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Yellow background with black font. VicPD is the most expensive police department per capita in B.C. VicPD costs more per capita than any of B.C.’s other 11 municipal police departments or 67 RCMP municipal units. VicPD wants to push that cost even higher in 2026, to $750 per person. VicPD already costs more per capita than the police departments in: Abbotsford, Armstrong, Burnaby, Campbell River, Castlegar, Central Saanich, Chilliwack, Coldstream, Colwood, Comox, Coquitlam, Courtenay, Cranbrook, Creston, Dawson Creek, Delta, Duncan, Fernie, Fort St. John, Hope, Kamloops, Kelowna, Kent, Kimberley, Kitimat, Ladysmith, Lake Country, Langford, Langley City, Langley Township, Maple Ridge, Merritt, Metchosin, Mission, Nanaimo, Nelson City, New Westminster, North Cowichan, North Saanich, North Vancouver (City), North Vancouver (District), Oak Bay, Oliver, Osoyoos, Parksville, Peachland, Penticton, Pitt Meadows, Port Alberni, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Powell River, Prince George, Prince Rupert, Qualicum Beach, Quesnel, Revelstoke, Richmond, Saanich, Salmon Arm, Sechelt, Sidney, Smithers, Sooke, Spallumcheen, Squamish, Summerland, Surrey, Terrace, Trail, Vancouver, Vernon, View Royal, West Kelowna, West Vancouver, Whistler, White Rock, Williams Lake Sources: Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, "Police Resources in British Columbia, 2023." BC Stats, "Population Estimates & Projections for British Columbia."

Here's a thread with an annual reminder that VicPD is overfunded and overstaffed. VicPD likes to say it's a special exception as a "downtown" police force, but they cost more per capita than every other department in B.C., including Vancouver. #yyj 🧵

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada

So here's the favour I want to ask: if this post crosses your feed, please take this chance to support the Gitxsan and Gitanyow by watching our latest HGA and passing it on.

Help us put Ksi Lisims and PRGT on the map 🙏

Friends, can I ask a favour.

Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy

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Ksi Lisims LNG Makes Federal List of ‘Nation-Building’ Projects | The Tyee The prime minister sidestepped questions about US ownership and First Nations opposition at a northern BC presser.

While PM Carney’s fast-tracking initiative has been touted as a response to U.S. President Trump’s trade war, critics have pointed out the projects are largely backed by foreign-owned corporations — and include substantial U.S. investment.

@amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #uspoli #canpoli #LNG

In four minutes, Carney revealed his energy policy In four minutes at the Canadian Club Toronto, Carney gave away more than he has all year.

One way of understanding Carney’s excited banter is this: The prime minister views climate policy in terms of energy and money. Emissions are an afterthought, @arnokopecky.bsky.social writes.

As More and More Studies Expose Fossil-fuel Health Harms, Mark Carney Doubles Down First Nations and frontline workers lead the charge against Canada's aggressive LNG expansion

Latest for @pressprogress.ca:

One day after @amnesty.org report confirmed what First Nations + doctors have been saying — that living near oil & gas causes all kinds of health harms — 🇨🇦 PM @mark-carney.bsky.social announced more support for LNG infrastructure in BC

pressprogress.ca/fossil-fuel-...

YouTube video by Rush - Topic Territories

Canadian Seinfeld would be more about nothing than the show that was famously about nothing. It would be about a bunch of people afraid of standing out or standing up in any way.

And:
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I use a crossword app from Redstone Games that's free and regularly gets new puzzles. There's a game called Spelling Bee that rips off the NYT game – you can probably find ripoffs of all the NYT games

This is SO relevant in #yyj and #saanich.

What type of puzzles are you looking for? There are a ton of good websites with daily puzzles, or puzzles on demand.

Apps are a different story. I avoid apps because I hate phones.

bsky.app/profile/bedu...

Watching all the supposed progressive Liberals embrace Carney's hard right turn and conservatism should be an eye opener for the left. These are not our allies and we need to get busy building alternative movements.

#cdnpoli

This guy is an absolute piece of shit. He tells the public one thing then tells his rich friends the truth.

I was hoping to go a few years without have to protest a climate destroying pipeline again but oh well.

#cdnpoli

Devastating. They were saving lives. A prime example of how legal and moral are not always the same thing.

Now cut the police budget, kthanx

Carney and his MPs are quite struthious

a man is sitting on a couch with his hands on his face and the words pretends to be shocked above him Alt: a man is sitting on a couch with his hands on his face, pretending to be shocked, and the words "pretends to be shocked" below him

"Values"

Carney tells business crowd a new pipeline project is 'going to… National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

This sounds a bit like the prime minister is prepared to steamroll over many B.C. First Nations and the provincial government to give Alberta what it wants

Or maybe he was just pandering to his audience?
#bcpoli #canpoli

Thats why the Luddites were upset. Automation created too many jobs and things were too easy actually.

BC's anti-SLAPP legislation was critical to keeping a meritless lawsuit @torimarlan.bsky.social and I faced to the "affordable" sum of ~$50k in legal fees. Journalists like Luke not protected by these laws have much higher exposure — even when, like us, they did nothing wrong.

A bike behind bars. Text reads “$90m for VicPD means…the city wants someone else to pay for the bike valet. Reduce the police budget and fund community services!

Cops respond to crime. The bike valet prevents it. But the city wants to stop paying for it so they can give VicPD more money! #yyj #yyjbike #DefundVicPD

Stand your ground, freeze the police budget, and make as much noise in the media as possible so Victoria, the NDP's supposed stronghold, remembers which provincial government keeps overriding municipalities to overfund the cops.

Hi Bluesky 👋

Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP

It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history

I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

How the Abundance Movement Is Dividing the Left | The Tyee Calls for fewer rules and faster building have found a progressive audience, including in the BC government.

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s “Abundance” is a pitch to disoriented liberals for a new order.

After it was published in March, Canadian governments released laws aimed at cutting regulations.

That's not a coincidence, said BC Green MLA Jeremy Valeriote. @zoeyunker.bsky.social reports. 🇺🇸📖🇨🇦

Are People Losing Trust in BC’s FOI System? | The Tyee The province’s information commissioner says plunging numbers of requests should prompt questions.

Significantly fewer people are requesting government records in B.C., causing advocates to worry the decline signals eroding government transparency and a loss of trust in public institutions. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli #foi

Why yes, I do think it's hilarious that the methane gas propaganda on BC Transit buses has seemingly been replaced by one for a company called Gaslight, thank you for asking.

The City of Victoria might slash grants and programs across the board to make up for one single line item that's roughly equivalent to everything being cut. Can anyone guess what that single budget item is, which apparently isn't even up for debate? One guess.

Alberta allowed cash-strapped MAGA Energy to acquire 170 wells | The Narwhal The Alberta Energy Regulator approved MAGA Energy, already in financial distress, to acquire 170 oil and gas wells. Unpaid bills will likely fall on taxpayers

According to an email obtained by The Narwhal, MAGA Energy’s revenues had dropped and the company was in “survival mode” when Alberta allowed it to acquire 170 oil wells. Now, the company isn’t paying its bills to landowners and owes taxes to at least one municipality. thenarwhal.ca/maga-energy-...

So I used the last of the money in my account to pay rent/storage until the 13th, but I don’t get paid until the 14th. Plus that leaves less than $20 for food until the 14th. We have a bit of food left, but no snacks for the boys for lunches. Please help us out of this mess! I need to feed my boys.

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

Elon Musk has intervened in the politics of a number of countries over the last year to throw his weight behind far-right political parties and activists

Most recently, he funded legal fees for British far-right influencer Stephen Yaxley Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson)