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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Early polls suggest that Eby and the @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social may have miscalculated the mood of the electorate. They’ve been in office a long time, the Trump boogeyman won’t be defeated by a BC Premier whomever it is and nobody but them wanted an election. I think they win but it will be close.

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mark Carney’s newly proposed labour legislation is like most of his legislation, unconstitutional. Like Stephen Harper is is relying on everyone having to take him to court on every bill: www.labourandemploymentlaw.com/2015/01/supr...

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Supreme Court of Canada Recognizes Constitutional Right to Strike: What Does it Mean for Employers?

Overruling one of its own decisions, the Supreme Court of Canada today has determined that the "right to strike" is protected under s. 2(d) of the

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 21/08/2026

A real leader would have had Canadians ready to put in a war-like effort to avoid being dominated by an authoritarian United States. Carney has wasted SO MUCH political capital. Canadians were ready. They probably still are. But we have weak, ineffectual, or complicit leaders.

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Yes. And offering solutions to a corrupt court including adding seats.

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I mean putting aside the AI (presumably) writing this is just such a clear example of drug war stupidity. 350kg of hash is a droplet in an ocean. Ports are where smuggling occurs, wow, revelatory. Europe’s desire to smoke hash means hash making countries will sell it to them. Wow. Crackdowns? lol.

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The punditocracy has long said that a “Joe Rogan of the left” would help Dem messaging cut through to youth especially young men. Piker fits that bill and the response is pearl clutching and antagonism. Clown show.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“Chevron just announced its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell clocked its second-highest quarterly profits. And while ExxonMobil's profits came in beneath what Wall Street analysts had expected, it still managed to double its earnings compared with this time last year.“ Tax them into oblivion.🤬

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Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices

Chevron reported its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell had its second-biggest quarter, and ExxonMobil doubled its earnings compared with the same time last year.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"Some harm reduction advocates are annoying" isn't a serious policy analysis or prescription. Everyone wants to get homeless people off the streets. Harm reduction advocates want to get them into shelters and treatment, which works. Their opponents want incarceration, which doesn't.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is the exact problem, right here: people would rather make up a social justice warrior to get mad at than take a hard, honest look at the problem.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The core argument is that cities like Seattle are so addled by left-wing ideology that they have fallen into dystopia. In reality, the city has never adequately funded harm reduction programs and continues to rely on incarceration to address homelessness. What Powell wants is what we're doing.

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A bit of older news, but appreciate the Victoria Times Colonist reporting on our efforts to save the VCBC - one of Canada's oldest and I believe the last remaining compassion club. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/v...

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Victoria Cannabis Club can stay in storefront for six months

On Monday, the club won a court injunction pressing pause on the landlord’s eviction notice. The province is seeking an order that the property be forfeited.

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/27... TLDR/English version is that CBD shows promise in reducing harms of methamphetamine use. #cannabis #science

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Vancouver approved $4.75 million to make five blocks of Granville Street car free for seven more weeks. But the organizations they gave the money to — the VPD and BIA — can't say what that money will be spent on. Here's our story on a plan being made up on the fly. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This seems like I don’t know un-American or at least what Americans used to pretend was some un-democratic shit when people other than Americans did it.

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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Under Carney, is Medicare still a Canadian value? American dark money-backed think tanks are applauding the PM’s hands-off approach to Alberta’s health care privatization canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

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Under Carney, is Medicare still a Canadian value?

American-funded dark money groups are applauding Mark Carney’s hands-off response to Alberta’s move toward two-tier health care. With Ottawa now embracing provincial “flexibility,” the federal governm...

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 03/07/2026

The President, both branches of Congress, the Supreme Court, the world’s richest man who also owns Twitter, the owner of multiple studios and television channels, every major police union in the country vs uppity Blacks

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

You can always count on Dems to see members of their party that are actually popular and fight for policies that voters support and…run away from them.

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

most of this piece is about the process of separating people from the unregulated drug supply - detox, healthcare, treatment etc the supply remains unaddressed, unpredictable & lethal our government has chosen to accept that we have chosen a forever emergency and it will get worse

“We are not obliged to rely on the criminal market. We’ve chosen that,” says Gustafson. “We’ve chosen to allow the criminal market to drive the substances that people use in our community.”

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Relevant to Canada also as Carney moves the LPC rightward.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 22/06/2026

For my newsletter I wrote about how Kier Starmer should serve as a warning for centrist Democrats in the US. It's a real crystal ball moment. www.burnsnotice.com/its-the-cent...

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It's The Centrism, Stupid

Centrist American political commentators are mystified that Kier Starmer's time as UK Prime Minister has crashed and burned. He did everything they wanted and everyone hated him anyway.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

makes the goldman vampire squid analogy seem almost quaint

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This is gross and so is the reality that this kind of hate advertising works. I have zero doubt that anti-trans sentiment in the public grew during this period as people were taught both whom to hate and how to message that hate and disguise it as concern or whatever BS it’s wrapped up in.

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

More right wing movement from the LPC. Are they distinguishable from what used to be the Progressive Conservatives? The answer gets closer to “no” with almost every new policy announcement.

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This is bad for Canadians. Great for massive agri-business but horrible for food safety and consumers.

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Gross. Carney has taken the LPC in the wrong direction on a host of issues.

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This should not exist, a tale in three photos.

Picture of a new article with an explanation that a trillion dollars is an unimaginably gross amount of wealth. Paraphrased.

A picture of a new article further expanding on the absolute grossness of trillionaires existing at all. Paraphrased.

Picture of a press article about how the richest people got richer on an incredibly overvalued company that will almost surely crash and burn (metaphorically) because it doesn’t make any money and all of its plans are insane. Metaphorically.

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you are planning to apply for a Health Canada recreational cultivation or processing license and have a criminal history (even with no arrests) I am begging you to talk to a lawyer with experience in security clearances before you hire expensive consultants and begin the application process.

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

If you asked people whether this was happening most would probably assume it wasn’t. We’ve fooled ourselves into thinking that because overt bigotry is largely frowned on and not on public display that systemic discrimination isn’t the norm anymore. It still is.

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

so we're getting to them, eh? haha also their civil forfeiture law is indefensible. @kirktousaw.bsky.social tell you all about how nasty this is people aren't convicted or charged and the police, or the government, is just out here, TAKING PEOPLE'S STUFF outrageous bsky.app/profile/chek...

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

It’s an excellent metaphor and one that is broadly useful and applicable across a whole lot of political topics in the current era.

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M @habpipes.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Saskatchewan has the highest percentage of police officers to population in Canada. If police prevented crime wed have the lowest rates in the country. We have the highest. Quit treating symptoms instead of piss poor policies that create the structural root of the problem.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

People need to recognize the canary in the coal mine here. If an administration can target entertainers and mom activists for prosecution they can go after anybody. It's the reason Indigenous and Black and LGBTQ+ people have been saying forevet that fascism was already here

Hasan Piker And Medea Benjamin Reportedly Subpoenaed For Their Trip To Cuba
The leftist Twitch streamer and CodePink co-founder, along with hundreds of others, went to Cuba to deliver humanitarian aid.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/05/2026

I live in a county that went 81% for Trump, in a representative district that hasn't gone blue in nine decades, in a state with a gerrymandered GOP supermajority, in a country run by a kleptocrat and his compliant Republican cronies, but sure, I live in a bubble because I'm on fucking Bluesky

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

"The vast majority of people will never hear the other side of the story, the factually correct side of the story, the morally decent side of the story. The side of the story that was the overwhelming consensus among politicians and the public a mere 6-7 years previously."

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Primary them and get them out of the party.

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The corruption in the US DOJ is rampant.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 22/05/2026

Before you strap a dashcam to your face and sprint out into the world filming everything and everyone in your life, there are some civil liberties and privacy concerns to consider. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans

Over the last decade or so, the tech industry has tried, and mostly failed, to make “smart glasses”—tech-infused glasses with cameras, AI, maps, displays, and more—a thing. But in the past year,

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The last time criminal charges were brought in connection with the VCBC, we fought the law and won a unanimous victory in the Supreme Court of Canada. They fear the Charter of Rights and therefore are trying to do an end-run around it.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

BREAKING: Sen. Ed Markey calls for Trump's impeachment.

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Kirk Tousaw @kirktousaw.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

How about we instead kick eve eh single DEA agent out of Canada and start working on undoing the massive damage that drug prohibition has done and is currently doing to our society.

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