Vancouver! I can't wait to celebrate 20 years of Don in Vancouver Kingsway with you all. Get your tickets today! dondavies.org/dance-party

At least $50 billion for another pipeline. $82 billion in new military spending in 5 years. $300 billion in corporate welfare and mega incentives at an investment summit. But the cupboard is bare for Parks Canada. Despite the heroic efforts of the @psac_afpc workers who'll remain, camping will be chaos next summer. If you’re not a big corporation or foreign investor, you might just be invisible to this government.

This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit. The developers at BioWare know how to run the studio. They know how to make the games we all love. They should be given the first opportunity - and the federal support - to buy it and run it themselves. And if we want to avoid the Mass Effect effect in Canada, we should be keeping private equity out, not welcoming it in. pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/…

BC, advance voting ends everywhere at 8pm PT today. Don't delay! This is a pivotal election for our province. As a British Columbian, I’m deeply concerned about what a BC Conservative government would do to our province, particularly the most vulnerable folks in our communities. I’ll be doing my part to defeat the Conservatives and elect a progressive government by voting for my NDP candidate Lara Honrado on Saturday. You can find when and where to vote here: wheretovote.elections.bc.ca/

D’après ce que me disent des ami·es d’Alberta, cette journée est en réalité assez difficile à vivre pour beaucoup. Pas le vote en faveur de demeurer au Canada, qui a été un soulagement, mais les neuf autres questions. Il apparaît de plus en plus clairement que le sentiment d’unité suggéré par le résultat du référendum est sapé par le soutien majoritaire apporté à des questions qui mettent en avant des politiques faisant des migrant·es des boucs émissaires. Mais aucune attaque de Danielle Smith contre les plus vulnérables ne permettra de résoudre les crises que connaissent l’Alberta dans les domaines de la santé, de l’éducation publique ou du coût de la vie. Ce sont là les conséquences d’années de sous-financement, et non celles des nouveaux et nouvelles arrivé·es qui tentent de se construire une vie dans cette belle province. Les Albertains et Albertaines méritent de vraies solutions aux crises auxquelles ils et elles sont confrontés·es, et non pas une recherche de boucs émissaires qui nous divise et alimente les préjugés. Aujourd’hui, tous les Canadiens et Canadiennes ont l’occasion de rejeter cette attitude et de dire : nous sommes solidaires des migrant·es qui subissent de plein fouet cette politique cynique et négative. Un Canada uni doit signifier bien plus que le simple rejet de la séparation. Cela doit signifier se battre concrètement pour nous tous — en construisant un mouvement qui transcende nos différences afin de faire de ce pays un lieu où chacun peut mener une vie empreinte de dignité, d’égalité et d’appartenance.

I’m hearing from friends in Alberta that today is actually hitting folks pretty hard. Not the vote to remain, which was a relief, but the other 9 questions. It’s becoming clear that the feeling of unity suggested by the referendum result is undercut by majority support for questions which feature policies that scapegoat migrants. But no amount of punching down by Danielle Smith will fix Alberta’s health care, public education or cost-of-living crises. These are the consequences of years of underfunding, not of newcomers trying to build a life in that beautiful province. Albertans deserve real solutions to the crises they face, not scapegoating that divides us and fuels prejudice. Right now, all Canadians have an opportunity to reject this and say: we stand with migrants facing the brunt of this cynical, negative politics. A united Canada must mean more than just rejecting separation. It must mean actually standing up for all of us — building a movement across our differences to make this a country where everyone can live a life of dignity, equality and belonging.