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Vancouver logo atop a staff report dated Dec 1, 2025. Reads in part: Recommendations THAT Council change the term of all Council Advisory Committees (Type A Civic Agencies), except for the Urban Indigenous Peoples’ Advisory Committee, to end on January 30, 2026. Purpose To seek Council approval to change the term for 10 of the 11 “Type A” Council Advisory Committees to end on January 30, 2026, to address timing constraints and capacity pressures arising from the simultaneous scheduling demands of an intense Council and Public Hearing meeting schedule due to significant volume of public hearing referrals, FIFA World Cup 2026, and the 2026 general local election.

Zero Means Zero Meets FIFA
Staff report Dec 9 recommends terminating 10/11 Advisory Committees. As the World Cup looms and we've yet to see a Human Rights Plan, volunteer-led citizens advisories are scrapped.
Eliminating Committees saves $160,000 @ department targeted by #zeromeanszero cuts

tfw you're professionally incapacitated

Oxford University Press has announced its word of the year for 2025: "rage bait."

I just wanted to live in a timeline where I get to live with the millennial post-08 optimism but the government fucks us over EVERY SINGLE DAY

Feds will cut over half of housing spending, build only 26,000 homes: Budget watchdog | CBC News Spending on housing programs will decline by more than half over the next four years with the federal government’s $13-billion signature housing initiative leading to the construction of just 26,000 n...

Looks like no help from the Feds on Housing:
"That modest contribution... would lead to the construction of just 26,000 new units over the next five years, 13,000 of which would be affordable homes for low-income households — or about 3.7 per cent of the housing gap"
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

SAVE A HORSE🐎
RIDE A BUS 🚎

Tenant Relocation Policy.

Nakagawa brings up a situation in Burnaby where the developers had a bond to cover a relocation there, but then the developer declared insolvency, rendering the bond useless. Asks staff if new West policy will address that. (Yes it would)

The results are clear. Painted lanes lead to more cyclists being killed or seriously injured. Cycle tracks (i.e. protected lanes) are much safer and lead to huge increases in cycling.

This is data from Vancouver. Our politicians should stop ignoring it.

Indigenous cultural heritage, they classified archaeology, which means that the municipal government doesn’t have any legal ability to protect it ???!! Kind of bonkers

Talking about “neighborhood character” and “heritage” my friend who is talking Indigenous planning this semester told me apparently municipal governments have ability to protect heritage, but it only counts for buildings and stuff that Western Heritage would have and anything that would count as

Carney, Smith, and their oil billionaire donors will not hold our province hostage. Call your MP and demand they end this betrayal of British Columbians. #bcpoli

As Carney-Smith pipeline deal looms, Catherine McKenna says oil companies can't be trusted. She would know Justin Trudeau's first environment minister spoke with Canada's National Observer about misogyny, policy and broken promises.

I don't know who needs to hear this but making deals with Alberta and the oilpatch
doesn't
fucking
work

Just ask the last person who tried.

1/ Mark Carney has betrayed all of us by making a pipeline pact with Danielle Smith. A real nation-building project would expand the renewable energy of the future while creating thousands of jobs - powerlines not pipelines.

Calling yourself “pro-transit” should be more than being a transit user once in a while.

Increasingly getting annoyed with the electeds who call themselves “pro-transit” when they don’t show up for transit nor vote for transit. I really don’t care that you take bus or skytrain when you only cater to voters who drive. Everyone seems to be “pro-transit” til they are worried about votes.

With respect, if cities want scooter riders to ride in designated cycle lanes, they need to build them everywhere. Shaming users for choosing the option that keeps them safer, when the alternative is sharing unsafe streets with speeding multi-ton vehicles, is unhelpful at best & harmful at worst.

Screenshot of Google Maps with driving directions highlighted, offering a transit alternative highlight”no transfers”

It’s so nice to see Google Maps recommend people try public transit! An excellent detail of this is mentioning that no transfers are needed, which can be a significant mental hurdle for those unfamiliar with transit.

the way we are getting media coverage on stupid ostriches but barely any coverage on COP30 🤡🫩

COP30 overpromised, underdelivered, empowered distractions, backtracked on issues and once again gave big oil and big ag a free pass.

Unfortunately, the suspicions of climate scientists (here in Brazil and abroad) were confirmed again.

It's painful to read plans from a century ago that perfectly formulate how to build a world class transit system yet today we still need years of redundant studies to even build a bus lane

Want more and better transit‽ Join us Dec 4th at 6:30pm to shape the future of Better Transit YYJ.
meet the team
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Ahahahaha 🤣 Elizabeth May explaining the tanker ban “especially to the attention of slow learners; Andrew Sheer, Danielle Smith, take note.”

I always felt a little bit self-conscious about being a transit advocate who is not foamer (don’t ask me what those acronyms mean) but I am starting to feel like it kind of works as an advantage when it comes to knowledge translation 😌

Toxic rhetoric online isn't new, but when political leaders indulge violent language directed at local elected colleagues, it's a failure at most basic level of democracy. Politicians have a moral obligation to call our (not hug out) their supporters when they cross that line. Do better.
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Embarrassment is temporary advocacy is forever 🔥

squidward from spongebob squarepants looks out a window ALT: squidward from spongebob squarepants looks out a window

Watching friends riding the new REM and going to new Eglinton station be like …

There's two more days to speak up against cuts to federal transit funding.

No such thing as "Canada Strong" without transit linking our communities.

Tell the Carney government to protect and expand the Canada Public Transit Fund and fund transit operations for more affordable & frequent service ⬇️

Graphic that says "Vancouver budget update: Road safety programs are at risk"

The 2026 Vancouver budget risks imposing cuts to road safety initiatives that we simply can't afford. With so few details being released, we call upon council to amend the budget to direct that essential transportation programs and staff be protected.

👉 More: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/11/12/2...

JUST IN: Katie Wilson significantly extends her lead in the Seattle mayoral race.

She now leads Mayor Bruce Harrell by 1,346 votes, or 0.5%.

That's up from the squeaker-lead of 91 votes in yesterday's update). She won today's batch of nearly 6K ballots by 20% (!).

Not much left at this point.

Awesome event tonight!! More photos to come. Thanks to everyone who came out and supported!