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Eby says 2,000 public service jobs cut and counting as B.C. faces $11.2B deficit | CBC News Premier David Eby says public service jobs that don’t support the front-line delivery of services to British Columbians will continue to be targeted as his government prepares to unveil its 2026 budge...

we're in an uncertain economy so we're gonna cut the only jobs we, as government, can actually guarantee
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an orange baby lies on his side in my belly, his cheek embedded in my chest as I give him some face rubs

I was gone for a week and now my cat has outlawed leaving the apartment

The only details these people care about in situations like this is the race and gender of the perpetrators

The reason they are fixated on those details is because they are bigots

Things we have to stop blaming for the actions of evil people:

- menopause
- PMS/menses
- psychosis
- dementia
- ADHD
- drugs
- alcohol
- prescriptions

None of these diagnoses make people evil. There is no drug that makes people evil. At most, some of these things can make people less inhibited.

I would wager the probability is 100% if I did it

I'm very curious how much he practised that before the real show

I just know that if I spiked the football like Bad Bunny did at the end, it absolutely would have bounced back into my own face

Before The Washington Post layoffs came down, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached CEO Will Lewis with a proposal.

@passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday @status.news column: www.status.news/p/washington...

everyone in the ski long jump thing looks like they're doing a Naruto run

BIG UPDATE: Francisco’s lawyer Yanni Nicolidakis-Mustafa says "BC Cancer has agreed to treat Francisco on an urgent basis… He is still waiting for a bed to open up for him, but they have taken note of the urgency of the matter and are moving quickly to get him into treatment.”
@thetyee.ca Impact!!!

“You’re Not Going to Investigate a Federal Officer” It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...

New: Immigration agents have shot a dozen people since Sept--yet police are often skipping any investigation

After agents near Chicago killed a man, an officer asked if chief who would investigate. The answer: “You’re not going to investigate a federal officer”

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The chair of the first law firm that bent the knee to Trump’s extortion and agreed to do pro bono work for him is featured in the Epstein Files, you say? Huh.

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

if you build homes that is intentionally affordable for middle incomes, you'll also bring market rents down. trickle-up economics over the trickle-down logic of building luxury condos with the hopes it'll bring down rents in the older buildings (many of which have been demolished for the condos)

I actually do think they are related. when rents go up, so does homelessness. and the thing about public investment in housing is it doesn't need to only be for the lowest incomes. that should be the priority, but you can have a public and social housing system for a variety of income levels

it's wild how a building as big as the BC Supreme Court in downtown Vancouver, with so many people passing through it, can have one (1) public source of drinking water, and it currently does not have water

yeah, sorry "supply exclusively" was the wrong term — what I'm talking more about is the argument that seems nearly exclusively focused on market housing

vacancy rates are clearly a driver of rents, but the changes are weighted in favour of landlords. renters can make little gains here and there, but the house always wins. and what does the community lose when we deregulate housing for those little gains?

but if you look at Montreal, Sherbrooke, London, Winnipeg and Halifax, even a long period with relatively high vacancy rates, the declines in rent are minor, whereas declines in vacancy rates are met with large spikes in rent

part of my issue with the exclusively supply argument is that it rarely differentiates types of supply, it just pushes whatever supply developers are offering, which is similarly overly simplistic

I agree the CCPA article is overly simplistic, but what this seems to show is that it's rare for prices to ever actually come down in any meaningful way based on vacancy rates alone

The numbers don’t lie: The housing crisis is not caused by a supply shortage - CCPA Financialization, not demographics, caused the cost of housing to explode

The numbers don’t lie: The housing crisis is not caused by a supply shortage
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Doctors in FIFA World Cup cities worry about ER capacity, strain on health system TORONTO - Doctors in Canada's FIFA World Cup host cities say they're concerned the already strained health-care system will buckle if a sudden, unexpected surge slams emergency departments during the

Doctors in FIFA World Cup cities worry about ER capacity, strain on health system www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

They also take a lot of pride in menacing school patrols. Parents who are outside in hi-viz vests are seen as ideological opponents. If they see patrols, they circle the schools. They also often conspicuously photograph parents to try and intimidate them in the same way they do rapid responders.

like, maybe in most cases, but I'd be pretty shocked many many people don't know about 10th in Vancouver

it's a parallel route a block away, if you can't navigate that idk what to tell you

I don't care about parking, I just prefer to ride my bike on 10th

this just doesn't make sense to me. obviously if that's what's happening, there should be separated bike lanes, but it's truly bizarre to me that people would rather risk their safety and ride in a crazy busy street than ride on a nice route one block over

nah

does it tho? it's a block away