Worse, they did this without advance notice to many people waiting to speak to them about their ridiculous plan to turn the DEOD area into towers and to gut existing (and weak) protections for the city's most impoverished residents. Just cleared the room to go party.

I've been wanting to know when the 'Bitcoin Friendly City' report from staff would be presented. It was supposed to happed in the Fall. Now, staff say: "the motion has been deferred until further notice while staff focus their work on other Council priorities." www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

“Mr. Trump … may be doing bad stuff, but he’s doing it fast.” Do these Abundance stans hear themselves? “Hitler … may be doing bad stuff, but he’s doing it efficiently.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

Another timely call out of this serial tormentor that landlords over many renters in our city. Plan A is quite literally one of the worst, and keeps successfully gaming the system. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Watching Sim here is like rubbernecking a car crash. What is he even doing? #vanpoli

The reason why socialism is no longer taboo in America is that our elites have successfully rebranded it as “any attempt by the state to function beyond semi-random violence“ while trying to combat it.

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

Baseball? No thanks, I get quite enough misery from the Canucks

Hola, #canucks fans - does anyone know of a Vancouver bar/pub/whatever that'll be showing the game today? World Series is going to overtake screens and audio at most places, looking for a place with audio *in before the smartass who says "Rogers Arena" :)

Has anyone else noticed that "permitting bottlenecks" seem not to have curtailed the build-out of AI infrastructure at all?

Hey all - if you're in Vancouver and you want covid and/or flu vaccines*, Rexall is doing walk-ins. Info is on their website, call the pharmacy nearest you to check. I was in and out today with no wait. The Get Vaccinated system is a time-wasting boondoggle *you really do. both of them.

"hey, our arena is 30 years old" is...a thing, I guess #canucks

ok, let's do this #canucks

Ngl. Kinda weird seeing a head coach with hair. It's been awhile #Canucks

When you've reached the age where you squint at the TV during the preseason and wonder aloud whether the goalscorer is old enough to drink #canucks

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... This is straight out of Harper's playbook in 2013. He announced end door-to-door delivery (making Canada the only G7 country without door to door delivery) after strikes/lockouts/disputes with the union during negos from June 2011 to Dec 2012. short 🧵

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network. This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

CUPW is now on strike. Solidarity with CUPW workers; join a picket if you can when they go up Same for striking BCGEU/PSA workers, USW 1944, and everyone else who's striking for a fair deal In BC? Looking for workers to support? There's a list of active strikes and lockouts here:

Hello fellow long-suffering Canucks fans! The team buried the link to the game livestream, here it is if you haven't found it

So happy to see Emily Lowan @emilylowan.bsky.social decisively elected as the leader of the BC greens. Respect to Emily & her team for running a stellar campaign Do watch her acceptance speech - a fine assessment of the political moment, and an encouraging plan for how we can fight and win #bcpoli

the feds won't let you see a musical performance by some lads who say that there's a genocide happening in the levant, but they will give a standing ovation in parliament to a guy who claimed that jews are trying to take over america by replacing all the white people with immigrants. oh, canada

Kirkland Signature All-In-One Molotovs

A recurring theme in the party’s comments is that people who are tripped up by the malfunctioning verification process simply aren’t choosing to complete it. The implication is that hurdles = integrity American voter suppression campaigns rely on the same logic. Reproducing it here is a bad look

Not a fan of "reminder" posts, but today maybe relevant to recall that the first lie of fascism is inevitability.

Hey folks - the BC Greens leadership debate is at 2 pm today. The link isn't on the main page of their website, so here it is for anyone who wants to watch! Also: are you a new BC Greens member who needs verification so you can vote? Do we know each other? Get in touch so I can vouch for you!

Member verification systems are supposed to keep bad actors out. They are not supposed to prevent eligible members from engaging in a party's electoral process. But that's what the @bcgreens.bsky.social broken verification system is doing. 🧵

One downside of our information environment is that it's easy for people to fancy themselves experts because they can repeat the last plausibly convincing thing they heard online. This is what happens when one of those people becomes mayor.

Bob Vylan: “Don’t act like today is the last day of your life - act like it’s the first”

If Carney wants to show Canada's sovereignty beyond archaic symbols and empty words, he could revoke the safe third country agreement today.

Hmmmm, maybe Peter Gabriel opening for David Bowie, Serious Moonlight Tour, 1983

Simon O' Hagan has written this lovely piece about the end of NowPlaying@6Music on his Substack - if you like it, please share: simonohagan.substack.com/p/tom-robins...

the first sentence of Elon's obituary should be that he was one of the greatest mass murderers in the history of humanity this is his legacy

Both teams need to rest their elbows.

The Union of BC Municipalities and the First Nations Leadership Council are hosting a press conference tomorrow "to express their opposition to Bill 15" #bcpoli

Canada has raised concerns over the genocide in Palestine. The Israeli army responded by firing on our diplomatic team. Israel is a terror regime. Canada needs to bring in full sanctions, suspend all trade and ensure investigations into any Canadian who serves in the IDF.

I feel bad for scheifele, and for everyone in winnipeg that isn’t Jesse

There were many bad options for housing minister, and yet somehow Carney managed to choose the worst. Robertson is an avatar of elite urban failure, a bad joke to people who are just trying to get by. Poilievre couldn't have asked for a better foil for his faux working man schitck

Canada's actual team

Seriously - if Green Bay can own their team, why can't we? #Canucks

Can we please remind everyone they're actually from Alberta

One of the more heartening things I heard during the federal election campaign was Mark Carney specifically calling out platforms for this kind of manipulation and indicating that his gov't would act. There's hope that Canada will kneecap these guys - something to press the new government on asap

Vancouver, if you did not catch our very own Robert Dayton on the Evan "Funk" Davies show today, head over to the WFMU archives stat @heytweed.bsky.social, listening in and leafing through my copy of Cold Glitter: "My god, it goes straight from Sweeney Todd into No Fun. I have to get this book."

Ok look, sure, this is an awful look for the organization as a whole and it probably means Hughes is leaving, but try and look on the bright side.. at least they're raising season ticket prices like 25% for next year and we still have the player with maybe the worst contract in the league. #Canucks

Once again, might I interest the proud, hockey-loving residents of Vancouver in municipalizing our team? Because this owner is trash.

Half of Canada frantically hitting F5

Congratulations to my stalwart MP, @jennykwan.bsky.social, re-elected to continue her principled work in Parliament and above-and-beyond work for her constituents (alongside her stellar staff!) Now all we need is for Kimball Cariou to get more votes than the execrable Meghan Murphy, go Kimball!