Pierre Chauvin

Brain damage, blindness and death: the global trail of trauma left by methanol-laced alcohol Methanol, a cheap relative of ethanol, is entering the supply chain, causing thousands of deaths around the world

Regulation saves lives. When drug regulations aren't strict people die. They don't have to die. Alcohol, opioids, stimulants: regulations save lives. In Canada we only strictly regulate alcohol and thankfully a tainted supply doesn't exist. We could regulate more.
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I suspect that the rest of North America is about to get REM-curious. Then REM-jealous. (And, once they've worked through the stages of grief, REM-adoptive.)

Staying on as a Liberal MP. Peak Grandstanding for that guy

UBCIC Strongly Rejects Canada–Alberta Pipeline MOU that Ignores First Nations Rights and Threatens Environment Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

Here's reaction from the @ubcic.bsky.social:
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BREAKING: Alberta gets its way in deal with Ottawa A newly signed memorandum of understanding gives Alberta almost its entire list of demands, from the removal of regulations to the fast-tracking of a pipeline.

Eye on the ball folks! It seems the pipeline piece may well be a distraction. While a pipeline remains very unlikely, the practical impact of this deal are all the immediate concessions to oil & gas industry & the federal abandonment of core climate policies.
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Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people

Canada imports 97% of its seeds - we're already so owned by US corporations.

So council has to make the cuts to balance the budget and then could potentially vote down the VicPD increase ? (thanks for your work!)

Still not clear why council is not putting up a fight against VicPD. If David Eby wants to lose votes and overturn a council decision, let him try.

Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast.

This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.

The IDF holding ‘international seminar’ on lessons learned from war * * *

Canada is named as an attendee at an "international seminar" hosted by the Israeli military to discuss the lessons learned from Israel's two-year campaign of genocide against Palestinians. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

For any journalism prof out there, great headline to add to the "Extreme passive voice use to whitewash crimes" stack

it’s wild this man built his political career opposing Christy Clark’s messaging, policies and politics only to wholeheartedly adopt all of them 8 years later

Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine | CBC News A well-known academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.

If CBSA refuses to explain why it thought a *95 YEAR OLD* retired Princeton law professor and UN special rapporteur might be a threat to national security, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree should

metropolitan map of montreal transit showing the new rem line

the biggest section of the REM (and imo the most important phase) opened today, basically extending a highway-median suburban branch into a full-fledged 50 km north-south metro across the montreal region

montreal now has a 119-kilometre metro system with 87 stations, by far the largest in canada!

Prime Minister Mark Carney simply does not get the climate crisis.

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Help us put Ksi Lisims and PRGT on the map 🙏

An Ode to Jaywalking | The Tyee An excerpt from Alex Manley’s new book of essays, ‘Post-Man.’

“Alone in the middle of the street, with no cars to fear and silence reigning, it really does feel like your street.”

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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 🧵

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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City releases 2026 Draft Budget – big cuts proposed to make way for police funding The City of Victoria has released the 2026-2030 Draft Financial Plan, along with some early budget deliberations by city staff. They’re thinking about cutting all sorts of things. The City is propo…

“To pay for VicPD’s demands, the city is even looking at cutting a children’s book prize, and a poet laureate and youth poet laureate program that only costs $8,000 (keep in mind that VicPD spent $22,000 on a retirement party this year)” 🚨➡️ defundvicpd.org/2025/11/06/c... #yyj #DefundVicPD

How Carney’s first budget impacts the environment | The Narwhal Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget scales back many Trudeau-era environmental programs and creates a youth climate corps

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget scales back rules around greenwashing, cuts environmental spending and hints an emissions cap on the oil and gas industry is unlikely. VIA @meyer.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...

Zohran Mamdani draws inspiration from Québec — a reminder that ideas travel, and borders can’t contain hope. 🕊️🕯️

Proud that our little corner of the world can spark big dreams. 💙🤍⚜️

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#Québec ⚜️
#Canada 🇨🇦
#ZohranMamdani 🇺🇸

Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war With endless rubble and destroyed streets as far as the eye can see, any plans for Gaza's future are a far cry from where it is today, writes Lucy Williamson.

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The entire US seems to have embraced avowedly left wing policies

Meanwhile #Canada is spending money it doesn’t have on weapons it doesn’t need to support a neighbor that threatens annexation & tariff wars, and the most popular premier spends public money boosting Ronald Reagan

#cdnpoli

ok what's next? let's just say after 10+ years in journalism this is the most excited and responsible i feel to contribute to something because i believe in it so much. beating out everyone else's coverage of ICE/tech/your privacy in this dystopia, @404media.co, its an honor to join your badass team

It’s always interesting when firefighters get political. Former Toronto chief Pegg was front & centre at first encampment evictions talking about fire risk but near absent in ongoing road carnage issue. Why that & not road carnage that firefighters attend to daily? Politics.

The CRD has done some really interesting fire mitigation there. I believe they brought in specialized equipment to do selective logging and reduce the fuel load.

The scariest part of Halloween is drivers — yet police departments blame bikes and kids For pedestrians, the message is common-sense — wear bright and reflective clothing, don’t dart into traffic, watch where you’re going — but in its tunnel vision, the overall impression veers into vict...

My column today, on how police departments' car-first attitude makes them say the darnedest things. Like "leave your e-bike at home."