“After analyzing crash data over a 13-year period in areas with separated bike lanes on city streets, researchers estimated that having a protected bike facility in a city would result in 44% fewer deaths and 50% fewer serous injuries than an average city.” Safer for ALL. Via @usa.streetsblog.org

Journalism has never been a more dangerous pursuit

Wednesday’s court ruling blocking Alberta separatists’ efforts to hold a secession referendum this fall is a reminder that treaties are foundational to Canada’s existence, write @ginastar.bsky.social and James Rowe. #canpoli

This is being overshadowed with the petition news, but Elections Alberta confirmed today it actually thinks ‘thousands’ accessed the leaked voter list, not just the 566 it sent cease-and-desist letters too last week. From me & @reportrix.bsky.social: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

this is entirely on ABC Vancouver you made a choice. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

As MOU negotiations between Canada and Alberta seem to be nearing the finish line, Rick Smith separates fact from fiction when it comes to industrial carbon pricing—Canada’s most important climate policy 🔽 https://ow.ly/NxAv50YYob9

ICYMI: Elections Alberta received ** two ** tips that the Centurion Project may have had unauthorized access to Alberta's list of electors and twice said it did not have enough info to launch an investigation: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... w @mattscace.bsky.social

Interested in being a voice for journalism in Canada? The nomination period for the CAJ's 2026 Annual General Election is still open! For more info or to submit a nomination, check out our website: https://loom.ly/lpArlcg

Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo 2026 – Registration for Canada’s National Bicycle Count is Now OPEN #cycling #ebikes #cargobikes tinyurl.com/26cvmb5k

Velo Canada Bikes is our national advocacy voice. They have been working very hard to ensure that committed Active Transportation funding is released. They have received support from 101 organizations— an impressive list!

How did an ordinary person become part of a nationwide money laundering ring? This week, an interview with an alleged money mule. Jill thought her job was strange. But she had no idea she may have been helping launder money related to illicit weed and potentially other drugs. zurl.co/BtfIV

Something big just happened on Haida Gwaii. For the first time in B.C., a utility-scale solar project is now taking a meaningful bite out of a diesel-fuelled remote grid. It's a product of years of work from the Haida Nation, and it could signal a tipping point. (photos: Katherine Cheng) 🧵

Transit police are calling immigration on transit riders—and most of the time they aren't documenting it Freedom-of-info docs indicate Transit Police calls to CBSA have risen. But in available 2024 data, 91% of calls didn't go into daily duty reports as required www.defactomedia.ca/transit-poli...

Sanctuary City's Omar Chu said the policy requiring police to document and ask permission from supervisors to call CBSA should have acted as a deterrent, as Transit Police ended it's collaboration agreement with CBSA

check out the second investigation by me and @emmaarkell.bsky.social, and the third part in @defacto_ca's debut series on immigration enforcement. we found transit police appear to be breaking their own policy on documenting calls to CBSA over 90% of the time www.defactomedia.ca/transit-poli...

“Transit Police may be violating the policy upwards of 90% of the time.” Excellent reporting by @godfrey.bsky.social and @emmaarkell.bsky.social at @defacto-ca.bsky.social

@steveburgess53.bsky.social: Does it not seem problematic when you find out that your ideological compatriots are Russian trolls? #canpoli #abpoli

It was another amazing May Days in Port Coquitlam! An estimated 20,000 of you joined us for the 103rd celebration. 🎉 Share event feedback & learn more ➡️ portcoquitlam.ca/maydays

This graph shows two things, 1) obviously that the cameras reduced speeding, but 2) that the improvement kept getting better over time. Speeders tend to get one or two tickets and then learn and change their behaviour. This isn't a cash grab, it's an extremely useful intervention.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Who's Behind the Residential School Denialism Movement? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

An essay on "fire debt" – the ecological debt created by decades of obsessively extinguishing healthy fires – adapted from Jesse Winter's new book, Wildfire: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Check out 'Photos: Bikes, bubbles for 103rd May Days in Port Coquitlam - Freshet News': www.freshetnews.ca/photos-bikes...

@northshorenews.bsky.social why are you still allowing shares to the toxic site X but not providing the option for Bluesky? How about replacing the direct link to X with Bluesky?

Fabulous, @fabulavancouver.bsky.social!

Here's a gift link to my piece on what Alberta's separatists are promising and what they can actually deliver www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

We have something a little different this morning for our cover story. A little break from the heaviness of world; a signpost for how to exist within it. thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

Costs like lost wages, child care and travel “add up quickly,” wrote Mayor Lisa Pineault in a March 6 letter to PM Carney, Premier Eby and the auditors general. Pineault hopes an audit could be the first step toward more equitable health care in the province. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports.

“I Use My Haida Eyes: The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson” — which runs from May 14 to Oct. 12 at the Museum of Anthropology — showcases a genre-defying body of work by the late Haida artist Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson. #TyeePresents #Sponsored

I initially read this as "Climate Shit Index" and I stand by it.

1/🧵 What does it take to monitor carbon storage 2.7km beneath the ocean surface? With a suite of real-time ocean sensors. At #EGU26, ONC scientist Martin Scherwath is highlighting how ONC’s NEPTUNE observatory will support Solid Carbon's planned offshore CO2 storage test. @egu.eu @innovation.ca

We ran an op-ed on this some time ago, but it's evergreen imho: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Plug-in solar systems are designed to be used w/o requiring specialized technicians or construction permits. In Europe, systems like this are wildly popular, especially for renters who do not have permission to install permanent solar panels on their buildings. No pay wall.

Today we’re publishing an important investigative story by Emily Enns. This story maps the connections between a group of mostly retired academics and think tanks to sow doubt about the historical truths of residential schools in Canada. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

Check out 'What’s On: May 8, 2026 - Freshet News': www.freshetnews.ca/whats-on-may...

It's Port Coquitlam's May Day parade tomorrow 🥳 PoCo Heritage will be walking in the parade, then running a stall at the Party in the Square. You can find us just outside the main door to the rec centre. See you there! @pocoheritage.bsky.social @cityofpoco.bsky.social

News release: Canvas privacy breach affecting secondary and post-secondary institutions in British Columbia Download the release oipc.bc.ca/documents/ne...

"Prime Minister Mark Carney appears to be backing away from Ottawa’s commitment to ban open-net salmon farming in coastal B.C. in 2029." Reporting by @sarahkcox.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

Check out 'Boys caught climbing Port Moody tower crane - Freshet News': www.freshetnews.ca/boys-caught-...

"A celebrated harm reduction and recovery advocate is rejecting an honour given to him by Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim because the mayor is trying to prevent a new overdose prevention site from opening." Reporting by @michellegamage.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

While on vacation 8 years ago, I was cycling near Palm Springs, struck up a convo with another rider, and not only did it turn out we both live in Metro Vancouver, we learned we had mutual friends and I even know some of his cousins. We've kept in touch ever since.

3 teens arrested after climbing tower crane in Port Moody, police say

I went home recently to write about Alberta’s separatists. What I found was a movement wildly, dangerously disconnected from reality. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Even though student enrolment has dropped slightly between 2014 & today, the Vancouver School Board has doubled the number of senior management jobs. @kehyslop.bsky.social breaks down the numbers as a teachers' union says the money would be better spent in the classroom. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

In B.C., another season of peril for seniors. The province needs to galvanize the private sector into installing modern cooling systems in apartment buildings that become dangerous heat traps. Globe and Mail editorial. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... via @theglobeandmail.com

UBC, SFU among thousands of universities affected by Canvas software cyber breach www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"The way I was feeling, was everyone feeling that way in the community? Because the thing about wildfire is it just keeps happening to the community long after the flames are out. It really tears at the fabric of the community." In our convo, @nikiwilson.bsky.social shared her experience in Jasper:

I break down the saga of separatists, voter list abuse and an ever-spiralling mess that's emerged on today's Front Burner pod. The FB team NAILED the episode's title. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

Right? The city of Paris alone has invested hundreds of millions of euros over the last six years in active transportation infrastructure.