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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How long is this sign going to be required to be there? 100 yrs? A thousand? Let it go.

James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is the epitome of Vancouver’s half-assed way of doing things. It’s either heritage or it’s not. If it is, maintain it in its original form with public money. Don’t let a private business slap its branding over and obscure it. It’s been, what, more than 40 yrs since the original Bowmac closed?

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Freshco arriving in Fairview soon. I know others at that other site made this same point, but the Bowmac sign can’t be removed because it’s “heritage“ but it’s also obviously not being required to be maintained. Like, you know, any other historic site in the world.

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hoo boy. A deep dive on the cross-border effort to sway Alberta’s secession vote, from @carrietait.bsky.social, Nathan VanderKlippe and Grant Robertson www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

A Globe and Mail investigation has found that Republican political operatives were on the ground in Alberta this year to assist the separatist campaign in its bid to leave Canada, while harbouring their own aspirations for the province to secede.

The Globe also found that when Alberta separatist leaders went to Washington to meet with the U.S. State Department, they offered up key assets from the province’s resource portfolio, including access to fresh water and royalties on crude oil, in exchange for help transitioning to independence.

Through interviews with The Globe on both sides of the border, people involved in politics, the corporate sector and Alberta’s pursuit of separatism have described persistent efforts by figures in the U.S. administration and conservative political establishment to support groups seeking American expansionism and independence for Alberta.

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Never change, Quebec.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Elections have a way of clarifying who matters to political parties (car owners) and whose priorities can wait for another day (transit advocates). My dispatch from Day 1 on David Eby’s four day mid-election road trip. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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ANALYSIS | Eby puts needs of car owners ahead of transit advocates in ruling out Metro Vancouver vehicle levy | CBC News

For the last 18 months, a vehicle levy has been talked about by TransLink as a potential way to create a more sustainable funding model, as revenue from fuel taxes continues to decline. But all that w...

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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 02/10/2026

You’re surrounded by boozers, misfits and losers And down seven goals at the half Your ammo is spent and you can’t find Roy Kent You’re fucked so you might as well laugh

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Michael Hall @michaelhall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In response to David Eby lowering the province-wide gas tax by 10¢, TransLink should, in response, raise their separate fuel levy by 10¢ to make up the difference 😌 Purely by coincidence, the TL board is meeting right now.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are two merciless gods of war, the elder (logistics) & the younger (ballistics). Both are math first & everything else second. There is a reason military academies are engineering schools at heart

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh David Eby what are you doing my dude.

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

King Cnut commands tide to stop and leave his robes dry.

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Retaliatory nationalizations of Canadian-owned businesses operating in the US?

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So much respect for this, and the framing. ABC, the right wing version of Progress Toronto, has used health care workers/hospitals as reason to rip them out. This puts a lie to that (and on University ambulances can bypass cars in the wide bikelanes if needed). So many lies.

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The police and their proxies playing games with crime statistics is something that has always really bothered me. And it ultimately undermines them as well.

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What the public didn’t know was that the frequency of stranger assaults had already plummeted by more than half—from 4.2 per day to 1.8 per day—in the first half of 2022, months before voters went to the polls. www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/...

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From the vancouver community on Reddit: ‘Unusual’ ties between Vancouver police, mayor’s party scrutinized as crime analyst joins campaign

Explore this post and more from the vancouver community

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Alberta NDP continue to try to be conservative-lite. They'll just vote for the real thing! Give a legit alternative!

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If the rumoured rise in Whitecaps season ticket prices are true...that's shocking

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Jen Stewart @jstewgie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading the DULF decision. www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/2... Para 34: "this is a crisis caused by the unpredictability of the toxic drug supply... PWUD do not know the contents nor the potency of the drugs they are taking." #BCPoli #CdnPoli

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2026 BCSC 1855 R v Kalicum

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BREAKING: A BC Supreme Court judge has sided with Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx, who operated an illicit-drug compassion club (Drug User Liberation Front), were convicted of trafficking, and challenged the constitutionality of Canada's drug laws. Trafficking section ruled invalid, convictions stayed.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Megan McArdle's WaPo column celebrating the end of the woke left's ability to "cancel" right-wing voices over their social media posts, while making no mention of @karenattiah.bsky.social's legally enforced reinstatement to the WaPo after being fired for her social media posts, is chef's kiss.

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It continues to be batshit. I'm going to bed. Yes, I know it's 8:15. I regret nothing.

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Selling weapons to China to help with...the invasion of Taiwan?

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🎃Lady A Pumpkins💀 @tiredderit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I should be legally allowed to mow these motherfuckers down with my vehicle. They went out of their way to march on the reservation in our city of #Kamloops and should have been arrested on the spot. Faces covered because they know what they're doing deserves an ass beating or a job loss.

Reddit post about the second sons, a white supremacy group trying to increase their visibility in Kamloops, BC, Canada who were seen in the reserve and then downtown.

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Jeffrey Wuhl @jeffreywuhl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Incredible

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm sure THIS Trump trade measure will work as intended and not backfire spectacularly in any way

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's all worth it just to watch Vaughn Palmer's head explode.

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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x

The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/09/2026

Breaking News: Major TV networks — ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC — agreed to suspend their pooled coverage of President Trump after the White House blocked CNN from its duties.

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Networks Suspend Pool Coverage of Trump After White House Bans CNN

The move was an escalation of President Trump’s showdown with the White House press corps after he moved to bar journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico.

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Something is happening on the Granville Bridge. There must be 7 or 8 ambulances.

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bike racing at Vanier Park. I’m sure a certain resident of Kits Point is hiding in the bushes snapping photos to stir up outrage on the facebook group

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Assange was never a leaker or whistleblower. He was a middleman who intercepted and brokered other people’s leaks, delaying them and horse-trading them for his organization’s profit and, in the case of damaging Russian leaks, preventing their publication. And colluding to bring monsters to power

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't think it will lead to something better. But it's worth hoping.

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's worth repeating: The America we once knew is *never* coming back. What comes next is anyone's guess. It could be a long, slow, sad slide to true authoritarianism. Or a quick one. Or America breaking into into constituent nations (hi, Yugoslavia!) But...it could also lead to something better.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

plausible deniability machine goes whirrrrrrr

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Consistent with their poor profiles in courage, Google and Apple are hurrying to remove CNN, MSNOW and Politico from their services.

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Of course Angelo's communications firm is called "Fountainhead"

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James Gemmill @jamesgemmill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Was this written by NYT Pitchbot?

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A new Vancouver mayoral poll by local pollster Justason is out. FRY 45% SIM 30% HARDWICK 11% ALLAM 10% BLIGH 5% Sample size of 509 and was online only, but obviously supports the notion that the left has consolidated support behind Fry quickly.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 15/09/2026

I recently worked with Abacus Data on a poll of Albertans, probing deeper into the separation debate. Today we are releasing the 2nd of 5 reports. This one looks at vote intentions: 🟢 64% Remain ⚫ 24% Commence separation process 🤷 9% Undecided 💨 3% Would skip question This varies by region. 🧵...

Chart showing remain/commence vote Alberta-wide at 64/24
Calgary: 71/19
Edmonton 78/16
Small cities & bedroom communities: 59/32
Rural areas: 46/31

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