Elected on a "relentless focus on affordability". Jeepers, I wonder if there are any lessons for BC politicians? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

Just made a donation to support the new @freshetnews.bsky.social. Great to see @theresamc.bsky.social's reporting again! Please join me supporting this new co-operative news outlet: click.chuffed.org/click?ZTJBhr...

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Lime still life. I see #Lime scooter helmets on the ground all over Downtown Vancouver. I guess everyone’s an expert scooter driver. #yvr #escooter #safety

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So BC Coast is Canada’s coast says premier Moe of Saskatchewan. I guess that makes oil in Alberta Canada’s oil. And uranium and potash in Saskatchewan is Canada’s. And of course that means that Ottawa and the other provinces have a say as to how these resources are managed.

I would be DELIGHTED to have all of my online orders and parcel mail through Canada Post - and would pay more for it. It's the only service with a secure lock box in my building (everything else gets stolen), and it is a million times more reliable than these "last-mile carriers". Make it possible!

Julian makes many good points here. However, no one can suggest more affordable housing isn't part of the answer as well. Les Leyne: 'Anything goes' attitude leads to downtown decay www.timescolonist.com/opinion/les-... via @timescolonist.bsky.social

French President Emmanuel Macron phoned President Donald Trump after being stopped at a New York intersection that was being blocked off for his U.S. counterpart's motorcade during the United Nations General Assembly.

‘Bringing them home in coffins’: Ombudsman finds unsafe conditions in Fly-in First Nation. Ricochet journalist Jon Thompson accompanied Ontario’s ombudsman on a shocking tour of Neskantaga First Nation. This is what they saw. ricochet.media/indigenous/b...

Canada, other fossil fuel producing nations derailing world climate targets www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Eye roll

Orca spotted pushing dead calf near San Juan Islands www.timescolonist.com/local-news/o... via @timescolonist

Ben & Jerry's co-founder resigns, with criticism of parent company Unilever, Trump administration www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

I think Canada’s going to get cancelled. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

For those of you who don't know, Ayoub's is a great fruit and nut place with several locations in Vancouver, and Meat + Bread is the world's most hipster sandwich shops, also with several locations in Vancouver. #yyj #downtownbusiness

Downtown Victoria, where I live and have an office, and which some describe as an urban hellscape - is getting an Ayoub’s *and* a Meat + Bread, half a block from my office. celebrate good times, c’mon!

BC's premier is holding a presser about LNG expansion and a rare opportunity to ask questions about things like climate goals and Indigenous partnerships, and media keep asking Qs about Eby hiring a comedian as a speechwriter... 🫠

Opinion: Community land trusts offer a fix to Canada's housing crisis

I was watching a video of Munsch performing Paper Bag Princess for a training session when I got a message about this story - really. I met him several times - a truly gifted storyteller who lived up to the hype. Canadian icon Robert Munsch has chosen to die by MAID nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

Do not know why Ovendon is surprised an issue was made of this. In this day and age - esp. the 'best brain in gov't' - people in gov't and politics around the world know they shouldn't write anything they wouldn't be comfortable hearing on the news. Inexcusable. @theguardian.com

B.C.’s deficit to rise to $11.6-billion after dropping carbon tax /via @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Bravo, Tofino! Press Release: Tofino Becomes First Municipality in Canada to Ban Sale of Single-Use Plastic Water Bottles 1 Litre & Less talktofino.ca/prohibition-...

If you’re like me and didn’t know much about Charlie Kirk until this week, this episode of @nytimes.com The Daily provides an informative overview of who this young man was, and the impact he had on US politics. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison Thursday after convicting him of attempting a coup to remain in office despite his 2022 electoral defeat. www.cbc.ca/news/world/b...

As I said to my dad yesterday, Democrats will be quick to support Mamdani...if he wins. Mamdani Gets Backing From National Democrats as Trump Enters Fray www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

Global News laid off 26 journalists in B.C. and Alberta today. In B.C. the layoffs include virtually all of the online team, along with many others. The business is increasingly cruel, and the hollowing out of newsrooms providing fair and reliable information continues to suck.

It's incredible I somehow made it 10 years in the news biz without being laid off but my luck ran out today. Sad to see a quality team torn apart. Spare a thought for your local journos who are ever being asked to do more with less, especially if you're tempted to dunk on the MSM.

On @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social's Early Edition, I've heard a story about if it's time to ease renoviction bylaws, and now hearing a story about easing short-term rental rules for FIFA. I was evicted twice (first a renoviction) in Vancouver btwn 2018 and 2023, and now live in Victoria. (1/2)

Smokey skies in Victoria this morning.

Learning from the teeny boppers in the coffee shop I’m at, loose jeans are back in style in a big way…

For those who love parking minimums, read on. My favourite EV Modo is in a residential parking spot in downtown Victoria that is nearly empty; parking increases cost of housing. Many expensive parking spaces are sitting empty in Tri-Cities residential buildings tricitiesdispatch.com/many-expensi...

I'm letting my cringe flag fly 24-7!

‘A full-circle moment’: Okanagan company to carry on juice enterprise it helped students create. ⬇️ www.kelownanow.com/watercooler/...

It is well past time for a national firefighting agency. Canada doesn’t have a national firefighting agency. This fall is decision time on whether to build one www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I didn’t think it would get this hot again. It has. #yyj

Embracing the absurdity of living in the dystopia Morning File by me

Early in my career, I was sexually harassed by male colleagues in circumstances where I had no power. In most cases, there were no consequences. Gifford is of a generation of men who believe sexual harassment and inappropriate workplace behaviour is not a firing offence. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is true in communities across Canada - that the services that are the problem, not the need. If we say "no" to harm reduction and supportive housing, that homelessness and street disorder and substance use and drug smoking will just disappear. What magical universe are people living in?

North Pacific fisheries patrol finds dolphin harvesting and shark finning www.timescolonist.com/local-news/n... via @timescolonist.bsky.social

Colonialism’s legacies. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/c...

New poll! Mamdani 44 Cuomo 25 Sliwa 12 Adams 7 Pretty great news, and this is not the main takeaway, but do pause a moment to consider exactly how thoroughly you have to screw up to be the incumbent mayor of New York City and poll at 7 percent. patch.com/new-york/was...

I’m glad we live in a country where this kind of crap still has consequences. Go ahead bro, fight it in court. Spend your money. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Globe and Mail has been breaking stories on MHCare and the children's medication from Turkey since 2023. And we are gonna keep doing it. --> www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Chilling.

This is the front door of my new MP Will Greaves (I walk by it every day). Nothing says “in touch with the community” and “dedication” like mail that hasn’t been picked up for days. #cdnpoli @mark-carney.bsky.social

B.C. cabinet shuffle: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

Shaheer Cassim, 39, charged with one count of hijacking. Police say he allegedly threatened flight instructor at Victoria International Airport before successfully hijacking Cessna. “Investigators have determined the suspect acted with an ideological motive to disrupt airspace.” - Sgt. Tammy Lobb