Mike Lakusiak

Usually outdoors. Formerly @UBCJournalism. @IRPonline, @News21 alum.

[Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources @waDNR]

It is time.

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@jwsthomson https://t.co/hbYveayIwQ

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A very earnest note to say that the @CityofVancouver 311 team has been great each time I’ve called and just sent two city crews to fix a very plugged storm drain within an hour during a crazy rain event. Our alley is no longer a lake. Big thanks to city crews out tonight.

[Vancouver Magazine @vanmag_com]

"These cultural spaces are what make cities matter. This is why we’re here: to make things, to see things, to find people."

Love Letter: An impassioned goodbye to Vancouver's last great independent comedy club @_LittleMountain

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Heard a bang earlier. Possibly this. #BCStorm

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This bodes well. https://t.co/zFpCSQng7c

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@HughesWithMe Relevant rabbit hole I went down recently:
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Great to see this finally emerge. @jerallingham's digging here, @ianjamesyoung70's years-long FOI saga scoop this week and @scoopercooper's book are a great if depressing reading list on how we got to our sad state of housing affairs. Imagine if our FOI systems weren't so broken?

[Jeremy Allingham @jerallingham]

After 3+ years of jumping through FOI hoops, we finally have the Purchase and Sale agreement for the Little Mountain lands. The provincial gov't gave Holborn Properties $211m in interest-free loans on an 18-year term. https://t.co/rdpPSEuzoK

[Michael Deibert @michaelcdeibert]

Mr Lordi, singer of Finnish heavy metal band Lordi, receives his second dose of Covid-19 vaccine in Rovaniemi, Finland on August 1, 2021.

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

"In Canada,🇨🇦it's possible to find a man lounging on a chesterfield in his rented bachelor wearing only his gotchies while fortifying his Molson muscle with a jambuster washed down with slugs from a stubby."
https://t.co/f1Gnt0tCKj by @ianrausten via @nytimes, eh

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@modacitylife Looks great! Any idea where the lamp shade is from?

[Christopher Cheung ✍️ (Find me on Bluesky!) @bychrischeung]

Where to get your picture taken in Vancouver if you weren't Anglo White? Yucho Chow's, of course!

The photographer captured hopeful immigrants in the first half of the 20th c. His daylighted works fill big gaps in our colourful history. @thetyee #vanpoli
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[Thomas Curwen @tcurwen]

Please stop everything & read this gorgeous tone-poem (sure, the NYT calls it 'opinion') to winter's approach written by @chrisasolomon & reported from - no joke - Twisp, Wash. Thanks to @JacquiB @KimhCross for highlighting it @niemanstory https://t.co/n0OeyUZWgr

[Mike Lakusiak @Lakusiak]

There are more books yet to be written about real estate here. Some great thoughts about our favourite endlessly fascinating (and infuriating) conversation topic.

[Frances Bula @fabulavancouver]

This was supposed to be a book review but turned into 2,000 words on housing and real estate in Vancouver. Many thoughts here and interested in yours. I'm feeling strong. I await my trolls and more thoughtful critics with Monday-morning energy. https://t.co/4zfAxClQsS

[NYTimes R&D @NYTimesRD]

For journalists, having a full 3D reconstruction of a scene unlocks the ability to tell the story in many different ways, from many different angles.

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@fabulavancouver The ticketing/towing along Jericho Beach and west was pretty hilarious yesterday. Just a constant conveyor belt of cars getting towed from the shoulder (with no-stopping signs) and replaced by other cars all afternoon.

[Kevin Sieff @ksieff]

Uganda has the best Coronavirus PSA.

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Had my bike half stripped apart while locked up at a mostly deserted UBC yesterday. With everything else going on I didn't consider that side effect of less foot traffic/eyes on the street.

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@MichelleGhsoub Several in Tofino last weekend.

[Kevin Quinlan @KQ_VanCity]

Guess who is 10! Happy birthday, Burrard bridge bike lane: today marks 10 years since the Burrard Bridge bike lane opened. Let's take a casual bike ride back through time and look at the calm, nuanced media commentary that greeted the plucky bike lane in 2009 #vanpoli