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hipmum29 🇨🇦

@hipmum29.bsky.social

VACCINES SAVE LIVES. PERIOD. All around nerd & kind of a stickler for equal rights & basic human decency 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🇨🇦 Every Child Matters

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Janet 🇨🇦@jansplanet.bsky.social · 8h ago

“As the US snubs international law, experts say Canada has a duty to step in.” “The Metals Co., headquartered in Vancouver, has received the thumbs-up from Trump to mine the deep sea. But it wasn’t Trump’s place to give the thumbs-up.” #CdnPoli #Conservation #DeepSeaMining 

The Vancouver Company Working with Trump to Mine the Deep Sea | The Tyee

As the US snubs international law, experts say Canada has a duty to step in. A Tyee special report.

thetyee.ca

MondoAB@mondoab.bsky.social · 8h ago

Evil beyond measure. Humanity is cancer. "Deep-sea mining will cause more damage to the oceans than climate change, pollution, ocean acidification, global warming and oil spills combined, said Cherisse Du Preez, head of deepwater ecology at Fisheries and Oceans Canada." thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...

Jen St. Denis@jenstden.bsky.social · 11h ago

The Vancouver developer who took nearly 20 years to replace social housing at Little Mountain and let a historic hotel rot into the ground has had an eventful summer, with a massive new project on the horizon. #vanpoli @kehyslop.bsky.social reports: thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...

Social Housing Finally Arrives at Little Mountain | The Tyee

It’s taken nearly 20 years to create social housing, but the city still granted an embattled developer’s future project.

thetyee.ca

hipmum29 🇨🇦@hipmum29.bsky.social · 10h ago

“If more people realized what’s at stake and what is about to be lost, there’s no way they would allow it, she said.” Sadly that isn’t true. Most people who are doing the most damage to ourselves & our planet can see the consequences but still justify them. It is depraved indifference. #cdnpoli

The Tyee@thetyee.ca · 10h ago

“There are lineages in the deep sea that have survived all of Earth’s mass extinctions, except potentially what we’re about to do,” deepwater ecology scientist Cherisse Du Preez said. thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...

hipmum29 🇨🇦@hipmum29.bsky.social · 4d ago

Yikes. Really don’t want to go see him & Culture Club at the #PNE in #Vancouver on Labour Day now but no refunds or ticket transfers with #Ticketleader Plus the fact he used #AI to write it?!? 🤮 😠 #genocide #FreePalestine www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

‘You say genocide, I say war’: Boy George releases pro-Israel song, We Will Dance Again

Culture Club singer sings ‘I stand with the Jews / I don’t feel brave, I just need to behave like a human’, in song defending Israel’s response to Hamas attack

theguardian.com

tastewart 🦋@tastewart.bsky.social · 5d ago

Jeanne Gibson, beloved “Rosie the Riveter,” passed away on July 29, 2026 at 100. Gibson became a welder at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, helping build destroyers for the Allied war effort during WWII. Gibson helped pave the way for millions of women who stepped into critical wartime roles.

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Jill Hasday@jillhasday.bsky.social · 7d ago

On this day in 1940, Pat Schroeder was born. She became the first woman to represent Colorado in Congress and ran for president in 1988. She said: “When people ask me why I am running [for office] as a woman, I always answer: ‘What choice do I have?’” #WeTheMen

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Janet 🇨🇦@jansplanet.bsky.social · last wk.

#Carney sent Sara Cohen, Deputy Head of Mission (Foreign Policy & National Security, Canadian Embassy & I haven’t heard any criticism or attempt to share learnings, distance the GoC from the MAGA fascists; or warn the Canadians, & the world? #Antifa #Disobey #Resist #RightToProtest #RightToAssemble

US hosts global meet on ‘far-left terror’: Who’s attending, why it matters

More than 65 countries expected to address 'renewed threats' from 'far-left political violence and terrorism'.

aljazeera.com

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.

Janet 🇨🇦@jansplanet.bsky.social · last wk.

‘Temperatures are expected to approach 40C in some regions in the coming days, with the heatwave forecast to last at least until Sunday. Spain's state meteorological agency Aemet has warned the "fire danger level will continue to rise to extreme levels, hindering firefighting efforts".’

'It's a hell of a situation': Spain grapples with major wildfires

Three fires in the Madrid region have caused particular concern, with a new heatwave expected to hit Spain from Wednesday.

bbc.com

Janet 🇨🇦@jansplanet.bsky.social · last wk.

#TheTruthHurts #HumanRights #Genocide “The family’s decision was fuelled by the current, contentious exhibition, Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present, which explores the forced displacement of Palestinian Canadians from 1948 through to today.”

Winnipeg Free Press@winnipegfreepress.com · last wk.

The Winnipeg family that led the effort to build the Canadian Museum for Human Rights will not provide support going forward, philanthropist and honorary board member Gail Asper says.

Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy@meckeringboy.bsky.social · last wk.

msmagazine.com/2026/07/25/u... “It took until July 7 ‘26 for world’s leading human rights body to call forcing someone to be pregnant—or forcing them not to be—what it is: reproductive violence. …adopted unanimously, UNHRC recognized “reproductive violence” specific, systemic gender-based violence.

A Groundbreaking U.N. Resolution Calls Forced Pregnancy What It Is: Reproductive Violence

It took until July 7, 2026, for the world's leading human rights body to call forcing someone to be pregnant—or forcing them not to be—what it is: reproductive violence. In a landmark resolution adopt...

msmagazine.com

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

Meanwhile, in Canadian mainstream media.... I searched CTV News, CBC News, Global News and the Globe and Mail for any coverage of Shopify in the last 24 hours. Nothing (except business reporting from the Globe, nothing on the CEO suggesting poor people should have less of a say in our democracy)

Search of CBC's website for mentions of Shopify in the last 24 hours returns zero resultsSearch of Global News' website for mentions of Shopify in the last 24 hours returns zero resultsSearch of CTV News' website for mentions of Shopify in the last 24 hours returns zero resultsSearch of The Globe and Mail's website for mentions of Shopify in the last 24 hours returns only business coverage, nothing about their CEO suggesting the poor should have less of a say in our democracy than the rich
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke says “good system.” In response to the following proposal: “Interesting... what about weighted voting proportional to the level of income tax you pay? (no income tax paid - O vote, $1-100k - 1 vote, $100-200k 2 votes and so on... cap it at 5 votes for $500k+. For those that constantly complain about the wealthy not paying tax/fair share they'd have nothing to worry about right? Why not reward representation of taxation and build a democracy around those that foot the bill?”