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top 0.5% of taylor swift listeners, regularly found shouting about how curb cuts are sidewalks, and in the 99th percentile of car-hatred.
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Put 👏🏼 housing 👏🏼 on 👏🏼 top 👏🏼 of👏🏼 everything
Vancouver ... demonstrating that you can put housing on top of just about anything.
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Petition for men to WEAR A COLOUR. Thank you.
We did the coats because the people want more of the coats
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Here's my proposal: we rebuild many, many more trains instead of just highways. Let's use this as an opportunity to have more trains, which are already saving the day.
What I'm saying is: Trains.
NEW:
@CNRailway
says it and
@VIA_Rail
have organized a train to carry about 200 people, most of them stranded in Hope, to Vancouver. Train was expected to arrive at the Pacific Central Station ~10:30pm.
@cbcnewsbc
@CBCAlerts
#BCStorm
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Vancouver:
Every apartment dwellers only option is to live on a noisy arterial but single family home owners get to control the amount of noise children playing make in their neighbourhood.
I am so god damn tired of this place.
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Instead of closing parks, open streets. It’s really not that difficult.
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Petition to STOP TURNING INTO PEDESTRIANS USING CROSSWALKS.
If I am in a crosswalk, you should not be slowly inching towards me under the assumption I am going to keep moving at this pace. Because if I don’t, heaven forbid I trip or drop something, I do not deserve to die.
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Fuck this system. That person should never ever be allowed to drive again at the absolute barest minimum.
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The easiest way to get away with murder is to hit someone with a car.
There is absolutely no consequences for using one as a weapon.
"momentary lapse of attention"
Here's the driver's history of "momentary" lapses
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I don’t know, maybe I’m just grumpy, but I think this barge is a really good analogy for the City of Vancouver in a crisis: make half-assed attempts to solve it, which obviously fail, then never mobilize to actually solve the problem in a timely manner. 🤷🏻♀️
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So fucking tired of being at risk in every fucking intersection while drivers on their over engineering sofas, protected from the rain, catered to in every way, make outrageously unsafe choices.
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I am not anti-car, I am anti car culture. Anti super cars speeding on the sea-2-sky, people not looking for pedestrians at intersections, cars first culture. I want cars to better serve the people that need them most (accessibility, careers, cost related sprawl).
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Twitter needs to stop with the anti-sleepover content. I do not want to be on this side of Twitter.
The biggest risk to your child, by far, every single day, is cars. By miles and miles and miles and miles. Cars are the enemy. Stop worrying about sleepovers and worry about cars.
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My idea of hell. Never. I will never go to this place on a weekend and absolutely never by car.
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Unpopular opinion: You wouldn’t need “more space” for children if we hadn’t destroyed all sense of children’s autonomy and safety in the world as well as almost every 3rd space.
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Stop widening highways, the world is literally on fire.
Stop expanding suburbs into green fields, the world is literally on fire.
Stop using 78% of land for single family homes exclusively, the world is literally on fire.
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Cool how the
@CityofVancouver
can’t be bothered to clean their sidewalks like is legally required. Guess they’re too busy taking tents away from the homeless in this snow, much more important.
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Get the hell out of my mentions with your discussion that the solution to our housing crisis is “more community planning”.
You are wrong. I say this as a planner. You are absolutely and totally wrong. We need FAR LESS planning. We need to building housing.
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Also: I test drove an e-bike yesterday and I am sold. Take my money. Let’s go explore North Van and wherever else I can cruise up hills with no effort.
I am so in. E-bikes for all.
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24 stories on two major arterials within 2km of the downtown core is not a mega tower, you absolute knobs.
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How have we not collectively destroyed Ticketmaster at this point? I went to a hundred concerts from 2007-2014 with zero issue ever getting tickets. You cannot tell me John Mayer is selling out in this our year of 2023. You sold them all to resellers. I see them on StubHub.
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This should be legal on every single parcel in this city unconditionally, without rezoning, without design panel, without any need for articulation. Full stop. That’s my only platform.
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“A crappy piece of land with nothing on it… except several hundred thousand people” is an absolutely WILDLY colonial thing to say.
@Dave_Eby
, this is not okay from a sitting MLA.
Signed a 34 year old who does know about the holocaust, and also knows what genocide looks like.
NDP minister
@selinarobinson
justifying genocide by calling Palestine “a crappy piece of land with nothing on it”. Hateful, bigoted remarks that should result in her immediate resignation
@Dave_Eby
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The year is 2023 and you are telling me this City’s “best public space” has not 1, not 2, but 3 surface parking lots, roads lined with parking stalls, additional strip mall style parking, barely 6’ sidewalks, and a single measly public plaza?
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Our children won’t believe it when we tell them we went every summer of our own youth without ever seeing “smoke season” nor will they forgive us when we explain that once it started to be annual we still did absolutely nothing to stop it.
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Where the actual fuck would you like these people to go when you won’t build housing for them?
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It is truly terrifying to be a pedestrian when every crash is an “accident” and drivers have no sense of responsibility as they are always in the right, it’s always just an accident. Terrifying. Everyday.
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I'm sorry what the actual fuck is this? We are "closing" parks before the sun is down now? This is what 25% of the City budget is being used for, with the astronomical number of men doing nothing seen in this photo, instead of community services?
ABC is a true disaster.
it's absolutely wild we've let VPD ban watching the sunset, something the city is literally known for and is a major tourism Top 10
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I am so tired of this shaming of young people. I am 31 and I only got my appointment to book a second dose last Wednesday. The first availability that worked with my work schedule was this Friday.
Most people young than me haven't even had the -chance- for a second shot yet.
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I live literally 50m from a grocery store - if I forget someone on a big trip, I just go get it. I make so little food waste. Shopping by car is annoying, frustrating, wasteful, and far inferior.
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My Urbanist hot take of the morning is if you live in a residential neighbourhood and someone wants to build a residential building of any typology, that automatically fits with the community character.
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Stanley Park drivers have full access.
What they keep shouting about traffic isn’t about access. It’s that they think their -time- is more important than cyclists -safety-.
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This is an extremely muted tweet to say that this is the thing I've spent the last 2 years working on, and I am very tired, and I hope I did a good job:
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STOP ROLLING THROUGH STOP SIGNS.
STOP INCHING INTO CROSSWALKS WITH PEOPLE CROSSING.
STOP BEHIND THR STOP LINE NOT IN THE CROSSWALK.
Your impatience and bad habits are the reason people die. That is not an exaggeration.
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West Point Grey has never, and I repeat, never been the “soul” of Vancouver.
Residents call fight over Jericho Lands redevelopment ‘a battle for the soul of Vancouver’
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STOP BLOCKING THE SIDEWALK BECAUSE THE STREET IS CONGESTED YOU CAR BRAINED ASSHOLES
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Cyclists and pedestrians wanting to be safe from being hit with tons of steel on the streets is not a god damn “radical” idea.
Is it municipal elections time yet?
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There is nowhere for these people to go. There is no where for these people to go. When we try to build specifically just the already homeless any housing at all it is met with rage and vitriol and 40+ hours of public hearing. There is nowhere for these people to go.
"We have been clear with the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Fire Rescue Services that, on short notice, we do not have access to large numbers of new spaces in Vancouver to accommodate the timing of the emergency order." - BC Housing
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Fuck anyone trying to protect the “residential character” of Douglas Park, at the absolute CORE of this city. If you want to live in a suburb, go live in a fucking suburb. THIS IS A CITY.
Residents mounted campaign against allowing 8 more kids to play in their neighbourhood for ~45 hrs/week
Homeowners complained re: parking, noise of “children playing” & threatened to sue the City if they approved a daycare
City hall rejected the daycare
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Stop blaming pedestrians that get hit in crosswalks because they didn't wear a goddamn construction safety vest. No. Drivers are the one in literal tonnes of STEEL moving with remarkable force.
Be as reflective as possible ✔️
Cross at a designated crosswalk ✔️
Thanks
@nvanrcmp
for demonstrating what safe walking looks like. For more tips on pedestrian safety, visit and
#KnowYourPartBC
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Donating $100 million to an art gallery is cool, but a tax structure where that $100 million was collected in taxes over the last decades to fund schools and support building homes for kids could make a lot more artists. 🤷🏻♀️
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We have destroyed urban living to protect the suburban whims of those living at the heart of this city.
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I’d feel great because then my loved ones would have a better chance at homes - instead of having to live in someone’s basement or increasingly move to further and further away suburbs to survive. Plus this is a lovely design and an ideal height for the outer core of a city.
How would you feel if this was proposed on your duplex lined street? Precisely. Which is why I opposed aspects of the Broadway Plan. My friends on West 14th aren't NIMBYs but don't want this next door, so I am motivated to start the battle all over again.
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“The Shipyards and Granville Island are probably the two best single spots for public life in our region”
Except one of these is actually great, and the other is an absolute car sewer that I haven’t been to in years because it’s just a parking lot.
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Ready to move out of Vancouver not because of cost, or rain, or the people being flakier on average.
Entirely because of how absolutely frustrating and impossible getting a family physician is and how much time and stress having a very simple chronic condition turns into.
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I think the internet needs to see these Shinkansen chopsticks I got in Tokyo Station. This is the best thing I own. 🚅 🥢
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Hat tip to Sean for uploading all these clips where the awful colonizer remarks just keep appearing over and over. My god.
Since
#ResignSelinaRobinson
is trending, here’s more from that video where she implies that Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh aren’t regular people and that colonizers are
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BC Hydro rudely emailing me to tell me I'm using much more electricity than normal. Yes, that's because I've never heated my home in the daytime before this terrible period in which I never, ever leave it.
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There is nothing better than the skytrain from Stadium Chinatown to Main Street science world.
And we will never ever be allowed to build something so publicly good in such a beautiful place ever again in this city.
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I cannot express my rage that a 78 year old woman driving a massive SUV in one of the most walkable places in America has murdered this entire family.
And it is indeed murder, for which she we face no punishment.
Relatives of the San Francisco family killed in the West Portal crash released their first statement Thursday to express gratitude to the emergency crews and hospital workers who responded to the tragedy after an SUV struck their loved ones.
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Glad to see this both sides whataboutism astoundingly ratio’d.
Hot tip: looking at your phone while driving Canada’s most dangerous weapon - big crime.
Wearing black in a lit beg-button crosswalk - not a crime!
Pedestrian safety is a two-way street. What pedestrians and drivers can do to make our roadways safer
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You say “increasing political division” I say “increasing numbers of people ceasing to by being quiet in the face of increasing injustice” 🤷🏻♀️
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It’s really telling how little the City of Vancouver actually gives a shit about pedestrians when a development can close every sidewalk and intersection for an entire block while keeping every driving lane available.
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Can we please collectively stop thinking $25 an hour is a lot of money? If the minimum wage tracked with productivity and inflation it would be $25. If your “skilled” position doesn’t pay much more than that, perhaps the issue is that all wages should be liveable.
$50K per year dishwashing job sign of labour shortage in restaurants, industry expert says
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Not testing for COVID is not a science-based choice. It’s a policy choice.
Let’s be clear.
When you are saying a doctor cannot request a test for a patient that they feel is medically necessary, that’s a policy choice.
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I don’t want my kids to have a big basement to play in, I want them to have the safety to bike to the library or park with their friends.
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Enforcing fare evasion rules always costs more money than it brings in - this isn’t part of a budget bottom line, this is an attack on the poor.
BREAKING...
#TransLink
announces new measures to cut its annual costs by about $90 million annually.
This includes optimizing staffing, fare evasion enforcement, and proactive maintenance.
It comes ahead of the fiscal issues after 2025.
#bcpoli
#vanpoli
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Golf courses are not “green space”, they are environmental disasters used by the very very very few relative to the size of available land.
Glad we cleared that up.
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The police budget is an astronomical 21% of the annual budget, wildly out of scope with other cities of our size and our historical norms. Try using resources justly before our public institutions bear private names of only our wealthiest citizens and corporations.
💯 People just want their beloved Kits Pool and community amenities fixed and renewed. If sponsorship can help this, why not?
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North shore traffic is such an awful end to outdoor activities and I really wish we offered more transit options to trailheads and adventures.
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It would be an absolute dream come true to live in an apartment building across from Douglas Park with a daycare next door and a couple small businesses to support the park in other apartments around the block.
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Extend the light blue across the entire City. Stop building apartments only on the most polluted areas. 4 floors and corner stores IS "neighbourhood character".
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There is no way in hell you do this to your car if you are going the 50km/h speed limit and slowing to a safe full stop at the intersection.
Hey
@CityofVancouver
this is second incident I’ve seen caused by these useless ‘slow street’ barricades installed last month. They don’t slow down traffic; they cause crashes and traffic chaos.
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@j_mcelroy
Please tell us more about your January 18th appointment at the Ardene's store in Kingsgate mall.
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Stop engaging on basic tenants of city building like if we should allow small convenience shopping in any part of what claims to be a city that could support it and just DO IT. My god, the endless faux engagement for things that don’t need engaging on is exhausting.
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Don’t forget all the new Broadway Subway stations.
But also, Vancouver spent 2+ years on the Broadway plan for the Province to say “sike, just upzone it all” and I think we know who did it better.
I did a quick calculation of where up to 20 storey towers will be permitted within 800 meters of skytrain stations in Vancouver. I'll update this when I have a better idea how to locate all of our "transit hubs".
#vanpoli
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I don’t want to schlep them around to activities in an SUV, I want to live in a walkable place with good transit and well funded schools that have a variety of evening activities.
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They've got their car parked behind this man, blocking him in, and outnumber him 3 to 1, but the choice was still assault.
Tell me more about how it's okay these people are endorsing political parties and use 25% of the municipal budget.
VPD just beat a man infront of his child at trout lake community centre, which is holding advance voting today
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But instead I live in an apartment bounded by 3 major arterials, all terribly noisy and unsafe to cross, with no sounds of children playing, and no safe passage for my future children to school or daycare.
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Mass casualties called at Kelowna General, UBC-O under evacuation alert, huge chunks of West Kelowna gone. This new normal is constant stress and anxiety, I don’t know how to go about my job and just work on these Kelowna based projects as if this is all okay.
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Vancouver’s “best public space” is a congested loop of idling cars spewing carbon emissions and not watching for pedestrians because drivers are in such a rage.
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Truly what is the point of transit security getting on a bus in the DTES, saying they are going to do a fare check, a dozen people get off, and then they don’t even do the fare check.
What did you accomplish by making these people walk one stop and wait for another bus?
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One of the best ways to prevent gentrification is to stop treating vast swaths of the city as untouchable bastions of single family homes, even along existing transit lines.
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Skip duplex zoning and get right to city wide 4 floors and corner stores.
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Can we just not have any more referendums? I'm so tired of referendums in this Province. Stop having them for infrastructure, stop having them for fair and equitable governance. Just stop having them. Make decisions and own your decisions, that's what you are elected for.
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“It looks crowded” No it looks like all the very necessary density was shoved into one tiny location surrounded by swaths of single family homes. Most of the land use even just in this tight image is flat.
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ahem…
IF YOU DONT WANT TO LIVE IN A CITY, DONT LIVE IN A CITY.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
Don’t ask me why this is the only photo I took covering the protest against the
#broadwayplan
#vanpoli
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This is a totally unprompted reminder that
@christineeboyle
is who I want to be when I grow up and a true role model on council and elsewhere.
Vote OneCity.
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If you want to pay $9 to take an equally long $2.75 or less trip that doesn’t add to congestion or carbon emissions (assuming transit is a sunk cost as it’s already operating) with a driver not making a living wage, power to you? But god knows why.
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You’re not going to believe this - but I’m angry about this too.
But not for the reason you think. We absolutely should be pricing parking at this rate - AFTER we provide transit accessible access outdoor spaces that comes with an adequate and trustworthy frequency.
More pay parking at Metro Vancouver parks angers hikers, day-trippers
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I really do not understand why Kingsway is not treated as a major transportation corridor. 15 minute headways, no bike lanes. This is the only diagonal road in the city and it’s entirely commercial, why are we wasting this hypotenuse like this?!
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This is your reminder to vote for Kennedy Stewart. His voting record is really aligned with Christines. While he may not be very inspiring as a leader, a vote for Mark is a vote for Ken Sim.
That's how I see it. Not interested in debate. Don't split the vote and let Ken win.
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If large pieces of City owned land need to "pay for themselves" next weeks City report better be on how we are putting housing on all the golf courses.
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Petition to ban the words “neighbourhood character” from use in City Hall so that everyone claiming it has to say what they really mean - no new people, no diversity of incomes, no supporting City growth and change they utilize and benefit from in their neighbourhood.
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The government needs to focus on policy, not communications. Minimizing high-risk behaviours and workplaces. Bringing in paid sick leave. Paying restaurants to stay closed.
Not just asking the people paying attention to pay more attention.
Dr. Henry says she's asking everyone to step back.
"More than you've ever done before," she says. Stay home, stop social interactions.
She says the level of public health restrictions depend on what we do, especially over the next two weeks.
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HAVE I MENTIONED HOW INSANE IT IS TO WATCH YOUR BEST FRIEND WIN A BRONZE MEDAL
AHHHHHHHHHH
OH MY GOD
@EVANDUNFEE
YOURE INCREDIBLE
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Reverse commuting on a SkyTrain to King George with a seat, headphones, a coffee and a book (though challenging with the state of my arms) and once again deeply, deeply confused why anyone would rather drive.
More SkyTrains, now.
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Stop. Doing. This. Shit. The stop line is a metre BEHIND the crosswalk. I do not want to walk into traffic because you can’t be bothered to follow the rules therefore putting all pedestrians at risk, and those with accessibility concerns in prohibitive positions all together.
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This should be allowed on every single parcel in the city currently zoned single family.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
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That the Eby housing plan is being heralded as “groundbreaking” should really tell you something about the state of our land use policies.
It will do some good things, far more in Kamloops than Vancouver, where it will do very little whatsoever.
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“You have no connection to Kitsilano!”
Ya because everyone I know who lived there has been priced out and all the interesting retail is dead and the parks board refuses to build me a path to safely get to the beach by my primary mode of travel.
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Cool that this guy has the time to show up in person and talk about how mass rapid transit isn’t sustainable while those of us who take it, regularly, and fight for it’s existence don’t have time to go to City Hall on a Tuesday and sit for hours to speak at an unknown time.
This speaker is very opposed to the Skytrain, says this is a political project about politicians building monuments themselves, etc. "If you look at the sustainability...there is none."
We badly need more young people to get engaged with city politics.
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I am so god damn tired of wealthy homeowners in this city who hate other humans.
To recap:
- Vancouver council approved a social housing tower at Arbutus/8th
- Kitsilano Coalition sued, delaying construction
- B.C. government passed bill explicitly designed to circumvent lawsuit
- Kitsilano Coalition sued again
- TBA whether it leads to another delay
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Thank you for the $7.86 LifeLabs. Wow I feel so compensated for the leak of my health data.
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