Here's a new chart of just how expensive rent is Metro Vancouver, looking at the difference in price between occupied units and newly vacant ones, and wait why are you crying

there is literally nothing left to write about police abuse and violence. Abolish the police.

Police shootings are on the rise across Canada, with 51 police-involved deaths related to a gunshot last year. 73% of police-involved deaths in the past 22 years have been shootings. Learn more: trackinginjustice.ca/analysis-juris…

The carceral capitalist system in a nutshell. City of Vancouver is considering reneging on its living wage for workers commitment because apparently there isn't enough $. However, upcoming budget has 2.7% increase for VPD, making up 20% of city's budget. cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

VPD officer McKinnon wearing a prohibited symbol after a long day of beating up unhoused neighbours. #StopTheSweeps #BlueLivesMurder

Maps twist our perception of the world Here are 20 to rethink it: 1. Countries closer to the equator (~poorer) seem smaller than they are (map by Neil Kaye)

Pedro Pascal as VPL Branches (a thread) #PedroPascal #TheLastofUs

No pride in genocide, #CancelCanadaDay History of #CanadaDay: July 1, 1867 - Dominion establishes Canada within British Empire, legalizing colonial occupation over Indigenous lands & nations July 1, 1909 - Canada claims sovereignty over entire Arctic archipelago & Inuit people

Nobody: Black cats:

Learn about colonization of Palestine thru visual resources 101.visualizingpalestine.org or readings decolonizepalestine.com/introduction-t… or updates electronicintifada.net Watch Gaza in Context w Noura Erakat: gazaincontext.com/film.html Palestine Action Toolkit by Palestinian Feminist Collective palestinianfeministcollective.org/freedom-within…

Today the UN General Assembly passed by a large margin a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. It also rejected a Canadian amendment to the resolution, condemning Hamas. Regrettably, most reporting on the Canadian amendment is misleading to the point of being sinister. 🧵

Today we are celebrating my dad Dr. Gabor Maté's 80th birthday. He was born in Budapest on January 6th 1944, two months before Nazi Germany occupied Hungary. He was able to escape the Jewish ghetto after his mother, Judy, gave him to a stranger on the street, who agreed to take

What is clear from these trials is the RCMP and their “Community-Industry” mercenaries are out of control, hateful rogue cops. They are the norm and not the exception. There is a pattern of racism and violence shot up and down every action of the Royal Canadian Mounted

The Refaat Alareer Memorial Library is now open at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at UCLA, Royce Quad.

Breaking: Good morning from People's University of Gaza. Students at UBC and across campuses in the Lower Mainland have launches an encampment in solidarity with people of Palestine.

Bisan Owda has just won one of broadcast journalism’s highest honors – the Peabody Award – for her work with AJ+. Bisan is currently facing intense Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the occupied Gaza Strip. This is her message to the world:

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