Inflammatory and inaccurate garbage served up in an effort to terrify the congregation and rile them up into a frothy rage. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Meanwhile, in Alberta…

This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*. Yes: free. If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!

Motherfucking wind farms…

It’s #autumn Fall! Burnaby trees Turing colours now and looking beautiful. On my way today to #Knitcity Vancouver

Open House: McHardy Street Housing Co-op 🗓️September 28 | 10:00am - 2:00pm 📍5085 McHardy Street, Vancouver

Once unhoused, residents of this tiny home community in #Fredericton are now entrepreneurs #NewBrunswick #Canada This is an amazing good news story of the day. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

As Dr. Jane – one of the United Nations' Messengers of Peace – says, you can look into reducing your environmental footprint. You can use less water. You can eat more plant-based meals. You can help at your local animal shelter. You can do so much, today on #PeaceDay and every day.

This is a good summary.

Community land trusts are a proven model for permanently affordable housing options. Darryl Dyck explains the concept and demonstrates the need to expand this successful model to bring more affordable homes to communities across Canada. #coophousing #canadacoop theconversation.com/turning-hous...

Open House: McHardy Street Housing Co-op 🗓️September 21 | 10:00am - 2:00pm 📍5085 McHardy Street, Vancouver McHardy Street Housing Co-op is built to passive house standards, steps away from transit and pet-friendly. Learn more: mchardycoop.ca

For those in Vancouver looking for a co-operative housing option … open house Sun. Sept 21 super close to Joyce Collingwood skytrain! More affordable and secure than renting & best thing you get to help build a community, know your neighbours.

Before and after: 5 years ago, Utrecht restored the Catharijnesingel. Once filled in during the 1970s to make way for traffic, the historic canal now flows again around the old city, lined with pedestrian paths, bike lanes, and a park-like landscape. 📸 @filmendefietser.bsky.social (#DCEnetwork)

"The very thing that’s exciting about solar energy — its abundance and low cost — also makes it of little interest to investors. Sun (and wind) are so freely available all around us that it’s hard to hoard them and make big profits from them." Amazing, @lindamcquaig.bsky.social! #canpoli

It’s started ! #Co-op living and fun neighbours

This a live-post of the BC Greens leadership debate. It's hard to keep up & simultaneously post on Twitter so both posts will be mainly be highlights. The BC Greens have *finally* posted the link on their YouTube page. Please add in anything I miss! #bcpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrK...

We’re two municipal councillors who think good government should be boring. We started a podcast to talk about that. If you care about local government (you should!), housing, taxes, or just enjoy a good quote-take—join us! nonpartisanhacks.com #LocalGovernment #PodcastLaunch #cdnmuni

Great read from former @bcgreens.bsky.social MLA Adam Olsen on the Premier's harmful comments this week. If government takes a proactive approach to negotiations, we can work with pursue reconciliation and prosperity at the same time. #bcpoli adampolsen.substack.com/p/premier-da...

Visualizations with the latest Earth monitoring data: 📈📉 + Global climate indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan... + Polar climate indicators: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... + United States climate indicators: zacklabe.com/united-state...

One of the great things the Government of Canada did was to start doing these "Heritage Minutes" back in, what, the late '80s? So, of course the great Graham Greene was in one!

Pedestrian walking in road because cyclist riding on sidewalk because car parked in bike lane

Same view - clear in June and today with wildfire smoke in Vancouver #vancouver #Burnaby Very much smells like a fire outside - mask up or stay inside

Japan has just opened its first osmotic power plant 🌊⚡ This works by mixing fresh & salt water across a membrane, creating pressure that drives a turbine to make electricity. This site will generate 880,000 kWh a year...while helping run a desalination plant providing fresh water to the city 👏

Nope the cats say - not gonna run after the neighbourhood squirrel at all. #cats a little supervised backyard grass eating and sniffing - never alone out there because we don’t want them to kill any animals, or get killed.

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.

Are you in Vancouver, over 25, without a family doctor, and in need of a PAP exam? The Seymour Health Clinic and UBC School of Medicine are doing a huge day of free screenings in September. #yvr More information here:

“Smart cities also know that quality of bike-lanes is just as important as quantity, especially if what’s being built (or let’s be honest–what’s being painted) isn’t really safe, or comfortable.” — @brenttoderian.bsky.social in @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/90361034/if-...

Pretty cool project: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

the guaranteed provision of a home for everyone is the only solution to mass homelessness, and this is a basic requirement of a functional society

Wildfires Will Get Worse. Here Are Five Things We Can Do Now via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

we need to recognize the appalling lack of seriousness from Canadian provincial and federal governments at this pivotal moment as a willful act of mass murder and name it as that. call it GLOBAL BOILING, not "climate change" FFS. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” theprogressplaybook.com/2024/01/31/w...

Canada is saying build baby build in response to Trump tariff pressure -- legislators are considering a bill that would railroad environmental regulations if a pipeline or mine project were deemed in the "national interest" thenarwhal.ca/bill-c-5-can... by ‪@drewanderson.bsky.social‬

social housing is less than FIVE % of Canada's housing stock we don't have the right to housing. its an idea that hasn't been realized, a right that the federal government has the authority, resources and mandate to fulfill – if we demand it mass homelessness didn't exist forty years ago

Walkability saves lives. Individuals who exceed 7000 steps per day see a; ♥️25% lower risk of cardiovascular disease 🏥37% lower risk of dying from cancer 🧠38% lower risk of dementia 🙂22% lower risk of depression 🩺28% lower risk of falls www.remainplaces.com/post/living-...

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Updated warning for coastal BC Tsunami tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

Stay safe my Vancouver Island friends/famiky - Info here from Environment Canada weather.gc.ca/warnings/rep...

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell. In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know? www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

The other day I drew a subway-style map for The Hobbit, and it was very well received. Some of you asked if I could do one for LoTR, so I have! Forgive the eel watermark; I'm working on making these something you can buy, if you like.

We have some of the best drinking water in the world and you can sign up for free tours to see where it all comes from. July looked booked up but there are some spots in August available for either Capilano, Coquitlam, or Lower Seymour 🌎🚰 #vancouver

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Covid is on the rise. If you want to reduce the number of people getting sick, or dying, or getting long covid PLEASE consider downloading & sharing graphics meant to inform & educate. Public health failed. Wide range graphics by many people condense science. drive.google.com/drive/mobile...

READ THIS: How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world. In the 1960s, Dutch cities saw cars as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths — and fierce activism — to turn #Amsterdam into the urban biking nirvana of today. It took vision & leadership.

🧵This applies to Canada too, we see universal healthcare as “an old family heirloom – precious, yes, but dusty. Nostalgic. Something we’re trying to keep from breaking, instead of something worth updating, investing in and expanding” Our system cab change to make universal healthcare better but

USAID leaves, malaria returns: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

How can cycling help address transport poverty? Investing in cycling infrastructure and affordable bikes doesn’t just improve mobility. It reduces inequality. Read our recent interview with expert Hans Voerknecht (Een Nieuwe Kijk): buff.ly/cj4gOkP

Phase 1 of the ambitious and ground-breaking Sen̓áḵw development project by the Squamish First Nation! For an explainer of how this weaves together so many different threads of reconciliation, housing justice, and urban densification, check out: macleans.ca/society/sena...