open.substack.com/pub/charliea... Of course the MAGA fascists are aligning with denialists. The only surprise is that it took so long. This offers succour to divisive, hate mongering clowns in Canada and constitutes interference in OUR freedoms. Elbows up.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

I think everyone has some of this on their bingo card, but the whole -- assembled like this -- is profoundly damning.

Whenever motorists complain about trying to find parking, think of this.

5 people have been killed on the roads in Metro Vancouver in the last week, including a driver, a cyclist, and 3 pedestrians, one of whom was a young child. Each of them had lives, families and friends, aspirations and potential that will not be realized. Each of them could have been me, or you.

Almira Gulch, a.k.a. the Wicked Witch of the West, shown here on her way to collect Dorothy's dog Toto in 1939's The Wizard of Oz (sound on for *the tune*). Happy #BicycleBirthday to actress Margaret Hamilton! #BornOnThisDay December 9 (1902-1985)

The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco Artist: Jack Laycox

Schrödinger's leader www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is the most insane of all bicycle designs. In 1912 two Vancouver lads hit -- and killed -- a pedestrian and they were blocks away before one of them even learned that they'd clipped the guy. I mean, who is in charge here? "I'll steer!" "No, I will!"

"Busted! Rustad Ousted!" That's your headline for today. You're welcome

If only there was a way we could consume all that steel domestically and somehow also address climate change and reduce cost of living ... Oh well

"But bike lanes cause cars to idle *more* and so, actually, *increase pollution*" Paris: Va te faire voir!

#paintisnotinfrastructure #bikeyvr

Don't buy produce from the US.

Unpacking history is rarely comfortable. "Sunday School children were used to raise money for the Anglican Missionary Fund, which supported Residential Schools."

I like how the City of Vancouver’s response to the new PNE Amphitheatre being triple the original budget is to say “WORLD CLASS” like the phrase is a magical amulet that excuses any sins

🇺🇦 Zelensky: The crux of the entire diplomatic situation is that it was Russia, and only Russia, that started this war, and it is Russia, and only Russia, that has been refusing to end it throughout the full-scale invasion.

Vancouver drops from #19 to #30 under the so-called "leadership" of Chairman Sim and ABC. What an embarrassment. Anyone who says "buuut the rain" should try winter cycling in Montreal and Quebec City sometime.

The surveillance state is real.

The legend lives on from the Snuneymuxw on down, Of the great ship the Queen of Coquitlam.... @bcferrys.bsky.social

Baseball shmaseball. Whitecaps are Canada's team now.

Hey remind me, has Pierre Poilievre finally completed his standard security check yet and managed to get the normal, standard security clearance that everyone else even close to his position has? No? STILL REFUSES TO? Hmm. Wonder what the REAL reason for that is?

as a bird artist, in honor of tonight’s game i have attempted to draw the gorgeous blue jay as accurately as possible. as always please let me know if you have any constructive criticism

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

This is a "gookie", perfected and performed by Harpo Marx. Practice it. Be ready. Brave Canadians, you know what to do.

According to the rule, photos taken of foreign travellers will remain on a DHS database for up to 75 years. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

"Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them." -- Margaret Atwood

I'm absolutely in favour of some form of PR. Also mandatory voting. Show up or face a fine.

Worth reading! #UrbanistShoutOut

OMG 😭 @anglicandioto.bsky.social

Hmmmm, I wonder if the difference in timeliness might have something to do with one project being planned by built heritage professionals concerned with the integrity of a national monument, whilst the other is a vanity project of a megalomaniac? #cdnhist #cdnpoli

Updating my LEGO White House

What drivers see no matter what you wear:

Pierre Poilievre says he wants to “restore merit.” He needed to be handed arguably the safest, most impossible to lose conservative seat in all of Canada after losing his own seat. Seems like the opposite of merit. #Poilievre (oh, and he still refuses to complete a check for a security clearance)

LOL Yes.

Canadians going down this path right now need to immediately stop and turn around. You sound like a yankee.

Let's get ahead of stupid for a change. CBC just posted this graph, which shows BC losing population. It's a 0.04% fall. That's ~2,000 out of 5.7million. It's a sneeze, not a call to ramp up pro-natalist rhetoric. And BC is where Canadians go to die. Thus: higher death rate.

#bikeYVR. I've started interviewing folks about the multiplication of cycling clubs in Vancouver from the 1980s on. If you're knowledgeable or you know someone who is, drop me a line please! 🚲

Canadian Tire, surveillance raccoons, and a triangle logo. Hear me out.

What do Shirley Temple, glee club leader Louise Akeo, and "Bible Bill" Aberhart have in common? All were guests at Vancouver's 1936 Golden Jubilee! Read more from me in a Urban History Review's special Vancouver issue, guest edited by @belshaw.bsky.social! #bchist #cdnhist tinyurl.com/2s3rwe9m

I’m all for people enjoying watching football in whatever form. But the kind of demonstrative NFL fandom you see in Canadian sports bars and such sometimes feels like U.S. cosplay, and I feel especially inclined to steer clear of it this year.

So, this is both upsetting & hilarious. A long list of books will be pulled from libraries in the Alberta school system. The Handmaid's Tale is one of them. The funny bit is, the list of banned books ... has been blanked out! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada needs to launch an investigation into Trump regime’s covert influence ops in 🇨🇦. If the US has begun engaging in information warfare in #Greenland, you can bet the same is happening in #Canada. Look no further that the traitorous actions of Alberta secessionists as one of the vectors. #cdnpoli

Guess what...WE ARE NOT COMING BACK!!

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Little known tariffs fact. When Country X charges, say, 30% tariff on imported goods that Country X also produces, domestic producers of the same product take a look at how much the imported goods now cost...and will jack up their own prices to nearly close the gap. Tariffs = make out like bandits.

Vancouver’s Integrity Commissioner has found Mayor Ken Sim and ABC councillors broke the code of conduct on multiple occasions for coordinating amendments to controversial motions in separate private online conversations ahead of public council meetings

The Grands Prix Cyclistes is in Québec and Montréal this year. The logo is just enough like that of the Green Party of Canada that one can only hope that confusion will ensue.

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc. Via @theconversation.bsky.social

@theguardian.com ran this flawed piece -- www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... -- proof that Americans, Brits, and Russians alike ignore Canadian history. At their peril.