These #PublicSafety #mandates had people protesting & being angry & refusing to adhere to them - like people complained about wearing masks to protect the community at large.

All those public safety mandate examples listed above also contributed to lowering the costs on our #PublicHeath systems because all of them were mandated as #preventative measures. When you're proactive with solid public safety, public health benefits too.
So does our economy.

Enough talking, enough debating, far than enough trying to sue the Indigenous, enough fake ass PR - stop being corrupt greedy corporate sellout wankerasses in public service offices & actually implement the recommendations in the TRC report.

Enough with the justifications on why they can't be implemented BS.

@oaklandprivacy

So if they're violating #PosseComitatus, will Americans just lie down and let fascism fuck them over?

Or will they read their founding documents and rebel? It's #2a time.

@DarleneRyan so if they're violating #PosseComitatus, will Americans just lie down and let fascism fuck them over?

Or will they read their founding documents and rebel? It's #2a time.

@ducky thanks for excerpting this too

on 7 June 2025, among influenza-like illness (i.e upper respiratory diseases) cases the province has test data for:

53.6% were COVID-19;
23.2% were entero/rhinoviruses;
8.0% were parainfluenza;
5.9% were influenza A or B;
3.7% were adenoviruses;
2.5% were RSV;
2.2% were metapneumonia viruses;
0.9% were “common cold” coronaviruses.

@ducky Interesting, so relative test positivities in BC, graphically:
RSV: "I'm here guys!"

Influenzas (all): "Oh yeah?" flexes

COVID-19 "hold my beer"

current data at https://bccdc.shinyapps.io/respiratory_pathogen_characterization/ via https://mstdn.ca/@ducky/114996721375127836

best (and least comfortably) understood with a screen reader

@thetyee

"Americans will no longer be able to believe in the very thing that sets them apart in a world of dictators and megalomaniacs: the electoral system that up until now has said that the people are in charge of who runs the country."

Nope, without even having an Elections Canada, it is political parties who have allllllways run elections in #mairikkka.

@housepanther Cops hated it when I kept reading them the dictionary definition of #terrorism & told them -> The dictionary has identified you as #terrorists & since you're all #Canadian citizens - technically, you're all domestic terrorists.

I've finally realized that the #GreenParty is the only group of people who *actually* want to do literally anything about the environmental crisis. Liberals will pretend to care while pouring billions into pipelines, and Conservatives will think you're stupid for not wanting to DIE.

Provincial-level politics feels local enough that it's real but also has the literal powers to effect change.

Let's process our resources IN CANADA rather than selling them raw!

Let's process the Tar/Oil Sands into bitumen using nuclear heat rather than burning the product to make more of it!

Let's refine that bitumen into high-value goods rather than burning them in cars!

Let's sell furniture, IKEA style, with our lumber rather than dealing with the US!

Let's make our economy as efficient as possible rather than buying in to the obsessive, irrational dinosaur burning juice culture down south!

Let's build high-speed rail, using Canadian steel, made using Canadian electricity, to economically connect our cities, and let's leverage our knowledge workers to sell services free of US control to the world!

Let's expand out ports so we aren't reliant on excess capacity in US ports!

WE CAN DO THIS CANADA!

#ElbowsUp