Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?” Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth

Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night. This is a press freedom issue. Here’s what happened:

That here is the sort of studies we need. Good sense data to tell leaders what makes sense and what doesn’t. Would you let your parents run the family business into bankruptcy? We want our cities to be successful and we will do what it needs to be successful.

This isn't the first time that Ken Sim has been involved in a smear campaign against @seanorr.bsky.social. Sean's interview is worth a listen - for its honesty, grace, and concern for the public who are harmed by Sim's dirty tricks IMO we need more humanity like Sean's in politics. Solidarity.

Ken Sim is clearly a weasel. Someone who does no hard days of work and cannot be trusted. He got the votes with a nice marketing polish. He delivered nothing, no vision, no progress.

Market housing is useful but cannot fill every need. Subsidized housing fills a very specific need in a vulnerable population. You cannot fix homelessness without it. Yes it means paying taxes. We already pay taxes for police, healthcare and justice.

Re Today in Vancouver City Council - we're going on lunch break now. Cllr Bligh just gave notice that she's withdrawing her motion 3 regarding Supportive Housing due to Cllr Zhou’s misinformation campaign. Resuming at 1.15 pm with motion 4 which is my motion about remote work privileges.

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.

It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

Research estimates that billions of dollars a year are invested in “securing” schools. That can feel reassuring, but decades of experience following the 1999 Columbine shooting suggest expanding visible security shows limited evidence of reducing violence. Beyhan Farhadi writes. 🎒 #TumblerRidge

Today in Vancouver

Big baby gets what big baby screams for. That's how we roll in my house.

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷

Average Canadian housing discourse

People that can’t afford housing are everywhere including in our neighbours. A society that thinks being unused is acceptable and goes ahead and vilifies this experience has lost touch with reality. We need humane policies. Policies that are fair and just.

More advocates should be doing "cars are filthy" posts. This is really hitting a nerve: www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/c...

Fun fact: increasing the supply of all kinds of housing means people have more choice and it's cheaper!

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

The ABC reign has been a series of unprofessional debacle. Let’s get them out of their misery and back to whatever they used to do before.

Credits to @tomflood.bsky.social

👀"59% of Vancouverites said they want a mayor like Zohran Mamdani, who was elected in New York City last year on a platform that called for significant changes to support the working class." dailyhive.com/vancouver/va... #vanpoli #FightForVancouver

Many women with menopause symptoms cannot get treatment because very few doctors are trained to help them. www.cbc.ca/radio/whitec...

Même s’ils n’approuvent pas les décisions de Trump, ils ne veulent pas se priver des attraits touristiques du pays. #Trump #Floride

Calgary Stampede security ejected PressProgress Alberta reporter @stephenmag.bsky.social after Alberta separatist leader Jeffrey Rath walked out of an interview Stephen had questioned Rath's claim that Mark Carney was "threatening war on the United States" and invoked "Article 5 of the NATO treaty"

This year is the 20th anniversary of my arrival here in Vancouver to take the chief planner’s chair at 36 years old. It’s the longest by far that I’ve lived in any city, and it especially feels like my true home because we’re raising our kids here. I’ll keep working hard for a better Vancouver.

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

*need*

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The National Post published this without a single comment from a Canadian source, just single-sourced from Hoekstra entirely, if you're wondering how the quisling press is doing today

Where do you spend your money?!

Postmedia is not news, it is propaganda for rich lobbies. Which lobbies? You can pay them and be it! It’s a build your own propaganda adventure sorta media company.

I’m so angry. I’m so tired of people in global positions of power and wealth hoarders upholding them. They want us to accept mass slaughter in Gaza. They want us to accept the MURDER of people who stick up to them. They want us to accept disgusting wealth gaps while we fight for scraps. Enough!!!!

Drop the names of any Canadian companies you’ve seen working with ICE in the comments. I’m aware of Gardaworld, Roshel, Hootsuite. Would love to gather any and all other names.

30 km/h for cars, trucks, suvs in a city is the reasonable approach. This mindset that speed is everything is debunked easily when you look at data. Cars are stuck in traffic and intersections most of all. No point killing the other road users.

Meraviglioso, e sorprendente! #Rome, whose drivers are somewhat…impatient…is latest city to limit traffic speeds to 30 km/h (18 mph).

Vancouver council is back in session today Which means they are once again only providing real-time updates on city business to a single website that's under investigation for child exploitation They've stubbornly defended their approach Which reaches approximately 50 people

What a speech I tell ya. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Justin we love you but as a chart enthusiast you're too smart to post charts with arbitrary start points and linear trendlines. Here's a couple we made, with the same data, that shows traffic fatalities are on the rise! But onto a more serious analysis of this 🧵

Another example of the absurdity of our system of zoning and neighbourhood control is when NIMBYs can fight and block *daycares* in neighbourhoods. A daycare within walking distance is the best thing ever.

When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States. It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.

After 20 years of having the absolute worst rental vacancy rate in Canada, the return of a healthy rental market in Victoria is absolutely blowing peoples' minds right now

Elder Punk Rocker Pisses Off Society The Only Way Left - Driving Defensively & Obeying Every Rule Of The Road.

Urbanism

Un « cordon sanitaire médiatique » pour faire barrage à l’extrême droite ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/221...

Canada is not immune to this epidemic level of death and injury. We will follow the US’s “lead” unless something is done.