New Orr Report is up www.votecope.ca/news/orr-rep...

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons for more walkable streets.

Events around Vancouver today:

Paris was fun 🧳 #paris #travel #france @museeorsay.bsky.social

The Vancouver Art Book Fair is this long weekend 🎨

A joint #SaveTheCaps statement. #VWFC

Good morning from #Paris Taking a break from posting for a while… until we #SaveTheCaps of course.

Sunrise and the city #vancouver #canada

you know what the real data center is. the human mind. thank you,

Canadian graffiti 🫟 #vancouver

The long weekend is already coming up! Get tickets for Unison Festival concerts featuring over 25 2SLGBTQIA+ choirs from across Canada 🎶 #vancouver

Today we’re publishing an important investigative story by Emily Enns. This story maps the connections between a group of mostly retired academics and think tanks to sow doubt about the historical truths of residential schools in Canada. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

If you don’t support supervised consumption sites, then what do you support? Because people are already using drugs in public spaces. Closing sites doesn’t stop drug use, it just means more people use alone, overdose alone, and die alone! thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

Events around Vancouver this weekend:

Every ticket purchase for the Canuck Place One More Moment Lottery helps provide expert clinical care, counselling, recreation therapy, and countless moments of joy for families facing unimaginable challenges.

This morning at English Bay No whale sighting 😔 #vancouver #canada

IT'S BRACKET TIME CBC is doing a week long series about B.C. Ferries. And obviously, we need to decide the QUINTESSENTIAL BC EXPERIENCE. From hundreds of submissions, I've determined 32 finalists. Doing voting on threads, click here to play: www.threads.com/@justindmcel...

The whale is inside the swim buoy at English Bay Beach right now

Full list of recipients of the 2026 Women of Distinction Awards. Over $800,000 was raised today - a record - in support of YWCA BC's housing fund. In 17 years of sponsoring this event I've never seen an event total over half a million 💟

The YWCA BC Women of Distinction Awards has live captioning 🙌 #YWCAWODA #YWCABC #YWCA

Now is the time. Transit users in Metro Vancouver need a low-income transit pass before a five per cent fare hike takes effect in July. 🚏🚍 Advocates Aman Chandi and Sacia Burton write. #vanpoli

It's YWCA BC Women of Distinction Awards day! One of my favourite events of the year. I'll have updates and recipients posted to my stories this evening www.instagram.com/miss604 #YWCAWODA

I love her 👑⛴️

Did we #SaveTheCaps yet?

Events around Vancouver this weekend, May 8-10

The May issue of @megaphonemagazine.com is now available on the streets of Vancouver. I had the honour of interviewing Candace Knoll and Flourish Aiwize from the Jr Black Achievement Awards - both are also YWCA BC Women of Distinction Awards nominees. ➡️ 📰 megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/

News release: @guyfelicella.bsky.social returning proclamation awarded to him by Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim after Sim and ABC councillors’ move to block downtown OPS. “Not worth the paper it’s printed on.”

This council: life saving overdose prevention? Nah. Life saving cooling kits? Nah. Food delivery robots flooding our sidewalks? Oh heck yeah dude

Looks like I lost about 75 followers in the Great Instagram Bot & Inactive Account Purge of 2026™️ If you like photos and videos of Vancouver, consider following me there. I’m much less noisy, more curated, and there’s equal amounts of moss 🌱 www.instagram.com/miss604

The Emergency Alert System test hits hard when your hearing aids are paired to your phone audio 🫨🚨

Preparing to cover the YWCA BC Women of Distinction Awards for the 17th year and I'm researching all 97 nominees' Instagram handles so I can congratulate the winners live tomorrow night 💜

carry a laser down the road that i must travel

Rising tide with the Girl in a Wetsuit #vancouver #publicart #oceans #canada

BC Youth Week is already almost over! Coming up today + tomorrow: Pitt Meadows has Canadian Ninja Warrior today PoCo has Game Show Night tomorrow New West Youth Centre has a Cultural Collab this afternoon Burnaby has a cupcake bake-off today and a dodgeball tomorrow + more events:

I’ve now seen the throwback Laura Secord canned chocolate pudding several times on Facebook, Threads, and Bluesky all from different people. What algorithm is this?

Another beautiful day in Vancouver

Public Disco is having a 10th anniversary block party on Granville Island

Science World will soon be unveiled as “The Beautiful Dome,” a massive, 360-degree, 40-metre-diameter re-creation of the Adidas Trionda, the official match ball of the FIFA World Cup 2026™.

National Day of Awareness for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls (Red Dress Day). 📍Support frontline orgs 📍Advocate for Indigenous women, girls, mothers, seniors, 2spirit folks. 📍Familiarize yourself w/ the 2019 MMIW national inquiry report 🔺NO MORE STOLEN SISTERS🔺 #redressproject #mmiwg2s

I hate this.

Unison Festival brings together over two dozen 2SLGBTQIA+ choirs and nearly 1,100 singers from across Canada for performances in Vancouver May 15–18, 2026.

Happy census, Canada.

Has anyone spotted the turtles in Lost Lagoon this spring? I haven’t seen them since last summer. #vancouver

Planning your summer in Vancouver? Check out these festivals from June to September.

The random sidewalk swings of East Vancouver 🥰

Mom’s first Vancouver Canadians baseball game, and they won! We had to stop by the Miss604 poster in the stairs at the Nat 🥰

Events around #Vancouver today: ⚾️ Vancouver Canadians game 🪴 Trout Lake Pottery Club Spring Sale 🛍️ Got Craft Spring Market 🌱 Spring Fest in South Surrey 🛍️ Cedar, Sage & Sweetgrass at Museum of Surrey

The May issue of @megaphonemagazine.com is now available on the streets of Vancouver. I had the honour of interviewing Candace Knoll and Flourish Aiwize from the Jr Black Achievement Awards - both are also YWCA BC Women of Distinction Awards nominees. ➡️ 📰 megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/

The Vancouver Park Board has approved a one-time reallocation of funding in its 2026 budget to pay for lifeguard staffing at the nine sites this summer 🏖️ Ongoing funding for these services will need to be established as part of the Park Board’s 2027 budgeting process.