Simon

Yessssssss. A very good example indeed.

Here’s how it should work…

Aaaaaaaaand here’s how it works in the usa 😬

Vision Zero Vancouver advocate hit and injured by driver while returning from road safety meeting Longtime road safety advocate and Vision Zero Vancouver volunteer Rhiannon Fox was hit and injured by the driver of a Kia Sorento on Friday afternoon. Fox was returning from a City of Vancouver Vis…

It happens to 50,000 people in the lower mainland every year, and on Friday it happened to @rhifaux.bsky.social. Was it an accident? We think this was the predictable result of government inaction.

Wide protected bike-lane in Downtown Vancouver filled with people on bikes.

It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.

More Police and Surveillance Won’t Prevent the Next School Tragedy | The Tyee Here are the changes that can make schools safer.

Research estimates that billions of dollars a year are invested in “securing” schools.

That can feel reassuring, but decades of experience following the 1999 Columbine shooting suggest expanding visible security shows limited evidence of reducing violence.

Beyhan Farhadi writes. 🎒 #TumblerRidge

Don’t be mistaken in thinking a PhD is a silver bullet though. Lots of PhDs out there don’t measure up to test of reality.

Here are some accounts I particularly recommend:

@jaypitter.bsky.social
@tomflood.bsky.social
@remmid.bsky.social
@cathytuttle.bsky.social
@grantennis.bsky.social

And a few I personally hope you’ll follow:

@toderianuw.bsky.social
@reneedsc.bsky.social
@canurbanism.bsky.social
#UrbanistShoutOut

Who won in the end?

A sunny day at English Bay. The surf breaks along the sandy beach. Trees in the background do not have leaves, apartments and condo towers behind them. In the distance, the peaks of the north shore mountains have a bit of snow at the top

A sunny day at English Bay along a grassy hill, crouched near yellow flowers (daffodils) which are growing in clusters along the slope. The paved Seawall path cuts across the middle of the image and also goes up and around the Inukshuk - a large statue made of stacked stones. Behind that is blue water, some cargo ships at sea, and islands and mountains in the distance

Today in Vancouver

Airbnb takes residential housing for travelers out of the resident's pool of options.

For that reason hotels are a good idea. In an ideal world you would let hotels be built organically and the market would balance itself but in NA everything is blocked by confusing zoning bylaws.

It's really interesting to see the relation between hotel rooms / hotels, residential housing and airbnb.

Recently in the Okanagan, many municipalities opted in to limit or block the use of airbnb and it is now more expensive than ever to book a weekend in the region. This has hurt tourism a ton.

Big baby gets what big baby screams for. That's how we roll in my house.

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

Bad Bunny wearing an OCASIO 64 jersey

Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷

The "dense zoning" is being filled with non-Canadian invaders. Thats why. Canada is for Canadians. If the invaders aren't expelled peacefully by law, expect unprecedented violence. Life in prison for the orchestrators is the kind option.

Average Canadian housing discourse

People that can’t afford housing are everywhere including in our neighbours.

A society that thinks being unused is acceptable and goes ahead and vilifies this experience has lost touch with reality.

We need humane policies. Policies that are fair and just.

From the fuckcars community on Reddit: Cars make everything they touch filthy Posted by MiserNYC- - 2,321 votes and 51 comments

More advocates should be doing "cars are filthy" posts. This is really hitting a nerve:

www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/c...

Fun fact: increasing the supply of all kinds of housing means people have more choice and it's cheaper!

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

The ABC reign has been a series of unprofessional debacle. Let’s get them out of their misery and back to whatever they used to do before.

This is all very grim for things we hold dear and assume will always be around like… democracy, free speech, critical thinking

Credits to @tomflood.bsky.social

It’s pretty obviously a bribe to make the bride happy.

This is great but details matter. Having two progressive candidates on the ballot would not be ideal.

Also the list of candidates each party proposes for council should maximize progressive voices and not vote split.

If you let Ken Sim get reelected, you will have blew it for everyone.

We do want Mandani as our mayor. Vancouver is a progressive city too. OneCity and the greens cannot do what they are currently doing. I assume this post is preparation for a COPE mayoral candidate as well.

You folks need to test support but then get behind the best progressive voice.

59% of Vancouverites want a leader like Zohran Mamdani | Urbanized A new poll suggests that the majority of people in Vancouver want a change from Mayor Ken Sim and the ABC party this upcoming election.

👀"59% of Vancouverites said they want a mayor like Zohran Mamdani, who was elected in New York City last year on a platform that called for significant changes to support the working class." dailyhive.com/vancouver/va...

#vanpoli #FightForVancouver

Private menopause clinics are growing in Canada. Here’s why | CBC Radio Some Canadians are paying for menopause care from a host of private practitioners opening clinics outside the public health-care system.

Many women with menopause symptoms cannot get treatment because very few doctors are trained to help them.

www.cbc.ca/radio/whitec...

Aucune fibre morale.

Des «snowbirds» québécois choisissent d’aller en Floride malgré les tensions

Même s’ils n’approuvent pas les décisions de Trump, ils ne veulent pas se priver des attraits touristiques du pays. #Trump #Floride