Nathan Griffiths
@njgriffiths.bsky.social
Graphic/data journalist 📈 📉 Currently @vancouversun 📰 Formerly @AP, @nytimes, @scmp 🗞️🗞️🗞️ Contributing photographer for thehub.vancouver, a social documentary project in east Vancouver. 📸
“In the places where transit got improved, transit ridership is up. And in the places where transit got cut back, transit ridership is down,” Denis Agar #transit #vanpoli #translink thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
TransLink Ridership Is Down. More Buses Are the Answer | The Tyee
Cuts mean slower bus routes, costing TransLink millions, says a transit user advocate.
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“This company is putting the fragile recovery of Howe Sound at risk and that is unacceptable.” #environment #bc #HoweSound vancouversun.com/news/fortisb...
Amazing.
Mary (geographile)@geographile.bsky.social · 2mo agoDamn Colbert is a treasure. He very knowingly and intentionally played Linus and Lucy on the air, and the copyright holder joyfully got a fine out of CBS for it and then donated it to World Central kitchen. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
“the increase is driven by a combination of worsening housing shortages, drug toxicity and limited access to health care.” #bcpoli #toxicdrugs
André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 2mo ago'He died all by himself' -- Deaths among B.C.’s homeless population more than tripled in a decade. Experts blame a combination of worsening housing shortage, drug toxicity and limited access to health care, by @njgriffiths.bsky.social vancouversun.com/news/bc-home... via @vancouversun.bsky.social
This 📊 on severance agreements at the City of #Vancouver is a pretty stark indicator of scale of the recent job cuts there – and it doesn't include union staff... City also refused to provide a $$$ value for the cost of those 79 severance agreements. #vanpoli vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
So cool. Striking visuals & such an effective use of audio in reporting… #dataviz 🐋 🔊 Dive Into a Very Noisy Sea With Some Very Rare Whales www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Dive Into a Very Noisy Sea With Some Very Rare Whales
Fewer than 100 Rice’s whales remain on Earth. Researchers say sonic blasts from oil exploration are a top threat to the species. See and hear why.
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RIP MS
Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2mo ago😣 PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrap, free: archive.org/details/pers... …and the animated film based on the book is streaming "Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran, precocious and outspoken nine year old Marjane, during the Islamic Revolution."
The normalization of far-right ideas continues as Curtis Yarvin and Lauren Southern are invited to a glitzy tech conference in Vancouver - which several Canadian politicians also attended. Full story here, no paywall: thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...
Far-Right Speakers Given a Perch at Vancouver’s Web Summit | The Tyee
Pro-dictatorship Curtis Yarvin, Canadian YouTuber Lauren Southern and a vaccine basher addressed the tech confab.
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Trying a little something different recently. My latest 📈 datacomic 📉 – a (very) brief look at the latest #pressfreedom index from Reporters Without Borders @rsf-interfr.bsky.social #dataviz #comic #data
Vancouver Coastal Health secures new location for Thomus Donaghy Overdose Prevention Site at 900 Helmcken. Previous location at 1060 Howe responded to 480 ODs, closed Jan 31. Lease begins June 1. Mayor Ken Sim moving urgent motion today directing city staff to use all tools to prevent its opening.
FortisBC’s pipeline project near Squamish dumped 3 oil tankers-worth more copper & aluminum-filled effluent into a creek than its permit allowed, according to its own water quality reports: vancouversun.com/news/fortisb... #environmentalpollution #waterpollution #bcpoli
Inside the Fiery End of Vancouver Island's Last Coal Mine 🔥 ⛰️ from @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...
Inside the Fiery End of Vancouver Island’s Last Coal Mine | The Tyee
How a US owner’s dream of ‘clean’ coal left behind acid, arsenic and a warning for today. A Tyee investigation.
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40 years since it opened, what is the Expo legacy? "Legacy of '86: Expo helped shape our little coastal town into a global city, but at what expense?" as told by Dan Fumano via @vancouversun.bsky.social #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre vancouversun.com/news/legacy-...
Legacy of '86: Expo helped shape our little coastal town into a global city, but at what expense?
How the world's fair transformed Vancouver into a metropolis, for better and for worse.
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Love this (& not just b/c it has maps! 🗺️ ) Well said by @vancolour.bsky.social #bcpoli
Mo Amir@vancolour.bsky.social · 4mo ago“The truth about B.C.'s unceded land (and your home)” This is grounded in the law, not politics. And until policymakers actually understand it, they can’t deliver the property rights protections that British Columbians deserve. This is VANCOLOUR Thursdays at 9pm @cheknews.ca 📺
October 1, 2025 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Vancouver shutters city equity office in move to save $285K | CBC News
An office created at the City of Vancouver in 2019 that was meant to ensure reconciliation, diversity, equity and inclusion among its employees and services has been cut, amid a push by Mayor Ken Sim ...
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe City of Vancouver has just announced they had a $530 million surplus last year. It follows a $860 million surplus the year before, and years of $300+ surpluses. It's the annual reminder that when local politicians say times are tough, they're usually being misleading to suit their agendas.
“In a sentence, it has chosen to save money over lives.” #vanpoli #vancouver
CTV News Vancouver@ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 4mo agoCity of Vancouver cuts sex worker safety planner position
"'Downtown is stabilizing': Mixed signals from latest downtown Vancouver business report" feat @downtownvan.bsky.social and told by @njgriffiths.bsky.social via @vancouversun.bsky.social #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre vancouversun.com/news/mixed-s...
'Downtown is stabilizing': Mixed signals from latest downtown Vancouver business report
"When I look at where we were last year, this is an improved report,” said Jane Talbot, CEO of the Downtown Vancouver BIA.
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Maple syrup mysteries are far & away my favourite true crime sub-genre 🍁 😝 www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/g...
Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist
Over the course of several months in 2011 and 2012, a team of thieves stole approximately 2,700 tonnes of maple syrup from a strategic maple syrup reserve maint...
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 4mo agoThis is an extremely Canadian story: 1) A business is screwing over the public in illegal ways 2) It's discovered only by accident by a journalist with the public broadcaster 3) There's no enforcement or contrition, only a promise not to keep doing it 4) It's about maple syrup
"Opposition to supportive housing mounts at municipalities across Metro Vancouver" as told by @isabellazavarise.bsky.social #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Opposition to supportive housing mounts at municipalities across Metro Vancouver
Two community groups are behind growing opposition toward supportive housing projects across Metro Vancouver.
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This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
Sometimes 3D #dataviz is just the way to go 🤠 I created this illustration for @sciam.bsky.social December '25 issue on rare earth elements and how much of it is estimably left. Comparing the already produced with how much is in reserve. As always great to be working with @jenchristiansen.com
