Dan H
@hanoomansingh.com
Officiating expert | Teacher | ChPC | UBC KIN Masters | Personal account — views mine & should be yours | Vancouver, BC | 🇨🇦🇹🇹 | he/him hanoomansingh.com
I also did this survey and it was quick and easy. Well worth the 5 minutes to help ensure public health bodies have robust data.
Brenna Clarke Gray@brennacgray.bsky.social · last wk.Just a reminder that if you get your flu/Covid shots at public health in BC and you get prompted to fill in the research study form, it’s a really good idea to do it. We need good data to counter misinformation about vaccines and participating in these studies is a great way to help!
Mia Pante balling out this entire first half, for those keeping track… giving Calgary fits every time she touches the ball #CanWNT #NSL
Dan H@hanoomansingh.com · 2mo agoFull-time at Swangard and I am convinced that Mia Pante needs to be in the upcoming #CanWNT squad. She may not be ready to slot into the senior team, but she won’t be in the Northern Super League for long and should challenge the players currently ahead of her.
A word in the role of municipalities: legally, municipal govt is entirely subordinate to the province. But practically-speaking (esp for big cities), it’s more complicated than that. Keep an eye on the COPE bloc in Vancouver, as they could be very influential over the next 4 years #BCPoli #VanPoli
Dan H@hanoomansingh.com · 2w agoThis is it. It’s going to be a long four years... - Deny consent: protest, civil disobedience, push municipal govts to oppose the province - Tie the province up in court: just keep them from putting points on the board. - Donate: we gotta help lift each other out, because this govt won’t #BCPoli
I want to come back to this because I think FPTP gives people brain worms: the electorate gave the NDP a slim majority in 2024; it was Eby’s job to figure out how to work within that. Instead, he called a snap election, hoping to strong-arm voters into giving them a greater majority. #BCPoli
Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · 2w agoI've chatted with a few NDP MLAs and staffers on this, and they were truly and honestly stressed about how often they had late night procedural wrangling and votes where the government could have been defeated The problem is, I'm not sure anyone outside of NDP family members cares in the slightest
This is it. It’s going to be a long four years... - Deny consent: protest, civil disobedience, push municipal govts to oppose the province - Tie the province up in court: just keep them from putting points on the board. - Donate: we gotta help lift each other out, because this govt won’t #BCPoli
Harper B. Keenan@harperkeenan.bsky.social · 2w agowhat a mess, british columbia. time to organize.
Huge respect to referee Michael Venne for making this call. Vera already on a yellow card and daring the referee to make the call with that shameful dive #CanChamp
Soccerwise@soccerwisehq.bsky.social · 2w agoBRYAN VERA IS SENT OFF FOR SIMULATION 🔴🤯 Montréal are down to ten with a trophy on the line 👀
Crucially, this type of stonewalling is non-partisan: it doesn’t matter which party is in govt, provincial or federal, or if it’s the police or the weather office. There is a pervasive culture in which govt agencies do not believe that citizens have a right to access information. #CanPoli #BCPoli
Andrew Kurjata@akurjata.ca · 2w agoThis is a publicly funded government agency refusing to share weather warnings and their own public warnings with a journalist at Global News, one of the larger mainstream news outlets in Canada. I really want you to sit with the bare facts of that.
I struggle with some of the real-life conversations I'm having with people: yes, we are in an affordability crisis and yes, people are struggling to make ends meet. However, we are also in a crisis point with multiple public systems (chiefly healthcare, also education). We must address this #CanPoli
The Tyee@thetyee.ca · 3w agoThe province never followed through on building extra space needed to offer additional services at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. Patients are suffering and dying unnecessarily as a result, say doctors. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports. #BCPoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...
The quotes from Eby in this article demonstrate how much the BC NDP are in trouble. Negative campaigning is always risky. It can work if your opponent is sufficiently unappealing. But it’s not a viable long-term strategy. Voters don’t appreciate a party that doesn’t propose anything #BCpoli
Lindsay Brown@lidsville.bsky.social · 3w agoLet me get this straight: 1. Dave Eby calls a snap election to reduce the power of the BC Greens to call a non-confidence vote. 2. Then he begs Green voters to vote NDP—on top of his many right-wing policies & his destruction of our chance at Pro Rep. Wow. ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... #bcpoli
There’s another basic fact at play, which is that Sim/ABC couldn’t point to a significant accomplishment from 4 years in office. Regardless of the political leanings of the electorate, that’s a liability. And in that context, a 2-term councilor with good ideas easily becomes a viable alternative.
Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · 3w agoThere were a lot of big brained people who dismissed the chances of Pete Fry as mayor. Too vague. Too wishy washy on housing. Not enough money. Not enough organization. They overlooked a basic fact: the centre-left coalition candidate who comes across as a decent guy stands a good chance.
Obviously, all the races are interconnected and I observed COPE especially doing a lot of good campaigning on the ground. But for Pete Fry personally, the campaign really seemed to be a case of ‘don’t interrupt your enemy while they’re making a mistake’ and it worked #VanPoli
Stewart Prest@stewartprest.ca · 3w agoRemarkable to see Fry win so decisively in Vancouver. He won with what is almost certainly the chillest mayoral campaign in history.
IT'S GAME OVER FOR SIM CITY PETE FRY HAS BEEN PROJECTED BY CBC NEWS AS THE NEXT MAYOR OF VANCOUVER
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Vote for the delightful dozen. 12 incredible candidates. Then fill your ballot with progressives to beat Sim and ABC.
Only 36% of eligible voters cast a ballot in the 2022 #VanPoli election… which means your vote counts even more than you think! In a city of roughly 680k people, a candidate can be elected with as few as 37k votes. Every vote counts, please get out there and do it!
COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors@copevancouver.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨🗳️Today is the final day of advance voting. Ken Sim and ABC can only win if there's a low voter turnout. Voting is open until 8pm today at any of 59 locations across Vancouver. And if you've already voted, sign up to help us boost voter turnout: www.evictkensim.ca/the-people-s... #EvictKenSim
Took advantage of the last day of advance voting in Vancouver to cast my ballot for our progressive slate #VanPoli Vote either today or Saturday: you don’t need to register, you just need ID. @copevancouver.bsky.social @vangreens.bsky.social @onecityvan.bsky.social
I have a folder with work from undergrad that I'm proud of. Every essay is from a term where I was taking 3-4 classes because I had time to consider a topic, pore over sources, and write something informative and structured. Even 5 classes was a completionist survival nightmare and I hated it.
John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · 3w agoThis student in the article wants to do an in-depth research paper, but he's also taking seven classes. Seven! Why is he taking seven classes? What is this system that incentivizes checking boxes on seven classes over deep learning in five (or four) classes?
Obviously, a point is a great result when you're a player down for 95 mins on the road. But big picture, it feels like points dropped for the Whitecaps who are 5W-5L-4D in MLS since the WC. Injuries/availability are a factor, but don't like the odds if they end up 'backing into' the playoffs.
HAR JOURNALIST@harjournalist.bsky.social · 4w agoFT: #VWFC 1 - #LAFC 1 Oliver Larraz⚽️ Edier Ocampo🍎 Ryan Gauld🍎 Denis Bouanga⚽️ Sergi Palencia🍎 Tristan Blackmon🟥 #LAFCvVAN #MLS
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Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · last mo.TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on what we’ve seen in the men of Cornell University. “I want to diagnose it. I’m the naive fool who believes that in diagnosing it, I can cure us all of it.” flaminghydra.com/gentlemen-an...
Often in the case of Charter challenges — especially on social issues — people disparagingly talk about 'legislating from the bench'. This case shows how laws are overly complex and not responsive to the situation on the ground. We rely on the courts figure out how that applies in real life. #BCpoli
dustin godfrey@godfrey.work · last mo.and there was no real avenue for DULF to get approved to operate legally through s. 56 of the CDSA. she finds s. 7 of the charter was violated and that declaring s. 5(2) of the CDSA is unconstitutional.
Re: Carney’s announced expansion of Kitimat LNG: Even if climate change doesn’t occur/accelerate to the degree we think (it will), we are turning vast swathes of this country into uninhabitable wastelands in the name of ‘job creation’ #CanPoli #BCpoli Read Zoë Yunker’s piece from a few months ago 👇🏽
Zoë Yunker@zoeyunker.bsky.social · 4mo agoFor months I kept hearing about new health issues in Kitimat. Bouts of pneumonia. Newly diagnosed respiratory illnesses. Next door is LNG Canada, the second-highest flaring LNG facility worldwide in 2025. For @thetyee.ca I investigated what we do and don't know about Kitimat's air. 🧵 1/6
Often in the case of Charter challenges — especially on social issues — people disparagingly talk about 'legislating from the bench'. This case shows how laws are overly complex and not responsive to the situation on the ground. We rely on the courts figure out how that applies in real life. #BCpoli
dustin godfrey@godfrey.work · last mo.and there was no real avenue for DULF to get approved to operate legally through s. 56 of the CDSA. she finds s. 7 of the charter was violated and that declaring s. 5(2) of the CDSA is unconstitutional.
A tremendous servant to the #CanMNT program 🫡👏🏽 It’s easy to forget what a huge moment it was when he committed to Canada in 2015. He was a tri-national, he chose Canada, and once he was in, he gave everything for the team. Junior Hoilett will always be a legend 🇨🇦
OneSoccer@onesoccer.bsky.social · last mo.70 #CanMNT 🇨🇦 appearances. 17 goals. A decade of service. A lifetime of inspiration for those who follow in his footsteps. Thank you, Junior Hoilett ❤️
I think Ed Sheeran will be my new go-to example for illustrating how people who claim to be ‘apolitical’ are just following the path of least resistance; which in our society means obsequious deference to capital at the expense of all else.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Everyone's telling me to cancel and I'm feeling all of my friends and family and people I know abandon me," he said." you didn't have to do this Edward www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/deva...
#RSLvVAN FT thoughts: • Important for the Whitecaps to crush a bad team • Trend continues of errant passes in key moments, leading to dangerous breaks. But unlike recent games, no gaping holes at the back • Got a few lucky bounces, but kept a clean sheet, which is huge given recent results
Full-time at Swangard and I am convinced that Mia Pante needs to be in the upcoming #CanWNT squad. She may not be ready to slot into the senior team, but she won’t be in the Northern Super League for long and should challenge the players currently ahead of her.
This is me... I cast 7 consecutive general election ballots for an NDP candidate (prov + fed), but there is literally nothing the BCNDP could do in the next 3 months to secure my vote. I do believe quite a few of my friends and colleagues would react the same way to a snap election #BCPoli
Stewart Prest@stewartprest.ca · 2mo agoI'm not sure the NDP brain trust has thought through how badly a snap election could go for them. angusreid.org/election-spe...
![Dear Trustee [name],
Congratulations on your recent election win. I have great confidence in your ability to steward the Vancouver School Board through the next four years.
Unfortunately, I am writing today on a sour note. I am deeply concerned by the stance of the new Conservative provincial government with regard to education, specifically the protection of 2SLGBTQ+ individuals. The government has promised to remove SOGI123, and I am writing to urge you and your colleagues to protect the implementation of this policy (in principle, if not in letter). The City of Vancouver has the opportunity to act as a beacon for the marginalized people of this province and a check on the more regressive impulses of this provincial government. I hope that we can count on you to do your part in this regard.
Best wishes for the upcoming term.
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