Safder Raza
@safderr.bsky.social
vancouver paramedic 🚑
ex-engineer/tech bro 🤮
from techno-optimism to class consciousness
land back | free palestine | tax the rich
ex-engineer/tech bro 🤮
from techno-optimism to class consciousness
land back | free palestine | tax the rich
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“Oil… oil… oil… oil… oil… oil…”
TLDR: It was never about drugs
TLDR: It was never about drugs
December 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
“Oil… oil… oil… oil… oil… oil…”
TLDR: It was never about drugs
TLDR: It was never about drugs
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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
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the state of this world is unconscionable. no one should have to experience such horror.
i can’t help thinking about how mark carney was just over playing nice with uae leaders enabling this genocide.
i can’t help thinking about how mark carney was just over playing nice with uae leaders enabling this genocide.
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
the state of this world is unconscionable. no one should have to experience such horror.
i can’t help thinking about how mark carney was just over playing nice with uae leaders enabling this genocide.
i can’t help thinking about how mark carney was just over playing nice with uae leaders enabling this genocide.
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Hey #Vancouver - feeling the giving spirit? The DEWC needs more gifts for the 200 holiday hampers. They made it easy - you can order online and ship directly to them.
Bring a little joy to someone
@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social (maybe share?)
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Bring a little joy to someone
@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social (maybe share?)
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Downtown Eastside Women's Centre's Wishlist | Listful
View Downtown Eastside Women's Centre's wishlist on Listful. Find the perfect gifts they actually want for birthdays, Christmas, and special occasions. Free wishlist sharing platform.
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December 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Hey #Vancouver - feeling the giving spirit? The DEWC needs more gifts for the 200 holiday hampers. They made it easy - you can order online and ship directly to them.
Bring a little joy to someone
@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social (maybe share?)
www.listful.com/dewc/list/de...
Bring a little joy to someone
@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social (maybe share?)
www.listful.com/dewc/list/de...
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Premier Eby will have announcement tmrw about "strengthening access to involuntary care for young people."
CMHA: "lack of evidence to support effectiveness of involuntary treatment for substance use disorder... evidence suggests it leads to an increased risk of death..."
bc.cmha.ca/news/involun...
CMHA: "lack of evidence to support effectiveness of involuntary treatment for substance use disorder... evidence suggests it leads to an increased risk of death..."
bc.cmha.ca/news/involun...
Involuntary Care Already Exists in BC, But Is It Working? - CMHA British Columbia
VANCOUVER, BC – (September 18, 2024): On September 15, 2024, Premier Eby announced that his government is expanding involuntary care for people with brain injury, mental illness, and severe addiction....
bc.cmha.ca
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Premier Eby will have announcement tmrw about "strengthening access to involuntary care for young people."
CMHA: "lack of evidence to support effectiveness of involuntary treatment for substance use disorder... evidence suggests it leads to an increased risk of death..."
bc.cmha.ca/news/involun...
CMHA: "lack of evidence to support effectiveness of involuntary treatment for substance use disorder... evidence suggests it leads to an increased risk of death..."
bc.cmha.ca/news/involun...
This is just insulting, in the face of layoffs and the gutting of public services by this ABC council. Absolutely abhorrent.
December 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is just insulting, in the face of layoffs and the gutting of public services by this ABC council. Absolutely abhorrent.
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CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves
CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves
Israel’s military is continuing to pound the Gaza Strip in violation of the October 10 ceasefire agreement. Al Jazeera reports Israeli ships opened fire toward the coast of Khan Younis, while air raid...
www.democracynow.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves
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Israel has violated the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire at least 497 times in 44 days, killing at least 342 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
🔗: aje.io/65ptdp| #Infograph
🔗: aje.io/65ptdp| #Infograph
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Israel has violated the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire at least 497 times in 44 days, killing at least 342 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
🔗: aje.io/65ptdp| #Infograph
🔗: aje.io/65ptdp| #Infograph
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In an interview this week, Ken Sim said that he had a list of all the times he said no to the Vancouver Police Department, and said a lot of their budget increases were out of the city's control.
We got the list. We looked at the budget.
Here is a fact check.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
We got the list. We looked at the budget.
Here is a fact check.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
In an interview this week, Ken Sim said that he had a list of all the times he said no to the Vancouver Police Department, and said a lot of their budget increases were out of the city's control.
We got the list. We looked at the budget.
Here is a fact check.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
We got the list. We looked at the budget.
Here is a fact check.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Speaking to council for the first time was so much easier than I thought. I'll definitely be doing this more!
425: opposed as first responder. See how spaces contribute to well being. Trickle down effects. Pushed through. Calls into question who this council works for. Not me or my friends.
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Speaking to council for the first time was so much easier than I thought. I'll definitely be doing this more!
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New report from @policyalternatives.ca and @iris-recherche.bsky.social shows a clear link between greater privatization in health care services and higher mortality rates—just as multiple Canadian provinces work actively to privatize those services www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Mortality and health care privatization: A comparison between countries - CCPA
Privatization is deadly. Canada needs to learn from other countries and focus on public health care instead.
www.policyalternatives.ca
November 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
New report from @policyalternatives.ca and @iris-recherche.bsky.social shows a clear link between greater privatization in health care services and higher mortality rates—just as multiple Canadian provinces work actively to privatize those services www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery?
Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!
Here are 5 other things to know:
Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!
Here are 5 other things to know:
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery?
Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!
Here are 5 other things to know:
Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!
Here are 5 other things to know:
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Ken Sim and ABC have voted to bury Lucy Maloney’s motion that would have brought six floors and corner stores to side streets across Vancouver, unlocking thousands of family-friendly homes.
September 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Ken Sim and ABC have voted to bury Lucy Maloney’s motion that would have brought six floors and corner stores to side streets across Vancouver, unlocking thousands of family-friendly homes.
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JUST IN FROM CITY HALL:
ABC has voted down a motion to strengthen the Empty Homes Tax to curb speculation.
We can't have good things in Vancouver until we defeat the power of the billionaires and the super-rich at City Hall.
This is why we're going to Evict Ken Sim and ABC next year. #vanpoli
ABC has voted down a motion to strengthen the Empty Homes Tax to curb speculation.
We can't have good things in Vancouver until we defeat the power of the billionaires and the super-rich at City Hall.
This is why we're going to Evict Ken Sim and ABC next year. #vanpoli
September 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
JUST IN FROM CITY HALL:
ABC has voted down a motion to strengthen the Empty Homes Tax to curb speculation.
We can't have good things in Vancouver until we defeat the power of the billionaires and the super-rich at City Hall.
This is why we're going to Evict Ken Sim and ABC next year. #vanpoli
ABC has voted down a motion to strengthen the Empty Homes Tax to curb speculation.
We can't have good things in Vancouver until we defeat the power of the billionaires and the super-rich at City Hall.
This is why we're going to Evict Ken Sim and ABC next year. #vanpoli
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coates is genuinely a generational writer
September 17, 2025 at 4:50 AM
coates is genuinely a generational writer
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Nav Pillay: "The Genocide Convention was born out of humanitys darkest chapters. Today we witness in real time how the promise of never again is broken and tested in the eyes of the world. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a moral outrage and a legal emergency"
September 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Nav Pillay: "The Genocide Convention was born out of humanitys darkest chapters. Today we witness in real time how the promise of never again is broken and tested in the eyes of the world. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a moral outrage and a legal emergency"
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Israel's military says its long-threatened ground offensive into Gaza City began overnight, with a goal of occupying and displacing remaining residents from the Gaza Strip's largest urban center. This comes after weeks of heavy bombardment that leveled many buildings still standing in Gaza City.
September 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Israel's military says its long-threatened ground offensive into Gaza City began overnight, with a goal of occupying and displacing remaining residents from the Gaza Strip's largest urban center. This comes after weeks of heavy bombardment that leveled many buildings still standing in Gaza City.
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BC just approved Ksi Lisims LNG. This project threatens ecosystems and human health, locks us into decades of expanded fracking and burning of fossil fuels, and ignores Indigenous consent.
B.C. just approved one of its largest LNG projects yet.
Ksi Lisims LNG will ship 12M tonnes of gas a year overseas. Ministers say it will benefit the Nisg̱a’a Nation — but also admit it will worsen greenhouse gas emissions.
#bcpoli
Ksi Lisims LNG will ship 12M tonnes of gas a year overseas. Ministers say it will benefit the Nisg̱a’a Nation — but also admit it will worsen greenhouse gas emissions.
#bcpoli
Massive Ksi Lisims LNG approved in B.C. | The Narwhal
B.C. just gave the green light to Ksi Lisims, a project capable of producing almost as much as LNG Canada’s first phase
thenarwhal.ca
September 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
BC just approved Ksi Lisims LNG. This project threatens ecosystems and human health, locks us into decades of expanded fracking and burning of fossil fuels, and ignores Indigenous consent.
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Why does BC have an $11B deficit? Tax cuts.
Tax cuts, largely for the rich, have decreased government revenue by about $9B/year plus $1.5B lost from scraping the carbon tax.
Tax cuts, largely for the rich, have decreased government revenue by about $9B/year plus $1.5B lost from scraping the carbon tax.
September 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Why does BC have an $11B deficit? Tax cuts.
Tax cuts, largely for the rich, have decreased government revenue by about $9B/year plus $1.5B lost from scraping the carbon tax.
Tax cuts, largely for the rich, have decreased government revenue by about $9B/year plus $1.5B lost from scraping the carbon tax.
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Annual downstream GHG emissions from Ksi Lisims will be roughly equivalent to HALF BC's total annual emissions, and about 1/20th of Canada's total annual emissions.
An environmental assessment process that can't take that into account is broken.
An environmental assessment process that can't take that into account is broken.
September 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Annual downstream GHG emissions from Ksi Lisims will be roughly equivalent to HALF BC's total annual emissions, and about 1/20th of Canada's total annual emissions.
An environmental assessment process that can't take that into account is broken.
An environmental assessment process that can't take that into account is broken.
Vancouver too pls
The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live.
Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed
Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed
September 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Vancouver too pls
The expected result of forcing people to leave their centres of community and resources
A new research paper shows that an inability to access health and social services, as well non-fatal overdose, was a positively tied to street sweeps.
Read the report : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Read the report : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The expected result of forcing people to leave their centres of community and resources
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I support a democratically elected park board. Part of democracy is ensuring that the government’s decisions match the city’s values.
Vancouver is a city for all its people. Trans people included. I am calling on the Park Board to rethink this event and make this right.
Vancouver is a city for all its people. Trans people included. I am calling on the Park Board to rethink this event and make this right.
September 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I support a democratically elected park board. Part of democracy is ensuring that the government’s decisions match the city’s values.
Vancouver is a city for all its people. Trans people included. I am calling on the Park Board to rethink this event and make this right.
Vancouver is a city for all its people. Trans people included. I am calling on the Park Board to rethink this event and make this right.