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dustin @godfrey.work · 13/08/2026

I wonder what's driving this new normal! you won't see the word "climate" once in this Canadian Press story www.timescolonist.com/local-news/b...

at the top, a find in page search for the word "climate" has zero responses

headline: B.C.'s 'brutal' wildfire season offers lessons, premier says
A fast-moving blaze near

dekhed: Summerland may represent a "new normal" when it comes to the speed of wildfires, says Premier David Eby.

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dustin @godfrey.work · 06/08/2026

global affairs canada suddenly stumbling over itself to ask "in mean, like, are borders even real? they're just lines on a map"

Late last month, a Global Affairs spokesperson suggested to the CBC that it was up to Israel to decide whether to fly through Canadian airspace, adding that “Global Affairs Canada does not comment on which route a foreign state chooses to take.”

This is nonsense. It is up to Canada, and Canada alone, to decide who enters our territory.

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dustin @godfrey.work · 23/07/2026

can someone please go fight the weather over this antisocial behaviour

forecast shows mostly sunny weather for Friday and Monday through Thursday, with rain only on Saturday and Sunday what the fuck

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dustin @godfrey.work · 23/07/2026

I've always said the city of Burnaby eco center is my second favourite place to bring used motor oil, but I'm glad to see this put Burnaby on the map

email subject:

Win for Burnaby: City of Burnaby Eco-Centre holds No. 2 spot in B.C. as Top Collectors of Used Motor Oil

sent to my at 7:56am

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dustin @godfrey.work · 23/07/2026

all right Alexis Henderson, you have my attention

screenshot of a substack headline from July 23 by Alexis Henderson:

Cover Reveal for My Next Book: The Godfrey Home For Demonic Children

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dustin @godfrey.work · 13/07/2026

which FIPA's ED said raises concerns about that police force's transparency practices

Wilson has since gone on to become the chief of the Victoria Police Department, and Woywada said that raises additional concerns given her promotion to leadership.

“If the leadership doesn't make information management a priority, the organization won't,” he said. “So it is concerning.”

VicPD spokesperson Tiffany Parton said Wilson is “not in a position to respond to questions regarding the administration or processing of a freedom-of-information request made to another police agency.”

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dustin @godfrey.work · 08/07/2026

so, since buying Shaw, Rogers has been sabotaging Corus www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Global laid off 55 people in 2024, and 45 more people in 2025. now, it's shutting down CityNews stations. they're giving Postmedia a run for their money when it comes to gutting Canadian media

“Rogers is attempting to imperil Corus in every market: content acquisition as buyer, and advertising and subscriptions as seller,” the Toronto-based company said in its complaint. “It is engaging in predatory behavior, enabled by dominant size and scale, to foreclose on potential competition.”

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dustin @godfrey.work · 05/06/2026

Taleeb Noormohamed telling the Tyee AI creates a "pyramid of opportunity" feels like a marketing spin on pyramid schemes

the tyee

So it becomes this really interesting synergy taking the talent that you have and optimizing them to be able to use their talent while they build companies here. It becomes this very interesting pyramid of opportunity, where by ensuring that businesses can access capital and talent, Canadians can then build world-class businesses that create more jobs here, and then create spinoffs, and create more businesses from those spinoffs. That’s how you start to really cultivate the ecosystem.

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dustin @godfrey.work · 06/05/2026

it's a literally criminal interest rate. you wouldn't say someone was charged with "theft," why are they doing that for a criminal interest rate?

headline: B.C. judge slashes lawyer's $425,000 bill for settling grandmother's will

dek (with highlighted text between asterisks): Lawyer also *charged clients a "criminal" rate of interest* of three per cent a month for outstanding balances, according to B.C. Supreme Court judgment

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dustin @godfrey.work · 21/04/2026

I'd like to think someone in the government is just subtweeting David Eby here

"These interests may be resolved through negotiation, challenged in subsequent litigation, purchased, or remain on the Cowichan Title Lands. That is not a matter for this Court to address... It is an issue for the Crown and not the private landowners to resolve."

In plain language: the court expressly did not order the removal of any private property owner. The Cowichan Nation's own public statement in October 2025 said the Nation "does not seek recovery of the private fee simple lands." And on February 14, 2026, the BC government and the Cowichan Nation issued a joint statement:

"Neither the Cowichan Nation nor British Columbia are seeking to invalidate any privately held fee simple titles on the Cowichan Title Lands through the negotiation or appeal processes."

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dustin @godfrey.work · 18/04/2026

notice where income and housing costs become completely untethered from one another

a graph showing read disposable income and housing costs in the US and Canada between 1980 and 2020. in the US, housing prices is mostly increasing at a slower rate than disposable income, save the 2000s, where it rapidly increases before crashing in 2008. in Canada, it's in the early 2000s, shortly after Karen's graph shows social housing builds falling off a cliff, that housing skyrockets whole disposable income continues a fairly linear trajectory

the graph also shows spikes in the early 1980s, after a significant dip in social housing builds in the late 1970s, and again in the early 1990s, after another significant dip in social housing builds in the late 1980s

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dustin @godfrey.work · 11/04/2026

this package was in Richmond yesterday, on a warm, sunny day, but UPS removed the location and replaced it with some vague warning about "significant weather events across the globe" and I wish they would just say it fell off the back of their truck like a normal person

Latest Update The delivery date will be provided as soon as possible.

Significant weather events across the globe are impacting the UPS network. Although your location may not be impacted by adverse weather, the movement of packages in the network may be impacted by weather conditions in other areas.

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dustin @godfrey.work · 03/04/2026

I'm sorry idc what evidence may or may not otherwise exist in this photo, I will only zero in on this face and vote not guilty every time

a black, fluffy cat lying down with one of its paws a bit out in front of it and with beautiful green eyes

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dustin @godfrey.work · 04/03/2026

I think I would rethink this phrasing if I were the guardian

The age of extinction
‘A real dark situation to be in’: thousands of starving seabirds stranded in biggest ‘wreck’ in a decade
Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and terns are washing up on shores across Europe, after a string of storms affected their ability to find food

The age of extinction is supported by
theguardian.org

Phoebe Weston
Wed 4 Mar 2026 13.00 GMT

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dustin @godfrey.work · 13/02/2026

I was gone for a week and now my cat has outlawed leaving the apartment

an orange baby lies on his side in my belly, his cheek embedded in my chest as I give him some face rubs

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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/01/2026

"truly abhorrent how the left is trying to subvert the courts" says man who clerked for the the embodiment of judicial corruption

"It is alarming to see how far the Left has gone in its blatant effort to capture the judiciary. Its feeding of trial lawyers’ climate 'science' to sitting judges who will decide contentious litigation in this area short-circuits our system of justice," said Carrie Severino, a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and president of the Judicial Crisis Network.

"When they can’t pass their extreme policies into law, they are attempting to use the courts as an end run around the legislative process," said Severino, whose organization has helped vet judicial nominees, including Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

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dustin @godfrey.work · 13/01/2026

idk how much more clear I could possibly make it to him that He Is Baby

an orange cat stands very close to the camera, his face, including his lil white beard and pink nose, very out of focus and cut off about halfway up his eyes

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dustin @godfrey.work · 11/01/2026

this has real "threatened/not threatened/punched" energy dailyhive.com/vancouver/va...

a Venn diagram with two non-overlapping circles next to each other with "not threatened" in the first and "threatened" in the second. entirely inside the "threatened" circle is a smaller circle labeled "punched"

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dustin @godfrey.work · 08/01/2026

moved to a new place and never again will I feel the occasional, vague, mild to the point of practically non-existent guilt for not changing my clock for DST

a stovetop that is unabashedly, bravely clock-free

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dustin @godfrey.work · 07/01/2026

NYTimes podcast is doing the pitchbot thing

A Defense of U.S. Intervention in Venezuela

Interesting Times with Ross D...

What should the U.S. do next in Venezuela? President Trump's former Venezuela envoy Elliott Abrams wants the Trump administration to push harder for full regime change. But, he and Ross debate if a democratic transition is even possible based on the administration's interests and past American efforts in the region.

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dustin @godfrey.work · 07/01/2026

the ICE spin on this is just so obscene www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The ICE statement says, in part:

“Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism.

“An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.

“He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.

“The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased. Thankfully, the ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries.”

Emily Heller lives near 33rd and Portland and said she woke up to a commotion outside her home. She said she saw a car blocking traffic on Portland Avenue that appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations.

Heller said she heard ICE agents telling the driver, a woman, to “get out of here.”

“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said.

Heller said it appeared the woman then accelerated and traveled about 100 feet before striking a utility pole and some other vehicles. She could be seen slumped over inside her car.

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dustin @godfrey.work · 07/01/2026

"we need to be brave and bold and be scared of drug users"

"I believe that just as sometimes we need to think outside of the box and consider new solutions to challenges, particularly one as significant as the opioid crisis, we also have to be brave and bold and stand up and talk about it when something is not working," said Chief Wilson, who previously served as deputy chief with the Vancouver Police Department. "And that's indeed what happened with the pilot project here in British Columbia."

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dustin @godfrey.work · 30/12/2025

bc ndp campaigning in the next election

mamdani-style poster that says at top:

"funding for voluntary treatment and harm reduction? no,"

before, the italicized "for" is followed by "ced treatment only"

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dustin @godfrey.work · 28/12/2025

david frum just concocting a fantasy slippery slope to slide down to scare himself and other property owners archive.is/S4kkG

“This place is the unceded and ancestral territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples, the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, and has been stewarded by them since time immemorial.”
I’ve been present for many of these recitations, which are common in liberal areas of the United States too. They are usually received by their audiences as a Christian invocation might once have been: a socially required ritual in which only some believe, but at which it would be rude to scoff. After all, what harm does it do?
In the past few months, Canadians have learned that these well-meaning pronouncements are not, in fact, harmless. Far from it. Canadian courts are reinterpreting these rote confessions of historical guilt as legally enforceable admissions of wrongful possession.
In August, a British Columbia court ruled that the titles to public land across 800 acres south of downtown Vancouver must be subordinated to a new “Aboriginal title” belonging to a group of about 5,500 Indigenous Canadians.
Although the judge in question has claimed that this decision does not apply to private land, the logic of this ruling has proved so muddled that it has called into question not only the private titles of some 150 landowners in the region but also the ownership of almost every piece of private land in British Columbia—and possibly all of Canada. Some Americans may try to apply this precedent to the U.S. too.

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dustin @godfrey.work · 27/12/2025

I can offer one chicken nugget in exchange

an orange cat on a green couch, all curled up like a croissant

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dustin @godfrey.work · 13/12/2025

something nice I will say about Utah is that it has an official mushroom

screenshot:

As recently as 2014, the taxonomic identity of the psychoactive Jian shou qing mushroom remained unknown. It wasn't until mycologists in Yunnan purchased and sequenced the mushrooms being sold in an open-air street market (where it had been sold for decades) that the species was officially described and recognized as being new to science. Its formal Latin name is Lanmaoa asiatica, and, interestingly, it's more closely related to the common porcini (Utah's official state mushroom) than to any other currently known hallucinogenic mushroom species.

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dustin @godfrey.work · 09/12/2025

"certain activities..."

an index card for an archive microfilm that says:

Canadian Federal Royal Commission Reports

Royal Commission into complaints received concerning certain activities...

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dustin @godfrey.work · 05/12/2025

yessssss hello cat cult!

a floppy orange cat lying in a blanket in my lap

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dustin @godfrey.work · 26/11/2025

i mean, not the best crew, but we'll take it

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dustin @godfrey.work · 17/11/2025

it's really great that once you reach a certain professional stature it's almost impossible for you to fail www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Nuzzi, who recently joined Vanity Fair as its West Coast correspondent, dished on American Canto – her book that is set to be released next month – and her “digital affair” with Kennedy in a series of interviews with The New York Times.

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dustin @godfrey.work · 17/11/2025

i'm sorry, she's mad that instead of seeing parked cars she's seeing people riding scooters? and she's mad at the scooters for a car crash?

But the San Francisco-based micro-mobility company moved forward. This week, workers installed a 10-scooter docking station on the street outside her kitchen window — obstructing the view Marini has cherished for several decades. Instead of watching her garden or neighbours on the block, she says she is now facing a constant parade of scooters and riders.

“It’s very upsetting,” said Marini. “We took my grandson out to learn how to ride his bike and saw beer cans littered around the station,” she said, noting broken glass from a car accident the previous night and the absence of Lime helmets on the majority of the station’s scooters.

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dustin @godfrey.work · 08/11/2025

I didn't exactly have high expectations from Paul Johnson, but jfc this is bad

Global News screenshot:

"Dulf" operators found guilty of drug trafficking

Two men who ran a business that bought and tested illegal drugs in Vancouver have been found guilty of drug trafficking. As Paul Johnson reports, the program once received...

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dustin @godfrey.work · 08/11/2025

same day dulf is convicted, northern health put out this warning

!!Toxic Drug Alert!! Northern Health and First Nations Health Authority have issued a drug alert for Dawson Creek. A blue 'rock chunk' like substance being sold as 'heroin' has been linked to an increase of overdose events. This substance is highly toxic, causes heavy and prolonged sedation, and requires more naloxone to reverse. For more information, go to: https://towardtheheart.com/alerts

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dustin @godfrey.work · 07/11/2025

the same day Vancouver city council voted to approve $17M in increased VPD spending, they couldn't find $1M of ~taxpayer~ funds for the DTES Community Land Trust to buy a property www.vancitylookout.com/p/city-counc...

City Hall

headline: What two votes tell us about competing priorities at city hall

A photo of a Vancouver police car sourced from Flickr is below

byline is Dustin Godfrey

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dustin @godfrey.work · 02/11/2025

for the globe editorial board it's just a given that government spending is inherently bad and workers are reduced to "fat to cut." never mind the livelihoods of the human people they're talking about or the broader economic impact of cutting jobs

Attrition is not a strategy
Any successful effort to rein in the cost of government will have to entail a significant reduction in the bloated ranks of the public service. As this last chart shows, the number of employees in the core civil service and government agencies soared under the Trudeau Liberals.

Between fiscal 2016 and 2024, the number of workers in the federal public service jumped by 38 per cent, or 98,986 people. (Those figures exclude parts of the RCMP, members of the Canadian Armed Forces and some smaller agencies.) There was a modest decline in 2025, of 9,807 workers, offsetting about 10 per cent of those gains.

However, the overwhelming majority of departures were in just two spots, the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship and the Canada Revenue Agency. The good news: there’s lots of fat to cut elsewhere.

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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/10/2025

this ad on YouTube sure seems like a problem!

a screenshot of an ad with a photo of Jagmeet Singh looking beat up, being taken away by two cops with Parliament in the background. the text says:

Arrest Made At Singh's Property Search Underway

Today's top topic

More and more people are talking about this event

Sponsored by apex2logic

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dustin @godfrey.work · 26/09/2025

the shoes are just too big to fill for one king

Arthur, the eponymous cartoon anthropomorphized aardvark

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dustin @godfrey.work · 18/09/2025

trying to sign in to @wired.com to cancel my print subscription and being told I can't sign in because I already have an account and I know I have an account that's why I'm trying to sign into it??? am I broken, or does this make no sense

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dustin @godfrey.work · 17/09/2025

oh, the request *is* denied they'll take their time anyway because there's no consequences for failing to meet deadlines

This request was originally due in May or early June. It's my opinion that the government has had far more than enough time to finish this request, so I cannot consent to another extension.

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dustin @godfrey.work · 17/09/2025

this FOI request was originally due in late May or early June

Your FOl request is in the final stages of the process however Policing Services Division (PSD) is impacted by the Labour Disputes and have been participating in job action since Sept 2, 2025. This mean their subject matter expert assessor and other delegated decision makers from this area who need to review the final recommendation of the release package are involved in this job action. These people are needed to approve the recommendations to release more information back to you.

I am requesting an extension of 30 days, however it is unclear how long this will go on for, which would make the new due date November 4, 2025.

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dustin @godfrey.work · 15/09/2025

so close to home 🫠 made it to queensboro from Tsawwassen

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dustin @godfrey.work · 09/09/2025

idk that deregulation eggs is a great idea? idk this is worded weirdly, it could be that they are increasing regulations for US eggs in Canada, but that would be a weird thing to include in a paragraph about deregulation www.canada.ca/en/governmen...

The CFIA is advancing an omnibus regulatory package to reduce red tape and support the competitiveness and resiliency of the agricultural sector. The CFIA is proposing a series of targeted amendments to address stakeholder issues by removing prescriptive requirements, providing flexibility for businesses, and leveling the playing field for Canadian producers. For example, proposed amendments seek to align testing requirements for eggs sourced from the U.S. with domestic standards, enhancing the competitiveness of Canadian licensed hatcheries.

CBC screenshot

Why Canada is safe, for now, from very high egg prices

Smaller farms here less affected by avian flu's devastation in the U.S.

Posted: February 5, 2025

Kevin Maimann

Canadians have so far been shielded from the high egg price plaguing the U.S. in the midst of an avian flu outbreak, and industry experts say it's likely to stay that way for now.

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dustin @godfrey.work · 06/09/2025

why are there still conservative party signs hanging around in new west

a blue sign for Conservative Party candidate Indy Panchi attached to a sign outside a law firm. you can see the bottom of another sign attached to another sign for the law firm, which says "K&A Law"

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dustin @godfrey.work · 01/09/2025

"vicious compliance" just makes it sound badass actually

'Vicious compliance': Alberta premier questions Edmonton schools' banned books

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says Edmonton's public school board has gone over the top in complying with new rules banning books with sexual content, adding her government "will hold their hand" in following the intent of the policy if n

Jack Farrell, The Canadian Press Aug 29, 2025

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