Really informative - explained why Vancouver's MOBI bike share service is so terrible compared to Montreal's BIXI. In Montreal, I didn't own a bike, I had a BIXI subscription. In Vancouver, the opposite, because MOBI was so unreliable, expensive, and bad.

The Big Lebowski's knock-off Cowichan Sweater is up for auction soon. The Cowichan Nation has the chance to do the coolest thing ever: propstoreauction.com/auctions/inf...

When I see how onerous this stuff is - I'm reminded of what it was like to register to vote in the Quebec provincial election after the 'printemps érable' protests. Register as normal, then hearing thing before some panel - all in French only - with probing questions, and then home visit to verify.

As the only (I think?) local reporter in Tumbler Ridge, Trent Ernst has been heroically covering the tragedy unfolding in his town. Most of his reporting is happening on Facebook, which you can find here, along with links to his Patreon. www.facebook.com/tumblerridge...

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Fact check: Canadians are cringe.

Watching Bad Bunny's halftime show it reminds me of the America I LOVE and desperately miss. The reggaeton and hip hop and even slack jawed yokel America that was cool, and just let it all happen in one place. It shows how aberrant MAGA is that this is what they hate www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Fu...

The Seahawks are the masters of cultural *appreciation* instead of appropriation, parody, or stereotyping. Universally beloved in Indian country over this entire region.

Road rage jerk I saw yesterday in Burnaby. I wish there was a tip line to get people like that fined.

Watching this video... if ICE ever went after the people they cosplay, America would be rendered defenceless: youtube.com/shorts/f_w4K...

For people in Canada outraged about Don Lemon (as we should be), reminder that a journalist in Canada is literally fighting in court right now after being arrested by RCMP as a media observer at a protest. Police arrest journalists here too, but especially at protests focusing on indigenous rights.

This Skytrain station is under-appreciated

Snow drops are up all over the neighborhood here in Vancouver today.

My first News memory / I was late for school and shut the whole place down when I told them about it. Maybe why I love finding info others don’t have. Shocking fact - that’s not a fireball, and the crew survived and tried to fly the broken crew compartment till they hit the ocean, minutes later.

My fave law YouTubers have changed from being about traffic and neighbour disputes to: ‘If the obergrupenfuehrer declares your thoughts impure, will you be summarily shot or just sent to a work camp?’ America went proper fascist so fast. youtube.com/shorts/MJmjh...

PoliSci question: when you modify your uniforms to signal "we're the good guys / we're not the feds" - is that a good thing?

The tariff threat over the Canada-China deal is a first test of the Carney doctrine, and Canada-US relations more generally. Are we able to make independent decisions or are we a tributary?

This reminds me of that part of World War Z (the book) near the beginning where the military is sitting around planning how to respond to a zombie uprising, and they're laughing and joking about it as they do it, saying it obviously couldn't happen, but if it did...

What is going on in Minneapolis? If you can't watch the video - they shot him once. He was then on the ground not moving and everyone backed away, then another agent - from a distance - shot him in the head again and again and again. [content warning] www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

23% of Americans want their State to separate from the USA. Alberta is polling at 19% wanting to separate. It's less separatist than: Alaska, Hawaii, Washington Montana, Idaho, California, Nevada, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Arkansas, Indiana, New York.......

Whenever I see someone passionate for one NDP leadership candidate or another, it comes off like someone who’s really really into a competitor on ‘Slovakia’s Got Talent’.

IYKYK

I spent 2 days in Richmond this week, and was reminded how effective hunting bunnies (for pictures) is at helping me sort my thoughts.

Everyone’s comparing the possible US territories in Greenland to the British ones in Cyprus, but the difference is that the Cypriots negotiated that themselves. Here Greenland didn’t get so much as a heads up. So FYI the more apt example would be the Sudetenland. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Trump is 3 Prince Phillip’s in a trenchcoat.

Oh my god… he goes to the canton of **Graubünden** and says:

With the reaction to that speech - Mark Carney is turning out to be the guy we hoped Michael Ignatieff would have been.

Oh! We won 2nd prize — amazing.

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

So what do you know? All those weird Canadian nationalist conspiracy theorists were right. If only Mel Hurtig were still here to see his fears proven right. #vindication

FoxNews has been slow to report on Greenland - and looking at the comments, you can see why. Lots of MAGA people saying ‘no’ to Trump: www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

Anyone notice Trump’s homage to Richard III?

Loved the look of the fog coming in. It’s been siting on the water all day - you could hear the ships blowing their foghorns. And then after sunset as it got colder, the fog snuck up the hill.

That’s some good slop…

Soooooo where’s another decent deli in Mt Pleasant/Olympic Village - because I’m done with this one: @saveonfoods.bsky.social

www.aptnnews.ca/national-new... Thaioronióhte David David launched dozens of careers for Indigenous journalists and changed the way the media tells #Indigenous stories #cdnmedia #cdnpoli

I’ve never seen a Navy ship (that’s the HMCS Grizzly) just pull up to a regular gas station. There’s something funny about that.

No one ever talks about the last time the US took over Greenland. But FYI it's a thing that happened - with familiar excuses too.

Is this lichen or fungus?

An alternative way of talking about Vancouver’s affordability gap is to say that Vancouverites are in the Top 5 most underpaid people on the planet (relative to the wealth siting here).

Come on, reading that, we all thought it.

Plus ça change - BC in 1863: "Mr Shaw remonstrated with the savages when they showed knives and firearms ... they said that the land and everything contained therein belongs to their tribe and that they intended to help themselves whenever they chose to do so."

I’ll be presenting at this conference-as a finalist in their Indigenous Venture Challenge, for my new company: knowledgekeepr.ca

The CNN analysis of the video made it look ambiguous — this one by the Times does not. Clearer video, no doubt what happened.

My first computer!

Reading the news, I keep thinking of this quote: ‘It’s a different type of madness… the two countries are at war over a few acres of snow on the Canadian border, and they are spending rather more on their lovely war than the whole of Canada is worth.'

There is no thing that is worse in this entire world than a hip hop ballad.

Under Trudeau, Canada took a lot of strong, principled positions on foreign policy - picking fights with India and China and generally being holier than thou. The time for sunny ways is gone. The time for sharks with frickin laser beams on their heads is here (metaphorically).

Dance like nobody's watching. But tweet like you might need to cross a border again.

My First Nation is fighting a dictator imposed and supported by Canada. A Native person, who rules over us without any accountability. Yet, whenever I mention that, liberals somehow think I'm complaining about the PM, and calling him the dictator. This is why progress is so slow. 1