Next up: a trauma surgeon from VGH. Here to support. As a resident, parent, surgeon, and on behalf of her colleagues. Sees people with life changing injuries from car crashes, people just trying to get home. Has had to tell parents their child won't live.

Big developers are often are against yimby candidates because they have traditionally succeeded in the current housing system. Making it easier for small developers to operate creates competition and lowers housing cost, which lowers big developers margins

1/ Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold. People are dying, systems are breaking down. This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

My partner googled "Ernie Clement politics" because we were talking about how most baseball players are right wing and Google then told us that he didn't have politics because he's a baseball player, not a politician

Last week I chatted with Liz McArthur about my thesis for a longer piece on tenant protections during redevelopment. It will be part of On the Island tomorrow during the 7am hour if you would like to listen!

If existing players keep retreating from EVs, we should do everything in our power to support a major Canadian EV maker, or failing that, encourage Chinese manufacturing in Canada.

Once again, the 2026 drop in fossil fuel demand is going to be shocking. Each solar instillation from Haida Gwaii, to Pakistan, to remote Brazil, to Cuba, represents existing demand for fuel disappearing forever.

I think we need to stop asking residents in detached homes if they want apartments on their streets, and start asking people in apartment buildings on arterials if they would prefer if they could live on quiet residential streets

CHAOTIC YOUTH SPORTS TEAM

It's absurd that most housing projects need to go through lengthy public engagement processes and public hearings while something like this can just be rubber stamped by Council

This is incredible!

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This feels like a bit in a @nerd4cities.bsky.social video

The solar revolution is here, most importantly in communities that aren't connected to the grid. Over the next 5 years we're going to see such incredible improvements where generators were used previously

One of the things I focused on in my thesis on tenant protections during redevelopment is how it interacts with zoning and land use - this is an example of how the tenant policy is good, but the strict land use policy messes it up 1/x

This could actually lead to an interesting line of advocacy, arguing: the SkyTrain to UBC will happen. Premier Eby, do you want to be the one that funds it or do you want it to be your successor?

I am confident that one day we will have SkyTrain to UBC and gondola to SFU. We need to band together and fight for funding, and elect leaders who make them a priority. If you care about these things, then @movementyvr.bsky.social is for you.

Went for a run down Ontario and up Manitoba today and the alley between broadway and 10th is very bad @visionzerovancouver.ca

We are sorry to learn that the pedestrian hit at Oak & 6th last Wednesday has died. We went out yesterday evening to place some memorial flowers in the area. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

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Two weeks ago I successfully defended my master's thesis analyzing municipal tenant protections during redevelopment in BC! If you're interested you can read it at the link below:

This is the best city in my top 500

what's it like to have a mayor that cares about their citizens? asking for a friend 😭

All I want is bike mayor

you are loved, and we will win

Any kind of immigration enforcement is so so horrible and results in good, kind people being permanently traumatized. Why is it necessary to arrest them on the street (or at all?) If immigrants come and contribute to Canada (ie all immigrants), they should be able to stay. It's not that hard

More money for cops, less for lifeguards. This is alarming. Public safety should prevent harm. But under Ken Sim, this is what a 'zero means zero' budget looks like. How does this make our city safer?

Nationalizing railways is a great idea. Doug Ford does it! We should do it here in BC too.

With skyrocketing fossil fuel costs, and an almost certain return to inflation, this is a good opportunity for senior governments in Canada to subsidize the transition to electrification — batteries, solar, heat pumps, EVs. Decarbonization brings peace, prosperity, and security.

People oppose new housing because it “won’t be affordable enough” and it will “just house high-earners”. Then they get surprised when long-time tenants in older housing get renovicted for high-earners to move in. What did you expect?! High-earners would disappear?

IMO it’s a bad thing that from July 2024 to July 2025 all British Columbia added fewer people that Ottawa, Calgary or Edmonton

every day he’s vindicated

Me whenever I see an article about oil prices

You can find people like this for literally every form of progress ever. When will we stop giving the opponents of progress disproportional media coverage?

Is #VictoriaBC the #cargobike *and* mobility scooter capital of Canada? #yyj

How important are local government housing policies? They’re crucial. Saanich and Oak Bay exist in the same economy as Victoria and Esquimalt. There’s no shortage of housing need. The only reason they built so much less housing is because local policies prevented it

I'm one of the 11 percent that got a family doctor over the past 3 years! I'm very thankful for the work the BC NDP has done to make major improvements in healthcare. These things take time, and we're finally starting to see improvements

it's been 2 months since council's long overdue motion passed directing city staff to start posting updates elsewhere. I honestly don't understand, couldn't they have started the next day? what is the hold up?

Vancouver! It's snowing! If you see any buses stuck, please send photo and video!

This morning in my local paper there were three stories in a row: -the death of a local triathlete in a hit-and-run -the death of a toddler in a stroller in a marked crosswalk -a car plunging off a cliff Watch out for yourselves out there, because drivers sure aren't watching out for anyone.

it's incredible to contemplate the volume of civic funding and effort spent appeasing: - people who find the sight of poverty more offensive than evidence-based public health policy - drivers who think bad traffic is a human rights violation - residents who recoil from shadows like reverse-vampires

Better yet, why does a provincially funded school need municipal approval at all?

The response to the #TumblerRidgeShooting from far-right media, online commentators and even an elected official in Canada is another dark example of how pervasive anti-trans misinformation has become, even in Canada. Mel Woods writes. #bcpoli #bced

Get yourself a mayor that pushes back. PS Victoria has the highest per capita policing cost in BC www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Today @emilylowan.bsky.social @jervaler.bsky.social @robbotterell.bsky.social announced that the BC Greens will not be renewing the Cooperation and Responsible Government Accord (CARGA). #bcpoli

Going into politics with the sole aim of removing "live, work and play" from every planning document in existence

Parents can’t wait. It’s time for Childcare By Right.

Did you know: at least 1,240 Metro Vancouver bus stops don’t have benches for waiting riders! 😱 Working with our pals over at @movementyvr.bsky.social, we mapped out where weary soles are most in need of somewhere to sit: https://go.transit.app/vancouver-benches 🍑🪑