Weird how Daniel Fontaine, who bangs the drum about reforming Metro Vancouver governance, didn’t show up to this meeting discussing Metro Vancouver governance. #NewWest #AllCameraNoAction

Check out my latest opinion piece! Public transit can save someone up to $15,000 per year. There is no other cost saving tool at any government’s disposal as powerful as public transit. @movementyvr.bsky.social

Read @michaelhall.bsky.social's excellent op-ed!!

There's a bunny on the countertop in Hops liquor store 🤔 cc @caribbeansunshine.bsky.social

When you make eye contact with another bus rider going the opposite way, also stuck behind endless car traffic 😳🥰

Some updates on Vancouver bus lanes and... 1/2

Is housing demand fake? Absolutely not, writes Will Dawson #bcpoli #housing #yyj #vanpoli

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

Mark Carney's decision to suspend the federal gas tax was dumb. The positions taken by Pierre Poilievre and Avi Lewis, on the other hand, were downright ludicrous. We can do better than this, folks. We have to. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/15/o...

I thought Carney was a builder of infrastructure? With $2.4 billion, we could quickly get to incredible levels of intercity bus service. Medical appointments, family visits, vacations, etc could all be done without a car. Instead, the people who can afford a car will save ~$5 per tank.

After *choosing* to cut $5 Billion from the long-promised-not-delivered Permanent Public Transit Fund, he now *chooses* to subsidize gasoline companies by more than $2 Billion. He makes choices, Canada’s urban communities have not asked for this, but will bear the load of those choices.

Rather than mock Surrey for having ambitions we should direct our ire at the Vancouver decision makers who would prefer Vancouver be some sort of a village

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

Happy Splashdown! Welcome home.

"weve got a great view of the moon out the window. It's looking a lot smaller than yesterday" "Guess we'll have to go back"

4 of the coolest people alive are hurtling back to mother earth, currently going 14,000 km/h and accelerating rapidly

Metro Vancouver will soon have a corridor where two RapidBus routes overlap, and Burnaby has officially failed in providing ANY new transit priority. www.translink.ca/plans-and-pr...

"It’s a bright spot on the moon,” CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen said, his voice breaking up, “and we would like to call it Carroll.” The crew all shared a hug after. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/s...

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

This is really quite good. Short and to the point.

My interpretation but kids are always watching. It's why we say representation matters. I hope this young person shoots for the stars.

Route 8 used to have twice as many trips during the busiest hours of the day. Longer wait times not only reduce the convenience of public transportation but also have very real impacts on people's lives (e.g., having to choose between arriving extra early or extra late to work/school).

If we're trying to mitigate the cost of living impacts of this war, it seems like the right move is to improve transit so that people aren't forced to go into ruinous debt just to get to work. So that they have an alternative that's decent.

Toilet issues, drinking water issues ... Artemis III might need to invest in some space-plumbers 🪠 They're currently having to stow some contingency water in case their main supply goes down again. All before they make the decision to go for the moon in about 1 hour, or, I assume, return to 🌍 early

New Westminster had the highest per-capita death rate during the 2021 heat dome. City council just passed a motion requiring landlords to have one "cool" room in all rental units. Reporting by @kehyslop.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

It's true! @pjnewwest.bsky.social is seeking re-election in New Westminster 🎉 If you'd like to support Mayor Johnstone and Community First, consider becoming a member of or donating ❤️ www.communityfirstnw.ca

Hey #NewWest. I love this City for the same reasons you do: we take action & act with compassion, work together to lift one another. I'm proud of the region-leading work we've done on Housing, road safety, infrastructure, inclusion, & more. We we have more work to do. Let's keep moving forward.

New Westminster Mayor @pjnewwest.bsky.social announces he will seek re-election this October, following months of being on the fence. Johnstone will face off against councillor Daniel Fontaine, after four years of fairly acrimonious battles between the two at city hall.

My @thestar.com column: There’s lots of disagreement about Toronto transit projects, but damn near everyone can agree about one thing: electrifying and increasing GO Train service is a great idea. It’s a real shame Doug Ford’s government has screwed it up again. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

"Of course a new apartment is going to have higher rent, for the same reason that a 2026 Toyota Corolla costs more than a used 2006 Corolla. But adding new housing allows higher-income renters to “trade up,” which in turn makes their former domiciles available for occupancy."

Hey folks. Something is happening next week. You are invited to see it for yourself! Limited seating, register ASAP! www.communityfirstnw.ca/special_event

Thanks to everyone who joined us last Monday for our sold-out “Unpacking Transit in Surrey” event! We’re still buzzing from the great conversations. Huge thanks to our panelists and to our event partner, Surrey Citizen.

Oh, this is one of the potential housing initiatives I'd like to support if I get elected to Vancouver city council. Smaller size is key, I think. They have 180 homes on three sites. www.kelownanow.com/watercooler/...

What's with all this garbage? I bet Parisians would rather a slogan. Like zero means zero.

We may not be Europe ... but it'd sure be nice if we were 😔

A number of @yesinnewwest.bsky.social members attended, and B.C. Housing staff we talked to said the majority of the people they interacted with support this project. New West, we have big hearts for tiny homes. ❤️❤️❤️ #NewWest

Per Pete Fry, we need to stop the dangerous precedent of massively upzoning *checks notes* an empty parking lot to build a social housing tower on land that the province is receiving for one dollar

I love trains too but marketing rail as a jobs program is missing the forest for the trees. Public transportation has the potential to provide access to millions of people (and directly employ people doing so), but only if it is is a useful service. The first goal should always be quality.

I wrote an email to the mayor and council in New Westminster to support the proposed Tiny Homes Village for our homeless neighbours. You can read the letter in my alt text. Please feel free to write your own to [email protected]

Mayor is a strange job. Surrounded by subject matter experts on every topic - planning, housing, engineering, finance, engagement, public safety, etc. - and at the same time you are asked by the public (some of who are also subject matter experts!) to opine on all of those topics… 🧵

We have a decades-long backlog of installing flashing beacons at intersections. It feels like we care more about overpasses than human beings.

Politically, this is incredibly stupid, but as a policy matter it’s also incredibly stupid. The Democrats!

K, people, if you really want me on council, it's not going to happen magically. I need - people to sign up as members before April 10 and vote for me early May - people to help me make calls and door knock - ha ha, money. Last election, ABC raised $2 m www.francesbulaforcouncil.ca?utm_source=i...

holy shit

If you’re interested in learning more about this project so that you don’t fall victim to the misinformation and disinfo being spread in our city please ensure to attend the next consultation led by BC Housing: Location: Anvil Center Date: Thursday, Mar 19 Time: 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Register here:

You can find people like this for literally every form of progress ever. When will we stop giving the opponents of progress disproportional media coverage?

Last night I went to the B.C. Housing led meeting on the “Tiny Home Village” proposed on 20th Street in New West. The meeting was filled with coordinated attendees who came to spread misinformation drilled into them by the bigoted chaos agents known as NWP in #newwest. Some of the misinfo incl: 1/

This is a tale of THREE events, actually. Which is worse: comparing crowd sizes between #NWP's highly publicized campaign event and the mayor's unpublicized appearance elsewhere, or Councillor Fontaine skipping his #NewWest Heritage Commission meeting in favor of NWP's campaign event. #priorities!

Putting busways on existing streets are among most cost effective projects. 20% speed improvement = 20% ops savings or 20% frequency improvement at no ops cost. They're like printing cash

i spent all summer organizing for dedicated transit lanes against typical toronto nimbys who claimed that "emergency vehicles would get stuck in traffic and more people would die" anyways, here's real life: