Excited for more of this when we finally elect a progressive council in October!
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Excited for more of this when we finally elect a progressive council in October!
The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.
The intensity of the Israeli bombardments in Beirut’s southern suburbs....
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
At B.C.’s universities, a violent RCMP unit showed up to spy on student Palestine protests.
A Breach investigation reveals how the CRU was shaping the encampment response, as the militarized unit grows itself into Canada’s go-to force to repress dissent. breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-...
Unless you are in echo chamber, yr movement spaces (like mine) are likely imploding
"Solidarity is not grounded in identical analysis, synchronized outrage, or emotional unanimity. Solidarity is disciplined commitment to remain in relation under conditions that continually threaten relation itself"
To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country.
In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits.
This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵
Thinking aboutt migrants - in UAE and GCC countries. So far those killed in the UAE are Pakistani, Nepali, Bangladeshi.
every year, about 10,000 migrant workers die in gcc.
Thinking about refugees in Pakistan w/ border escalation & war with Afghanistan. Already, 20% of global refugees are Afghan.
Tell Iranian And Cuban Diaspora Warmongers To Shut The Fuck Up
US government-toppling military interventionism doesn’t magically stop having a record of being reliably disastrous just because your family happens to come from the country being targeted.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/tell-irani...
PM Carney in Davos: “It means acting consistently, applying the same standards to allies and rivals.“
We are sending aid to Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.
Consistency should require us to send aid to Cuba in the face of US aggression.
A mind-boggling — 31x — increase in public spending on for-profit nursing agencies in BC’s public health care system
From $8.8m in 2018 to $272m in 2024
via BC Nurses Union
www.bcnu.org/news-and-eve...
#bcpoli
The response to the #TumblerRidgeShooting from far-right media, online commentators and even an elected official in Canada is another dark example of how pervasive anti-trans misinformation has become, even in Canada.
Mel Woods writes. #bcpoli #bced
Canada is uniquely positioned to break the siege of Cuba—we should be leading a regional coalition to ship oil and aid to Cuba, and prevent the humanitarian crisis that U.S. regime is attempting to deliberately trigger.
I wrote about it, and the history of the blockade, for @policyalternatives.ca
"Why Is the Media Not Touching Jeffrey Epstein’s Clear Connection to Israel?"
They’re instead focusing on the possibility that Epstein was a Russian asset, writes Prem Thakker for Zeteo.
Canadians horrified by what ICE is doing should realize the RCMP uses the same tactics domestically against Indigenous people and yet barely anyone speaks up.
Journalists have been arrested just for trying to cover it
Much of the public believes violent crime is a major problem, even though it's at historic lows in the United States. This disconnect is "the product of carefully cultivated propaganda," says author @equalityalec.bsky.social.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/27/alec_karakatsanis
The idea among even centrist liberals that this tough moment is “the right time” to treat marginalized people even worse than we do already neatly underscores the callousness and inhumanity of the political and media class in this country.
Status for all. Full rights for all.
More than 100 Gazans have been accepted to Canadian universities.
Canada isn’t letting them in.
pressprogress.ca/gazans-accep...
Alex Pretti, a 37-year old nurse, was just murdered by ICE in Minneapolis. We must organize and build solidarity across borders to #AbolishICE.
First up - BC billionaire Jim Pattison owns a US warehouse that will soon be turned into an ICE processing facility. Tell Eby to shut down the deal. #bcpoli
It's not hypocrisy, it's capitalism.
The bizarre behaviour of Western states and leaders often seems to betray a moral double standard. But in fact it is all perfectly consistent with a single standard, namely, the objective of maintaining the conditions for capital accumulation in the core.
"By ending the decriminalization pilot, the Province is failing to treat addiction as a public-health issue, not a criminal one, and is doubling down on policies that have already caused immense harm to First Nations." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip
www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_deeply...
The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking.
It exposes that much of the world has been cowed.
Most notable exception: the Latin American left.
That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3
Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.
Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.
“Oil… oil… oil… oil… oil… oil…”
TLDR: It was never about drugs
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
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.
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...
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...
This is just insulting, in the face of layoffs and the gutting of public services by this ABC council. Absolutely abhorrent.
