ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd)

This should concern us all. The BCNDP has said nothing about this. It is a disgrace if NOLS gets their application approved.

Regional District of Nanaimo 'drop the hammer' on tiny home Despite a housing crisis, Nanoose Bay Regional District of Nanaimo director called bylaw on a tiny home in his neighbourhood.

Yes to this. Especially in places where there is NO affordable housing because local governments have prioritized 5000 sq ft luxury homes. Flexible density can be used until permanent affordable solutions are built. thediscourse.ca/nanaimo/regi...

International Overdose Awareness Day commemorated in B.C. as hundreds continue to die of toxic drugs | CBC News The day is being marked with ceremonies across B.C. on Sunday, as the province continues to lose more than 100 people each month due to unregulated drugs, amid a public health emergency declared nine ...

“We want safe supply and end of prohibition,” said Samona Marsh, the president of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). “Respect us. Respect the agency of the individual, [the] collective agency of the community.”

Hero.
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Vancouver Police — overpaid, incompetent, and can’t even do the job of their underpaid coroner colleagues properly. VPD actively makes the community less safe.

Mila's headshot with TIME 100/AI text.

🎉🎉🎉 Friends, I’m going to take ask a minute of your time to celebrate @milamiceli.bsky.social who I met through @alexhanna.bsky.social in 2022, just a couple of months after we launched @dairinstitute.bsky.social 🧵

W T F

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Happy to report it was the Newton Research Building which used to stand next to the Heritage Medical Research Building. Torn down to make way for the Katz Group/Rexall Centre for Pharmacy Research (circa 2002? 2003?). It’s weird that a whole building can almost vanish from memory/internet records.

Thanks! I reached out to the campus library who connected me with the archives and we figured it out!

I’m gonna have to ask some professors emerita, I suspect.

This is a long shot, but does anyone recall the name of the building that was demolished to make way for the Katz building on the University of Alberta campus?

I worked in it for my first year (2001) but cannot remember the name. (We then moved to Dent/Pharm which is apparently now ‘Uni Commons’)

Heat pumps could halve heating bills with energy system reform, study finds Steps to make electricity cheaper, such as ending levies, could transform prospects for pumps, thinktank shows

I am once again saying that clean energy is inherently cheap, and the reason we don't benefit from that is because the energy market doesn't let us. Great stuff here from my colleague @chrisgalpin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hundreds of UN staff pressure rights chief to call Gaza a genocide, letter shows The letter said the staff consider that the legal criteria for genocide in the nearly two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza have been met, citing the scale, scope and nature of violations documented there.

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one of the most revealing arguments I've seen on this issue is from people who say they would not mind if the park is closed — as long as the First Nations are also prohibited from accessing their homelands, medicines and traditional foods

High-profile homicides reopen debate over public right to know | CBC News A former police officer is questioning why RCMP waited four days to reveal they were investigating a double homicide in B.C. that would later turn into a cross-Canada manhunt for a pair of men suspect...

Actually I will reopen this. This culture has real stakes - like the time a pair of men were on a killing spree but rcmp described it as a suspicious death and missing persons and didn’t mention the camper full of bullets where the suspicious death took place

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Good thread about a totally regular experience trying to report on tragic events in B.C. (and probably the rest of Canada).

Officials here are so accustomed to getting away with offering nearly zero details. It often takes years for a trial or coroners inquest to get worthwhile official accounts.

It was wiped when I crossed the border into Manitoba.

Writing my memoirs (for real), and the funniest thing would be to just not mention Carleton University once. 😂

Reader: what’s this uh 7 year gap?

Me: oh <kicking the trap door closed over the repressed memories from that period>, nothing. Nothing at all.

😭🫠

Old Ralph walked, hobbit-style, so that Ed and Alison could lope, and Jason and Danielle could *fly*.

Time travel, Alberta edition

<takes a pull on imaginary cigarette>

I had to travel back in time + tell my 9 year old self that Ralph Klein would look competent in 33 years. Then I sped along to 2008 to tell my 25 year old self Stelmach was relatively cogent compared to <waves at dumpster fire> 😭

Yes!!! He captures their hubris so well.

I wonder if it's a coincidence that on this same day the AER issued a costs award in favour of intervenors and against Northback Holdings for the Grassy Mtn exploratory drilling hearing in the amount of about $92,000.
Perhaps Northback will be seeking a meeting with the CEO.

She doesn’t own the company in question in this story. I just think it’s important to share this photo to also remind folks of the *other* projects being proposed in the eastern slopes — the cumulative impacts of all of these combined resource projects will be devastating.

A reminder that this is the person who wants to open up Alberta’s eastern slope headwaters to deleterious and devastating metallurgical coal mining (portrait by Vincent Namatjira)

Canada is blocking life-saving aid to Gaza. Petition calls on govt to reject militarized aid, ensure UN/NGO access, allow Canadian medics, and deliver aid through neutral channels. Thanks to Doctors Against Genocide & John Mayba for leading. Sign & share:

YouTube video by APTN News Winnipeg census reveals highest homelessness count since 2015 | APTN News

End Homelessness Winnipeg says a street count revealed the highest number of people experiencing homelessness in the city since 2015.

It says a point-in-time census from November 5, 2024, identified 2,469 unhoused individuals, 80 per cent of whom were Indigenous.

Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...

Same regiment that laid siege to the Mohawk community of Kanehsatà:ke in 1990 and took part in the occupation of Afghanistan in the 2000s. Members of the regiment also went to Ukraine in the last half of the 2010s to train soldiers there.

Stop the chainsaws in southern mountain caribou habitat!

Southern mountain caribou are critically endangered, but the B.C. gov is approving logging in their habitat.

These herds can still recover, but only if their forests are protected.

Speak up today 👇

#BCPoli #Conservation

B.C. Insider: Integrity commissioner criticizes Mayor Sim’s party ABC’s secret policy meetings violate Vancouver’s code of conduct and undermine the democratic process, says commissioner

"When the integrity commission’s findings can be disregarded, it indicates the system itself isn’t strong enough." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti... #vanpoli