"We've certainly come a long way from talk of phasing out Alberta's oil and gas, haven't we?" Smith chuckles.

Happy Synesthesia Awareness Day to those who celebrate

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

Hey you — yeah, you! From my walk — chalk art, Victoria-style.

In case you’re curious, The Guardian and Juno News both have the same rating for accuracy (“mixed factuality”) on @gandersocial.ca

Great blue heron and chicks in Lanark County #eastcoastkin #naturephotography #birds #herons #wildlifephotography #ontario #canada #nikon

Red Bull, the scam compound whistleblower from my story below, is struggling to rebuild his life in a new country. He desperately needs tuition funds to keep his student visa, avoid deportation and stay safe. Anything you can give would go a long way: www.gofundme.com/f/support-wh... Thank you!

PSA to anyone who cares about keeping people alive in #yyj! Please email [email protected] to speak out about this motion to shut down our only safe consumption site. PLEASE. It will be up for consideration this Thursday at Council.

It should be a beautiful afternoon for a picnic! Today Oak Bay For All will be by the Kiwanis Playground near Henderson Rec from 4:30 to 6. #yyj

Someone said this in the #yyj transit Discord and it’s true: the population of #OakBayBC in 2021 was about the same as our population in the mid-60s. We’re 15 minutes from downtown Victoria. It’s ridiculous.

Starting at 8pm central tonight, I present 4+ hours of ‘The Best of 1992’ in the form of non-stop music videos here: twitch.tv/djjakerudh Cure/Lush/Nick Cave/Beastie Boys/RATM/NIN/Ride/Sugar/Sundays/REM/Curve/PJ Harvey/Sonic Youth/Tori Amos/INXS/J&MC/Sugarcubes/Sade/Prince/Suzanne Vega/TFF/XTC…

Excellent letter. It was striking how the recent DVBA Annual Report pretended other regional retail centres don’t exist. #yyj

Opinion: Why doesn't BC have a trigger temperature to protect workers from extreme heat? Susanna Klassen & Anelyse Weiler write about their new report with @bcpolicy.bsky.social, calling on WorkSafeBC to update its extreme heat protections vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

"The last building that was acceptable and necessary (my house) was completed four months ago, when I moved here. Yet ever since, the township keeps approving new housing projects. It’s as if our officials don’t consider my preferences for how many people should live in this town."

Basket-weaving classes are the stuff of jokes but they’re amazing, actually.

If you're still using Sticker Mule btw, you should not do that

Our next potluck picnic is Sunday - rain or shine! Hope to meet you there!

Councillor Rachel Chernos Lin appears to be asking questions about road safety and crossing guards while driving.

This is bigger than any premier or party. If a single elected official can unilaterally advance policies with adverse public safety impacts, we should be asking hard questions about the strength of our democracy & advocating like hell for evidence-based placemaking. #EvidenceBasedPlacemaking

Y’all I know a lot of things are real bad right now, but here’s one of them

holy shit bsky has a water sealant expert that predicted the reflecting pool failure mode perfectly

The little great horned owlets are all grown up. 🦉🪶

this is what happens when public health officials don't do their jobs: the police and the business association determine policy www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/docume...

This is sounding like an AI problem, isn’t it?

Hi #yyjbike! Here’s a crowdsourced spreadsheet of local bike-friendly businesses that shows who’s a member of the DBVA or the Chamber of Commerce — with contact info just in case you want to ask whether they’re OK with the DVBA and CoC going after bike infra & dedicated bus lanes. 🤔

Thursday #PeoplesMOU actions are on the 5th Anniversary of the start of the 2021 Heat Dome that killed over 600 people in BC. Actions in Victoria, #Vancouver, Kelowna, Nanaimo ++. #yyj #cdnpoli

The Bread and Puppet Theatre's WHY CHEAP ART MANIFESTO was a huge inspiration for my new book DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Rethink why you create : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... Assembly Press (More on the manifesto here: breadandpuppetpress.org/products/why...)

If you can't see beauty in handstyle marker tags, that's fine. Not everyone needs to appreciate every kind of art. But it is art. And it's beautiful in the same way as a green little weed poking up through a crack in the pavement.

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

Doug Ford was booed at Fraud Fest. Then he ran away. Thank you @opseusefpo.bsky.social. This is the energy we need, Ontario.

Research has shown that dogs are more intelligent than we think. But not all of them.

Art.

Im sorry, they're *called* Greenwater?

This would be great in the Gorge. #yyj

Kids riding buses to explore their city is kind of great, actually

A coupla people passing by ripped off little pieces to keep for posterity 😂

✨Neighbourhood associations are special-interest groups✨

New kids on the block. So far I’ve spotted these little ones holding up a line of traffic while they nursed in the middle of the street, and following me and my large dog on our evening walk.

Save the date for our next monthly potluck picnic! Sunday June 28th, 4:30-6 at Kiwanis Playground in #OakBayBC. Come for the grilled cheese, stay for the community building. All welcome, kids encouraged.

Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt

cities can do things quickly if they want to. and doing nothing is also a choice.

The restoration of democracy at SD61. This is a huge win for the community. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is great. Here's @owenjones.bsky.social basically doing the WKUK bit on TV, but about how in the UK you can't legally say you support the group Palestine Action.

Man what the fuck.

www.reddit.com/r/VictoriaBC... - i haven’t seen this level of consistency in a set of Victoria reddit comments in a /long/ time - the 2026 #yyj DVBA report is a complete and utter farce.

First worthwhile use of AI I’ve been privy to: My dad has been continuously romance scammed for years now and has absolutely refused to listen to his kids about it. Apparently last week Gemini told him that we’re right, and now he believes it. 🙄

We're very happy to report that Oak Bay Council voted last night to advance work on our active transportation network. Thank you to Mayor Murdoch and Councillors Appleton, Braithwaite, Smart and Watson. And thank you to our #OakBayBC neighbours who wrote in support of active transportation! #yyj

The framing here is incredible. This is the old "make downtown a mall and the suburanites will come" failed idea, repackaged.