply.
pressprogress.ca/sfu-medical-...
SFU Wants Only Non-Union Faculty at New Medical School
Simon Fraser contends that the med school is so new and different that its existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply
pressprogress.ca
December 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Simon Fraser University wants only non-union faculty at its new medical school.
SFU contends that it's so new and different that the existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply.
pressprogress.ca/sfu-medical-...
SFU contends that it's so new and different that the existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply.
pressprogress.ca/sfu-medical-...
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Eby, Carney Are Math Challenged on BC LNG Expansion Ambitions
I'm sorry, but there is just no business case to expand BC LNG.
Furthermore, David Eby, Mark Carney, Time Hodgson haven't bothered to make one.
Who needs customers, right?
#bcpoli #cdnpoli
youtu.be/DJzKGVUUU2U
I'm sorry, but there is just no business case to expand BC LNG.
Furthermore, David Eby, Mark Carney, Time Hodgson haven't bothered to make one.
Who needs customers, right?
#bcpoli #cdnpoli
youtu.be/DJzKGVUUU2U
Eby, Carney Are Math Challenged on BC LNG Expansion Ambitions
YouTube video by Energi Media
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Eby, Carney Are Math Challenged on BC LNG Expansion Ambitions
I'm sorry, but there is just no business case to expand BC LNG.
Furthermore, David Eby, Mark Carney, Time Hodgson haven't bothered to make one.
Who needs customers, right?
#bcpoli #cdnpoli
youtu.be/DJzKGVUUU2U
I'm sorry, but there is just no business case to expand BC LNG.
Furthermore, David Eby, Mark Carney, Time Hodgson haven't bothered to make one.
Who needs customers, right?
#bcpoli #cdnpoli
youtu.be/DJzKGVUUU2U
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"I'm literally spending my morning looking at #oldgrowth management areas that don't have old-growth in them, & looking at the adjacent old-growth that does exist that's not protected. We have a failed system here." Rachel Holt, Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Why was 'incredible' giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.'s big-tree protection law? | CBC News
Conservationists are questioning why an old-growth yellow cedar tree with a diameter that should have ensured its protection and a buffer area around it under provincial law was logged.
www.cbc.ca
December 8, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"I'm literally spending my morning looking at #oldgrowth management areas that don't have old-growth in them, & looking at the adjacent old-growth that does exist that's not protected. We have a failed system here." Rachel Holt, Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Did you know that Catastrophic floods that swamped much of southern British Columbia in 2021 were at least twice as likely because of burning fossil fuels? Did you know that fracked gas exported as LNG is as dangerous for the climate as coal? globalnews.ca/news/8622139... #bcpoli #bcflood
Climate change made B.C. floods at least twice as likely, study suggests | Globalnews.ca
The study concludes that the likelihood of similar events in the future will only increase as global warming continues to upend normal weather patterns.
globalnews.ca
December 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Did you know that Catastrophic floods that swamped much of southern British Columbia in 2021 were at least twice as likely because of burning fossil fuels? Did you know that fracked gas exported as LNG is as dangerous for the climate as coal? globalnews.ca/news/8622139... #bcpoli #bcflood