BC Wildfire Service are some of the best in the business when it comes to incident management. They aren’t paid much and many don’t have year round jobs. They don’t get the early retirement other first responders do. But their skill, dedication and professionalism saves lives every year.

Andrea Woo@andreawoo.bsky.social · 3d ago

Twelve hours inside the B.C. command centre where critical decisions were being made as a wildfire exploded around Summerland. Today’s Globe and Mail cover story, with Jesse Winter www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

This trope of “anyone Indigenous or affiliated with Indigenous people can’t participate in politics it’s a conflict of interest” is absolutely bonkers racist garbage.

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · 4d ago

BC Conservative MLA Peter Milobar has announced he is leaving the party and sitting as an independent. Milobar, who ran for its leadership, was accused in the race by Kerry-Lynne Findlay of being in a “conflict of interest” because his wife is Indigenous and had worked for a First Nation.

In the spirit of this @thelineca.bsky.social piece, a modest proposal: Unilaterally drop all diary trade barriers - for countries that unequivocally recognize Canadian sovereignty. open.substack.com/pub/theline/...

Dispatch from the Front Lines: No deal.

And any concessions we make should be made because they're good for us, not for the U.S.

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If Canada caves on everything to avoid the latest tariffs, what happens in six months when Trump threatens 50% tariffs again? www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Ottawa discussing trade concessions with U.S. in return for some tariff relief, sources say

U.S. has a priority list of about 10 items it wants dealt with, one source says

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Uh if you're not gonna change the name of the province of British Columbia I feel like peeling the Union Jack off the flag isn't gonna carry the anticolonial load you're asking it to

Polling Canada@canadianpolling.bsky.social · 2w ago

British Columbia - "Do you think the flag of BC should be change to remove the Union Jack?" Disagree: 52% Agree: 26% Research Co. / July 15, 2026

Proud of our SAR teams (including two of my own team’s members) who located a hiker that had been missing for almost 3 days in extreme terrain, alive. Odds were not good for this outcome, but sustaining the effort paid off.

“The ministry said it has provided more than $55M in funding to preserve and protect heritage assets across the province since 2020.” That is… a shockingly low amount of money? Taxpayers now fully fund the Port Mann bridge, which would have collected nearly $1 billion in tolls during that period.

Kelly B@kellyblack.ca · 2w ago

“The province is trapped in a cycle of offering low funding for fresh business plans every few years,” he said. “It’s a complete shame, and the people that lose out are British Columbians and visitors to Victoria.” www.timescolonist.com/local-news/p... #yyj #bchist #Cdnhist

I can’t stop thinking about Mike, and how wrong it feels that someone who was bursting with life is no longer with us. But as big as the hole he leaves behind is the legacy of everyone that he helped, mentored, inspired. He ensured that his values will live on and on. I hope we can live up to that.

Mike was an incredible human whose life touched so many others. This is a terrible loss.

Michael Coyle@oplopanax.ca · 3w ago

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

Carney’s latest capitulation on the Gordie Howe bridge was immediately followed by fresh American attacks. Just like conceding on the DST garnered zero results. So far the bluster in public while caving in private is not working. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Carney vows to defend country in face of ‘unwarranted trade actions’ from U.S.

Prime Minister is under pressure to deliver plan on Ottawa’s response to Trump administration’s latest tariff threats

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Maybe I just don’t get it but to me “elbows up” would be strengthening critical government functions to reduce reliance on our very powerful neighbour and project sovereignty. But it really seems like it means cutting already-lean federal public services so we can spend more on corporate subsidies.

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦@emmettmacfarlane.com · 4w ago

MARK CARNEY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

Canada is 10 countries that don’t like each very much in a monetary union and a partial customs union. The EU has an explicit goal of “ever closer union”. 150 years on, we’re not really sure yet.

Aaron Wherry@aaronwherry.bsky.social · 4w ago

The premiers have met and they have decided that the federal government should do a bunch of things.

Is there a German word for “misplaced national pride in something that actually sucks”? That’s basically Canada’s national sport. Being not just forgiving, but proud of mediocrity.

One of the worst Canadian things is our tendency to desperately rationalize problems that have already been solved in lots of peer countries. In this case, why we still using cheques and don't have a secure, fast, universal way to send payments.

I'm a big fan of the "the purpose of thing is what the thing does." In this case, the purpose of the police is collect a tax on pedestrian streets, payable directly to them, because they can. Everything the cops are doing can be done better by a bollard.

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · 4w ago

if your argument is “the police can’t give any breakdown in any form to how much money they’re spending on staffing five blocks of downtown because somebody might try and kill somebody with that information” then I encourage you to think harder

It’s difficult to understand what the BC NDP’s ideological underpinning is nowadays. They retain a few distinct leftist features, like their connection to labour unions, but their climate and environmental policy is right of former BC Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell.

My IRL friends call me Chris@christyceeck.bsky.social · last mo.

"signatories of the July 15 letter include 7 former B.C. NDP MPs, 3 former B.C. NDP MLAs, leaders from the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, the president of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation, a former executive director of the David Suzuki Foundation & a former president of the B.C. Federation of Labour."

Taking the trusty 2016 passport in for renewal tomorrow. Only had two pages left. Feels sad that with digitalization it will likely be the last one to carry ink stamps and full page visas. So many memories, from walking across the border to Uzbekistan to getting it wet in a downpour in Haifa.

One way AI has already changed our lives is making everyday consumer electronics less affordable.

Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · last mo.

I paid $227 CAD plus HST for this exact same hard drive from the same retailer in late April of this year, and that was already much higher than last December:

No you see the provincial government can tax you to build a $1.5 billion hospital, but having a bus go to it? That’s a local government problem.

Simpsons Flanders: We're All Out of Ideas

ALT: Simpsons Flanders: We're All Out of Ideas

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why does Poilievre look like Liberace cosplaying as John Wayne here

Today a firefighter from my community posted online that his crew was unable to travel to the Boston Bar wildfire because the BC Ferries terminal in Langdale is falling apart. But hey, at least we’re getting an $8 billion toll free tunnel to support sprawl courtesy of David Eby & Mark Carney.

Brendan Dawe@dawe.bsky.social · last mo.

someone want to explain to me what is 'worth it' about spending $8.5 billion dollars to move traffic congestion ten clicks further north? vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/07/06/p...

I have questions about what “house arrest” means.

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · last mo.

US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra welcomed Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich to his July 4 party in Ottawa tonight Lich is currently serving a house arrest sentence in relation to a criminal conviction over her role in the convoy's three-week occupation of Canada's capital city

We need to hear the whole story, like how building a new international bridge is “taking revenue from an American business” that owns the competing crossing. 😂

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · last mo.

Gosh, so many people are suddenly pushing the message that Canada's "mainstream media" isn't telling you the full story about US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra... And they're all spontaneously saying the same thing on the July 4 weekend too... 🤔

It’s evident that federal agencies have very little on the ground enforcement capability for all manner of critical public safety regulations. And Mark Carney is hacking away at funding for food inspectors & park wardens while offering billions in corporate subsidies. apple.news/As_wLjHj4S26...

Why Toronto Harbour's illegal party boat problem may be getting worse this year — Toronto Star

An area near Sugar Beach where passengers are dropped off is particularly dangerous, insiders say

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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.'"

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If you could save the country with government handouts to the resource industry, we’d already be the greatest country in the world.

Joanne Hammond@joannehammond.bsky.social · last mo.

We are so very fucked: “clearly the prime minister concluded that if the two most urgent tasks at this moment in history are saving the country and saving the planet, his priority must be saving the country. Someone else will have to save the planet.” thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

It was bad enough having one large province that constantly demands handouts. At least Quebec’s fiscal largesse is largely for the benefit of its people. Now we have a crybaby Alberta whose one wish is… uneconomic pipelines. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Alberta proposes southern route for new West Coast pipeline

The plan, which sidesteps environmental concerns in B.C.’s north, calls for the new conduit to be built by federally owned Trans Mountain Corp., working with Pembina Pipeline Corp.

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Has Parks Canada considered building some condos nobody wants as a means of securing funding? Lots of land available in national parks!

Kelly B@kellyblack.ca · 2mo ago

“While they're trying to promote access to Parks Canada parks and historic sites, they're also weakening our ability to preserve and maintain these historic sites and parks." ca.news.yahoo.com/cant-manage-...

For those who never got to know it, the Walbran Valley is the most magnificent road accessible old growth forest standing today in Canada. And the B.C. government will now log it to gain a few pennies. It’s incomprehensible how a place of such unique value can be worth nothing to our leaders.