Avi Lewis, #NDP leadership candidate, should provide an interesting start to the political year in #yyj. Tues Jan 6. @avilewis.ca act.lewisforleader.ca/victoria-tow...

Happy 2026. May this year herald the end of the fossil fuel era. Meanwhile, here’s @jessedjenkins.com waiting for “mature” methane gas & coal with carbon capture and storage, while fossil fuels provide a “substantive … share of our energy needs” in the meantime. (No wonder he agrees w Yglesias! 😑)

"We should query the value for money, too. Just this year, #Deloitte itself was caught handing Canadian and other governments reports with AI-generated errors." Matt Malone @theijf.org in @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/31/o... #cdnpoli #elbowsup

1 January 1924 | A Polish woman, Zofia Kalińska, was born in Słupia. In #Auschwitz from 21 October 1942. No. 22882 She perished in the camp on 20 December 1942. --- ▶ Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

"We should query the value for money, too. Just this year, #Deloitte itself was caught handing Canadian and other governments reports with AI-generated errors." Matt Malone @theijf.org in @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/31/o... #cdnpoli #elbowsup

"Bike and roll” lanes are used every day by people riding trikes and even mobility scooters (something the province needs to make legal). Victoria’s network lets my wife travel the city freely again." @pentastich.bsky.social #bcpoli #yyj #pwd

Hey Victoria! Mark your calendars! I’m heading your way on January 6 for the first stop of the All Out for Avi tour. Join me and local musicians for some good fun and conversation about a vision for an NDP that works for our future. RSVP: https://avilewis.link/victoria #cdnpoli #bcpoli #NDP

There should be an inquest EVERY TIME someone is killed by a driver. What were the causes? What can we change to make sure this particular set of circumstances doesn't happen again? Infuriating that they're just shrugging about a child's death. #BCPoli

"We are also wildly behind when it comes to preventing people from sliding into homelessness, which then often leads to addiction and mental health issues." thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025... #bcpoli #TaxTheRich #HomesForAll

2025 has been weird as hell (derogatory) but I spoke at the UN, solidified my indie journalism career, and stepped toward my dreams coming true. This year ended in some real heavy sadness for me and my loved ones, but we had each other. Looking forward to the weirdness (complementary) of 2026 ❤️

"We are also wildly behind when it comes to preventing people from sliding into homelessness, which then often leads to addiction and mental health issues." thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025... #bcpoli #TaxTheRich #HomesForAll

This is how it works for my family. We’ve done a lot more little, fun and more local adventures because of the cargo bike. For the #yyj business community, that’s meant more trips downtown and to your businesses and restaurants—because of the cargo bike and with the safe cycling network.

Ouch! #bchwy1

Enjoying the freedom of the open road. /s #bchwy1

Eby "plans to spend $162 ­million to expand the ­Malahat ­highway through Goldstream Park, despite ­protests by First Nations... who recommend investing in frequent and affordable ­transit instead” @toddlitman.bsky.social www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm... #bcpoli #yyj #Nanaimo #VancouverIsland

Dark Fantasy of the Woke Mob is our new band name #yyj

Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.

This chat with Carlos in Barcelona was one of my favorite 'bike' memories of 2025. youtube.com/shorts/gkE1f... #wheelchair

I need some positivity. Quote or reply with your favorite bike memory of 2025. It can be a great ride, an advocacy accomplishment, whatever. Let's celebrate bikes. My personal favorite was finally doing a bikepacking ride up to Portland, Maine! It has me excited for bigger adventures in 2026.

More cool simple inventions like this, less high profile high concept nonsense like Dean Kamen's massive & wildly impractical stair-climbing wheelchair.

you do not and should not hand it to MTG under any circumstances it is useful for us, politically, that she's broken with Trump - because "Rs in Disarray" is a good narrative but she herself is still a vicious antisemite and transphobe and nobody progressive should lose sight of that

As a relative newcomer to Victoria, I say Ditto! The bike and roll network is an incredible benefit to life here! #YYJ #BikeAndRoll www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

Such a powerful video from @boston.gov and @streets.boston.gov about the impact of e-bikes (and the city's e-bike voucher program). Just look at the joy these bikes have brought to Steven and Muriel Leonard!

YOUR DAILY REMINDER: Everyone in the fossil fuel industry knows and admits that building new infrastructure like pipelines *actively increases* demand for the burning of fossil fuels (and all the physical disasters that go along with that) bofaglobalresearch.podbean.com/e/a-pipeline...

I love seeing micro-mobility impact stories like this. And it reminds me of this, which was one of my favorite videos of the year.

"North Americans pay more for transportation than almost anybody else in the world.” @taras-grescoe.com #costofliving #climateaction

This chat with Carlos in Barcelona was one of my favorite 'bike' memories of 2025. youtube.com/shorts/gkE1f... #wheelchair

Good read about the thousands of reasons bikes are great for cities (and people). thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

Interesting stuff from @steveburgess53.bsky.social. "Bike advocates [in Canada] haven’t articulated a case for everyone." True that some still pretend that you have to ride a bike to use a bike lane. But that is changing. ecoplanning.ca/want-better-... #bcpoli

Not only are people showing up to defend their neighbors and our democracy, they’re doing so in historic numbers. The amount of our local groups has doubled and the overall size of our movement has quadrupled!

Good question. The provincial website says that a decision on the active transportation infrastructure grant program was to have been made in fall 2025 which ended a week ago: www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/... @bowinnma.bsky.social?

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Thanks for sharing, @pentastich.bsky.social My parents (age 80 and 83) have just moved into town, and are now so much more free, down to one car, an e-bike, and a walkable and safe city. I’m so grateful. #yyj #bike #yyjpoli www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

"Extreme flooding in China, India and Pakistan; back-to-back typhoons in the Philippines, Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica, floods in Texas and a prolonged drought in Brazil each caused damages exceeding $1 billion" @codohertynews.bsky.social #climatecrisis #fossilfuels

AND: it is not just the people who dig it up. The people who build pipelines, the people who build terminals where it's shipped, the companies that ship it etc etc all actively contribute to sustaining, manufacturing and protecting demand for their products

There are so many documented instances of fossil fuel suppliers, directly, openly and aggressively lobbying to create demand for their product. They spend billions globally on advertising! And lobbying! WTF do we think that is for, folks

SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

More space for trees and people. Fewer cars. Livability and #climateaction are inseparable.

My main problem with the well-meaning side of the argument is that it's enormously short-term thinking. Part of the affordability crisis is because climate change is cranking insurance risk, and thus insurance costs, through the roof, as just one example.

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

Ignore that handful of elite pundits. People everywhere, even in the US, already understand that the #climatecrisis is squeezing them financially, and know that many "climate solutions are also cost-of-living solutions" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Made a conscious decision to focus on AI/bigtech in early 2025 and I'm glad I did It's a systemic attack on both the means of climate action (evidence-based facts, the written / spoken word, visual communication) and the ends (trying to stop fossil fuel use). I think it's starting to sink in, now

Turns out people still actually link climate change to stuff happening in their actual lives and care about action being taken on it, despite the now widespread idea that we need to stop mentioning it to be successful www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“I find it stunning that even some people in the climate community say that we should stop talking about the climate because there’s a cost-of-living crisis going on.....it’s a fundamental error to treat these issues as mutually exclusive – climate solutions are also cost-of-living solutions"

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

I know many people in the CRD for whom this is true. We are on the way to making Victoria an actual walkable city, something which is not available anywhere else in Canada. #yyj www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

An excellent editorial from @toddlitman.bsky.social on Vancouver Island transit between communities. www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm... #yyj

If this is true, it is the most impeachable offense ever.

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