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@godfrey.bsky.social
it's not delivery; it's digiornalist
freelance writer/editor/researcher
work in Guardian, G&M, Tyee, Filter
awards n stuff
canadian freelance union member
co-founder: @debriefcomms.bsky.social
justice, drugs, housing, health
they/them/thembo
"vancouver"
freelance writer/editor/researcher
work in Guardian, G&M, Tyee, Filter
awards n stuff
canadian freelance union member
co-founder: @debriefcomms.bsky.social
justice, drugs, housing, health
they/them/thembo
"vancouver"
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I mean, I can be a godless dustbin year round
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It's also very funny that the city passed an austerity budget on the day that one of our biggest free events was also cancelled. But at least a few more potholes will get filled I guess.
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It's also very funny that the city passed an austerity budget on the day that one of our biggest free events was also cancelled. But at least a few more potholes will get filled I guess.
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“We’ve made some strides, but we’ve still got a huge way to go,” said chief librarian Beth Davies.
“It feels like a horrible time to put a pause on this work,” said one employee. 📚
#dei #burnaby
“It feels like a horrible time to put a pause on this work,” said one employee. 📚
#dei #burnaby
Burnaby Public Library Wrestles with the Costs of DEI | The Tyee
Inclusivity staff groups are being cancelled over budget concerns, but more action is promised.
thetyee.ca
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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After two years of FOI requests, the Vancouver police finally let The Tyee review some training modules for the SLO program.
@kehyslop.bsky.social reports. #vanpoli #bced
@kehyslop.bsky.social reports. #vanpoli #bced
We Finally Have Some Info on School Liaison Officer Training | The Tyee
After two years of FOI requests and complaints, the Vancouver police finally let The Tyee review some training modules.
thetyee.ca
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
After two years of FOI requests, the Vancouver police finally let The Tyee review some training modules for the SLO program.
@kehyslop.bsky.social reports. #vanpoli #bced
@kehyslop.bsky.social reports. #vanpoli #bced
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British Columbia could eventually return to building massive hydro dams if electricity use spikes in the coming decades, according to BC Hydro chair and former B.C. premier Glen Clark.
The Head of BC Hydro on Wind Power, Dam Megaprojects and More | The Tyee
Glen Clark sat down for a wide-ranging interview with The Tyee.
thetyee.ca
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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i mean, not the best crew, but we'll take it
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
i mean, not the best crew, but we'll take it
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These women were all drugged in a job interview.
And you wonder why women like myself are getting angrier with age.
Because these stories just never stop and the bad men just keep appearing.
And men keep saying “but •I• am not like that.” Yeah, well, your buddies are and it’s a problem.
And you wonder why women like myself are getting angrier with age.
Because these stories just never stop and the bad men just keep appearing.
And men keep saying “but •I• am not like that.” Yeah, well, your buddies are and it’s a problem.
‘I didn’t even know this type of attack existed’: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant
‘I didn’t even know this type of attack existed’: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant
In a case echoing the Pelicot trial, dozens of women allege they were given hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. Three of them speak out here
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
These women were all drugged in a job interview.
And you wonder why women like myself are getting angrier with age.
Because these stories just never stop and the bad men just keep appearing.
And men keep saying “but •I• am not like that.” Yeah, well, your buddies are and it’s a problem.
And you wonder why women like myself are getting angrier with age.
Because these stories just never stop and the bad men just keep appearing.
And men keep saying “but •I• am not like that.” Yeah, well, your buddies are and it’s a problem.
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Oof. Vancouver’s annual Celebration of Light fireworks competition cancelled indefinitely due to funding.
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Oof. Vancouver’s annual Celebration of Light fireworks competition cancelled indefinitely due to funding.
if involuntary treatment is violence, and the movement to expand it is rooted not in evidence but in politics, what do we call that?
idk there's gotta be a term. maybe one we all spent a bunch of time condoning recently
idk there's gotta be a term. maybe one we all spent a bunch of time condoning recently
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
if involuntary treatment is violence, and the movement to expand it is rooted not in evidence but in politics, what do we call that?
idk there's gotta be a term. maybe one we all spent a bunch of time condoning recently
idk there's gotta be a term. maybe one we all spent a bunch of time condoning recently
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“They weren’t stopping the overdoses … It’s a red-light emergency,” co-founder Jeremy Kalicum told the BC Supreme Court yesterday.
DULF lawyer set out 3 points behind the constitutional challenge that could throw out convictions against the compassion club operators, reports @godfrey.bsky.social:
DULF lawyer set out 3 points behind the constitutional challenge that could throw out convictions against the compassion club operators, reports @godfrey.bsky.social:
DULF’s Constitutional Challenge to Compassion-Club Charges Begins - Filter
As British Columbia’s overdose crisis escalated in the second half of the 2010s, Jeremy Kalicum was getting his first experience ...
filtermag.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“They weren’t stopping the overdoses … It’s a red-light emergency,” co-founder Jeremy Kalicum told the BC Supreme Court yesterday.
DULF lawyer set out 3 points behind the constitutional challenge that could throw out convictions against the compassion club operators, reports @godfrey.bsky.social:
DULF lawyer set out 3 points behind the constitutional challenge that could throw out convictions against the compassion club operators, reports @godfrey.bsky.social:
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Toxic Drug Alert: The week of November 17-21 saw BC’s highest number of calls made to 911 for toxic drug poisoning events. This is likely due to a substance called medetomidine being mixed with fentanyl. Please see and share the information provided.
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Toxic Drug Alert: The week of November 17-21 saw BC’s highest number of calls made to 911 for toxic drug poisoning events. This is likely due to a substance called medetomidine being mixed with fentanyl. Please see and share the information provided.
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without evidence, the federal government says a law that prohibits fossil fuel companies from lying about the environmental impacts of their products is “creating investment uncertainty”
The Carney government wants to pare back aspects of Canada’s anti-greenwashing law, telling @meyer.bsky.social it prevents the fossil fuel industry and other groups from sharing their environmental claims. Critics say the law might be working as intended. thenarwhal.ca/greenwashing...
Canada says anti-greenwashing rules silence industry | The Narwhal
Carney is moving to nix some of Canada’s rules that restrict how oil and gas companies and other industries advertise environmental claims
thenarwhal.ca
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
without evidence, the federal government says a law that prohibits fossil fuel companies from lying about the environmental impacts of their products is “creating investment uncertainty”
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Political commentary has framed the Cowichan decision as zero-sum, winners and losers. But there‘s an entirely different, more just path forward, Adam Olsen writes for @thetyee.ca: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Indigenous Relations: Letting Go of Zero-Sum Thinking | The Tyee
Responses to the Cowichan decision have stoked fear about private property. There’s a more just and hopeful way forward.
thetyee.ca
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Political commentary has framed the Cowichan decision as zero-sum, winners and losers. But there‘s an entirely different, more just path forward, Adam Olsen writes for @thetyee.ca: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
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“a [VPD] member attended a high school to provide a presentation on policing, following which the member exchanged emails with a female student regarding a career in policing. After the student had graduated high school, the two became engaged in an intimate relationship”
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November 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“a [VPD] member attended a high school to provide a presentation on policing, following which the member exchanged emails with a female student regarding a career in policing. After the student had graduated high school, the two became engaged in an intimate relationship”
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This might be the single coolest photo I've ever seen. By photographer Andrew McCarthy (ajamesmccarthy on IG), it shows a skydiver crossing in front of the sun.
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This might be the single coolest photo I've ever seen. By photographer Andrew McCarthy (ajamesmccarthy on IG), it shows a skydiver crossing in front of the sun.
perhaps some of that half a billion dollars they want next year could go towards responding to FOI requests
VPD ignoring FOI requests for chief's communications leading up to 2022 muni election referencing then-mayoral-candidate Ken Sim or stranger assaults, which became highly politicized during the campaign, @andrewweichel.bsky.social and @lisa-steacy.bsky.social report
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Vancouver police ignore FOI requests for chief's communications
For nearly a year, the Vancouver Police Department has failed to fulfill two freedom of information requests seeking records from Chief Adam Palmer and other high-ranking officials – a situation trans...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM
perhaps some of that half a billion dollars they want next year could go towards responding to FOI requests
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“At $73 billion in direct impact on the national GDP, Canada’s cultural industries contribute more than oil and gas extraction at $71 billion.” www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...
Comment: Investing in Canada's cultural sector is crucial to 'elbows up'
At $73 billion in direct impact to the national GDP, Canada’s cultural industries contribute more than oil and gas extraction at $71 billion.
www.timescolonist.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:19 AM
“At $73 billion in direct impact on the national GDP, Canada’s cultural industries contribute more than oil and gas extraction at $71 billion.” www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...
one day we will not look back on this moment because we will have outsourced all looking back on moments to AI
I guess I already knew beauty ads were fakey but now they’re fakey-fakey at scale.
www.wsj.com/articles/lor...
www.wsj.com/articles/lor...
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
one day we will not look back on this moment because we will have outsourced all looking back on moments to AI
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sometimes I think I should proofread my posts/texts before hitting send
but then I cease to think
but then I cease to think
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
sometimes I think I should proofread my posts/texts before hitting send
but then I cease to think
but then I cease to think
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“I am not working in those facilities because I find it morally inappropriate.”
A Tyee investigation found that Calgary anesthesiologists are being scheduled by managers, in response to government directives, to work in for-profit chartered surgical facilities, sometimes against their will. #abpoli
A Tyee investigation found that Calgary anesthesiologists are being scheduled by managers, in response to government directives, to work in for-profit chartered surgical facilities, sometimes against their will. #abpoli
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing | The Tyee
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation.
thetyee.ca
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“I am not working in those facilities because I find it morally inappropriate.”
A Tyee investigation found that Calgary anesthesiologists are being scheduled by managers, in response to government directives, to work in for-profit chartered surgical facilities, sometimes against their will. #abpoli
A Tyee investigation found that Calgary anesthesiologists are being scheduled by managers, in response to government directives, to work in for-profit chartered surgical facilities, sometimes against their will. #abpoli
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The change came a year-and-a-half after the VPD told The Tyee that releasing the names and school assignments would be a potential threat to the physical and mental health and safety of the officers and others.
The Tyee first requested them on Dec. 6, 2023.
@kehyslop.bsky.social reports. #vanpoli
The Tyee first requested them on Dec. 6, 2023.
@kehyslop.bsky.social reports. #vanpoli
Vancouver Police Finally Reveal Names of School Liaison Officers | The Tyee
After telling The Tyee publishing this information would harm police, names and school assignments are out.
thetyee.ca
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The change came a year-and-a-half after the VPD told The Tyee that releasing the names and school assignments would be a potential threat to the physical and mental health and safety of the officers and others.
The Tyee first requested them on Dec. 6, 2023.
@kehyslop.bsky.social reports. #vanpoli
The Tyee first requested them on Dec. 6, 2023.
@kehyslop.bsky.social reports. #vanpoli
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As 2025 draws to an end, key commitments on flood prevention programs and infrastructure remain undelivered, local officials say.
@tyolsen.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli
@tyolsen.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli
BC’s Flood Prevention Promises Remain Unfulfilled | The Tyee
After the 2021 atmospheric river, governments preached averting over recovery. Locals remember. Do politicians?
thetyee.ca
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
As 2025 draws to an end, key commitments on flood prevention programs and infrastructure remain undelivered, local officials say.
@tyolsen.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli
@tyolsen.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli
if you're one of two Canadian streaming services, and the other one may or may not still exist idk, you don't have to be ~good~. you merely have to be ~resembling fictional~
I love it when the "show you're now watching" tile on a streaming service doesn't take you to the show page, but straight into the next episode.
It's neat that these things are made by people who can't conceive of a person skipping an episode, or wanting to know how many eps are left in a season.
It's neat that these things are made by people who can't conceive of a person skipping an episode, or wanting to know how many eps are left in a season.
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
if you're one of two Canadian streaming services, and the other one may or may not still exist idk, you don't have to be ~good~. you merely have to be ~resembling fictional~
it's really great that once you reach a certain professional stature it's almost impossible for you to fail
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
it's really great that once you reach a certain professional stature it's almost impossible for you to fail
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...