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I don't live in Vancouver anymore but if I did, I'd be voting for Peter! I've watched him bring endless energy to the cause advocating for more homes for everyone. Good luck @pwaldkirch.bsky.social ! Thanks for stepping up to serve. It's a big job and we need big hearts

A few takeaways from the BC budget

Real spending cuts in health care are here:
Regional health authorities will only see a 0.7% increase in 2025-26 and a 2.5% increase in 2026-26—far below the 5-6% needed to maintain service levels, account for inflation, population growth and aging 1/

#bcpoli

That time Jesse Jackson, at the height of his political importance, visited Kahnawake to give his support to the Mohawk warriors there, during the Oka Crisis.

Mood

Indeed. 1.5m is a minimum in more constrained conditions. Some of oure recent paths are closer to 2.2m unidirectional. We don't always have the space but even having sections that allow for side by side or safe passing can really support positive flow, function, and vibe of a facility

Good to see research that aligns with the best practice in your place. 1.5m is the lower limit we design these days in North Vancouver...closer to 2.0m is preferred for unidirectional lanes

"The wealthiest 0.01% of Canadian families (1,685 families) hold an average of $448.5 million, 4,041x the average wealth of a family in the bottom 50% in 2023."

Wanna fix polarization, child hunger, healthcare, seniors and disabled poverty, etc? F'ING WEALTH TAXES. The feds and provs are spineless.

The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence

NEW from me today:

Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.

xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

Heartbreaking to read these reflections for Tumbler Ridge local newsman Trent Ernst. All strength to him as the town he reports in and on daily enters the global spotlight. You can support his hyperlocal journalism (which continues to be so needed and so lacking) here: tumblerridgelines.com/support/

we have become so inured to mass death that it is immediately exploited to advance reactionary agendas, scapegoat vulnerable minorities, and calls for political violence are louder than the mourning of the bereaved.

and mass death continues

Canada must support Cuba "You cannot ‘live within the lie’ of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”

Canada has the resources to help prevent a catastrophe in Cuba—instead, our leaders are covering their eyes while the United States deliberately starves an island of 11 million people for no reason other than the psychotic whims of Marco Rubio.

Extremely good piece by @nolore.bsky.social

i'm baffled by all the people in the replies to posts about the spy doorbells asking for alternatives. like... the alternative is a regualr fucking doorbell with no camera in it. or a door knocker. get you a weird gargoyle guy! you dont need a camera!

In a house, robots are painting, writing and playing music, with smiles on their faces. Outside, in the pouring rain, a human empties a wheelie bin into a refuse vehicle while another sweeps the street with a glum expression on her face. A third human is cycling down the road with a Just Eat food delivery on his back, while a fourth walks along the pavement, arms filled with packages from Amazon.

Seen on Mastodon. This is by Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards.

An illustration I did on a cat being a cat version of Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885

Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885

Anakin meme. Canada’s doing EV rebates again. We’re doing e-bikes too, right?

A bike almost entirely covered by snow on the side of the road in Toronto. A condo is seen behind the bike, rising above the street.

Mysterious artifact found in a Toronto snow bank, leaving many local politicians confounded.
@tomflood.bsky.social
@cycletoronto.bsky.social

HRC has noticed "an emerging pattern of restricting press in British Columbia and across the country" and notes that Canada dropped 7 places on the World Press Freedom Index from 2024 to 2025

Canada was rated 21 of 180 countries. Since 2016, press freedom here has been ranked as "satisfactory"

People will continue to cycle in the rain if you provide the infrastructure to make it safe and comfortable for them to do so. The greenery alongside cuts the risk of flooding, as well as improving the look of the street.

The urban Canadian Nordic experience is a delight

Construction of bike lane on Chesterfield Ave. Forms are being installed and poured for the bike lane, behind red construction fence.

Bike lane construction, zoomed out to show more of the intersection. In the foreground is a bike crossing marked with green paint.

Bike lane construction, shown from the opposite corner. The right most vehicle lane is closed for construction and cyclists are directed to merge with motor vehicles.

Concrete curbs are starting to appear for the new section of bike lane on the corner of Esplanade St and Chesterfield Ave.

#NorthVancouver #BikeLanes

IGNORING ITS OWN DATA, B.C. REVIVES CRIMINALIZATION - Canadian Drug Policy Coalition On January 14, 2026, the province of B.C. announced it would end its limited decriminalization policy and reinstate criminal penalties for personal drug possession.1 The province’s decision not to ren...

drugpolicy.ca/bc-revives-c...

Tanille and Tony also have a lot of democratic renewal points written out at this stage of the race

2026 Federal NDP Leadership Race - Policy Ideas Tracker

That's fair. And that is why I also started this for tracking official positions once they land on their websites. We still have two months for more policy ideas to officially drop
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I'm just going by his statement. A lot of the candidates are sharing by positions on renewal that are not written on the web yet either. Hopefully more details will come. But lots of renewal angles (and housecleaning the top brass) is something many of them are advocating for

Avi Lewis Breaks With NDP Bureaucracy Over Engler Vetting, Pledges Democratic Reform Avi Lewis’s leadership campaign has issued a notable statement distancing itself from the New Democratic Party’s handling of Yves Engler’s exclusion from the leadership race, raising serious concerns ...

Lewis did come out against the Engler vetting process and with positions on internal renewal as well. He's been quite clear that vetting has been problematic
globalgreen.news/en/avi-lewis...

Screenshot of Tumblr post by lurker-at-thresholds: Thinking about a new bit where i start using “workers of the world” as my go-to second person plural pronoun. Like “chat”. Workers of the world what do we think of this. Is it funny. Workers of the world please like and reblog my post

Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.

Screenshot of a tweet from Evan Solomon. It has two photos of him meeting with the Israeli Ambassador to Canada with the caption: This morning, I met with Israel’s Ambassador to Canada as part of ongoing engagement on technology, AI, and economic development. Dialogue matters, particularly in complex times. / Ce matin, j'ai rencontré l'ambassadeur d'Israël au Canada dans le cadre d'un engagement continu en matière de technologie, d'intelligence artificielle et de développement économique. Le dialogue est important, en particulier dans les périodes complexes.

This post has been on my mind for a few days now, so I’m going to say something about it. 🧵

It may have been wet, we may have been few in number but the craic was no less mighty!

#IBikeBop #CriticalMass #CriticalMassDub

Cars in red at top with silhouette of person on a bike - below in blue is a white car from the top giving off smoke. Play off of Jaws movie poster

In cities everywhere.