Shelter-in-place order for Puerto Vallarta after Mex army kills Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader. Road blocks w/ burning cars in Jalisco State cities; shootouts w/ security forces; taxi, rideshare suspended. Air Canada, Westjet, Porter cancelling flights www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

And in case anyone is not in tech, this is like making a living expounding on how restaurants should be run, without knowing the difference between a baker and a short order cook.

good morning hockey people

surely this will be the year that they finally include niche local microblogging accounts

Ehh. Ultimately this came down to the West Side's century-long veto on new development, a dearth of regional support is downstream of that

oh my god www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

At the City of Vancouver we are in the midst of a extraordinary volume of rezoning. In this Council term, in its first 3 years, Council approved just under 20,000 housing units, in its last 9 months of the term it will consider over another 20,000 housing units via rezoning applications…

Due to popular demand, Heritage Bricks and #TransLink are producing a 2nd run of #SkyTrain car brick-building kits made of LEGO. Five different models of trains are available for limited-time pre-sale, including the new addition of the Canada Line car. dailyhive.com/vancouver/sk...

For those not following along, when transit vehicles go faster they complete more trips in a day and you can get the same service level for fewer vehicles and a lower wage bill

Brodie: "I believe that this heralds the death of the single-family neighbourhood." This is how Richmond population changed in this time on council: High-density Greenfield/brownfield development (with sub-par urbanism) and single family stasis or decline. doodles.mountainmath.ca/html/yvr_pop...

I think this is a pretty good reason to have nothing to do with @kareem42.bsky.social and the "Vancouver Liberals"; they're NIMBYing new hotels using completely BS concerns about parks

Construction reaches a big milestone on the Broadway Subway with 100% of running rail now installed. South of the Fraser, rail installation will begin this spring on the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain. #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/br...

Nice video with aerial footage of Lyon's new T6 extension that clearly shows two key ingredients of French trams that make it difficult to replicate them here, unless we change the way we design streets: - accepting an extremely narrow single-lane street - accepting bending youtu.be/RMxHZDGYGc4?...

I had a similar feeling the first time I tried Google Earth in VR; gives you a remarkably good understanding of how an area is built up (compared to looking at a map)

one of the great things about taking harbour air is seeing the stark urban geography of metro vancouver from such a unique view

She wrote a letter to Trudeau demanding more immigration to Alberta! This is trumpian level incoherence. www.alberta.ca/system/files...

I can’t imagine a better councillor than Peter. I strongly, strongly endorse this:

A shame as I was looking forward to Pete's contribution to the progressive primary: no private gym in City Hall! no bikes on Commercial Drive! Someone somewhere to pay for some co-op housing! Vancouver to enjoy stability under the mild sway of the Fry dynasty! vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/02/18/v...

holy moly the price history on this Chinatown condo www.zealty.ca/property/bc/...

With an RM3 ("Medium Density Multiple Housing") zone; nice to see smaller towns avoiding the "everything gets its own unique zoning district" disease

Hump Day photo dump around #Vancouver 📷

I don’t know ship costs all that well but $3B for 1 icebreaker seems crazy right?

Sure hope no one is using these projections for anything important…

*Simple interest* discount rate property tax deferral was the wildest deal you could get But I worry that without it the pressure to otherwise wreck the property tax or assessment system will grow

The Trout Lake mountain view debacle

I think that people who are angry about the BC NDP like this should grapple more with the fact that they won by 1 seat and won one of those seats by 22 votes.

It is really baffling that the Mexico City government actually went with their 40 million USD elevated walkway.

Before (2024) / After (2026) Rue Victor Gelez in the 11th arrondissement of Paris

Sewoon Sangga has been long an obsession of mine. A massive complex of brutalist shopping mall buildings which span four wide blocks in a straight north-south line from Jongmyo Shrine to Namsan Mountain, it pioneered the Seoul as we know it -- and has lived many lives during its steady decline 🧵

The new plaza on Bute is well used

The new buildings in Horseshoe Bay look pretty cool, would be a neat place to live

UPDATE: after four hours of hearing from the public last night, it got past midnight, and council decided to delay their vote until the end of February. because when you’ve been waiting 19 years to build a school, what’s another two weeks?

Merci on Commercial Drive is doing Valentine’s baguettes

old article, does anyone have any recent dirt on the Shangri-La window saga? the building seems kinda hooped, prices have dropped a lot and the monthly fees are $$$$ vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

Guadalajara apartments appreciation post. Guadalajara has way better architecture than CDMX because they don’t limit the city to 4 stories nor allow a ridiculous 80% lot coverage.

the school NIMBY here used to be the director of a local community centre, has a MSW, if you look at her resume you would probably think "huh, very community-minded". which is true of a lot of older NIMBYs in my experience

Oh hey it’s the hovercraft

Tonight, Vancouver council will have a public hearing for a school 19 years in the making There's some community opposition to the project — but there's also the bigger question of why it takes the provincial and municipal governments 19 years to approve a single school www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The battle's not over yet; now we need to defeat the mayoral candidate with a history of voting against social housing and bike lanes. I'm talking, of course, about Pete Fry

Correction: Azaroff won by about 400 votes. A shade under 60%. It’s a reflection of the type of focus OneCity has become: very pro-housing development, urbanist, centre-left without being too tied to the NDP.

William Azaroff has won the OneCity mayoral nomination. He defeated Amanda Burrows by about 150 votes.

never thought I’d say this but: interesting Chinese dog toilets in this thread

reasonable take; it's unfortunate that this website has so many wilfully incurious people on this particular topic

Vancouver City Council has approved the City-owned project of 2 towers up to 45 storeys at #SkyTrain's Main Street-Science World Station, with 780 market rental units. If built, the City could see $700 million in revenue over decades. #vanre #vanpoli dailyhive.com/vancouver/14...

I have a theory that this is mostly an uptick in conspiratorial thinking; dumb-as-bricks accusations of corruption are way more popular than they used to be in a lot of the online spaces I frequent www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...

YIMBYs and urbanists often make the point that you should let people live where they want: near jobs, schools and amenities. I'd like to make a special case for Canada: we should let people live where the weather is good! open.substack.com/pub/carboncr...

There are plans to convert Vancouver Film School's former Chinatown building into a new boutique hotel with 57 guest rooms. There would also be a ground-level bar and lounge. #DTES #ChinatownYVR #vancre #vanre #vanpoli dailyhive.com/vancouver/88...

ICYMI: it's just a little to the left of where it should be. Unfortunately, it's hard to move a six-storey apartment building.

Interestingly, I’m getting ads on Instagram paid for by the UniteHere union trying to portray the hotel shortage as the idea of rolls royce driving rich guy and in opposition to housing