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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

when you confirm with your friend that the kingsgate mall podcast isn’t coming out until tuesday so it’s fine to talk about the book launch on monday, also there are two elections happening, it’s fine, it’s totally fine, we’re all having fun anyways here are the launch details for those curious!

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 02/10/2026

This shit is so god damn annoying. Fix your country. Stop waging unprovoked economic war. Close the concentration camps. globalnews.ca/news/1208422...

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U.S. mayors ask Canadians to reconsider U.S. travel boycott - Winnipeg | Globalnews.ca

Some American mayors are trying to encourage Canadians to reconsider boycotting travel across the border.

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 27/09/2026

I am just gonna go ahead and say the Boston Globe bar story wildly misses the mark for me. It seems to serve no other point than to gawk and humiliate. There's no news. There's no wider theme. It's a diversion piece, but cruel

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think it's cool that all political parties like to go "I DON'T TRUST THE PUBLIC FACTS" when it's convenient to their narrative. We have reams of data from government and private sources, along with endless anecdotes of people negotiating down their rent over the last two years. but whatever man

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

if you're ever at a rep showing of The Empire Strikes Back i think a bit that would absolutely crush is the first time Yoda appears on screen you say, don't yell, just at a regular speaking volume, the second you see Yoda say What The Fuck

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A decade ago I was offered a job. The pay was the same from my current employer, the evening hours were the same, and the duties — writing multiple web stories a night for a regional news outlet — were the same. But they seemed to believe in me, and so I bet on myself. Grateful I did every day.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 13/07/2026

the next phase of the coup begins tonight

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Illya @novoselillya.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

You've imagined your last dragon

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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 20/06/2026

This is why a one-year pause on datacentre builds in the city of Hamilton makes sense. Without loopholes or exceptions. A snippet from my comments to #HamOnt city council earlier this week.

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 17/06/2026

The extent to which it sometimes feels like facts don't matter anymore is tbh disheartening. Everyone thinks about the big stuff w/ Trump and stuff but it plays out on such a smaller scale all over the place all the time now

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Canada and the UK are banning children and young teens from using Facebook, which as far as I can tell is kind of like protecting them from bad gender influences by forbidding them from watching Three's Company reruns on Betamax.

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Stephen Quinn @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

See, people are coming by to say hi! The Early Edition at street level!

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Here’s my story on the “Mexican Barrio” in the Downtown Eastside, and how it relates (and doesn’t) to the World Cup. thank you to producers who allowed me to say “trying to make fetch happen” on the national broadcaster

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 10/06/2026

it's not merely that billionaires, let alone a nazi trillionaire, are a moral and ethical failure of society, it's that they are an active and present danger to society, a form of unchecked power that directly threatens everyone and everything, devastating humanity by whim and flight of fancy

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 14/05/2026

Honestly given that canadians can’t be trusted to manage geopolitical issues but Indigenous people have demonstrable clarity of thought then what exactly is the issue with pushing harder for landback and expansion of Indigenous rights?

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

You needed this song at this moment in your life. You just didn't know it. You can thank me later. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_gE...

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Mink DeVille Spanish Stroll (Live) HD

YouTube video by schuerbuikske

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

John Ojijatekha Brant-Sero is one of those characters, when you're exploring archives, who don't neatly fit into 'hero' or 'villain' but are more interesting because of that. The handsome, well-built man from Six Nations, a descendant of Joseph Brant, adopted several, in fact one could say many,

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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

3 weeks apart. It'd be really nice to know where our PM actually stands on this issue...

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 10/05/2026

Canadian graffiti 🫟 #vancouver

Along a residential street, between apartment buildings and under the canopy of a flowering tree is an electrical box with graffiti on it that says “HOSER” in yellow paint with a dark outline

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

News release: @guyfelicella.bsky.social returning proclamation awarded to him by Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim after Sim and ABC councillors’ move to block downtown OPS. “Not worth the paper it’s printed on.”

Vancouver, BC — On Thursday, nearly two years after receiving it, well-known recovery advocate Guy Felicella will return the proclamation awarded to him by Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim, which named May 29, 2024, as “Guy Felicella Day.”

“The mayor named that day after me to recognize my work advocating for both harm reduction and recovery, supporting families dealing with addiction, and inspiring students across the city with the story of my recovery from addiction and homelessness,” said Felicella. “As much as that proclamation meant to me then, I don’t want it anymore.

“Mayor Sim and his ABC majority have demonstrated that they do not understand what it takes to recover from toxic illicit drugs, or the work required to save lives. That proclamation is not worth the paper it’s printed on. That’s why I’ll be returning it to City Hall.”

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Kerrisdale, Maple Ridge, Yaletown

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Illya @novoselillya.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

British Columbians: it's closer than you think. Eby's Starmer turn is setting up a conservative majority in BC, and it will be fully aligned with the UCP, there's no question.

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 29/04/2026

I have loved watching Sen̓áḵw rise

A scene at the beach with tall grass in the foreground, a driftwood log, and sand. On the left is a public art piece that looks like a big set of metal ribs/semi-circles on the sand. Across False Creek, three residential towers rise above the trees. Cranes removed, they’ll be ready for occupancy soon. Sen̓áḵw is a development project on 10.5-acres of Squamish Nation land located on Kits Point adjacent to Vanier Park.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 25/04/2026

sorry but i have to ask, is anyone with actual power still observing the social contract? and if not, what obligates the rest of us to do so?

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SEAN ORR @seanorr.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I love baseball, but this is an election ploy. Total pipedream. Almost all local sports writers agree. Pop fly, no runs scored.

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

DRIPA has always been simple: the path forward lies in actually implementing it, not weakening it. It was a real honour to work with Grand Chief Stewart Phillip on this article. vancouversun.com/opinion/why-...

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Ben Holt @beanjammin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Its very hard to be cynical enough when it comes to the BC NDP and old growth logging. Horgan and Eby, owned by industry.

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 22/04/2026

With the closure on Broadway, drivers are rat running along 10th and completely ignoring the modal filter on Manitoba St, so we tried adding our own sign maybe it will help 😭 Or... the City could actually do something? (Meeting with them tomorrow!)

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 21/04/2026

My browser extension that lets you edit your Bluesky posts (for real) is live!

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

there's 28 stories here about Tuesday, from all over the province. this is a great thing that only CBC could do. it might shift your thinking about what's happening if you read and listen to all this together. read everything you can find about April 14. all of it www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Loved ones rally across B.C. to mark 10 years since toxic drug crisis was declared an emergency | CBC

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Garth Mullins @garthmullins.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I get called less by journalists since the moral panic against harm reduction got started a couple years back. Even the good ones stand a little further back. Plus, we can no longer get meetings with cabinet ministers. These are clearly the least important metrics of backlash, but there it is.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!

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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

the beauty of cats is that they exist simultaneously as a lovely soft thing and also a sharp ouchy thing and you won’t know which until you observe one. A sort of Schrödinger’s cat, if you will.

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

live shot from the Liberal convention

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

right now the most hateful zealots in your city are planning to run for public office in the October civic elections in British Columbia (unless they are running for re-election). run for your local school board or city council. no one is going to stop these people except you.

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Peter Waldkirch 華彼德 @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Crossed a street (as a ped). Cars have a stop sign. Some dude in an Evo comes speeding up, so I wait for him to actually stop before crossing. He slow rolls through, mocking me. This is 1 block from where the nanny was hit while in a marked intersection. Vancouver, our drivers are not alright.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

There has been numerous RCMP raids and seizures of cannabis shops across Mi’kmaw First Nations in Nova Scotia, in response, Mi’kmaw communities have turned to blocking major highways and slowing traffic.

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More Mi’kmaw First Nations block highways and traffic in response to RCMP raids | APTN News

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Canadians are educated from birth to be a member of an economic category of persons called the "middle class" – they deserve property, comfort and insulation from the violence of settler capitalism in exchange for unquestioning obedience to it. they are provided with people to despise too

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

www.biblioguides.com/images/cover... The first work of science fiction I ever read, recalled today over lunch with a friend my age.

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

the "crime and public safety" issue that candidates in Vancouver need to address in their campaign platforms is what they will do about the VPD.

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

replicant jordan peterson doing the roy batty speech but his examples of unbelievable stuff he's seen are that chinese jackoff factory and a water bottle

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