This is an absolute embarrassment. The GVRD is a federation that has its foundation in 100 years of a water district based on good faith cooperation for the good of the entire region. It has delivered the world's highest quality water for bargain rates by working together...

Re: last repost, the line "Every day I wake up in the morning, get on the internet and feel increasingly like Batman trapped in an elaborate puzzle room by the Riddler" is... a very accurate description of internet headlines these days.

Anyone have tips on places that might take donations of old bicycles in Vancouver? I have an old cheap acoustic bicycle that has become dusty and flat-tired, which tells me I should probably get rid of it.

the crash described in the video was the result of VPD engaging in a chase. a vehicle chase downtown, on a world cup match day, in and around the pedestrian areas adjacent to the art gallery "if the tree wasn't there we would be dead" says one man outrageously reckless & a miracle no one was hurt

Canada Day is coming so to celebrate I can choose between patriotic pasta shapes or patriotic yogurt. 🇨🇦

I like the concept of scooter shares in principle. I'm not sure how I feel about them in practice.

Cars create the illusion that we all operate alone. The world zips by while we sit in solitude. We don’t pass other people—we pass other cars. The car dehumanizes our neighbors and friends. The incentive to speed doubled by mechanical ease, anything that slows us down causes rage.

I'm cautiously optimistic about this, but my impression is a lot of the cost comes not from the profits of audiologists, but the limited number of manufacturers who produce hearing aids (who, like everyone else, spend a tonne on R&D to make improvements such as shoving unneeded AI into devices).

Prime Minister Carney says the war in Iran was "worth it". I want to know who he thinks it was worth it for.

TIL that Commodore still exists? www.tomshardware.com/phones/commo...

I will be the first to admit I didn't vote for his party in the last election but I still feel rather bait-and-switched by this prime minister who seems to now think that Trump is doing a great job actually. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

I know everyone is really into renting their music these days but are any of y'all still buying digitally and listening through a desktop player of some kind?

More from CBC... Focus to be on youth sports, university championships, PWHL, Northern Super League and things like athletics/aquatics/etc in sports usually covered primarily at Olympics mediacentre.cbc.ca/announcement...

Does this street look closed to you? We shouldn’t need to host the #WorldCup in order to open streets for people. #UrbanTruth #Vancouver

Wait. How am I just now piecing together that Sabrina Carpenter was on Girl Meets World‽

It's more amusing to me than it should be that so many doomsday scenarios are some version of "too much computer" or "not enough computer."

The person who created a Walmart account using my email address (and their phone number / Brooklyn address) left their credit card in the account, and I've now gotten access to the account. Y'all, it is so fucking tempting to max out their card. I won't do it, but it is so fucking tempting.

Glad it's not just here. It's especially bad lately, and I don't entirely know why.

I'm not sure what's more infuriating - the fact that the beg buttons take an eternity to change the lights to cross Beach Ave, or that it makes no fucking difference because drivers, cyclists, and scooter users alike ignore the lights altogether and run pedestrians over anyway.

It's 10pm on Sunday night, & Granville St is teeming with people. I had long ago come to terms with the fact that Vancouver is too boring for this sort of thing. I don't know what got into people but I adore the pedestrianisation of the street & wish council would understand this should be permanent

Why does this bike lane exist? #bikeYVR.

How, in the year 2026, has TransLink not upgraded all its buses to include air conditioning?

The article fails to reveal whether they were zubats, golbats, woobats, swoobats, or noibats.

Vancouver deserves a permanent pedestrian street!

If you want your team to win you gotta elect a socialist mayor. I don’t make the rules

Things are going on in New York right that people may not understand for thousands of years

Real question though - why are some of them in green camo? Vancouver is a built up urban area. You don't need to sneak up on a deer or whatever while overpolicing the downtown core.

Is there a collective noun for cops sitting around in uniform staring at their phones while on duty? I feel like we need to come up with one based on what a frequent occurrence this has become here.

One weird FIFA side effect is that now there are picnic tables everywhere? And none of them look new. Why was the city withholding picnic tables for all these years?

Finally found a work-related use for AI - translate a document. Ran it through Copilot. It translated one paragraph, asked if I wanted it to keep translating the rest the document. I said yes. It tried & tried and after ten minutes I gave up and ran it through the default translator in Word instead.

The times when I most seriously contemplate leaving Vancouver are the times when drivers come at me in the crosswalk with the utter impunity of someone who knows they are justified in murdering anyone who dares attempt to cross a street anywhere near them.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

I keep trying to make a post, it says it's posted, and then it says post not found. Am I soft banned? Is this site broken? What is happening?

We should really just bring back the BC Electric trams and be done with it.

TransLink brought back the downtown loop route (for FIFA I guess?) but it only goes Burrard to Cambie rather than the other way to Denman, and it only goes anticlockwise, ensuring the maximum number of left turns. www.translink.ca/schedules-an...

FICTION: @petermeiszner.bsky.social claimed the Vision Zero plan would lower the speed on "streets like Boundary Rd, Clark, Knight St." FACT: The report clearly references streets with "high pedestrian activity" and "busy shopping streets." Did Peter even read the report before gutting it?

Went out for a walk to check out Granville and the FIFA festivities. 1) the street should be pedestrian only all the time 2) cops are grifters. This many cops on every corner, standing together chatting/pm phones. No doubt t they will ask for a bigger budget next yr /c of all the overtime this yr

I went out to find bubble tea earlier and the first (nearest) TWO places I went to were out of business, I finally found the third nearest one to be open. Is there a bobapocalypse I'm unaware of?

"[ABC councilors] made some excuses about wanting a balanced approach — and basically just saying that drivers being able to drive as fast as they want is more important than, you know, human lives" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

FIFA would be so much more fun if every country played the game it respectively calls "football." Ball shape, field size, points, other rules determined based on designated home team. Require the same players to play all the games across all the footballs.

It took until about halfway through for me to discover a training course I was watching my way through was AI-generated, but now that I've realised it (the AI could not pronounce the word "gamification") I can't unsee it. Weird fake computer screen graphics, slightly-butchered logos, I hate this.

So kids, please don't rely on AI for your papers and projects. It makes stuff up. Its hallucinations are not even internally consistent. And by the time it's done, I'll have been "married" to more guys that Elizabeth Taylor!

Every time I am reminded that Threads exist I feel uncomfortable. Like catching a glimpse of a parallel universe. I am both curious and repulsed.

BREAKING: Mayor Ken Sim's ABC majority voted not to reduce speed limits on major roads, despite 93% of all road fatalities in Vancouver happening on arterials. This was one of the most important Near-Term Actions in the entire plan, because roads will never be safe until people drive at safe speeds.

Part of me is excited for the Ocarina of Time remake but another part of me just really wants the Wild Era series to become a trilogy even though I know it will never happen.

When I turned on Madonna's Confessions II "film" I was *not* expecting a cameo from Benedict Cumberbatch. youtu.be/yJtckcMHM2g?...

Didn't we just have a big sportsball final a few months ago? Why is there another one already?

I keep seeing references to the USMNT in my feed and I am very disappointed to learn it does not stand for United States Mutant Ninja Turtles.