Cities are using AI for more and more functions, including speeding up housing approvals. Interesting presentations from Kelowna and Vancouver at #UBCM2025 today. #yyj

The majority of British Columbians support red light and speed cameras. www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/arti... #safety

...by convincing our #Montreal borough to set up a pilot-project for a rue-école (school street). 6 movable concrete barriers, which still allow ambulances to pass. About 50 metres closed to cars—but open to people. The improvement was immediate, and dramatic. Kids poured into the street...

Kimmel should make his first show back all about Jeffrey Epstein

The BC government just said in a press release that the number of US healthcare workers, including doctors, has doubled since May. The province is making it easier to practice here.

So the MAGA insiders shorted Kenvue? www.barrons.com/articles/ken... #never51

Chicken or egg for public transportation. Should cities invest in public transport, or wait until there is higher demand? Cities need frequency, speed, connectivity, to have high use of public transit. Too many failing: cutting frequency & routes. It'll get much worse. bit.ly/4ngwxjS

IN THE USA… Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them? Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-...

Needed: more critical thinking & less politics. Study: Detecting health disinformation journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... "People with a high need for cognition [critical thinking] were adept at detecting online disinformation, but those with conservative political affiliations were not."

Polarizing take, yes. But given role of political identity in shaping world, key...👇 Politics & IQ: www.psypost.org/the-politics... "...people with lower cognitive abilities are more likely to endorse socially conservative & authoritarian views..." Link with economic conservatism more complex.

You can’t talk about cleaning up crime in D.C. while a 34-count convicted felon is running the country.

Greater Victoria celebrates more than 1,000 little free libraries www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #yyj @thatemfagan.bsky.social @tealepb.bsky.social

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

The America we thought we knew no longer exists. And it can happen here. #elbowsup

Violent homophobic and misogynistic attacks on union members or anyone else are completely unacceptable. These types of attacks are the result of right-wing extremist rhetoric becoming normalized: #stochasticterrorism. @bcgeu.bsky.social www.timescolonist.com/local-news/v...

The BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU) says some of its members who were picketing outside the Royal BC Museum in Victoria were struck with bear spray on Tuesday.

New campaign to combat misinformation. www.chch.com/chch-news/ca...

New campaign to combat misinformation. www.chch.com/chch-news/ca...

No, homelessness and street disorder are not unique to Victoria and governments here didn’t create it. Beware of disinformation and political rage farming. Meantime here are related news stories from across North America. Plenty more at: davethompsonvictoria.ca/homelessness... #yyj

You are not Making a Difference there. You are not Fighting the Good Fight. You are not even Maintaining a Community you couldn't easily replicate elsewhere. You are propping up a right-wing site and, worse, you are being warped by your constant exposure to it and you don't even realize it. Leave.

The amount of misinformation floating around about parking, land use, and pretty much everything the city does is astounding. It's rage bait, and it's poisoning civic discourse in Victoria. Councillor Thompson addressed some of the parking misinformation below.

What happened after Canadian journalist @rachelgilmore.bsky.social posted about the potential repercussions of Kirk’s murder: doxxing and violent threats thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

No the City isn't proposing to reduce parking downtown by 30% or 50%. This and more misinformation addressed here... davethompsonvictoria.ca/parking-corr... and here. davethompsonvictoria.ca/check-parkin... #yyj

Happy to see this new food truck at Pandora and Quadra. Apparently there is one in Delta. Anyways nice to see something positive and new in the area! Anyone tried it yet? #yyj #victoriabc #foodtruck

This is something all cities should be striving for. Road design and speed limits make a difference.

On the topic of rental increase limits that don’t keep a pace with costs … I know it’s hard to take a landlord’s word for it, but let’s look at it from an equity lens. #housing 🧵

Interesting thread Generally the dialogue on rent control is too black & white The free market folks say any kind of rent controls are negative for renters, which is a misreading of the literature and ignores the costs of displacement. The advocates want vacancy decontrol but ignore economics

B.C.'s human rights commissioner says misinformation and disinformation pose "significant threats" to human rights as her office has launched a new tool to prevent the spread of such information.

Beloved, decade-old B.C. coffee shop will soon close after landlord doubles rent dailyhive.com/vancouver/hi... #yyj

23 storey, Indigenous-owned, mixed-use building proposal by M’akola. 208 purpose-built rental homes: studio, 1br,2br,3br. And 6,000sf of commercial space. Douglas at Finlayson, S. of Mayfair Mall. tender.victoria.ca/webapps/ourc... #yyj #housing

Langley Township Mayor Eric Woodward is suing his political rivals, and the details will be interesting to people who follow conservative politics and how modern political campaigns are run

Major North Vancouver parking changes rolling out next week www.nsnews.com/local-news/m... #yyj

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

“In the wake of those shootings, an industry has emerged to try to protect schools — and business is booming. According to research, the school security industry is now worth as much as $4 billion, and it's projected to keep growing.” The school shooting industry. “American exceptionalism?”

It's tempting to write off each crash as a rare, tragic accident. But is there anyone alive in North America who hasn't been touched by road violence? When will we accept that there are no accidents and design our systems accordingly?

Getting a balanced outcome, in an initially-biased system, means there is a need to prioritize. #transportation #urbanism

Washington DC has had parking enforcement cameras mounted on street sweepers since 2009. They work wonderfully. If your city hasn’t done this yet, you should! ggwash.org/view/2233/st...

For American 🇺🇸 parents in back-to-school season. Be safe. Trigger warning. youtu.be/b5ykNZl9mTQ?... #backtoschool

Hi @mark-carney.bsky.social Two good options here. Which will you choose? Domestic manufacturers seem to not want to make us the goods.

Why is bluesky app asking me to sign in daily now? It used to be monthly which was fine. @bsky.app #bluesky

Either: 1. Allow less expensive EVs to be imported, or 2. Allow their producers to set up factories here. The status quo ensures that Canadians will be buying fossil fuelled vehicles for decades, and we will fail to reach our #EV targets. www.cbc.ca/news/science... #cdnpoli #climateaction

Speed limits in the City of Courtenay have been lowered to 40 km/h on “most local roads,” the city said in a social media post Thursday.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #cdnpoli

Please consider coming to the public hearing and giving your input on the Official Community Plan (OCP) Update. September 11th. Info and details: davethompsonvictoria.ca/ocp-public-h... #yyj

Helsinki went a full year without a single traffic death #UrbanDesign #yyj www.politico.eu/article/hels...

Our future is on the table: clean, affordable energy, or the status quo. 100+ groups are calling for renewable, sustainable electricity. Add your voice: dsfdn.org/PetitionToBu... #RenewablePowerForAll #SustainableFuture #CleanPower

We need more frequent re-testing. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... #safety

Learn more about what's in the Official Community Plan and Zoning update, and how you can participate in the public hearing: engage.victoria.ca/ocp #YYJ #VictoriaBC

The City of @victoria.ca hearing for the Official Community Plan update is on Sept 11 at 6:30 pm. https//www.victori... #yyj