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The City of Vancouver and Beedie spend hundreds of thousands of (taxpayer) dollars to fail to do what these organizers achieved: create a community where people are invested in each other's wellbeing, and show up for each other. Solidarity with this incredible organizing.

Two #homeless males were attacked 7pm Wed, in Schoolboard park 1500 block 10th. One had to go for stitches to lip & fractured nose! They called 911 before attack but #VPD arrived too late & assailant got away. Why aren't Vancouver Police publicizing this #Vancouver #StrangerAttack?

Helicopter circling Hastings-Sunrise. Anyone know something something?

That’s the flag of Liberia.

.CBC Vancouver interviewed Mike Seear (Hancock Wildlife Director) and myself today about sorry state of Vanier Ponds. @vanparkboard no longer keeps water levels up in summer, claiming they’re restoring it as a seasonal wetland, which it isn’t, and that they’re saving water. /1

Ok but isn’t this just an island with food poisoning?

Mihai Cirstea @FailsSidewalk Mayor Ken Sim Look - #housed people having fun doing a whole bunch of the things that #homeless people routinely get in trouble with police, security and housed people for doing on public streets: sitting, loitering, drinking. #Vancouver #Hypocrisy #DoubleStandards

I’m a professor of theatre and performance. I have been teaching ‘rip-off’ degrees all my adult life. Let me summarise the pointless skills and experiences my students have accumulated: 🧵

Yes!

BC is shipping raw old growth logs overseas then buying back low grade lumber to build imitation luxury housing for investors to flip. But apparently a place to live in a survivable environment is too goddamn much to ask for. #bcpoli #HousingCrisis #ClimateCrisis

"Homo Sapiens" seems aspirational

Elaine C Alex H Julia Marie President Donald J. Trump We live in a world where the dominant system of economic and thus social organization is based on rewarding sociopathic behavior and baking it into institutional norms. 🤷🏻‍♀️

We have progressive parties?

If I can't block, I'll walk

Friendly reminder: Vancouver City Council exempted unsold condos from the empty homes tax and gave developers millions of dollars for keeping those condos empty. ABC Vancouver City Councillor Mike Klassen gaslit the public, saying this was a good thing. vancouversun.com/news/local-new…

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