Billionaires believe they're entitled to our democracy. Tax the ultra-wealthy.

Shopify CEO appears to endorse giving more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC News

The billionaire CEO of one of Canada's largest companies has come under fire for seeming to endorse stripping voting rights from some and giving more votes to the ultra wealthy. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke...

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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:

This is Mike's partner Sylvia Fuller - I am so sorry to say that Mike was found unresponsive while mountain biking yesterday and died despite the best efforts of other riders and Squamish EMS. Thank you to Squamish Search and Rescue for carrying him out and taking care of our dog. We are shattered

Sources of Airborne Norovirus in Hospital Outbreaks academic.oup.com/cid/article/...

Sources of Airborne Norovirus in Hospital Outbreaks

Molecular analyses of air collected in the proximity of patients with norovirus gastroenteritis indicate vomiting as a likely source of airborne norovirus

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so. I have a scheme (not a plan) coming together. its realistic and therefore, not great So I am re-upping this ask. Appreciate you all

karen ward@kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 2w ago

here’s a partial update: I broke my phone, I’m homeless, looks like laptop screen went kerplooey from the heat. i gotta figure out some plans and im not exactly Captain Functional atm So here’s me, passing the hat. Need some help e-transfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com

🔵 Israel Kills Gaza Student Days After He Earned His High School Diploma A newly graduated high school student & a woman were among 3 Palestinians killed in 2 Israeli strikes on Khan Younis in less than an hour Sat., according to Press TV correspondent Ahmad al-Najjar. Khaled Zaki al-Breim was...

do any followers in Vancouver+ have a porch, balcony, basement, garage or attic that requires a test of The could karen sleep there tonight because it’s definitely going to rain system This is for science. Pls DM.

Karen is experiencing the hell that is homelessness and needs our help! E-transfer is: thefool.ward@gmail.com Please share and give to an endlessly valued member of our community! And if you are in Vancouver and have access to any place for shelter, please send her a dm! ❤️‍🩹🤞💙

karen ward@kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 2w ago

do any followers in Vancouver+ have a porch, balcony, basement, garage or attic that requires a test of The could karen sleep there tonight because it’s definitely going to rain system This is for science. Pls DM.

As of early July, it’s clear that a summer COVID-19 wave is getting started in the U.S. Disease levels are going up in the South and parts of the West Coast. This week's COVID-19 trends report: thesicktimes.org/2026/07/14/n...

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"Our findings provide compelling evidence that long COVID involves the loss of dopamine-releasing neurons," says Dr. Jeffrey Meyer, senior scientist at the Brain Health Imaging Center, Canada Research Chair medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07...

New study provides first evidence of dopamine system injury in the brain of long COVID patients

A new brain imaging study led by researchers at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), published in eBioMedicine, provides the strongest evidence to date that long COVID is associated with...

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If fresh, uncooked food becomes dangerous, then safely feeding yourself and your family becomes more expensive in terms of both effort and money. Food safety deregulation is a mass weapon of class war.

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First Nations chiefs across country 'blindsided' by pipeline announcements | CBC News

First Nations chiefs countrywide are expressing concern about the lack of engagement after two pipelines were announced in Alberta, B.C. and Ontario. Two leaders say they only learned of the plans thr...

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Exhibit currently on display at the Nanaimo Harbourfront VIRL library.

The Tyee@thetyee.ca · last mo.

At a time when B.C. politicians are raising alarm about perceived threats to private property, a local history exhibit examines the continuing consequences of a massive but little-known land transfer made 140 years ago.

don't mind the gigantic roving eye, if anyone could spare 30$, it's for the internet e-transfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com

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

hi my difficulties continue and i need to pass the hat around to ask for help, if anyone is able to chip in a few bucks, its greatly appreciated e-transfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com here is a GIF

the Vancouver Police Department repeats specific "fear words" in their media releases, lets track that since the last civic election! "stranger" and "random" HERE IS A CHART

I need your help, and I hate asking you for it! It sucks! As a direct result of my journalism, my safety situation is the worst it's ever been. But I'm so proud of my work. To be able to keep doing it, I need to make a push for more paid subscribers. Please, hear me out:

make a choice to resist fascism every day. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTHsoNSLbH...

babs ✨@itsbabs.bsky.social · last yr.

Listen: they make it difficult if not impossible to mitigate the pandemic they refuse to address, which disables you. You can’t work&lose yr job, thus your insurance, so can’t afford the medical help you desperately need. You wrack up credit&medical debt trying, until you cant afford your home—then?

The fire in West Kelowna was caused by a prohibited campfire The campfire was in a regional park, where campfires aren't permitted. Ironically, campfires are still permitted in all of British Columbia. Permitted with exceptions. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This should outrage all Canadians. Water is life. Removing recognition of First Nations’ right to clean drinking water is a serious step backward.

Kim Siever@kimsiever.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A new bill set to be introduced by the Carney government removes a provision in a previous bill that would have recognized that First Nations have a human right to clean drinking water www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

"No amount of dollars will bring species back from extinction," - Lucero Gonzalez Ruiz, Conservation and Policy Campaigner. #cdnpoli #endangeredspecies www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/canadas...

Canada’s nature plan promises $3.8B for protection — but Carney promises unchecked destruction

In isolation, the federal government’s new nature strategy, A Force of Nature — released in March and backed by a $3.8-billion commitment to protect 30 per cent of lands and waters by 2030 — might app...

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What's really striking is that from 2020 to now, GovHK has flatly refused to specifically say that the vigil was banned. They've offered a litany of excuses to prevent it and used lawfare to close a museum about June 4, but have never outright said yes, it's illegal to talk about June 4. 1/3

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2mo ago

Hong Kong democracy activists face 10 years' jail for Tiananmen Square massacre candlelight vigil

we must replace the entire existing unregulated drug supply with regulated drugs that are less expensive, easily accessible and BETTER than what people are using now.

B.C. Green Caucus@bcgreencaucus.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The only solution to an increasingly poisoned and chaotic supply, is a regulated alternative. #bcpoli

listen to all of this. bsky.app/profile/bcgr...

B.C. Green Caucus@bcgreencaucus.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Over the past 20 years we’ve seen the unregulated drug supply become more toxic, chaotic, and deadly. In November, we saw the sharp rise of medetomidine in the unregulated opiate supply. It is one of many substances that can complicate overdose reversals. #bcpoli

#Kelowna doctors could just prescribe oxycodone to people who use oxycodone because this is very bad and is going to get even worse #bcpoli

I don't have PTSD from the Covid pandemic. I have PTSD from the Covid pandemic response

“When you tell people they aren’t worth protecting, you are telling them they aren’t worthy of love.” Yeah 💔 I encourage currently healthy folks to ask themselves, if my partner doesn’t care about disabling me, can I trust them to care for me after? Is that really a marriage/a world I want?

Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m very fiery about Covid, and I know that puts people off. But I just read yet another post from someone with long covid, who has been sick for years, and is in their early 30s, and they say they understand now that they’ll never get married or have kids. That no one could love them like this.

Re: fomite transmission, "...final step is contaminated hands touching nose, mouth or eyes...despite this assumption being at heart of global IPC policy...no satisfactory physical mechanism exists to explain how virus particles transfer from hands to..receptors in nasal cavity & respiratory tract"

Bean & Sprout's Mom@beansproutsmom.bsky.social · last yr.

Prof Clive Beggs masterclass testimony to the UK COVID inquiry with respect to infectious disease transmission can be viewed at the link below. It is worth every minute of your time to watch and listen. covid19.public-inquiry.uk/hearings/imp...

Note that PMC19.com/data is now dead.🪦 You can get the dashboard on the homepage! PMC19.com (I do not generate any revenue from social media or the website, so please share freely) 🙏 🧵5/5

They always had the ability to do wastewater draws 3 times a week. They just choose not to.

DoNoHarm BC@donoharmbc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Note that with hundreds of thousands of visitors expected to visit Vancouver during the FIFA World Cup in June and July, many experts warn that infectious disease risks are likely to rise.