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Why have wages stagnated across sectors? Don’t blame migrant workers, blame the greedy bosses who’ve spent 50 years lobbying for programs to solve “labour shortages” that allow them to avoid raising wages. Their strategy: deflect, distract, divide. www.thestar.com/news/canada/... archive.ph/eNjkt

🎬 BC isn’t broke: the truth behind the deficit (and other austerity narratives) Take a data-driven look at BC’s fiscal health and equip yourself with arguments to challenge austerity narratives in favour of more sustainable and progressive policy solutions.

“The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists." ~Joan Robinson.

This is a must watch. Thank you for your work, @iglikaivanova.bsky.social

#canlab #bcpoli

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Air Canada strike: Union defies back-to-work order. ‘If it means jail, so be it’ CUPE union president Mark Hancock is refusing to obey Ottawa's orders.

Workers defying back-to-work orders shows growing mistrust of a system stacked against them. Govt bias fuels militancy and pushes unions beyond legal labour action. My comments in @thestar.com #canlab #aircanadastrike #aircanadaflightattendants @cupescfp.bsky.social

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Girl, this ain't new information. The flight attendants have been talking about this for years. But let's pretend you just heard about it during these negotiations - it's been 8-9 months. Us regular folks know about it. So yeah, fix the legislation if loopholes. But you knew @pattyhajdu.bsky.social

Migrants are building Canada’s homes—while getting blamed for housing policy failures ⋆ The Breach Canada’s elite scapegoat migrants for housing woes—but they increasingly rely on them to build the homes they say will fix the crisis

Not an accident, not a mistake, hell it’s not even a real crisis. This is a project that will get unimaginably worse without bottom up intervention.

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Imagine if *all* the work we do was reinvested in infrastructure research social programs education reducing work hours retirement environmental resilience mass transportation leisure

Not some. ALL. That is what socialism is. We are entitled to all we create. Capitalists are unnecessary hoarders.

"Premier Eby has lost the plot on who he works for — the people who can barely afford rent right now, not the billionaires looking to exploit B.C.’s ecosystems."
-Lucero Gonzalez, Conservation and Policy Campaigner
#bcpoli #StopBill15

There is a very simple solution to this.

I love this metaphor. And a vote is not marriage. It's a transit choice on how to get from A to B. #BCVotes

Love that!

Election 2025 LIVE ⋆ The Breach https://www.youtube.com/live/5U-w1S5D-v8?si=li1ewgYv_xqPKlNEThe Breach is back with another night of live election coverage!Tired of the usual tepid punditry dominating the airwaves? Tune i

If you don't want to watch mainstream media election coverage, try The Breach Media - good leftish commentary and an up to date ticker

Martin Lukacs is doing an overview right now

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“A vote is not a valentine. You aren’t confessing your love for a candidate. It’s a chess move for the world you want to live in.” -Rebecca Solnit

Twitter is long gone for me but this tweet from @khelsilem.bsky.social resonated so much with me during the BC election that I had to save it.

I've been involved in activism & political work for a long time, & based on my experience:

The organized social media mob attacks on new #vanpoli city councillor @seanorr.bsky.social are an obvious sign that some powerful interests are scared of him & of his stature & influence in the community.

eCoNoMiC gRoWtH 🤡🤡🤡

Remember kids, most of these billionaires made their money with substantial government handouts! Subsidies for the wealthy, austerity for everyone else. That’s how public money funds private enterprise

VPD to deploy over 100 extra officers this weekend due to planned anti-Tesla protests | CBC News Vancouver police say they're deploying more than 130 additional officers this weekend ahead of planned anti-Tesla protests and amid an ongoing spike in politically motivated vandalism targeting the el...

Government will always protect capital over people, even n*zi capital like Tesla, *but* I’d feel a whole lot better without even more bent coppers on Vancouver city council. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... vancouver.ca/your-governm...

Opinion: Defending Vancouver from billionaire greed and political takeover | Urbanized At every door we knock on, at every event we attend, the message is the same: Ken Sim and ABC don’t have their best interests in mind.

Billionaires are buying elections and killing the planet.

On April 5th, here in Vancouver, we can start to take back democracy by electing Sean Orr to City Council.

Read the new op-ed by @seanorr.bsky.social:

dailyhive.com/vancouver/se... #vanpoli #Vancouver #EvictKenSim

Quote from former city council member, Adriane Carr

Adulting can get hard so I did my future self a favour and took one minute to register to vote by mail for the upcoming by-election. Without adequate opposition, ABC will continue to work against any efforts to make housing affordable vancouver.ca/election/202... #vanpoli

Black dog with pointy ears posing on False Creek seawall.

Mornings are finally getting brighter 🌅 and slightly warmer ☀️

We been telling you about white supremacy but mostly liberals wanted to tell us it’s not the right time/why are you alienating your allies/we’re listening and learning
And yet as soon as it was convenient you turned to “anti-woke” gibberish

reduces workers to supply and demand and people to incubators? ✅ loves crises narratives?✅ austerity? ✅ stokes nostalgia politics? ✅ he’s probably helping the big tobacco loving ‘registered charity’ with crafting a Canadian-coded version of project 2025

There is so much that's dread-inducing today but for me Trump's statements about US taking over Gaza ('we'll turn it into the Riviera of the Middle East') are the top.

Americans invited all this onto themselves (yes, both neoliberal Dems & Reps got them here). Palestinians did not. #freepalestine

vm.tiktok.com/ZMkbXTCDF/ confident that any of Harper’s little protégés would love this for us

“…the government should see Amazon’s low-wage, non-union model as a threat not just to Canada Post, but to Canadian workers across the board, and intervene to rein it in.”

Docs reveal relationship between TC Energy and B.C. government | The Narwhal New documents suggest ‘closeness’ between pipeline corporation TC Energy and senior B.C. government officials

“Does maintaining those relationships across or between governments have an influence or impact? We can only say that it’s very likely. Industry wouldn’t do it if they didn’t think that it had an effect.” 👀 thenarwhal.ca/tc-energy-bc...

CUPW picket line in the rain. Several picketers in rain gear with placards that say CUPW Vancoucer Local on strike

I am not a postal worker. But I joined a CUPW picket line at lunch today & I support their strikes because when they win, we all win. Back in the day, postal worker job action won parental leave, ultimately benefitting almost every worker in Canada. 📸 2018 strike.