I spoke to Vancouver council tonight in opposition to this motion. ABC can't claim that allowing methane in homes is a pro-housing measure, then immediately move to savage multiplexes to cater to quell specious aesthetic concerns. Part of my remarks:

"Vancouver has the world's longest uninterrupted waterfront path. The 28 km seaside greenway is an uninterrupted pathway, including the Stanley Park Seawall, that extends from the #vancouver Convention Centre to Spanish Banks Park." Is it though? Is it uninterrupted? Is it the longest? Every […]

That was surprisingly short #canada census questionnaire. Basically asked a bunch of questions about which languages my household speaks and that's it?

I like Cambie Report and a few CBC shows, The Hatchet and maybe The Breach, but they all are news and/or politics. Would be great to find something else!

I remember when back in São Paulo we had 10 different digital wallet apps fighting to death powered by blowing furnaces of VC-money. I was able to grab a R$15 lunch with R$8 cash back, which is insane (and unsustainable). Of course, years later, almost all of them are irrelevant if at all alive […]

@tomflood.bsky.social knows what's up.

These #bcparks #camping reservations are becoming harder to get than concert tickets, it's wild. But here we go, Black Tusk trip in the works and its main logistics hurdle has been taken care of!

I’ve had this #indieweb setup for a while now of aggregating on my personal website the things I say here on mastodon and my media tracking from neodb - Post-Elsewhere, Syndicate to Own Site (#PESOS); and besides putting it together on a home page, it generates an RSS feed. Today I was finally […]

Vancouver had a blessed weather week and mood is fully restored. It’s the perfect timing to to overcommit with camping and hike plans that I’ll slightly regret then later be extra grateful I did it anyway

I miss 2024 when people just said “tool” instead of “agent”. Executives are obsessed with agentic everything, even when clearly what they really need is a spreadsheet with a VLOOKUP And the early days of “AI fluency” interviews has been painful to watch. I don’t know how interviews are supposed […]

The downtown BIA has lots of interesting material and they are generally onboard if self serving urbanism like bike lanes and better transit but… BIAs will BIA and openly advocate for vibes based policy making, whatever it takes to bring in that suburban shopper who’s afraid of visible social issues

#maptap is fun but seriously getting tired of getting small time US cities every day as “easy” while whole countries out there haven’t shown up yet. It’s a game by Americans for Americans I guess, so I think I’m over it

L: cities are noisy T: cars are noisy, cities without them are musical @urbantruth.bsky.social https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:thigatosnyxffhfeyxgaahdf/post/3midms2rba22y

J'aimerais pratiquer mon français. Auriez-vous des recommandations de comptes ou de « starter packs » en français (de préférence du Québec, sur l'urbanisme ou l'informatique)?

“What gas prices?” Better cities create choices. #UrbanTruth

@bikelaneuprising.bsky.social is coming to Vancouver! Join us on Monday, April 13th for a free gathering to learn more about their inspiring work (plus plenty of time for hanging out and scheming together after). RSVP to save your spot: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

Warnings from Vancouver Park Board commissioners last fall that the city’s “zero means zero” 2026 budget would result in service cuts seem to be coming true as staff plan to halve the number of beaches and lakes with lifeguards this summer. @kehyslop.bsky.social reports. #vanpoli

annoyed and blinded by headlights? this survey is for you: https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/canadian-experience-vehicle-headlights-glare-night #cdnpoli #roadsafety #regulate #autoindustry

Sam Altman is selling the commoditization of intelligence. What does the Economy looks like in a world where you can get metered human level language and reasoning on demand? I don’t believe we’re close to that, but it’s still an interesting thought exercise. How much more worthless can human […]

Software people made themselves valuable pushing the narrative that they could automate away other jobs. The idea sold like hot cake, and digital transformation became a story of displacement instead of augmentation. Now it turns out that software development became so valuable and abundant […]

Good on Texas for having an upcoming progressive (at least for Texas) politician that is broadly appealing, ie a white guy. But I will never not find it funny that his surname is slang (in pt_BR) for someone who gets involved (sexually) with a friends’ partner, probably because of a song from […]

It happens to 50,000 people in the lower mainland every year, and on Friday it happened to @rhifaux.bsky.social. Was it an accident? We think this was the predictable result of government inaction.

A person caught excessively speeding and facing basically zero consequences kept speeding? "Go figure" indeed! (And why is 90 in a 50 not excessive??) This is what we mean when we say road violence is predictable and preventable.

Is there any other city in this world where we don’t get snow but if you drive 25 min you can do some snowboarding (sure, icy and packed, but still)? And does that city has a moderately walkable downtown with apartments that cost less than 1MM CAD?

Our longtime volunteer @rhifaux.bsky.social was hit by a driver yesterday on the way home from a road safety workshop at city hall. She is home from the hospital and recovering with a broken wrist. We're grateful it wasn't worse, and outraged it happened at all. More to say soon.

Five years after being approved, 24/7 school zones are coming to Vancouver - all it took was asking the right questions! Read more: visionzerovancouver.ca/2026/01/26/s...

#cbc Listen shows are not regular podcasts - ie public RSS I can subscribe with whatever app I want? I didn’t know CBC was in a position to be so selective about how they reach their audience. What’s confusing is that they have tons of podcasts, so they know how to do this

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@cbc_top_stories/115974049865467682 “Virtue Signaling” = I don’t like what you’re saying but I can’t argue against, but that would mean that I’m wrong and that can’t be it… so I guess the only explanation is that you’re screwing with me

With 2025 in the books, we take a look back over the last year for our annual Vancouver City Council Road Safety Report Card. 📝 How did each councillor score? Where did the mayor land? (Spoiler: at the bottom.) Read the full report card here: visionzerovancouver.ca/2026/01/21/v...

Carney quoted Greek historian Thucydides, cited Czech democratic hero Václav Havel and outlined how the old systems of the liberal order were over. Trump said NATO “called me daddy.” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I don't think I've ever listened to/read a full Davos WEF speech before but this speech by PMMC is something else. The discussion afterwards is good too. You should find some time to read/listen. Text: paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney... YT: www.youtube.com/live/dE981Z_...

An American thing that will never not be weird to me is root “beer”. It’s like toothpaste soda that lost some of its carbonation

If millennials were chained to an abstract notion of “making it” in life mostly based on materialism, Gen Z are going to have it worse because #wealthsimple just dropped a literal ranking of wealth accumulation so we can track very closely how far/close we are to the 1% (or 0.1%)

I wish I wasn’t exposed to crypto material every time I came to grab a coffee at Funk

For the last 3 years of investing in North-American focused total market index funds I’ve noticed a consistent pattern of “bad news, therefore your portfolio went up”. Invasion of Ukraine, high inflation, genocide in Gaza, trade war, high unemployment… it all boils down to more forcing […]

More US imperialism was on my bingo card for 2026 but not kidnapping a president before I had my first groceries of the year. My disgust for this bully nation grows louder. It pains me that I moved inwards on their sphere of influence.

My most important recap flex

How interesting. Ladner tops the density ranking of the province https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladner,_British_Columbia

Sick of turns on red? If you live in Vancouver, please write or speak in support of restricting them! Here's how: https://visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/12/04/dec-10-restrict-right-turn-on-red/ #vacouver #vanpoli #rightonred #turnonred #roadsafety

These individualistic and selfish crooks having a hard time working together is the reason we can have good things move forward. Thank you and good riddance, bring in the next clown #bcpoli https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/115661920773087884

How come Waterfront station does not have a bench for me to sit while waiting for someone? Not even inside Starbucks, just a few inside Subway or A&W 😥 I kind of already imagine answers but come on #vancouver #translink

I was a teenager when I first met someone who did not have dinner everyday - because they were poor - and I will never forget the shock followed by shame because it was obvious. I was in my 30s when I discovered that some people - who are not poor - simply don’t have lunch, or have some sort of […]

Get a load of this guy https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vance-standard-living-stagnant-immigration-blame-9.6987929 GDP Per Capita is the perfect metric for his type. Deepening inequality means that a few billionaires approaching trillionaire status on the backs of their own working class can […]

"Personal protective equipment is the least effective layer of protection in the hierarchy of controls – by the time you need it, you’re already in danger." ICYMI: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/11/02/t...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-allowing-doctors-to-practise-in-both-public-and-private-systems-solves/ What does walking towards a two-tiered system solve? It solves this problem of rich people having "too much of a hard time" getting ahead of poor people for medical treatment […]

Apparently there are 2 properties in Shaughnessy (one of the wealthiest Vancouver areas) that are classified as *farms* and therefore are exempt from property tax 🤯 https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/calls-grow-to-re-examine-bcs-automatic-property-tax-exemptions/ #taxfraud #vanpoli

We must plan to not only grow, but grow well. We shouldn’t add people but take away amenities. We shouldn’t add children but shrink their play spaces. And once this is built on, this greenspace isn't coming back for at least 99 years.

#pluribus looks interesting. But I already know that, like Severance, it’s going to flood my timelines with bad takes and the most absurd ways to interpret the story. Thank aliens I don’t share a hive mind with this crowd.

RE: https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@reece/115533532256114484 "While #canada cannot win any war with the United States, we could stop funnelling money in that direction for things like Windows licenses, and digital services. Perhaps instead of trying to tax Meta and X, the government could just […]

Is there “life after cars?” As authors always say, “you’ll have to read the book.”* Congrats to @visionzerovancouver.ca on a great packed event last night with @sgoodyear.bsky.social & @brooklynspoke.bsky.social + guests @lucymaloney.bsky.social & @tomflood.bsky.social. *spoiler: a BETTER life!