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New Open Access paper: "Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach" in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Arguing that the #policymobilities & #socialmovements literatures can be combined to study counter-hegemonic activism. 1/6 tinyurl.com/88xmursz

New Open Access paper: "Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach" in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Arguing that the #policymobilities & #socialmovements literatures can be combined to study counter-hegemonic activism. 1/6 tinyurl.com/88xmursz

Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI. This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

The First Peoples’ Gathering House at SFU looking lovely in the autumn sunshine. www.sfu.ca/about/truth-...

You don’t fucking say

Something new—palpably different—sits slightly askew against the strong modernist lines of Arthur Erickson’s iconic 1960s campus design at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. Learn more about the design of the First Peoples' Gathering House at the link below.

More surveys of undergraduates suggest that they are deeply suspicious about AI in the classroom, and generally don't think it's going to help.

Wonderful to see this out! A great read that looks at policy mobilities that really gets to the political, power laden and spatial aspects of these processes.

Worth a read! A concise & clearly argued guide to the critical literature on global-relational policymaking. … An essential starting point for those interested in policy-making’s role in world-making.

They say that sharks die if they stop swimming. I think some people are like that, but with talking ...

They say that sharks die if they stop swimming. I think some people are like that, but with talking ...

“I have long been quite troubled by how the supposed stewards of the game have opted for profit time and time again." New York City mayoral candidate @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social speaks about the public petition he has launched against Fifa’s use of dynamic pricing for World Cup tickets.

EXCLUSIVE: New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is calling on FIFA to end dynamic pricing on World Cup tickets. His petition “Game Over Greed” also demands that FIFA reinstates a cap on ticket resales and sets aside 15 percent of tickets for local residents at a discount.

The Stanley Park Mobility Study has been released, and the VULC is quite disappointed at its contents. While we support improving bus service in the park, nothing in the report will make cycling safer or more accessible in the near future. #bikeyvr 1/8

The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live. Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed

Eavesdropping on Northern Residents 🔊
On Aug 31 we filmed A72 with her offspring A108 & A131 and sibling A123. Watch the bubble streams revealing the caller! 🎬 From our @raincoast.org pilot on KW communication with @earthspecies.bsky.social ⚠️ Drone footage collected legally under SARA permit.

To understand the deep context of … things going on … Sanho is always a good source.

centrist pregnancy announcement: we have abundance in the oven 🥰

This has bothered me for a few years & I've mentioned it before too. We've been able to smell the smoke for days yet CBC is still saying hazy—I heard it this morning too and found it euphemistic. We're adults; just call it smoke. Even Environment Canada is showing smoke on their forecast

Apparently, it's 19 degrees and "hazy" in Vancouver, according to CBC Radio's weather reports. Why hazy? This seems like poor journalism. It's #wildfire smoke. Why not say smoke? Who benefits and who doesn't by "euphemizing" the #climatecrisis? cc @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social #vanpoli

Apparently, it's 19 degrees and "hazy" in Vancouver, according to CBC Radio's weather reports. Why hazy? This seems like poor journalism. It's #wildfire smoke. Why not say smoke? Who benefits and who doesn't by "euphemizing" the #climatecrisis? cc @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social #vanpoli

NEW: Canada’s harm reduction nurses call on Prime Minister Carney to rescind harmful drug policies and fund evidence-based care ahead of International Overdose Awareness Day. A short 🧵 #IOAD #IOAD2025 #cdnpoli #drugsky #cdnmedia #bcpoli #nurse #nurses

Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the release of an @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social collection celebrating the life and work of the late political theorist and scholar of cities Warren Magnusson, who passed away earlier this year. www.urbanaffairsreview.com/walter-magnu...

Pls share: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship competition now open at UBC. Department of Geography deadline is October 9, 2025. Details: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

Support the flight attendants!

This is absolutely enormous! Gratitude to Canada's unions for showing our banker PM he just picked a fight he cannot win. A chance now to build on the united union power that beat Doug Ford over the notwithstanding clause in 2022. There is power in our unions! canadianlabour.ca/canadas-labo...

Arresting homeless people for sleeping in public spaces doesn't reduce homelessness, according to a professor who studies the issue. It often leads to worse health and makes it harder to find stable housing. buff.ly/Wceth5F By @sprzybylinski.bsky.social @michiganstateu.bsky.social

Is Air Canada sure it wants to be the bully? Please note that AC is making its profits off the backs of mostly women. This is gendered labour exploitation. And the fact that AC thinks it has a right to exploit ppl is fucking disgusting Y’all know how expensive a seat on an Air Canada flight is

This story is shameful and enraging. SFU was warned about this contractor many, many times. Will they finally give these workers the respect they deserve and bring them into direct employment?

Harm reduction services like Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs) adapt to the necessities and the context of different communities. Have you ever been to a DCR? Let us know in the comments.

The Tyee spoke to seven of Kulbir Kaila’s co-workers, who all say they believe an excessive workload, strenuous working conditions and a lack of support for existing health conditions contributed to her death.

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Vancouver mayor, Crypto Ken Sim, on this nonsense again ...

A great summary of the research on sports stadia & local economies: "the consensus findings of empirical studies are that the economic impacts of hosting professional sports teams are negligible." I expect this debate is about to break out in #vanpoli re the Whitecaps.

A quality thoughtful discussion w @seanorr.bsky.social & @landonhoyt.bsky.social re the Downtown Eastside, its worth, & its future (which doesn't suggest that the neighbourhood should be "ended" or bulldozed for condos). #vanpoli (Straight into my Gentrification course at SFU Geography in the Fall.)

FIFA will make billions from the World Cup. Don’t give them your free labour.

With high temperatures expected today and tomorrow and a heat warning in effect, here’s a link to a 2022 report on the critical work community-based organizations are doing to support their communities and adapt to extreme heat in Vancouver: vancouver.ca/files/cov/ex...

HUGE wife. Absolutely MASSIVE Scottish wife.

🔴 NEW: Loch Long on the Clyde has been contaminated by radioactive waste from the UK’s nuclear bomb store where old water pipes have repeatedly burst and caused floods, files released after a six-year secrecy battle reveal. Our investigation: theferret.scot/radio...

Trying to put together a list of restaurant & bar recs for friends coming to Vancouver (my hometown) for #APSA2025 has evolved into a ... slightly different project #polisky

In a debate w @libbydavies.bsky.social on CBC re the Downtown Eastside, Sam Sullivan says Switzerland ended harmful urban drug scenes thru harsh interventions. He doesn't mention that they did it in part by funding Supervised Consumption Sites, safe supply of drugs, & other services. #vanpoli

Two positions available with the journal Urban Geography: Frontline Editor & Social Media Editor. Good people to work with! www.urbangeographyjournal.org/news

Hey world, this is 100,000 Australians marching in yesterday's rain against starvation and genocide.

Complaints by Vancouver Fire & Rescue about fire risks posed by vacant buildings seems of a piece with previous concerns regarding OD response & lockable torch lighters. Firefighters are really talking about having to increasingly fight the effects of #Vancouver's willful neglect of extreme poverty!

@mklaz.bsky.social Miles Kenney-Lazar's book is out!! 👏🏼 I have to say the cover is one of the coolest I've seen in awhile... uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...

Some random pretty #Vancouver pictures

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