Develop the west like they develop the east and vice versa. We’d love some safe active transportation infrastructure in the east thank you.

MEDIA RELEASE: “The 1-Hour City Conspiracy.” If you are traditional or new media and would like to write, talk, or post about the REAL conspiracy in cities, read our media release, and send us a DM for more information. It’s already making BIG waves! And allies, please help share this. #UrbanTruth

The beginning of fair cities.

Anything in the world when you’re born is a natural part of the way the world works. Anything invented between when you’re 15 and 35 is new and exciting and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things. -Douglas Adams

Étant a Vancouver, je suis très d'accord avec l'analyse de Patrick Lagacé @lapresse.ca . La FIFA est le OG boss de la corruption. Ca pue au nez de leur donner de l'argent qui irait à bâtir ou maintenir des services publiques. Qui en ont gravement besoin à Vancouver en passant.

I've learned a lot from Danny not only about housing, but about how to be a better advocate. Thanks Danny. I'm looking forward to taking the lessons I've learned to City Hall!

DENMARK AND FRANCE 🇩🇰🇫🇷 bans all Microsoft products from all public offices. The phaseout is expected to be completed before autumn 2026. Their products are being replaced with customer versions of Linux and LibreOffice. This is digital sovereignty being taken back

For years I thought voting for progressive politicians would improve my quality of life. I realize cotton is not enough. You need to organize, lobby and get the word out. Democracy is not something you do passively. If you want it you need to get up and do something about it. I want bike lanes!

Close call at memorial where boy, 12, died renews calls for road-safety measures “Somebody intentionally came on the road, waited for police to leave, pointed their vehicle at a crowd of people on the road, and accelerated into it,” she said. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/c... #xavierslaw #yyj

C’est super de voir Radio-Canada reprendre le livre life after cars de @sgoodyear.bsky.social et @brooklynspoke.bsky.social ici.radio-canada.ca/info/long-fo...

This here needs to stop. Why subsidize SFH? Just make them pay the proper price and remove the pressure on apartment dwellers. This is wealth transfer in the wrong direction. This exacerbates inequalities and amplifies social crisis.

There will never be enough victim-blaming to make up for poor infrastructure and missing leadership. But it sure makes a nice distraction for decision-makers hiding from responsibility, right? Classic ad by our own @tomflood.bsky.social for @visionzerovancouver.ca. #UrbanTruth

What is the deal with drivers who keep rolling towards you when you're crossing the street?? Drivers, if you're planning on *not* hitting someone with your car, don't drive your car at them!

Many drivers found streetcars annoying, in part because drivers had to stop for passengers boarding and alighting from them. Their annoyance fed accusations that streetcars interfere with “traffic” (i.e. with driving). ...

We vote for the same people on and on, driving a Land Rover “ defender”, living in some nice quiet neighborhood. No wonder they don’t see the rest of us.

This is the only way to get better bike infrastructure and maintenance. The people in power have to actually bike (and not just an annual photo op)

You got my ten bucks.

Want an actual urbanist on council? Someone with a track record of standing up for homes, transit, daycare, and more? NOW is the time to join OneCity to support my campaign. Go to peterforcouncil.ca! Let's go!

Absolute banger of an article. Powerful and insightful. “low housing elasticity prevents the country’s most productive cities from scaling up. It blocks the mechanism through which local productivity gains spread into national income gains.”

There’s just so much bs in the political discourse nowadays. It isn’t really hard, there’s data, follow data then make decision. The lies cover particular interests with money and provide justification for the wrong decisions.

A “long tradition” of banning people who are Asian, Black or less wealthy. vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

When most votes are casted based on personal financial decisions, this here seems like the most important thing to consider. Cars are bad for your wallet, like really bad.

This is good news for democracy!

Orange ‘Every Child Matters’ shirts banned from Queen’s Park legislature A formal complaint has been submitted requesting clarity surrounding the blanket ban on ‘political statements' in the Ontario legislature. NEW from @jonthompson.bsky.social: ricochet.media/indigenous/o... #EveryChildMatters

While overall crime continues to trend down, traffic fatalities more than tripled year-over-year up to Q3 2025. Remember this come the October municipal election when certain predictable narratives about crime start emerging.

Sora being killed and Meta losing bad in court, all in one day? Nature is healing.

We really need a streetmix.net but for intersections. As much as I love playing with width and reallocation of rights of way, dreaming of better public spaces, in an urban area it’s the intersections that make streets safe or comfortable, and that’s where the much harder work is.

Will @ptfry.bsky.social this time around?

reminder that Stephanie Smith's online handle "spkr118" refers to the time she spoke out against Christine Boyle's motion to zone for more social housing. hooooo boy

Safe, protected bike-lanes are: Better for business Better for emissions Better for air quality Better for public health Better for noise Better for space Better for equity Better for affordability Better for public cost Better for safety for EVERYONE Better for oil independence Better.

Brooke Jarvis, welcome to The War on Cars.

“A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century. We’re in the 21st.”— Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. Here’s the truth — when it comes to smart city-building, @annehidalgo.bsky.social has been the most influential & inspiring Mayor in the world. Thank you Mayor Hidalgo. #UrbanTruth

First the Trump administration ended support for clean energy Then they tried to shut down existing wind farms Now they're going to pay foreign firms $1 billion to not produce clean energy Anything to prop up the Big Oil business model www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/c...

Cities are not highways. They don’t need fast through ways IN ALL their streets.

New York and mayor Mamdani are showing the way. Here in Vancouver we saw a bunch of useless soft signs near the ground around schools meant to beg drivers to slow down. You can imagine one of those two policies is going to save lives and the other one will waste time.

Jesus. Paying a French company a billion dollars *not* to build a wind farm.

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

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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.