So we are just going to keep giving the ostriches grifters media coverage?

Hey #NewWest housing folks- there is an open house this evening 5:30 - 8:30 at Century House to talk about proposed OCP changes to facilitate infill density. Link for info here: www.newwestcity.ca/calendar-of-...

Excited #NeWest is making this announcement. I've enjoyed getting to know Donnie & am already inspired by her leadership style, infectious enthusiasm about local gov't making peoples lives better & her track record in recreation, local gov't & housing. Welcome! www.newwestcity.ca/city_hall/me...

Meeting Anna Zivarts at last week's @movementyvr.bsky.social event led to great conversations about equity in transportation planning. We won't achieve Vision Zero in #NewWest without centering human design & considering the increasing number of people for whom driving is not an option.

A new, 605-seat elementary school is coming to #NewWestminster 👏📚🏫 This is an investment in #NewWest future. This school will not only provide students with the space and tools they need to thrive, but it will also strengthen the community for generations to come. news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

Vancouver becoming yet less Awesome.

It was a great morning as we gathered at Fraser Middle School to hear the Premier announcing the investment in a new elementary school with 605 seats in downtown #NewWest! Let’s get building! And the backing band was great too!

I know we’re all enjoying Mamdani-mania, but seeing straphanger, bicycle user, affordable housing champion, renter, better-policy wonk and mom @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social pull well ahead in the Seattle Mayor race has been inspiring! It was a fun campaign to watch from north of the line.

Last Friday, I attended a meeting convened by @visionzerovancouver.ca with regional elected folk, transportation & public health professionals to talk about inter-agency collaboration on the ending of road deaths and serious injury. It helped solidify for me the value of the #NewWest VZ approach.

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Well done tonight @visionzerovancouver.ca and @thewaroncars.bsky.social! A really positive community-building and movement-building event!

This will be a good one folks!

Met some war heroes today. (IYKYK)

The Budget Announcement giveth, The small print taketh away. 😐🚌🚊🚎😐

I been writing these reports for eleven years now. Every two weeks (on average). Here's what happened this week in #NewWest Council. www.patrickjohnstone.ca/2025/11/coun...

The Seattle Mayoral election is a strange beast, where a 7 point lead is effectively a tie? Go @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social! www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/...

X supported Cuomo; Bluesky supported Mamdani. Talk to me again about bubbles?

It's great to have local news in #NewWest again to talk about the work the City is doing: www.freshetnews.ca/could-vision...

The saddest part of Dick Cheney’s death is that it happened so long after his specific brand of hubris caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths that most have forgotten this legacy, and no longer have the energy to dance on his grave.

I know it never feels like enough, but we are building and preserving more affordable housing in #NewWest right now than we have in decades. This is work that matters for the entire community. www.freshetnews.ca/political-pu...

Congrats NW Firefighters Charitable Society on the 1st annual Gala fundraiser! I shared a table with members of the @communityfirstnw.bsky.social executive, and joined (most of) City Council, our MLAs and MP, & the #NewWest business, Labour, & service community in supporting this great cause!

Advocate talks truth! #NewWest www.freshetnews.ca/transit-advo...

There’s a sort of Dunning-Kruger effect happening where people who read widely, consider various perspectives, and put in effort to understand views they disagree with worry that they don’t do that enough, while people who don’t do any of that accuse others of being in a bubble and call it a day.

New West’s CRCL mentioned at CUTA conference whoop whoop

This, and the fact the entire storyline is launched by regional transportation planners failing to properly engage with an impacted neighbourhood over some alleged “get traffic moving” scheme, make the HHGG as relevant now as ever.

Anyway: thought I would give you a view into the less glamorous aspects of local government. People care about parking. Way too much. We spend a lot of time explaining city policy, reassuring people that the sky is not falling, and absorbing anger from people who are still not happy. It’s the job.

Bring your kids down to Sapperton today and meet the Mayor-crow. All treats! No tricks.

Talking about making roads safer with Simi Sara! Speed and Intersection cameras are not a "scam", and it is unfortunate that media chooses this framing when proven lifesaving measures, at worst, marginally inconvenience dangerous drivers. megaphone.link/CORU7818382862

In @translink.ca budget discussions, and frankly we don’t talk enough about how Metro Vancouver is the 25th largest metro area in Canada/USA, but has the 3rd highest transit ridership. This is a massive success we sometimes take for granted.

This comic was drawn specifically for my personality type. xkcd.com/3159/

#NewWest Vision Zero Task Force is launching! I'm excited about this work! This is why:

Populism kills. And the worst part is it often isn't even popular. No, check that, killing people is the actual worst part.

I'm excited about this work: a principled & policy-driven approach to safety in #NewWest. I'm not interested in Vision Zero as just a marketing campaign for work we're already doing, I'm interested in driving a culture change around road safety in City Hall & in community. tinyurl.com/yy5z5csy

There is way too much Third Base Coach in this game.

It works, folks. A modern, dense, fast-growing city with a robust economy and freedom of movement doesn’t require road deaths to function. yle.fi/a/74-20174831

“Everybody wants 30 km/h on their street — but they also want to drive 50 on someone else’s. What’s safe for us is inconvenient for others,” It was great to sit down with Peter Ladner at BCCC to talk Active Transportation grants, speed limits, and inevitable "bikelash". bccycling.ca/podcast

My Dad’s biggest disappointment might be that none of his kids grew up to be Habs fans. (Though the first period tonight was a close second). Go Canucks Go!

It was fun to chat with @bushfield.ca at the Cambie Report about the various mayoral races around the region, though one year out to local gov't elections, its less a race and more several people starting to cast looks towards the starting blocks... #BCPoli www.cambiereport.ca/category/pod...

Not knowing if human activities are driving climate change in the year 2025 should be immediately disqualifying from public office. It's like a doctor not knowing if oxygen is needed for human survival.

#newwest Join us Nov. 19 for a night of real stories of truly awful holiday moments! I'm hosting storytellers who are featured in the latest nonfic anthology Better This Year. @artsnewwest.bsky.social artsnewwest.ca/new-westmins...

All this East Wing demolition talk, any updates on those 24 Sussex Drive renovations?

And in Canada. I’m hoping our Vision Zero approach in #NewWest can start to shift this culture.

This story is one example of why we need to support our local Tenants Unions (to organize against these shifty practices) and we need serious investment in Residential Tenancy Act enforcement. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Here’s my story on what people are saying about the Cowichan Tribes ruling this week, what the ruling actually says — and how we might be in this place of uncertainty for a while www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Actually, most things government does are like this.

Hey Bluesky followers who think that local gov't should do things to make the city better, like vote FOR affordable housing, FOR active transportation, FOR renter protections etc: come to a little fundraiser on Thursday & meet some like-minded #NewWest folks! www.communityfirstnw.ca/burgers_beve...

Still fighting off zombie bad data. no, New Westminster does not have the "second highest taxes". Not even close. www.patrickjohnstone.ca/2025/10/zomb...

So happy to host this event every year, thanks to the good folks at bccraftbeer.ca and to Jorden at Steel & Oak for representing #NewWest and the craft beer industry with equal aplomb! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#NewWest is a special place. JP Tremblay opened the Voices in Action event today, where the Homelessness Coalition brought partners in addressing homelessness together to share their stores & advocacy efforts, and the incredible work being done to support the most vulnerable residents of the city. ❤️

An oasis has sprung in our news desert! #NewWest www.freshetnews.ca/a-new-beginn...