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The ‘People’s Filibuster’ Comes to Vancouver City Hall | The Tyee Over 600 people signed up to speak to Mayor Ken Sim’s tax-freeze budget. Most were opposed.

And where is mainstream coverage? thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

Contact Mayor and Council Contact City Council and the mayor as a group.

Speak out against Ken Sim’s budget #vanpoli:

Submit comments to Mayor and Council via vancouver.ca/your-governm...
Share ideas and feedback through www.shapeyourcity.ca.

Writers! Give @TWSSFU a follow & enter into your 2025 calendars the upcoming #TWSsprints and #TWSOchat sessions. Twitter Sessions: 2nd Sunday of each month -- TWS Twitter Chats #TWSOchat 4th Sunday of each month -- TWS Writing Sprints #TWSsprints

What did it all mean? A good read below. Watching from Canada, there is a sadness about the Women’s marches, and BLM marches and all the other marches despite which Trump got elected.

Join us in congratulating our graduates at the FCAT Convocation celebration on October 9th!

The Convocation ceremony will be held at Convocation Mall at Burnaby Campus at 9:45am, with a reception to follow at the SW corner of the Reflection Pond.

Register now: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/R5D37FG

Art after apocalypse — opera spurred by Russia’s ecocide in Ukraine to return to Kyiv Editor's Note: The Kyiv Independent is a media partner of the "Gaia-24" performance on Nov. 27 in Kyiv. Even in the midst of Russia’s ecocide against Ukraine — where forests are scorched, rivers are ...

“Gaia-24,” the opera inspired by Russia’s 2023 destruction of the Kakhovka Reservoir dam in Kherson Oblast, is set to make its return to the Kyiv stage in late November at the Lesia Ukrainka National Academic Drama Theater.

I don't believe in God. I'm an atheist.

BUT I believe that people with great influence should use it to do good for nature, life in general, humanity, and the planet.

That's why I think this is a good thing.

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who got kicked out of their own people

Global warming caused by humans is an observed fact. Yes, science still needs to learn more, but it's no more in overall doubt than the theory of gravity. And it's bad. Willful ignorance, enforced by those who choose to deny science, is an existential threat to our civilization.

Illinois professors face threats after landing on Charlie Kirk group watchlist An online database compiled by a group affiliated with slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk identifies close to 50 Illinois college instructors it labels "radical professors."

Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing.

#twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...

Fire in the hole: the Indigenous crews blasting the Alaskan rainforest to save it After a historic land buyback by the US Forest Service, Tlingit crew members are demolishing culverts to restore streams, salmon runs and cultural history deep in the Tongass national forest

Fire in the hole: Indigenous crews blasting the Alaskan rainforest to save it.
After a historic land buyback by the US Forest Service, Tlingit crew members are demolishing culverts to restore streams, salmon runs & cultural history in the Tongass national forest.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

City Program

Looking to deepen your practice on urban issues?

The Fall 2025 @sfucity.bsky.social courses & workshops are now open and featuring:

Financing Urban Growth
Real Estate Development
Planning and Zoning Law
Drafting Design Guidelines
Transit Oriented Development

www.sfu.ca/continuing-s...

echoing this key takeaway, in solidarity against-a-i.com

so much needed! thank you for the ideas and the solidarity.

sunday mid-august is just about the sundayest.

balm for the sundays:

this solidarity guide to back-to-school support against the AI assault

against-a-i.com

Applications are still being accepted for the Postdoctoral position until this Friday!

Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?

This is the way the World is ending, not with a bang but a whimper

Scientists discover blue whales singing less because they are starving

The Global Climate Crisis is killing off their krill & plankton food

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

"Susanne Calabrese, a lawyer for Ecojustice, argues [David] Yager’s various appointments and roles put him at odds in crafting the [#MAS], which she says furthers industry interests over the public’s."

You too can request an investigation into potential conflicts of interest👉 https://bit.ly/46jfb07

Trump's AI Action Plan is a blueprint for dystopia The president is trying to give Silicon Valley nearly everything it wants — at a price.

dystopia: "put resources behind AI while it strips funds for actual public education. invest in AI while it strips funding for scientific research. sponsor creation of vast data center infrastructure but ensure AI will be propped up by energies of the past."
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/trumps-ai-...

Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich

Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF

All Students Invited to Build their Professional Communication Skills in New Course

Hear from Daniel Ahadi and Jennesia Pedri about the new course they developed - CMNS 200: Professional & Strategic Communication!

This course invites all students to build their professional communication skills, which are valuable across all industries.

www.sfu.ca/communicatio...

Ontario wants to develop Wasaga Beach Park—home to endangered Piping Plovers—for tourism and housing.

🚨 No Plovers = no healthy beach. 🚨

Speak up before Aug 11 to stop this reckless plan 👉 bit.ly/3ICMYHU

#ProtectWasaga #SaveThePlovers #EndangeredSpecies #Ecojustice 🕊️🌊

Proofs are in! Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry will be published by @commonnotions.bsky.social‬ this fall. It describes/theorizes/circulates experiences of research that feeds into labour organizing within & against digital capitalism.
www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward...

A win is a win! 👏

After the Ford government’s attempt to appeal, the court has ruled in favour of upholding a temporary injunction first granted in April 2025.

In other words, Ontario continues to be prevented from removing 3 major bike lanes on Yonge, University, and Bloor in Toronto.

The time has come—first anti-malaria pill down the hatch as @librarianjones.com, @captainlibrary.bsky.social & I prepare for our adventure to Kenya to build a library. Learn more about this work and get updates for our journey at buildinglibraries.org. TY to all who helped make this happen! #TLsky

🚨 Academic Position Alert 🚨 I am hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow at SFU in Metro Vancouver. The candidate will work on a project studying the (un)intended consequences of platform regulations for journalism.
The position is funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant.
www.sfu.ca/content/dam/...

Sad for the major regression on green futures in the US. Hope Elon Musk retaliates

"Toronto doesn’t care about our community—but we do." Local farmer Al Kominek joins Dresden, ON residents in protesting Bill 5 and a proposed landfill. Communities, not corporations, should decide what happens to their land.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Act now to save southern mountain caribou There are thousands of hectares of pending logging approvals in old forests that three of the southernmost – and most endangered – caribou herds depend on for their survival. Local Ministry of Forests...

Join @stand.earth and tell the Ministry of Forests staff to stop approving logging in endangered caribou habitat.
act.stand.earth/page/84805/a...

Sacrifice Zones: Life between the land and industry People in communities talk about living in what are called Sacrifice Zones - where the land meets industry in Canada.

➡️ NEW: @aptnnews.bsky.social special explores the impacts of plastic pollution on Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

With UN #PlasticsTreaty talks set for August, leaders from Aamjiwnaang to Kahnawà:ke must have a seat as sovereign rights holders. Sacrifice zones are environmental racism. bit.ly/46djR7w