William Azaroff (he/him)

Speaking of strong women under the @onecityvan.bsky.social banner, welcome to the party, @fabulavancouver.bsky.social and good luck in the nomination!

It is an incredible honour to work with the strong women of OneCity Vancouver as we celebrate International Women’s Day.

This is the choice:

manage decline, or build a city that works again.

Let's build with a plan, and with room for everyone.

Let’s get back to building.

Good point! Instagram and other platforms where @wazaroff was otherwise occupied.

Somewhere along the way, we kept the values… but we stopped delivering. 

Red tape and consultation consensus became our calling card.

And we paid for it. Skyrocketing home prices. Empty storefronts.

Pro-worker means backing the people who keep Vancouver running.

That means supporting unions, co-ops, and local businesses, fighting for living wages and local hiring, and building a city where working people can actually afford to stay.

Pro-housing means treating housing like the foundation of a city.

That means more homes, of more kinds, in more places, across Vancouver, plus 4,000 affordable homes on public land, held in public hands.

Pro-growth means choosing growth over stagnation.

It means saying yes to the things a city needs to work: homes, childcare, schools, parks, pipes, pools, small business, culture, bike lanes, and faster buses.

A city that feels like it works.

A city that isn’t running on fumes.

A city where more people can afford to stay, build a life, and see a future here.

What does "Pro-Growth, Pro-Housing, Pro-Worker Practical Progressivism" actually mean?

When William says “pro-growth, pro-housing, pro-worker,” he’s not trying to win a slogan contest.

He’s describing the kind of Vancouver we need to build again.

This isn’t just a mistake an apology to @seanorr.bsky.social can fix. This is opens up the city to huge liability.

What other decisions has Ken Sim made that we now need to question the source and reliability of them?

North York synagogue hit by gunfire overnight: Toronto police | CBC News The rabbi at Temple Emanu-El told reporters Tuesday that she was inside the synagogue Monday night following holiday celebrations when she heard gunfire hit the building, and she was still "a bit shak...

I'm angry and sad to learn about this attack on a synagogue on Purim, of all days. People should be able to practice their faith in peace and to come together to celebrate their history without acts of anti-Semitism and hatred.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Picture of a social/supportive housing project in the Yaletown community in downtown Vancouver. Text says “if we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness.” Logo of the urban truth collective in the corner.

If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness. #UrbanTruth

*deep sigh* Another project to add to the list.

The city can work to make events and celebrations across the city possible. Time for some new solutions.

Early flowers at Dude Chilling Park (and some social housing built by @wazaroff.bsky.social )

It was a bit weird to see false stories circulating about me just a few days after winning the OneCity nomination. Glad to see @theijf.org and @zakvescera.bsky.social pick this up. The story gets even weirder the deeper you go.

Just a few ideas to make Vancouver better.

What are yours?

Build Back Britannia.

We need to rebuild our parks, our pools & our pipes, and we’re going to start at the heart of Grandview Woodland with Britannia Community Centre.

GreenLight Vancouver

Vancouver can spend the next years improving its Traffic Lights to save you up to 2 work weeks worth of commuting time & make the bus go fast.

A Peoples’ Builder.

4,000 new affordable homes, on public land, for public good, as a public trust.

Childcare by right

In parts of Vancouver, you can open a bowling alley without a public hearing, but not a daycare.

We’re going to fix that.

I’ve talked with hundreds of Vancouverites over the last few months, and folks feel like the city is running on fumes. That our best days are behind us. But that can’t possibly be true.

Here are four little ideas to get big things done for Vancouverites.

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim started false claim councillor 'handed out illegal drugs' Sim on Tuesday had applauded Coun. Lenny Zhou for "acknowledging his mistake" and retracting elements of the claim that Zhou shared on Chinese-language social media, but Sim did not reveal that it was...

NEW: The Chinese-language messages that accused non-ABC Vancouver councillors didn't start with Lenny Zhou, who has since apologized for them.

They started with the mayor.

Finally!

It's good this was finally approved, but...wow. What an indictment of our planning system that this took so long, and ended up being such a struggle to approve.

Can you believe that NIMBYs fought against a rezoning for a SCHOOL? Sheesh.

In a democracy, we are free to disagree. But we must never, ever lie about each other. This isn’t okay.

My response to ABC Councilor Lenny Zhou making serious, false, and malicious accusations about the four non-ABC councillors, including @lucymaloney.bsky.social of @onecityvan.bsky.social, on his civic matters short video series targeted at the Chinese community.

（中文翻譯請見下帖）

William Azaroff puts OneCity's cards on the table Will OneCity, the Greens, or COPE run a mayoral candidate?

I see @russilwvong.bsky.social already posting the emerging Left/Right/Urbanist/Preservationist axes for Vancouver's upcoming mayoral contest.

Note also that Russil's running for a OneCity Council nomination. Another champion for housing, he'd be great! morehousing.substack.com/p/progressiv...

St. Georges Rainway, walking tour Explore the best of East Vancouver’s green infrastructure on this engaging walking tour!

If you're curious about the St. George Rainway - come for a walking tour the afternoon of March 3rd, with myself and Julie M. from @cityofvancouver.bsky.social

Tour hosted by @grinbc.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.ca/e/st-georges...

Our longtime volunteer @rhifaux.bsky.social was hit by a driver yesterday on the way home from a road safety workshop at city hall. She is home from the hospital and recovering with a broken wrist. We're grateful it wasn't worse, and outraged it happened at all. More to say soon.

I wholeheartedly agree with Sean Orr’s commitment to a progressive primary among the members of OneCity, COPE, and the Greens.

Unity gives Vancouver a real choice in October.