Quinn MacDonald

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

www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/environ...

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."

open.substack.com/pub/thestate...

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

www.carbonbrief.org/two-thirds-o...

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

bsky.app/profile/slcl...

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

excellent

#yyj #yyjpoli

Onto the meaty bit.

Any new motions related to the proposed budget... Mayor Alto is unusually taking chair's liberty to propose items first.

[whoa nelly it's juicy...]

Moving onto recommendation 1: Approve direct-award grants and other grants as outlined in Appendix A.

This lists direct-award and one-time grants.

How to Advocate for Trans Rights in Your Community Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.

Unprompted by anything specific… worth noting that WIRED’s ASME award nominated package, “How To Win a Fight,” includes a piece on how to advocate for your trans and nonbinary neighbors:

www.wired.com/story/how-to...

not a new insight, but: beyond parody.

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

Moving to the Director of Finance's overview.

5.02% tax increase for the police initially, but now it's 5.24% following the Province's decision on previously not-approved costs. City's own tax lift is 5.42%, bringing the total tax lift (City + VicPD updated) = 10.66%.

Reminder to #yyjpoli that Victoria Council is resuming its budget deliberations today at 1 PM - soon!

The first two items pertain to policing costs, and the third item brings us back to the City's revenues and costs.

Will be interested to see last minute changes in response to BC's $ decisions. h

Cities lose so much in property tax generation, cost of utility construction and lost transit fare revenue by refusing to allow density in most of the city