SCOOP: Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes in his proposed 2026 budget. Great source work by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson to uncover this www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/n...

I’m disappointed to hear Commissioner Haer’s comments challenging the use of land acknowledgements. These acknowledgements are not performative to me. They are one small daily practice that flows from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and from the principles of UNDRIP. 1/2

Some breaking news: in a special Vancouver Police Board meeting only announced over the weekend, the police board has requested a $50 million increase to their budget for 2026. This comes as other departments across the city are trying to cut staff to ensure a property tax freeze for next year.

Ken Sim and ABC are bringing ~$120m in cuts to community centres, parks, and public services. On Thursday, City Council is voting on a $17m retroactive boost to the 2025 police budget. Now the Police Board is asking for another extra $50 million in 2026. #vanpoli #StopTheCuts #EvictABC

“The optics are, oh, the police get everything they want.” Here’s my story on the Vancouver Police Department asking for a $50 million increase to their 2026 budget while others city departments are facing challenges — and how at least one board member seemed aware of the conflict it would create.

@tomdigby1.bsky.social's motion for Affirming the Park Board’s Commitment to Transgender Lives and Rights PASSED UNANIMOUSLY! Thanks all who came to speak for sharing your voices & supporting the motion. Full discussion of the motion: www.youtube.com/live/dxYRKmj... #VanPoli #VancouverParks

A big win for cyclists & safety! @parkboard.bsky.social votes 'YES' to bring back bike lane with buses on Stanley Park Drive! Thanks everyone who came to ride & added their voice to our calls to action! Help @tomdigby1.bsky.social keep up the momentum! Donate: www.vangreens.ca/donate #VanPoli

Bike lane. Stanley Park. Passed. EPIC. 🌲🚲 Thank you @tomdigby1.bsky.social and his fellow supportive commissioners for righting a wrong! #vanpoli

(2/5) The good news is @tomdigby1.bsky.social is calling for a bike lane around prospect point and down the hill, for the safety of cyclists, active mobility and micromobility users. To help this pass, we really need people to email in support and call in to the meeting.

🚨 Important call to action! (1/5) 🚨 A vote on Stanley Park is coming to the Park Board on Sept 15. The staff report calls for working with TransLink to bring bus service around the park (great!!) but no bike lane, despite it being the favourite option among respondents. Report linked here:

❗❗BREAKING: The future of transit in Stanley Park is on the agenda. We need YOUR help to make sure cyclists aren’t left behind. Sign our petition to tell the Vancouver Park Board you want the bike lane back: win.newmode.net/greenpartyof... #VanPoli #BikeVancouver

Sim says bitcoin mining is great for environment.

Great news from the Park Board’s Recreational Services director: Outdoor pool update: ✅ 50% off drop-in for last 45 min of swim sessions (excl. length swims & reservations). ⏱ Kits Pool now open 3–8:30pm (merged sessions). 👥 20% of spots for drop-ins, adjusted daily. 🛟 Trout Lake staff reallocated.

The only thing Marie-Claire Howard has consistently done on the Park Board… …is not show up. 📉 60% absentee rate
 💨 0 in-person appearances in a year
 🤫 Secret emails to dismantle the board
 🔥 “Let the trees burn” in Stanley Park This is ABC’s idea of leadership?
#vanpoli

Batch has expanded at Kits pool concession. Cool new deck. DownLow chicken. Congrats to Britt and Johnny for making it happen with your favourite @parkboard.bsky.social @parkboardscott.bsky.social

No one should dispute the National Energy Program’s devastating impact on Alberta’s conventional oil and gas sector 40 years ago. But the oilsands, not conventional oil, propelled Canada to its position as the world’s fourth-largest oil producer. @ianurquhart.bsky.social writes.

Candidates for Vancouver Municipal Party Say They Attended Multiple Events with Conspiratorial Far-Right Groups By Accident Two candidates for ‘TEAM Vancouver’ in upcoming by-election appeared at event with far-right groups pressprogress.ca/candidates-f...

Honoured to announce today as the Green Party of Canada candidate for Vancouver Quadra. With local, national and international experience, I am ready to be your voice in Ottawa. Solid leadership under Elizabeth May and Jonathan Pednault.

As the dad of a 9-year-old, I'm deeply concerned by the lack of headline puns. I mean, this is a tariffying moment. Come on, free press.

Someone in Kitsilano has a very funny sense of humour. Apparently this isn’t their first installation either 😂

I keep getting questions about the “toxic environment” in city hall. It seems to me like it might be a toxic environment within a certain party and if not kept in check, the whole of Vancouver will feel it.

This week’s edition includes child welfare, self-governance, education, Aboriginal title litigation and more @ https://buff.ly/4gutWP2

I am so proud and honoured to be running as the Green Party of Vancouver candidate in the upcoming by-election. I have incredible mentors in @ptfry.bsky.social and @adrianecarr.bsky.social . I am eager to join Pete in fighting for transparency on city council.

We got rid of our last gas appliance recently, & just got this letter from FortisBC urging us to ‘reconsider’ gas. Wild to see a fossil fuel company this desperate to keep people hooked on methane. Fossil gas is terrible for climate & health—especially for kids. This is straight-up propaganda.

My friend, the narcissistic abuse recovery therapist says: You don’t fight a narc. You give them ideas. You agree to do things that benefit you too. Border controls is good for Canada too! You ignore their statements (ie. 51st State) - you don’t even acknowledge it. OMG so predictable.

Trump's tariff's pose a grave threat to our national economy. 🚨🍁 I'm proposing an urgent motion for Vancouver City Council to consider at our earliest meeting Tuesday supporting Team Canada/Buy Local. As a Council, City, and as Canadians I'm confident we will come together. #chooseCanada #buylocal

So while Vancouver mayor Ken Sim has called for a “pause” on new supportive housing projects in Vancouver, BC’s housing Minister Ravi Kahlon says there are none in the works.

NEW - Former MLA Sonia Furstenau is stepping down as BC Green leader. She lost her seat in October to NDP minister Grace Lore. #bcpoli

B.C. Green Leader Sonia Furstenau steps down but the party’s two MLAs will not run

Thanks Bsky chat - you sent me the link I need! www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Forever neighbours, never neighbors.

Vancouver mayor wants to sell local naming rights to highest commercial bidder. Hey @brenttoderian.bsky.social , give me the best arguments to defeat this proposal at #ParkBoard on Monday night. We need to protect neighborhood identity, First Nation rights, sense of place. bit.ly/3WoVmyL

Experts say U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods could accelerate a push to ramp up domestic food processing and manufacturing, even as some companies consider moving operations south.

Jan 6th The Sequel: Where Donald Trump scores a hat track for the world's dictators. Sending his dumb-assed son to Greenland while threatening Canada is a deliberate provocation of NATO. Step forward Vladimir Putin. Then there is validating China's designs on Taiwan. The chaos idiot goes global.

Michael, I intend to challenge your theory below. This year. Pls standby.

'Emergency crews are actively trying to confirm property damage and if anyone was injured. At this time, no one has been reported as being injured.'

Yikes! Another dead Hemlock falls in Stanley Park. Today. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xb3yr...

Esto es algo muy importante y de lo que no se habla mucho: la falta de árboles y áreas verdes está relacionado con el exceso de carros y cómo las ciudades se desarrollaron para darle preferencia al uso de vehículos particulares.

What, nobody interested that cougar came to hunt in a major urban agglomeration? Vancouver is the only city in the Americas with a glacier in its urban boundary. People routinely die from exposure lost in the mountains within site of city hall. Here,the city meets wild. Give it a cheer, Bluesky!

Seen at W29th entrance to Pacific Spirit park (by St George’s) 3 days ago.

Beavers hard at work in Jericho park. Someone call by-law enforcement!

Surely this is a deep fake

The Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly is kicking off in Ottawa. The day is starting with an opening address by National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak and a moment of silence to honour the late Senator Murray Sinclair. Watch live: youtube.com/live/5tj4mrv...

For decades, water fluoridation has played a key role in improving the oral health of North Americans, experts say, but the practice is coming under scrutiny in some communities as opponents gain new prominence in the U.S.

For decades, water fluoridation has played a key role in improving the oral health of North Americans, experts say, but the practice is coming under scrutiny in some communities as opponents gain new prominence in the U.S.

Adriane Carr: An icon for Greens - and for women in politics - in Vancouver, in BC and across Canada. Give a cheer for the leader who brought so many of us into politics (enough cheers, maybe she’ll stay 😊) vancouversun.com/news/vancouv...

I accidentally opened a portal to a right wing MAGA hellscape when I posted my disdain for X and bluesky preference highlighting recent homophobic racist posts to me and a colleague. The President of the BC Conservative Party tried to normalize violent threats from a white nationalist as "scrutiny"

Scene at Vancouver Green Party event.

Hey. I just saw Santa & Mrs C taking the ceremonial first ride on the - Sold Out - Bright Nights Stanley Park Train. Site is wonderful for kids even if you don’t have train tix! Firefighters make it happen.

Good science/news that supports green rooftops and Vancouver Park Board’s >48 Ha of pollinator meadows. www.theguardian.com/environment/...