Tuning in briefly to this emergency meeting. Council is discussing the plebiscite ABC announced yesterday. The mayor reiterated again that the province does not have involuntary care beds IN Vancouver but my colleagues have repeatedly fact-checked this: www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Ken Sim says involuntary care beds outside Vancouver don’t ‘serve’ his city. Is he right?

For the second time in a month, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has issued a public letter slamming the B.C. government for failing to deliver new involuntary care beds within his city—but is that actually a ...

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I wonder what's driving this new normal! you won't see the word "climate" once in this Canadian Press story www.timescolonist.com/local-news/b...

this is a metaphor for everything

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 3d ago

In the 2010s, we were told new tech would revolutionize transportation. As BMW faces backlash for sticking a Spider-Man ad on its center console, we can see what it really amounted to: cars that collect vast quantities of data on us and which automakers are desperate to use to push ads on us too.

My only comment about Woke 1 vs Woke 2 is that neither of these things is real &, for the thousandth time, we don’t have to frame <every topic in American politics> on the terms of the far right authoritarian party & right-wing pundits. Other, more serious choices are readily available:

"In 2023, the VPD called CBSA for immigration status checks 476 times, an increase of 80% from the previous year." "[A]busers are emboldened to keep coming back, knowing sex workers with precarious or no status won't call the police." #BritishColumbia #Canada #Deportation #Policing #SexWork

Vancouver cops are calling border enforcement more than ever. Community members fear that puts them in danger

Migrant sex workers say they're ‘more afraid of police than perpetrators of a crime,’ as new data reveals VPD ‘immigration status checks’ spiked 80% to nearly 1,000 people in two years

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SCOOP It took nearly two years, but I finally obtained 650 pages of internal correspondence detailing the steps Health Canada took to disappear the Expert Advisory Group reports on medicalized safe supply and compassion clubs. drugdatadecoded.ca/how-health-c...

Anatomy of a hush-up: How Health Canada buried the safe supply expert reviews

After a nearly two-year access to information process, Drug Data Decoded has obtained the correspondence detailing steps taken inside Health Canada to ensure the Expert Advisory Group reports on medic...

drugdatadecoded.ca

Another day, another top notch publication shut down. It was a privilege to report on BC’s drug crisis at Filter. Thank you to Will and Kastalia for always making room for stories that matter + for treating freelancers with more respect than most. Y’all set the bar and I’m so sad to see this end.

Filter | harm reduction journalism@filtermag.bsky.social · 4d ago

We are very sorry to announce that Filter is shutting down this week, after eight years of publishing. It's a sad moment for those of us who have cared about the publication, writes EIC Will Godfrey. But we have much to be grateful for:

hi there yesterday was pepper-sprayed and robbed and i really need some help to replace a few essentials. if anyone could chip in anything, i appreciate it so much etransfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com

Hoth Monkey Puppet Reacts

Alt: Hoth Monkey Puppet Reacts

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I'm sorry to see this resource lost. Filter was a reliable space for good harm reduction reporting and a regular landing spot for my freelance work, with a fantastic editor to work with in Will. Support independent journalism that challenges power.

Filter | harm reduction journalism@filtermag.bsky.social · 4d ago

We are very sorry to announce that Filter is shutting down this week, after eight years of publishing. It's a sad moment for those of us who have cared about the publication, writes EIC Will Godfrey. But we have much to be grateful for:

The advisory group appears to have been misled on multiple turns by Health Canada — an important and particularly sad part of this story. You can find their pleas for release if reports and open communication with Health Canada in the FOIP documents provided at the bottom of the story.

karen ward@kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is appalling. Where were the advisory group members in all this? Did any of them speak out? Resign? (Here’s how to do that) www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Canada is burning. Why won’t CBC tell us why? Reports on wildfires, heat, and extreme weather don't consistently connect the dots to fossil fuels, leaving Canadians without the context they need to understand the unfolding crisis. @sfu.ca's Tara Mahoney explains: ricochet.media/media/canada...

Canada is burning. Why won’t CBC tell us why?

When the public broadcaster reports on wildfires, heat, and extreme weather without connecting the dots to fossil fuels, it leaves Canadians without the context they need to understand the crisis unfo...

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This is a glorified single-source interview with the head of Third Way. It quotes far more moderates saying they support the progressive candidates in the general election. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...

global affairs canada suddenly stumbling over itself to ask "in mean, like, are borders even real? they're just lines on a map"

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · last wk.

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Personal-post on a podcast account but: The first person I ever knew who openly called himself socialist and encouraged me to think about new political possibilities was a coworker of mine at Pizza Hut. He wore a newsboy cap in violation of dress code and smoked a wooden pipe. He had pet rats (1/3)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

"I'm not downplaying a bad flu season, but ... "-- over a million Americans died, but Ron Johnson is still out here arguing that covid wasn't that bad and we didn't need mitigation measures

A central part of why it seems like powerful, rich people live in a consequence-free world is that the social incentives to hold them to account have withered. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar... 𝟏𝟐-𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞-𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬

It's important to remember that there is literally no evidence that the MMR vaccine causes autism. None. Even the anti-vaxx-in-chief, or whatever RFK Jr.'s title is, is back to saying the MMR vaccine is safe and parents should vaccinate their kids with it.

Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · last wk.

🚨 Yet again, NO LINK ‼️ No link. No link. No link. No link. No link. Can we kill this zombie lie? Alas, probably not. 🧟‍♀️ A study of more than 2.5 million children concluded that the MMR vaccine does not increase autism risk www.technologynetworks.com/biopharma/ne... #VaccinesWork

Details of celebration of life for Mike

10 Canadian stories from last week on policing, legal battles, & transparency 1. Drug User Liberation Front trial closes, but no decision likely until 2027 DULF co-founders are constitutionally challenging their possession-for-trafficking charges www.defactomedia.ca/newsletter/d... More in thread:

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

YouTube Bans Popular ASMR Artists, Accusing Them of Making 'Sexually Gratifying' Content

YouTube told ASMR artists including Bunnii, Slight Sounds, Rose, and others that their content broke the platform's sex and nudity policy. Creators say these bans are unfair and potentially life-alter...

404media.co

how about instead the more money you make the fewer votes you get. you already have money, do you really need votes too

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2w ago

Days after Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke publicly supported the idea that pensioners and the poor should lose their right to vote — and the wealthy should have extra votes — Elon Musk called him a "national treasure." But that's not all. Lutke also has the ear of Canada's prime minister. Here's proof:

OneCity has spent the last year telling progressives that they're the superior group in organizing, fundraising, and a clear electable message, and the Greens and COPE should get in line behind them. You can make all the caveats you want about a single poll, but 4% is so far from what they wanted.

BC's Mental Health Act violates Charter rights (sections 7 and 15), court finds: You can't assume an involuntarily hospitalized person lacks capacity to consent or withhold consent to treatment. Win for disability rights activists: www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/2... ht @ivacheung.com

gmail doing an ai summary of your email then telling you ai makes mistakes so you should probably read the actual email anyway cool thanks

My last article as the labour reporter at @pressprogress.ca is about.... media layoffs! Earlier this month, Rogers closed six stations and laid off 230 radio workers across the country. In Vancouver, the layoffs hit a newsroom that had struggled for years to unionize.

PressProgress@pressprogress.ca · 2w ago

Rogers Layoffs Stemmed from ‘Corporate Decisions’ Taking Precedent Over Workers, Union Says “Workers are often the last to be considered when these decisions are made.” pressprogress.ca/rogers-layof...

I hate it here ... 🫠 New from me, on the Canadian discount coffee chain in the year 2026 (!!) choosing to partner with the British anti-trans lady's three-decade-old children's book series ⬇️ xtramagazine.com/culture/tim-...

Tim Hortons and the no good very bad ‘Harry Potter’ collaboration | Xtra Magazine

Tim Hortons licensing “Harry Potter” in 2026 essentially means directly funding J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans crusade

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I've had the privilege of working with Emma over the last 2+ years in launching @defactomedia.ca both in an organizational capacity and in co-authoring two pieces in De Facto's first series. If you've got work that needs doing, I highly recommend working with Emma!

Emma Arkell@emmaarkell.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is my last working week as the labour reporter at PressProgress. I received notice a little over a week ago that the labour reporter position is being terminated and I’m being laid off.

If anyone is interested in hiring this award-winning journalist, I'd be pleased to give a reference check extolling how talented and competent my former colleague and co-union steward @emmaarkell.bsky.social is to anyone interested Exhibit A:

PressProgress Labour Reporter Emma Arkell Wins Silver Canadian Association of Journalists Award for Labour Reporting

Emma Arkell reported on anti-LGBTQ+ harassment targeting teachers and education workers for Xtra Magazine last year

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Emma Arkell@emmaarkell.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is my last working week as the labour reporter at PressProgress. I received notice a little over a week ago that the labour reporter position is being terminated and I’m being laid off.

AI “art“ and “writing” is so hollow and soulless. If you conceive of the meaning of life as existing with other plants and creatures in this sort of state of death and life and creation… there’s no space for it. It mocks and undermines what makes life worth living

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

theconversation.com

“While oilsands carbon pollution more than doubled from 2007 to 2024 to 92 million tonnes, the ability of facilities in Canada to capture carbon from industrial sources hasn’t yet grown beyond a few million tonnes of emissions per year.”

For 20 years, Canada’s leaders have promised a carbon capture fix | The Narwhal

It’s expensive and unproven at scale. From Stephen Harper to Mark Carney, Canadian politicians have made promises on carbon capture — yet to be delivered

thenarwhal.ca