Lizanne Foster

YouTube video by Good News Your Monthly Dose of Good News | October

It's not all doom and gloom out there. Watch this to restore your faith in humanity's ability to do good.
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Wasn’t there a mad king (George) at the beginning of the American Experiment? Now there is another mad “king” (Trump) at its seeming end.

On Student Absences, Race-Based Data, Private Schools and More | The Tyee A Q&A with academic Kelly Gallagher-Mackay on some big questions facing public education in Canada.

On Student Absences, Race-Based Data, Private Schools and More via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”

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On the left: a black and white photo of a person with long hair kissing a young boy. Both are wearing black costume masks over their eyes. On the right: text that reads “My father was found in a residential school incinerator when he was an infant. Being the son of a death-defying trickster led me to confront what Canada tried to burn away”

"For almost my entire life, I did not know the story of my father’s birth," writes Julian Brave NoiseCat. "I did not know that those whispers I heard about the incinerator at the mission weren’t just rez legends." thewalrus.ca/my-father-was-fo...

Financialized landlords are targeting Black and Arab neighbourhoods across Canada ⋆ The Breach New research reveals how Canada’s biggest landlords squeeze racialized neighbourhoods for profit—buying undervalued housing, evicting tenants, and raising rents

A new report obtained exclusively by The Breach shows how Canada’s biggest landlords are profiting from racialized displacement—targeting Black and Arab neighbourhoods, evicting tenants, and driving up rents. breachmedia.ca/financialize...

Thanks for having me @vancolour.bsky.social!
Mo got the low-down:
How are Jeffrey Epstein and
MAGA billionaires connected to the proposed Ksi Lisims gas terminal?
Sneak peak: instagram.com/reel/DMivdv0yX…
#bcpoli

Haunting hyena photo wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 | CBC News A hyena prowling an abandoned town and a beetle witnessing the destruction of its habitat are the winners of the year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. A Canadian was among the category...

"Wim van den Heever earned the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year with Ghost Town Visitor, a night-time photo of a brown hyena among the ruins of an abandoned mining diamond mining town in Kolmanskop, Namibia."
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If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it.

I was thinking about this after No Kings.

YouTube video by Delanae - Original Music. Storytelling. Cultural We’re the Frogs (Portland, Oregon Peaceful Protest Anthem for the "War Ravaged" city)

"They call us raging rebels, say the city’s lost control
But all I saw were dancers turning pepper spray to gold
They wanted rage for ratings, fire they could frame
But laughter broke the narrative — they couldn’t play the same"

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YouTube video by CTRL-F CIVIX Explains AI: Hallucinations and Deepfakes

CIVIX explains two of the biggest concerns about AI - hallucinations and deepfakes - and what we can do about them.

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Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education | The Tyee MAGA’s Project 2025 has become a blueprint for undermining Canada’s schools in the name of profit and privilege.

Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

YouTube video by the fifth estate How fraudsters are using the dark web to steal from taxpayers | Full episode | the fifth estate

Shame on Premier Eby and the BCNDP for sustaining the denial of the Interior Health data breach leaving thousands of their employees the victims of identity theft.
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Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/08/n...

47 VPD officers made over $100K in OT last year — and one banked $239K, FOI data shows | CBC News A single Vancouver police sergeant was paid $239,258 in overtime alone last year, on top of the rank's base pay of up to $158,000. The figure comes from a freedom of information request filed with the...

47 VPD officers were paid more than $100K in OT last year, including 7 constables who more than doubled their possible $140K salaries. One sergeant raked in $239K in OT on top of possible $158K salary.

Meanwhile, the force went $6.5M over its $400M+ budget.

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Join our Early Access Program to participate in co-design sessions, be the first to see feature previews, and get first dibs on beta invites by opting in to help us test the platform.

Closed Beta Intake form coming soon!

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My mentor and the subject of my new book 🎉

SPARK: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone 🎤

Out 10/21 via Candlewick Press: bit.ly/SPARKbk

#inventors #Blackhistory #Blacksky #BlackinSTEM

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.
This is a must-watch. 🔥 #cdnpoli

Teachers' punishment for social media posts on Charlie Kirk's death prompts free speech debate More than three dozen professors, teachers and school staffers have left or been removed over allegations they made disparaging or mocking comments about Charlie Kirk.

NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing

Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings

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“It’s weird to think of Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert as the canaries in the coal mine,” the comedian @wkamaubell.bsky.social tells @jemelehill.bsky.social. “But if they’re telling us, ‘We’re not afraid of rich white men,’ what can the rest of us do?”⁠
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Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25

Opinion: When mental-health diagnoses become brands, the real drivers of our psychic pain are hidden The Mental Health Industrial Complex profits off the proliferation of psychiatric diagnoses, thrown around like buzzwords on social media

" Or is it something more sinister – the monetization of distress and difference whilst psychologizing and distracting from the social drivers of psychic pain."

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

America Is Increasingly Unsafe for Black and Trans People. Will Canada Help? | The Tyee Zara Sluys X is claiming asylum north of the border. She faces a steep barrier.

My @thetyee.ca piece today: America Is Increasingly Unsafe for Black and Trans People. Will Canada Help? thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement * Middle East crisis – live updates A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts. It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

YouTube video by CBC British Columbia UBC engineer wins international award for creating fully compostable menstrual pad

"Rashmi Prakash has won the James Dyson award for design innovation. She created an eco-friendly menstrual pad that can fully decompose in the compost." youtu.be/WpXTuU2zpQ0?...

"The labour market shortages that immigration is supposed to fix are not being addressed by the current system, which focuses on Temporary Foreign Workers, while leaving migrants with needed skills in fields like care work backlogged."

from "Shifting Borders": broadbentinstitute.ca/research/shi...

Let's not forget to add Saltwire to this list. #cdnpoli

Imagine back-to-school season… with no “teachers,” no curriculum, no rows of desks, no hallway passes and no bells.

A San Francisco school is letting students shape their own education, guided by “collaborators” and an ethos of trust: reasonstobecheerful.world/brightworks-...

We Were Made for This Twenty years ago, on August 29, 2005, a huge hurricane hit the Gulf Coast. New Orleans's levees failed, as had been predicted, and much of the city went underwater. Although the authorities had issued...

I gave a talk this morning at Upaya Zen Center. Here's the essay about disaster and human nature it was based on. It look back to Hurricane Katrina and forward to the present moment. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-were-made...

Airlines aren't the only sector where women work unpaid hours | CBC Radio Experts say fields where the majority of employees are women — particularly in healthcare, caregiving and education — tend to be undervalued, and that expectations of unpaid labour are based on longst...

Airlines aren't the only sector where women work unpaid hours

Healthcare, education and other woman-dominated fields are often underfunded, experts say #Canada

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Image of a hand holding a big coin with a dollar sign over an image of a school building.

If the government under the BCDNP can use $624,000,000 of public funds for the FIFA World cup, and $575,523,000 of public funds for private schools, they have money to build public schools.

In 2000, the BCNDP government spent 2.7% of GDP on public education; in 2024 they spent 1.6%.