Here’s my story on John Rustad’s very bad day, why his failures appear to be rooted politics rather than ideology, and what questions the party will have to quickly answer the moment they stop having two leaders

Pretty wild question here about the meaning of life.

New video on Victoria, BC by @nicthedoor.bsky.social! We also visited recently and were quite impressed with the cycling experience and in particular how recent the changes were.

Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️‍⚧️

Committees like these enable volunteers to contribute their time towards building and maintaining a city. Their time is worth millions of dollars and their advice saves millions more. Cutting these might save $160,000 in expense, but it will cost 10 times that amount to pay staff for half the work.

The BC Conservative Party just announced they have removed John Rustad as their party leader. Comes hours after Rustad said he was staying on despite 20 MLAs calling for his removal, arguing there was no mechanism for the party to turf him as leader after winning his leadership review.

Twenty members of B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad's caucus say they've lost confidence in him and want him out. 

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LIVE: Prime Minister Mark Carney is addressing chiefs gathered at the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly.

First Nations chiefs from across Canada pass emergency resolution rejecting any proposed exemptions to the federal ban on oil tankers off the northern coast of B.C. after Ottawa-Alberta energy MOU www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

YVR today sent me passenger data for October. Overall traffic is up. Domestic traffic is up. Other international traffic is also up. The only thing not up is passenger traffic on flights to and from the U.S. That's down for the 10th straight month. #travel #tourism

Canada will likely only try to sell the Trans Mountain pipeline after it completes a few projects to boost its capacity, Tim Hodgson tells Bloomberg. The tolls dispute likely also won't be settled for another year. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Today is #WorldAIDSDay With Lenacapavir or LEN, a new drug WHO recommends to protect people at risk of #HIV instead of taking daily pills, people can now get injections every 6 months. At the time where funding for HIV is limited, this new drug could mean fewer new infections & more lives saved.

The Marmot Recovery Foundation announced on its social media page that the population of the Vancouver Island species has reached a new high of 427 marmots.

The most visible part of this effort is enforcement. However the other side is support. @pacificahousing.bsky.social is one organization doing this work. We’ve done an expanded outreach pilot that has gone out early mornings & evenings since the summer focused on the business corridors 🧵

On Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Sam Mraiche www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w/ @tomcardoso.bsky.social @markmackinnon.bsky.social @hoserlibrarian.bsky.social

Let’s talk about the Alberta-Ottawa MOU on a Pipeline. A special update from me. youtube.com/shorts/RB8rI...

Chief Jeff Copenace of Onigaming First Nation speaks on taking legal action against the province of Ontario and numerous resource companies if they decide to move forward on projects without the First Nation’s consent.

Here’s my story about Kitimat’s new motto of “it’s not for everyone”, which originally was going to be a ranking of all 161 municipal slogans in British Columbia until my bosses were like “justin this video is 14 minutes long” and “did you just make of slogans for half of these”

“What the MOU says is there will be a deepwater port with access to Asia. It does not say which port, on what part of the coast." Said Hodgson. … This will kind of be key to the whole thing, and currently Alberta is saying different things than Ottawa when it comes to which part of the coast.

We could easily do the same in Vancouver.

The Best Cycling City No One Talks About with (among many others) @burgundavia.bsky.social and @ryanjabs.bsky.social

How this city tripled its cycling trips in just 11 years: From: @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social youtu.be/mpWm45qting?...

BC Liberal MP Will Greaves said the feedback he's getting from constituents "is almost universally opposed to lifting the tanker ban and is deeply skeptical of building another pipeline to tidewater through the central interior of BC." @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/n...

Prime Minister Mark Carney raised eyebrows Tuesday by suggesting any project would require the consent of not only British Columbia but also Coastal First Nations.

Carney says B.C. 'has to agree' on pipeline plan from Alberta

📈📉 One year ago this week, Trump threatened Canada with 25% tariffs. Since then, the country has changed dramatically. Here, in text and charts, we look at 29 ways that Canada has changed in this very turbulent year.

#VernonBC - "Infill, not sprawl," the main message at Vernon's OCP hearing vernonmatters.ca/2025/11/24/i...

It’s an interesting approach to provide clarity on a tanker ban while failing to meet with the Coastal First Nations despite repeated requests - the community that would be directly affected by any spill - while having dozens or more meetings with fossil fuel lobbyists, AB, Sask.

Tonight, Burnaby City Council is considering a motion to reduce the amount of housing you can build, and to increase the amount of parking you must build. I turned on the hearing to hear the owner of a $2M home describe her "horror" at a laneway home next door— a "monstrosity" she called it.

The Assembly of First Nations have concerns over Alberta’s use of the notwithstanding clause to “limit the rights of two-spirit and trans youth” in the province. The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.

Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute

UPDATED I have added a few more resources to this list of Holiday Hamper & Adopt-A-Family programs around Metro Vancouver. If you are in need for support, or would like to support/sponsor, these are some good organizations to connect with:

“Homes for All” is the theme of this year’s Gingerbread Showcase Lots of great housing messages and examples of homes that should be legal everything Support our friends at Habitat for Humanity www.habitatvictoria....

Alberta transgender law targets most vulnerable of an already vulnerable group (The Last Word)

Not a single one of the big pro-Trump "Canadian MAGA" accounts is actually Canadian.

Very big scoop from colleagues: BHP, the world's biggest mining company, has made a new takeover approach for Anglo American Quite a twist as Anglo is trying to acquire Canada's Teck Resources

What does it take to lead with courage in the face of climate change? Join the Honourable Catherine McKenna for an inspiring evening about climate leadership, resilience, and the power of community to drive real change. Register today: purchase.tickets.uvic.ca/EventAvailab...

A B.C First-Nations-Muslim man, a member of the Heiltsuk Nation, was racially profiled while trying to open a bank account at a Surrey branch in 2021. The branch thought it unfathomable that an Indigenous person could be Muslim. Here’s a reminder Islam is a religion, NOT an ethnic distinction.

Municipal satisfaction rates in British Columbia are extremely low right now

Going on a whale watching trip, you can always expect to see a variety of the local wildlife around Vancouver Island, but on a recent trip near Tofino a "big highlight" ended up not being any of the ocean giants, but rather a raft of otters.

Dalai Lama earns first-ever Grammy nomination for meditation album www.phayul.com

Locked out of Ottawa-Alberta pipeline talks, David Eby sneers from the sidelines vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

A single oil spill doesn’t just threaten First Nations communities, but could sink tourism, commercial and recreational fisheries, aquaculture and marine services — all of which depend on the healthy, pristine coast, said Coast Funds CEO Eddy Adra. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/n...

Seeing a tent doesn’t put anyone in danger. Being uncomfortable is not the same as being unsafe.

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

If this is indeed Canada’s coast, then every Canadian should know this basic lesson well put here by Liz May. In this whole pipeline debate the actual strait has been missing, but it’s the most important aspect.

Ahahahaha 🤣 Elizabeth May explaining the tanker ban “especially to the attention of slow learners; Andrew Sheer, Danielle Smith, take note.”