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Building a Canada that Works for Everyone: Oxfam Canada’s Recommendations for the Upcoming Federal Budget As the federal government readies to table its next budget the stakes could not be higher. We are living through a time of profound uncertainly. Around the world, armed conflicts, climate disasters an...

"Budget 2025 is a chance to make bold, people centred choices. At the time of rising inequality, global conflict, and threats to human rights, Canada must choose fairness, dignity, and security for all."

Read our recommendations for the upcoming federal budget here 👉 www.oxfam.ca/story/buildi...

The discriminatory cost of return-to-office As organizations continue to corral employees back into the office, they should recognize that women pay a price to be there, new research finds.

"...higher status individuals often dominating face-to-face group interactions....these status differences may be less influential in virtual teams because the absence of face-to-face presence can reduce the salience of status characteristics such as gender." www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/insightshub/...

How Israel stole childhood in Gaza Some children don't even recognize simple luxuries like fruit, while others play pretend by reenacting funerals

Two years of Israel’s genocidal war against every form of life in Gaza have invaded the very core of children’s imagination. Funerals, death, & martyrdom have replaced cartoons, playgrounds, & birthday parties as the themes of their play. Ahmad Abushawish details how Israel stole childhood in Gaza.

Lebanon Restricts Education Access for Many Refugees The new government in Lebanon, formed this February under Prime Minster Nawaf Salam, has emphasized the importance of quality education for students in Lebanon and committed to providing all children ...

Lebanon's new government has emphasized the importance of quality education. But in a disappointing move, the government recently restricted access to education for many refugees.

All children, regardless of immigration status, have a right to education.

An amazing sunrise to start the day with in #Kamloops, increasing clouds with a chance of showers late this afternoon with some gusty winds and a high of 16. Have a great day! #sunrise

Coca-Cola Coke Zero

Tremendous journalism by Amanda

So many eyebrow-raising details here that the public should be aware of, including the RCMP’s alleged stonewalling of government lawyers and the linguistic loopholes reporters battle when dealing with BC’s FOI offices (which I can attest to)

The Supreme Court of Canada has joined the War on Christmas. Next up the War on Cars

😁😁😁

no conscience

he works hard for his money. he must prove himself to dear leader💀

The lawn of the BC legislature full of protesting public sector workers with yellow and blue flags and aignd

Big crowd out on the legislature lawn today for a rally in support of striking workers

The public sector strike escalated today with the addition of government licensed professionals, members of the Professional Employees Association, per the PEA executive #bcpoli

UBCM Study Session: Climate Hazards and Housing: Risk, Resilience & Local Action
🛡️ Hazards may be inevitable — but disasters are not.
Key highlights:
• 2024 became the costliest year ever for insured natural disasters in Canada — over $8 billion in losses.
#ubcm2025 #climateresilientcommunities

Bells just rang to signal the start of the morning sitting, the first time BC's MLAs have been in the chamber since May

The government says it plans to put forward 18 bills this session, including another second bill to make sure the North Coast transmission line gets built

Meanwhile...
#bcpoli

In April, Conservative MLA Heather Maahs hosted ARPA at the legislature

Sturko called out the event, which Conservative Leader John Rustad and several other MLAs attended #bcpoli

38 Rohini Arora to move — That this House condemns the intolerant views of the Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA), including its harmful discrimination against transgender people, its belief that homosexuality is “immoral” and its explicit policy goal of restricting abortion access in British Columbia.

MLAs considering a motion condemning the Association for Reformed Political Action's views, tabled by NDP MLA Rohini Arora

MLAs Elenore Sturko (Ind), Rob Botterell (Green), Susie Chant and Steve Morisette (NDP) spoke in favour

Conservative MLA Larry Neufeld and Ind Jordan Kealy spoke against

Transwomen are being specifically targeted and the result of his conquest will be that they will be assaulted, sa'd, raped or worse in custody and jail.

we're paying this creep's salary, too.
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I don't want to hear about this guy being out in public without him being confronted on why he is targeting trans women.

This guy is hand in hand with Alberta on trying to normalize fascist, nazi shit in our BC city and he should be made extremely uncomfortable every time he is out of his house.

Sorry Kamloops citizens and city staff, if you're silent while our MP is trying to sneak in extremely harmful anti-trans shit into our gov, you are complicit.
This is how it starts.
This is how the US gov normalized Nazi rhetoric.

Women are going to be raped because of what he's trying to do.

Speak Up Self Advocacy Society is coming to council tomorrow as a delegation. Somehow, they don't have a liaison on council, like, let's say, the homebuilders association. #zing #Kamloops #kampaign2026

The UN has adopted a landmark resolution to create an independent mechanism to investigate past and ongoing rights abuses in Afghanistan.

This is a significant step to break the cycle of impunity in the country. Learn more ⤵️

Can Calgary city hall fight privatization? Striving to maintain taxes low won’t deliver a more equitable city

Progressive Calgarians consistently push against privatization in health care and education, but they're seldom concerned abut the city's offloading of responsibilities to non-profit organizations — why?

In my latest ✍️, i write about how privatization produces and reproduces inequality in Calgary.

On CBC Kamloops Daybreak this morning at 820 am to talk about the one year anniversary of The Kamloops Chronicle and big plans for year 2.

Save the Date: 2:00 pm November 11 for the Cantabile Singers of Kamloops annual Remembrance Day concert, including the premiere of selections of my recently composed 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑖𝑠.
Tickets from app.ticketowl.io/aMMPbR3qectC...

Frank Caputo's X post :"so great to be back sitting in the House of Commons. Kickstarted the session with 2 speeches and 2 questions! Quite a day representing the people of Kamloops Thompson Nicola." Dated 3:07pm 15 Sep 25 751 views 29 likes Below in the replies, message : This Post was deleted by the Post author." "learn more" - hyperlinked) Post includes photo of MP Caputo. Appears gleeful.

Frank Caputo is a disgusting transphobe. openparliament.ca/debates/2025... #Kamloops #Thompson #Nicola

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Cllr Bepple posted an awesome photo of 3 awesome guys who care about their neighbours, kids, &this community. &sadly, perhaps by habit, added that bike valet freed up parking for cars. Who cares? Who cares. Why are we still making this argument? &for whose benefit? I💙Nancy. She works so hard for us.

Today the mayor of Vancouver called me an antisemitic terrorist supporter. Here is my speech:

This isn’t controversial
Being against what the UN calls a genocide is not controversial
Being against apartheid is not controversial