We need to stop the Danes from naming bodies of water

If Bell and Telus are going to create an anti-competitive cartel together, can they at least throw up a cell tower at Edmonds

"We're going to get away with this cultural centre" -Mike Klassen, while comparing opponents of the project to poison darts and the boulder trying to crush Indiana Jones

Inclusionary zoning is deeply flawed but Sarah Kirby-Yung directing staff to consider getting rid of it *to pay for keeping DCCs high* is just really weird stuff. Like come on, what are we even doing here?

Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver just killed the Social Housing Initiative. A program that could have actually gotten people off the streets and into homes? Dead.

Staff recommended that Council zone for social housing outright. ABC just voted to use federal HAF (Housing Affordability Fund) money not to enable more social housing, but to pay for staff time to develop a slower, more expensive alternative. @gregorrobertson.bsky.social

I think this line from the 'Vancouver Liberals' platform is really gross. Triangulating against the municipal public service is exactly what Ken Sim and ABC did in this austerity budget, and we shouldn't normalize this. I hope this won't be a theme of the campaign.

A bunch of zombie hands bursting out of the ground to snatch the Earth seems like a good encapsulation of 2025

We worked with @lucymaloney.bsky.social on a motion coming to council on December 10 to ban right turns on red at high-risk intersections. This is a low-cost, common-sense measure that will save lives. We need your help to tell council this matters! visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/12/04/d...

As we feared, we are hearing that transportation staff were hit hard by today's layoffs. The loss of expertise and capacity will reverberate for years. In its last year in office, Vancouver council is using scorched earth tactics to derail progress on road safety and lock in the deadly status quo.

Ahead of the French parliamentary election, the conservative party expelled its leader who barricaded himself inside the party HQ and refused to come out until an MP with spare keys showed up to unlock the door for the cops Just a fun story I wanted to share that is unrelated to any ongoing events

Genuine question: Is there any reason to think the reports of steep federal housing cuts aren't just a rehash of the 80% cut to WAGE thing? It kinda just looks like older budget authorities expiring and government finance reporting not being allowed to predict what future budgets may or may not fund

By splitting the musical in two, the Wicked movie people really made the jarring transition at the intermission between high school teen drama parody to extremely unsubtle allegory for the Bush administration 1000x worse. Anyways Michelle Yeoh as Dick Cheney is kinda funny

Guy at public hearing right now opposes social housing because it might shadow solar panels and destroy our power grid. Can't make this up

At public hearing, Sarah Kirby-Yung just compared making it easier to build social housing across the city to "boiling the ocean to get 10 glasses of desalinated water" Interesting claim from the self-described 'only pro-housing party in Vancouver'

My report on what seems to be (for now) the last word on Sarah Kirby-Yung's plan to tear out the Beach Avenue bike lane

It's been an incredibly frustrating day with Vancouver passing an austerity budget that will cut funding for important public services and infrastructure and fire hundreds of staff, even after over 600 speakers, including myself, speaking out against the harm that this budget will do to our city.

Adjusting the property tax increase for inflation, we can see that the zero-percent budget represents a 2% tax cut in real terms, the largest in the last 16 years.

As you may have heard, Vancouver’s proposed 2026 budget will mean over $120 million in service cuts, and our most vulnerable populations will bear the burden of these cuts, including women - one of the cuts that have been proposed is removing change tables and period product dispensers!

Moving things around the capital plan when you're slashing and laying off the teams that would deliver them feels a bit like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Who will design sidewalk repairs when exempt engineering staff are actively being pushed out and union staff will be bumped off?

Provincial guidelines: Dismount signs should only be used when the reason is immediately apparent to cyclists City of Vancouver:

So I've been giving this some thought and cooked up a wacky idea that would calm the intersection, add more public space and expand the cycling network, while sidestepping issues with Kingsway regional movement. I think the key is to make Main St a complete street and reject its arterial status.

If your human rights can be stripped away by the "notwithstanding clause" then they weren't rights to begin with. The notwithstanding clause should be dropped or modified so that it cannot be used to suppress human rights. Electeds should not be able to decide you are less of a person.

Eastern Canada arguably has the worst combination restaurant concept ever: the Thai Express-Sushi Shop. "I'm in the mood for sushi made by the guy at Thai Express," said no one ever

This was me! I think bumping is one of the most underrated threats that this budget poses to city operations, and mass layoffs will spread chaos across the public service:

Exciting news - I’m seeking the mayoral nomination with @OneCityVan! 1 / 5 youtu.be/2MTf7QmcEpc

proposed new rule: if you're over 0.8 David Ebys tall, you must stand at the back of the concert

The Sun seems to have run out of old people staring sternly in front of rezoning signs so we're getting this instead

We discovered that Cascadia gets earthquakes in 1987. There are tens of thousands of renters in Vancouver living in apartments built before that. Yet our seismic code is hell-bent on barring anything that's not perfect, even if it means keeping more renters in deathtraps for longer. What gives?

The 2026 Vancouver budget risks imposing cuts to road safety initiatives that we simply can't afford. With so few details being released, we call upon council to amend the budget to direct that essential transportation programs and staff be protected. 👉 More: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/11/12/2...

Vancouver staff when they're told to simply spend money more efficiently

Sure gunpowder and the compass and paper are nice, but the greatest invention in Chinese history is surely this spoon

pub-fvrd.escribemeetings.com/FileStream.a... Despite record ridership growth, and chronic overcrowding affecting virtually all time periods, the FVRD is considering withholding proposed expansion for the 66 Fraser Valley Express for FY26-27, deferring it to FY27-28.

The Vancouver budget will be devastating to services so many rely upon and to the hardworking employees delivering them, but here's one tiny sliver of good news: the scheme to spend millions to widen Beach Avenue and tear out the bike lane appears to have been dropped from the Capital Plan!

Why did Main and 7th win the title of Worst Intersection in Metro Vancouver? @nicthedoor.bsky.social explains the problems with this intersection... and maybe how we can fix it? 👀 youtu.be/XgSjL7e7_ow?...

So 1,400 units of student housing at no cost to SFU or the city fell out of the sky next to Burquitlam Station and Burnaby said 'nah', truly the mark of a council serious about housing dailyhive.com/vancouver/98...

Pas surprenant mais comme même décevant. Ça fait huit ans que Montréal est en tête de l'Amérique du Nord en matière de transports actifs et de développement durable, mais c'est certain que la ville va maintenant reculer. La seule question, c'est si ça sera un grand reculement ou non...

They say a good compromise makes nobody happy. That's why I suggest that we change the Pacific time zone year-round to be UTC -7:30 pros: - whimsical - makes for a great pub trivia factoid - force the CBC to say "8:30 newfoundland and british columbia" cons: don't worry about it

To people looking for a home today, writes @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social, it matters a great deal whether that home is built next year, or in ten. Re-legalizing small apartment buildings throughout our cities would create more homes faster. www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...

According to the BC Ministry of Transportation, you may bike through this crosswalk, but you must dismount and walk across, but also you must not walk here (Port Mann Bridge NB @ United Blvd)

A recent bugbear of mine: Vancouver has inexplicably decided that this sign, which is used basically everywhere in BC, is illegal for some reason It's not that big a deal because unsignalized cross-rides are really rare here, but still just really baffling stuff

As we approach the clock switch, a reminder that we need to overthrow the tyranny of the morning owls and have DST year round

Brilliant video from @ardenenglish.bsky.social explaining why right on red is so dangerous for pedestrians, and why BC should get rid of it. Please watch! youtu.be/AqDV13zzMao?...

Finally got around to playing with TransLink realtime GTFS data. Kind of fun. Transit in Vancouver is looking pretty good, especially considering this is an hour midday on a holiday weekend, with some lines not running (hello 44) and not all buses reporting real-time information.

It is my conviction that charging extra for guac should be outlawed and that, contrary to all price controls hitherto attempted since the dawn of humanity, this will have no negative consequences

Sadly the new provincial reforms to their multiplex system appear to continue to NOT apply to the City of Vancouver. The Province continues to ignore Vancouver's housing shortage, the epicenter of the provincial housing crisis.

It's weird to me that the Burnaby city line is where bike infrastructure goes to die... but not in the direction you'd think. Moscrop becomes an awful arterial road (East 29th), Rumble becomes a maze in Champlain Heights, Frances-Union becomes the busy stretch of Adanac crossing Highway 1, etc.

Burnaby is seeking feedback on their Southwest Bikeway upgrades, but some of the proposed options are... not good. If you live or ride through Burnaby, please read and tell them to take these upgrades seriously! visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/10/01/t...

My new crank hypothesis is that road safety in Metro Vancouver would measurably improve if we just impounded every car breaking the law when entering or exiting a Costco parking lot

MV reform might be needed, but the debate keeps being hijacked by people with unrelated grievances. So many critics are just using the wastewater plant as an excuse to try and blow up the urban containment boundary and put McMansions in a field. Proposed solutions have no relation to the problem.