In ordinary times, we would rely on the Charter to backstop women's rights. But if Mr. Poilievre follows through with a plan to use the Notwithstanding Clause, women & others who have fought hard for freedoms will face the possibility that ideology will put those rights at risk.

South African-Canadian author KLM🇿🇦🇵🇸 was kicked out of luxurious event honouring Canadian political writers.

Why?

Because she reminded powerful people enjoying a luxurious dinner in Ottawa of the children dy*ng of malnutrition in Gaza.

Here’s what happened:

Well, it's official. ABC has killed the 'West End Waterfront Parks, Beaches, and Transportation Vision', but is re-introducing two way car traffic to Beach Ave west of Denman.

Note that Bligh voted against B the restoring-two-way-car traffic part!

Fry pointing out this plan was in consultation for years. Then, after staff and public comments, with no notice or opportunity for any more comment, ABC just bins the whole thing.

Is that responsible governance?

Boyle speaking eloquently about the poor governance of bringing such a huge amendment without notice to other councilors (presumably ABC councilors saw this though), how this is inconsistent with the city's climate and active transpo goals.

She's right!

3 years of consultation w/ staff, residents, public, stakeholders for a 30 year WestEnd waterfront vision: climate resilience, natural systems, sports courts, skate plazas, dog park, active transportation, placemaking,++
Killed by Ken Sim & ABC
More cars and traffic though😕

So YouTube age restricts Macklemore new song on Gaza but has allowed Israeli war propaganda ads to run for months in service of genocide? Big Tech has blood on their hands. Since October 7 they have been profiteering from mass slaughter while silencing protesting voices.

This is your annual reminder that the last time the Conservatives were in power, they shut down the Kitsilano Coast Guard station. #cdnpoli #vanpoli

This is just asinine.

1. People can care about more than one thing at once.

2. Pronouns are a matter of basic dignity. If you don't get that, you cannot provide safe employment for trans & nb folks. Discrimination at work is why trans people experience high rates of poverty.

Relevant.

“It boggles my brain that this even needs pointing out: political elections have always played identity politics. The difference is that the game was heretofore entirely weighted towards the white straight male.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

We have doubled in one day.

1,900+ UBC Alumni & Workers Stand with Student Encampment for Gaza

As Israel bombs Rafah, UBC must not choose genocide. Any university that claims to be reckoning with settler-colonialism, must not remain silent or complicit

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

This man got told to ‘do your research on Palestine before you say anything nice about Palestinians’ and then proceeded to do exactly that, learning enough to turn what he learned into an an anthem for Palestinian protests and movements

Y’all can call him corny, but he cooked.

I still haven't recovered from seeing this graph. I honestly don't even know how to talk about it. Do you see how close we are to New York?

So to be clear, the US offered Hamas a ceasefire that included an Israeli withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip in exchange for releasing all the Israeli POWs, which Hamas accepted, but Israel then rejected.

Can absolutely guarantee US media will not report it this way.

Two days later, we’re hosting a screening of award-winning film Golden Delicious.

Director Jason Karman and writer Gorrman Lee will then discuss their creative visions with Brandon Yan 甄念本.

Wed, May 8 @ 6 pm

Details: vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/65f1fa1…

buried alive

The garden has gone to the birds! The garden on Level 9 of the Central Library is currently closed until the geese and goslings have been safely relocated. We apologize for the
inconvenience. Please enjoy the city views from the open terraces on Level 8. 🦆🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤

I hate to go against the prevailing media narrative, but:

By many measures decriminalization of possession of small amounts of drugs was working.

My explainer today. thetyee.ca/News/2024/05/0…

Announcing the 1st inaugural Filipino-Canadian Book Festival on July 12-14th in #vancouverbc

Details coming soon, but if you're interested in sponsorship, click here: shorturl.at/BGILT

Sampaguita Press Massy Arts Society PilipinxPages Maria Bolaños MassyBooks & Dani Sidloski

.VanCAF returns to the Roundhouse Community Centre this Victoria Day long weekend, and there's plenty for fans of comics and art to discover.

dailyhive.com/vancouver/vanc…