Robyn Mawhinney
@discothistle.bsky.social
Rural community advocate; Regional Director; printmaker; gardener; lover of the wilds on Quadra Island in the Salish Sea. Ligwilda’xw Territory. settler; she/her
🙌🙌 to the search and rescue crews doing this difficult work
CHEK News@cheknews.ca · 3h agoA dangerous search and rescue effort is underway in Strathcona Park, as teams rappel down cliffs and scour mountainsides for a missing hiker. https://cheknews.ca/courtenay-hiker-now-missing-for-3-days-in-strathcona-park-1340599/
Without a balanced ecosystem and predators, managing wildlife becomes a tax burden #coexist
CHEK News@cheknews.ca · 10h agoThe District of Oak Bay is asking residents for permission to access their properties to allow veterinarians to administer deer contraceptives as part of its immuno-contraceptive (IC)…
Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground
Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground
OTTAWA - Mark Carney has officially given notice that his government will be designating Danielle Smith’s West Coast pipeline a project of national interest, allowing the massive oil and gas project t...
thebeaverton.com
‘Canadian Identity Minister’ Marc Miller. Was working to merge Canada’s unique worldviews with corporate American media in his Mandate Letter? 😑
DT Cochrane@dtcochrane.bsky.social · last wk.A massive giveaway from Carney to Big Tech. Elbows up to punch yourself in the face, I guess. www.thewirereport.ca/2026/07/28/b...
BC Parks calls Carmanah Walbran Park "one of the most remarkable wild places on Vancouver Island.” But for months, it has been nearly inaccessible, as a logging company has gated one entrance and left landslide debris blocking the other, @camfenton.bsky.social reports. thenarwhal.ca/bc-carmanah-...
Logging company closes access to B.C. provincial park | The Narwhal
Many B.C. parks are accessible only by resource roads controlled by private companies. The Carmanah Walbran closure raises questions about access to public land
thenarwhal.ca
The multi-billionaire CEO of Shopify thinks a “good system” is one where the poor don’t get to vote in elections and the rich get to vote several times over. I wish I was kidding. Oh, and guess what? This guy and his pals are trying to influence our politics -- and they're arguably succeeding:
Facepalm: “BC Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay has begun directing MLAs to no longer use the term “First Nations” in describing people but instead terms like “Indian” The directive is apparently in response to the term First Nations being viewed as a woke description & language from the left”
Rob Shaw: BC Conservatives urged to stop using term 'First Nations'
Leaked guidance from Kerry-Lynne Findlay's office encourages some MLAs to use 'Indian' instead
biv.com
Remigration = anyone not White must be deported.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w agoElon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
I just published If you refuse to evacuate, can you be charged? medium.com/p/if-you-ref...
If you refuse to evacuate, can you be charged?
The Village of Clinton is under an evacuation order. Every property inside its boundaries has been told to leave because of a wildfire…
medium.com
The situation in Clinton & surrounding area is critical. The Fiftynine Creek and Pear Lake wildfires pose a serious threat & evacuation orders are in place. If you are in an affected area, leave immediately. Don’t wait. Follow direction of emergency officials & stay safe.
NEW from me: I took a deep dive for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social into the American hedge fund-owned Canadian newspaper chain that’s pushing anti-trans, pro-genocide and climate science denial narratives down our throats. ricochet.media/media/dumpst...
‘Dumpster fire’: Postmedia’s decade of pushing Canada’s politics to the right
Canada’s largest newspaper chain has amplified conservative grievance politics — creating fertile ground for MAGA-style ideas, Alberta separatism, and an increasingly polarized political landscape
ricochet.media
Are these lawyers high? “In the filing, a team of five federal lawyers denies First Nations have a distinctly Indigenous interest in drinking water, asserting that FNs’ interest in their own reserve land doesn't include water because ‘water is not attached to land, but flows under and around it’"
Liberals continue court fight against First Nations drinking water rights, despite new bill | CBC News
The Carney government continues to fight First Nations in court to deny Canada has any legal duty to ensure they have safe drinking water on reserve, even as the Liberals advance legislation aiming to...
cbc.ca
Congratulations to #TayteWIllows and the PEI Greens on the #byelxn win tonight! Wooohooo!
You can tell an infrastructure project is desperately needed by a private industry when the government has to pay for it and also pay that private industry to use it.
Alberta will provide oilsands producers with incentives to fill proposed West Coast pipeline
Five major companies also agreed to build Pathways carbon capture and storage mega-project
ca.finance.yahoo.com
BREAKING: New mapping analysis shows that #logging permits issued in #spottedowl habitat cover an area the size of two Stanley Parks. “ #Oldgrowth trees within spotted owl habitat are being cut down at Fire Lake,” - Joe Foy, Wilderness Committee. www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/bc-sped...
B.C. sped up logging in spotted owl habitat after federal recovery plan
New mapping analysis shows logging permits issued in 2025 for forests the size of two Stanley ParksVANCOUVER / UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh AND səlilwətaɬ TERRITORIES — Wilderness Committee anal...
wildernesscommittee.org
When the government claims TMX is mega profitable (Tim Hodgson keeps saying $1 billion a year), remember that we BOUGHT IT for $34 billion. So it won’t be profitable for *34 years* at this rate, and that’s if oil demand doesn’t decline! (It will!) It very likely will NEVER be profitable:
Mark Carney promises to take climate change seriously once every other problem on Earth is solved
Mark Carney promises to take climate change seriously once every other problem on Earth is solved
"Things are tough right now. And as the saying goes, ‘when the going gets tough, quit doing the hard stuff and just cling to what kind of worked in the past.'"
thebeaverton.com
Here’s a peak at how the garden’s growing. Straw mulch keeping moisture in and weeds at bay (sort of).
TIL there are negative colloquialisms for AI and AI enthusiasts (or sympathizers). My favourite so far is cog sucker.
⚽ With international attention on B.C. for the World Cup, through our ad campaign we're shedding light on the truth: unsustainable logging practices and lack of protection have put old-growth forests on the brink. Will you help save what's left? Make your voice heard at ProtectOldGrowth.ca
