"Effects emerged quickly and show little evidence of displacement to adjacent areas.... These findings suggest that cost-benefit analyses of congestion pricing systematically understate net social benefits by omitting emergency response improvements."

I don't make the rules

The RCMP would like to remind you that the highway shoulder is a very dangerous place to be full of debris and garbage. Good thing we keep putting our bike lanes there rcmp.ca/en/bc/bchp/n...

Not a conspiracy. Not pattern matching. Mention a document that makes people look silly, and they will wipe years of documents and paid-for research to save face. Only some forward thinking to save a copy prevents oblvion. Or as the Internet Archive calls it, Friday. Anyway. archive.org/donate

This is the shade I appreciate

Life hack: Always root for ex-colonies over colonizers in any sport

Just had a briefing on the planned detour of Broadway between Alberta and Cambie due to the roadwork for the Broadway City Hall Skytrain Station. It's going to be messy. #bikeyvr plan your alternate routes now. Avoid Off-Broadway. Avoid Yukon and Ash between 2nd/Broadway. Starts mid-July for 6 mo.

This is a really good idea

I was telling someone about this just the other day. It is INSANE that we aren't doing this with all the sun that hits our enormous country.

Very wholesome content

This is a troll, right? We are being trolled?

Granville Street has come alive as a pedestrian zone during the World Cup. And what a success!🌟 If we want to see it and other potential pedestrian areas become permanent, it’s going to require new, bold leadership to make it happen. @wazaroff.bsky.social

Help, I can't decide if I want the paper version of @grimalkina.bsky.social 's new book.

He has no ideas, he just looks around for what he thinks is cool

They're about to learn about the Streisand Effect.

Instant follow

Great BC Budget ideas here – including for how to raise new revenues – from @bcpolicy.bsky.social: bcpolicy.ca/2026/06/19/b...

The kids’ social media has been the dominant issue in Bill C-34. The Globe granted permission for my Law Bytes podcast to rebroadcast my recent appearance on The Decibel podcast, which discussed the bill, the ban, and online harms and safety legislation. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/the-...

I have personally witnessed what Dr. Hicks is talking about.

It is absolutely true that Dems need to win swing voters to win elections. The misdiagnosis is that swing voters are “moderates.” They are not. They have almost entirely incoherent politics. You don’t win them from the middle. You appeal to your base with conviction and hope swings like the vibes.

What is a dad joke called when made by a non-dad? A faux-pa.

LISTEN: Hey Vancouver, I just had a fun and important conversation on the Granville Street #WorldCup transformation as a TURNING POINT for our city’s people-places with @jasjohal.bsky.social on 730 CKNW radio. You can listen in around 5pm today (during “drive time”)

I lost my dad last week. Below is a link to the obituary my sister @naomiaklein.bsky.social and I wrote this weekend (helps to have a sister who’s a pretty good writer 😉), along with a bunch of photos. A few more reflections. 🧵... everloved.com/life-of/mich...

That zero percent tax increase really paying divdends, eh folks?

I really wish I could see the statistics on group chat creation.

Hegseth at Normandy weeping about all the lives lost because the Panzers couldn't repel the invaders in time

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

This is the nerdery I came for

I did not expect this to pass, I was wrong.

I know I sound like a COPE diehard or something, but I'm not. I just keep liking what I see.

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One of the things I love about @seanorr.bsky.social 's council motions is how he just keeps offering ABC the chance to show that they're interested in Vancouver's ongoing health and operation. Over and over again, Ken Sim turns away from that. Look at this low-income transit fare, for example 1/

ABC just voted to ignore the Integrity Commissioner's recommendations and let Ken Sim completely off the hook for Misuse of Office and Harassing Conduct. On October 17th, we're going to elect @stephanieformayor.bsky.social and restore integrity at City Hall.

Here’s a petition by @jennykwan.bsky.social to the House of Commons to withdraw Bill C-22 www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... Simply: 1) Withdraw the bill 2) Don’t collect & retain metadata 3) Don’t weaken or break encryption, now or forever more Please sign

This same thing goes for people talking about Alberta or the prairies this way.

It's really bad, folks

You've probably read this already, and it's really resonant for me. But with an extra layer of parenting and wondering about my child's future.

Globe editorial cites my emphasis on transparency and duty to act responsibly, noting “It would be wonderful if we could take childhood back from the social-media giants with a simple ban. Sadly, the actual work needed to protect children is much harder.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Officials from the local American Legion post deliberately cut the audio, but here’s the story of Memorial Day’s Black roots…

I need to talk about Sen̓áḵw. This word has been in the news for years, and I still hear it mispronounced constantly—by journalists, politicians, and well-meaning people who just haven't been shown how. It's a word from the Squamish Language. Let me walk you through it. 🧵

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

A first for me today. Glad to have this piece in The Guardian. Figured it was time more of our international friends heard some hard truths about how things are going here in 🇨🇦: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Prepare to make good on the threat to buy Ian drinks

When motor manufacturers sell you a car or an oil company sells you fuel, that’s GDP and will be trumpeted as growth, but the time you lose in traffic is your own. So government has a perverse incentive: leave you stuck for hours to increase the one number they will tell you makes you better off.

I'm trying to find the modern equivalent of a Xennial classic genre.MECC logo c. 1978

"it would also include giving police access to location data and the ability to turn on a microphone to listen to conversations without people at either end being informed"

I'm going to take some running notes. First up is Eirini Kalliamvakou, GitHub, talking about developer identity shifts. Since I studied AI threat from a social identity perspective in 2024 this is interesting to me! I think identity theory needs to be brought in far more than it has been in DevEx

Today I'm at the UC Irvine research forum on developer experience with researchers from across industry and academia. If you're curious about the future of developer science, what do YOU want me to ask about, talk about, and think about with this crowd? isr.uci.edu/event/uc-irv...