7 New Restaurants Coming To Victoria In The Next Two Months #yyj www.tastingvictoria.com/p/7-new-rest...

Auctioneer Jeremy Loveday raising the stakes for a great cause at Tapas for TAPS - Together Against Poverty Society. #yyj

Prevention of youth homelessness, addiction and crime. Today Council received an update on Victoria's Spark Program, and the results are impressive....1/n #yyj #homelessnesssiness #prevention

This isn't today's forecast. But climate change means more heat domes are coming, and worse than the 2021 one that killed 24 in our region, most in their homes. Today Council passed our motion to start protecting renters from excessive heat in their homes. #yyj #climatechange #climateaction

Tomorrow, I take on Oak Bay Councillor Carrie Smart in the Capital Bike Commuter Challenge. She's on a bike, I'm in a car. The odds are... not in my favour. See you at the legislature around 8am — I'll be the one looking for parking! 🚗🚲 #CommuterChallenge #GoByBike #yyj @capitalbike.ca

Thanks to Charlayne T-J for herding us cats today on the Chinatown Scrub Up! @victoriachinatownmuseum #yyj

Quadra Village day is amazing! Food, entertainment, games, kids bouncy castle and more! Kings, between Dowler and Quadra. Best to bike 🚲or bus 🚌 if you can. #yyj

15-minute city conspiracy theory appears on local social media pretty much daily. Associated with right-wing NIMBY municipal election campaigns.

It's time. AI and social media are harming children. Our governments have the power to protect Canadian children. Do it. #thesocialdilemma #theaidoc #socialmedia #ai

Gas prices up and Up and UP. Big Oil profits up and Up and UP. Windfall profits tax! #yyj #bcpoli #cdnpoli

🌡️Over 20 heat records were broken across B.C. on Sunday, May 3. As BC gets hotter and smokier, thousands of residents are still living without adequate cooling. 🔗 Read the announcement: www.urbanclimateleadership.org/news//bc-hea... More... 1/n #yyj #bcpoli #climateaction #KeepItCool #HeatPumps

This robot installs 80 panels/hour. One every 45 sec. 1,920/day ≈ 0.0008 GW/day per line. Sounds small. It’s not. Scale this across thousands of lines and #solar becomes manufacturing, not construction. 👉 10,000 lines = 8 GW/day. That’s HOW China is winning the energy game.

The Canadian flag at Victoria City Hall will be flown at half-mast until further notice to recognize the sudden passing of longtime City of Langford Councillor Lillian Szpak.

Hmm no cars in the general purpose lanes #yyj #yyjbike

Nanaimo city council looks to speed up building permitting. @bengeselbracbt.bsky.social #yyj #housing cheknews.ca/nanaimo-city...

One of my first tweets as bike mayor was about how my bike is my mobility aid. Some old crank replied that I can’t be disabled if I ride a bike. Anyway, I achieved peak mobility aid today when I transported my electric wheelchair on my e-trike so I could *finally* enjoy Halifax’s Public Gardens.

Victoria's protected bike and roll network is 9 years old! Beautiful day for a celebration. Kudos to previous Councils for getting Victoria started on safer spaces for people using bicycles, electric wheelchairs, and mobility scooters. #yyj #safety

Gas prices are back up, despite the fuel tax cut. Who could have guessed?? Big Oil is reaping massive profits in Canada. It's time for a windfall profits tax on the oil and gas industries. #yyj #cdnpoli #bcpoli

The only reason I was able to build savings throughout my 20's and early 30's was because in that whole time I spent precisely $0 on buying, maintaining, insuring, or fueling a car. If I'd had a car I would have been left with nothing at the end of every month

Want affordability? Make car ownership optional. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #yyj #urbanism

Amazing. In Paris, school streets "with the full treatment — trees, gardens, light-colored pavement — were on average, an astonishing 9 degrees (Fahrenheit) cooler than nearby non-school streets."

Powerful words at the National Day of Mourning. Many thanks especially to family members who shared their stories. All these deaths were preventable, and we must do more to prevent injuries, illness and death on worksites. #yyj #bcpoli @victorialabourcouncil @bcfedoflabour

Today is the Day of Mourning, 12:15pm at the BC Legislature Steps. A day to honour workers killed or injured on the job and renew a commitment to improve health and safety in the workplace and prevent further injuries, illnesses and deaths. @victorialabourcouncil @bcfedoflabour #yyj

Unregulated drug deaths in Victoria compared to other cities in BC Coroners Report, 2025. #yyj Click to see full chart.

The 15-minute city conspiracy theory is a ridiculous collection of fantasy and misinformation. Who benefits from the conspiracy? Big Oil and Big Auto. What are many people *actually* forced into, due to bad urban planning and zoning? Car dependency. #climateaction #urbanism #cdnpoli #bcpoli #yyj

Save Hermann’s Jazz Club & View Street Social Campaign Accomplishes Fundraising Goal! 🥳🎉❤️ victoriamusicscene.com/2026/04/27/s... #yyj

Happy Vaisakhi! Amazing turnout, happy people, beautiful colours, great flavours! Many thanks to Gurdwara Singh Sabha Sahib ( ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਭਾ ਸਾਹਿਬ) for hosting another great community event! #yyj #vaisakhi 7 minutes ago

Suburban sprawl is a Ponzi scheme forced by legacy 20th Century zoning regulation. Low density is a formula for high costs and low revenue; downtowns are the wealth generators. @strongtowns.org at #avicc2026 day 3 of the weekend. #avicc26 #yyj

This important AVICC resolution re welcoming wheelchairs and mobility scooter on bike routes just passed! Thanks to @davethompsonvic.bsky.social, @victoria.ca council, and all the #AVICC2026 delegates who supported it. #yyj #bcpoli @disaballiancebc.bsky.social @wearehub.bsky.social

DABC and 3 other orgs have sent an open letter to delegates of AVICC's 2026 AGM & Convention, asking for their support of AVICC resolution R19 Wheelchairs and Mobility Scooters in Bike-and-Roll Mobility Lanes and Routes: https://tinyurl.com/yys3fhuy #accessibility #BC #BritishColumbia

$139,000 to own a car for 9 years www.timescolonist.com/national-bus... #climatechange

Great to see @disaballiancebc.bsky.social, the Council of Senior Citizens’ Organizations of BC, @wearehub.bsky.social and BC Cycling Coalition supporting this important resolution at #AVICC2026 in #yyj. #pwd #bcpoli @davethompsonvic.bsky.social

Min. of Public Safety & Solicitor General Hon. Nina Krieger at Victoria Chamber AGM. Enforcement only part of answer to street disorder. It's also a public health emergency. Compassion for the person, accountability for the action. @ninakrieger.bsky.social @victoriachamber.bsky.social #yyj #bcpoli

PHASE OUT FOSSIL FUELS www.cbc.ca/news/science... #fossilfuels #fossilfuelpollution #climateaction #climatechange #urbanism #cdnpoli #bcpoli #yyj #cop30

Protected bike and roll lanes are an accessibility technology. 👨‍🦼👨‍🦽 #yyj #urbanism #bike #pwd

“The Elbows Up for Climate campaign launched today with an open letter signed by more than 100 mayors and councillors from coast to coast to coast…” I applaud this, BUT EVERY ONE OF THOSE MAYORS AND COUNCILLORS better be fighting for CLIMATE ACTION in the land-use & transportation in THEIR cities.

Great event! Legalize it! #yyj #bcpoli #AVICC2026

A Fight for Justice. Book launch Wednesday April 22 5:00 to 7:00 p.m at the Bent Mast, 512 Simcoe Street. #yyj

Tomorrow in #yyj!

Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸 Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in. This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale. Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS #Solar

Close call at memorial where boy, 12, died renews calls for road-safety measures “Somebody intentionally came on the road, waited for police to leave, pointed their vehicle at a crowd of people on the road, and accelerated into it,” she said. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/c... #xavierslaw #yyj

"The federal government and the province have already committed a combined $31.5 million to expand power capacity at Ogden Point,and there is strong precedent to have industry pay the costs of managing waste and emissions as a part of routine business." #yyj www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

Unregulated drug deaths continue to decline from their 2023 peak. This BC trend appears to be the case in Greater Victoria as well. Causes are unclear, as I noted in this post: davethompsonvictoria.ca/unregulated-... #yyj #bcpoli

"Last year, 54 people who had been in emergency shelter beds at ARC moved into housing in the community." That is success. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/s... #yyj

2/ When we don't allow more people to live in already developed areas close to jobs, schools, employment, etc., we force them to live somewhere else. Here's a time lapse video of the Bear Mountain Resort, and other development, outside of Langford between 1984 and 2022.

Not density OR trees. Density AND trees. Better cities are climate action. #UrbanTruth

Worth following. @urbantruth.bsky.social @momentummag.bsky.social #urbanism #urbantruth

TBH, I needed a bit of good news, and France announcing a ban on new gas hookups in buildings and heat pump subsidies for retrofits will do.

Many thanks to the White Eagle Polish Association for a wonderful event yesterday - beautiful music and delicious food! It's great to see so many cultural organizations working together to make Victoria a great and welcoming City. #yyj

Sandra Hough will be one of the leaders of our #EarthWeek ride and roll on Victoria's bike and roll lanes on April 20. Please join us on your mobility scooter, 🚲, 🧑‍🦼, 🛴, 🛹or? Details & more videos at www.climatejusticevictoria.ca/2026/04/10/e... www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xC1... #yyj #yyjbike #bcpoli