basic premises: BIPOC and Queer Lives Matter ~ The World’s On Fire ~ Demand Utopia Now. Writing @WestEndJournal, Vancity Lookout + freelance. Park nerd. he/him
I wrote about the unique community of False Creek South, and their bid to keep their neighbourhood intact by renewing long-term leases on city-owned land.
Thanks to Vancity Lookout for publishing this one. Hopefully the first of many!
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So, yes, she has resigned, effective today, leaving Pete Fry as the only non-ABC councillor still at city hall. By-election date hasn't been set yet for OneCity Christine Boyle's departure, but the two seats will now be included in that.
All of this is to say, this is super complicated
As the #bcpoli election campaign ramps up and we start hearing rhetoric around the historic Riverview site, understand how thorny this site and the issues are
Watch/read my 6-part deep dive here 👇
8/8
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Lululemon told government officials it might pull the plug on a planned expansion in Vancouver if it didn't get a special exemption to let it hire temporary foreign workers without first offering those jobs to Canadian residents
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My conversation with @NateLewis14 for Vancouver Lookout.We looked at problematic location for cyclists & pedestrians, examined why, talked about why outdoor urban design is so essential to places, great streets, and universal walkability. Thank you Nate!
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*sweeping generalization*
Van media: only Canucks fans are qualified to talk about this team. nobody else has ever watched a canucks game due to bed time
Edm media: only beat reporters and people who won a cup in the 1980s are qualified to talk about this team
People have always lived in Stanley Park, but did you know someone has been there for 34 years? He's been there by choice, and his time is coming to an end. This is part 1 of a 3-part story.
Meet the man who’s lived 30 years in Stanley Park.
@GlobalBC
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Celebrating an unbelievable five seasons of The Botchford Project with Alumni and Media tonight! My gawd the love, energy and passion tonight is surreal in honour of Jason’s legacy and what we have created!
This is what happens when hatred shapes your worldview.
"it was a crappy piece of land with nothing on it...there were, you know, several 100 thousand people, but other than that" is a wild thing to say out loud.
This kind of racism does not belong in govt.
#FreePalestine
@RoadSafetyBC Seriously, how car brained are you. How about asking drivers to not hit pedestrians by slowing down, obeying traffic signs and signals, and ensuring there are no pedestrians in your way before turning through a cross walk or interesection. Drivers are the threat, clearly!
Really quite striking how Shape Your City feedback is not representative, yet this information is regularly treated as representing public opinion on developments projects.
Wednesday is a 2x vote day for retweets, so if you tweet something like
#NHLAllStarVote Thatcher Demko
#NHLAllStarVote Elias Pettersson
#NHLAllStarVote Brock Boeser
#NHLAllStarVote J.T. Miller
and someone retweets it, the RT will count 2x. But I won’t tell you how to vote.