Health Services Association March to the Vancouver Art Gallery blocking a cybertruck. #HSA #Healthcare

The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has precipitated a reckoning among Trump’s ideological allies, with the AfD’s leadership increasingly distancing itself from his U.S. administration. #FarRight #NewRight www.politico.eu/article/trum...

What a great choice for @avilewis.ca's first big policy intervention as @ndp.ca leader: ndp.ca/news/ndp-mov.... This issue epitomizes how avg people are exploited by the tech & market power of oligopolists, & their intrusion into every moment of our lives. I predict this'll be very popular! /2

Hopefully, getting rid of Orban will mark the beginning of the decline of the UDI. #JustSayNoToFacsism

Guerrilla gardening in the West End. #Vancouver #WestEnd

This is the massive turnout for last night’s “anti regime” concert in Heroes Square, Budapest, ahead of tomorrow’s crucial Hungarian elections. Tens of thousands chanted “Russians go home”. #Orban

CAR-T cell therapy was first developed as a cancer treatment. But recently, it’s had remarkable success in patients with autoimmune conditions—including a woman who was battling three severe diseases at once and is now in remission, @katherinejwu.com reports.

Vancouver should start thinking about what it can do to revitalize Downtown Granville Street. #Vancouver #VanPoli

I’ve been saying that right wing extremist candidates for the leadership of the B.C. Con Party implicitly support separatism…. #BCPoli #MapleMAGA www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/bc-...

In a war where there are no winners, Israel’s Netanyahu looks set to be the biggest loser entering a fragile & vague ceasefire w Iran Israel’s horrific & unwarned-of mass airstrikes on Lebanon seem like a punitive act of displacement having been thwarted in Iran www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

With just over two months until the World Cup begins, the hotel industry doesn’t see the promised economic boon on the horizon.

There’s a bit of an awkward back and forth where the Board of Trade CEO asks Sim why he’s acting more like a traditional politician and wearing suits and ties everywhere. “We figured out how things operate,” he says, which is code for “we got crushed in the byelection so we stopped the swagger”

Daffodils at Stanley Park, #Vancouver

Americans could be celebrating and marveling at this today, but instead we're all thinking about whether Trump is going to nuke Tehran this month and how many tens of thousands of innocent civilians will be killed in that city of 10 million starting tomorrow night Trump has made reality a hellscape

In Jan 2025, he said Elon Musk was going the balance the budget with DOGE finding fraud. On 2/2/25 he said tariffs would balance the budget. On 6/2 he said OBBB would balance the budget. On 6/12 he said Trump Cards would balance the budget. Now he says Vance will do it.

Are Tenants in B.C. Second Class Citizens? I wrote an article for the West End Journal about the “Additional Rent Increases for Capital Expenditures” (ARI-C) provisions of the B.C. Residential Tenancy Act. #TenantRights #Housing #BCPoli #VanPoli www.thewestendjournal.ca/blog/2026/4/...

The most important article you will read on housing today (an emerging dichotomy that can't be ignored): "If it's cheaper for REITs to buy older apartment buildings and fix them up rather than buy new ones, perhaps the government should look into this too."

What a truly important articulation of the need for more direct tenant involvement in anything to do with rent increases. Tenants should not be solely responsible for costs that benefit landlords, and lead to more demovictions and renovictions. Clearer rules = more equitable process for all.

EVOLUTION OF TRUMP LIES ON WAR DURATION 2/28 "We'll be bombing throughout the week" 3/1 "4 weeks or less" 3/2 "4-5 weeks—it could also go less" 3/3 "We're already substantially ahead of our time projections" (so now a 2-3 week estimate) We're near 5 weeks. He now says he "always" said "4-6 weeks."

Are Tenants in B.C. Second Class Citizens? I wrote an article for the West End Journal about the “Additional Rent Increases for Capital Expenditures” (ARI-C) provisions of the B.C. Residential Tenancy Act. #TenantRights #Housing #BCPoli #VanPoli www.thewestendjournal.ca/blog/2026/4/...

Developers, investors join to build housing near hospitals for B.C. health-care workers vancouversun.com/news/develop...

Pope Leo should excommunicate #JDVance: Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday announced he’s written a book about his “personal journey” in faith as speculation rises about his presidential aspirations. #AntiChrist www.cnn.com/2026/03/31/p...

#StephenMiller urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis. #Pretti

RUBIO: “Imagine if Iran spent billions on its people instead of weapons... They’d have a much different country.”🤔😕 Unreal. @marcorubio Do you even hear yourselves? Your shameless hypocrisy is killing us

Just 38% of U.S. adults approve of how he’s handling the economy and only 35% support him on Iran” #TrumptyDumpty apnews.com/article/trum...

I’m curious about how the details work - but in principle @seanorr.bsky.social is right to look at a progressive property tax, and $3m is a good threshold that excludes most smaller single family, condo and plex units. I think the lower brackets could absorb 3 to 5% as well to restore services.

#MAGA #IranWar www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Yes to all of this. It's past time to crack down on social media and protect kids from it. Better late than never. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

A politician with the guts to say it: "No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die fighting in Iran. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein War." - Premier Wab Kinew at the NDP national convention, Winnipeg.

"American lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a Canadian man says U.S. customs officers held him for three hours at the border and forced him to provide a DNA sample before sending him home." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Cherry blossoms in Coal Harbour, #Vancouver.

BACK OFF ZOHRAN

Splish splash: Vancouver to vote on extending outdoor pool hours vancouversun.com/news/vancouv...

Jurors found Meta and Google liable for creating addictive products—a verdict that could change how social media is designed, Kaitlyn Tiffany reports:

@charlesrussell.bsky.social reporting yet another wild, wild story about Alberta politics, this time another chapter in the recovery facilities saga, where various contractors allege they're owed millions thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

Trump claimed today that he predicted 9/11. He's out of his mind. The media need to be writing about his mental unfitness every day until we get rid of him and save our country. (As I wrote last October.)

ABC assured us that they would "innovate" and "find savings" but preserve services. Are we shocked that they were incapable or attempting to mislead us all?

Boca Raton, FL mayoral race. H/t @gregpinelo.bsky.social

There are process implications of having the ODP in line with BC provincial mandates. If rezonings of 50% or greater residential are compliant with the ODP, a public hearing is prohibited. Council still decides via a regular council item, without speakers. /11 More information: bit.ly/4bBpqyZ

The vision of Vancouver Plan and now the ODP, is one of a more urban future for Vancouver with more housing supply and choice, and a model of growth that is more distributed throughout all Vancouver neighbourhoods, rather than heavily concentrated downtown and select transit hubs. /8

I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

If this is a threat to their economic competitiveness, they were never economically competitive in the first place.

Sean Orr has filed legal action against Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim for saying to media without evidence that Orr was dealing drugs on Christmas Day

Vancouver is considering its first 'official development plan.' What does that mean? vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

“More than a dozen First Nations chiefs and even more band councillors and elders were at Alberta's legislature Monday, calling on Premier Danielle Smith's government to stomp out the push for the province to quit Canada.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.timescolonist.com/alberta-news...

“If deep reading cultivates empathy,” Joel Halldorf writes, “the attention-fracturing, dopamine-hitting, scroll-spurring design of digital media often undermines it”:

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Friends, it’s a cult. MAGA is a cult. Please—for God’s sake, after a decade—accept this. Accept it, internalize it, and then decide what you think America should do. And as you think about that, think about all the other cults you’re aware of, what they did, and how they ended.

This magnolia tree on Haro Street is one of the first harbingers of Spring in West End Vancouver. #Spring #Vancouver

“Sim and Zhou have proven their ethical bar is too low — they do not deserve our support.” #VanPoli #Vancouver www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/05/o...