Thank you @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social for your conversation with Mayor Sim, who is clearly not a good fit for his current role.

Language around Canadians not traveling to the U.S. is telling. American media still seems amused at our reaction to "the rhetoric that many Canadians feel is condescending." Your criminal president threatened our very existence -- it goes way beyond hurt feelings. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social via his ‘gram: “Last night, after council was dispersing around 10pm, I heard [Mayor Sim] say something that really bothered me… He said ‘What an awesome waste of time. Another day in paradise.’”

ICYMI: This morning @lucymaloney.bsky.social pledged that a @onecityvan.bsky.social mayor and council would reverse any ABC cuts to Vancouver’s legendary climate and sustainability programs. Statement: www.onecityvancouver.ca/climate-sust...

Some breaking news: in a special Vancouver Police Board meeting only announced over the weekend, the police board has requested a $50 million increase to their budget for 2026. This comes as other departments across the city are trying to cut staff to ensure a property tax freeze for next year.

SCOOP: After referring @lucymaloney.bsky.social "Safe Streets for Trick or Treats" motion direct to nowheresville this morning, ABC Vancouver releases list of "motorist-friendly" 🎃 fun costume ideas. Here's a sneak peek!

Look what just arrived! Looking forward to digging in on LIFE AFTER CARS and catching @sgoodyear.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social in convo with @lucymaloney.bsky.social here in #Vancouver on Nov 8, hosted by @visionzerovancouver.ca. Tix here: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/01/l...

Another gross example of the degree to which we normalize traffic violence: A child and a vehicle somehow “collide” in a crosswalk outside an elementary school. Slow clap to Maple Ridge - Pitt Meadows News, owned by Black Press Media.

Generative AI = disappointment engine.

The beatings will continue etc etc

NPR is receiving some clear feedback.

As a person who identifies as neurodiverse, I feel deep disgust at Dear Leader’s baseless declaration that acetaminophen causes autism in utero. This lie will cause incalculable harm to children and families.

Bligh has a decent amount of support from the province and feds (more than Sim or Allam at this point), which could help. But her 6 years being a supporter of Ken Sim, and getting elected under both the NPA and ABC banners, means it’ll be difficult to get support from local left-wing parties.

Sleep is core to healing ❤️‍🩹 & I painted some of the invaluable lessons I learned Thx to Dr Sarah Adams & her CBT-I team #healing #watercolour #natureheals

Apartments (including rentals and below market homes!) are banned from most of the city's nice side streets. That sucks! @lucymaloney.bsky.social's motion to legalize 6 floor apts by parks and bike routes could help change that. Here's how you can show support: pwaldkirch.ca/2025/09/12/s...

The last time the world tried fascism, we had World War II.

On Wed Sep 17, City of Vancouver Councillor @lucymaloney.bsky.social will intro a motion that aims to unlock new apartment buildings up to six floors, and corner stores, on quiet Vancouver streets, including cycling routes and local streets around parks. (1/3)

Global News laid off 26 journalists in B.C. and Alberta today. In B.C. the layoffs include virtually all of the online team, along with many others. The business is increasingly cruel, and the hollowing out of newsrooms providing fair and reliable information continues to suck.

The Province of BC has caved to the mattress industry by waiving its obligation to deal with the garbage it produces. This pushes the burden of worn-out beds onto local govs and you and me, and will result in more illegal dumping. @stefanlabbe.bsky.social (1 of 6) www.biv.com/news/economy...

No matter where you are, If you’d to support Canada and Canadians during this unprecedented economic attack, please consider supporting Canadian businesses by buying Canadian products, services and industries, and supporting Canadian tourism in our great cities and places. Please share. Thank you.

I support a democratically elected park board. Part of democracy is ensuring that the government’s decisions match the city’s values. Vancouver is a city for all its people. Trans people included. I am calling on the Park Board to rethink this event and make this right.

LYING pieces of sh*t! 👇 So now they're fabricating another state of emergency! Bondi says human trafficking across the border with Canada is getting worse. #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Actual candid photo of yours truly listening to a tax / accounting person explain how to calculate and report grossed up dividends as personal income.

"How is Surrey's bike infrastructure?" @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social inn.bsky.social asked the Surrey Police Service flak this morning. "Is is safe, or is it painted lines on the road?" And THAT is how you cover a bullshit "sAfEty iS a sHaReD rEsPoNsiBiLitY" back-to-school press release. 👏

Just learned there is a small neighborhood in East Vancouver called “Dickens.” It appears to be mostly residential and retail; I don’t see many workhouses…?

Beautiful British Columbia.

“We have to reckon with the fact that from now on, our power will come from only ourselves.” Great @stephenmarche.bsky.social essay in NYT.

Bravo J.B. MacKinnon.

Last night Vancouver council unanimously ✅ voted to reboot its #VisionZero work to focus on actions shown to actually reduce road violence. I’m so proud of Councillor @lucymaloney.bsky.social. Her hard work and leadership on this will save lives.

My motion on road safety has PASSED! Today’s vote is a win for everyone, whether you walk, drive, bike, or take transit - or if, like most of us, you do all of the above.

Damn straight.

Listen as CBC interviews @lucymaloney.bsky.social re: her #VisionZero motion to reduce + eliminate injuries & deaths from road violence in City of Vancouver: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

If Historica Canada were to produce new episodes of the Heritage 🇨🇦 Minute, who or what should be featured?

Councillor Maloney is significantly raising the bar on road safety, accessibility, and active transportation in #Vancouver. Hopeless fanboy here.

I'm proud to report that my amendment to the Granville Street Plan has passed - directing staff to explore substantial road safety and accessibility improvements, including benches, bollards, bus bulbs and a bike parkade. A good day for safer streets for all!

Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Today Kindred Construction craned the first five prefabricated + thermally broken Sapphire Balconies (@sapphirebalconies.bsky.social) onto the south facade of BC Housing’s Vienna House project. Really nice deep porches for this #passivehouse affordable housing community in East Vancouver.

Probably late to the party here, but I shared this PSA with my vulnerable older people in my life, and you should, too. We need regulation, now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyaS...

Going to ride in #CriticalMass in a couple hours. Reliable source of healthy dopamine.

Life comes at you fast. 12 hours ago; now.

Should we feel any compassion for men who buy dangerously oversized pickups? While captured regulators shrug, automakers manipulate (vulnerable? undereducated?) bros into believing these murder machines will make them more powerful & masculine. They’re suckers, and we’re all the ultimate victims.

“I miss my pre-Internet brain.” -Douglas Coupland

So much for unleashing humanity’s rich potential: “The dirty secret of AI is that it is … more often used to cut corners and produce lowest-common-denominator work.”

A company you've never heard of -- co-owned by Air Canada and eight other major carriers -- is quietly selling detailed passenger records and itineraries to ICE and other U.S. agencies. Reporter @katyaschwenk.bsky.social sounds the alarm on @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/air... (THREAD)

Thank you for your faithful service to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Comrade COSMOS 482. We award you the Order of Lenin. 🫡

Co-owner, Canada.

Hey Torontocentric national 🇨🇦 news outlets: Could you please not use “The West” as shorthand for Alberta? “Why the West Wants Out” etc. is lazy bullshit. Okay, thanks!

Attention Street Design Nerds! One of the most intriguing cities in recent years at reconsidering streets for people instead of just for cars, Oslo Norway, translated their great Street Design Manual into English and put it on-line. It’s worth digging into. #Oslo www.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/...

Celebrating Australia’s defeat of Dear-Leader-tinged populism by re-upping this @troyagain.bsky.social tiktok clip that lifted our spirits up here. We’ve got your back too, mate. 🇨🇦 👊🏻 🇦🇺

Congratulations to Australia for defeating right-wing populism at the polls.