This is one of the most sickening things I've read in a long time. We need names *yesterday*

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

Despite Ken Sim trying to call our reporting "false" regarding the loss of Vancouver's sustainability department, city staff just confirmed under pressure from council that those jobs are not in fact safe in the budget, as it now stands.

Worth noting that because Sim brought forward his proposal for a property tax freeze requiring millions in cuts with just weeks left in the budget process, this is not up for public debate and is not outlined in the documents available to councillors when they vote on this

#aurora ribbons from cockpit of a flight heading to Fort MacMurray #alberta as major solar storm hits earth.

With everything going on these days, it’s easy to miss when local governments get up to some sketchy stuff. Take Vancouver, where Mayor Ken Sims is planning to eliminate the city’s sustainability and climate department!!! Yes, really. My partners at @nationalobserver.com have the scoop:

I will kick in one case of good Canadian beer toward this prestigious prize

Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.

This is why parents shouldn't be allowed on Bluesky. They correct you in front of all your internet friends.

A nice Remembrance Day read from @maxfawcett.bsky.social

Lawren Harris, acting in his capacity as an official war artist during WW2, and one of his pieces. I had no idea! (Both photos courtesy Library and Archives Canada.)

Cartoon presidency

Talked about the prospect of another pipeline and Carney's recent comments on my Monday political panel. As I said, the biggest impediment isn't regulations or even Indigenous opposition but the lack of a viable business case. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/o...

love that Supercop #3 expects us to believe he had reason to believe a sitting MLA was engaged in flagrant corruption, conducted an illegal search — and then got distracted so never completed his investigation. Adorable.

The tragedy of Elon is he wants so badly to be a Bond villain but will always be a Batman villain. From the comic books.

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

Great first-hand account of the ostrich cull and its implications for public trust in Canadian institutions. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/07/a...

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

BC's anti-SLAPP legislation was critical to keeping a meritless lawsuit @torimarlan.bsky.social and I faced to the "affordable" sum of ~$50k in legal fees. Journalists like Luke not protected by these laws have much higher exposure — even when, like us, they did nothing wrong.

*with unlimited oil wealth and no human rights laws

Can't wait to see Sarah Nurse lead @pwhl--vancouver.bsky.social's signature flying V formation for the first time

The City of Victoria might slash grants and programs across the board to make up for one single line item that's roughly equivalent to everything being cut. Can anyone guess what that single budget item is, which apparently isn't even up for debate? One guess.

And this, friends, is why you read Paul Wells' Substack. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-2025-b...

"Ostriches, especially males during mating season, are extremely dangerous. … Consider sedating birds prior to euthanasia for large, uncontrollable, or dangerous birds such as ostriches or emus," states a government manual released under Freedom of Information legislation.

Another clue: the vancouverspirit.com web domain was registered exactly two weeks before the PWHL team was announced.

Little things become symbols. And symbols are what stick with people. This budget is full of very very dumb symbols.

I guess you can't really support Pathways without also making greenwashing legal at the same time

uh oh. Once you've lost Barstool Sports, you've lost, uh... you've lost... um, well, you've lost Barstool Sports, I guess?

From my time in Paris, I know that in France people would have burned a lot of stuff by now.

Also, I found @nationalobserver.com's Civic Searchlight tour quite helpful for this story. Beyond everything else, it's a quick and easy way to get to the right spot in a council video. civicsearchlight.nationalobserver.com

what the actual fuck. Publication that beat the odds to deliver some of the best politics reporting in the US

the Venn diagram overlap of Nigeria and Venezuela is extremely narrow and consists of one specific resource that happens to have captured the entire Trump administration

Toronto! @cloelogan.bsky.social is the new reporter in town. Drop her a line with your story tips and burning questions you need answered about the city's changing climate, building plans and political challenges.

Grantees are being notified this week about their $10,000 Messengers of Biodiversity grants. I was part of the jury, and at the end of the process we all just kind of sat there in appreciation — you don't often get to send out $160k for science and nature journalism. Love to see it.

Congratulations to the dodgers

not like that

Release us from this prison

Can't imagine that was deliberate but it was perfect

If the Jays win, it'll be a well-timed miraculous Cinderella story celebrated by a whole nation. If the Dodgers win, it'll be because they refused to pick a ball off the ground in game 6.

Vladdy arriving in a Poulin jersey is CLASS

The government of Canada when they're asked to respond to a question by Friday

Imagine winning on the basis of that bullshit "muuuuuh i can't get it"

I would hate to be a car parked within burnin' distance of Rogers Centre

Stand-out stat: "Records don’t show a single pedestrian killed by an e-bike in the city. Meanwhile, in Delta alone, cars kill and injure more than 1,000 people every year, according to Insurance Corporation of British Columbia data."

Chotiner: So you felt you had to debase yourself to smooth things over? Carney: yes Chotiner: Even though the ads were accurate, and Trump is lying? Carney: yes Chotiner: Did it achieve what you wanted? Carney: well hold on

I tried to cobble together a narrative of the industrial-scale corruption of the Trump state, and to think about why it's not breaking through. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/guide-to-d...

I wonder how the employees of Overstory Media feel about having their tech bro founder call the company "a failure" in his little newsletter, while they continue to show up at work and try to bring in readers, workers and advertisers?

My column today, on how police departments' car-first attitude makes them say the darnedest things. Like "leave your e-bike at home."