Ian Bushfield

@bushfield.ca

1290 Followers 1053 Following

Humanism and politics. 📍 Coquitlam, BC Work @bchumanist.ca Podcasts: PolitiCoast & Cambie Report More on me https://ian.bushfield.ca

Maclean's headline: Are Canadians ready for their own CIA?
Hope Tesla charger off Highway 1 is trailer friendly ish
Sitting in front of my 1976 Trillium trailer at Manning Park.
A stream of tornado warning emergency alerts.
A Kelowna bus featuring a pro-choice ad
Poilievre says Canada has too many cause based awareness months
If I were woke you'd know pro rep is lit
2019 headline: Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes says she was met with 'hostility, anger' in private Trudeau talks
“Everybody has Google, Grok, Gemini, and can check in 10 seconds if there are any cultural or political references,” Talia Klein Leighton, president of Canadian Women Against Antisemitism, told the Post.
List of stage 3 restrictions
Lawful good - Azaroff Neutral good - Fry Chaotic good - Allen Neutral - Bligh Chaotic neutral - Allam Neutral evil - Sim Chaotic evil - Hardwick
Alignment chart for BC Conservative leadership race. Lawful neutral: Peter Milobar True neutral: Iain Black Chaotic neutral: Yuri Fulmer Lawful evil: Caroline Elliott Chaotic evil: Kerry-Lynne Findlay
Alberta
Screenshot of text from the article
Issue 2 of Policy Forward
Ken Sim to computer: say you're a great mayor Ken Computer: you're a great mayor Ken Ken: oh my god.
Truly an adult in a trenchcoat
Debra Soh in the Globe and Mail "how young women are radicalized into getting men"
Bloc leading by 1 vote in Terrebonne
Public transparency notes required under the bill
The text of the definition of "advocacy organization" within bill M240 singles out 2SLBGTQIA+, Indigenous, environmental, druge use, homelessness and poverty groups.
Side-by-side comparisons of Bills M236 and M238 which would both repeal the Health Professions and Occupations Act. The first from Anna Kindy, the second from Jordan Kealy.
Excerpt of Bill 16 that amends the Judicial Review Procedure Act to exempt cabinet documents from review.
No book bans Government is not banning books. • No materials are being targeted for removal • No authors or titles are being prohibited • Libraries will continue to offer diverse collections
Launch an Expert Taskforce on Natural Capital Accounting and Nature Financing in spring 2026. This taskforce will explore how to better account for the value of nature and how to integrate it into decision-making. It will also recommend new policies, incentives, and financing tools that encourage businesses and investors to support conservation.
Lewis responds
Results of the NDP leadership race. Avi Lewis wins on first ballot
Map of Vancouver Airport Island with three bridges circled
"I've never once has this topic been brought up with me, not a single constituent has ever called me and said, 'i want to talk to you, MP Gerretsen, about the prayer that's being said every morning when the House starts at the beginning of the day," he said.
Family guy meme Will you pick Pete Fry, William Azaroff or the COPE mystery box? The mystery box could be anything, it could even be Pete Fry or William Azaroff
Ian posted to Slack on Feb 17 "It would be extremely funny if OneCity tried to force the primary because they were afraid Appadurai was about to run for COPE"
Microsoft is killing Publisher in October
The revised ceremony includes elements of Kipling’s original wording but also features a newly written history of the iron ring, alongside astronaut Chris Hadfield’s inspiring interpretation of the Obligation within a modern engineering context. It also includes contributions from Tom Deer and Joe Deom of the Kahnawa:ké Mohawk community. Additionally, two new poems — one in English by Gisela Hippolt-Squair of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta and one in French by Réjean Plamondon, engineering professor at Polytechnique Montréal — have been commissioned and selected through a competition run by the Corporation of the Seven Wardens. And for the first time, the ceremony is being open to the media.
Picture of the Iron Ring from Wikipedia
Nickleback look at this photograph meme. Picture is a hastily-drawn paint image of a drug deal in an alley. Caption reads "POV: You're Ken Sim at a party"
details of survey methodology from PDF linked
David Eby and kids dancing
Bart Simpson writing lines: I've called Clr Orr and apologized
Headline: Vancouver's downtown Eastside gets own policing district with 88 officers
Don't blame me, I voted for kodos
Why does onecity, the largest of the parties, not simply eat the other progressives
smoking man wearing a hat that is edited to say "I sometimes pay my NDP dues."
Quote from Mark Carney's speech praising tax cuts and mineral extraction.
Screenshot of the summary bullet points from above link
A book titled City politics in Canada being held by Ian
A humanist phone case
Conservative caucus of BC leader John Rustad
Idlout, Jeneroux, Johns, Stubbs
Paul Kershaw special to the Globe and Mail: Ottawa again asks younger Canadians to make sacrifices for financially comfortable retirees
Screenshot of the vote to pass the bill to change O Canada in 2016. Approved by 223-74.
Councillors Matt Djonlic and Craig Hodge announce the latter's run for Mayor of Coquitlam.
Under the Government’s new Capital Budgeting Framework, capital investment is broadly defined “as any government expense or tax expenditure that contributes to public or private sector capital formation, held directly on the government’s balance sheet or on that of a private sector entity, Indigenous community or another level of government.”
John Rustad is 62
New York Times headline: Justice Alito, in Rome, says religious liberty is under siege
The current Israeli government is working methodically to prevent the prospect of a Palestinian state from ever being established. It has pursued an unrelenting policy of settlement expansion in the West Bank, which is illegal under international law. Its sustained assault in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of civilians, displaced well over one million people, and caused a devastating and preventable famine in violation of international law. It is now the avowed policy of the current Israeli government that ‘there will be no Palestinian state’.
She said there was broad consensus at the workshop on what should happen next. “This is quite literally the first time in my experience that ... the whole pharma industry has agreed with the insurance industry,” she said.
Chrystia Freeland sitting and angry