Quinn MacDonald

at what point is this no longer a regional conflict.....

The upgraded buildings

This week I toured a successful deep climate-and-energy retrofit of a non-market, multi-family housing community near King Edward & Trafalgar Streets. Electric heat pumps now provide residents with efficient heating & cooling while upgraded windows & insulation keep suites comfortable.

the thing with hegseth and trump both is they're all like "why didn't anyone do it like this before" and it's because it's just all war crimes

Minister of Politely Asking Companies To Offer Thoughts & Prayers.

YAY! #yyjpoli - @davethompsonvic.bsky.social and @mattdellvictoria.bsky.social 's motion to prioritize the 'gap' in the Pandora street bike lanes to Oak bay junction and Shelbourne passed unanimously after Gardiners bid to defer failed.. (I bet we'll read about how awful this all is in the TC btw)

COPE Councillor Considering Next Steps After Mayor’s False Drug Accusations | The Tyee Ken Sim wrongly accused Sean Orr of dealing illegal drugs and initially let another councillor take the blame.

Within this story from @kehyslop.bsky.social and @jenstden.bsky.social: Former Green councillor Adrianne Carr says she resigned in 2025 in part because of remarks Sim made to her during an in-camera meeting
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Wins & updates from budget discussions, March 3, 2026 On Tuesday, March 3, 2026 City Council discussed and voted on a number of budget issues. More to come soon, but here are some updates so far: Wins to celebrate Council has voted to reduce VicPD’s p…

Wins & updates from Victoria’s budget discussions, March 3, 2026: defundvicpd.org/2026/03/05/w... #yyj #defundVicPD

Caradonna pointed out that even if the number of new patrol officers was cut by two, the department would still have added 20 officers in the last year. Coun. Marg Gardiner, who voted against the cut along with Alto and councillors Stephen Hammond and Chris Coleman, said it was going down the path of defunding the police. She said the challenges on the street are huge and “we need VicPD to do what they’re doing.” Thompson dismissed any suggestion that the move is about defunding police, noting the police budget has gone up by almost 40% during council’s term.

WE HAVE THE HIGHEST PER CAPITA POLICING COSTS IN B.C. the police budget increase is 5.06% of our 7.28% budget - how the fuck is that "going down the path of defunding the police" What. a. Tool. #yyj #yyjpoli (From here: www.timescolonist.com/local-news/v...)

Rezoning application and development permit with variances for 1101 Yates Street. Uniquely, this application is from the BCGEU and the Affordable BC Housing Society (a non-profit housing provider). "20% of units will be secured as below-market rental units and 20% as accessible dwelling units"

Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president. The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind. The US has ignored India's sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India's invitation.

We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack. Our"responsibility" is at a moral and human plane. A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order. Lt Gen DP Pan... @LtGenDPPan…. • 18h Our watch gets over when the Ship leaves territorial water. Not till they get home. Their country is at war. They should have stayed in shelter of India. In international waters, they had Not sought an escort from Indian Navy. A... 11:05 PM • Mar 4, 2026 • 2.4M Views

fwiw here's the sourcing I saw at 1am about the US sinking of an unarmed and knowingly unarmed Iranian Navy ship x.com/KanwalSibal/...

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

woahhhh. oak bay finally doing active transportation?

Environment groups condemn mining permits violating First Nation's consent in Clayoquot Sound Five organizations back Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation in call for reversal of Imperial Metals’ Tranquil Creek permits

PRESS RELEASE: Environment groups condemn mining permits violating First Nation’s consent in Clayoquot Sound

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Blood in the water: Canadians implicated in Op. Southern Spear Exposing the flimsy legal shield protecting Canadians who are likely involved in the U.S. military’s Op. Southern Spear - and the hard questions Ottawa hasn’t answered.

Oooh some great reporting from my friend and fellow journalist @christysomos.bsky.social!!

"Exposing the flimsy legal shield protecting Canadians who are likely involved in the U.S. military’s Op. Southern Spear - and the hard questions Ottawa hasn’t answered."

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Atrocities are often followed by calls to action.

But we've never had an atrocity followed by universal access to evidence-based mental health care.

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.

A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

It set a suicide countdown clock for him

gotta learn this lesson eventually!

Likely meteor over Vancouver Tuesday evening after reports of a fireball and sonic boom All indications suggest the region was witness to a significant meteor, scientifically known as a bolide

And today’s Word of the Day is “bolide.” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

Family seeking $1.3M owed by Alberta separatist leader Dennis Modry after court order | CBC News Relatives of a prominent Alberta separatist who met with U.S. officials are upset that he has failed to pay back more than $1.3 million that he owes from a court order issued almost a year ago. A B.C....

A BC court found an Alberta separatist movement leader misappropriated $1.3 million of his elderly aunt and uncle’s money. Their niece says Dennis Modry hasn’t paid it back.

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’ - Carbon Brief Of the 0.61C increase in global average temperatures over 1990-2020, a new study estimates that 65% was due to the emissions of the wealthiest 10%.

"The wealthiest 10% of people on the planet are responsible for 65% of the 0.61C increase in global average temperatures over 1990-2020, according to new research."

The climate scene should keep inequality in mind. Who are we solving the crisis for?

#Inequality

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Footage of the meteor that lit up the sky tonight - caught by live cameras in Deep Cove. Sonic boom a couple of minutes later, strong enough to shake homes across the Lower Mainland.

Wow! 🤯

Sellner and his wife Brittany Pettibone are good friends of Lauren Southern (according to her)

Southern recently popped up in Victoria to give a talk to the We Unify people

tl;dr: more people should watch this gentleman's speech and think seriously about what he is saying

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The approximate cause of death for Anne Frank was the Nazis. The specific cause of death was the outbreak of Typhus at Bergen-Belsen camp, which overtook her (and others) from chronic malnutrition and medical abuse. These conditions are not, in character, unlike our system of immigration camps today

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

Photo of a newspaper clipping: “holidays in war time. Theres no need to use your car, gasoline, or rubber to reach Qualicum Beach. Come by train and enjoy the warm sands, golfing, and hiking”

I love this 1940s ad for a holiday at Qualicum Beach. With war time restrictions on gas, rubber, metals, etc, staying on the Island and taking the train was a great option.

Anyway, we don’t have a train anymore.

In a world full of increasingly unhinged politics, the Mayor of Vancouver finds a way, somehow, to be notably embarassing.

$15 million federal investment announced to support the Hedley mine recovery and restoration project $15 million federal investment announced to support the Hedley mine recovery and restoration project

$15 million federal investment announced to support the Hedley mine recovery and restoration project