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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 20h

All I ever hear is that crime & disorder are ruining every corner of BC. Fraser-Fort George Regional District just decided to send bylaw officers to use-of-force training.

Interesting data in this editorial that counters claims of increasing violence.

www.therockymountaingoat.com/2025/10/edit...

Editorial: Arming RDFFG bylaw officers sets an alarming precedent - The Rocky Mountain Goat

While I believe that everyone has a right to feel safe at work, I am alarmed by the lack of evidence relevant to our area that supports the need for these tools in the report.

www.therockymountaingoat.com

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 23h

Screenshot of a linkedin post from Karen Eperson

I have been in the ostrich industry since 1991. My business partner Dave Bilinski and I are the leaders in Canada in the industry. Our parent company Universal Ostrich Farms sells breeders to other farms and teaches them how to incubate, hatch & raise the ostrich. Each producer that comes into our group gets a 5 year contract from Omega Ostrich Inc, a subsidiary of Universal Ostrich. Omega buys all the yearlings produced by the farms in our group at $3/lb libe weight. Omega Ostrich processes all products of the ostrich. Omega sells all of its oil to ONU Body Care Inc, another subsidiary company of Universal Ostrich. ONU Body Care has a specialized skin care line helping many conditions and overall good skin cell health. I am also a director in the Alberta and Canadian Ostrich Association...

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 23h

Some insight into part of the grift running at Universal Ostrich Farms:

- Convince other farms to buy breeding hens ($45,000 for 6 birds in 2017)
- Promise to buy back chicks at $3/lb live weight

Turns out some of the ostriches on the farm are owned by others. Oops.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Creditors circle as cull controversy shines light on B.C. ostrich farmers' unpaid bills | CBC News

After years of chasing debts through the courts, creditors of a high-profile ostrich farm in southeastern B.C. have filed paperwork against the Canada Food Inspection Agency in the hopes of recouping ...

www.cbc.ca

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 2d

RCMP PLTs (Police Liaison Team) at Universal Ostrich Farms. Officially, these officers are supposed to de-escalate.

RCMP hugs & bonding time do not happen when the protest is viewed as vaguely left-wing.

RCMP hugs & bonding time do happen when far-right conspiracy theorists gather.

Photo of an RCMP PLT hugging Katie Pasitney.

Source: Facebook

Photo of an RCMP PLT hugging Dave Bilinski.

Source: Facebook

Screenshot of a Facebook post from BC RCMP:

On Oct 3, 2025, and Indigenous leader/elder and residential school survivor presented an RCMP Indigenous Liaison Officer with an eagle feather at the Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, BC, as part of his ongoing healing journey for truth and reconciliation

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TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 2d

I made a flyer! Know anyone in CA, OR, WA, or BC who might be interested in collecting mushrooms for research purposes? #mycology #citizenscience

Please share widely! 🧪 🍄‍🟫 🌲

A PDF version can be found here: drive.proton.me/urls/W1MM4FG...

A help-wanted poster seeking volunteer mushroom collectors in California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.

The poster provided some background info about the research project and study system and how folks can contribute if they are interested.

REQUEST | Calling all mycophiles, naturalists, and citizen scientists in CA, OR, WA, and BC!

Going for a hike in the woods or a walk in your neighborhood park?
• Please keep your eyes peeled for the purple mushrooms of L.a-o!
• Collect the mushrooms* if you are able to access them safely.
• If you can, please take a photo of the mushrooms and the tree(s) you find them under.
*If you find a mushroom that is clearly rotten or moldy, please don't collect it.

"I collected some purple mushrooms. What should I do now?"
1. Please keep the mushroom fresh:
• Store in paper, not plastic.
• Keep cool/ refrigerate, but do not freeze.
• Store mushrooms away from light.
2. Email me to arrange pick-up, delivery, or shipment* of your sample.
* will cover packing and shipping expenses!

"What's in it for those who contribute to this work?"
• You will receive acknowledgement in presentations and publications stemming from this research.
• You will receive copies of journal publications from this research (data available upon request).
• You are invited to attend presentations of this research and to visit the lab at Stanford University.

Page 2 of the help-wanted poster includes reference photos of the study organism and a map of where this species has been observed. All images and the map are sourced from iNaturalist.

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 2d

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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 3d

Solidarity with the people of Gaza is not controversial.

Read City Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social's speech from today: www.votecope.ca/news/solidar...

#vanpoli

Solidarity with the people of Gaza is not controversial — COPE Vancouver

The following are remarks made Oct. 4, 2025 by COPE City Councillor Sean Orr at a rally in solidarity with Gaza in Vancouver - part of a global day of action that saw millions demand an end to w...

www.votecope.ca

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 2d

I hope more people ask why the Mayor of the City of Vancouver is sharing white nationalist media in the first place. Do Amy Hamm, Jim McMurty & all the weirdos harassing 2SLGBTQ+ kids at Pride events in the name of far-right "journalism" represent the City of Vancouver?

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 2d

Orr listed municipalities that supported the UBCM resolution in support of Palestinians. When I heard "North Van," I felt proud to live where leaders are willing to take a stand against genocide.

How many more have to die before it's okay to say "stop killing people?"

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 2d

Honest question. If you put rule of law above all, how do you square the International Court of Justice's call to act on violations against people (mostly civilians) in Palestine with slander meant to demonize folks calling for states to uphold international obligations?

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 2d

Ken Sim, the law & order mayor elected by the Vancouver Police Union, reposted white nationalist media to imply that Sean Orr is affiliated w/ terrorists for calling on people to uphold international law & end genocide in Palestine. Laws you like are good but the ICJ's law is "terrorism?"

Kem Sim on X: Councillor Sean Orr participating at a Samidoun-affiliated rally in Vancouver. Samidoun is a terrorist organization.

Anti-semitism has NO place in Vancouver. Celebrating Hamas has NO place in Vancouver. I call on all local elected officials to condemn this behaviour.

Quoting a tweet from The New Westminster Times:

Vancouver City Councillor @seanorr spoke for 3 minutes today at a rally organized by terrorist entity Samidoun at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Orr repeated false allegations of genocide against Israel but failed to mention the Hamas genocide of Jews on October 7, 2023.

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 5d

I think Dallas Brodie would try to get her into OneBC first. All the aggrieved former BC Cons together again.

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 5d

10/ Maybe members of BC political parties shouldn't have ties to white nationalists and neo-Nazis. This seems like a fairly reasonable expectation of people who want to form government. The bar is so low, yet here we are.

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 5d

9/ So this is the sort of *valuable discussion* Lindsay Shepherd felt was important. Shepherd started working for the Canadian far-right platform True North in 2019, where she joined far-right influencers like Harrison Faulkner, and has created content for The Counter Signal.

Screenshot of a tweet from Lindsay Shepherd.

Original tweet from chek news: 'I was extremely devastated:' Transgender woman told she in not allowed to use women-only gym in Parksville

Lindsay Shepherd quote: Than you to BC business owner Dale Nagra of Bodyworks Fitness for standing up for women and girls

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 5d

8/ Goldy has endorsed people like neo-Nazi William Luther Pierce & the Greek neo-Nazi ultranationalist party Golden Dawn. She created content for the white nationalist VDARE. Goldy became a tradwife & has been largely inactive over the last 3 years [now 4 years].

www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Faith Goldy Recites The ’14 Words’

www.peoplefor.org

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 5d

7/ Faith Goldy was a very popular alt-right influencer who was fired from Rebel News in 2017 after she attended the deadly far-right Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville & gave an interview to the neo-Nazi platform Daily Stormer.

macleans.ca/news/canada/...

The Rebel's steady spiral downwards - Macleans.ca

It became the Canadian angle to a violent and deadly white nationalist protest. Is this the alt-right website's breaking point?

macleans.ca

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 5d

6/ Also in 2018, Shepherd invited white nationalist Faith Goldy to present the talk "Ethnocide: Multiculturalism and European Canadian Identity" at WLU.

cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ontario university won't stop talk by anti-immigration speaker Faith Goldy | CBC News

Alt-right journalist Faith Goldy is scheduled to give a talk at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont., Tuesday night on why Canada should close its borders. Some student groups and faculty are ...

cbc.ca

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 5d

5/ Shepherd quickly became far-right personality who was portrayed as an innocent victim of the indoctrination machine. She jumped right in & appeared in far-right podcasts, interviews, & films. By 2018, she was included in the Intellectual Dark Web.

bigthink.com/culture-reli...

These are the women behind the Intellectual Dark Web

A number of important women are working outside mainstream media to build platforms that address the gray areas in challenging topics.

bigthink.com

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 5d

4/ WLU’s investigation of Shepherd was messy. All of this happened as far-right influencers fearmongered over a supposed campus free speech crisis, claiming that universities were indoctrination machines for the left.
ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/cr...

The Manufactured Free Speech 'Crisis' | Critical Education

ices.library.ubc.ca

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 5d

3/ C-16 was Peterson’s rise to fame—his transphobia was broadcast around the far-right but he was particularly popular among the alt-right movement & often appeared in alt-right content while he complained about trans people & Trudeau communism in Canada. c2cjournal.ca/2016/12/jord...

Jordan Peterson: The man who reignited Canada’s culture war | C2C Journal

The last bastion of liberalism, the Economist recently said of Canada. While the rest of the world was embracing reactionary populism, we were a progressive light in the growing darkness. What they mi...

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 5d

2/ Shepherd rose to fame in late 2017 when, as a TA for a course at Wilfred Laurier University, showed a clip of Jordan Peterson attacking Bill C-16, which added “gender identity or expression” to the Canadian Human Rights Act. Some people complained & WLU investigated.

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 5d

1/ I haven't covered Lindsay Shepherd much since moving to BlueSky, so here's a thread from September 2024.

This is BC Conservative Party's Director at Large Lindsay Shepherd with George Hutcheson of the white nationalist Students for Western Civilization. Faith Goldy is in the background.

Screenshot of a Facebook post from Against Your Ward News - Against Neo-Fascism dated March 20, 2018. There is a photo of George Hutcheson, Lindsay Shepherd, and Faith Goldy walking to an event. Text says:

Here's lindsay shepherd of Laurier Society for Open Inquiry standing with neo-nazi and "white students union" founder George Hutcheson at tonight's disrupted racist speaking event at Laurier [Laurier University]. Just a "neutral Liberal" or whatever huh?

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 6d

It's amazing how much parking stress you can release by walking places & using transit.

I did come about 12 inches from death a few weeks ago when a driver wasn't paying attention & sped through a red light.

Do pedestrian injuries & deaths factor into ✨wellness✨?

www.nsnews.com/opinion/jack...

Jackie Bateman: Lack of parking on the North Shore is affecting my ‘wellness’

Problems in North Vancouver and West Van have this columnist feeling like she needs to meditate while trying to find a parking spot for yoga

www.nsnews.com

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 6d

Solidarity ✊

Photo from march in downtown Vancouver organized by BCGEU in support of striking workers. The photo shows yellow BCGEU flags and a sign that says "defend public services."

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 7d

From Edgewood, BC to Embrun, Ontario, the way these convoy people overwhelm small rural communities and intimidate local residents into silence is a familiar story:

pressprogress.ca/the-convoy-i...

In her only interview, Wood told CTV News that she was scared, but felt compelled to speak out for the other residents of Edgewood who are being intimidated by the strangers who have invaded their quiet community.

“Everybody’s scared. The only reason I’m talking right now is because I have 24/7, serious police protection,” Wood said in an interview a week after she was assaulted. Bruises were still visible around her left eye.

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 8d

These numbers come from the City of Vancouver's pay transparency report (data collected Jan 1 - Dec 31 2023).

PDF: vancouver.ca/files/cov/pa...

vancouver.ca

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