Heard a really enlightening interview with Sgt Steve Addison @vancouverpd.bsky.social just now. If people listened, they might have heard his defence of, and empathy for, DES residents. His assessment of situation seemed reasonable. Good work, VPD. 👍

"I don't think we can let funding sources shape, control, and restrict the content and cultural institutions because cultural institutions lose their integrity, they lose their credibility, they lose their purpose when they are censored and sanctioned." ~Bryan Stevenson @eji_org on federal funding.

Happy Diwali! 🪔🎇 🎉🔥🧡 #HappyDiwali #FriendsAndFamily #NightOfLight

It's not too late! You can still sign up for the Great BC #ShakeOut tomorrow!🫨 #preparedness #GreatBCShakeOut #earthquakesafety

Thankful for quick-thinking by passerby and child's family to stop the suspect from getting away with the child.🤲🙏 #ItTakesACommunity #yyj

Happy #Thanksgiving! The fun family traditions: the gaggle of #turkeys come out, as do the #UBCM glasses (Pepsi in mine😉), and of course a knife cut.🙄🤦🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ Thankfully no sutures required.🤲🙏👍 Hope you had a relaxed dinner with yours!🍂🧡🍁🤎

Heard this couple on CBC this morning. A raw and vulnerable interview. ☹️😥 Ugh. Brutal how life can change in a split second. No matter how carefully we plan, sometimes things go horribly wrong. Wishing Nikki a full, complete, and quick recovery.🫂 gofund.me/778dc6711

Yowza. A panhandler on the centre divider on Saanich Rd, is arguing and yelling at stopped motorists who aren't giving her money. Pretty sure she's on thin ice... considering she is in contravention of the #SafeStreetsAct... then again, that would require action.😕🤷🏼‍♀️ #yyjtraffic

Want to celebrate #WorldOctopusDay in a local way? Check out Tanya Bub's beautiful #yyjarts exhibit, Under the Sea: An Immersive Art Experience, @SaanichParksRec CedarHill. Here, #QueenOfTheSea and #WigglyLittleMomma float through the Gallery. #EcoArtist #VictoriaDrifter

Meanwhile in Canada

Sounds like there needs to be more arrests today. Obstruction is one thing, but arson is seriously criminal. Claiming you don't condone arson, after you have deliberately riled people up for months, just doesn't wash. Gaol for bale(s of hay set on fire).

Saddened to learn of the medical emergency and sudden passing of the person on the @bcgeu.bsky.social line this week. My thoughts and hugs to the colleagues on scene, and condolences to the family.🫂💔

A sad, but important episode of #FifthEstate tonight with the excellent journalist, @conniewalker.bsky.social. Connie illustrates the long and frustrating search by Meggie Cywink for the killer of her sister, Sonya Cywink. #MMIWG #ASistersPromise gem.cbc.ca/the-fifth-es...

Sports team: publicly comments that City “has been not exactly simple to work with” since the departure of former Mayor. City responds with facts…. Sports team: “direct dialogue and not public exchanges” would be the best way to move forward. You think? 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️ #CommunicationsFail

#OTD 50 years ago, #FawltyTowers debuted! I agree with @gregorcraigie.bsky.social - definitely up there in being one of the best sitcoms of all time. 🤣😂 #IKnowNothing

@kennbskysocial.bsky.social Nice to see your weather photo featured on the @globalnews.ca latecast tonight - and to hear you get a shout-out! 👍😁😍

Feel-good story on @cheknews.ca tonight, with #PeninsulaCoop raising funds for #HelpFillADream. TIL that #HelpFillADream provides more than trips! A lovely "dream" was granted to a young teen who only wanted a junior membership at the #VictoriaGolfClub. 🥹 Wish him the best in his pursuits.🏌️‍♂️⛳

Some days this is all I need to clear my head and get a fresh start. 🙂 #AmWriting

Happy Friday! Happy September! Brought to you by @saanichbc.bsky.social Parks Dept.🧡💛💚

@aakarpost.bsky.social Hope you're keeping well and safe.

My @thewalrus.ca has arrived, and I love this cover. It's not just marriages, tho. I'm finding more & more friendships & other relationships expect someone else to remind them, putting responsibility on others.🤨 Her response is 🏆. I'm not anyone's project/calendar manager, or personal assistant!

Looks like we need to revamp our #watersafety education strategy, or develop a new one, because the July headline confirms there's an issue here. ☹️

Here in the Borderlands, thought I heard a low bass noise. Initially figured it was the Celebrity Edge, leaving the Harbour District, but it continues every couple of minutes, so I'm guessing it's a foghorn. 🌫️🔈 #yyjwx #yyj

This summer I have been blessed to meet several amazing women - #trailblazers in their fields. Today, thanks to @earthquakeguy.bsky.social, I got to meet @alisonbird.bsky.social for a project I'm working on!! As an earthquake nerd, meeting with those 2 in the same room was very cool! #AmazingSummer

"Vicious compliance" 🙄 What a piece of work for a Premier. Disdain just drips from her voice. Board was ordered. Board complied. She and her Minister need to take a look at their order. Oh look, they are and are rewording it - so I guess they were the problem after all.🤦🏼‍♀️

"sensationalised slop" ~ #NWT Fire FB post commenting on AI-generated image that "does not reflect current conditions in #FortProvidence". Go #NWTFire! 👍 #misinformation #misleading

Update as of 415pm, on severe #thunderstorms on #VancouverIsland. #BCStorm 🌩️⚡⛈️

Counted 14 #VictoriaPolice units on scene at #BCHousing's new supportive Crosstown Housing and Health, on 500blk Burnside E. FOURTEEN! At usually 2 members per unit, that's a lot of resources tied up. #yyj #BurnsideGorge #WelcomeToThatNeighbourhood

If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.

Heads-up inland #VancouverIsland: advisory alert on incoming thunderstorms!⛈️⚡🌩️ Looks like #Sooke and #Metchosin could see a bit of it.😬 #yyjwx via @alertable.bsky.social

The morning cool felt just a little cooler - and damp - this waning-August day. Autumn is definitely in the air.🍁🍂 While I'll miss the warmth (not heat🥵🫠) of summer, this means #SweaterWeather is just around the corner! Woot!🎉 #Saanich #SaanichSummer *Some of us need a sweater emoji*😁

15° and raining here in my corner of #Saanich. 😁🌧️ Rain, glorious rain. 👍💧

Ugh.😞 3 different news stories today from @cheknews.ca, yet there's a common theme: #preventable tragedy on our roads. My condolences to the child's family.🫂 The heartbreak from this tragedy will ripple out and affect many others.💔 #VulnerableRoadUsers #TrafficSafety #RoadSafety

@gavincrawf.bsky.social Listening to a repeat of a February show.... There are times the chaotic energy of guests is as funny as the quips and jokes. It's like they're completely out of of control. Ecuador Equator 🤣😂 Another great show with Ashley Botting, Jan Carawana, and Chris Sandiford!

Despite there's nothing that spells #racoons in the 2nd post, the algos decided to put these 2 posts together. 😂 @chrisraccoons.bsky.social @kojamf.bsky.social

I'm only 19 pages in on @rutgerbregman.com's latest book, #MoralAmbition, and I'm impressed enough to recommend. Easy-to-read writing, yet depth and research and factoids abound. Occasionally a bit of humour thrown in.🙂👍 #books #AmReading #SummerReadingList @littlebrown.bsky.social

So this is why so many people are in downtown Victoria tonight! 😁 #yyj #CruiseShipSeason 👍

MVI 4800blk Cordova Bay Rd affecting southbound traffic. Small car crashed into tree at painted Xwalk.😬 Unknown if anyone else involved. Police, fire, ambulance, and ALS ambulance on scene. #yyjtraffic #Saanich #RoadSafety

Libraries in summer are so different than the rest of the year, I find. This time of year, the place is usually filled with happy, excited, & cheerful chattering little voices. There is So. Much. To. Be. Discussed.😁 I'm going to miss their energy & enthusiasm when school & other routines return. 📚

Sometimes life in the #borderlands of #yyj / #Saanich is just so OTT, that when it sounds like a horse is clomping by your house in the early hours, you don't even bother to get up and check. Because there probably is a horse outside. 🤷🏼‍♀️🐎 #IJustCant 🤦🏼‍♀️

Something seems to have happened in the area of Parkdale Shell - multiple police units on scene. #Saanich #yyjtraffic

The #orca won #BCsBestSymbol! However @ #BCToday broadcast in #Sidney, local birds wanted a word! Hopping around stage, in air, in water - birds showed up! 😂 Great to see @audiomadz.bsky.social @gregorcraigie.bsky.social @jmcelroy.bsky.social @leirenyoung.bsky.social! #ExploreSidney #BestSymbolBC

Watching 3 #EHS ambulances, one after another, try to make their way through #yyjtraffic on Hillside, is an exercise in frustration. The drivers taking chances, scooting in front, not pulling over, etc have likely not considered that it could be their family member in need next time. 🤦🏼‍♀️ #DriveBetter

It's twilight in the forest, and as I'm getting something outside, the distinct mewling of a baby kitten came from a dark area under the trees. Nope. Not falling it for it. (To be clear, there is zero chance that it is a kitten, but it's definitely from the cat family.😬) #CSaan

Had a lovely interaction w/ a group of cyclists today, who wore green jerseys emblazoned "FOCHS". Smaller print looked similar to "Friends Of Cyclists and Hikers Society". So I asked one woman about the small print. She proudly showed the print clearly: "F***ing Old Cyclists and Hikers Society" 1/2

Seems something has happened in the area of the Salvation Army store on the Old Island Hwy? I'm hearing that police have the road taped off from Helmcken to where Burnside connects. Approx 7 units on scene. #yyjtraffic #ViewRoyal

Why get up at this hour on a holiday Monday? For @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social's controversial musical takes!🪲🎶🤣 One can just feel that Drew and Stephanie are slowly backing away from their mics, NOT wanting to get involved in Stephen's mischief.😂

@edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy Do you have any interest in fresh-cut black walnut?🙂

Now a national news media outlet just did the same on the 5am newscast. Named #WesleyRidge, named #CameronLake, but landmarked it according to the proximity to Nanaimo. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ #V71145

Last night was spent relaxing and dining outside with a group of friends, enjoying endless laughs. Tonight is an outside barbeque with family and my fave go-to drink: cranberry ginger ale. I'm making the most of this summer long weekend! #BCDay