Thanks, it's nice to be back!
08.08.2025 14:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@gregorcraigie.bsky.social
Sleep-deprived early morning radio host of CBC On the Island. Author of Our Crumbling Foundation, On Borrowed Time, Walls, Radio Jet Lag & Why Humans Build Up.
Thanks, it's nice to be back!
08.08.2025 14:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks Michael, good to make the connection!
09.06.2025 22:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Radio road trip to Saanich Commonwealth Place for a live poolside broadcast from the Canadian Swimming Trials... ππ
09.06.2025 13:25 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Saturday cycling on Saturna Island.
05.05.2025 16:07 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Here's our crew of launching authors! Monique Gray Smith, Jess Willows andJohnny Aitken @franbwrites.bsky.social Mark Leiren-Young, Gabrielle Prendergast, @gregorcraigie.bsky.social and me! Fly high, little books! (Thanks for the photo, @orcabook.bsky.social)
01.05.2025 17:05 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1Big thanks to @orcabook.bsky.social, Munro Books, the other writers, and everyone else who came to tonight's group book launch! Saving Wolfgang is now available in fine bookstores and libraries near you. πππ₯
01.05.2025 04:23 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What a privilege to talk about my new book on the Calgary Eyeopener with my friend @lorenmcginnis.bsky.social
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I'm honoured that Our Crumbling Foundation will receive this year's George Ryga Award for Social Awareness. Thanks to the judges and everyone who has read this book!
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Gregor Craigie was shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize awarded to the author of the best original non-fiction literary work:
10.04.2025 18:40 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Thanks!
10.04.2025 15:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A very nice starred review of Saving Wolfgang, in the School Library Journal. Thank you Carol Youssif!
08.04.2025 16:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#OTD in 2024, I spoke with @gregorcraigie.bsky.social about his book, Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canadaβs Housing Crisis. #NewsRadioBookshelf β¦βͺhttps://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/04/06/citynews-bookshelf-our-crumbling-foundation/
06.04.2025 17:17 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0For our first session Weβll be joined by an amazing group of journalists for a panel on βFraming the Crisis: Media, Ethics and the Housing Conversation.β They include @michaeljohnlo.bsky.social @robshaw.bsky.social @fabulavancouver.bsky.social @gregorcraigie.bsky.social & Michael Vonn CEO PHS
14.03.2025 00:41 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you @spacing.bsky.social and Glenn Miller for this fine book review.
13.03.2025 12:31 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Former Canadian intelligence officials sayΒ CanadaΒ should watch for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid Donald Trump's escalating 51st state threats - likely on social media, such as X - fomenting or financing pro-annexationist groups within Canada.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Stop the ride I want to get off...
07.03.2025 17:39 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It was nothing against the retrofit companies, just a question of trusting the seismic engineer who had retrofitted dozens of public buildings and private houses and was able to design retrofit plans I could do myself to keep costs relatively low.
04.03.2025 02:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yep, the longer you can be self-sufficient, the better.
03.03.2025 14:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Timely advice after today's earthquake in Victoria.
03.03.2025 13:32 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 4 π 1Felt & heard that in Sidneyβ¦
03.03.2025 13:15 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Whoa! An early morning #earthquake in Victoria #yyj.
03.03.2025 13:10 β π 30 π 5 π¬ 4 π 5Thanks for listening Mathew!
02.03.2025 07:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh Canada!!! π¨π¦π
21.02.2025 04:28 β π 51 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0I'm still buying Canadian.
04.02.2025 13:22 β π 1386 π 116 π¬ 76 π 18MFer I grew up before NAFTA. I didn't have an avocado until I was 15 years old. I ate lunch in a Zellers cafeteria. I thought Robin Hood was just a guy who made flour.
I was made for this moment.
Fake CBC ads have flooded X with sketchy headlines. We looked for the source.
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Happy cycling Ben! π²βοΈ
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