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2025-06-15 16:00:19

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Musicians enforcing the peace ✌🏼 🎷 🎉

2025-03-26 17:02:34

Comment: All British Columbians should stand up to autocracy
BC Premier David Eby decries US President Donald Trump’s actions while copying him
We live in troubling times. People are frightened and feel vulnerable. Taking advantage of that, Premier David Eby’s Bill 7 tries to establish autocratic rule for the next two years in BC
by former BC Premier Gordon Campbell
https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comment-all-british-columbians-should-stand-up-to-autocracy-10429148
#DictatorTrump #DictatorEby
#cdnpoli #bcpoli #yyj

2025-03-26 17:02:34

2025-03-15 11:57:54

US produce wears out welcome with Victoria, British Columbia grocery store
The store says it has made moves to source all 380 of its fruits and vegetable from non-American growers
“Prior to all of this, one of our most popular spinach was Popeye Spinach. We used to sell 60 to 80 bags a day of that stuff,” said Innis. “In the last week that we had it, we sold two bags. That’s a message.”
https://www.saanichnews.com/local-news/us-produce-wears-out-welcome-with-victoria-grocery-store-7879210
#BuyCanadian #BuyLocal 🇨🇦 #DictatorTrump #BoycottUSA #BoycottMusk #yyj #VictoriaBC

2024-09-29 13:16:20

NDP, Conservatives, Greens nominate full slates on Vancouver Island
A total of 52 candidates will run in Vancouver Island's 15 ridings in the Oct. 19 BC election, with the Conservatives, Greens and NDP represented in every electoral area
https://www.timescolonist.com/2024-bc-votes/bcs-ndp-conservatives-nominate-full-slates-of-candidates-for-oct-19-election-9587760
#bcpoli #election #candidates #yyjpoli #VancouverIsland #vote #Oct19 #bcelection2024

2024-09-05 16:11:17

Logging is the third highest carbon emitter in Canada. It should be measured that way, a new report says
UN experts and environmental groups continue to call on Canada to report true climate cost of logging
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/logging-emissions-forestry-trees-wildfires-1.7309504
#logging #carbon #emissions #offsets #accounting #mislead #climate #cdnpoli #wildfire

2024-07-27 13:29:23

Funding withering for Greater Victoria hub that connects customers, farmers
FarmBucks opens opportunity for seasonal excitement among those on a fixed budget
https://www.vicnews.com/community/funding-withering-for-greater-victoria-hub-that-connects-customers-farmers-7459133
#yyj #FoodSecurity #BuyLocal #VicCoolAid #OurPlace #food #local #donate #FarmBucks #nutrition

2024-07-02 15:43:26

Underwater gardeners work to restore majestic kelp forests off Vancouver Island
Scientists from the University of Victoria are trying to regrow kelp forests amid threats from heat waves, climate change and voracious sea urchins
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/underwater-gardeners-work-to-restore-majestic-kelp-forests-off-vancouver-island-9161135
#kelp #reforestation #ocean #health #ecosystems #ClimateCrisis

2024-06-02 15:34:32

Canada's 1st full-scale free grocery store to open in Regina
The hub will give those who rely on the food bank autonomy over what they want to take home to feed their families, rather than being handed standardized items
https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7220880
#food #FreeFood #FoodBank #poverty #solutions #Regina #groceries #free

2024-02-03 18:03:50

Browser security comparison chart below
#firefox #chrome #edge #safari #opera #browser
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2024-01-15 22:24:25

What is your task in the solarpunk commune?
#SolarPunk #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #renewables
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2024-01-11 15:31:35

Record number of hospitalizations as COVID and flu season peaks
British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said cases of Influenza A and RSV have been “steadily increasing over the last few weeks”
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/record-number-of-hospitalizations-as-covid-and-flu-season-peaks-8093281
#covid #flu #RSV #respiratory #hospital

2023-12-24 14:19:34

University researchers confirm fire-generated tornado over British Columbia lake
Researchers from Canada’s Northern Tornadoes Project say they began an extensive investigation after a video was posted showing an "intense vortex" over Gun Lake in southwest BC during a "raging nighttime wildfire."
https://www.timescolonist.com/bc-news/university-researchers-confirm-fire-generated-tornado-over-bc-lake-in-viral-video-8025612
#ExtremeWeather #FireStorm #Firenado #FireWhirl #fire #tornado

2023-12-16 22:10:59

Mowachaht / Muchalaht First Nation creating new Salmon Parks to protect fragile ecosystems
Over 650 square kilometres of their territory to be protected throughout their lands and waters of Vancouver Island
https://www.campbellrivermirror.com/local-news/first-nation-creating-new-salmon-parks-to-protect-fragile-ecosystems-7120234
#Indigenous #conservation #salmon #OldGrowth #AncientTrees #VancouverIsland #yyj

2023-10-06 13:27:33

British Columbia COVID-19 hospitalizations up 58% in 2 weeks
COVID-19 levels detected in wastewater are up at every monitored treatment plant in the Canadian province
https://www.vicnews.com/news/bc-covid-19-hospitalizations-up-58-in-2-weeks-4999662
#covid19 #rising #wastewater #hospital #death

2023-09-23 16:21:56

Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks
An escalating campaign, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans, has cast a pall over programs that study political disinformation and the quality of medical information online
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/23/online-misinformation-jim-jordan
#lies #misinformation #intimidation #research #AcademicFreedom #GQP

2023-09-22 17:56:19

Six young people are preparing to appear at the European Court of Human Rights to try to compel 32 nations to rapidly escalate their emissions reductions in the world’s largest climate legal action to date
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/09/22/news/young-people-take-32-european-countries-court-over-climate-policies
#ClimateCrisis #legal #courts #youth #HumanRights #EU

2023-09-18 13:47:24

Alberta daycare poisonings show high cost of red tape reduction
As more than 300 parents and children sickened by an E. coli outbreak at a series of Calgary daycares are finding out right now, the red tape getting cut can sometimes be what was protecting you from other people’s carelessness — or worse
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/09/18/opinion/daycare-poisonings-show-high-cost-red-tape-reduction
#health #safety #daycare #ecoli #regulations #enforcement #abpoli

2023-09-17 15:01:35

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She has no doubt been told by oil and gas to promote fossil-fuel based hydrogen, which produces more carbon than just burning it
Like so-called “carbon capture” just another misdirection to allow the continued consumption of gas and profits for the rich
#lobbyists #abpoli #DirtyHydrogen #lies #profit #ClimateCrisis

2023-08-27 19:00:22

A Fire Tornado? Yes, They’re Real — and Dangerous
A video posted by the British Columbia Wildfire Service captured the ‘intensely rotating columns of gas and flame’ of a wildfire tornado
https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/08/25/Fire-Tornado-Real-Dangerous/
#tornado #firenado #firestorm #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ExtremeWeather

2023-08-06 23:45:41

@npub1vyt…mgjn disappointed we haven't received any rain, though thankful for the damp air for the plants & trees #yyj

2023-08-06 17:03:08

Solar panels on the Dome? Here’s how we could harness solar power at these Toronto landmarks
Toronto’s rooftops are an incredible untapped resource — collectively, they could provide 6 gigawatts of power – about 1/6 of all grid-scale solar currently installed in Ontario
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/solar-panels-on-the-dome-here-s-how-we-could-harness-solar-power-at-these/article_8763d069-6286-5ce1-97c7-4a9c394188fb.html
#solar #energy #rooftop #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli

2023-08-05 17:30:12

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Fingers crossed for rain
Enjoying the cold

2023-08-05 17:30:12

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Fingers crossed for rain
Enjoying the cold

2023-08-05 14:28:54

80% of BC rivers face high to extreme drought
Persistent dry and hot weather pushed Metro Vancouver to enact Level 2 watering restrictions Friday for the first time since 2015
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/80-of-bc-rivers-face-high-to-extreme-drought-7371454
#water #drought #river #salmon #wildlife
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #climate

2023-08-05 14:28:54

2023-07-17 14:16:09

Rain won't offer much relief to B.C.'s historic drought conditions
The long-range forecast for the province will continue to be drier than normal
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/rain-wont-offer-much-relief-to-bcs-historic-drought-conditions-7283970
#drought #ClimateChange #BC

2023-07-11 14:31:15

Signed up for Threads? Here’s the kind of personal info you’re handing over
More than 600,000 Facebook users in Canada had personal data harvested by Cambridge Analytica in the past. Here’s how Threads stacks up against other platforms.
https://www.thestar.com/business/2023/07/11/signed-up-for-threads-heres-the-kind-of-personal-information-youre-handing-over.html
#BillionaireFundedMedia #meta #privacy #SocialMedia #DataHarvesting #surveillance #threads #tiktok #facebook #twitter #snapchat

2023-07-10 20:58:19

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#BillionaireFundedMedia

2023-06-10 15:38:03

While fires rage Doug Ford announces program to burn more wood
The Doug Ford government has taken a climate threatening practice — burning wood to make energy — and made it a pillar of the “new green economy”
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2023/06/10/while-fires-rage-doug-ford-announces-program-to-burn-more-wood.html
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #fires #burning #GreenWash #onpoli

2023-04-27 14:45:03

Time magazine to remove digital paywall
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/27/time-removes-digital-paywall
#paywall #free #media #journalism