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@eritskes.bsky.social

Writer, editor, taker of pictures. Dad of four. Living on Unceded Quw'utsun lands (Vancouver Island).

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As a constituent, I have similar question for these four counselors:

#northcowichan

www.sixmountains.ca/article/7ef7...

16.11.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yet again we’re being warned that if we ask billionaires to pay their fair share of tax they might leave. So it’s definitely worth trying.

15.11.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 297    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2

The ancients had intricate forms of torture to break your mind. Today, we use the @telussupport.bsky.social AI bot to drive people mad and break their mind and spirit....

15.11.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was having a tough day and this absolutely, instantly had a smile on my face as I watched it. Brilliantly fun & talented.

14.11.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tried and true Canadian recipe: build the nation through resource extraction and Indigenous displacement.

#Carney

13.11.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some thoughts on Quw'utsun resurgence and food sovereignty.

My reflections on the Island Indigenous Food Gathering that I had the honor of witnessing and photographing this past month.

www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

#cowichanvalley #quwutsun

13.11.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Quw'utsun youth learning how to fish for salmon with traditional spears.

#cowichanvalley #cowichanriver #quwutsun

13.11.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, pretty hard to leave once you've experienced it πŸ˜‚

13.11.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Having lived many different places across Canada, the Island is definitely the anomaly...

13.11.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Canada: where 'nation building' means resource extraction

(and stealing Indigenous land to do so)

#canada #cdnpoli

13.11.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Amanita Muscaria have been popping everywhere this year πŸ„

#mycology #vancouverisland

12.11.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Remembrance Day is EXACTLY the day to be loudly and unashamedly against creating a military war machine

11.11.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

No idea who this guy is, but after reading this short blurb I'm ok if he is the one we're going to have to sacrifice....

11.11.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It has descended into comments about the "woke/jew agenda" and how CBC once called even PM Harper a nazi (they didn't).

Lovely to see so many in our community jump to polish a nazi turd... (/sarcasm)

10.11.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Israeli drone strike kills two in Gaza as ceasefire violations mount Hamas condemns Israel’s β€œdaily and continuous violations” since a truce came into effect last month.

Hamas condemns Israel’s β€œdaily and continuous violations” since a truce came into effect last month.

10.11.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 132    πŸ” 83    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5

The responses to this in the local Facebook group are so (sadly) predictable:

I know him, he's really a nice guy.

But, I love his gym.

He can do what he wants in his free time.

CBC is fake news funded by a liberal government.

Was it REALLY a Nazi gathering?

10.11.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Local Duncan MMA gym owner attending a neo-nazi event this summer.... πŸ‘€

10.11.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institutionβ€”the term they tend to prefer is β€œelite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

08.11.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3975    πŸ” 1213    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 191

My post wasn't about hope (keep it!), and I too am in an NDP riding but that doesn't change the fact that even the NDP has shifted towards liberalism and away from socialism.

And it doesn't change that Canada as a whole has attempted to emulate the US over Europe, which was my point.

08.11.2025 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Even if we were to pretend that these Premiers weren't voted in by the people, Canada has long been interested in (and voted for) a more Conservative shift rather than a more socialist shift.... (among other more American shifts)

08.11.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

And Canada is intently focused on moving closer to American models rather than European ones.... #cdnpoli

08.11.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Loving and Protecting Us β€” Interrupting Criminalization A resource for people interested in and working to develop abolitionist crisis response rooted in transformative justice. This offering aims to help demystify a few things about how we develop, think ...

For people who are interested in and working to develop abolitionist interventions and groups to help keep each other safe, we have a new resource that aims to help demystify a few things about how we create these organizations and formations, and how we sustain them.

Read it here:

06.11.2025 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Got a couple days away in beautiful Sooke. So many beautiful places to experience on the Island.

#vancouverisland #experiencevancouverisland

06.11.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I obviously don't know them all, but with his shameless and endless fan-boying for the police and Bitcoin, Sim has to be a top candidate for worst mayor in Canada?

06.11.2025 23:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Truce is just a name’: Israel has killed more than 220 Gazans since start of ceasefire, Palestinians say Next phase of peace plan not moving forward, with remains of seven Israeli hostages still unaccounted for

β€œNothing has improved in Gaza… Medicine is still blocked. Even food has not changed.

β€œWe hear about a truce, but we feel no safety or relief.”

Gaza residents talk to our Hasan Jaber in Bureij refugee camp

www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

05.11.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 109    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 11

Wait, hold up, Zohran is the son of THAT Mamdani?!?! How am I just hearing about this now???

For real, dude's got some serious vibes and knows how to work the internet. Hope he can get some of the work done too, definitely going to be watching how it all plays out.

03.11.2025 05:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Uno
Dos
Trey Day.

Let's go #BlueJays!

#worldseries

29.10.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

28.10.2025 05:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5476    πŸ” 1085    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 40

O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!

28.10.2025 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Beautiful fall sunrise, from the other morning.

The silver lining on having a new puppy is I'm up earlier more often... πŸ˜‚

#photography #cowichanvalley

27.10.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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