What would it mean to confront residential school denialism with 𝘨𝘶𝘶𝘵’à𝘪𝘪 — a Gwich’in principle often translated as “acting with one mind,” or collective strength? Crystal Gail Fraser writes. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

The Ontario premier either doesn't understand that speed cameras save lives, or he doesn't care.

FNIGC’s Fundamentals of OCAP® (Ownership, Control, Access, Possession), is a good starting point for learning how to interact with First Nations data and on how we can respect the principles in our work: fnigc.ca/ocap-trainin...

Parking doesn't just ruin cities, it ruins video games, too! You've heard the story - Sim City's creators wanted to model real cities but "there were way to many parking lots in the real world and [the] game was going to be really boring." Join us Saturday to hear from a Sim City designer!

The classic blogging about blogging post by @tessa.germnetwork.com to kick off her @leaflet.pub blog. But it's got some twists, like "publishing...is just assembling keywords for them to find you and kill you for". Oof. That hits. (thanks for writing, & for building tools that keep us safer)

"Ontario facing shortage of #rabies treatments amid record demand" c/o @egpayne.bsky.social ottawacitizen.com/news/ontario... (shortage of rabies immunoglobulin; vaccine supply currently ok)

"Govt spending in 25-26 is 21.7% of GDP, slightly lower than the 22.1% of GDP we spent in 98-99. Spending increases under the NDP simply reversed cuts from the previous 16 years. B.C. is spending the same share of our economy as we did a quarter-century ago but collecting far less revenues."

Any driver who has a problem with traffic cameras wants to put other people in danger without having to suffer any monetary consequences for their recklessness. It's really that simple.

At the very last minute I decided to add beets to my HK style borscht because I don’t even know what’s real anymore.

The combination of local heirloom tomatoes and freshly harvested shiso is divine.

I really only knew Dr. Darren Markland via social media. But his front line reports from the ER during Covid moved me to tears. His bravery, his compassion, his commitment to patient care, and to the truth, were unparalleled. In the worst of the pandemic, he was the hero we needed. #yeg

the way gadget youtubers still focus on how “cool” new tech is rather than contextualizing how destructive, for example, meta popularizing smart glasses will be to privacy is why we need liberal arts programs

Noteworthy analysis. It would be interesting to do this for different / emerging employment clusters outside of downtown (like Broadway).

Vancouver! Monumental urbanist and Messy Cities co-author @Zahra Ebrahim will speak at the VPL with @fabulavancouver.bsky.social Oct 14. It's going to be a cracker. vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/68b20...

ICYM co-executive director and senior economist @iglikaivanova.bsky.social webinar on BC’s projected deficit. Phobia about public debt is used to justify underfunding public services and downsizing the government and will harm the majority of British Columbians. bcpolicy.ca/2025/09/...

If you help people make decisions—design, technology, policy, etc.—and you want to make it more likely those decisions are based on clear goals and evidence (and maybe even ethics!), I have a public workshop coming up this week on 9/24. www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-do-de...

File this under my “new climate normal”: my apartment is so poorly adapted for hot summer weather, I will start taking inventory in March of what food to finish then buy in smaller quantities so my staples don’t go rancid en masse in my cupboards over the course of 3-4 months of 27C+ indoor weather.

Get your own municipal and state tech stacks to run everything essential, secure your data. Open source and open standards all the way.

I unintentionally heeded this very sage advice when I rode my squeaky upright bike in my dress very slowly to the house 10 blocks away where I pick my CSA veg. Riding in side streets, including one crossing that arterial road full of grumpy commuters on a Friday evening. bsky.app/profile/skes...

As I keep saying, the US can do what it wants in its jurisdictions. None of us are telling them to change their 1st Amendment even though it’s a mess. We just want them to keep their libertarian politics and butt out as we force the tech companies to comply with our laws and values in our countries

The safety net that BC nonprofits provide is fraying as public systems fall short explain senior economist @iglikaivanova.bsky.social and nonprofit leaders who drafted a letter to funders with the urgent message—without support vital organizations will not survive. vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

Extended Producer Responsibility is the heart of a cradle-to-cradle, forward-thinking approach that recognizes the basic truth that our world is not infinite - and externalizing is akin to hand-waving towards future generations. I’m sad to hear this is even being considered.

It’s really starting to hit home how many of the things that shaped my views as a young adult no longer meaningfully exist - and how much the onus is on me and my age-peers to either (re-)create it if we want it, or to bolster its contemporary equivalent.

Line5, aka that game where ask, “how well can I reduce the region from tiny squiggly lines in relation to things I have some faint disparate knowledge of?” TransLink 🟥🟥🟥🟩⬛ | September 10, 2025 line5.net/play/tl-yvr

Was I so excited to wear a dress I bought for my birthday that I might have logged on to a work call with the tag over my shoulder? The not-knowing is torturous.

The American Planning Association's Planning Magazine has a story featuring the #BikeBus movement! www.planning.org/planning/202... Curious about bike buses? Check out our foundational body of research on this relatively new form of Active Transportation to School: sites.google.com/pdx.edu/bike...

the solar powered future is here it’s just unevenly distributed so far

❗Now recruiting MSc and PhD students for September 2026❗ Come work @forestry.ubc.ca on indirect impacts of the internet on the environment. These are funded, thesis-based positions. Details on the positions and how to apply here: bst.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...

I… seriously cannot believe how prescient the entire characterization and concept of the Pakleds are turning out to be as a key for understanding current events. And with that, time for a Lower Decks rewatch.

This little bit of speculative micro fictional was deliciously educational and hit the spot, as usual.

you don't even want to know about the bike lane at the intersection of technology, power, and culture

everyone's all "oh meet me at the intersection of technology, power, and culture" but there's no road safety so it's a mega-pileup with casualties in the billions

I’m getting fed up and need to vent here. Drivers regularly park their vehicles in my neighbourhood in ways that jeopardize vulnerable road users. Combined with people who routinely shortcut on residential streets while speeding, this is a recipe for tragedy. 1/5

"We have woven a rhetoric around the current job market to convince us that the problem isn’t the way we’ve organized the economy, or the ongoing erosion of the safety net [+] worker’s rights, but the jobs themselves. In that paradigm, the solution [is] to create your own job."

Got to take in some live music from Montrealer Eleuthera tonight in a nice small intimate show in East Van. While her release was jazz and blues, her set tonight was more in the piano-based singer-songwriter vein. What a voice on her. She’s touring the Yukon next week. eleutheramusic.ca

Random fact I just learned: people with alpha-gal syndrome (the allergy to red meat transmitted by lone star ticks that are hosted and spread through white tail deer) can eat bird meat, including ostriches and emu.

cosigned; it's not coding, it's deciding what to code

This is a very good piece on illegal e-bikes, and a sympathetic look at the people who ride them.

This would be a great opportunity for someone wanting to build / experiment / learn in the news & media space and gets to work with @werd.io!

Hey BCers, are you frustrated with the cost/ service quality/ wait times when getting mobility devices repaired? Then I'd like to hear from you for a @thetyee.ca article I'm working on. Please reach out to [email protected].

Learning to loathe and dread the smoke icon in the Weather Canada app.

If you exist outside a car, you are all too aware that everything could change in a second, at any time. My sweet child said later "I just stopped because I was checking if it was safe to go." As @tomflood.bsky.social says: we ask kids to do everything right so adult drivers can do everything wrong.

Apologize? No Credit the guy on Bluesky who made this? Yeah, maybe The talented Jim’ll Paint it bsky.app/profile/sirp...

Unlike direct physical violence, which operates in the immediate present, ecocide functions across temporal scales. The destruction of seed banks eliminates not just current agricultural capacity, but future possibilities for food sovereignty.

My takeaway: basic infrastructure is feminist. Profoundly so.

In honour of the incredibly crappy air in Vancouver today, enjoy this ambient subtle rework of Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMFe... (And if you want a follow up, I affectionately think of Hatchie’s Bad Guy as the spiritual successor to the original.)

“The governments of Alberta, Nova Scotia and Ontario recently overreached the jurisdiction of cities such as Calgary, Halifax and Toronto by requiring that bike lanes be removed without public consultation. The perspectives of children, youth and parents have evidently not been sought.” #BikeHFX

These spiralized (aka rotato cut) golden beets we stuck on our sablefish tacos are 🌀mesmerizing 🌀.

Noticed one of my neighbours has a gourd measuring no less than 2.5 feet long; and no, this is not a euphemism. (As well as a very meticulously tended garden of celtuce and bitter melon.)

Maybe — just maybe — fully funding our parks and libraries and community centers could be a more effective, more life-affirming, and less expensive means of ensuring community *safety* (and vitality!) than bulking up the police budget!