🎁godless dustbin (festive)🎄

Illinois becomes 12th state to provide medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill Illinois residents with terminal illnesses may choose to end their lives on their own terms under a law Gov. JB Pritzker signed Friday.

“Assisted suicide plunges Illinoisans with disabilities and other vulnerable people into conversations about death, instead of the care and support they deserve from their medical teams,”
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Right-Wing Group Funded by Lululemon Founder Helped Promote Film Demonizing Vancouver’s Homeless A group funded by Lululemon founder Chip Wilson sponsored an event that brought together Vancouver’s police union and right-wing political activists

This is a good time to remind people that it took @godfrey.bsky.social 2 hours to point out all the misinformation and inaccuracies in this one hour “documentary”

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lapointe succinctly nails everything that is wrong with the eby approach to OD crisis

- expert advice ignored (unless your name rhymes with ego)
- govt writes blank cheque for unregulated recovery industry, ignores systemic abuse of patients
- calls for nonmedical safe supply rejected out of hand

Jordan Peterson’s School Isn’t Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta’s Help | The Tyee The premier met with the controversial psychologist and tried to help his business, finds a Tyee investigation.

Alberta’s Ministry of Advanced Education explored changing laws to accredit Jordan Peterson's online, for-profit "academy." @charlesrusnell.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca.

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the Godfrey plugin is actually just any other voice but with Hobbes yelling in the background

The Washington Post Podcast: Now With 10% More Hallucinations!

Remember TEN DAYS AGO when ABC passed their reckless budget, insisting that public opposition was a conspiracy to embarrass them and/or not real

investors want 300 square foot closets that they can sell for $600k or rent for $2k+/month, often built over older, more spacious and more affordable rentals.

the market has no reason to build for affordability, so the solution is going to be not the market

so <20% of <30% is <6% of total supply

idk all I ever see from federal and provincial governments about housing is deregulation and subsidizing the market

An Act to Add "Unless It's Inconvenient" to Every Clause of DRIPA

here's a wild idea: instead of worrying about their profits, we build housing as a public good

the thing about supply and demand is that there's this whole other side to it where when prices come down, new builds also come down. I haven't seen a single economist predict this is actually gonna stick, as project after project gets cancelled

and if the city continues to do nothing, the only reasonable conclusion is that the city approves of drivers killing people on East Hastings St

and encourages this

an index card for an archive microfilm that says: Canadian Federal Royal Commission Reports Royal Commission into complaints received concerning certain activities...

"certain activities..."

Comment le gouvernement Legault s’est attaqué aux syndicats en 2025 – Pivot Cette année, le gouvernement de François Legault a adopté plusieurs lois controversées visant spécifiquement les travailleur·euses.

My @pressprogress.ca article breaking down the Quebec government's recent legislative onslaught targeting unions has been translated into French for @pivot.quebec! Merci Pivot!

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Indigenous Journalism Awards - Jack Webster Foundation | Celebrating the Webster Awards

New Jack Webster financial awards for Indigenous journalism students at any of B.C.'s 5 J-schools (UBC, BCIT, KPU, TRU, Langara) and freelance Indigenous journos in the first five years of their careers. Deadline for application is Dec 14.
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police figured they could eyeball what looked like more than a couple grams of drugs, I think they could earball loud motorcycles if they really wanted

B.C. Expands on Physicians’ Rights in Involuntary Care for Youths British Columbia Premier David Eby releases new guidance under the province’s Mental Health Act to allow physicians to admit youths for involuntary life-saving treatment at a parent’s request. He is...

If the Premier actually believed his own words he would regulate the drug supply to prevent overdoses
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they keep comparing this to insulin - but would doctors force an insulin implant/pump onto a patient? because i don't think they would

a floppy orange cat lying in a blanket in my lap

yessssss hello cat cult!

Yet another reason to get off X: the owner uses it to recruit broodmares for his baby cult.

The Tyee is unrolling its AI policy today. 🤖

this and all the jokes about Elon Musk and ketamine. the willingness of some to throw drug users under the bus to score political points sure is something

Kelowna had highest unemployment rate in Canada last month: StatCan Jobs up, unemployment down. That’s the verdict from Statistics Canada in its November labour report. The agency said t...

Kelowna unemployment swings higher, up to 11%. Now highest in Canada.

Even as the Canadian rate drops.

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It’s getting close to twice the national average.

there's a certain type of guy — Julian Somers, Daniel Vigo, David Eby — whose work starts off at least somewhat on the right side of history before cynically turning to politics of moral panic the minute they get some semblance of power

take away their property, give it to the tenants. they've proven they can't handle being a landlord

plan a is a good case for why landlords should be directly regulated and licensed. at a certain point you've gotta be able to take away someone's ability to be a landlord

Personally, I feel safest when housing is cheap and plentiful.

I'm far, far, far more likely to lose my current rental housing and be unable to find an affordable alternative than I am to be the victim of a violent crime.

BC Canadian Mental Health Association: evidence suggests it leads to an increased risk of death

BCNDP: WE WILL ANNOUNCE IT ON FRIDAY