Hey @AirCanada I've been on hold for 3 hrs over the last two days and can't get through to anyone/when I do, they put me on hold and never come back? I'm just trying to redeem a travel EMD. when can I expect to speak to someone? Got a alternative phone line?
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So when is the class-action lawsuit happening where we liquidate the corporations responsible for microplastics in our blood and brains?
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Public healthcare costs billions of dollars a year and it’s one of the most beloved aspects of the Canadian social fabric.
The idea that a mass buildout of public and permanently affordable housing should only be pursued if it’s fully self-financing is bad.
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Structural firefighters remain in town and are working to save as many structures as possible and to protect critical infrastructure, including the wastewater treatment plant, communications facilities, the Trans Mountain Pipeline and others.
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I’ve never seen police so hesitant to enforce a court injunction obtained by industry against Indigenous peoples. Here in Woodland Cree traditional territory where Obsidian Energy was granted an injunction 12 days ago & is losing about $450,000/day from no access to its worksite. RCMP have said they’ve no plans to enforce injunction. They’re exceptionally friendly to the Woodland Cree on this frontline (I’ve not witnessed this before now) & one officer even complained he “does not want to be there, it’s a waste of time & the dispute is between Obsidian & Woodland,”a STARK contrast to other Indigenous frontlines I’ve covered. Right now, Obsidian is waiting for a judge to hear an emergency application to have Woodland Cree Chief Isaac Laboucan-Avirom found in contempt of court, for him to be arrested & held in jail until the blockade is removed. Right now, I doubt RCMP would enforce it if granted by judge. Meanwhile, Obsidian continues to lose money & other energy industries are watching closely & taking notes. A significant precedent is being set right now.
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Just had explosive interaction w/ @Columbia’s heightened security coming onto campus. They followed me to my office & then lied, saying I didn’t scan my ID for entry (I did) & I pushed an officer (I didn’t). An ugly scene followed. They did this to me, a tenured, full professor.
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BC has the largest coal port in North America, owned by billionaire Jim Pattison. Its millions of tonnes of exports of US thermal coal are mostly exempt from BC’s carbon tax. #bcpoli
Today, I announced our commitment to reduce oil and gas emissions in BC. Our backstop regulation to the federal oil & gas emissions cap will ensure the sector does its part to reduce emissions & secure a clean & sustainable future for people in BC
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2024… #cleanbc
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We just won one of the top awards in Canada for journalism, the Hillman Award for our doc Killer Water. Now, we need help to make another award-winning doc! We’ve been working on the story of the ongoing Secwépemc resistance to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, triggered when the government-owned project went back on an agreement not to dig an open trench through one of their holiest sites.
Please help make this happen so we can get this important story to the world!
Donate here:
gofundme.com/f/send-brandi-t…
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8 men have as much wealth as 3.6 billion people.
But sure, a livable minimum wage is the problem.
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Democrats want us to accept that they didn't give us universal health care, raise the min wage or end homelessness - and then accept that they passed the largest military budgets in history and are funding an actual genocide - and keep our mouths shut and still vote for them. Lol
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I rarely praise the Guardian but this is a extraordinary visual investigation of the sheer level of destruction in Gaza:
theguardian.com/world/ng-int…
Absolutely crystal clear when you look through it that the objective is to render the place utterly inhabitable, and destroy Palestinian civil society. Places destroyed are homes, mosques, schools, hospitals, cemeteries, historical landmarks, supermarkets, etc. Everything that makes up a community.
Complete disconnect from the stated goal of fighting Hamas.
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Why is there always money to bomb people, but never any money to feed, house or care for people?
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The U.S. and UK are bombing Yemen for the fourth time in less than a week. The first time the bombing was on everyone's TL and made headlines everywhere. But in a few short days it's already been turned into old news. This deadly pattern has repeated itself for my entire life.
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You could have heard a pin drop after this recording was played in court this morning.
These are RCMP officers who arrested people on Wet'suwet'en territory on Nov. 19, 2021, describing an arrest a day earlier, unaware they were being recorded.
