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a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

YouTube Bans Popular ASMR Artists, Accusing Them of Making 'Sexually Gratifying' ContentYouTube told ASMR artists including Bunnii, Slight Sounds, Rose, and others that their content broke the platform's sex and nudity policy. Creators say these bans are unfair and potentially life-alter...www.404media.co

OneCity has spent the last year telling progressives that they're the superior group in organizing, fundraising, and a clear electable message, and the Greens and COPE should get in line behind them. You can make all the caveats you want about a single poll, but 4% is so far from what they wanted.

BC's Mental Health Act violates Charter rights (sections 7 and 15), court finds: You can't assume an involuntarily hospitalized person lacks capacity to consent or withhold consent to treatment. Win for disability rights activists: www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/2... ht @ivacheung.com

My last article as the labour reporter at @pressprogress.ca is about.... media layoffs! Earlier this month, Rogers closed six stations and laid off 230 radio workers across the country. In Vancouver, the layoffs hit a newsroom that had struggled for years to unionize.

I hate it here ... 🫠 New from me, on the Canadian discount coffee chain in the year 2026 (!!) choosing to partner with the British anti-trans lady's three-decade-old children's book series ⬇️ xtramagazine.com/culture/tim-...

Tim Hortons and the no good very bad ‘Harry Potter’ collaboration | Xtra MagazineTim Hortons licensing “Harry Potter” in 2026 essentially means directly funding J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans crusadextramagazine.com

If anyone is interested in hiring this award-winning journalist, I'd be pleased to give a reference check extolling how talented and competent my former colleague and co-union steward @emmaarkell.bsky.social is to anyone interested Exhibit A:

PressProgress Labour Reporter Emma Arkell Wins Silver Canadian Association of Journalists Award for Labour ReportingEmma Arkell reported on anti-LGBTQ+ harassment targeting teachers and education workers for Xtra Magazine last yearpressprogress.ca

AI “art“ and “writing” is so hollow and soulless. If you conceive of the meaning of life as existing with other plants and creatures in this sort of state of death and life and creation… there’s no space for it. It mocks and undermines what makes life worth living

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero citiesActive travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.theconversation.com

“While oilsands carbon pollution more than doubled from 2007 to 2024 to 92 million tonnes, the ability of facilities in Canada to capture carbon from industrial sources hasn’t yet grown beyond a few million tonnes of emissions per year.”

For 20 years, Canada’s leaders have promised a carbon capture fix | The NarwhalIt’s expensive and unproven at scale. From Stephen Harper to Mark Carney, Canadian politicians have made promises on carbon capture — yet to be deliveredthenarwhal.ca

MARK CARNEY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

Carney government cut nearly half the jobs at nerve centre for managing wildfires: unionThe Carney government cut about 50 positions from the federal nerve centre responsible for managing forest fires, the union says.ottawacitizen.com

Today is the last day to sign up to volunteer for @transmarchyvr.bsky.social If you're willing to be a road marshal, they could use your help! linktr.ee/vancouvertra...

vancouvertransmarch Official: Instagram, Facebook | LinktreeNext event: Vancouver Trans March – July 31st, 2026; Commercial Drivelinktr.ee

“You start wondering whether there was mal intent or just incompetence. Neither [one] is good from a public accountability perspective” Transparency experts weigh in on how public trust is eroded by “secrecy & information control” by police & other public bodies www.defactomedia.ca/interview-fi...

Transparency advocates on police ‘culture of confidentiality and secrecy’A conversation with BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association's leaders about Vancouver top cops' claims to have no emails about Drug User Liberation Front before they raided — emails we later...www.defactomedia.ca

Carney keeps referencing “the fathers of Confederation, which is pretty rare in Canadian politics, when trying to drum up support. He keeps reaching deeper into the nationalist bag of tricks.

Carney vows to defend country in face of ‘unwarranted trade actions’ from U.S. — The Globe and MailPrime Minister is under pressure to deliver plan on Ottawa’s response to Trump administration’s latest tariff threatsapple.news

Aptly named new episode from our friends at @crackdownpod.bsky.social So pleased they are back! ❤️💜❤️ Please share with your friends. www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi...

Episode 57: We Ain’t Dead Yet — Crackdown PodcastDescription Garth and Sam discuss Elanore Sturko, Vaughn Palmer and Tristin Hopper’s responses to Canada’s declining overdose deaths in 2025. Was it the NDP’s abandonment of decriminalization and “...www.crackdownpod.com

Vancouver City Council has endorsed a high-density, mixed-use future for the former Molson brewery on Burrard St., with Senakw being a precedent. Metro Vancouver Regional District will have the final say on lifting industrial protections. #vanpoli #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/mo...

Vancouver City Council endorses high-density future for former Molson brewery site | Daily Hive | UrbanizedVancouver City Council has taken steps to support Concord Pacific's high-density, mixed-use redevelopment of the old Molson brewery.dailyhive.com

While Wab Kinew was speaking about the greatest possible nation building project that Canada could undertake is public healthcare... Danielle Smith quietly privatized a huge swath of Albertan's healthcare. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Wow... a speaker at the Villages hearing says the plan is fine for the East side... but the West side is far too classy and exclusive, and West side children need to be protected from things that are just fine on the East side.

Someone just called my posts about life in Canada "relentlessly negative and depressing." Yep. I'd probably be more cheerful if there wasn't a warning that the air quality where I live will be awful tomorrow, and if anyone in power in Canada was trying to make these events less likely in the future.

Here’s the full story: the BC Conservatives have hired an Alberta separatist and a far-right media figure, signalling the direction the party plans to take under new leader Kerry Lynne Findlay thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...

BC Conservatives Hire an Alberta Separatist and Far-Right Media Figure | The TyeeLeader Kerry-Lynne Findlay commits to a MAGA approach to winning power.thetyee.ca

And yet they are moving way faster than they are in curbing the car menace