Jordan Marjorie
@jamteezy.bsky.social
writer, former journo. Probably sitting next to the river.
Other account:
@jamteezy42.bsky.social
#Tkemlups
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Into natural disasters, poems, and infrastructure.
Other account:
@jamteezy42.bsky.social
#Tkemlups
I blog -->
https://jordanmarjorie.substack.com/
Into natural disasters, poems, and infrastructure.
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Corey Jocko, Shaylynn Sampson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham will not receive jail time for blocking access to the Coastal GasLink pipeline four years ago. #bcpoli
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Supporters Cheer After Indigenous Land Defenders Avoid Jail | The Tyee
Judge rejects the prosecutors’ call for more jail time for protesters arrested at a Coastal GasLink pipeline work site.
thetyee.ca
October 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Corey Jocko, Shaylynn Sampson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham will not receive jail time for blocking access to the Coastal GasLink pipeline four years ago. #bcpoli
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skulls and tide pods
I like the aesthetic of creepy, a friend said to me recently.
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October 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Local man intimately familiar with losing tells others to stop doing that.
'No more losing,' Poilievre tells Carney in scathing letter ahead of PM's face-to-face with Trump | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has penned a scathing letter to the prime minister ahead of his meeting with the U.S. president on Tuesday, saying Mark Carney has been a disappointment on the tra...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Local man intimately familiar with losing tells others to stop doing that.
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#IdeasAtWork
“It still feels unreal sometimes. What started as a “radical” idea — that health begins with home — became a place where people who were living inside and out of hospitals, shelters, or on the street could finally exhale.” - Andrew Boozary
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“It still feels unreal sometimes. What started as a “radical” idea — that health begins with home — became a place where people who were living inside and out of hospitals, shelters, or on the street could finally exhale.” - Andrew Boozary
h/t @uhn.ca @unitedwaygt.bsky.social
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October 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
#IdeasAtWork
“It still feels unreal sometimes. What started as a “radical” idea — that health begins with home — became a place where people who were living inside and out of hospitals, shelters, or on the street could finally exhale.” - Andrew Boozary
h/t @uhn.ca @unitedwaygt.bsky.social
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“It still feels unreal sometimes. What started as a “radical” idea — that health begins with home — became a place where people who were living inside and out of hospitals, shelters, or on the street could finally exhale.” - Andrew Boozary
h/t @uhn.ca @unitedwaygt.bsky.social
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“The first story is from Victoria Gibson at the Toronto Star — about Jason Miles, a man whose addiction and homelessness cost more than $260,000 through ER visits, shelters, and jail stays. Not because he wanted that path, but because there wasn’t another one.”
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Jason Miles’ addiction cost $260,000 in emergency room, shelter and jail stays. A Toronto hospital’s radical solution: just give him a home
Jason Miles’ addiction cost $260,000 in emergency room, shelter and jail stays. A Toronto hospital’s radical solution: just give him a home
www.thestar.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
“The first story is from Victoria Gibson at the Toronto Star — about Jason Miles, a man whose addiction and homelessness cost more than $260,000 through ER visits, shelters, and jail stays. Not because he wanted that path, but because there wasn’t another one.”
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“When Dr. Andrew Boozary and his team at Toronto's University Health Network looked deeper into the issue, they discovered that about 100 patients accounted for more than 4,500 emergency department visits in one year.”
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Toronto ER costs, visits by frequent patients reduced with new housing model | CBC News
The Dunn House, a long-term housing project with easy access to healthcare, is helping 48 of Toronto's most-frequent visitors to the ER. The program has greatly reduced the number of hospital visits a...
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October 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
“When Dr. Andrew Boozary and his team at Toronto's University Health Network looked deeper into the issue, they discovered that about 100 patients accounted for more than 4,500 emergency department visits in one year.”
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The most amazing part of this is that the far right didn't target her because she celebrated Kirk's death or even threw his own words back at them.
She merely expressed a well-founded worry that his murder might inspire the far right to greater violence and they apparently took that as a challenge.
She merely expressed a well-founded worry that his murder might inspire the far right to greater violence and they apparently took that as a challenge.
What happened after Canadian journalist @rachelgilmore.bsky.social posted about the potential repercussions of Kirk’s murder: doxxing and violent threats thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
The Dangerous Targeting of a Canadian Journalist | The Tyee
After the murder of Charlie Kirk, conservatives piled on Rachel Gilmore for expressing a well-founded fear. Then came violent threats.
thetyee.ca
September 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The most amazing part of this is that the far right didn't target her because she celebrated Kirk's death or even threw his own words back at them.
She merely expressed a well-founded worry that his murder might inspire the far right to greater violence and they apparently took that as a challenge.
She merely expressed a well-founded worry that his murder might inspire the far right to greater violence and they apparently took that as a challenge.
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On The Current just now, Matt Galloway amplified that Kirk’s shooter was “radicalized by the left” and “has a transgender romantic partner“ as motives for the shooting. Left as-is, no questions.
September 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
On The Current just now, Matt Galloway amplified that Kirk’s shooter was “radicalized by the left” and “has a transgender romantic partner“ as motives for the shooting. Left as-is, no questions.
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
this is sooooooo good.
All the Sad Young Terminally Online Men
Political violence is like a lightning bolt: sudden, surprising, seemingly random, yet always emerging from a local weather system. Do not forget that we all make the weather.
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September 17, 2025 at 5:02 AM
this is sooooooo good.
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Feel free to drill a hole in my skull and suck whatever you want out of there with one of those thick bubble tea straws.
September 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Feel free to drill a hole in my skull and suck whatever you want out of there with one of those thick bubble tea straws.
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A horse can gallop just a few hours after it's born. It would be cool if humans developed that quickly. A baby pops out and three hours later it’s texting
September 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
A horse can gallop just a few hours after it's born. It would be cool if humans developed that quickly. A baby pops out and three hours later it’s texting
how to become a writer
My Uncle Ross’ funeral was today.
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September 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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I'm harnessing the unprecedented power of AI to forget how to read and develop a severe mental illness that makes me unrecognizable to those who once knew me.
September 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I'm harnessing the unprecedented power of AI to forget how to read and develop a severe mental illness that makes me unrecognizable to those who once knew me.
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If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
— Muriel Rukeyeser
— Muriel Rukeyeser
July 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.
— Muriel Rukeyeser
— Muriel Rukeyeser
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I’m actually gonna get out of my replies and use this story to highlight something that I haven’t for a while: the complete lack of transparency and communication from our public agencies in B.C./Canada. So here’s a thread
People waiting in line at a carnival witnessed a worker get hit and killed by one of the rides Tuesday night in Prince Rupert
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'Like a bad movie': Carnival worker dies after being hit by ride in Prince Rupert, B.C., witnesses say | CBC News
Mission-based Shooting Star Amusements, which operates the carnival, identified the man as a worker in a social media post Wednesday, adding he was also a "dear close friend" and a "great man."
www.cbc.ca
August 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I’m actually gonna get out of my replies and use this story to highlight something that I haven’t for a while: the complete lack of transparency and communication from our public agencies in B.C./Canada. So here’s a thread
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Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt. In the waterways connected to the Great Lakes, researchers uncover boats that tell the story of millennia of Indigenous history.
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Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt
In the waterways connected to the Great Lakes, researchers uncover boats that tell the story of millennia of Indigenous history
www.smithsonianmag.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt. In the waterways connected to the Great Lakes, researchers uncover boats that tell the story of millennia of Indigenous history.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/arch...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/arch...
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What will happen to Canadian science once Carney implements his 15% budget cuts? Brian Owens in Science www.science.org/content/arti...
Canada plans a 15% budget cut. Scientists are alarmed
Cuts could erase promised boost, researchers fear
www.science.org
August 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
What will happen to Canadian science once Carney implements his 15% budget cuts? Brian Owens in Science www.science.org/content/arti...
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"Their initial interaction with a marginalized and apparently fearful person quickly escalated in ways that seem excessive considering that the reason for the stop was a minor traffic matter."
Public hearing called after police taser Indigenous man during jaywalking call
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Public hearing called after police taser Indigenous man during jaywalking call
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Public hearing called after Abbotsford, B.C., police officers use Taser on unhoused man | CBC News
The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner (OPCC) has called a public hearing into the conduct of two Abbotsford, B.C., officers who the commissioner says used "substantial force" when arresting ...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"Their initial interaction with a marginalized and apparently fearful person quickly escalated in ways that seem excessive considering that the reason for the stop was a minor traffic matter."
Public hearing called after police taser Indigenous man during jaywalking call
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Public hearing called after police taser Indigenous man during jaywalking call
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I'm not sure Prince George has ever had a municipal party try to get candidates elected but I guess it's happening
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B.C. Conservatives register new municipal party before next year's local elections
With the launch of a new political party, Conservative candidates could be on the ballot in several of B.C.'s biggest cities next year.
vancouversun.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I'm not sure Prince George has ever had a municipal party try to get candidates elected but I guess it's happening
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vancouversun.com/news/bc-cons...
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RCMP may need to review training involving Indigenous people, B.C. watchdog says (BC)
RCMP may need to review training involving Indigenous people, B.C. watchdog says - BC News
Rojun Alphonse was a "great family man," who was proud of his Indigenous roots, and the circumstances around his death remain an open wound for his family and the community, said Chief Willie Sellars of the Williams Lake First Nation in B.C.'s Cariboo region.
www.castanetkamloops.net
July 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
RCMP may need to review training involving Indigenous people, B.C. watchdog says (BC)
my friends got married. I blogged about it
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What butterflies say
I really need to start remembering waterproof mascara, I thought at a recent wedding in Prince George.
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July 22, 2025 at 5:33 AM
my friends got married. I blogged about it
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Go Kendra go!
June 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Go Kendra go!