I don’t think the @bcndp.bsky.social has fully thought this through. Shelter and Warming Centre hours will have to change!

Has anybody checked in with our vaunted PHO Bonnie Henry about the health effects of BC’s decision to switch to permanent DST?

Who’s giving the mayor the advice to keep this very damaging (for him) issue on the front burner for another day? Was it his initiative? Vancouver politics is weird but this is terrible strategically, especially considering he took only a handful of questions www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Neither Ken Sim or Global News can hide their contempt for Vancouver voters

’Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind.

Nobody likes a smart ass, Ken

Ken Sim joins Lenny Zhou under the bus

How is this not a resignable offence? October 17 can’t come fast enough for a party with this much contempt for Vancouver citizens

Of all the Olympic sports the most ridiculous is not curling or the double luge, it’s the one where a bunch of multimillionaire professional athletes put together makeshift teams under their national banners + where one country is sad when they’re awarded a silver medal

The paltry financial benefits of an expanded Parq casino will be paid for disproportionately by Vancouver’s most vulnerable gamblers and cynical ABC councillors are okay with the harms this will cause. Remember this at the polls

"Vancouver's Parq casino seeking to expand number of slot machines from 600 to 900" as told by Joanne Lee-Young vancouversun.com/news/vancouv... #vanpoli #vanre #vancouvernotvegas If you want to learn more and fight this megacasino, click here: vancouvernotvegas.ca

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Vancouver City Council: Reject Parq Casino Gaming Expansion. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Does ABC Vancouver *really* want us to make gambling expansion an election issue? Just try it, Ken. In 2011 when we first fought this, Vision Vancouver showed no signs of blocking expansion until we brought opposition—then they rejected the proposal rather than face election rejection... #vanpoli

*PLEASE* sign up to speak against an expansion of predatory gambling in Vancouver. A vast majority of Vancouverites opposed & defeated this in 2011 but Ken Sim & ABC Van are paving the way to quietly undo all that. Hearing is this Tues: please sign up! In person or by phone (& email) #vanvpoli

This is not writing. Do not let people express this delusion in your face.

Listen to the poets.

People should not have to be perfect victims to not be murdered by the state or by a racist game show host and his lawless den of jackals and elite pedophile cover up conspiracists, but still HOLY SHIT MAN

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This is how the trilogy ends—.not by fire but by ice. Pre-order now

Twitter-heyday-style thread about a bizarre rogue bus driver who kidnapped a bus full of passengers trying to get home from their long weekend travels

Clr Maloney's No Right on Red motion is coming up to council NOW! Will be live-posting here, follow along 🧵 visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/12/04/d...

Sorry, servers of AI. We are a human-powered organization. #CdnMedia #GenerativeAI

Gotta love a Conservative Party beef but Rustad should really reflect on why he keeps getting kicked out of political parties

Goodbye to the master. ❤️

Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...

I don't know who needs to hear this but making deals with Alberta and the oilpatch doesn't fucking work Just ask the last person who tried.

this says something. www.thestar.com/steven-guilb...

That’s not a font—it’s a migraine aura

Very powerful writing by a relative of RFK Jr.: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

RFK Jr is indubitably a dangerous jackass—what’s Canada’s excuse?

HEY BC GREENS MEMBERS! PLS REMEMBER TO VOTE for your Provincial Council reps! Farrukh Chistie for vice chair Kathy Porter for ombuds Prym Goodacre for councillor at large Maddy Kennedy-Parrott for Lower Mainland rep, OR Severin Odland for Van Is/Sunshine Coast rep (dep where you live) #bcpoli 🧵

Canada has lost its measles elimination status. A sad day, a win for anti-vaccine ignorance and politicized public health, a new age where children, families, and communities will face additional health risks for no good reason other than the comfort of joining others with similar fact-less beliefs.

If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead. He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.

And we’ve only gotten started

It's actually insane that the feds are promising to put more than double the amount of money they're putting into childcare, into AI. Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?

As a former New Yorker on the ground during the Cheney years, and a writer, I endorse this message

There's something a bit medieval and also let them eat cake about their willingness to let us get sick in irrationally high numbers I don't know what it is but it's not public health. Also this neutral shrugging over losing our measles elimination status bsky.app/profile/tbra...

Our minimizing public health officials are “disappointed” that Canada could lose measles-elimination status! If only there was something they could do about it…

You know what’s scary? The cognitive dissonance experienced listening to the CBC morning show “reporting” on Vancouver ghosts and then the Current’s scientist guests rightfully indignant about scientific misinformation. Any kind of scientific misinformation primes the populace for believing BS, CBC

Please help us save Chinatown's post office, closing (like many local businesses) due to exorbitant rents! Please sign and share. Thank you! #vanpoli savechinatownyvr.substack.com/p/help-save-...

Chinatown businesses are closing one by one due to high rents. First Floata, my dim sum place, now our post office. I must pick up parcels on Commercial Drive now; how do disabled Chinatown seniors do that? Barely regulated speculation & financialization of real estate, everyone! #vanpoli #bcpoli

One year ago

Retired 80-something senior I chat with over coffee in McD's has caught #shingles, beginning in & around their right eye. Went to VGH emergency 3am Tues - 10hr wait. Taking prescribed meds but it's spread to their left eye! Luckily no pain. Wonder what vaccine costs. I should pay for it!

I'll be speaking at the 2nd night of hearings on #105Keefer (now renamed 570 Columbia, as if anyone is fooled). Beedie's luxury condos are up before the Dev't Permit Board again. How many times will we have to fight this thing? It's a disaster for Chinatown. Enough! Social housing now. #vanpoli

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

Let’s also note that even other Oligarch-owned major MSM papers recognized the import of the story. Seriously, shame on NYT for attempting to diminish the power of the people.

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

This is outrageous

My developmentally disabled sister was admitted to hospital in a @vchhealthcare.bsky.social hospital 3 days ago with pneumonia. Didn't have Covid. Now suddenly she does, in an unmasked hospital amidst a massive Covid wave that VCH is telling no one about. MURDEROUS #bcpoli @josieosborne.bsky.social

For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes. I encourage everyone to read the whole thing #CanadaPost www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...