Sonia Théroux

🧵 The Trump-Vance Administration has singularly launched a regime change war on Iran and deployed US military forces and assets by fiat without Congressional authorization.
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There are really no words to describe the horrors that this war on Iran will unleash. Yet the Canadian government is supporting this illegal catastrophe launched by a country that is threatening to annex us.

New Release: 2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada - Campaign 2000 Investing in Tomorrow: A Future Without Poverty Campaign 2000 has released the 2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada, drawing on the latest national data to examine the state of child...

More Canadian children are living in poverty, including nearly half of children on reserve: campaign2000.ca/new-release-...

The military is still just killing random people on boats in the Caribbean. No trials, no evidence. 137 kills so far

I regret viewing that game as a referendum on whether there is any justice in this world.

The BC NDP’s budget is hidden austerity for the working class. Eby has chosen the broken status quo. This budget raises taxes on working people, abandons $10-a-day childcare, and puts thousands of public servants out of work. #bcpoli /1

The Socratic method strikes again

Now (and always) is a good time to reach out and hug your trans loved ones and community ❤️

In the wake of the Tumbler Ridge shooting, false claims about trans people spread online Right-wing influencers, social-media accounts and Reddit communities shared and amplified anti-trans rhetoric

In the wake of the Tumbler Ridge shooting, false claims about trans people spread online by the likes of Elon Musk, Libs of TikTok, Matt Walsh, Andy Ngo, The Post Millennial and others. Great reporting by @samedwards.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...

Trans people didn’t ask to get pulled into any of this | Xtra Magazine Charlie Kirk’s murder is the latest event in which trans people have suddenly, inexplicably, become main characters

Disgusted by the level of anti-trans misinformation already spreading about the shooting in Tumbler Ridge.

I wrote about it after Charlie Kirk in September, and I hate that I’m probably going to have to write about it tomorrow

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Verified Tumbler Ridge fundraiser organized by Parent Advisory Council

How telling, tragic and not at all surprising this focus on a shooter's gender the anomalous time they are not cis male.

These are the high schoolers taking a stand against ICE: ‘You can’t let despair take over’ Thousands of students across the US have been walking out of their schools to protest ICE in their communities

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI.

one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."

In light of Jean Chrétien's most recent denialist comments - story to come, basically he downplays the harm of the IRS system - I went down the rabbit hole researching how far Indigenous leaders lobbied him, as Minister of Indian Affairs in the 1960s and 1970s, to close the system 🧵

People power works. Thanks to everyone who came together to force Pattison’s hand this week. #bcpoli

Great @maddow.bsky.social recap on our successful Pattison ICE boycott🧊🚫
To keep up the pressure against ICE in Canada - follow @democracyrisingnow on Hootsuite actions, keep sharing and educating your community, and donate to relief funds for families impacted by ICE.

Missing Saanich teen: police asking for public’s help with search efforts Joshua, a 17-year-old from Saanich is missing and police are asking for the public's help with their search efforts.

Joshua, a 17-year-old from Saanich is missing and police are asking for the public's help with their search efforts.

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A mind-boggling — 31x — increase in public spending on for-profit nursing agencies in BC’s public health care system

From $8.8m in 2018 to $272m in 2024

via BC Nurses Union

www.bcnu.org/news-and-eve...

#bcpoli

Protecting the environment is good for B.C.’s economy | The Narwhal Job creation, tax revenue, small business support: why don’t B.C. politicians value the economic benefits of environmental protection?

While politicians argue, First Nations are growing B.C.’s economy by protecting the environment. From @thenarwhal.ca
thenarwhal.ca/environment-...

Canada falls short of 2025 conservation target | The Narwhal Ottawa says it remains committed to hitting its next conservation milestone even as it races to expand critical minerals production

The federal government said it would protect 25% of land and water by 2025. By December 2024, it had conserved 13.8% of land and fresh water and 15.5% of ocean areas, falling well short as habitat loss continues and pressure mounts to expand critical mineral production. thenarwhal.ca/canada-misse...

Painful to think that all that disinformation has culminated in the decimation of decriminalization and safe supply — not just in BC but nationally.

Thousands a year still dying, and countless workers’ lives ruined, for Alberta to protect its profitable war on drugs.

Someone should write a story tallying all the times that Poilievre, Smith and other conservative politicians compared Alberta vs BC drug poisonings using false numbers.

Here’s what was actually going on:

Up to 89 percent of ambulances for overdoses concealed in record year, as Alberta health care careens into crisis The Alberta government says it has “the most transparent data reporting system in North America" for drug toxicity. In reality, internal data manipulation causes most emergency calls to go unreported.

Alberta Health Services docs obtained via freedom of information request show that up to 85 percent of provincial EMS dispatches for drug toxicity were not reported by the Alberta government, @drugdatadecoded.ca reports:
drugdatadecoded.ca/up-to-89-per...

B.C. daycare providers warn they may leave $10-a-day program if forced to cut wages The province is bringing in a new operating funding model that would cut salaries, benefits and sick days for certain centres. Read more.

B.C. daycare providers warn they may have to leave $10-a-day program if forced to cut wages of educators

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A Minneapolis Teacher Wants the Whole Country in the Streets Dan Troccoli, a public middle school teacher, says everyone should start “emulating” Minneapolis’s resistance to ICE and the Trump regime.

What is happening in Minneapolis is a fascist shitshow, writes Dave Zirin, but there is also mass grassroots resistance. The latter story should be told and celebrated, too.
https://bit.ly/4sJaV2G

Winnipeg police culture 'made it easier to do certain things,' disgraced officer says in psych report | CBC News Making traffic tickets go away for people was "an unwritten rule" in the Winnipeg Police Service, a disgraced officer said in a psychological report, released Wednesday, that was prepared for his sent...

Unsurprisingly, police culture of no accountability yields pretty brutal behaviours
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I wrote this post about Del Manak's legacy as chief. It seems relevant today when he's made it clear he's considering a mayoral run. www.needsmorespikes.com/blog/del-man... #yyj

We’re already seeing declining population in Canada because the racists were so effective at blaming migrants for the cost-of-living crisis and the government cut immigration rates as a result. It’s foolishness.