The Swiss approach to land use is grossly under-rated/under-promoted compared to all our other favorite examples. They sprinkle 6- and 8-story apartments through suburban neighborhoods with single-family mansions and people are mostly fine with it. Everything is walking distance to a bus or train.

Fund public media

I think about the historical streetcars that used to run in #northvan probably twice a day every day since I learned about them. What do you MEAN we *had* ELECTRIC streetcars?!?! One went all the way up to Lynn Valley??? And they got rid of them??? 😭 Devastating, truly monova.ca/the-story-of...

I love #Vancouver. I live springtime. love tulips. I love having the option to rip down the Ontario st. hill towards the Seabus after work on a city bike instead of taking the train. (I love the train.) Joy & connection & choice beats convenience & comfort for me, EVERY time. BIKE JOY

“It’s illegal, but we don’t care” 🤨

you ever think about how vancouver has been a model for decades on sports arenas integrated into downtown and rapid transit and didn’t involve public subsidies to private owners and how that legacy is a giant question mark going forward i mean yes i think about it too much BUT STILL

The tough decision between doing what the loudest complaining adults want vs. what is best for children and society more broadly. Really tough decision!

Biiiiiiiig same

The priority near a school should ALWAYS be the safety of kids walking to school.

Is this sidewalk wide enough for a busy school and daycare drop off zone? If you’re in a rush and need to pass me, would you step onto the busy road or the edge of the steep grassy slope?

Zohran Mamdani's social media team is truly unparalleled 🤌

Been craving maple cream cookies since the Artemis mission interviews. I *love* the Turkey Hill ones, but they're seemingly only sold in like, airports and souvenir shops. They only had Dare brand at the grocery store, so I bought them and they were TERRIBLE. Like sawdust. Which should I try next?

It’s #worldpublictransportday and very few things make me happier than when people truly value public transport and vote to make sure that it is efficient, reliable, clean, and well-maintained. Buses can save the woooooooorrrrld 🚎🌎

The City of Vancouver has just announced they had a $530 million surplus last year. It follows a $860 million surplus the year before, and years of $300+ surpluses. It's the annual reminder that when local politicians say times are tough, they're usually being misleading to suit their agendas.

It costs the City of Ottawa $465/person each year to serve new low-density homes, over & above what it receives from property taxes/fees. On the other hand, high-density infill such as apartment buildings pays for itself plus an extra $606/person each year. Sprawl costs, infill saves. #UrbanTruth

This village uses its solar income on free communal lunches, buses and other communal efforts.“If you divide money as individual income, people feel disconnected. People who didn’t know each other for years now get to know each other within days” I love everything about this.

@cityofnorthvan.bsky.social my family loves these parklets - such a great place for a snack break walking home from daycare!

As a CNV resident and healthcare worker doing clinical research and technology development, I am super excited about this! Beyond impacts to our health and economy, it’s especially great to think that our City’s next generation of health leaders will have more reasons to stay in their community

Yes I do like all your cats watching Artemis II.

NASA women save stars. 🫶🏻💫

Adorable astronaut humans. 🚀🥰

Socialized science is SO much cooler and sexier and more fun and joyful and more purposeful than science for profit

Sadly, local opposition to new schools in Metro Vancouver isn’t just confined to Olympic Village This article describes how City of North Vancouver is scaling back sidewalks and crosswalks next to a new school to instead prioritize the use of public property for parking by the school’s neighbours

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

Incredible that human beings figured out how to do this. How cool. What if we only did cool stuff

THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH

I'm moonscrolling

My dad worked on RadarSat 🛰️and the Canadarm 🦾🍁 and watching the splashdown & live chatting with him was SO fun 😭❤️🇨🇦

Don’t you hate when you land and you can’t get out because the pilot has issues communicating with the gate?

The #Artemis II livestream continues to be the best thing on the internet. 😍 The return-to-Earth live coverage begins at 6:30pm Eastern (in about 90 minutes) with splashdown in the Pacific scheduled for 8:07pm Eastern. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

I could *not* POSSIBLY be more excited to watch the Artemis / Integrity splashdown livestream - I accidentally booked a flight home from a work trip during splashdown and I had such space kid fomo I bought airplane wifi 🫣

I'm bad at math, is 90% a lot?

I’m stuck in a sports bar in the domestic terminal of a CANADIAN airport and they have 15 screens visible to me and all of them are playing American men’s basketball or baseball. Could we PLEASE get *ONE* of them to be playing the @thepwhl.com torrent vs victoire game that’s currently on 😭

It’s wild how many people just want to rage and don’t take any time at all to read past headlines or look at numbers or understand systems or really try at all to be anything but angry for no reason This is cool and good and it’s funded in a way that makes sense

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

“Homeowners should realize that Canada's housing crisis isn’t just hurting the people who don’t yet own a home. It’s slowing our economy, hollowing out our public services, concentrating wealth among existing homeowners and … fraying the social trust that holds our communities together.”

A storey in four acts as captured by local news media: 18 storeys is too high, we’d be fine with 4-6 storeys 6 storeys are too big, we'd be fine with multiplexes Multiplexes are monstrosities, we are fine with existing post-Second World War bungalows ...

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Scouts Canada has allowed different genders in since I was a kid and looking back it was WHERE all the masc leaning non-conforming kids found themselves and community. It seemed very cool? And still celebrated masculinity?

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

This is *so* fucking gross

Brodie: “eventually people will notice how their neighbourhoods have changed for the worse” We already have! Our friends/family have been priced out! 💔 It’s why polls show gentle density and multiplexes are BC’s preferred form of growth, and likely why Richmond’s shown “little public reaction”

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Thank you @pwaldkirch.bsky.social for stepping up for Vancouver. This inspiring video describes so well how I feel (plus I always love a good boat reference)

Artificially restricting « gentle density » and incremental growth results in these: www.instagram.com/reel/DU9I0DL... As always, great video from the happy urbanist ❤️

Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated. The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t... (Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)

“Cities risk losing two generations of young people, who will either move to communities where housing is affordable or become entirely disenchanted with an economic and political system that is not acting in their interests. Helping [them achieve home ownership] will strengthen society”

We can't lecture the world about shredding the international rules-based order and then pal around with the people who have been shredding it before our very eyes for the last 2 years - not to mention all the decades of occupation and apartheid that preceded this horrific moment.

Why people in Vancouver, BC held anti-ICE protests on Friday