14th and Yukon is exactly the sort of housing this city needs: a rental apartment replacing a multi-million dollar house. This is how we fight displacement and create a more affordable city. Of course, it drew intense NIMBY opposition. Interesting to see who was absent for this tough vote, huh?

President Roomba is very on point.

🥁 India Is Electrifying Faster Than China 🥁 Read our story on @ember-energy.org's analysis. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I don't think I've ever listened to/read a full Davos WEF speech before but this speech by PMMC is something else. The discussion afterwards is good too. You should find some time to read/listen. Text: paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney... YT: www.youtube.com/live/dE981Z_...

In 2025, City Hall paralysis blocked 6 key sites from being developed. Ken Sim couldn’t build the majority required to get things done. Enough. I’m moving to immediately unlock these sites for 4,000 affordable homes. No more excuses. #VanPoli #HousingNow

A high school student was left with life-altering injuries crossing the street outside her school. Is the city doing enough to keep kids safe around schools? (Spoiler, no.) But it's fantastic seeing these high schoolers taking advocacy into their own hands! A great story, please read:

This year I have come to appreciate that this is a tool for childhood independence and parental freedom

This is why Avi Lewis will be thE next leader of the NDP.

Here's the full 40-minute debate between OneCity mayoral candidates William Azaroff and Amanda Burrows that @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social and I hosted on The Early Edition and This Is Vancouver this morning. Like! Share! Subscribe! Mystery Fourth Option!

Want better bike parking at your local store? HUB Vancouver-UBC is working to improve bike parking at major retail stores across Vancouver — and we need your help! If you’re able to connect us with decision-makers at major retail chain stores, please email us at [email protected].

Fun little programming note for Vancouver political nerds: @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social and I will be hosting a live OneCity mayoral debate between Will Azaroff and Amanda Burrows tomorrow on the Early Edition. Tune in around 8:10! (we'll have a podcast version as well)

I was on the CBC's BC Today this afternoon to talk housing on a panel with Michael Geller. One caller expressed an idea that really rubs me the wrong way: "Vancouver is full". Here's how i responded, and check out the full discussion in the next post, I'll link to my blog!

I am committing to Childcare By Right. We will make childcare a permitted use in every residential and commercial zone. If you pass your safety and provincial licensing checks, you open. No hearings and no neighbor vetoes. We are building a city where families actually belong.

Two people want to be @onecityvan.bsky.social first Mayor: @wazaroff.bsky.social & Amanda Burrows. I spoke to them both for the latest episode of Cambie Report (which is very much still a thing!) www.cambiereport.ca/e3-281-oneci...

A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.

View his full endorsement here: youtu.be/ii_FN1Qhbng

Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.

Caracas takes to the streets to denounce American aggression today: Video: BreakThrough News via X @BTnewsroom)

TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force? MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO T: So force is on the table? M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland

Really, a remarkable statement from Colombia’s President.

Over 11 million games of Spellie were played in 2025. Thanks for a great year.

Kate Hammer: who is the politician to watch for 2026? Richard Zussman: So, I think it's going to be William Azaroff. So, this is a guy who a lot of people may not be familiar with right now, but he may be the mayor of Vancouver in a year from now. Check out the full clip below!

You didn't ask, but we still answered - the most questionably-helpful holiday gift guide is back!

Mudslide closes part of Vancouver's Stanley Park Seawall after heavy rains A 'small slide of mud, rocks, and vegetation' has caused a section of Vancouver's iconic Stanley Park Seawall to close Sunday. #cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada

🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨 After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner! The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is… 🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉

Had a chance to sit down with William Azaroff, who wants to be @onecityvan.bsky.social's Vancouver mayoral candidate. Interview with fellow nominee Amanda Burrows coming soon! William Azaroff, Who Builds Non-Profit Housing, Runs for Mayor via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

If Amanda Burrows wins the OneCity mayoral nomination on Feb. 11, the executive director of First United will be in the running to achieve a Vancouver first on election day next fall: a woman as mayor. And one of the few mayors in the city’s history who rents, not owns, their housing.

🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨 We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide! 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

No big deal, but the Alberta government just increased the fee to submit a citizen initiated petition from $500 to $25, 000. After the separatism initiative was approved, but before Corb Lund's coal mining petition gets re-approved. No political shenanigans going on here.

"The potential to have things seized will send a message that you can't ride on the sidewalk," Burnside said.

I did this interview at Yonge & St Clair, the reporter hoping he'd catch a gig worker bombing down the sidewalk. Instead a pickup truck was parked in the bike lane behind us, and for the entire conversation rider after rider was forced into traffic. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

BC Hydro: ~120,000 customers without power after rainstorm knocked down trees and debris onto electrical infrastructure. Hardest hit areas: • Surrey: 18,400 without power • Vancouver: 11,200 • Port Coquitlam: 12,500 • Burnaby: 11,700 • Maple Ridge: 11,200 • North Vancouver: 10,000

Institutional inertia has taken over our city's institutions, and it's a serious problem. Why can't the City of Vancouver get anything done anymore?

🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨 We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...

Thank you brave hero who installed these barriers at night on Gabriola Island. But I wish we lived in a world where the ministry of transport was better at installing life saving infrastructure on its own. #TacticalUrbanism www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

⚠️‼️NORTH SHORE FLOOD WARNING⚠️ Stay clear of the banks of swift-running rivers and never drive across flooded roads, bridges or river crossings. More info: https://bcrfc.env.gov.bc.ca/warnings/advisories/FWN_2025_12_15_0600_NorthShoreMtns.pdf

Alberta country music star Corb Lund says the citizens petition initiative he had filed against coal mining in the Rocky Mountains has been retroactively killed by Alberta’s new legislation:

BREAKING: Officials in Sumas, Wash., immediately south of Abbotsford will be sounding their flood siren that warns residents to evacuate. This is a sign of likely flooding in Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Electric heat pumps anyone?

Ken Sim and ABC just gutted the Social Housing Initiative. That's not pro-housing: that's full NIMBY.

Worst case: EVs are cleaner than gas cars Best case: they’re a hell of a lot cleaner. (BC being close to best case)

I need to stop watching live sporting events. It never ends in happy feelings. Related: we're looking for a family from either Switzerland, New Zealand, or Belgium to swap places during the World Cup.

I would like to know what teams are playing in the World Cup in Vancouver, but this FIFA draw is unbearable. 🤮

"Professionally incapacitated" does not show up even once in the entire @canlii.bsky.social database (and only 31 times in Google Scholar related to employment law). www.canlii.org#search/index... We are going to have court cases in BC over what it actually means. That's how stupid this is.

I might have been a bit optimistic on how long Rustad would last.

Two fantastic contenders just entered the race to be Vancouver’s next mayor.

As of 1:37 PM, we've raised $5,582 for HUB Cycling's advocacy work this #GivingTuesday! We're 43% of the way to our goal of raising $13,000 by midnight tonight. ⏰ Will you help us get there? Donate now at https://bikehub.ca/giving-tuesday

Transit riders in Victoria, BC were asked what improvements they want. Here's what they said. Frequency, reliability, directness. h/t @toddlitman.bsky.social

Burnout Paradise at the Cultch was a blast. Highly recommend checking it out, especially if you're a fan of OK Go's treadmill video. Playing until December 7. thecultch.com/event/burnou...