the SkyTrain is one of the best decisions we ever made as a region+province, and it almost didn't happen; there was a ton of "expert" pressure to build ground-level non-automated light rail instead

Unfortunately folks I think I have to give up on all other municipal progress, become a one issue voter, and that issue is a soccer stadium six blocks from me. Selfishly I might have to vote for Ken Sim just so I can maybe enjoy tailgating in New Brighton Park someday.

Happy 40th birthday to Skytrain, as loved as it is still underrated in how much weight it carries to make our region not just another suburban sprawl wasteland.

Frozen pizzas on sale forever is how the Westons keep the listless single men of this country from revolting.

Moment of reading the name in a news post and realizing that literally NO ONE in western TV media was saying the name of the Hong Kong tower complex with the massive tragic fire because no one wanted to say “Wang Fuk Court”.

Every origin story of a UK electronic music subgenre is like “there was this record shop in [non-London lesser city] and [three pioneering legends of the genre] all worked there”

Need a separate Translink high priority alert account I can turn notifications on for to get messages like "SKYTRAIN IS FUCKED AGAIN, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES RUINED" but isn't posting "Route 739 to Buttfuck Langley has a one block detour"

iOS 26.1 update has been an improvement on my older phone

TFW you're seeing posts about an Apple TV outage while watching their new show that you torrented 😅 Pluribus is good

Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of Costco in Canada, with the first location being in Burnaby (I assume Brighton Ave?) www.cbc.ca/archives/the...

As a Halloween prank city council should approve one zoning-non-compliant building every year in late Oct.

Yay BCL is back 🥲

First went to a game in 2011. Regular fan going solo in the supporters section since 2014. Still went through the rough years because in the end it was still fun enough. Finally get the dream year. Do Canucks fans know this costs $40 or less? #vwfc

Took until Oct 24 for me to have a fresh hop IPA, shameful, fake craft beer fan

Damn my closest weed store is finally out of vape carts after weeks of the distribution system being on strike. Save us mediator Vince Ready!

The only “Canada’s team” I will accept is the Jays. The Jays are Canada’s team, even when the Expos existed.

Matthew Good told me what this city would be like through his lyrics and I still moved here, no regrets.

Squirrel got in the portable AC window tube 😅

Also, notice Trump's complaint here - about the news, about Kimmel - IS NOT anything to do with Charlie Kirk. It's that he was personally criticized. He's not even hiding it! That's what this is all about. "Are you allowed to criticize the president?"

Severance was robbed, medical dramas are hack

The week I waited for all summer... resumption of McDonald's regular app coupon rotation.

I’m not going to make it to 900 rides by the Lime Vancouver anniversary of Sept 12, I’m only going to make it to 870-880 or 2.4 rides per day.

I’m at Port Moody Brewery Row, in line at Rewind and there were two older guys behind me. They asked which breweries were best. Without getting into subtleties I said “Twin Sails and Moody Ales”. One said “then why are you here?” “Because it’s my third stop!”

Sim is so washed. He clearly hates the job and only ever wanted to say he won. It's hard to believe a worse mayor than Sullivan could happen within 20yrs but he did it.

I’m never going to complain about transit fares going up but two zone is $4 now and that crosses a psychological barrier.

Veggie Straws are good but there’s an undeniable feeling that this is the bug food of the future.

We’re just days away from Downtown Costco Food Stand Reclamation Day. This made national CBC.

Edmonton has a good airport for a city its size. Calgary’s has always had an off vibe to me. Like yes you have a cool indoor mini bus on its own little roads with a crossing signal system, but a well designed airport shouldn’t need that.

Got a plastic straw in the Edmonton airport… the taste of freedom.

I reject the “line up for $8 ice cream” psyop but there’s nothing else to do in Edmonton so third time in a week.

At a baseball field I saw Blink 182 and Jimmy Eat World at like 23 years ago.

Westjet inflight wifi is faster than Freedom’s LTE coverage of the airport sitting at the gate, despite all the iPad kids I’m watching drain it on TikTok etc, the future is wild.

Sometimes city council feels like we're making progress with basic rationality of what a city is, and sometimes it's this:

lol I share a birthday with Will Stancil and also we are the same age

Honestly good riddance if the Celebration of Light ends due to lack of funding. It’s a plague upon our city of the dumbest fucking people.

I saw the new Mark V (Skytrain)(first day of regular operation)(passing in the opposite direction)! It’s so blue and long!

World Cup countdown clock

Breaking: Carney endorses Ryan Reynolds for next Bond

I think it's pretty clear that Canadian identity is about taking the best from both America and Europe. The question of whether America or Europe does something better is the implicit framework for many of our political debates.

The Freedom Mobile Arch has taken shape and I’m going to say it now: this is going to be the low key star of Vancouver World Cup, at least for locals. The size of the wood beams is already impressive and it’ll look great finished. “Largest free span timber roof structure globally”

I’ve rode the distance from Vancouver to Edmonton on Lime scooters in their first 10 months of operation.

Yeah, Vancouver is a socially cold city… and I fucking love it that way.

But why is it incumbent on new rental towers to supply non-market housing when millionaires renovict families with zero requirements to contribute to affordable housing? They also get to do this without public hearings or a 10 year-long multi-thousand dollar planning processes.

This is one of many moments where Sarah Kirby-Yung resentfully thinks about how she could’ve been mayor.

The year is 2027. Vancouver and Toronto city councils are debating which half baked Canadian robotaxi company to maybe allow in 2029. Meanwhile robotaxis have grown to 40% market share across the US and the Uber driver riots have provided an easy means for ICE to pad deportation quotas.

The subtext of this is the enduring danger of epistemic elites being Too Online, which is the actual thing breaking their brains. You can't be a rich sapient jar of mayonnaise and get obsessed with trans girls in sports without that.

Good news to all loyal members of the People’s Communist Coop of Costco (PCCC), soon the glorious People’s Food Court Downtown Location will be again usable because the freeloading peasant non-members will be banished. Our God given right to a hotdog without undue wait is restored!

In X Pro, formerly Tweetdeck, all the UI links where a post timestamp links back to the original post still have twitter.com as the URL.

I thought it was weirdly fascinating to hear the King read a land acknowledgement during the throne speech. But then shortly later you realize he’s going to read select bits in French too. 😅