Joey Broda
@joeybroda.bsky.social
Works in fermenting renewable energy and fomenting radical democracy.
Treasurer of the Democratic Socialists of Vancouver.
Treasurer of the Democratic Socialists of Vancouver.
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we’re shooting ourselves in the foot because we’re letting racists shape the immigration and housing crisis discourses instead of taking on landlords and developers through mass public housing construction
Canada’s population fell in third quarter, driven by drop in non-permanent residents: StatsCan | CBC News
Canada’s population decreased over the third quarter of 2025 — driven by a drop in non-permanent residents, according to new data from Statistics Canada.
www.cbc.ca
December 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
we’re shooting ourselves in the foot because we’re letting racists shape the immigration and housing crisis discourses instead of taking on landlords and developers through mass public housing construction
I keep getting the ad for Gemini. Nothing says #AI bubble like google trying to sell Gemini for $27/mo with the use case "you can make elephants that look like watermelon." That's the use case they wanted to show? Yikes.
December 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I keep getting the ad for Gemini. Nothing says #AI bubble like google trying to sell Gemini for $27/mo with the use case "you can make elephants that look like watermelon." That's the use case they wanted to show? Yikes.
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Tired: factional parties.
Wired: fractal parties.
Wired: fractal parties.
the question is how long this cycle currently gripping BC right-wing politics can continue and how fractionated it can get
December 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Tired: factional parties.
Wired: fractal parties.
Wired: fractal parties.
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But turning to AI for any social use will always, *always* widen the connection gap between you and other humans. It causes social muscles to atrophy instead of growing stronger.
Those of us who see the dangers need to be offering much more support to those who are falling into it
Those of us who see the dangers need to be offering much more support to those who are falling into it
December 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
But turning to AI for any social use will always, *always* widen the connection gap between you and other humans. It causes social muscles to atrophy instead of growing stronger.
Those of us who see the dangers need to be offering much more support to those who are falling into it
Those of us who see the dangers need to be offering much more support to those who are falling into it
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December 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Terribly stupid idea that will satisfy faux-populist urges to dunk on public servants while simultaneously making the lives of public servants and the service itself so much worse.
Goofy stuff.
Goofy stuff.
Carney says back-to-office plan for federal civil servants coming soon nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/08/c...
Carney says back-to-office plan for federal civil servants coming soon
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Terribly stupid idea that will satisfy faux-populist urges to dunk on public servants while simultaneously making the lives of public servants and the service itself so much worse.
Goofy stuff.
Goofy stuff.
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Our AGM is tonight! Food will be ready for 6pm and the meeting starts at 7pm. This is our big organizing meeting, where will talk about priorities for 2026: municipal election, anti-austerity, expanding mutual aid.
www.democraticsocialistsyvr.ca/dsv-news/agm...
www.democraticsocialistsyvr.ca/dsv-news/agm...
DSOV ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING — Democratic Socialists of Vancouver
There's never been a better time to get involved in the Democratic Socialists of Vancouver. Our AGM is scheduled for Dec 8, 2025
www.democraticsocialistsyvr.ca
December 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Our AGM is tonight! Food will be ready for 6pm and the meeting starts at 7pm. This is our big organizing meeting, where will talk about priorities for 2026: municipal election, anti-austerity, expanding mutual aid.
www.democraticsocialistsyvr.ca/dsv-news/agm...
www.democraticsocialistsyvr.ca/dsv-news/agm...
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Did you know? A Canadian company is supplying armoured cars to ICE as they continue to carry out the Trump administration’s cruel and rights-violating deportation agenda.
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social writes that we need a moral line in the sand thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social writes that we need a moral line in the sand thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
A Canadian Company Is Supplying Armoured Cars to ICE | The Tyee
The Canadian government should consider companies’ complicity in US human rights violations when sourcing contracts.
thetyee.ca
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Did you know? A Canadian company is supplying armoured cars to ICE as they continue to carry out the Trump administration’s cruel and rights-violating deportation agenda.
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social writes that we need a moral line in the sand thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social writes that we need a moral line in the sand thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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PM Carney can fuck right off, if he thinks there's going to be another bitumen pipeline in BC.
Premier Smith and I have agreed to a framework built on shared ambitions — to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, unlock the full potential of Alberta’s energy resources, and build a stronger, more sustainable, more competitive economy.
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
PM Carney can fuck right off, if he thinks there's going to be another bitumen pipeline in BC.
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We've fallen into an anti-immigration, anti-climate, short-sighted economic doofus era, brought to you by the guy who we thought was a smart policy wonk.
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
rime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government is scrapping plans for a major national climate policy and immediately suspending another in Alberta alone, as part of a wide-ranging accord that softens
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We've fallen into an anti-immigration, anti-climate, short-sighted economic doofus era, brought to you by the guy who we thought was a smart policy wonk.
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Ken Sim's austerity budget is so severe that they're going to be REMOVING EXISTING BABY CHANGING TABLES
Vancouver, is this really who we are?
Vancouver, is this really who we are?
Listening to Vancouver Council budget discussion in the background this morning. In response to a question from @seanorr.bsky.social about where they'll be retracting from the city just said they're planning to REMOVE baby changing tables and menstrual product dispensers to save costs. Shameful.
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Ken Sim's austerity budget is so severe that they're going to be REMOVING EXISTING BABY CHANGING TABLES
Vancouver, is this really who we are?
Vancouver, is this really who we are?
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
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At COP30 Canada just got awarded the fossil of the day — first time since 2014 (the harper years). Clear sign of how Carney’s pro fossil fuel agenda and backsliding on climate policy is being noticed internationally.
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
At COP30 Canada just got awarded the fossil of the day — first time since 2014 (the harper years). Clear sign of how Carney’s pro fossil fuel agenda and backsliding on climate policy is being noticed internationally.
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Kevin O'Leary petitions Trump to have name added to Epstein Files
Kevin O'Leary petitions Trump to have name added to Epstein Files
TORONTO - With newly released files from notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein implicating President Trump in a world of elite, amoral power players, Canadian businessman Kevin O'Leary has formally...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Kevin O'Leary petitions Trump to have name added to Epstein Files
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I'm tuning back in to the marathon "people's filibuster" as people are calling it - 600 speakers, most of them opposed to ABC's proposed budget, are continuing to speak - carried over from yesterday. #vanpoli
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I'm tuning back in to the marathon "people's filibuster" as people are calling it - 600 speakers, most of them opposed to ABC's proposed budget, are continuing to speak - carried over from yesterday. #vanpoli
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New 2025 living wage calculations are out for 27 communities in BC. Check what the living wage is where you live at bcpolicy.ca/living-wage/...
Thanks to @wildebeest.design for the map & for making our report and factsheets look great.
Thanks to @wildebeest.design for the map & for making our report and factsheets look great.
November 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
New 2025 living wage calculations are out for 27 communities in BC. Check what the living wage is where you live at bcpolicy.ca/living-wage/...
Thanks to @wildebeest.design for the map & for making our report and factsheets look great.
Thanks to @wildebeest.design for the map & for making our report and factsheets look great.
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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
There’s no way I’m the first to come up with this using the Zohran sign maker.
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
There’s no way I’m the first to come up with this using the Zohran sign maker.
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Who wants a very detailed poll-by-poll map of the last election you can go scour?
Kyle Hutton put in the leg work and you can check it here! -> app.atlas.co/shared/uhOeG...
Kyle Hutton put in the leg work and you can check it here! -> app.atlas.co/shared/uhOeG...
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Who wants a very detailed poll-by-poll map of the last election you can go scour?
Kyle Hutton put in the leg work and you can check it here! -> app.atlas.co/shared/uhOeG...
Kyle Hutton put in the leg work and you can check it here! -> app.atlas.co/shared/uhOeG...
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the police are defunding us
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
the police are defunding us
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COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded #Canada’s rating to "Highly insufficient". It has weakened policy ambition, implementation is slow; there's a widening gap between current emissions levels and its 2030 target. This despite 2025 seeing second worst wildfire season in history.
bit.ly/CAT_CAN
bit.ly/CAT_CAN
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded #Canada’s rating to "Highly insufficient". It has weakened policy ambition, implementation is slow; there's a widening gap between current emissions levels and its 2030 target. This despite 2025 seeing second worst wildfire season in history.
bit.ly/CAT_CAN
bit.ly/CAT_CAN
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UBS: "we now forecast global AI capex to reach USD 423bn this year (from our previous estimate of USD 375bn) and USD 571bn in 2026 (from USD 500bn). By 2030, we expect overall spending to hit USD 1.3tr"
November 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
UBS: "we now forecast global AI capex to reach USD 423bn this year (from our previous estimate of USD 375bn) and USD 571bn in 2026 (from USD 500bn). By 2030, we expect overall spending to hit USD 1.3tr"
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Canada deliberately spent 15 years building expertise in global health. A wide network of researchers, private sector and NGOs. Deep knowledge and international credibility. We leveraged this on the international scene to Canada’s benefit
Now in a single sentence, that was all a waste
Now in a single sentence, that was all a waste
November 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Canada deliberately spent 15 years building expertise in global health. A wide network of researchers, private sector and NGOs. Deep knowledge and international credibility. We leveraged this on the international scene to Canada’s benefit
Now in a single sentence, that was all a waste
Now in a single sentence, that was all a waste
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It's actually insane that the feds are promising to put more than double the amount of money they're putting into childcare, into AI.
Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?
Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
It's actually insane that the feds are promising to put more than double the amount of money they're putting into childcare, into AI.
Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?
Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?