people appropriately hate on toronto for underperforming in terms of housing construction but honestly we all sleep on the GTA municipalities
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As fun as it sounds, no mayoral plans for me.
I've been focused on building the Padma Centre for Climate Justice, a new political education and organizing project.
Our new newsletter just dropped today: padmacentre.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Car Free Day: SAVED. Elect progressives, get results.
I moved this urgent motion today with Cllr Orr and was thrilled that it was approved unanimously by Council.
so, it's better. the opposition councillors did a press conference about lenny zhou's video on monday. he put out an apology statement where ken sim thanked him for taking responsibility. then we found out that ken was the source of the lie the very next day.
ART.
as someone who lived through the rob ford years, we are not QUITE there yet in vancouver. we don't have a sandro lisi or a police tail. YET!
get his ass
The Vans North and West shall bow before the Mother of Vancouvers and render us rich tribute
same energy
Not 'them' - 'us'!
This is fantastic.
And it’s official: Vancouver urban affairs journalist @fabulavancouver.bsky.social leaving journalism to run for city council with OneCity Vancouver.
“Journalism was my service to the public for decades, now I want to do public service more directly.”
Over the moon that someone Frances’ calibre has thrown her hat in with OneCity.
I’ll let @wazaroff.bsky.social say the rest:
The medium is the message!
Many candidates. One city.
Welcome to OneCity Vancouver @fabulavancouver.bsky.social!
This is a big deal in Vancouver politics circles.
@fabulavancouver.bsky.social has been reporting on Vancouver politics for decades. You can make a good case that no one knows the city's politics better than she does.
A real get for OneCity.
Today in interesting local politics and local media news: @fabulavancouver.bsky.social seems to be making the leap to local politics and will join OneCity.
I phoned @fabulavancouver.bsky.social, and she officially declined comment until the “career transition” becomes public tomorrow.
They’re popping bottles in Edmonton (and lowkey the ministry of finance in Ottawa) tonight
Whom gonna drop the details on this remark/accusation
"Says he works every day to retain support of ABC councillors."
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There is an unresolved tension between Carney’s desire to project a new, purely realist Canadian stance driven by pragmatic need, and his desire to create a break from the U.S. sphere and play a major role in the alliance of surviving liberal democracies, defending their values. Visible here.
This story is crap imo. The mayor is not looking right into a camera and defaming an opposition councillor over something he saw for half a second at a public event
That stranger’s name? Albert Einstein
He hadn't taken questions about it yet - he had to do -something-, otherwise every media avail he was at (like tomorrow's on Granville?) would devolve into Friday's scrum.
That said, to avoid that in future he had to actually -answer questions-, which he did not really do today
In light of Sim saying that he said Orr dealt drugs based on seeing a mystery photo from a mystery person, I think it’s important to reflag this.
If this is an uncharitable interpretation, the mayor is free to provide more details of how he ended up seeing such a photo and believing it.
I really do wonder if you might have Lathe of Heaven'd this scenario into existence. Did Ken Sim's fake photo come from @vanshittytv bsky.app/profile/jmce...
Wait that’s it???
