timescolonist.com/local-news/paving-park-upgrades-targeted-in-victoria-budget-trims-11537859 As always, only talk about trimming costs. Nothing about getting people to pay more for services some (typically more affluent) are getting for free. Residential parking on public space for example 1/

My story on this and a whole lot more 💫 xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

Ugh gross, add grooming to the list of reasons why we don’t need cops in schools

toronto.citynews.ca/video/2024/1... Looks like Doug Ford wants to actively hurt Toronto businesses and people so he can go zoom zoom in his car car

In response to @oliveridley.bsky.social : share the good word! MSP covers CBT for insomnia if taken synchronously online. I'm just a few sessions in but it's been wildly revelatory for me, including how my insomnia come from childhood trauma. Yay 4 public health! drsarahadams.com/courses/inso...

Spent halloween trick or treating in Victoria's most dangerous neighbourhood North Park, with a short trip to Fernwood and the most dangerous by far part of the evening was, you guessed it, cars. Highlight was my kiddo repeating this statement loudly ad nauseam as we trick or treated :)

None of these sacrifices involve rich people and capital gains of course

Amazing. / 74 people housed through Victoria's $1.6 million investment into Dowler Place

Plot twist: High-viz clothes are *more* dangerous for pedestrians. "Wearing high-visibility clothing could actually make [cars' pedestrian detection] technology less likely to spot a person strolling in the dark."

ottawacitizen.com/public-servi... “Depending on how the cuts play out, we can expect wider employment gaps, wider pay gaps and the erosion of access to critical employment benefits” @davidmaccdn.bsky.social @kjscott.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

www.timescolonist.com/local-news/e... #yyj #yyjpoli

Seeking permission to purchase, and paying for my house is definitely denting my budget too, but apparently markets, pricing etc. don't apply here?

TIL that I can have the BC government pay my municipal property tax so we can keep our cash flow rolling into TFSAs. Wild. vancouversun.com/news/how-bc-...

"to tackle street disorder on the heels of a rash of violent incidents in the downtown." - This in a news article on @timescolonist.bsky.social passed on with zero data, or any examples of this rash of violent incidents. I would really wish for our media to not just spit out words without evidence

When the headline says it all :(

I happen to think based on all the research I've seen and the state of the world now that inequality is the big issue, the one that sits on top of all the others and stops us from solving problems collectively. In places of growing inequality, there is no collective us and our brains show it

If you'd like to watch an excellent & informative webinar video recording of Iglika offering a reality-check on BC finances, check out this BC Policy Solutions video here: bcpolicy.ca/2025/09/17/b...

Over on Reddit, @davethompsonvic.bsky.social (tagging @susankimyyj.bsky.social as the face of our council!) says Victoria Council passed a motion at UBCM to start looking at commercial rent control. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/v...

While people keep yelling "downtown disorder", the unspoken and huge issue that hits businesses hard in #yyj is sudden and huge rent hikes. That is a disorder too, but it benefits a group of people who have a loud and $$$ voice, so we're not going to get hundreds of breathless editorials

Thankd Jodi Paterson for writibg this www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

"Do we want... poverty, hunger and unaffordable-housing... Or do we want to go back to the decades after the Second World War, when the rich paid their share" Trevor Hancock in TC today www.timescolonist.com/opinion/trev... #TaxTheRich #yyj #DrawTheLine #cdnpoli

From yesterday, my Toronto Star op-ed on the notwithstanding clause. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The lack of numbers in all these articles is beyond frustrating. There is exactly one verifiable fact in this article, 200 housing units in Nanaimo. Everything else is people in power venting their feelings. How are we to solve problems without metrics, verifiable performance indicators etc?

Yes, it is indeed the police chief's job to ask for more resources. However, it's also on media to provide context. "Woefully understaffed" sounds terrible. But where are the metrics compared to other jurisdictions? Simple numbers like FTE/capita, spending/capita, FTE corrected for crime severity?

Downtown disorder strikes again ... Then reads post, oh, there are other reasons we have challenges keeping local businesses going, even in areas that aren't downtown Victoria? Corporate rents are not discussed enough. They are not visible, unlike homeless people or trash. They matter a lot! #yyj

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!

Yep

Nice apocalyptic sky we have in #yyj this morning. Apparently it's dust from Mount St. Helens ?

"Put another way, just one such injury was reported at Site C that year for every 20 reported on average on similar projects." If this number is true, there's so much to learn from this amazing amazing increase in safety :)

Good to hear. We need more www.timescolonist.com/local-news/f...

Wonder how the people of Victoria, reliable NDP voters who voted Liberal and for @wgreaves.bsky.social are taking in Carney's heel turn (very predictable if you would have checked with me). I have not talked with Will and by all accounts he's a lovely person, but I miss @laurelcollins.bsky.social

Explain war to an 8 year old. You know how you're taught to share and take turns, never hit anyone and work with a trusted authority figure to resolve disputes? Well, adults don't do that. They have instead manufactured legal mechanisms to actually murder people, starve them etc. to take their land

Stop building these monuments, they went out of fashion 100s of years back. If you want to commemorate something, make a park, greenspace, plant a bunch of trees, call it whatever, put a small plaque in the corner and let it be.

cheknews.ca/vicpd-warns-... Many years later, still trying to understand whether there's any legitimate use for crypto, I don't see it, great for scamming people though :)

closer-look.blogspot.com/2025/08/when... When Jody Paterson speaks I usually listen :) "But in reality, we’re mostly just craving a place where people we don’t want to look at are locked up out of our sight."

These are private for-profit staffing agencies, being used "in order to have enough nurses to keep the province’s hospitals, operating rooms and care homes open to patients." You'd think we could create a public, non-profit floater pool of RNs, to give them the flexibility in hours that they want.

Can't agree more

And Carney's tax cuts + austerity + military spending will do nothing to address that gap.

For weeks now, us experts have been saying that this is fundamentally the crux of this trial : Does the legal system understand coercion? Today's conclusion is a loud and resounding no.

Definitely a must read, I learned so much and immense respect to @garthmullins.bsky.social for getting this out.

Prime Minister Carney set off alarm bells across British Columbia when he told a journalist that a new bitumen pipeline to BC’s north coast is “highly, highly likely.” "Few projects in Canadian history have generated such intense blowback." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/21/o...

“The prime minister has gone from Captain Canada to Captain Cuts. And the damage will be deeply felt.” @ricardotranjan.bsky.social in today’s Star.

Via @arnokopecky.bsky.social thewalrus.ca/the-world-is...

Inequality is the defining uber economic issue that supersedes and encompasses how we live, interact. High inequality is a community killer. It is just shocking how little Carney talks about inequality and how we have zero plans to address, I'm appalled and disgusted. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

100%

The largest privatization of core hospital services (orthopedic surgeries) is underway in #onpoli Private facilities profit from your tax dollars Their biz model is based on performing routine procedures & "cream skimming" most profitable, lowest acuity patients Public hospitals serve everyone

The zombie policy question that just won't die, but won't go away. Asked over and over again. Answered over and over again. The answer? NO www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

If we’re in an economic war, why aren’t we talking about war taxes? ino.to/cpOUi4a Good article by @sethdklein.bsky.social. We're of course going in the opposite direction as he points out.