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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 12h

Not content with the defeat of her caucus' first bill, Dallas Brodie uses QP to call on BC to block parents from being able to choose gender affirming care for their kids

Attorney General Niki Sharma shut the question down, expressed disappointment that One BC is targeting vulnerable kids #bcpoli

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 13h

The bill has been introduced and there's a division call at first reading

This is unusual. Most bills get a cursory pass through to second reading

We're going to have a standing vote with each MLA's vote recorded #bcpoli

Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 16h

The One BC caucus also plans to introduce a private members' bill titled, "Protecting Minors from Gender Transition Act"

With the new procedures for PMBs, this bill could see debate. However, there are about a dozen PMBs ahead of it in the queue, so to speak, and only 5 weeks of debate this session

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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 13h

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 16h

The One BC caucus also plans to introduce a private members' bill titled, "Protecting Minors from Gender Transition Act"

With the new procedures for PMBs, this bill could see debate. However, there are about a dozen PMBs ahead of it in the queue, so to speak, and only 5 weeks of debate this session

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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 13h

Division has been called, which means there will be a full standing vote.

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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 13h

Their House Leader is introducing a bill targeting trans kids right now. We'll see if it gets past first reading.

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 15h

Elections BC fines Chip Wilson $600 for putting up three signs accusing the BC NDP of being "communist," etc. during the fall provincial eleciton

The conversation between Wilson and the Election BC investigator should be a one-act play 😂 #bcpoli elections.bc.ca/docs/amp/Enf...

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 19h

Today, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more.

Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: I teamed up with @castanetkamloops.net to write this long in-depth account of Reid Hamer-Jackson's three years as mayor of Kamloops. I also talked to the unrepentant mayor for two hours.

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Mayor of Chaos: How Kamloops Politics Became Infamous | The Tyee

Car dealer Reid Hamer-Jackson won office with charisma and ideas. Then the wheels came off.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Nicole Chaland @nicolechaland.bsky.social · 19h

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 1d

"Our government’s drowning in debt. Why are we subsidizing housing for such wealthy people?”

If the BC government is looking to increase cash flow without impacting services or implementing new taxes, reforming property tax deferrals to exclude the wealthy seems like awfully low-hanging fruit...

How B.C.'s property tax system delivers big benefits to multimillionaires, and why some say it needs to change

B.C.'s property tax system is uniquely generous for wealthy homeowners. Some people think that should change. Find out more.

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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 2d

It’s good for Canadians to recognize that the chief sponsor of “Hockey Canada” is ExxonMobil.

RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social · 2d

My latest….The new Imperial Oil is a collection of operating plants run out of “global business centres.” That is, not run from Canada by Canadians. It’s the clearest sign yet that Canada’s oil story is drawing to a close. Our leaders still haven't noticed. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/03/a...

The fall of a Canadian giant

The new Imperial Oil is essentially a collection of operating plants run out of “global business centres.” That is, not run from Canada or by Canadians. This isn’t just a corporate restructuring. It’s...

www.nationalobserver.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

solar and wind generated more electricity that coal for the first time ever in the first half of 2025. that's the good shit ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember

Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.

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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 2d

A single Vancouver police officer made $397,258 last year, making $239,258 in overtime on top of their base pay of up to $158,000.
This is the wildest FOI I've seen in a long time. Well done Liam Britten for digging this up. #CBC
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47 VPD officers made over $100K in OT last year — and one banked $239K, FOI data shows | CBC News

A single Vancouver police sergeant was paid $239,258 in overtime alone last year, on top of the rank's base pay of up to $158,000. The figure comes from a freedom of information request filed with the...

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Flannery Dean @flannerydean.bsky.social · 2d

Lot of star system focus in media but it takes a lot of courage to quit on principle especially in an industry where having a job at all is vanishing opportunity. Respect 🫡

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 2d

The resignations, which include two editors and two reporters based in Homer and Kenai, were scheduled to take effect in two weeks, but managers at Carpenter Media Group fired all four immediately.

James Brooks reports. An Alaska Beacon reprint. #CdnMedia #uspoli

BC Paper Owner Sparks Mass Resignation Over Charlie Kirk Story Intervention | The Tyee

Alaskan journalists quit after Carpenter Media execs unilaterally changed an article about a vigil for the far-right activist.

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BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · 2d

The affordability crisis during a weakening economy is placing even more pressure on the nonprofit sector says senior economist @iglikaivanova.bsky.social.

"When things are very uncertain, donations are even less than they used to be,” she says.

Programs on the chopping block as B.C. charities face funding crisis

Many who work in B.C.’s non-profit industry say they’re grappling with a decline in donations paired with a growing demand for their services – forcing them to make challenging financial decisions.

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 2d

In QP today, Conservative leader John Rustad accuses Eby of blocking economic development by not supporting a new oil pipeline across BC

Eby calls Alberta's proposal an "imaginary project," says he's open to real projects that will benefit BC and Canada #bcpoli

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 2d

Bells just rang to signal the start of the morning sitting, the first time BC's MLAs have been in the chamber since May

The government says it plans to put forward 18 bills this session, including another second bill to make sure the North Coast transmission line gets built

Meanwhile...
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 2d

B.C.’s legislature is back. The Greens have a new leader, the Conservatives have a new seat count and the NDP need another bill to build the North Coast transmission line, @sobittersosweet.bsky.social reports. thenarwhal.ca/bc-legislatu...

What to expect from the B.C. legislature’s fall session | The Narwhal

The B.C. legislature is back in action and progress on the North Coast transmission line is a top priority for Premier David Eby

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d

Italian journalist abducted from the flotilla describes how Israeli prison guards unleashed dogs into cells, poured bleach on mattresses, and overcrowded cells
such that it was impossible to lie down.

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That night the guards were even more violent. The consul had just left, having gathered more deportation signatures, when special forces burst in. They stormed the cells, pointed rifles at us with laser sights, and called roll. In some cells, they unleashed dogs. In one, they found the word “Palestine” spelled out using scraps of pepper and water. To erase it, they poured bleach on the floor — prisoners slept on mattresses soaked with it.

That night, as punishment, they overcrowded the cells: from ten people to fifteen, leaving no space to lie down. We turned the mattresses sideways so we could all rest our heads. In my cell were Maso Notarianni and a Lombardy Democratic Party councilor, Paolo Romano.

I had the feeling I was in a truly barbaric place, and hoped this barbarity would soon end.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 3d

This is quite the ridge over the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada.

It's warmer in Moosonee, Ontario—located on the shores of James Bay—than it is down in New Orleans.

A temperature map across the U.S. and parts of Canada and Mexico on Sunday afternoon. 70s and 80s bathe the eastern half of the continent.

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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 3d

It was also interesting to read it right after Goodbye to Berlin. Quite the bookends. Salute to Isherwood.

Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 3d

Colin Firth is so young in A Single Man. I thought he was so much older at the time lol. Time is wild. I think I like the book character better but both are such beautiful texts.

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Gerry Flynn @geraldrflynn.bsky.social · 3d

Our latest data analysis shows nearly 1 million Ha of tree cover was lost across Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam in 2024.

Nearly a quarter of this was primary forest, but - more alarming - ~30% of tree cover losses occurred inside protected areas. Read the breakdown on @mongabay.com

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024

BANGKOK — The Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined area of tree cover of nearly a million hectares in 2024, or an area almost the size of Lebanon. That’s a...

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