VicPD's budget stinks — Needs More Spikes VicPD wants an $11 million, 14% budget increase in 2026. Here is my message to council outlining some of the ways VicPD’s budget is harmful and unnecessary, and where to start cutting.

VicPD's 2026 budget proposal is outrageous and harmful. I've reposted my email to #yyj council here. I encourage anyone opposed to uncontrolled police spending to write to Victoria (councillors@victoria.ca) or Esquimalt (council@esquimalt.ca) to tell them. www.needsmorespikes.com/blog/2025/11...

Arms Embargo Now! Our new report has just exposed a massive pipeline of military aircraft parts and explosives flowing from Canada to Israel via the U.S., facilitated by a deadly loophole in Canadian law.

armsembargonow.ca/nomoreloopho...

What the closure of Teen Vogue means for journalism. Condé Nast folded a beloved magazine that treated youth and feminism as political topics, not trends.

Teen Vogue did some terrific work. Great story here on Teen Vogue and how the Vogue/Conde Nast bosses seem like the "liberal" types who have been eager to use Trump's rise as a pretext to silence progressives/leftists they disagree with. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...

‘Red cup rebellion’: striking Starbucks baristas urge customers to stay away In Brooklyn, workers walked off the job in search of fair pay and conditions – and said many customers were in support

No contract, no coffee. Support starbucks workers today by brewing your own! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Students and teachers across the US should take a lead from the hundreds of brave high school students in Chicago who walked out against ICE 🧵

All these service cuts to pay for more police budget increases. What a disgrace.

School-liaison officer helps Oak Bay student avoid online scam The school-liaison officer provided direct support to the student, who was told their account would be locked unless an $80 payment was made.

#yyj Why are we spending $500,000 for police to do teachers’ work? Digital literacy is in the curriculum. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/s...

#yyj Councillors, looking for ways to save the youth transit pass? Reconsider the $$ to reinstate the SPLO program. Let police do policing and let teachers teach.

The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)

They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.

The Senate Democrats!

How about here #yyj?

Letters Nov. 8: B.C. Ferries needs reform; lessons from Zohran Mamdani

Some thoughts on the City budget… www.timescolonist.com/opinion/lett...

Um no….the Greater Victoria Teachers Association wrote and spoke to you about the misallocation of funds for the SPLO program. We don’t need armed officers in schools to talk about phishing emails. Teachers can do that.

8 weeks ago the Gov't of Canada promised “concrete actions” in response to “intolerable” suffering in Gaza.

The intolerable suffering continues. Plans for a concentration camp are openly discussed.

The GoC says & does nothing & maintains normal diplomatic relations with Israel. It is complicit.

BREAKING: Days after a Louisiana judge ruled that the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, thousands are holding an emergency Passover Seder at the ICE headquarters in New York City, saying: If you come for one, you face us all.

Wars, be they military or trade, benefit a tiny handful of elites and cost everyone else (on all sides alike) terribly.

We need spotlights on those elite benefits and those collective costs, put constantly side by side. The divides are not nation-state based but class based.

Everyone who pays alot of attention to politics right now is losing their mind because it’s really difficult to understand how the majority of people are just like “yep living my life, oh a program to hire more women? Idk sounds good to me, I voted Trump to lower inflation hopefully he’s doing that”

In #yyj? Join us for a discussion on organizing and solidarity, learning the lessons from Jewish Voice for Peace.

Copying a tactic from the pro Israel lobby…when a different opinion, meant to save lives, becomes ‘harm’