Daniel 🦁
@eikonos.bsky.social
I want to live in a world with less trauma and more love.
Construction to begin on second phase of Esquimalt Road protected bike lanes. The bike and roll lanes portion is 8 percent of the project budget, with underground utilities, paving etc much more, which is normal for multimodal infrastructure upgrades. victoriabuzz.com/2026/08/cons... #yyj #safety
Construction to begin on second phase of Esquimalt Road protected bike lanes
The Township of Esquimalt has announced that construction will soon begin the second phase of the Esquimalt Road Active Transportation and Infrastructure Project.
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They should build a gated city for ultra-wealthy, where even the garbage collectors and restaurant staff are ultra-wealthy.
What is our government doing? This project defies common sense - this is corporate welfare on a surreal scale, giving a gift to an industry making $90 billion in excess profits this year, and which still refuses to pay for its own infrastructure.
Mark Carney's nation-burning project is stepping on the gas.
Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project | CBC News
Canada’s federal government is advancing the process to designate the Alberta government’s proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a project of national interest. A notice published in the Canada G...
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As I received this news today here in British Columbia, the wildfire smoke blankets the sky, our eyes are burning and our kid is complaining of a sore throat from it. And we’re the lucky ones. 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project | CBC News
Canada’s federal government is advancing the process to designate the Alberta government’s proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a project of national interest. A notice published in the Canada G...
cbc.ca
And for Canadians across this land, it is a kick in the teeth to call this climate bomb of a project “in the national interest”. It is in Big Oil’s interest for sure.
The Air Quality Index (AQI) at the Abbotsford site in Canada is 153 [Unhealthy] as of Aug 05, 2026 @ 9AM Local Time. This is the highest AQI observation in 1 year. #AQIObs
1/ The BC Supreme Court's decision on involuntary treatment underscores the failures in the BC NDP's mental health policy. Statement from BC Green MLA @jervaler.bsky.social and Leader of the BC Greens @emilylowan.bsky.social ⤵️ #bcpoli
Court Decision Underscores Failures in BC NDP Mental Health Policy, say BC Greens
The recent BC Supreme Court ruled that involuntary treatment is a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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1/ Over the weekend -- while Canadians across the country were dealing with raging wildfires and the aftermath of severe flooding and heatwaves -- PM Carney quietly accelerated the timeline on his taxpayer funded pipeline. environmentaldefence.ca/2026/08/04/p...
PM Carney proceeding at breakneck pace with West Coast Pipeline - Environmental Defence
Statement by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate, Environmental Defence Over the weekend, while Canadians across the country are dealing
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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...
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4/ How many wildfires, heatwaves, droughts, burnt down communities, ruined livelihoods, and lost lives will it take for PM Carney to stop his reckless pursuit of expanded fossil fuel production?
Terrible news … the Bradley Creek wildfire near Vernon has destroyed hundreds of homes. 30 homes belonging to members of the Okanagan Indian Band are gone, more than 200 non-band member homes were destroyed.
I can't find a better source, but apparently he's suing zionist MP Melissa Lantsman with defamation and she's using this "terrorism" charge to defend herself. Seems newsworthy that a guy suing a prominent politician gets slapped with a Terrorism charge half a year later 🤷 thecjn.ca/news/toronto...
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We should have an electoral system where the less money you have, the more votes you get. Any risk the poor would create a system to benefit themselves is avoided by the fact that once they got richer, they'd have less votes.
Biked 1 mile to coffee. Then biked another mile to the pharmacy. Then biked 1 mile home. 95% on protected (separated) bike infra. More Americans deserve the freedom of a life like this (if they want it).
Good candidates are never electable because electability selects for candidates who are not good.
I first got hip to this when hearing from some disability advocates at a DSA meeting years and years ago, who pointed out that every human in America will suffer disabling back pain or joint pain if they don't die first. It's just a question of what affordances are available when it happens.
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 2d agowhy do I often put scare quotes around "vulnerable" and "at risk"? because people are *made* vulnerable, and people are *put at-risk"—these are not stable categories. we all live in a state of risk, some more than others, and risk is not distributed evenly. we can all be made vulnerable.
If political therapists existed, they would help us understand root causes of political trauma, to work through it, and help us work on setting boundaries to prevent it happening again.
Pour one out for this school zone speed limit sign asking drivers to go 15 mph on this six lane arterial If you want people to go 15 mph, then the road can't be designed like this
why do I often put scare quotes around "vulnerable" and "at risk"? because people are *made* vulnerable, and people are *put at-risk"—these are not stable categories. we all live in a state of risk, some more than others, and risk is not distributed evenly. we can all be made vulnerable.
"The idea of society may sound appealing, but it's old men who will take the hit, planting trees under whose shade they might never sit."
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Good bike infrastructure is built for all ages and abilities, including: -a woman in a skirt probably biking for transportation -a man in a full kit on a speedy road bike for exercise -a mom in jorts on a cargo trike with two kids headed to the grocery store
RCMP intentionally set home ablaze during wellness check
De Facto Journalism Co-op@defactomedia.ca · 6d ago3) RCMP set Chilliwack home on fire during 2023 wellness check & standoff A court decision revealed officers chose to ignite the home to kill or capture an armed man in crisis — despite the ammo inside & proximity to 31 houses, a seniors’ community, & Skowkale reserve www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
If political therapists existed (perhaps they do?) they might counsel us to cut off our abusive politicians, but the structure of our voting system and institutions prevents us from doing so.
i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
the only thing to be said about covid lockdowns is that it revealed the startling number of people who feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract that they also do not feel bound by