Reviewing candidates for Park Board. 7/7 ABC candidates failed / declined (?) to provide contact information as per the City of Vancouver elections webpage.
Velvet Prison Warden
@andyferris.bsky.social
He/Him - Gen X - Taller than VGH
Please read this article. It's important.
Ej Dickson@ejdickson.bsky.social · 2d agoThere is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
I’m trying to be a glass is half full guy so I hope Fry has a few more policy announcements and maybe this will give him the time he needs to get a financial agent.
Just went with my kid to his first day of school. Bloody hell he’s a grade 12 now
Waiting for a train at Olympic Village. In Vancouver we put in fare gates to cost more than they return to punish folks. But don’t have have gates at the platforms to make it slightly harder to kill oneself in a public way.
The visuals in this film Christ almighty
Since the relative strength of OneCity vs Van Greens is a topic of discussion right now, I'd just like to point out that Pete Fry's financial agent is Pete Fry
Water street is still the one I would like fully and permanently pedestrianized. I walked through it today and it was full of folks enjoying themselves.
This is babby brain thinking as lots of folks like gas lobbyists and the VPD are making bank of ABC. But sure take shots at One City that consist of pure grade copium.
lol mayor vibes told an ABC rally that the city couldn’t afford to “go back to the one city cope years” so I trust Green Party folks are going to be normal about this.
It's such a Green thing to say only I can have valid feelings, and you non-Green have obviously invalid ones.
Glad to have had the opportunity to say this: Pete Fry would be a bad mayor. I believe in judging politicians on their record, not their vague vibes. And Fry's record on housing, active transportation, and more is BAD. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
Tara 🐢@4jinxremoving.bsky.social · 2w agoWithout saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
Soapbox moment: sidewalks matter. Like, a lot. Even in Vancouver, we have a long way to go to upgrade sidewalks so everyone can get around. @womentcities.bsky.social's Our City Hall campaign rules and you should read their stuff. Here's a highlight: www.womentransformingcities.org/ourcityhall
Please correct me if Im wrong but ABC aren't doing any public debates right? Only in house events.
Super proud board co-chair here! WTC released our policy asks of Vancouver municipal candidates yesterday. The work is based in extensive community engagement and these changes will make real positive impacts. #Vancouver www.womentransformingcities.org/ourcityhall
Our City Hall — Women Transforming Cities
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Let’s talk solutions. The BC public post-secondary education sector is facing its worst funding crisis in history. Join us on September 17 to discuss how we got here and—most importantly—how we get out! Register at: bcpolicy.ca/events
I’m doing my part 🫡 www.reillywood.com/blog/unite-h...
A Hotel Union Is Trying to Stop New Hotels in Vancouver
Unite Here Local 40 is a BC hospitality workers’ union: hotels, airports, food service. In 2026 they became one of the most active forces at Vancouver City Hall, and they’ve been pretty explicit that ...
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It's bleakly funny to hear folks complaining about Vancouver hotel prices and not really know that a hotel union is partially responsible for this.
One way to understand the restrictiveness of zoning is to look at land price gradients across zone boundaries, @lausterna.bsky.social and check into what that looks like in Vancouver.
Zoning Constraints and Land Price Gradients – Mountain Doodles
Steep land price gradients across zoning boundaries are an indication of zoning restrictions being binding. We take a look at what this looks like for the City of Vancouver.
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One of the funniest (sob) things I learned during my time at California YIMBY was that sometimes lawmakers adjudicate differing positions by counting how many studies support each. Also for their purposes, an AER article and a 3D pie chart some nonprofit made were each one (1) study.
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 4w ago“We need professional legislative staff because if not lobbyists would be writing all the bills” Fair but also no one should be under the impression legislative staff are good at writing effective, evidence-based bills.
In the last couple Vancouver municipal elections, I crowd-sourced your thoughts on where the various parties sat on the traditional political compass plus the urbanist axis. It's worked pretty well so let's do it again! Add your votes here: forms.gle/fEqcGzbiHGg5...
Plotting the Vancouver municipal parties
In 2018 and 2022, we at the Cambie Report relied on you to help us plot the chaos that is Vancouver politics. We used a survey to help plot political parties along three axes (extending the concept of...
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Right now in Vancouver, if you want to open a bike repair shop in your alley? Illegal. Bakery from your back door? Illegal. Haircut in your spare room? You guessed it. Illegal.  That's ridiculous. So we're gonna fix it. 🧵1/7 #VanPoli #YVR #VancouverVotes2026 #GoodBusinessStartsAtHome
The purpose of American zoning is to put the most people—low- and middle-class families—in the worst locations so that the best locations, the quiet, elevated side streets, can be reserved for a small number of wealthier people. Everything else is just kind of window dressing.
Please don’t write in the newspaper 700 years from now that I got absolutely smoked.
Andrew Curry@andrewcurry.com · last mo.The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org
The shaman of Bad Dürrenberg are the remains of a 25-35 year old woman, who was buried 8600 to 9000 year ago in Germany. Around her, were the remains of an extraordinary head-dress, made from the bones and teeth of different animals such as deer, wild boar, crane and turtle.
A year in which no Grands Crus Classés vintages were declared would do more to focus elites on the threat of climate change than any number of excess heat deaths
Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 2mo agoBordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
