Over 10 min until the next B Line. Can't wait for the subway.

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.

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

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.

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.

Happy Sunday everyone!

Ok these all sound like gay porn titles.

Fuck Trump. Fuck the Republican Party. May they be destroyed.

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...

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.

Yup....

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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.

Read the report, join the briefing and call for action: bcpolicy.ca/living-wage/ #LivingWage #BC #Affordability

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.

BREAKING: President Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices.

Every so often I think about this "Starting a new position as Deceased" LinkedIn post from 2024.

siiiigh

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 🧵

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

🚨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...

SHOHEI OHTANI IS THE ONLY PLAYER TO WIN MVP UNANIMOUSLY MULTIPLE TIMES … HE’S NOW DONE SO FOUR TIMES

DEI hires

Gee, I wonder if this is because of private equity. *2 minute internet investigation of the company that owns the animal hospital* Yep.

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

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...

Oh man. I'm older than Captain Janeway in her series.

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.

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. 😒

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.

“Appears to”

My life's work (partially) is to get people involved, care about municipal politics and then the players are such profound disappointments. Alas.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell concedes reelection fight to progressive activist Katie Wilson #Seattle

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.

@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.

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

In favour of a budget that isn't transparent

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

A three-exclamation point plan!!!

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

"Trump is a pedophile" email raises questions about whether Trump is a pedophile

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

Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.

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.

Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Cool

On a break until 6.00 pm.

Dinner/going home time: a lot of speakers not able to speak right now.

Another West Side property owner against Sim.

Bruce Harrell down, Ken Sim to go.