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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 15h
I also appreciate that while the filmmakers stay focused on the fight at UPS, the spectre of Amazon looms in the background, dragging wages and working conditions down for everyone. The film also briefly features the chant "Amazon Prime? White collar crime!" which is kind of a banger
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 16h
Such a pleasure to see this at VIFF today! Who Moves America does a fantastic job of immersing you in the work of organizing and then grapples with the sense of victory and relief, but also disappointment, that comes with an eleventh-hour agreement.
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 20h
This is good context following Doerkson's decision to drop Joachim Agou as the party's candidate in Victoria-Beacon Hill over racist social media posts That's a no-hope riding for the Cons but some BC Conservative incumbents who have made homophobic comments are still running in strong Con ridings
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Candidates for the BC Conservatives have likened education about the 2SLGBTQ+ community to "grooming," referenced Jan. 6 conspiracies and questioned COVID vaccine safety. Right after we published this, tweets from another candidate surfaced where he joked about killing pro-Palestine activists.
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
yessssssss
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
OH HELL YES
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Candidates for the BC Conservatives have likened education about the 2SLGBTQ+ community to "grooming," referenced Jan. 6 conspiracies and questioned COVID vaccine safety. Right after we published this, tweets from another candidate surfaced where he joked about killing pro-Palestine activists.
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 08/10/2026
BC Conservatives Run Full Slate of Candidates With Views Ranging from Conspiratorial To Bigoted Party leader Doerkson refused to drop candidate who made anti-LGBTQ statements. pressprogress.ca/bc-conservat...
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BC Conservatives Run Full Slate of Candidates With Views Ranging from Conspiratorial To Bigoted
Party leader Doerkson refused to drop candidate who made anti-LGBTQ statements.
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"With any development in a case like this, thoughts should immediately go to the victims... But discussion of the victims or their families has taken a back seat to unprecedented levels of anti-trans vitriol from both public figures and media," writes @melwoods.me thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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A Predictable Wave of Anti-Trans Hate | The Tyee
The arrest of an alleged accomplice in the Tumbler Ridge shooting has fuelled a false narrative linking trans people with violence.
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
civic duty 1 of 2 complete
my hand holding a purple I VOTED sticker that has an outline of the Vancouver city skyline, as well as logos for the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Votes on it. you can see my green pants and purple/green shoes behind the sticker, as well as the grey bench I'm sitting on and the sidewalk below it.
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I was able to book it online here www.getvaccinated.gov.bc.ca/s/bookavaccine
getvaccinated.gov.bc.ca
BC Vaccine Registration
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nice! I also really didn't want to wait around for the invite, I'm glad they opened things up a bit this year.
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Important to note that you don't have to wait for an invite/notification to make an appointment. I was able to book a COVID/flu shot appointment for the 13th earlier this week.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Every fall, year after year, my colleagues & I give the same interviews on the reality of sexual violence on campuses. In *2007*, I co-founded a group at Carleton that spent 7 years (!!) fighting to get a sexual assault centre on campus. (We won) Time is a flat circle under rape culture.
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St. FX banner shows more work needed on sexual violence prevention, advocate says | CBC News
A researcher on sexual violence says it's good that people are talking about the inappropriate banner displayed on an off-campus house during St. Francis Xavier University's homecoming, but the conver...
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
well give him another nobel prize then!
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Statement from Connor Bildfell, president of the Canadian Bar Association's B.C. branch, on personal attacks on judges following last week's ruling re: the Drug User Liberation Front
Some recent media commentary on the Supreme Court of British Columbia’s decision in R. v. Kalicum has moved beyond criticism of the decision to attacks on the character and fitness of the judge who made it.

 

Court decisions can and should be subject to careful scrutiny and vigorous debate. People who disagree with a decision may speak out and challenge its reasoning, and our justice system gives parties an appeal process for challenging decisions where appropriate.

 

But attacking a judge’s character or fitness—even calling for their removal—goes too far. These kinds of personal attacks risk eroding public confidence in our justice system and collapsing the important distinction between criticizing a decision and attacking the judge who made it. Judges speak only through their decisions and are unable to respond publicly to such personal attacks, making them particularly inappropriate.

 

Judges must make their decisions based on the law and the evidence before them, after lawyers present arguments to them. While a healthy debate about the merits of those judicial decisions promotes democracy and the rule of law, personal attacks do not.
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The share of Canadian government contract dollars going to U.S. companies increased under Carney, @fxplante.bsky.social reports: www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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PM Mark Carney pledged to ‘Buy Canadian.’ Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations
A Star analysis reveals U.S. firms dominated federal contracts despite PM Mark Carney’s ‘Buy Canadian’ promise.
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godless dustbin 👻 @godfrey.work · 03/10/2026
was live on Vancouver Co-op Radio this morning with @emmaarkell.bsky.social and @davidpball.bsky.social for De Facto Radio to talk about this week's DULF decision. you'll be able to listen to the podcast version on the podcast apps and on @defactomedia.ca's website at: www.defactomedia.ca/radio/
Me, Emma and David in the studio with a de facto logo on the screen
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this empty apartment building is voting ABC 🫡
an election sign for ABC's Sarah Kirby-Yung sits next to the sign for Hemlock Tower, which in turn has a sign on it that says "waiting list." the white building behind it is at least five stories tall. nothing in the windows or on the balconies.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 02/10/2026
Check out @ericwickham.ca’s new podcast about the data centre fight in Mississauga! I’m one of the voices interviewed for it. Can’t wait to listen!
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 02/10/2026
🎧 New Sources episode, hosted by @ericwickham.ca Inside The Fight Against Data Centres in Canada Mississauga is one of a growing number of municipalities pushing back against data centres in their communities. pressprogress.ca/inside-the-f...
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Inside The Fight Against Data Centres in Canada
Mississauga is one of a growing number of municipalities pushing back against data centres in their communities.
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bodaciou$ @b0dacious.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
happy friday. let’s all uplift tinashe today.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ketamine was not "at the center" of multiple men's decision to rape someone, the men who made the decision to rape someone were at the center of that decision
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the same place in November 2023.
Satellite image of an intact neighborhood in eastern Rafah on 24 November 2023
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"There are those who oppose both supervised consumption sites and public displays of drug use... who support rehab as a panacea, without acknowledging research that shows rehab without adequate supports increases fatalities, because those who relapse have a reduced tolerance for drugs."
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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was surprised to hear Abbotsford School District emphasizes abstinence as the only "truly safe" way to not get pregnant or get STIs. Mainly, because that's not true. Telling kids to not have sex means they still have sex, just in less safe ways. Today for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Sexual Health Educator Concerned About Abbotsford’s Focus on Abstinence | The Tyee
The school district says it takes a comprehensive approach that reflects community context.
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42four @424.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Recent reporting has uncovered that the VPD inspector who at one time enthusiastically worked with DULF was the same person to approve an investigation into the group once political tides had turned." I'm sure this will be looked into thoroughly.
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Enema Bag Jones @jsb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Congrats to Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx, and DULF. They stood up and risked their freedom all because their govt and govt’s across Canada refuse to do what’s needed to end the constant death from unregulated toxic street drugs
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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fantastic news, and a victory for both Canada's drug users and its harm reduction movement.
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
tears at this. so grateful for people who do right knowing they'll be done wrong. it doesn't always turn out like this. harm reductionists are the best fucking people and there is absolutely nothing stopping you from being one of them.
Justice Murray ended her ruling by addressing DULF’s founders directly, saying they did the public interest a service “at considerable personal cost.”

“You selflessly put yourselves to the side for this cost, and it’s something that most people wouldn’t do,” said Justice Murray. “I applaud you for what you’ve done. I think you should be very proud of yourselves, and it’s people like you who make a difference.”

Almost 17,000 people have died from drug toxicity in BC. Between January 2016 and March 2026, 57,509 people died from opioid toxicity in Canada
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My second article for the day is about this morning's historic BC Supreme Court ruling in favour of the founders of the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF). The judge praised DULF's work, said a safe supply is necessary to save lives, and threw out charges of drug trafficking.
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My first story on the health beat is about the law that keeps 90% of Ontario's healthcare workers from being able to take strike action. It's being challenged by the Ontario Nurses' Association, but in the meantime, unions like CUPE say employers rely on the law to avoid bargaining in good faith.
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godless dustbin 👻 @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."
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De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca · 28/09/2026
A Vancouver cop told DULF’s founders he would personally advocate for them. 2 years later, he approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes. www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...
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How Vancouver police turned against DULF
Court records show the same inspector who encouraged the compassion club’s founders also approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 28/09/2026
NEW: Today the Parkland Institute released a 200-page report that provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the fatal Covid outbreak at the Cargill meatpacking plant in High River. www.readtheorchard.org/p/how-corpor...
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How Corporate Regulatory Capture Led to Death at Cargill
The Parkland Institute’s 200-page study provides the most comprehensive overview of the April 2020 Covid-19 outbreak at the High River meatpacking plant to date.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this obviously is not meant to disregard the work that the very, very few labour reporters at those outlets do. they're doing good work in spite of their employers.
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
why are there so few labour reporters in Canada's mainstream news outlets? take a look at how their editorial boards disregard workers' rights, handwring over "economic harm" from labour disputes, and parrot CFIB talking points
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Charles Smith @profsmithsask.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So predictable. One thing is clear. The bourgeois care about workers when they are working, regardless of compensation, safety, or any other problem that working people face. Just work. It is shameful, but so predictable.
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Globe editorial: Ottawa strikes a better balance on labour
The proposed changes are a sensible way to reduce economic harm from disputes
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Tara-Michelle Ziniuk @tmziniuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hello, it is Monday now so perhaps people are thinking about work. Please consider sharing this job posting with smart Canadians who know about queer and trans issues and culture. Social video experience a must; journalism experience a huge asset. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
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Xtra Magazine hiring Social Video Producer in Canada | LinkedIn
Posted 11:32:14 PM. Do you want to help make the world better for queer and trans folks through social media?Xtra…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Marsha Ireland and her daughter Dominique have knocked down some barriers in the name of inclusivity for the deaf by creating the Oneida sign language. After travelling the world sharing this knowledge they now share it back home with their community.
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Oneida woman knocks down barriers by creating Oneida sign language | APTN News
Marsha Ireland and her daughter Dominique have knocked down some barriers in the name of inclusivity for the deaf by creating the Oneida sign language. After travelling the world sharing this…
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dwreck @d-wreck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Like…? Anyways stream Tinashe lmao
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The worker who died was Patou Mpinda, a 44-year-old Congolese immigrant employed in maintenance. ...Reports said African immigrant workers then helped lead a walkout in which about 100 people left...and Smithfield only later said workers could leave without penalty." www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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After employee dies, roughly 100 Illinois pork plant workers walk out over safety fears
Many day-shift employees arrived without knowing a co-worker had died after being told only that there would be a "late start."
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada continues to be shameful on this issue.
Screenshot shows the man in Canada's seat looking around at the other countries leaving the room all while staying seated. The country names are a bit hard to make out, but I cross-referenced this against the seating chart that's been published.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@ericwickham.ca was at the Mississauga city council meeting where a pause on data centres was unanimously passed. That pause might not mean much in the face of provincial and federal governments that appear to be all-in on data center development.
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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@ericwickham.ca was at the Mississauga city council meeting where a pause on data centres was unanimously passed. That pause might not mean much in the face of provincial and federal governments that appear to be all-in on data center development.
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Eric Wickham @ericwickham.ca · 23/09/2026
My latest: A trip to my hometown to see an ICBL for data centres get implemented. Despite the year-long pause, there are a lot of unanswered questions about what happens next.
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Maddi Dellplain @maddidellplain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Some key insight into what the people of the Vancouver Landlord's subreddit want to see from the next provincial government:
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