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[Ember•FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 @EmberExplores]

@sqwabb Brutal!!

[Stanley Q Woodvine @sqwabb]

@EmberExplores #Vancouver's 2026 3-day Dragon Boat Festival was cancelled altogether due to #FIFA.

Organizers scrambled to arrange a downsized "summer regatta" in False Creek for August 22, 2026. https://t.co/8EJ4p8QB50

[Stanley Q Woodvine @sqwabb]

One-time cash grant of $75k needed by 2026 #Vancouver Pride event as #FIFA sucks the funding oxygen away from all the city's community events! Remember that Pride annually generates at least $26M in direct economic activity & tourism revenue!
https://t.co/vU7wLBIOJ3

[Stanley Q Woodvine @sqwabb]

Mayor Smirky is getting away with it!

All 6 of @KenSimCity's ABC #Vancouver city coucillors vote to ignore findings of the Integrity Commissioner that ABC earlier tried to abolish. Council will NOT sanction Sim for harrassing Coun. @seanorr. https://t.co/9yJ0CeWy7j

[Jenny Kwan @JennyKwanBC]

Proposed water-intensive AI data centres mean 24/7 noise, constant diesel generator air pollution, and massive strain on our water supply as historic droughts loom.
Global lessons show Virginia found incompatible w/housing, and Ireland's data centres swallow 22% of grid power 2/3

[COPE: Coalition of Progressive Electors @COPEVancouver]

NEW from City Hall: The motion from Councillor @SeanOrr on getting a low-income transit pass has passed unanimously.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

We desperately need class consciousness in the U.S.

Class consciousness is not telling people to vote for the blue or red ruling class parties.

It is educating people that both parties serve the billionaire class, which is why workers need to build our own power to fight back.

[Amanda Burrows @BurrowsAmanda]

A win! Council unanimously supports cooling rights for renters in Vancouver by ensuring landlords can’t ban cooling devices.

Thank you to @Lucyincanada & @seanorr
for your leadership on this and for recognizing @FirstUnitedDTES for our work. This will save lives.

[Ember•FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 @EmberExplores]

@cie1947 Well, isn’t that fucking convenient

[Celeste George @cie1947]

both of the complainants are no longer living.

The complaints were filed by the families of Joey Knapaysweet and Marie Helen Agnes Sutherland Inishinapay, who both died in 2018 in Timmins.

Both deaths created tensions at the time and raised concerns about systemic racism.
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[Celeste George @cie1947]

Human rights complaints from families of Indigenous people who died in Timmins dismissed
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has dismissed two complaints alleging systemic racism in the death of two Indigenous people in Timmins several years ago because
https://t.co/knQkMEnZby

[Arminder Randhawa 🦋 @ArminderRand]

An independent mediator has found online retail giant Amazon responsible for the breakdown of first-contract bargaining at YVR2, its only unionized fulfilment centre in British Columbia.

The union says a report that was filed by the mediator with the B.C. Labour Relations Board found Amazon demanded the union permanently waive any right to challenge how hard and fast workers are required to work and told the mediator it would “never” move from that position.

It says the company also withheld wage proposals until April, despite the mediator asking it to table one.

“The mediator found both failures were unreasonable and that Amazon’s conduct materially caused the bargaining impasse,” Unifor said in a news release.

[Ember•FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 @EmberExplores]

@christineeboyle What absurd figures. Based on what? Landlord vibes?

[Conor Rogers @conorjrogers]

2022: Call my doctors office, tell receptionist I am running five minutes late, apologize, hang up

2026: Call doctors office, get routed to a new company-wide "AI assistant," navigate phone tree, get put on hold to wait for a human at a call center, wait 6 minutes, explain to human agent what is going on, get put on hold while human agent calls my physical doctors office to tell them for me

This is not better

[Ember•FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 @EmberExplores]

@cie1947 Can’t wait to find out council’s verdict on what recourse to take with regards to the Christmas lies and subsequent refusal to apologize and last week’s use of city mail-outs to shill for ABC reelection 🙄

[Celeste George @cie1947]

Vancouver mayor won’t be sanctioned for harassing, personally attacking councillor
Pytel was at Tuesday’s meeting, where she was met with what one opposition councillor described as “cross-examination” by Montague.
[Disgusting! His cop buddy saves him.]
https://t.co/Vzb7ULeSq2

[Ember•FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 @EmberExplores]

@ParkBoardScott @izavarise Everyone just needs to take notice and remember that ABC are showing you exactly who they are and how far above everyone else they consider themselves to be (and vote them tf out).

[Isabella Zavarise @izavarise]

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim will not be sanctioned for breaching the municipal code of conduct by misusing his office to harass and personally attack a newly elected opposition councillor last year.

https://t.co/vMyULZuNPS

[Arminder Randhawa 🦋 @ArminderRand]

Stewart Prest, a lecturer in political science at the University of British Columbia, called the code of conduct process flawed.

“I think you can’t help but come away with a sense of conflict, and conflict of interest of another sort when you see the mayor and his majority on council voting to put aside recommendations that referred to the problems with the mayor’s own behavior and choices,” he said.