We make buses in Canada! We should be buying electric ones!

This is going to get worse before it gets better.

The news that YVR is raising its transit fee yet again has me really annoyed. While full-on road pricing is a political non-starter for the moment, tolls (as @bushfield.ca suggested) into Sea Island would be a great start. So here's a little dashboard to play with how it could work. A short 🧵

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Can't tell if this is a news story or if Rob Shaw is ghost writing for DailyHive: "This isn’t the first time that the ministry has given itself a pat on the back following a report showing declines in average rents."

Thisssssss. Fuel blending has always felt like this massive, unnecessary overhead and as prices increase, we should scrap it and put that money where it really matters: making it easier and cheaper to walk, roll, and transit.

The Fall Guys is criminally underrated with great performances from everyone. So glad to see this connection made!

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

69%, nice.

1 - Steve Novick sounds like the kind of cranky legislator I love. 2 - the Portland Clean Energy Benefits Fund has me dreaming of a world where TransLink had access to some sort of sales tax.

Portland: The notion that Portland Clean Energy Fund money go to remodeling a sports arena is a good time to remember that @trimet.org will be making destructive service cuts next year unless there's some help to plug the funding gap. Like, maybe, from a fund tied to environmental goals?

Canada’s Boris Johnson. 🤦

A love letter to 'girl games' aftermath.site/a-love-letter-...

WTF is going on in the left corner of Nevada? How do map projections never cease to be confusing?

Boxes 🥰

I'd like to remind everyone that we do not in fact have to just ask.

Congress people get special treatment? I’m not surprised, but also… so weird.

Incredible interview from @reckless.bsky.social and frankly a soulless response from Grammarly’s CEO. Buck-passing down the line to product mangers when this was such a dumb idea that should never have left the whiteboard.

Is anyone else constantly being reposted by spam accounts with “I am not a spammer I am trying to get help for my family” etc.? There’s never link or anything, just random spam. Probably had 8-9 of them now.

When someone leaves the Ford assembly line movie playing on the projector.

BC in a very different position relative to their WECC neighbours when it comes to snowpack this year.

🔋 China’s top battery makers, CATL, BYD and Sungrow, have gained more than $70bn in market capitalisation since the US and Israel attacked Iran. Batteries have always been a cornerstone of energy security and this war may highlight that fact more formally. #batteries #battchat #energysky #greensky

I've never thought of this before, but it's such a powerful insight and relates to two trends that I think a lot about lately. Quick 🧵

The evidence of inside trading would, in ordinary times, be easily sufficient to trigger an investigation at DOJ. Oh. We no longer have a DOJ. Or an SEC for that matter.

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Merci !

I feel crazy sometimes for prattling on about this the way I do, but I am convinced that people are still talking about the state of the buggy whip industry as *actual* highways are being built beneath their feet.

Pasting this on my forehead for the next three months. TL;DR: renewables did not cause the Spanish blackout.

Great notes from @movementyvr.bsky.social on Vancouver-Burnaby transit proposals, with the ever-present refrain to the BC Government: Fix its broken funding model to enable real progress.

First time to a Vancouver Warriors game and it was a blast. @pjnewwest.bsky.social, beer’s on me if you wanna do a Salmon Bellies game sometime. 🍺

For years industry people regularly scolded calls for a managed phaseout of oil, gas and coal by saying "you can't turn off oil overnight". The US oil industry donated $455m to elect Donald Trump. Now their guy appears to have turned off oil overnight.

Kill the homeowner grant, fund transit. Kill the homeowner grant, fund transit. Kill the homeowner grant, fund transit. Kill the homeowner grant, fund transit.

I find Rob Shaw pretty tedious, but the commentariat on this budget has genuinely been next level: the magical thinking that feels right out of the 80's that there's some magical "efficiency" to be found in the budget that will somehow enable us to have our cake and eat it too is simply childish.

More homes 🤝 more elevators.

Europe is responding to the worst energy supply shock since the 1970s by... dismantling the instruments built to protect it from energy supply shocks! 🙈 1/ A thread on regulatory self-harm, strategic vassalage, and how the EU excels at making all the wrong trade-offs. 🧵

Really respect @trevortombe.bsky.social's approach here: Yes, Canadian exporters will gain something from rising energy prices, but domestic consumers will also feel the pinch at home as a result. Beyond this, the various global crises (especially in food) this war could cause look grim.

Truly incredible and unprecedented to conduct a war via musing when the stakes are so cataclysmically high.

If a kid drowns, at least your WestSide mansion tax was flat for the year.

Incredibly important! Please fill it out!

Fascinating comparison — really useful to see the provinces compared to one another, since in BC we’re losing our minds over importing power.

the fusion of MBA discourse with war has been a disaster for the human race

Finally a little backbone.

These still frames from r/Vancouver really are gorgeous. Although it drives me crazy sometimes, I feel deeply grateful to live here.

This is one more reason why it is better to discuss this crisis in terms of inputs and outcomes rather than in price per barrel terms. The localized impacts & downstream consequences of up to a fifth of the world's oil & gas going offline can't be captured in prices alone. #EconSky #EnergySky

This shit drives me crazy. So glad to see this out in the world.

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Not sure if these fit with the neighbourhood character…

For the morning crowd. Wanna learn how endangered Canadian insurance is? 🧨

This thread epitemizes, to me, why Canadian civics has failed to brutally, particularly in the last decade. Unfiltered access to American media at the atomic scale has really warped Canadians perceptions of what it means to live in a Parliamentary democracy.

Honestly this looks metal AF, I’m even more in now.