This is a very shortsighted and bad decision by the North Van council. The plant has been operating safely for decades and produces 70% of BC and Alberta’s chlorine. You can’t just critical key industrial production on a whim. www.nsnews.com/local-news/d...

District of North Vancouver rejects Chemtrade chlorine proposal

The plant makes 70 per cent of the chlorine used for drinking water purification in Western Canada, but the majority on council said the risks to human health were too high.

nsnews.com

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

The United States has the fewest elevators in the rich world, with Canada only a bit ahead. We teamed up with @uytaelee.bsky.social of About Here Videos to investigate why, exactly, North America sucks at elevators.

North America's Elevator Problem

YouTube video by About Here

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It’s literally Idiocracy down there.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

photos from Trump's speech to House Republicans (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty)

Love when the @cityofvancouver.bsky.social misaddresses an invoice to you (that should’ve gone to strata in the first place), and then sends it to collections when you’re never even seen it because it was sent to the wrong address.

Only in Yukon would that ever make the screen.

Someone had fun with the Halloween decorations at Kingsgate Mall.

Here's a consolidated thread with some of our more recent #SingleStair explorations. We've been doing these with the aim to influence vancouver zoning and building code deliberations, and because we want to understand what the potential is. First up: 33x122 lots, 4 and 5 storey, fronting a park

B.C.'s life sciences sector is the fastest growing in Canada. Home to life-saving mRNA technology pioneered at UBC, we're leading the way in science and innovation. Ready to invest? Come to British Columbia🍁 We're open for business.

reasonably sure this is the first time a regional government agency has launched a new service with an elaborate broadway musical parody

Finally saw the Mark V trains in person! Hopefully they wrap up testing and start service soon.

The reporting on the BC Ferries contract award is verging on journalistic malpractice. So many stories calling out the government for not building them in BC or Canada, and just glossing over the fact that there were no bids from Canadian shipyards. [1/2]

This seems bad.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last yr.

SOME TIME AGO, INDIA ATTACKED PAKISTAN IN THREE LOCATIONS WITH MISSILES - PAKISTAN MILITARY SPOKESMAN TELLS ARY NEWS

Some real 4D chess indeed.

Theo Moudakis@theomoudakis.bsky.social · last yr.

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”

US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”

OTTAWA - Following months of declining Canadian travel to the USA, Americans have launched a tourism campaign inviting Canadians to visit locations like New York, Austin, and possibly even take an all...

thebeaverton.com

The rollercoaster continues. So was yesterday just the biggest ever dead cat bounce, or an orchestrated pump and dump?

Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · last yr.

WOW! After yesterday's +10% move, we are now reaching circuit breakers in the market, with $SPY down almost 6% right now... Here are the circuit breaker levels: Level 1: 5074.91, -7% Level 2: 4747.50, -13% Level 3: 4365.52, -20% Do you think we get there?

We really are in the dumbest (and darkest) timeline.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the opportunity presented by the current geopolitical chaos, and how there seems to be no leadership in Canada, at any level, wanting leverage this moment to make new investments in our society. No drive to take action except hunker down and wait…

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

Hard no on that. I really hope we’re ready to come out unified and in strong opposition to the tariffs next week. With the continual talk from Trump and co about annexing Canada, I don’t think it’s a joke anymore.

White House official threatens to redraw Canadian border

Peter Navarro is pushing negotiators to discuss reworking country’s boundaries, The Telegraph can reveal

telegraph.co.uk

Really disappointing that after what was a wildly successful and popular Water St pedestrian pilot last summer, council has decided that this year all we get is 8 hours a week.

Today in “things that made sense before they decided to declare economic war on us.”

Amtrak Cascades boost to five daily Vancouver-Seattle trains eyed | Urbanized

Washington state is considering making new and improved performance targets for the Amtrak Cascades train service.

dailyhive.com

elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

Vancouver city staff are recommending against implementing single stair egress due to unique “Vancouver context”. @ravikahlon.bsky.social should take this opportunity to abolish the Vancouver building code. Duplicative and a drag on productivity. council.vancouver.ca/20250226/doc...

Now that Trump has torn up the USMCA, it’s time we stop all the patent and trademark provisions we adopted through it to benefit big us corporate interests. Let’s ramp up manufacturing of generic pharmaceuticals.

Speaking of a lack of accountability…

Anthony Floyd@anthonyfloyd.ca · 2y ago

As per @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social: Mayor Sim, who recently said that he's boycotting the Metro Vancouver board meetings due to a lack of accountability - is unavailable for comment because he's in South America at a Bitcoin conference.

Decided to try my hand at iOS app development. If you’re in Vancouver and enjoy the annual hot chocolate festival, give it a whirl. And if you know anyone else organizing food festivals (here or elsewhere) feel free to put them in touch. It’ll be easy to adapt.

‎YVR Hot Chocolate Fest

‎A digital companion to the annual Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival. This app allows you to browse flavours and locations, mark favourites and more. Use the map view to quickly locate nearby particip...

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Please enjoy this timeline, where Biff got the almanac.

How it started. How it’s going

Trudeau immediately begs for job back after realising he’ll need to buy a house

Trudeau immediately begs for job back after realising he’ll need to buy a house

With the race for a new Liberal leader on, Trudeau has already asked the frontrunners if he could crash with them at Rideau Cottage until he works out a better plan.

thebeaverton.com