Robyn Hanson

Former tourism professional and it shows.

[Hollywood Theatre Vancouver @HollywoodYVR]

🎶 VIOLET GROHL “Be Sweet To Me” Tour Is Live Tonight Thursday October 22 At Hollywood Theatre 🎶

🍿 Advance Ticket Information Available Via https://t.co/FEuJnQ1WJJ 🍿

[Lloyd Cole @Lloyd_Cole]

I'm playing my SOLO ELECTRIC show at @RioTheatre in Vancouver, tomorrow night, 10/15. It's an 8:00 show, that's me, don't miss Rattlesnakes! Details for this and ALL my shows at https://t.co/jnkwWUvNIg

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Tsawwassen First Nation is in our hearts today. To lose two beloved elders — in such a terrifying accident and on a day already so heavy with grief — is devastating.

My thoughts are with the loved ones of those who died, those who were injured, and the entire community who are in grief and shock.

[Mark Teasdale ★ @MarksGonePublic]

Every year more people are riding their bike to commute. People in cars don’t really notice because we are on the side streets most the time. I have a car 🚗 but experience the world different on a bike. #Vancouver

[Robyn Hanson @BCRobyn]

'It's a wild story': Video captures wild culprit damaging car in Lake Cowichan https://t.co/9Cyxra1Joj

[Robyn Hanson @BCRobyn]

@MichaelBuble You're never too old for a Pirate Pak!

[Robyn Hanson @BCRobyn]

@iamkennethchan The vast majority of tourists that arrive in Vancouver are not even here to see Vancouver. They're here to embark or disembark on a cruise to or from Alaska. Often the only destination "in Vancouver" they have on their radar is Butchart Gardens. Say no more.

[Kenneth Chan @iamkennethchan]

It's bewildering how some people find this surprising.

About a year ago, at a Vancouver media event, a local reporter actually asked why we needed to invest in tourism when Vancouver was "already known around the world as a major tourism destination."

I couldn't have rolled my eyes any harder. And yet tourism is one of our very few economic strengths relative to our other economic sectors, but there are actually some people who think we have an "overtourism" problem. We do not, not even close.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

he looks like an owl shaped coat hanger i've been thinking about buying

[Eduardo Ferraz @ef1975722]

Tribute for Glen Hansard today in Dublin with people singing Falling Slowly.

Your music lives on Glen! ❤️

Video by @benettberkowitz

[Robyn Hanson @BCRobyn]

@Irishdanny77 @actingjoe https://t.co/U90wg09w6i

[Joe O’Neill 🐀 @actingjoe]

Poignant Video. This was recorded 1 hour before Glen (Rip) was killed. He was in the Wrens Nest, Strawberry Beds at a session.

[Mike Scott @MickPuck]

I can imagine Glen's amazement and bemusement if he could see this

[U2 @U2]

Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed….

Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence…
A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces...

Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street.

To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others - a clue for any of us trying out different personas. He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living rough without checking they were OK… and more than that, he worked very hard so that less people had to live on the streets in the first place.

When the crowds got bigger and for safety’s sake Glen had to agree to move the busk to a stage kindly provided outside The Gaiety Theatre, he would say 'we’ll give it our best but it’s not a busk if we’re not on the street!’ …because that’s who he was - a performer at eye level in any situation. The stage was a separation he wouldn’t recognize. Of all the grand and gigantic venues he and The Frames played, you sensed the street was his most favoured place to perform. And street people, his favourite audience.

Voice of the streets. A choir of angels in one man. The rest of us blessed to stand there beside our very own and very earthed Angel Gabriel… All of us welcome in his choir, whatever shape or form.

….and I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case.

May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.

Bono

[Catherine Urquhart 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @CUrquhartGlobal]

What a sight! Bald eagle with his catch of the day at Ambleside in West Vancouver ⁦@jarmstrongbc⁩ ⁦@GlobalBC⁩

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Step over ants and put worms back in the grass. Rescue caterpillars and show spiders some mercy. Open your windows so bees and wasps can fly home. They're all creatures that deserve to have a life.

[CHEK News @CHEK_News]

A Vancouver Island marmot has been once again released into the wild after he was released last year, then made his way back to the marmot recovery centre for hibernation.
https://t.co/0Nl3luGBYw

[Robyn Hanson @BCRobyn]

@pnwkate I also think the people who toss it into the trees don't intend for it to get stuck in the branches.

[Robyn Hanson @BCRobyn]

@pnwkate Society has become ecologically illiterate. People who do this are ecologically illiterate. They genuinely think the plastic bag will simply decompose, so tossing it into the trees keeps it out of sight like tossing an apple core into the forest.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I wish Canada, Prime Minister @MarkJCarney, and all Canadians a Happy Canada Day. Ukraine joins you in celebrating this day. We appreciate Canada’s leadership in helping us protect the lives of our people across many domains: defense assistance, pioneering work on sanctions against Russia’s shadow fleet and financial sector, diplomatic advocacy, and much more. We are grateful that we can count on your continued support in all these areas. Thank you, Canada!