Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

🏙️ Can cities align health, equity, & sustainability? IIPP's Isadora Spillman-Schappell & @cassandramah.bsky.social reflected on the 2024 Healthy City Design Congress & highlighted the key themes that arose in their blog for the Council on Urban Initiatives. ✍️ Learn more: buff.ly/GXuvuiH

Cites studies: RoR doesn't save fuel, doesn't reduce traffic, but does create danger. Right now we allow the dangerous option by default and require special action to change it. It should be the opposite. "Red light means stop" has been teaching this to her 2 year old. Make it consistent!

Here’s why COPE and OneCity moved forward on separate mayoral campaigns for next year’s Vancouver election, even though they both say they’re open to working with one another and the Greens on a united progressive choice www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social’s first English-media interview since resigning over the pipeline MOU with Alberta, the former cabinet minister said the government isn’t being honest with the public and is betraying its commitments.

Proud member of the "People's Filibuster", aka the hundreds of residents speaking against a #VancouverBudget proposal with zero transparency, putting essential depts & services at risk. 1) Doesn't have to be austerity, 2) Is it even "austerity" if you increase VPD budget? Try again #vanpoli

Health Canada ignored expert advice to expand access to safer drugs for opioid users, internal documents show. There are no plans to renew funding for safer supply programs, says Health Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca

More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém (Brazil), 12% up from last year’s talks in Baku, Azerbaijan. What should be the most serious, urgent talks on the planet continue to be a farce. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UPDATE: If you want to speak (in person or by phone) at tomorrow's important city council meeting – at which these proposed Vancouver budget cuts will be considered – you can sign up here (BUT NOTE: the deadline to sign up is 5:00pm today, Nov 11): vancouver.ca/your-governm... 🧵...

Worth noting that because Sim brought forward his proposal for a property tax freeze requiring millions in cuts with just weeks left in the budget process, this is not up for public debate and is not outlined in the documents available to councillors when they vote on this

🚨Local union leaders sounding the alarm on ABC's cuts. “This proposed budget would not only have a serious impact on workers, but it will also likely have far-reaching consequences for public services throughout Vancouver’s communities and neighbourhoods.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... #vanpoli

Yikes. BC Residents May Have to Cover a Property Tax Break for Pipelines. You know, because these fossil fuel corporations don't get to make enough profit on the basis of public/Indigenous land & resources. via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

How can we map and measure preventative spend? Join us for the launch of CIPFA's new report on understanding preventative investment, which we are pleased to support. 📍The Health Foundation, 8 Salisbury Square, London 📆 Thursday 6 November, 13.30–14.30 Find out more and register ⬇️

Take a data-driven look at BC’s fiscal health + equip yourself w/tools to challenge austerity narratives in favour of sustainable & progressive policy solutions. Economist & co-executive director Iglika Ivanova walks us through what's really behind BC's deficit. Watch here:

Couldn't make it to this webinar on Wednesday? Here’s the video recording! Senior economist Alex Hemingway and Housing Squamish E.D. Sarah Ellis walk us through key policies and local lessons to solve the housing crisis in BC.

This is good —the Mayor of Yellowknife NWT in Canada’s far north weighs in on “Car Bloat” (truck bloat actually) and its many big costs & consequences (thanks @davidzipper.bsky.social for heads-up). And like most who dare tell the truth about that, he’s taking flack. www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/...

I've found it hard to land the significance of wildfires to people outside Canada (or other places that experience them). This stat is shocking but hopefully useful.

Looking for progressive solutions to tackle BC's affordability crises? Senior economist @iglikaivanova.bsky.social‬ leads a webinar to show how declining revenues created our fiscal challenges & makes the case for fairness and robust public investment. Sept. 17, noon PT. bcpolicy.ca/events/

PhD Studentship: Polluter Pays to Address the Commercial Determinants of Health (CDoH) University of Bath Closes 30/09 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The Renters’ Rights Bill will make a difference to millions. Today we tell Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook to prioritise passing the bill and end these delays for renters rights.

As MSPs return to Holyrood next week, the 2026 election looms. It must be a turning point. Towards a democratic, sustainable and just economy. Our new briefing sets out 11 ways Scotland can change course. Read our summary here: www.futureeconomy.scot/posts/290-th...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Incredible to see this billboard up in Vancouver. So happy to have worked with the amazing people @visionzerovancouver.ca visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/02/d...

All power to @chrisgpackham.bsky.social and @wildjustice.bsky.social in pursuing this crucial case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ICYMI: Important stuff includes intention for a new #healthy #duty on #mayors and strategic authorities. See what @thekingsfund.bsky.social and @clesthinkdo.bsky.social think that needs to look like here cles.org.uk/publications...

1. At the Tipping Points conference in Exeter yesterday, I spoke about the likelihood of food system collapse: a massive existential threat few people's radar. If you want a handle on the issue, here's the submission I made to a parliamentary committee. + 🧵 www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...

Now this is good to see! Patriotic Millionaires Canada, a new organization that brings together wealthy Canadians concerned about economic inequality & advocate for policies to effectively tax the ultra-rich, has released a report calling for wealth taxes: patrioticmillionaires.ca/media/report...

Great to see Nicholas Drake contributing to this timely reflection on the wellbeing agenda and the government's Measuring What Matters framework. Read more: theconversation.com/whatever-hap...

Canada’s Oil and Gas Growth Could Backfire—Study finds billions in oil and gas investment at risk as global demand declines. Up to 66% of future capital investments in Canadian oil and gas projects are in danger of becoming stranded. www.iisd.org/articles/pre...

“Now is the time to build — not cut back.” - Mairi MacRae, Director of Policy and Campaigns We need the government to invest in building 90,000 social rent homes a year for a decade. 🏠 With just three days to go, all eyes on the Spending Review. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

If Prime Minister Mark Carney wishes to turn the page on past governments and stand up to US President Donald Trump, a green industrial strategy is serious forward-looking leadership, writes Nick Pearce www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/03/o...

A new study shows brake wear releases more particulate matter than tyre wear & exhaust emissions combined. Good list of recommendations here for governments to tackle this, including adopting Euro 7, supporting fleet electrification and encouraging mode shift to other transport options. #CleanAir

Outside of the world wars, this is the best time in Canadian history to increase taxes on the wealthy and push the idea that paying taxes is a patriotic duty. Instead, the Liberals are going with the conservative playbook of continuing to demonize taxes and shit on the very idea of public spending.

“Canada needs a national architecture policy,” writes @toondreessen.bsky.social in the Globe & Mail. He makes a strong case, citing past Canadian successes and inspiration from nations around the world. #CanadaStrong

Don't take it from me. Take it from the government's own assessment: Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie. A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“2.8 million landlords in the UK: more than 5 per cent of the adult population… twice as many landlords as NHS employees, four times the number of teachers…Landlordism is the closest thing we have to a national industry” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Prosecutions under this change in the law might amount to two or three per year. Which I'm fine with, BTW. But now do the same for drivers. Anyone recall the last time a driver got life for any of the 1600 deaths involving motor vehicles? www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...

We also need to have a conversation about cyclists being set up to fail. I cycle on a narrow shared-use path that is almost guaranteed to have children running across it because it sits between a beach and a playground. If I drive an antisocial SUV I'm given a road where such issues are controlled

It's great when you realize why you've been put on this planet. My raison d'être? I'm here to get more people to sit down and do less.

“Indigenous sovereignty has never been a threat to Canada… it is an essential foundation on which British Columbia and Canada is built.” Grateful to have worked with Jody Wilson-Raybould on this important Op-Ed. indiginews.com/first-person...

🔗The interlinked crises of health, climate change, & inequality are a result of policy choices. IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social wrote on how to rethink the relationship between health and the economy and what it would mean for the economy to serve health. ✍️Learn more: buff.ly/34MLft3

🌍 Homes that Don't Cost the Earth (#HDCE). IIPP, along with Arup, @darkmatterlabs.org , and Rising Tide, has launched a new project, reorienting the UK housing strategy towards the goal of truly affordable homes for all. 🔗Learn more about the project here: buff.ly/FTI23ZS

📣 IIPP is hiring - Join the team! We are looking for a Research Fellow to join IIPP's Strategic Economics Alliance ( @iipp-sea.bsky.social ) and help us create a stronger link between new economic theory and new practice by elevating new voices. 🔗Learn more & apply here: buff.ly/beBxTLY

📍Happening in 15 minutes! Join us for the latest #IIPPInConversation event with IIPP's @rainerkattel.bsky.social , Veronika Bylicki, Ruth Puttick, and @ben-rog.bsky.social on 'Assessing City Government Dynamic Capabilities'. 📺 Join online if you can't join in person: buff.ly/XLc5Zm8

VANCOUVER CITY COUNCIL BY-ELECTION TODAY! Never underestimate the huge power and effect that city council members have over your lives, and over the big challenges you/we face as a city. A LOT depends on who you give that huge power to, by voting, or by not voting. Please #VOTE.

1/3. G8 to be on panel with @dph-mashton.bsky.social @ruthspeare.bsky.social @mubj.bsky.social re English #devo and #health @adphuk.bsky.social @lgawellbeing.bsky.social conference. Tx for qns. 1st output from @thekingsfund.bsky.social @clesthinkdo.bsky.social work below #LGAPublicHealth25