My most satisfying campaign moment today: helping Joy, who had been my mother’s closest teaching buddy at Balmoral in North Van, prep for voting and get to the polls

Hiya, my people. Second day of advance voting until 8 p.m.! Please vote early if you are decided, so we can spend more time supporting those who need it. I was at the Fraser/10 bike lane this morning (7:30 a.m. , argh) and so many of our supporters had already voted, yay!

My personal rule is, always vote. Pick the least worst candidate. Pick the best referendum answer. The worst people don’t want you to vote. Vote

Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦@senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 3w ago

I keep meeting smart informed Albertans who tell me they do not intend to vote, because they don’t want to legitimize the process, or because they know the premier is not bound by the results. But what if making us give up on voting is the whole point? My argument to vote - no matter the absurdity.

ABC is bragging they've raised $2 mil to buy this election. But guess what -- they raised $650,000, double OneCity, last year, presumably to fight the byelection and got drubbed. That said, every $ helps us get our message out. onecityvancouver.ca/people/frances…

“To pull the Community Housing Fund is actually a threat to public health writ large... It's like asking a carpenter to build you a bookshelf … and then they take away half the wood,” @susankimyyj.bsky.social www.biv.com/news/real-es... #yyj #bcpoli #ubcm26

Municipalities urge B.C. to restore Community Housing Fund, realign housing targets

Victoria Coun. Susan Kim says: ‘It's like asking a carpenter to build you a bookshelf … and then they take away half the wood.’

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Police out of politics. In 2022 ABC's campaign manager Kareem Allam said, "We are extremely honoured to have the endorsement of the VPU." That was a dangerous precedent. Glad it's not happening again this election.

isabella zavarise@isabellazavarise.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Vancouver Police Union says it won’t be endorsing a mayoral candidate in this year’s municipal election. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Vancouver doesn't have a Mamdani, but then again it doesn't need one - just vote OneCity (or Cope).

Lucy Maloney@lucymaloney.bsky.social · 4w ago

The newest plank of the @onecityvan.bsky.social Platform commits to expanding active and public transit options so everyone has the choice on how to get around. Good policies are not just in New York. We've got this!

Carfree day! Thanks @seanorr.bsky.social and @lucymaloney.bsky.social for saving this great event. Nice to see the @onecityvan.bsky.social team out in force. Also - Interesting to see the new security barriers.

The Seattle Miracle: 1️⃣ Seattle’s tree canopy cover grew 50% (10pp) since 2007. 🌲 2️⃣ Seattle’s population has grown by about 25% (150k people) over the same timeframe. 🌆 This is an incredible civic achievement. Politicians should be shouting this from the rooftops.

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 4w ago

NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: Building Toward a Greener, Housing-Abundant Seattle By Logan Schmidt, Jesse Simpson, Jeff Paul via @theurbanist.org

It shouldn't require a lawyer to run for office with your given name. We're fighting for the right to use my given Chinese name 陶思穎 on the ballot. If you agree that candidates should be able to use their given names on the ballot, donate to my campaign so I can fight for fairer representation.

Once you stop trying to convince yourself that all of your policy preferences are secretely really popular if explained in the right way, you will be released from samsara

Vote OneCity and COPE, Vancouverites. Of course, if you don't mind being knocked off your bike and dodging cars on foot in intersections or think Nothing Can Be Done That's Just Vancouver, carry on.

Vision Zero Vancouver@visionzerovancouver.ca · last mo.

With road injuries & fatalities on the rise, the next Vancouver council must act to make our streets safer. We created a list of 10 actionable items for Year 1 of the new council and sent it to all the parties. Read the list, who endorsed, and who declined to do so: visionzerovancouver.ca/vote/

I really did it. At the Vancouver election office, signing my forms to run as a council candidate with OneCity

Sorry I was so late. I was trying to open one of those thin plastic bags in the produce aisle.

If you want to sample great food and perhaps hear surprise musical guests like DAN MANGAN, you should consider going out to one of the dozens of political soirées between now and civic election 0ct. 17. Here’s Dan at Red Cat Records tonight for our OneCity fundraiser. Omg, ty

My mom worked as a nurse here in Vancouver for 31 years & while it wasn’t always easy, she was able to raise my sister & me on her own and provide us a good life. Her union made that possible. #VanPoli #LabourDay2026 1/10🧵

weird take that's not really based in reality NDP has mostly been sitting out this election campaign, but more of their organizers supported Burrows than Azaroff in the OneCity race COPE voters locally are more aligned with the B.C. Greens than the NDP take time before making hot takes

I’m at this outdoor comedy festival right now, due to be interviewed about my political life at 6 p.m. and I’ll be hanging out indefinitely to answer questions about anything www.straight.com/arts/riot-va...

RIOT Vancouver heads for the GreatER Outdoors Comedy Festival

The festival sees sketch comedy troupe RIOT Vancouver partner with the Mount Pleasant BIA.

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It’s a traditional Japanese instrument called shamisen. It has only three strings. 🤯🎸🎶🎵

I'm guessing Mayor Sim and team were a bit stung by this not-very-coherent response, plus all the negative stuff from many corners about them running a $500,000 survey, so they've posted a 15-pages "paper" with "footnotes" about their reasons over on Facebook ads

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

Here’s my video on Ken Sim’s plebiscite announcement today. I asked the mayor for a *specific law* that he wanted changed and strengthened if this passed, and I encourage you to watch for his answer.

Live-tweeting of the emergency meeting re plebiscite

isabella zavarise@isabellazavarise.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tuning in briefly to this emergency meeting. Council is discussing the plebiscite ABC announced yesterday. The mayor reiterated again that the province does not have involuntary care beds IN Vancouver but my colleagues have repeatedly fact-checked this: www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Oh, golly, this is so tiresome. I sometimes feel like I'm living in the Trump house

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

After cancelling the final council meeting before the election because ABC Vancouver said they ran out of time to get through everything, they've called an emergency council meeting to add their opinion poll to this October's election council.vancouver.ca/20260814/doc...

After cancelling the final council meeting before the election because ABC Vancouver said they ran out of time to get through everything, they've called an emergency council meeting to add their opinion poll to this October's election council.vancouver.ca/20260814/doc...

The Manitoba government opened its first supervised drug-use site on Tuesday after a lengthy delay and community pushback, charting a path opposite to other Canadian provinces. @theglobeandmail.com #cdnhealth

Manitoba opens first supervised drug-use site in Winnipeg after prolonged delay

Province partnered with Indigenous health non-profit to establish the facility, which faced community pushback and political opposition

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I’ve worked closely with a LOT of municipal politicians over my 34 years in city-making. Many come in thinking they already have all the answers. Some come in asking really good questions. I’ll talk with any Vancouver candidate who asks. @wazaroff.bsky.social has been asking great questions.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“OneCity Vancouver is promising to make it cheaper to install heat pumps, provide cooling systems to hundreds of vulnerable residents, and reverse building-related climate policy changes made under Mayor Ken Sim...” Vancouver must be a climate action leader again. dailyhive.com/vancouver/on...

The “near collapse of civic friendship is a catastrophic threat to public life,” Robert P. George writes. “Restoring it depends on our capacity to practice civil discourse, which in turn requires us to acknowledge our fallibility.”

The Two Great Threats to Truth

Moral relativism and fanaticism may seem to have nothing in common, but they lead to the same result.

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We are launching a live special right now across bc on cbc radio. Hearing from reporters im the area and residents that have been evacuated. We have the survival information you need to know.

Our beautiful city and the people in it. Main Street festival

The Binners Project is out in force at the Main Street festival keeping things tidy. Hellen Karanja is here staffing one of the many stations

A lot of excitement at the Main Street festival over Indigenous band The Halluci Nation about to play. Shayla McLaren-Gabriel, of Kwantlen Nation (now living in Kits) and friend Jen Winter from Burnaby pretty excited to see them (and eat butter chicken poutine)