Peter Louwe
@peterlouwe.bsky.social
Still looking for a social media platform that's decent. If you turn off replies, don't worry, you'll never hear from me. Former news guy still interested in the world.
I interviewed Carney and all I got was this article (and existential dread)
The Beaverton@thebeaverton.com · 6h agoCarney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground
Since industrial logging began more than a century ago, most of Vancouver Island’s productive old-growth forests — those capable of growing the large trees characteristic of the island’s rainforests — have been cut. About 20 per cent of those forests remain.
B.C. is logging its last old growth and protesters are trying to stop it
Vancouver Island’s old growth rainforests are among the rarest ecosystems on Earth and protesters are trying to stop the logging there.
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It's the Holborn Group.
Jen St. Denis@jenstden.bsky.social · 7h agoThe 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...
The Canadian arm of controversial U.S. data mining company Palantir was until recently registered to lobby B.C. health authorities. Elsewhere in the world, Palantir’s health-care contracts are coming under fire. zurl.co/J0wmn
Remember as your eyes burn from the smoke today, Ken Sim and ABC voted to allow fracked gas in new builds, cancelled $8 million in climate retrofit grants; voted against funding for cooling kits for people in the Downtown Eastside; and got rid of the climate justice charter.
Reminder that BC had its very own psychopath, uh, billionaire.
BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More@bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · 18h agoPRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - “A Prince George city councillor is challenging billionaire Jim Pattison to personally hand out final paycheques to workers losing their jobs at Canfor's Northwood Pulp Mill.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - CBC News BC #BCPoli #Canfor #CityofPG #Forestry #PulpAndPaper
Remembering the legendary & incomparable Louis Armstrong, Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter and singer on his 125th birthday. He was #BOTD on 8/4/1901 and passed away at 69 on 7/6/1971.
ICYMI: “The devastation stretches for more than a kilometre along the northwest shore of British Columbia’s Okanagan Lake, house after house reduced to scorched and twisted metal and grey dust.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/bc... - @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social #BCWildfire #BradleyCreekWildfire
‘Devastation’: Chief says about 230 homes destroyed by B.C. wildfire
The chief of the Okanagan Indian Band says about 230 homes have been destroyed by a raging wildfire near Vernon, B.C.
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August used to be a great month on the west coast. Now it's filled with dread.
The air in Vancouver is over ten times what the world health organization says is acceptable for humans.
Canairy Air Quality@alerts.canairy-aq.com · 10h agoVancouver air quality alert this morning: AQI 153, Unhealthy. PM2.5 58.5 µg/m³ and easing. Everyone should reduce prolonged outdoor exertion. https://canairy-aq.com/air/vancouver-bc #airquality #canairy #vancouver
To be fair, it's perfectly capable of killing adults too.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d agoThe Jeep Rubicon Childkiller. Celebrate the climate emergency and mow down pedestrians with 5,000 pounds of pointless metal.
Tell Carney: phase out thermal coal exports! 📣 Sign our petition below ✍️
Canada needs to power past coal. Tell Carney: phase out thermal coal exports!
The Liberal government committed to phasing out thermal coal exports by 2030. Instead, the Port of Vancouver has doubled its thermal coal exports since 2015. Now this port is the premier coal exporter...
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Instead, British Columbia’s Lower Mainland residents bear the brunt of environmental and health risks. 😵💫 It's time Canada powers past coal. Join us on this new campaign on an old problem.
Dirty coal, so polluting even US west coast ports refuse to export it, comes to Vancouver because this federal gov't loves fossil fuels.
Stand.earth@stand.earth · yesterdayGastown? More like Coaltown! Thermal coal has devastating impacts on Canada and the world. The Canadian Liberal government committed to phasing out thermal coal exports by 2030. Instead, the Port of Vancouver is the premier coal exporter in North America... 🧵 #GreenSky #Canada
Corporate media in the age of monopolization isn’t worried about ratings or views, those are secondary to appealing to oligarchs and corporations who will supplement lost viewership in order to ensure control of mainstream discourse and the information diet of politicians and parties
While our demented pm is fast tracking another pipeline, British Columbians are losing their homes and fleeing for their lives. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Wildfire has destroyed structures on about 120 properties near Clinton, B.C.: regional district official | CBC
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Up until recently the closure of the Trans Canada highway would be national news. Now just add it to the number of major BC highways closed due to fires.
British Columbia Highway Alert Threader@dbcalertrepeater.bsky.social · yesterday#DBCalert: Highway 1 Both directions | Closure | Between Toll Rd and Jackass Summit for 64.1 km | 3 km south of Jackass Mountain Summit to Yale | There is a wildfire. Road closed. Highway 1 is closed due to a wildfire burning north of Hells Gate in close proximity to the...
We are not angry enough about this You, individually, might be But WE, as a society, are plagued by apathy and Carney & other conservative politicians are taking advantage of that apathy to speed us toward our demise so they can line their pockets
Avi Lewis@avilewis.ca · yesterdayAs 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...
Over the weekend, more than 5,000 British Columbians had to flee their homes in 24 hours, under evacuation from just two of the approximately 130 wildfires currently engulfing the province.
The Bradley Creek fire that is believed to have destroyed about 230 homes on the Okanagan Indian Band Reserve is among six so-called "wildfires of note" that have forced thousands of people from their homes in British…
With hundreds of homes lost, these ‘wildfires of note’ threaten B.C. communities
The Bradley Creek fire that is believed to have destroyed about 230 homes on the Okanagan Indian Band Reserve is among six so-called "wildfires of note" that have forced thousands of people from their homes in B.C.
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If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"
Over the last 10 yrs, sharpshooters hired by the B.C. govt have killed hundreds of wolves from helicopters to "save" struggling caribou herds. The real cause of caribou decline isn't wolves, though - it's habitat destruction. This isn't endangered species conservation, BC. It's willful ignorance.
BC Just Spent $74,900 to Kill a Single Wolf in the Kootenays | The Tyee
The program exists to save at-risk caribou, but critics want Ottawa to move to preserve herds’ old-growth habitat.
thetyee.ca
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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While a cyclospora explosive diarrhea outbreak is repeatedly linked with a 20% cut to US CDC & food inspection staff, it's wild how many LPC apologists casually dismiss Carney cuts to wildfire monitoring & food inspection with a derisive "of course the unions complain about increasing efficiency."
Pirro will go back to Fox and continue being a TV drunk, as opposed to a federal employee drunk.
Just a reminder that the president of the United States recently had to pay almost $6 million to the woman he sexually abused and defamed, and not one reporter has asked him about it.