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@davethompsonvic.bsky.social can you explain what this likely means for projects like cook st, Blanshard North to kings and Pandora? Are they all paused? 😥

To be clear, Council gave direction to staff to cut spending elsewhere in order to fund the Crystal Pool project: pub-victoria.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx... at 49:55

Who wants a very detailed poll-by-poll map of the last election you can go scour? Kyle Hutton put in the leg work and you can check it here! -> app.atlas.co/shared/uhOeG...

The Toronto #BlueJays gave us arguably the closest #WorldSeries in modern history, and the most fun and inspiring playoff run I can remember in any sport. I LOVE THAT TEAM, and 100% believe #TORONTO should have a HUGE CELEBRATION ANYWAY, to thank the team, fans, city and COUNTRY for a legendary run!

I think spreadsheets as a concept are brilliant. Can you imagine computers *without* them? They are simultaneously databases and user interfaces. Manipulation is direct: the input is the output. Reactive programming and no need to reason about outdated state or cache invalidation. Simply brilliant

Let's Go Blue Jays!

Everywhere I go, people are wearing Jays gear. People I know who have never watched baseball (me included) are staying up past midnight to for an 18th inning. The coffee shop has baseball donuts. And, I cannot emphasize this enough, I am in a city *3000 km from Toronto* Canada is behind this team

JAYS WIN. EVERYBODY GETS TO SLEEP!

It’s 2-2 and it’s coming home. Our Blue Jays are ready to get it done! #wantitall

I’ve got serious constitutional questions now

This guy is hoping for a different outcome tonight and also wants a peanut. #birds

🎉Big news for Victoria pool users! The City is finalizing an agreement to use the building at Quadra and Broughton St. as an interim pool and recreation facility when the Crystal Pool closes for construction. 📰 Read the full story at victoria.ca/news 💦 Find more project info at crystalpool.ca

Among the major Canadian provinces, Quebec has seen the largest decrease in tourists going to the US, followed by British Columbia, Ontario, and then Alberta with the smallest decline.

Bad timing for a dog walk but also peaceful watching the rain in #VictoriaBC #yyj

Let's go blue jays!

Here’s my beautiful girl Scully, who loves you even if she hasn’t met you yet

If the Rogers Centre had a parking lot that covered the same surface area as the Dodgers' parking lot, it would stretch from Queen Street on one end to the Lake Ontario waterfront on the other

Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"

End of week eight in the @bcgeu.bsky.social job action. No significant escalations this week. The numbers are holding steady at 23,500 on strike and an additional 1,900 on OT ban. #bcpoli #bc #yyj #VictoriaBC

“many of our former strengths as a country—our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities”

i will never understand how 77 million Americans thought empowering this was a good idea. our country was so lucky to survive his first term and he's much worse now.

Last week it was water drugs

More minor escalation from @bcgeu.bsky.social with an additional 500 people on strike up to 23,500 members with an additional 1,900 on OT ban.

Groundbreaking of 500 homes at a range of rental prices including BC housing affordable homes, plus a major grocery store. This mixed use project will be transformative for the North end of the core. #yyj #housing @christineboyle.bsky.social

Victoria is Halifax mixed with Vancouver, but with more bikes.

These guys saved their shirts until the 9th inning and it hit so hard when they put them on #BlueJays

We live in the greatest country.

What an incredible win tonight! World series here we come #mlb #bluejays 🐦⚾

A brand new section or parking protected bike lanes on Tolmie Ave complete with an Evo bike share station on the @saanichbc.bsky.social side of the road. #yyj #VictoriaBC

Looking a little worn but some Studio Ghibli art work in Quadra Village. Fitting since the Roxy is playing Spirted Away for the next few days. #yyj #victoriaBC

@victoria.ca is there an opening date for the new courts at Topaz Park? They look nearly done. #yyj

Big news from @bcgeu.bsky.social this morning. Non-binding mediation between the @bcnewdemocrats.bsky.social and the union will begin. 23,000 members remain on strike (+400) with an additional 1,900 on an overtime pan (0) #bc #bcpoli

An updated plot, no additional escalation from the @bcgeu.bsky.social so far this week. 22,600 (~66%) of members on strike with an additional 1,900 on overtime ban. About 5,000 members are essential.

The City of Victoria has a new protected bike lane on Hillside Avenue. This fills a network gap to connect Quadra Village with the Gorge Road East protected bike lane. #yyjbike #bikesky #victoriabc #bikelanes *Broomstick skateboard at 4:27 min :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyrK...

No updated strike numbers from BCGEU since last Thursday. So today here is the length of time in years to earn back lost wages from 12 days of strike pay (top up strike pay ended Sept 28). Higher income earners lose more during the strike because strike pay is a flat $130/day. #bc #bcpoli

I loved this XKCD map and wanted to see a version for Canada and well, here we are

Seagrasses are great but this is false. Most carbon in the ocean is dissolved inorganic carbon and seagrass carbon is a tiny fraction of that. The mixing of stock and flux is also unhelpful. The only way to stop climate change is not burning fossil fuels. reasonstobecheerful.world/seagrass-res...

A Redditor made a graph of the percent of population of US and Canada metro areas over 1 million that live in a given density. When they ordered them by average density the lowest ranked Canadian metro area, Edmonton, was ranked 14th between Miami and Washington. 6 of the top 15 were Canadian metros

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Graphical chronology of the BCGEU strike #bc #bcpoli

It’s so weird to come to social media to be like “how bout those Jays!” but simultaneously wade through the ongoing documentation of fascism in the country next door 🙃

“Be careful who you hate, it could be someone you love.” 📍FK Bodø/Glimt, Norway

@nanaimo.ca amazing progress! Keep going! 🚲

I appreciate @victoria.ca trying to up their bicycle wayfinding game. But I find this really confusing. The numbers need to be cross referenced to a map in an app which kind of defeats the purpose of IRL wayfinding. For the record #9 is Beacon Hill park and #22 is Dallas Road. #yyj 🚲🗺️

This is great! Every student that lives on campus takes pressure off of Victoria's rental market, and reduces commuting. The University has the land—they just need the money to build. Funding this UVic residence was a win-win decision, and one the province should keep repeating. #yyj

Annual TRC #yyj bike ride. Amazing weather again this year 🧡

Talks between the B.C. government and its public service union broke down Monday, the first time the union and province returned to the bargaining table since July.

Truth and Reconciliation Day Ride is TOMORROW. Family-friendly, easy-paced ride. Everyone is welcome. Free registration at signup.com/client/in.... A huge thank you to Victoria Police Department, Discovery Coffee, Cox Taylor, and Country Grocer for supporting this important ride. #GBBW #CapitalBike

Not a very good photo on a very gray day but I think these murals at Ocean Concrete are new? Mini Granville Island vibes #yyj