An exhibit at the Penticton Art Gallery is honouring Cree artist Alvin Elif Constant, also known by many as the Wandering Spirit, who sold his work on the streets of Vancouver and Victoria....
The Conservative Party of B.C. has made a “splash” in its return to the Legislature, said political scientist Gerald Baier — but whether that will be followed by strong numbers come election time remains to be seen....
For sure – what will be interesting is to see how it translates federally, because the BC NDP are still a little closer to the (Federal) Liberals and then (Federal) NDP.
As far as I know the BCPC haven’t hit 40% in ages, have they?
I think the question is less what the CPBC will do, but what the.,… what the hell are the BC Liberals called now? (Looks it up…) The question is what the “BC United” (lol) party will do.
You’ve got a Left party (arguably left on centre in some areas) that is absolutely dominating, getting dangerously (for the Right Wing) close to 50%. You’ve got the CPBC going, as you said, full ‘MAGA’ Canada. So what will the BCU do to get more votes?
I have a sinking feeling they’ll both try to out ‘Conservative’ each other, leading to an issue like Alberta has where you suddenly have a radically right-wing, owned-by-megacorporations party in charge of an entire province.
I don’t think I’d call United ‘centrist.’ Centre-Right, maybe, but in 2020 they sure came out swinging as Cons. Jane Thornthwaite and Laurie Throness alone made them look like (Canada Light) American Republicans.
I’ve been through this a few times: Usenet, Digg, Reddit. They started off small and stayed mostly civil even though there is a wide range of opinion. Then they start growing rapidly and people see an opportunity to “get their message out”, whether that’s spam, personal aggrandizement, a political message, or whatever: exploitation vs participation. After a while it becomes just too much for some people, so they find somewhere else to congregate.
But is this a bad thing? Even if Lemmy ‘doesn’t survive’ (which I think is a fair way off, personally) something else will take its place. Something always does; ICQ dies, people move to AOL. Digg dies, people go to reddit, Myspace to Facebook and so on. Look at the absolute graveyards of websites where people used to congregate and play games and talk: Battle.net, Mplayer, WON.net, Digg, Usenet, AOL messenger, ICQ, Myspace, there are dozens of these things that, at the time, we felt like would always be there.
Enjoy it while it’s here. Make it the best place you can.
This link explains it pretty well. It’s a specific thing, in terms of size, impact, etc, and is occurring much more, and in much larger size, as climate change moves along.
Three London, Ont. women were among 62 victims of femicide in Ontario over the past year, something a local abused women’s shelter said is further evidence that gender-based violence needs to be treated as the epidemic that it is....
In Canada in 2019, of the 107,810 people aged 15 and over who experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) 79% were women
As in previous years, 2019 rates of IPV were more than 3.5 times higher among women than among men (536 versus 149 per 100,000 population)
Overall, 44% of women who had ever been in an intimate partner relationship—or about 6.2 million women aged 15 and over —reported experiencing some kind of psychological, physical, or sexual abuse in the context of an intimate relationship in their lifetime (since the age of 15). More specifically, women were significantly more likely than men to have experienced any form of IPV, including physical abuse (23% versus 17%, respectively), sexual abuse (12% versus 2%), and psychological abuse (43% versus 35%)
Women, relative to men, were considerably more likely to have experienced the most severe forms of IPV in their lifetime (since the age of 15): being made to perform sex acts they did not want to perform (8% versus 1%), being confined or locked in a room or other space (3% versus 0.5%), being forced to have sex (10% versus 2%), being choked (7% versus 1%), and having harm or threats of harm directed towards their pets (4% versus 0.8%).
Intimate partner homicide
Between 2014 and 2019, there were 497 victims of intimate partner homicide, and—similar to intimate partner violence in general—80% (400 victims) were women.
More details in the link up top.
Will you allow experts to call it an epidemic now?
October marked the 37th consecutive month in which more than 150 people were suspected to have died from toxic drugs in British Columbia, according to the provincial government....
B.C.'s Supreme Court has ruled that a person charged with contempt of court for breaking an injunction on the Coastal GasLink Pipeline was found not guilty....
Oh you’re right, it really is a big deal. The precedent is massive; I hope the cops get taken to the cleaners. The fact we can send ERT’s with C8’s and full combat gear to arrest a bunch of older ladies trying to defend their land, but somehow were completely incapable of stopping the Convoy terrorism in downtown Ottawa, is very, very disturbing.
there is a percentage of homeless yhat will either refuse shelter or leave soon afterward.
Yeah, ‘there’s a percentage’ of any group that won’t accept help. The idea we just don’t do something because some of the people won’t accept help is insane. We’d literally never do anything ever. I was responding to:
At the end of the day, you could provide every single homeless person with a home and half would willingly go back to the streets.
Yes many people take the help, but yes many people choose to be homeless.
Again, so we let them all freeze to death because some might choose to be homeless? This is a nonsensical argument. We don’t remove seatbelt laws because some people don’t wear them.
I live in Vancouver, I’ve been near the DTES my entire life, and have worked in the area repeatedly. I know how bad it is.
I’d love a single person here to explain how not helping these people survive the winter is going to be a positive thing. All these people are asking is to not kick them out of encampments until they won’t die of fucking exposure. If we don’t have the housing for them, what the fuck else are they supposed to do?
Nothing has made me less proud to be from here than the reactions I read to people who are homeless. Just gross.
when confronted with a hurdle in the homeless population, you simply ignore it and say it doesn’t exist while plugging your ears.
I didn’t say it didn’t exist, I took your quote just shrugging off doing anything because ‘half’ (lol) of people won’t accept help, and said “Hey what if we didn’t throw all of them out to die if some of them don’t want help.”
What a sad, self-centred view you have, where you can just plug your ears to people begging for help because you can demonize some of them.
Fantastic to hear from the NIMBY crowd though, sorry you have to suffer watching others suffer in your view sometimes.
Despite the fact it’s late November in Smithers, B.C., located about 1,150 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, the picturesque alpine town has no snow on the ground....
There. Boom. After repeatedly warning she would, the premier has wielded the Sovereignty Act, designed to keep Ottawa from encroaching on the province’s right to produce its oil and gas resources, or in the case of the electricity sector, burning them to keep the lights on....
In a 2021 B.C. Supreme Court ruling, Justice Douglas Thompson rebuked the RCMP for the use of exclusion zones to control the movement of journalists, calling the tactic “unlawful.”
But at a police board meeting Thursday, the board decided to close the complaint after hearing from VPD Supt. Don Chapman. Chapman told the board that while the VPD had closed the street for one block between Columbia and Main on the morning of April 5, that did not constitute an exclusion zone.
Lol, Jesus Christ. Is this guy the head of the Ministry of Truth?
A recall petition targeting B.C. Minister of Education Rachna Singh has been approved by Elections B.C., clearing the way for organizers to start collecting signatures starting Nov. 30, 2023 through to Jan. 29, 2024....
As puffs of smoke rise from a fire inside a kʷikʷəƛəm (Kwikwetlem) big house, middle school student Elsa Romey reaches over to help her twin sister Maya turn soft cedar wood into a box with an inlay-carved lid....
Minnesota Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury was told by the NHL he could not wear a custom mask for the team’s Native American Heritage night, his agent said Friday....
On Thursday, Poilievre only pointed to CTV when talking about the “media reports” to which he was referring. But it appears Poilievre asked his question in the House before CTV’s reporting was published....
B.C. more than doubles number of foreign nurse registrations this year (www.nelsonstar.com)
Non-Paywall Article
British Columbia’s carbon pricing has led to cleaner air: study | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
Street artist who froze to death memorialized in retrospective exhibit (www.cbc.ca)
An exhibit at the Penticton Art Gallery is honouring Cree artist Alvin Elif Constant, also known by many as the Wandering Spirit, who sold his work on the streets of Vancouver and Victoria....
CBC B.C.'s Food Bank Day surpasses $1.6 million, online donations open until Dec. 31 (www.cbc.ca)
CBC B.C. has now raised more than $19 million since Food Bank Day began, with $2,967,719.26 raised across the province last year alone....
Rise of B.C. Conservatives puts B.C. United on shaky ground — to the NDP's advantage, experts say (www.cbc.ca)
The Conservative Party of B.C. has made a “splash” in its return to the Legislature, said political scientist Gerald Baier — but whether that will be followed by strong numbers come election time remains to be seen....
I got permabanned from /r/canada on Reddit for promiting Lemmy and the fediverse.
I posted this yesterday:...
Southwest B.C. warned to brace for heavy rain and snow with incoming atmospheric river (www.cbc.ca)
Firearms charges recommended against Victoria officer by B.C.'s police oversight agency (www.cbc.ca)
British Columbia’s police oversight agency is recommending charges against a Victoria officer in relation to a September 2021 shooting death....
3 London women among 62 femicides in Ontario over last year: report (www.cbc.ca)
Three London, Ont. women were among 62 victims of femicide in Ontario over the past year, something a local abused women’s shelter said is further evidence that gender-based violence needs to be treated as the epidemic that it is....
189 people in B.C. died in October due to toxic drugs (www.cbc.ca)
October marked the 37th consecutive month in which more than 150 people were suspected to have died from toxic drugs in British Columbia, according to the provincial government....
This transgender man moved to Canada to escape transphobia. He found it here, too (www.cbc.ca)
Polydoros, 27, says he feels safer in Canada. But nationwide protests in September over LGBTQ-inclusive school policies disturbed him....
988 suicide crisis helpline launches across Canada (www.cbc.ca)
Canada’s 988 hotline, which gives people access to suicide prevention services via call or text, went live on Thursday....
Woman arrested during Wet'suwet'en pipeline blockade found not guilty (www.cbc.ca)
B.C.'s Supreme Court has ruled that a person charged with contempt of court for breaking an injunction on the Coastal GasLink Pipeline was found not guilty....
Indigenous non-profit buying site of former First Nation village on Salt Spring Island (www.cbc.ca)
A 10-acre (four hectare) parcel of land on one of B.C.'s Southern Gulf Islands will soon become property of an Indigenous-led non-profit society....
Housing advocates call for moratorium on winter decampments in Vancouver - BC | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
Historic drought means there's almost no snow for ski hills in B.C.'s Interior (www.cbc.ca)
Despite the fact it’s late November in Smithers, B.C., located about 1,150 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, the picturesque alpine town has no snow on the ground....
Vancouver won’t see Mayor’s Budget Task Force report until next year (globalnews.ca)
Vancouverites will have to wait until the new year to see the results of a task force charged with finding ways to tighten up the city’s budget....
ABC Vancouver's indefinite delay on Stanley Park bike lane 'solution' shows the challenges of governing (www.cbc.ca)
It wasn’t an apology, per se....
With Sovereignty Act, Danielle Smith serves as judge, jury and power company executive (www.cbc.ca)
There. Boom. After repeatedly warning she would, the premier has wielded the Sovereignty Act, designed to keep Ottawa from encroaching on the province’s right to produce its oil and gas resources, or in the case of the electricity sector, burning them to keep the lights on....
Police Board Dismisses Complaint Media Were Denied Access to Camp Clearing | The Tyee (thetyee.ca)
Recall campaign launched to oust B.C. education minister over SOGI (www.cbc.ca)
A recall petition targeting B.C. Minister of Education Rachna Singh has been approved by Elections B.C., clearing the way for organizers to start collecting signatures starting Nov. 30, 2023 through to Jan. 29, 2024....
These B.C. teens are being immersed in local Indigenous culture — by playing Minecraft (www.cbc.ca)
As puffs of smoke rise from a fire inside a kʷikʷəƛəm (Kwikwetlem) big house, middle school student Elsa Romey reaches over to help her twin sister Maya turn soft cedar wood into a box with an inlay-carved lid....
Alberta to invoke Sovereignty Act against Ottawa’s Clean Energy Regulations (globalnews.ca)
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith confirmed the her plan to invoke the Sovereignty Act on Your Province Your Premier on Saturday.
NHL prevents Fleury from wearing special mask for Wild's Native American Heritage night (www.cbc.ca)
Minnesota Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury was told by the NHL he could not wear a custom mask for the team’s Native American Heritage night, his agent said Friday....
What was behind that Conservative vote against the Ukraine trade deal? (www.cbc.ca)
Ukraine has had a carbon tax for years...
Poilievre points at media to explain Rainbow Bridge 'terrorist attack' comments (www.cbc.ca)
On Thursday, Poilievre only pointed to CTV when talking about the “media reports” to which he was referring. But it appears Poilievre asked his question in the House before CTV’s reporting was published....