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We can (and should have, and must) defend human rights in Iran; without ripping up the UN Charter* — Alex Neve: Moving Rights Along Rather than expressing seemingly unqualified “support” for the United States (and, one assumes, Israel), this could be a powerful moment to demonstrate that the Prime Minister’s belief in the role tha...

We can be fierce champions of democracy & human rights in Iran while, at the same time, firmly rejecting unilateral & unlawful military action by one state against another. Both are, after all, grounded in the same values & the same vision for humanity. Both take us in the same direction.

UBCIC Deeply Disappointed with B.C.’s Decision to End Decriminalization Pilot and Calls for Return to a Public Health Approach Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

"By ending the decriminalization pilot, the Province is failing to treat addiction as a public-health issue, not a criminal one, and is doubling down on policies that have already caused immense harm to First Nations." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip
www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_deeply...

Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.

We started DULF because we knew nobody was coming to save us, so we had to save ourselves. It worked. But right wing politicians made themselves famous off scapegoating us. The government de-funded us. The cops raided us. But our day in court is here. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Opinion: B.C. has a revenue problem, not a spending problem Experience from early 2000s shows that underfunding public services and failing to address poverty leads to higher economic and social costs

BC folks! Outstanding piece here by @iglikaivanova.bsky.social, co-ED of @bcpolicy.bsky.social.

BC has a revenue problem, not a spending problem

The solution to BC’s fiscal challenges isn’t spending cuts. Instead, BC needs progressive revenue measures.

Read on 👇
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

The ICJ’s landmark climate opinion is a turning point Canada can't ignore It is no longer a theoretical possibility that polluters could be held responsible in court — it is a real and rising legal tide.

It is no longer a theoretical possibility that polluters could be held responsible in court — it is a real and rising legal tide, writes Senotor Rosa Galvez www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/25/o...

🚨B.C. is listening!🚨

The all-party committee on electoral reform wants your input.

Think every vote should count? Speak up for proportional representation!

Submit your feedback by July 25 at 2 PM PT: consultation-portal.leg.bc.ca/consultation...

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

I once embraced the Zionist dream. Now I’m protesting the genocide in Gaza on the streets of Toronto My adolescent dream of a Jewish state committed to justice and equality has died a slow death.

This is an incredibly powerful piece by Michele Landsberg [gift link] www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Prime Minister Carney must take decisive action to end genocide in Gaza — Alex Neve: Moving Rights Along We write because of the catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, now into its twentieth month, which is broadly understood by international law experts and leading human rights organ...

In our Open Letter to @MarkJCarney @AnitaAnandMP, 412 legal, human rights, diplomatic, international affairs, social justice, civil society, faith & labour leaders & experts make it clear: Canada must act to end genocide in #Gaza. 🧵1/10

Greenpeace calls upon the international community to urgently uphold international law and ensure the immediate release of the #FreedomFlotilla humanitarian vessel the Madleen along with its crew.
Full statement: act.gp/43xylO2
#FreedomFlotilla

The Overwhelming Case for a Wealth Tax | The Tyee Even a small tax on the richest could transform Canada.

Popular, effective, good for the economy - what's not to love?

The Overwhelming Case for a Wealth Tax via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Gaza is ‘hungriest place on Earth’ with all its people at risk of famine, says UN Mission to deliver help is ‘one of most obstructed aid operations in recent history’, humanitarian agency says

Gaza is ‘hungriest place on Earth’ with all its people at risk of famine, says UN

Mission to deliver help is ‘one of most obstructed aid operations in recent history’, humanitarian agency says

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

“It’s long past time we stop thinking about what we deserve from the Earth, and start thinking about what it deserves from us.”

lol. Great analogy.

There is no amount of screaming that will express how angry I am for the women of America right now, and no amount of caution I can issue fellow Canadians to never, EVER, take our abortion rights for granted. Eyes WIDE open. Never believe them when they say they won't do it. They will.

'Boundless care and compassion': Trey Helten was on a mission to help others in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside "There is nothing to replace him." The sudden death of Trey Helten has shocked the Downtown Eastside, where he was widely known and loved.

when a person who has saved so many people's lives (and in many different ways) dies, something in all of us (and in all of you, whether you know or not) dies too

love drug users while we're alive

beautiful work ↓ by dan fumano

vancouversun.com/news/obituar...

Ontario judge temporarily blocks shutdown of 10 drug-use sites Despite the ruling, the province insisted it would go ahead with plans to convert nine of the sites to treatment- and abstinence-focused centres

Ontario judge temporarily blocks provincial legislation shutting down 10 of the province’s 23 supervised consumption sites, giving groups time to mount constitutional challenge www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #HarmReduction #ToxicDrugCrisis

Just how much public money is flowing from Canada to Elon Musk? IJF analysis shows hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts and subsidies for Trump ally’s companies

ICYMI: @bethanylindsay.bsky.social and I tried to figure out exactly how much Canadian taxpayer money has been going to companies owned by Elon Musk. We found more than $400 million in government awards, transfer payments and rebates

theijf.org/elon-musk-pu...

‘Racist and dehumanizing’: Judge slams RCMP, reduces sentences for CGL pipeline opponents Police showed ‘racism directed towards Indigenous women’ in 2021 raid of Wet'suwetʼen land defender camp, B.C. Supreme Court justice rules

‘Racist and dehumanizing’: Judge slams RCMP, reduces sentences for CGL pipeline opponents

Police showed ‘racism directed towards Indigenous women’ in 2021 raid of Wet’suwet’en land defence camp, B.C. Supreme Court justice rules

indiginews.com/news/wetsuwe...

This was excellent (and terrifying).

BREAKING: Fuck ICE