I don't usually buy local postcards but I was impressed by this one I saw in a shop. Not the usual framing of downtown😯
Photo by Akim Zongo #vancouver#postcard
When I worked on the #NewChamplainBridge project, we thought briefly about daylighting the #StPierreRiver, but concluded that it wasn't possible given that project's time constraints. Maybe someday...
from #StandingTogether Instagram page
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"We are a grassroots Jewish-Arab movement fighting for peace, equality and social justice in Israel/Palestine."
2 events on April 13 in #Seattle
1 in #Vancouver on April 17
Speaker: Uri Weitman, an organizer for Standing Together.
#Amazon#Canada: we are seeing Amazon roll out its despicable #UnionBusting tactics just like it has around the world. But we know the solution is global worker #solidarity
Today I decided to spend the day working on something unrelated to antisemtism, or the Fediverse.
A friend and I met in person to work on an completely different project, and for a few hours I didn't think about the existential threat to my life, discrimination, or anything else other than the technical work.
That is, until we went outside to get lunch, where I saw this poster, and several others like it.
It's not "pro" anything. It doesn't say anything about Palestinian rights, or a fight for freedom.
Instead, it's purely anti-"Israel".
I couldn't help but in that moment think about the kind of antisemitic posters that existed in 1930s Germany that my own family must have seen in the lead up to the Holocaust.
But I don't live in Germany. I live in Vancouver, Canada, and here they were.
No one was shocked. No one was offended. No one was angry. No one cared.
This i how the Holocaust happened, through demonization and apathy.
Fires caused by #LithiumIon batteries r on the rise across #Canada, according 2 organization that represents country's fire chiefs, prompting warnings from fire services, injury lawyers & even #HealthCanada.
#Toronto saw a 90% increase in number of fires involving #RechargeableBatteries in 2023 — total of 55 fires, up from 29 the previous year — & the batteries were one of the leading causes of fires in #Vancouver that year.