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Carol Reardon

@caroltreardon.bsky.social

Lawyer, Masters in City Planning, MIT, interested in politics, land use, human and workers rights, environmental protection. Likes a good laugh.

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The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w ago

Thousands of people have marched in Madrid to protest against Spain’s housing crisis and ask for protective measures for tenants, anti-fraud measures, and a ban on evictions without alternative housing.

Thousands march in Madrid to protest Spain's housing crisis after eviction of 87-year-old woman

Thousands of people have marched in Madrid to protest against Spain’s housing crisis and ask for protective measures for tenants, anti-fraud measures, and a ban on evictions without alternative housing.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm not saying that David Eby is going to call a snap provincial election sometime in the next couple of weeks. But I will say the amount of speculation about it has exploded in the last 24 hours, and a lot of plugged in people have shifted from idle gossip to saying it's being considered.

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My analysis of this situation is that COPE and OneCity are still very deep in their bubble of talking to core supporters, deeply hoping that Vancouver voters will rise up and support their candidacy en masse, and deeply panicking that things didn't naturally resolve itself through magic

Are Too Many Vancouver Progressives Running for Mayor? | The Tyee

Three parties have promised to agree on one candidate, but made no decision on who.

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Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

While the Roadside Attraction bracket is fun, beneath it are interesting questions around tourism and geography that have been changing in recent decades. Here's my story on that, which required me to look like a goofball in several places for REASONS OF JOURNALISM

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ken Sim says this plebiscite announcement on drug use and involuntary care is not “electioneering” at an event surrounded by ABC signs with a crowd of people applauding after each speech and we’re onto 35 minutes without taking questions from the media, about as long as I can ever remember

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If the Vancouver police can’t explain why they need an extra $200,000 a week on top of their $497 million budget to police five blocks of car free activities, then I can make videos pointing out how much that works out to every hour for every block. We’ll update if they provide more information.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

Carol Reardon@caroltreardon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Nelson Park and the Lord Roberts Elementary School Annex in the West End are under threat, thanks to B.C. Hydro’s acquisition of urban park land to construct a substation. What Vancouver neighbourhood park will be next? #VanPoli #BCPoli #Parks www.thewestendjournal.ca/blog/2026/7/...

VIEWPOINTS — The West End Journal

Is it too late to stop BC Hydro’s plan to build a substation at Nelson Park, removing most of the trees and lawns? One West Ender thinks it’s not. Here’s why, and how.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Metro Vancouver held a special meeting today where the other municipalities told Surrey to stop pretending that region wide water restrictions didn’t apply to them www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Surrey slammed for flouting Metro Vancouver water restrictions | CBC News

City of Surrey officials are under fire for their decision to defy Metro Vancouver's water restriction plan by staying at Stage 2 restrictions rather than moving to more stringent Stage 3. Surrey says...

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