waner11.bsky.social
waner11.bsky.social
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@waner11.bsky.social
Union activist - dad - transit oriented cities. Canadian politics and once in a while rants on international politics.
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Our much-anticipated Vancouver City Council full term report card is here! 📝 We look back over 4 years of council votes and give the mayor and each councillor a grade, backed up by solid numbers. How did your favourite councillor do?

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Vancouver City Council Full Term Report Card
Vancouver heads to the polls in October to vote for its Mayor and Council, so we’re looking back on how all the incumbents voted on road safety measures over the full 4 year term.
visionzerovancouver.ca
September 16, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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Today, we wear black. 🖤

For all of our PSAC members working in federal workplaces who are fighting for a fair deal at the bargaining table.

Put on a black shirt, snap a photo, share it, and tag us. Let's show what solidarity looks like.

#PSACTogether
August 19, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Aujourd’hui, on porte du noir. 🖤

Pour les membres de l’AFPC au gouvernement fédéral qui sont en négo et qui réclament une entente juste et équitable.

Portez un chandail noir, prenez une photo et publiez-la! Montrons ce qu’est la solidarité!

#AFPCensemble
August 19, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Everybody loves summertime. But from climate change to budget cuts on public spaces like parks and pools to a lack of vacation time, capitalism is increasingly robbing us of our summer fun.
Capitalism Is Killing Summer
Everybody loves summertime. But from climate change to budget cuts on public spaces like parks and pools to a lack of vacation time, capitalism is increasingly robbing us of our summer fun.
jacobin.com
August 17, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Back from my camping hiking trip in the Rockies. You can really see the results of staff and funding cuts for Canadian national parks. So many closed trails even for front country. So many derelict buildings and shabby campgrounds.
August 5, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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On July 15, WestJet flight attendants voted 99.4 per cent in favour of a strike mandate, with 97.3 per cent of members of the flight attendants’ union CUPE 8125 participating. #TyeePresents #Sponsored

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Inside WestJet Flight Attendants’ Decision to Strike | The Tyee
In a typical month, they work up to 35 unpaid hours.
thetyee.ca
July 22, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Public funds must guarantee affordable homes for people, not shield private developers from market risks.
Thousands of investor condos sit empty while working families, renters, and seniors are left struggling. We need to put long-term affordability ahead of developer bailouts.
June 23, 2026 at 4:35 PM
American Tech bros trying to reinvent the train for the 7th time since the beginning of 2026…
June 8, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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This is the new leader of the BC conservative party on election night taking a photo with a white supremacist
June 3, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Want to get involved with your NDP Electoral District Association? In this episode, we get into the how and the why with Guerric Haché (quillipede.bsky.social), an EDA member in Vancouver Centre--we also look at great ways to rebuild and energize federal NDP EDAs.
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Revitalizing the NDP: How EDAs Can Be Living Spaces Year-Round
Hosts Jaime Frederick and Kallee Lins speak with Guerric Haché, an Electoral District Association (EDA) member in Vancouver Centre, about rebuilding and energizing NDP EDAs. Guerric is a designer and ...
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May 23, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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NEW: Just weeks after ABC approved a School Board Budget that cut the District Librarian & school support workers, ABC & others have voted to increase the pay of Board members.

ABC trustee Zhang, who's missed most meetings this year, voted for the pay hike.

Only COPE's Suzie Mah voted against.
May 28, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Liberals were scared by the successful air Canada strike, by its popularity and by the hard stance taken by the union in relation to the order to return to work. I think they’re now trying to pick a fight with the labour movement to pass new legislation restricting union powers.
May 21, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris.

With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.
Google is its own worst enemy
In its bid to push AI, it’s destroying its products and trying to kill the web too
disconnect.blog
May 20, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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“The truth about B.C.'s unceded land (and your home)”

This is grounded in the law, not politics.

And until policymakers actually understand it, they can’t deliver the property rights protections that British Columbians deserve.

This is VANCOLOUR
Thursdays at 9pm
@cheknews.ca 📺
May 1, 2026 at 2:19 AM
The wealth gap in Canada is now the widest on record and yet the government keeps pushing the policies that widen this gap.

www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Gap between richest and poorest Canadians kept widening in 2025, StatsCan says | CBC News
Statistics Canada says the income gap — measuring the difference in the share of disposable income between households in the top 40 per cent and those in the bottom 40 per cent — reached 46.7 percenta...
www.cbc.ca
April 29, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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Do you have racists in your family who think DRIPA or landback means Indigenous people are stealing white people's homes?

Well good news the government has put together a handy easy to use website to explain why that's silly

dripafacts.ca
DRIPA Facts: What they're not telling you
A sourced, plain-language fact-check of British Columbia's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
dripafacts.ca
April 21, 2026 at 5:20 PM
« There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us »

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani, economy Nobel prize Joseph Stiglitz and French economist Gabriel Zucman on changing reversing social inequalities through changes in our fiscal policies.
April 17, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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How capitalism ruined skiing…
Powder Grab: The Ski Industry’s Forgotten Coup
The long-forgotten story of how we broke skiing — by very nearly saving it.
www.levernews.com
March 26, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion
February 23, 2026 at 3:46 PM