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Doonesbury strip from May 9, 1976, with translator Honey describing how she told Chairman Mao the Great Wall had been torn down and then rebuilt when he changed his mind.

Trump 2025 is very much like Chairman Mao 1976, as described in Doonesbury:

In BC governments are increasing support for nutritious school lunches that respect cultural diversity and dietary needs. The benefits are clear. In NZ, the current coalition government is doing exactly the opposite. The consequences are also clear. @stuff.co.nz www.canada.ca/en/employmen...

Map showing the locations of recent felt earthquakes in southwestern British Columbia. Earthquakes are colour-coded by time over the past month and circle size is based on magnitude. The largest was M5 (offshore) and other felt earthquakes ranged from M2.5 to M4.7.

With all of these recent felt #earthquakes, many people are asking "does this mean the big one is coming?". These earthquakes are not connected - some are shallow, some deep, all are on different faults and even different tectonic plates. They are far from the locked subduction fault. So no...
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Comox Valley Point in Time Homelessness count takes place Friday, March 7 Count helps identify the need for housing and gaps in services in community

"The #ComoxValley Point in Time #homelessness count is taking place this Friday. ...Volunteers and service providers survey individuals facing housing instability to collect data on #demographics, #health, and #housing needs" #VancouverIsland #BC #Canada www.comoxvalleyrecord.com/local-news/c...

Words on the Water Campbell Rivers Writers's Festival, where contemporary writers and readers meet in a beautiful west coast setting.

Find me at Words on the Water in Campbell River next week! I’ll have a Friday evening panel, a Saturday morning reading/Q&A, and Saturday Evening Literary Cabaret in addition to a couple of high school visits! #CrushedWildMint

www.wordsonthewater.ca

Canada's southern border is 8,891km. The average width of a human is 75cm. Linked arm to arm, it would take 11,854,667 of us to cover the border from east coast to west. There are more than 40 million Canadians. What a great show of solidarity that would make, eh. Eh? We'd be visible from space....

Elle célèbre ses 102 ans et publiera bientôt son 4e livre Olivette Larouche est une centenaire hors du commun. La dame, qui est native de Roberval, mais demeure maintenant à Chicoutimi, vient de célébrer ses 102 ans et publiera bientôt son 4e livre

Our wonderful Tante Olivette! www.lereveil.com/actualites/6...

Some very good advice here

‘Haere rā Mt Egmont’, as Taranaki Maunga becomes a legal person Taranaki Maunga has officially become a legal person.

Kia ora!
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Denali. Nothing and no one can change that.

#LIVE | PŌWHIRI 🏔️ Te Pire Whakatupua mō Te Kāhui Tupua —> Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Bill Sky Stadium, Wellington | By Te Korimako o Taranaki | Facebook #LIVE | PŌWHIRI 🏔️ Te Pire Whakatupua mō Te Kāhui Tupua —> Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Bill Sky Stadium, Wellington

Watching Taranaki Maunga 3rd reading livestreaming - so sad not to be there. www.facebook.com/TeKorimako/v...

I'm in!

Nuučaanuł ancestors practiced land care, protecting and growing Indigenous biological wealth over thousands of years. We have a responsibility to care for the next generations of future life, including next seasons insects, birds, bears and salmon.
“Land Use Plan?….Longterm Land Care Instead!”

Plus it just feels great uplifting other writers and enjoying their successes.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #766: Writing is a community. Participate in it if you can. Engage with other writers. Lift them up, and they’ll do the same. Try to go it alone, or treat other writers as rivals, and you’re more likely to sink than swim.

Your organization may have gaps in your policies around the copying and sharing of published content. Our licence can help you fill them. Learn more here: accessforbusiness.ca/biotech-phar...

The likely result is trashed landscapes, coupled with unmet housing need and soaring rents. Had the government set out to destroy people’s faith in democracy and hand the next election to the far right, it could scarcely be doing a better job.

The fundamental problem is that Starmer's government just won't confront powerful economic interests. So it tries to fudge the issue: we'll let housing continue to be used for investment, second homes, AirBnBs etc, we'll let rents keep rising, but if we build loads, something's bound to change!

Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why.
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The Freedom From Want and Basic Income - Karl Widerquist AUTHOR'S NOTE: this is an early draft of a section in a book I'm working on. I'm interested in any helpful feedback. - Karl Widerquist, Al Najada Hotel Apartments, January 24, 2025 In 1941, Franklin D...

"The default position in our economy is homelessness. When you come of age, if you fail to work, fail to qualify for any government program, and fail to receive sufficient gifts of wealth from your family or anyone else, you will be destitute."

Universal basic income is a new default. No one <$UBI.

Good morning everyone! Be strong, be upright, hold fast to your anchors of truth, kindness, compassion and integrity. We can overcome anything together, from the ground up.

Bill Wilson, father of former cabinet minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, dies Wilson helped get Indigenous title to land and treaty rights enshrined in the Constitution.

Bill Wilson was one of the most significant First Nation leaders of his time. I am deeply saddened to learn of his passing. His profound impact on Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples of British Columbia and Canada will live on for generations. (1/2)
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Beloved company in forced labour controversy One of NZ’s most trusted brands accused of importing product tainted with forced labour.

New Zealand needs to bring legislation to ban the import of slave-labour produced products back to the table urgently: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

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Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Katherine Gordon on LinkedIn: Making submissions on bills before parliament Jan 2025 Absolutely essential to submit on this bill. Rather than achieve a goal of greater regulatory efficiency, in its current format it invites endless litigation…

Citizens of Aotearoa/New Zealand: please submit on this draft bill as well as the so-called Treaty Principles bill. www.linkedin.com/posts/kather...

Upper left circle image of facebook Decolonize. Below is white text on black background.

Decolonize facebook page.
Start calling "christianity" and "catholicism" European mythology.

A circular infographic titled "Why support proportional representation?" with six segments highlighting the benefits of proportional representation. The segments read: "40% of the vote = 40% of the seats - That's fair," "Power is shared - No more 40% majorities," "Cooperative decision making - For our future," "You'll have an MP you helped elect - Representation that works," "You can vote for what you believe in - And your vote will count," and "Policies with real majority support - Fewer wild policy swings.

For all the talk of Canada getting annexed, one thing we do share with our neighbours is an undemocratic FPTP system that gives one party disproportionate power while millions go unheard.

It's time to lead North America democratically by adopting PR —where every vote counts.