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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท yesterday

๐Š๐ž๐ง ๐’๐ข๐ฆ'๐ฌ ๐‚๐ฒ๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ $๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ,๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐ž ๐€๐๐‚'๐ฌ ๐’๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ-๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Š๐ž๐ง ๐’๐ข๐ฆ'๐ฌ ๐‚๐ฒ๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ $๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ,๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐ž ๐€๐๐‚'๐ฌ ๐’๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ-๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ Today on #VanRamblings, Vancouver's Mayoral candidates weigh in on Ken Sim's non-binding public safety plebiscite. #vanpoli vanramblings.com/ken-sims-550...

Ken Simโ€™s $550,000 Question: Is Vancouverโ€™s Public-Safety Plebiscite Really About Governing?

There are few issues more important to Vancouver than public safety, open-air drug use and the city's increasingly desperate struggle to respond to addiction and severe mental illness. That is prec...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 5d ago

๐‚๐Ž๐๐„ ๐‡๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ๐จ๐ซ ๐Š๐ž๐ง ๐’๐ข๐ฆ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐€๐๐‚ ๐ญ๐จ ๐€๐œ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ With $60 million in severance payouts arising from mass layoffs at City Hall, or the $60 million in botched land deals, who is holding Mayor Ken Sim to account? @copevancouver.bsky.social is! Today on #VanRamblings. vanramblings.com/vanpoli-cope...

#VanPoli | COPE Announces a Peopleโ€™s Audit of Ken Simโ€™s ABC Vancouver Civic Party

This week COPE, The Coalition of Progressive Electors, and COPE's Mayoral candidate, Stephanie Allen, announced The People's Audit, COPEโ€™s plan to open the books at Ken Sim's City Hall, hold him accou...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท last wk.

๐€๐๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐…๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ Today on #VanRamblings, a post on the @vancouverliberals.bsky.social food security programme. Well worth a read, I think. #vanpoli vanramblings.com/vanpoli-mayo...

#VanPoli | Mayoral Candidate Kareem Allam To Address Food Insecurity

Each month, the Greater Vancouver Food Bank supports 15,000 families directly and another 20,000+ families through 119 community partner agencies (shelters / transition houses) in Vancouver, Burnaby, ...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 2w ago

๐“๐จ๐ฉ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐‚๐š๐ง๐๐ข๐๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐’๐ž๐ž๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐•๐š๐ง๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ๐จ๐ซโ€™๐ฌ ๐Ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ž On #VanRamblings today, I seek to provide insight into candidacies, and the platforms, of the top 3 candidates running for the office of mayor of Vancouver in 2026. #vanpoli vanramblings.com/vanpoli-an-i...

#VanPoli | An Insight into the Top 3 Candidates Seeking the Mayorโ€™s Office in Vancouver in 2026

There are only three serious-minded candidates seeking to become Vancouver's next Mayor in the 2026 Vancouver municipal election: COPE's Stephanie Allen, the Vancouver Liberals' Kareem Allam, and the ...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 2w ago

#๐•๐š๐ง๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข | ๐•๐š๐ง๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ'๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ” ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐š๐ง๐๐ข๐๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ Today on #VanRamblings I take a third "swipe" at the six serious candidates seeking the Mayor's office this October (not including the invisible incumbent). #vanpoli vanramblings.com/vanpoli-lake...

#VanPoli | Lakewood Terrace Housing Co-op 2026 Mayoral Debate

L-R, 2026 Vancouver Mayoral candidates: Colleen Hardwick, TEAM for a Livable Vancouver; Rebecca Bligh, Vote Vancouver; William Azaroff, OneCity Vancouver; Stephanie Allen (standing), The Coalition of ...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 2w ago

#๐•๐š๐ง๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข | ๐•๐š๐ง๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ'๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ” ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐š๐ง๐๐ข๐๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ Today on #VanRamblings I take a third "swipe" at the six serious candidates seeking the Mayor's office this October (not including the invisible incumbent). #vanpoli vanramblings.com/vanpoli-lake... @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social

#VanPoli | Lakewood Terrace Housing Co-op 2026 Mayoral Debate

L-R, 2026 Vancouver Mayoral candidates: Colleen Hardwick, TEAM for a Livable Vancouver; Rebecca Bligh, Vote Vancouver; William Azaroff, OneCity Vancouver; Stephanie Allen (standing), The Coalition of ...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 3w ago

๐’๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š ๐•๐จ๐ญ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐•๐š๐ง๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐‚๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ ๐Œ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐Š๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง Today on #VanRamblings, I provide a bit of insight into my enduring 35-year friendship with Vancouver City Councillor @mikeklassen.bsky.social, who is seeking re-election this upcoming October. #vanpoli vanramblings.com/vanpoli-save...

#VanPoli | Save a Vote for City Councillor Mike Klassen Come October

Serving as your Vancouver City Councillor has been one of the greatest honours of my life. In this short video, I share why Iโ€™m running again, what weโ€™ve accomplished together over the past four years...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท last mo.

๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐•๐š๐ง๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ'๐ฌ ๐๐š๐ซ๐ค ๐๐จ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐‚๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐Ž๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐'๐ฌ ๐†๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ ๐”๐ซ๐›๐š๐ง ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ On #VanRamblings today, I write about one of our city's most cherished institutions, invoking a century of stewardship & community that has become our City's enduring masterpiece. #vanpoli vanramblings.com/where-the-ci...

Where the City Breathes: The Enduring Story of Vancouverโ€™s Park Board

The history of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, more commonly known as the Vancouver Park Board, is in many ways the history of Vancouver. Few public institutions have done more to shap...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 10mo ago

๐Š๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ฆ ๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ ๐‹๐š๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ ๐‡๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐•๐š๐ง๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ๐จ๐ซ Yesterday afternoon, at the Bill Reid Gallery on Hornby Street, political strategist extraordinaire Kareem Allam officially announced his campaign to become Vancouver's next Mayor. #vanpoli vanramblings.com/kareem-allam...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 11mo ago

๐‚๐š๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ž ๐‘๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ• ๐‘๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐…๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐’๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ญ ๐•๐ˆ๐…๐… Today, capsule reviews for 7 of the films I've screened @viffest.bsky.social, plus more, of course. vanramblings.com/viff-experie...

VIFF Experiencing a Time of Renewal While Bringing in New Audiences

In 2025, VanRamblings makes our 44th annual foray to the Vancouver International Film Festival, where the regulars we've attended the festival with all these years once again find themselves in attend...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 11mo ago

๐Ÿ๐Ÿ• ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ-๐’๐ž๐ž ๐…๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐’๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ญ ๐•๐ˆ๐…๐… ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ Today on VanRamblings, 27 must-see, can't miss films that it'll be worth your while purchasing a ticket for. Enjoy this year's 44th edition of the Vancouver International Film Festival โ€” it gets underway tomorrow. #VIFF vanramblings.com/vanramblings...

VanRamblingsโ€™ Top 27 Best Bet Picks | VIFF 2025

https://youtu.be/4ZkXSU9qWEY?si=rdwGcuTHQ2sZ3RPk The 44th annual Vancouver International Film Festival gets underway tomorrow! Simply click on the underlined title of any one of the films below ...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 11mo ago

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฉ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—™๐—ถ๐—น๐—บ ๐—™๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—”๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฌ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ In less than 48 hours from now the 44th annual edition of the Vancouver International Film Festival gets underway. Today on VanRamblings our coverage of VIFF 2025 to date. #viff vanramblings.com/viff-2025-ab...

VIFF 2025 About to Get Underway in Just Hours From Now โ€“ 44th Edition

The 44th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) kicks off later this week, on Thursday, October 2nd and is set to run through Sunday, October 12th A somewhat truncated, but still well ...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 11mo ago

๐Š๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ฆ ๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ'๐ฌ ๐•๐š๐ง๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐‹๐ข๐›๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ˆ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐‘๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ-๐Ž๐ฎ๐ญ @42kareemallam continues the roll-out of the Vancouver Liberals campaign for office in the 2026 Vancouver civic election. You see a picture of Catherine Evan below. Read why on VanRamblings today. #vanpoli vanramblings.com/vancouver-li...

Vancouver Liberals, Building a Civic Party Destined to Govern

Ken Simโ€™s plan to get rid of industrial lands means more people have to travel to Richmond and Surrey for work. Weโ€™ll create the first Industrial Land Reserve to help keep good jobs here in Vancouver...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 11mo ago

๐Ž๐ฎ๐ซ ๐’๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐Ž๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: ๐“๐จ ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐Ž๐ฎ๐ซ ๐Œ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐•๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐‚๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ On VanRamblings today, we share another video from Vancouver Mayoral candidate @42kareemallam. #vanpoli vanramblings.com/caring-for-o...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 11mo ago

๐‚๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‡๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ฆ Today on VanRamblings the job of the journalist in coverage of the political realm. #vanpoli vanramblings.com/the-job-of-a...

The Job of a Journalist, to Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable

For journalists covering politics, and this very much includes VanRamblings, few tasks are more fraught than writing critically about political figures they have come to know well, respect, or even li...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 11mo ago

๐“๐ˆ๐…๐… ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐–๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐…๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐’๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐š๐ญ ๐•๐ˆ๐…๐… ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ A VanRamblings column today on films that screened at the recently completed Toronto International Film Festival that are set to screen next month at the 44th annual Vancouver International Film Festival. #VIFF vanramblings.com/tiff-award-w...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 11mo ago

๐Ž๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐Š๐ž๐ง ๐’๐ข๐ฆ'๐ฌ ๐ƒ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ฎ๐š๐ฌ๐ก ๐š๐ง ๐„๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐๐š๐ซ๐ค ๐๐จ๐š๐ซ๐ Arbitrarily and unilaterally, on Dec. 6, 2023, Mayor Ken Sim announced his intention to get rid of the Vancouver Park Board turning over governance to the City. Today Kareem Allam weighs in on preserving the Board. vanramblings.com/23239-2/

Kareem Allam on the Vancouver Park Board, Preserve the Elected Board

The Vancouver Liberals strongly support a democratically elected Park Board. Our parks are not a land bank for developmentโ€” or a home for corporate renaming. pic.twitter.com/2TOptWM26e โ€” Kareem Allam...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 11mo ago

๐•๐š๐ง๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ'๐ฌ ๐‚๐ซ๐ฒ๐ฉ๐ญ๐จ ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ๐จ๐ซ ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ž๐ฎ๐ซ ๐‚๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ'๐ฌ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ To accompany the latest "campaign video" released Kareem Allam, I have written a brief essay on the vagaries of crypto currency. vanramblings.com/crypto-the-s...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 11mo ago

๐— ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐— ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜-๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ ๐—™๐—ถ๐—น๐—บ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฉ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—™๐—ถ๐—น๐—บ ๐—™๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น On VanRamblings today, my continuing coverage of the 44th annual @VIFFest. A fourth column on the award winning Galas and Special Presentations films that will screen at #VIFF2025. #VIFF. vanramblings.com/viff-44s-gal...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 12mo ago

๐‘๐š๐ฒ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐'๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก ๐”๐ฉ๐๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐‘๐ž๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐š ๐‚๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž Well, this is it, the final chapter of my 2025 health update. I feel as if a burden has been lifted. Thank you for hanging in with me. vanramblings.com/vanramblings...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 12mo ago

๐‘๐š๐ฒ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐'๐ฌ ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก ๐”๐ฉ๐๐š๐ญ๐ž. ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ญ ๐„๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. ๐๐ญ. ๐Ÿ Part Two of my health series addresses the issue of my newly found heart condition(s). A much shorter column than part one. vanramblings.com/vanramblings...

VanRamblings Weighs In On Raymondโ€™s Health. Pt. 2

Part One of my 2025 health update may be found here. At my December 5th, 2024 appointment with Dr. Brad Fritz, my family physician for the past 42 years, while addressing the issue of my prosta...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 12mo ago

#๐—ฉ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ | ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฆ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜„๐˜€ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ A poll released by Mainstreet Research this a.m. shows a realignment in voter intention leading into 2026's Vancouver civic election, with Kareem Allam's upstart Vancouver Liberals in first place. cdn.prod.website-files.com/66c8dfb086a0...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 12mo ago

๐•๐ˆ๐…๐… ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐Œ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐Ž๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐…๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐˜๐ž๐š๐ซ'๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž Two more great films that are part of this year's @VIFFest Gala and Special Presentations programme, one of which is unlikely to return to our shores (hint: it's the latter one). #VIFF vanramblings.com/viff-2025-ga...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 12mo ago

๐•๐ˆ๐…๐… ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ ๐†๐š๐ฅ๐š & ๐’๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐…๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฌ Today on VanRamblings, two blockbuster films that took the recently wrapped Venice Film Festival by storm set to screen at this year's @viffest.bsky.social. Both films will feature prominently in the Oscar race. vanramblings.com/viff-2025-ga...

VIFF 2025 Galas & Special Presentations at VIFF#44

In Part One of a three part series, today on VanRamblings we take a look at this year's VIFF's Galas & Special Presentations on offer at the 44th annual Vancouver International Film Festival, set ...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 12mo ago

๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐•๐ˆ๐…๐… ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ ๐๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐•๐š๐ง๐‘๐š๐ฆ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ Beginning today, I will seek to provide intensive coverage of the 44th annual @VIFFest throughout the month, this year's Festival set to begin on October 2nd and run for 11 days through Sunday, October 12th. vanramblings.com/vancouver-in...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 12mo ago

๐Œ๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐Ÿ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ Not that last time I'll be writing about the politics of personal destruction in the political realm, within which I have too often been a malefactor. Today's VanRamblings column worth a read. vanramblings.com/the-politics...

The Politics of Personal Destruction in Vancouver

In Vancouver, the politics of personal destruction has long been stock and trade for those running for office. In a city where political competition is fierce and civic identity is fragmented across 2...

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Raymond Tomlin@raymondtomlin.bsky.social ยท 12mo ago

๐Š๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ฆ ๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ | ๐•๐š๐ง๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ'๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ๐จ๐ซ | ๐‹๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ 417 days from now, political strategist Kareem Allam will be elected Mayor of the City of Vancouver. Watch this brief one minute video, and see Kareem up close and personal. Worth the watch. #vanpoli vanramblings.com/kareem-allam...

Kareem Allam, Running for Mayor of Vancouver

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rX36kEya_OY With 417 days still to go between today and election day, Saturday, October 17th, 2026 Vancouver candidate for Mayor, Kareem Allam, has begun his campaign...

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