The good news is that 2026 is an election year. Let's make vote out everyone in green here. Remember those names, & support those looking to unseat them. Thanks to @lucymaloney.bsky.social @seanorr.bsky.social @ptfry.bsky.social and @rebeccaleebligh.bsky.social for standing up for Vancouverites. 4/

Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Vancouver Council votes this week on a budget that could slash programs supporting public health & climate action. We're submitting this open letter tomorrow. We have >200 signatures so far, including almost 100 health professionals. Help us reach 300 by morning! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

two other quick points: 1) if people are setting plastic change tables on fire, perhaps replace them with metal ones. 2) $28,000 per year in repairs is around 0.05% of the $50 million annual budget increase requested by the VPD, and more cops will not address the root causes of vandalism

Ken Sim’s “Zero Means Zero” budget is reckless austerity dressed as leadership. It guts services while hiding the real impacts. At City Hall, not one of the seven Park Board Commissioner spoke in support because they know these cuts will damage community centres, parks, and programs across Vancouver

I'll never get over how all of these companies folded like wet cardboard when a dim NYC real estate conman operating at a fourth grade reading level demanded they all be more sexist and racist (or at best hide their efforts to be kind and inclusive under a tarp)

“The smallness of Mayor Ken Sim’s vision stands in stark contrast to that legacy. It is even contrary to his own ABC party’s platform for the 2022 election.”

Opinion: Vancouver goes small: The city risks big new problems with its proposed turn to austerity vancouversun.com/opinion/opin...

Today is World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. One of our volunteers @margiesanderson.bsky.social spent the morning postering locations where pedestrians have been killed this year in Vancouver alone.

Despite Ken Sim trying to call our reporting "false" regarding the loss of Vancouver's sustainability department, city staff just confirmed under pressure from council that those jobs are not in fact safe in the budget, as it now stands.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to the over 500 people who have signed up to speak to the budget and push back against Ken's Cuts.

NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.

Climate change mitigation and adaptation a core service. It is when our streets flood, when our pools crumble into the ocean, when we operate cooling and warming centres…

Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.

"I'm concerned that by cutting environmental programs, we're mortgaging our future," said @lucymaloney.bsky.social, a councillor with OneCity. That includes the city's commitment to fight climate change & improve residents' ability to adapt to climate disasters like extreme heat & wildfire smoke.

This is an unhinged assault on the future of the City of Vancouver

So, remind me again, why we are paying 3x per capita for policing in Vancouver? Must be all the rogue toddlers roaming the streets because they couldn't get in to a swim lesson...

Admiring the Penguin UK edition of my tiger book with a pint of IPA created by Iron Maiden

Nothing. Poilievre is just very aware that attacking Trudeau is literally the only thing in politics he’s ever been successful at. So it’s a variation of the old saying “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Plus, get your security clearance, Poilievre. If you actually can.

I will never forgive the cranks, quacks and charlatans who have brought god-damn measles back in this country

We shouldn't have to put up with this. We have the technology to prevent this deadly, incredibly infectious disease from spreading but we are allowing ourselves and our children to be oppressed by morons

Lucy is really going to let Charlie Brown kick the football this time. She really means it.

42% of residents and 37% of businesses surveyed supported a 5% property tax increase in order to maintain the current level of services in the city of Vancouver but wait there’s more a lot more 1/? council.vancouver.ca/20251112/doc...

Many city halls are deep in budget-time. Some are pushing austerity ideologies, and are ignoring the difference between costs and cost-savers/value creators. Citizens, PAY ATTENTION, and never forget that the TRUTH about a city’s REAL aspirations isn’t found in its visions. It’s found in its budget.

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

A leader would not have lost eight colleagues tonight. This happened because you let it happen or because you’ve totally lost control of the caucus in one of the most important moments since you’ve been Democratic leader. Either way, it’s on you. You need to step down. We need someone who can lead.

I don’t care if Schumer voted no. If he’s unable to wrangle the caucus, he’s not an effective leader. I’ll continue to push for the caucus to elect a new one.

"retain" and "integrity" doing a lot of load bearing work here

If you missed it earlier, I had shared my thoughts in this thread here:

Under Schumer's leadership, eight Democrats (Cortez Masto, Durbin, Fetterman, Hassan, Kaine, King, Rosen, & Shaheen) joined the Republicans in moving forward a bill to reopen the government without ACA subsidies—Dems' stated key aim—or any other real concessions from the status before the shutdown.

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 2,379 times, hi, I'm @schumer.senate.gov.

BREAKING: Democratic Representative Ro Khanna has said: "Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced"

Okay yep this is as good and acute as everyone is saying, but also man is it bleak Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

A charming essay by the former chair of Africana studies at Bowdoin College about the New York Times crafting elitist propaganda.

Group shot! With @tomflood.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social and @sgoodyear.bsky.social of @thewaroncars.bsky.social. What an all star team 🤩

So wonderful to meet @tomflood.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social today!

I’m stuck in bed between chemo treatments for metastatic coloncancer, wearing a take-home chemo pump attached to my chest. I wanted to share my advice that you can benefit from ‘Letting Your Colleagues In’ don’t need to struggle alone @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

The hierarchy of controls in this article is excellent!

Ken Sim and ABC are going to take an axe to funding arts and services in Vancouver all for the sake of a political stunt

2023: ABC refunds millions of dollars of Empty Homes Tax to developers 2025: ABC refuses to use EHT money for its intended purpose, putting 81 affordable homes for women and children at risk What an astonishing decision by Ken Sim and ABC.

I mean, who needs pools and community centres when you got cops #vanpoli vancouversun.com/news/vancouv...

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)

Checkout the write up for our latest study! news.rice.edu/news/2025/an...

The Province is speeding the wrong direction down a one-way street. Making access to driving easier and cheaper while stripping away safety measures in the name of "efficiencies". This is the opposite of Vision Zero. www.biv.com/news/comment...

Last week ABC's Brian Montague engaged in some seriously unprofessional conduct at city council. This is just a clip of a larger series of interruptions. This sorts of bullying shouldn't be tolerated in civic business.

huh if only the Prime Minister said this

Wild. $2.8 Billion less money to fund climate action, never mind schools, hospitals, transit, or housing, and gas prices are the same as a year ago. $2.8 Billion taken from your public services, from your pocket, to boost the record profits of oil companies. Good work all around, folks.

Ever wonder how the axial locomotor system is arranged into segmented myomeres of red and white muscle in a large pelagic surgeonfish? Well, now you know! 🐟🧪🦑