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‘Our women, they get lost on the street’: On the front lines of Edmonton’s Indigenous unhoused crisis These ancient trees are almost certainly doomed. Meet the people risking everything to protect them all the same

Brandi Morin's latest: On the front lines of #Edmonton’s Indigenous unhoused crisis.

On the frigid city streets, one woman, known as ‘Mama Bear,’ offers care and resistance as police intensify encampment crackdowns.

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Just #NewWest elector group #NWP misinforming the public about the nature of a BC housing info session, suggesting it's a townhall organized by West End activists NIMBYing the shelter coming to the south end of 20th Street. Create chaos, campaign on the chaos, repeat. Who's organizing whom?

Image of a Facebook exchange between the poster and the New West Progressives elector group

Image of a letter BC Housing sent to the poster

Update #2: I received a pretty clear & constructive email from #BCHousing re the nature of these meetings. It redoubles my sense that encouraging people to crash tonight's event is a pretty irresponsible stunt. Here I'm sharing the letter I received and my feedback to #NWP.

Image shows 27 multi-racial school kids of South Asian, Japanese, Chinese, and white backgrounds taking a school picture on the front steps of their school with a girl child at the front holding a sign that reads “Mayo Div-2 1938.”

Image shows a town with a large central communal building and several homes with what looks to be a rail line just at the bottom right of the phot. This is Paldi. British Columbia

Canadians often forget ‘our’ history of racial regimes, segregationist and immigrant internment practices. Incl, the history of Paldi, B.C a company town founded by immigrant Mayo Singh, who after the 1907 white backlash race riots in Vancouver, built a multi-racial town to support marginalized ppl.

1/ PM Carney: you can and must categorically rule out participation in this illegal war.

Your unqualified support of Trump and Netanyahu’s war was bad enough. It’s unconscionable that you’re now considering putting Canadian forces in harm’s way.

And worse: hundreds of civilians have already been killed in the all-out bombardment of dense urban areas like Tehran.

Musing about sending Canadians to fight and die in this carnage is unreal. You’re talking about Canadians being asked to participate in likely war crimes.

No one voted for this!

See also: municipalities, government agencies, etc.

(My major chafe is, as usual, the fact that 'efficiency' for its own sake is not a 'value' but we sure act like it is the highest aspiration.)

NO FUN CI-TY 👏-👏-👏👏👏

I'm in my early 30s. I officially joined the labour market 6 years ago after finishing my studies. At every company I have interviewed for work, I've always asked them about their company culture, and what the protocols are, in case I were racially abused at the workplace.

And each time, the answers I got, have always told me something about the company I'm interviewing at. Being that I live and work in the super capitalist and white supremacist Netherlands, when I've asked that question, some companies have surprised me and actually shared their protocols with me.

Other companies immediately go in the defensive and tell me how they just "trust" and "expect" their workers to "behave" themselves and "not be racist", while some other companies totally deny the existence of racism, not just in their companies, but sometimes, entirely.

And it's not that surprising that I have to go through all this shit to land a job, cos 90% of the recruiters and folks who interview me, in my field, are white people. It's also interesting that every time I've had Black women as recruiters and interviewers, I've always gotten the job.

Above all, I think what really weirds me out is when working class white people ask me why I always ask that question at job interviews. "Why do you even ask that question at interviews? What do you hope to achieve by asking that?" they'd ask.

I'm already thinking about how terrible things are going to be for black women in the US in the run-up to the election, from Republicans AND establishment Democrats. And I am already exhausted.

The U.S.A has a man in the role of Secretary of War who wrote a book called “American Crusade” who has chanted “kill all Muslims,” has Deus Vult tattooed on him and whose entire world view is a religious war on Islam; yet America claims Iran deserves reshaping because of their “religious fanatics?”

Thumbnail of an Instagram reel. It has a photo of Mark Carney speaking at a podium, edited to appear in front of smoke plumes amid a city. The text reads: "I'm all for international law 'theoretically'".

1/ This is utterly incoherent.

What Canadians need to hear from our Prime Minister right now is simple: call for a ceasefire and immediately withdraw your misguided support for Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war.

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Image caption: Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson speaks to a guard during a tour of the Krome detention facility in Miami on December 30, 1981, after the quelling of a hunger strike during the Christmas holiday. Jackson's visit brought media attention to conditions at the facility. Mark Foley. Reprinted with permission from AP Photo.

Jesse Jackson visiting the Krome Detention Center in 1981. He exposed the racist policy of mandatory detention of Haitians who were deemed "economic" refugees not worthy of asylum. Image from @tinashull.bsky.social's book Detention Empire.

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

Ah I forgot to add them to my post. Here are two I found.

It’s interesting that it’s referred to as “the Vancouver Stair” as open-staircase walk-ups are a staple of Nairobi's residential architecture, particularly for 4-storey bldgs. Since the 1970s through the ‘90s it’s been a prominent design in areas like Kilimani, Kileleshwa, South B & across Nairobi.

There's nothing fiscally conservative about sprawl. There's nothing "small government" about the costs of sprawl.

What’s getting lost in Canadian and standard media’s attempts to justify this U.S-Israel illegal attack against Iran, is that regardless of how we feel about the regime, Iran is the victim in this attack.

Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons, ISRAEL DOES, which is why Iran is being illegally attacked.

Inside a Surrey ‘local news’ site run by AI Surrey Speak published fake news about a politician and an AI-generated picture of a real murder victim

Last month Surrey news site published a scoop about a Vancouver politician's shock resignation.

Except that never happened.

Our investigation found the website, Surrey Speak, is powered completely by AI. And it has links to a tech company backed by SFU #vanpoli

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Spotted in Seattle! 🐸💓 🙏

The U.S.A will likely experience “regime change,” before Iran does. If anything, this illegal attack ensures that youth in Iran who never understood the distrust their clerics had for the U.S., now understand it through their own entrenched trauma from this.

“Interventionist bombs” don’t liberate.

Double trouble: New drug on B.C. streets brings hallucinations, vomiting, ICU after overdose For months, British Columbia’s health officials have been issuing warnings about a new street drug that’s sent overdose calls soaring, but the risk of withdrawal hasn’t been well understood.

You know what fentanyl is but have probably never heard of medetomidine

That’s changing as it’s increasingly saturating BC’s illicit drug supply and adding more strain to our healthcare system

Users can have severe, life-threatening withdrawal in hours
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Heal Minds Gaza: empowering Palestinian children who were in detention Palestinian children in Israeli occupation prisons face severe psychological violence that deeply impacts their sense of safety, identity, and community after their detention. The Heal Minds Gaza initiative...

Heal Minds Gaza, led by a psychologist from Gaza, will bring CRUCIAL care to kids who were in occupation prison.

The program will focus on healing, expression, social reintegration, community-building, and building the future. Let’s get it funded:

You don’t acknowledge their deaths, you spread US-Israeli-Pahlavi misinformation about their murders to push your “gotcha” bullshit & absolve Israel of its genocidal crimes. You then harass those that do acknowledge their deaths & the U.S-Pahlavi hypocrisy of bombing school girls to “bring freedom.”

Investigation Debunks Claims IRGC Bombed Iranian School I woke up on Saturday at 6 a.m. to a text message from a friend that read: “I’m thinking of you. I hope your friends and family in Iran are ok.” That’s how I learned that the United States and Israel ...

You’re clearly an annoying fake Iran acct, likely the racist NW Times based on who you harass, that doesn’t care about the Iranian ppl, let alone murdered girls, if you can’t even display sympathy with murdered school kids, yet demand others fall victim to your US-Israeli-Pahlavi disinformation.

Prime Minister Carney's promise at Davos to "build our strength at home" would do well to draw on the example of former Canadian cabinet minister C.D. Howe, under whose guidance Canada established 28 new Crown corporations to expedite the mass production of military equipment during the Second World War.

NEW from me: my latest column on the need for a new generation of public enterprises - a key missing piece in both our economic resistance to Trump and our climate mobilization 🧵👇
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