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 · 2d ago

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 · 4w 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 · 4w 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 · 4w 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 · last mo.

“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)

Main Street is hoppin! Great street festival where you too could learn to pole dance from Atse Beyene. (I opted not to, ha ha)

Great to connect today with Steve Ko and King Wan at today’s Chinatown Light Up festival organized by the indefatigable Carol Lee. (Somewhere out there is a pic with Sarah Kirby-Jung photobombing us

Chinatown wonderfully lively and fun today with the launch of the Light Up festival. Sadly, some general dismay that Mayor Sim and ABC chose to politicize a community event by using their stage time to announce a new council candidate

If you don't like that one, wait until you see where this one is located:

42-unit townhouse project approved for Silver Valley – The Ridge

A 42-unit townhouse development in Maple Ridge's Silver Valley neighbourhood can now move ahead after council approved the project's rezoning and development permit.

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Denis Agar (he/him)@denisagar.bsky.social · last mo.

imagine if all these townhouses were permitted at Nanaimo Station instead of on recently-cleared mountain forest?

I'd love to credit whoever wrote this. No idea. But I'm 100% with its message. When I think of how the '80s ethos, "Greed is Good" has metastasized, it surprises and depresses me. Imagine having so many millions, hundred of millions, even billions & caring about nothing except your own vanity.

Almost every city in the world needs to urgently understand the need to get really good at planning and designing for shade. #UrbanHeat

Bryn Davidson - Lanefab@lanefab.com · last mo.

A friend’s recent photo of civic shading in Malaga

I’ve never been a street fair/parades/crowds kinda person but this weekend (Dyke March, Powell St Festival, Pride Parade) was so much fun for mingling with happy people celebrating life. Among them, my neighbour, Willow, whose daughter Sophie organized Powell and took it to a big new level

you can have neighbourhood of multimillion-dollar single family homes or you can have a vibrant, walkable neighbourhood of shops and restaurants but babe, you cannot have both in one place

Over on LinkedIn. Note who reposted

AI "will likely accelerate differences already underway. Commercial news organizations will use more automation. Public broadcasters will include more human oversight. And independent outlets will focus more on stories written and reported wholly by people." www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/how-...

How three newsrooms are charting different paths for AI use

In our recent research, we examined how three different media outlets — Reuters, the BBC, and The Guardian — were deploying AI in their workflows.

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