Brandon Yan 甄念本
@brandonyan.com
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he/him Vancouver, Canada Politics, Urbanism, Gay Stuff
Over 10 min until the next B Line. Can't wait for the subway.
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Montreal's new light metro looks like a dream. This is definitely something our pensions plans should be doing. Also they have Canada's deepest station at 20 storeys! 😮 Accessible by elevator only.
about 15 hours ago
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Torrance Coste
about 17 hours ago
it’s wild this man built his political career opposing Christy Clark’s messaging, policies and politics only to wholeheartedly adopt all of them 8 years later
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Ian Bushfield
about 18 hours ago
The far right in Canada is the politics of denialism: Evolution, climate science, LGBTQ identities, indigenous rights and title. It's the weaponized rejection of reality.
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦
about 18 hours ago
This is great to read. I am very optimistic about younger voters. In some ways, I believe the clutches at authoritarianism are desperate grasp because the time is running out where people will vote for racism, because youths are so progressive. I see their diversity in friends & it gives me hope.
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LindaForfar2 🇨🇦 Ottawa
about 19 hours ago
Happy Sunday everyone!
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Glaxton T. GuitarWolf
1 day ago
Ok these all sound like gay porn titles.
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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye
1 day ago
Fuck Trump. Fuck the Republican Party. May they be destroyed.
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Charlie Smith
1 day ago
Taiwan Environment Minister Peng Chi-ming has a PhD in atmospheric science. But he can't participate in
#COP30
because the UN isn't living up to the spirit of the COP30 slogan, “Global Mutirão", by preventing Taiwan's participation.
pancouver.ca/peng-chi-min...
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Peng Chi-ming: Taiwan’s participation in the “Global Mutirão” on climate transition - Pancouver
Taiwan's environment minister, Peng Chi-ming, has a PhD in atmospheric science from National Central University.
https://pancouver.ca/peng-chi-ming-taiwans-participation-in-the-global-mutirao-on-climate-transition/
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Today is the Pink Broom bonspiel and I'm on Team Light Blue. I went full bake sale mom and got all the table decor and created a theme which is The Blue Jays. I even made us second place medals.
2 days ago
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C 🏳️🌈 🇨🇦
2 days ago
Yup....
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It's The Weekend 😌
2 days ago
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
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Raincouver Millennial
2 days ago
We play 8 kids teams per field with about 20 kids each, in 2 or 3 shifts. So what is that 400-500 kids in 5 hours? Our club out uses the best day on a golf course in just the after school hours. But sure, put housing on an elementary school field and increase our field fees.
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The Federation
2 days ago
Read the report, join the briefing and call for action:
bcpolicy.ca/living-wage/
#LivingWage
#BC
#Affordability
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The Federation
2 days ago
B.C.'s highest living wage isn't in Metro Vancouver, it's in Whistler at $29.60. Living wages across 27 communities range from $21.55 to $29.60. These rates reflect what workers need for a basic, decent standard of living.
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BC Living Wage 2025
The living wage for Metro Vancouver is now $10 higher than the minimum wage. The highest expense in people's budget is...
https://bcpolicy.ca/living-wage/
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The Associated Press
3 days ago
BREAKING: President Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices.
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Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities, including beef, coffee and tropical fruits.
https://bit.ly/3XwHDWw
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Robson Fletcher
2 days ago
Every so often I think about this "Starting a new position as Deceased" LinkedIn post from 2024.
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siiiigh
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Stephen Harrison
3 days ago
Here's a thread with an annual reminder that VicPD is overfunded and overstaffed. VicPD likes to say it's a special exception as a "downtown" police force, but they cost more per capita than every other department in B.C., including Vancouver.
#yyj
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Jim Stanford
3 days ago
Just renewed my
#ICBC
car insurance for a year, cost me all of $1477. That's $80 cheaper than last year, which was cheaper than the year before. Public auto insurance is a wonderful thing! Here's the 10-yr change in auto insurance costs by province from StatsCan.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
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Trek Central
3 days ago
🚨BREAKING - New Trek Movie! After early promises, it appears SkyDance is pushing ahead with a
#StarTrek
movie, tapping Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley to helm. It's rumoured it's a "completely new take", unconnected to the rest of the franchise... Source:
deadline.com/2025/11/star...
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New ‘Star Trek’ Movie In The Works At Paramount From Jonathan Goldstein And John Francis Daley
Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley plan to write, direct and produce a new 'Star Trek' movie.
https://deadline.com/2025/11/star-trek-movie-jonathan-goldstein-john-francis-daley-1236616716/
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Sarah Langs
3 days ago
SHOHEI OHTANI IS THE ONLY PLAYER TO WIN MVP UNANIMOUSLY MULTIPLE TIMES … HE’S NOW DONE SO FOUR TIMES
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3 days ago
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Mary Gillis
3 days ago
Gee, I wonder if this is because of private equity. *2 minute internet investigation of the company that owns the animal hospital* Yep.
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Michael
3 days ago
If Ken Sim, CPA, would have delivered a budget like this to one of his clients he would have been fired. Let’s hope Vancouver fires him next year. Also to be clear what he and ABC delivered was an election pamphlet. Nothing more.
#vanpoli
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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻
4 days ago
for the record, this is how the
@nytimes.com
covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt
www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
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Oh man. I'm older than Captain Janeway in her series.
3 days ago
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Lucy Maloney
3 days ago
Up to speaker 374 of 631. You can follow along on YouTube if you want or
@seanorr.bsky.social
is live-skeeting. We’re finishing at 5.00 pm today because there are Public Hearings starting at 6.00 pm.
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Anthony Floyd
3 days ago
Your semi-regular reminder that the Olympic Village Elementary School site was selected in 2007, promised by the (checks notes) BCNDP to be fast tracked in 2020, and current expectation is for construction to begin in 2027. 😒
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Highly recommend you tune into the City Council meeting on the budget if you can...I've not seen this level of consistent opposition to a thing in a while and it's not the usual suspects.
3 days ago
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Razzball
3 days ago
“Appears to”
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Shawn Micallef
4 days ago
My life's work (partially) is to get people involved, care about municipal politics and then the players are such profound disappointments. Alas.
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Castanet.net
4 days ago
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell concedes reelection fight to progressive activist Katie Wilson
#Seattle
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Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell concedes reelection fight to progressive activist Katie Wilson - World News
First-term Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell conceded his reelection fight to progressive activist Katie Wilson on Thursday, handing another victory to leftist Democrats around the country frustrated with unaffordability, homelessness, public safety and the actions of President Donald Trump's administration.
https://www.castanet.net/news/World/583829/Seattle-Mayor-Bruce-Harrell-concedes-reelection-fight-to-progressive-activist-Katie-Wilson?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=referral
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Jimmy Thomson
4 days ago
Lots of bad news out there, but, Tesla investors have lost more than a combined $140 billion since they approved Elon's trillion-dollar pay package, so at least there's that.
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Raincouver Millennial
4 days ago
@onecityvan.bsky.social
if this budget passes you guys better be ready with a social media blitz for everyone to sign up as volunteers and make donations to see change in city hall. ‘Cause I generally don’t participate, but I am MAD. I’m going to need a rally point.
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It's also a good way for us to know he's listening and, personally, of I was at a meeting for this long, would also keep me engaged
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In favour of a budget that isn't transparent
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Karen Quinn Fung 馮皓珍
5 days ago
There are several such services out there presently, but I’m not able to vouch to their timeliness which may be extra vital today. Here is one - no warranties expressed or implied.
nitter.net/vancityclerk
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@chrisesq
4 days ago
A three-exclamation point plan!!!
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Michelle Cyca
4 days ago
as
@cityofvancouver.bsky.social
mulls removing change tables for budgetary reasons (?), a reminder that my husband and I have been mapping crowdsourced change table locations for the last two years for "fun!"
vancouverchangetables.com
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The Beaverton
4 days ago
"Trump is a pedophile" email raises questions about whether Trump is a pedophile
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"Trump is a pedophile" email raises questions about whether Trump is a pedophile
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With many of Jeffrey Epstein’s documents and emails now available to the public, subtle messages from the disgraced financer like “Donald Trump is a sex criminal I have done sex cri...
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/11/trump-is-a-pedophile-email-raises-questions-about-whether-trump-is-a-pedophile/
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Pete Fry
4 days ago
THANK YOU Vancouver! On doctor’s orders I’m reclined and elevating my leg after a torn calf muscle. But rest assured I’m gratefully watching/listening to the various Vancouverites speaking out against the cuts to staff and services behind ABC’s opaque
#zeromeanszero
2026 austerity budget
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Julian Sanchez
4 days ago
Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
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Marco Chitti
4 days ago
Waiting for the surplus to inundate the Canadian market and make pasta prices drop here. And then making a lucrative business out of smuggling pasta from Montréal to New York on the Adirondack.
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David Kroman
4 days ago
Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Katie Wilson elected Seattle’s next mayor
Wilson took a 1,976-vote lead over Bruce Harrell. With a maximum of 1,320 ballots remaining, it is mathematically impossible for Harrell to catch up.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/katie-wilson-elected-seattles-next-mayor/
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Lucy Maloney
4 days ago
On a break until 6.00 pm.
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Dinner/going home time: a lot of speakers not able to speak right now.
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Another West Side property owner against Sim.
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Robin Wilde
4 days ago
Bruce Harrell down, Ken Sim to go.
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