Robyn Mawhinney

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies.

It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

Must read...also I worry about our upcoming BC local government elections this fall.

This is like something out of Dickens.

But worse?

“Unadministered” … this is about Bear Smart communities — there are places, like the one I rep, which have been waiting and hoping to be included in the WildSafe program. Makes me wonder if that program is also dead. Any news, @randeneneillmlabc.bsky.social ? 🤞😅🤞

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Coat of arms of Tumbler Ridge BC

Absolutely devastated for the people of Tumbler Ridge and area.

Thoughts are with them.

💔💔

Ring pissed off the WeRateDogs guy, almost gotta admire the level of malice that requires

Divisive disinformation from Rustad. Plus, ‘rookie MLA’ Hartwell expressing appreciation for Chiefs and councillors who attended and she’d like to ‘meet all of them so she CAN FIND OUT WHO THEY ARE AGAIN’ (my emphasis)
#awkward #knowyourriding #bcpoli
BC is better than this: we’re stronger together

For real.

​A screenshot of a post from the account Acyn featuring a video of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). The text of the post quotes AOC speaking about the humanitarian crisis in Cuba, drawing parallels to Gaza. ​She describes a "new era of depravity" where innocent civilians are starved or deprived because their political regimes are found "objectionable." She emphasizes the need to defend human rights, mentioning the risk of hospitals running out of fuel and children being put in harm's way. The video thumbnail shows AOC walking through a hallway while being interviewed by a reporter holding a microphone. ​Would you like me to help you draft more QRTs based on these specific images or provide a deeper summary of the AOC video?

The United States is purposefully blockading Cuba from accessing fuel that powers everything from grocery stores to hospitals. People will die. Children will die. What's being done to the people of Cuba is monstrous.

The people in power were ok with it in Gaza and now they're doing it to Cuba.

If the WSJ is noticing it must be true

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

I truly admire Bruce Fanjoy's desire to remain Poilievre's #1 troll

😅😂

Thanks Steve!

Every two weeks I write a Director’s Report on local government//regional district news relevant to the Discovery Islands.
Here’s a link to the report in inboxes today: mailchi.mp/6e7c80634fb7...
With photos from recent explorations on Quadra Island.

Canadian Province New Brunswick to Quit Using Elon Musk’s X New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced T...

New Brunswick dumps X
"government agencies around the world have launched probes into X, and its parent company xAI, for the way its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was used to generate and share sexualized images of people without their consent."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
#cdnpoli #yyj

Canadian Tire fined $1.3 million for using misleading reference prices on 'discounted' items montrealgazette.com/business/can...

I thought I heard on cbc news this morning that the incentive wouldn’t be applicable to Chinese vehicles?

Vancouver International Airport just set a record year for travel despite a 7 per cent drop in travel to the U.S. Travel to the Asia Pacific region rose by 15.6 per cent

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

in order to save this country we are probably going to have to do things that make rich men sad 😔

BC Halts Plans to Make Polluters Pay for Cleanup Costs | The Tyee The province billed its Public Interest Bonding Strategy as a key step to protect the public from massive cleanup bills. Now it’s on hold.

Cleanup at Port Alice's bankrupt pulp mill has cost the public $170 million and counting.

BC said this was a "symptom of a wider problem" facing taxpayers, and vowed to close the legal loopholes that allowed it to happen.

Now it's quietly halted that process.

My story for @thetyee.ca

#bcpoli

Incredible workmanship 🙌🙌

ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants

[butterfly meme] is this deescalation?

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

This is great news!
I have big appreciation for @ptfry.bsky.social’s responsive, thoughtful leadership representing metro Vancouver on the UBCM executive. #votepete #frystheguy #principledleadership

For anyone wondering if public pressure works.

Bravo to all Canadians who said “no” to a Canadian-based company being involved in fascism.

❤️

Exactly this: “Rather than a leader focused on criticizing Canada, the majority of Canadians wanted one who promised to stand up against the American threat.

Similarities between Poilievre and Trump — sometimes rhetorical, other times substantive, and sometimes both — deepened the suspicion.”

Talk about ‘gaslit’ 😳…
“Provincial data shows the facility burned an average of 205,000 cubic metres per day between July 1 and Nov. 30, 2025. It was expected to only need to burn around 11,000 cubic metres per day.”

First Nations Chiefs are calling on Alberta’s premier to resign, accusing Danielle Smith of conspiring with separatists and violating Treaty rights

“I hope you have your bags packed. When this referendum is defeated, I will gladly walk you to the border.” #fyp