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Andréa Coutu

@andreacoutu.bsky.social
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Consultant, author, MBA, serial entrepreneur, advocate, thorn in sides, media guest, parent, diverse supplier, Vancouverite returned to Vancouver Island.

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 07/04/2026
science lady is excited
Screenshot from the nasa stream when they’re science ops person learns that the astronauts observed impact flashes on the moon
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Independent MLA Tara Armstrong introduced a bill to get rid of BC's human rights commissioner Division at first reading BC Conservative caucus voted aye, as did MLAs Brodie, Kealy and Armstrong BC NDP caucus, Green caucus and MLAs Sturko and Boultbee voted nay It failed at first reading #bcpoli
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Darren "Sunshine" Scherck 🌄👨‍🌾🌽🥔🇨🇦 @mhcca.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I don't care if you're a coach, another player, or a ref. This is an unacceptable violent act. I've had this done to me. It's about exerting control and dominance. Having it done to you by someone who is already in a position of power is an overt statement meant to demean and belittle. Disgusting.
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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Catherine O'Hara's first production with the new comedy troupe in Toronto in 1974. Catherine O'Hara, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Eugene Levy? and Andrea Martin?
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Canada needs to take see the invasion of Venezuela for what it is - a deliberate attack on the international rules based order. We have a bandit nation on our border and we need to be ready for whatever comes next. charlieangus.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
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Venezuela - The Lesson for Canada
Make no mistake, the attack on Venezuela by the Trump regime is not about removing a rogue leader; it is a deliberate attack on international law.
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Stephen Quinn @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I can't think of a more deserving Vancouverite... Nardwuar The Human Serviette is named to the Order of Canada! (Second pic and text clipped from the Globe & Mail) www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
🕊️ 🤍 🐾
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Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
indeed, for every academic abuser and enabler: i promise there’s an amazing grad student out there who is doing work that’s as good or better. we’ve let the myth of the lone genius guy carry on too long. it’s caused so much harm, in so many ways.
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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This is brilliant.
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Josie Osborne 🇨🇦 @josieosborne.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Say goodbye to doctors’ sick notes! Effective immediately, employers can only ask for sick notes in limited cases, giving health-care providers more time for patients, not paperwork. 🙌🏼 And we’re not done… more work is underway to cut admin burden for doctors. ✍🏽 🔗 news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
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Andréa Coutu @andreacoutu.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I spent a shockingly long period of my childhood thinking that Jim Croce was singing about a boy detective turned bad.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
A haunted house but every room is just two people you have to help use the printer and one is older than you and the other is younger than you
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SFU Faculty of Science @sfuscience.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Despite a huge growth in women's sports, female athletic footwear is still designed using molds from men's feet. Research from @runnerphysio.bsky.social suggests that the practice known in the industry as "shrink it and pink it" is not meeting the needs of female runners. ow.ly/Ig5W50XcHjg
A woman is running on a treadmill in a biomechanics lab. She has sensors attached to her legs and cameras attached to the wall are recording her movements. Photo courtesy of Hettas Sport, Ltd
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." 

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."
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Josie Osborne 🇨🇦 @josieosborne.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Healthcare workers are following their hearts to Vancouver Island and across BC! 🇨🇦 Thanks to Nanaimo's @todmaffin.com for capturing the people, the place, and the pride we share in being Canadian and celebrating our public, universal healthcare system. t.co/mot9VDLmLl #bchealthcare #followyourheart
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Andréa Coutu @andreacoutu.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Hey, @jmcelroy.bsky.social, Mayor Krog is coming for you with this #Degrassi chart that may make @thatkevinsmith.bsky.social speak.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Hear me out: a new expensive kitchen gadget of the month club. Every month a new awesome kitchen gadget arrives at your door, and then you get to make it your whole personality for 30 days until it’s dead to you, then a new one shows up and you send the old one back without losing any counter space
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NPR @npr.org · 04/10/2025
The Department of Homeland Security has begun targeting unaccompanied children in the immigration system with what they call a “voluntary option” to return to their countries of origin. via @laist.com
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DHS begins targeting unaccompanied children with 'voluntary' deportation offer
Children asked to waive right to see a judge in exchange for $2,500
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
“DoorDash intends to send autonomous robots into bike-lanes.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social Here’s what’s frustrating…who cares what they “intend?” It’s up to City Hall what’s allowed in bike-lanes, NOT COMPANIES! Stop acting like tech companies should be able to do whatever they want in cities.
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DoorDash Plans to Send Autonomous Robots into Bike Lanes | Momentum Mag | Momentum Mag
DoorDash has begun rolling out Dot, its new autonomous delivery robot — a sleek, all-electric bot that can hit speeds of up to 20mph.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This is a reminder that in 1997 they had a dancing baby make a guest appearance on a popular TV show and it’s all anybody talked about for a year and good god I miss when things like that were a big deal
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I recommend everyone watches this
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Will there be an announcement when things get bad enough that we can all stop making car payments or like how’s that gonna work
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Cowleyforniadreaming @holybollards.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Greetings from Toronto, fellow bollard aficionados
A bollard shaped like a shoe
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
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Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
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Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Sometimes I measure how crazy things are by pretending we’re in a Star Wars movie that was released a few years ago and imagining how long the opening crawl would have to be to catch everybody up
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Never forget, when you’re being asked to prove that safe bike-lanes or pedestrian crossings across currently unsafe conditions are ‘needed,’ it's hard to justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across a raging river. #TheTruthAboutTraffic
People on bikes in a protected bike-lane in downtown Vancouver.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Remember these? Still probably my favourite bollards/barriers I’ve seen anywhere in the world. They aren’t just cute and fun (and extra seating) — they’re REALLY heavy. Cars should NOT try messing with these sheep! I took this pic while working for Christchurch NZ years ago. #CityOfSmiles
Colourful and HEAVY bollards shaped like sheep in central Christchurch, NZ
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Keith Taylor @mrkeithtaylor.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I look in the mirror. It's October 1947. I'm test pilot Chuck Yeager, and in a few hours I'll become the first human to exceed the speed of sound. "Oh boy," I exclaim, before heading to the bank to deposit all of my liquid assets into a high interest savings account in the name of Dr. Sam Beckett.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
somebody told me the steller's jay was british columbia's elvis and now i can't unsee it
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
“Giving pedestrians a 7-second head start at traffic lights—known as Leading Pedestrian Intervals (LPIs)—is associated with a 33% reduction in total pedestrian injuries—both fatal & non-fatal—at New York City intersections, according to a new study from Columbia University School of Public Health.”
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New York City intersections see one-third fewer pedestrian injuries with longer head-start intervals
Giving pedestrians a 7-second head start at traffic lights—known as Leading Pedestrian Intervals (LPIs)—is associated with a 33% reduction in total pedestrian injuries—both fatal and non-fatal—at New ...
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
That’s so cool! Montreal’s bike share system is rolling out trailers that work on BIXIs as well as personal bikes. They’re hoping to have 50 by the end of the summer, and hundreds over the next few years.
Bike share bike with trailer
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
In 2023 Ken Sim filed multiple code of conduct complaints against opposition councillor Christine Boyle, costing her thousands of dollars in legal fees Now, Boyle is the Minster of Municipal Affairs and Housing, and is the main government point person for everything Sim wants life's rich tapestry
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Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Kids playing in the road is a safety win. These two 11 year olds spent six hours chalking a record breaking skipping pattern down their street in Norway. After drawing 1040 squares, they were interviewed by their local newspaper.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
people "want" news but what they actually "like" is lifestyle and culture and sports and humour and basic information about their region and opportunities to laugh and argue connect if you don't give people both, there's no reason to be community/geography based in your approach
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 14/07/2025
2SLGBTQAI+ individuals are overrepresented in the homeless population, at 13%, despite only representing 4% of Canada’s population. “I would say the most common reason is due to their families not being accepting of who they are as human beings." #LGBTQ+ #2SLGBTQAI #Pride #Vancouver #Canada
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Helping 2SLGBTQAI+ Youth Find Community
Covenant House Vancouver ensures that their staff are equipped with the knowledge and sensitivity needed to support 2SLGBTQAI+ individuals
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
After 33+ years of city planning, one thing I long ago lost tolerance for is the deliberate spreading of lies about planning processes to scare people, especially seniors, ESL etc. It’s a reasonable question to ask “why are you spreading lies & scaring your neighbours about what’s being proposed?”
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
This is remarkable.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
“Toderian, Vancouver’s former planning chief, has identified a 3-part formula for child-friendly downtowns. Housing is most critical: Without [two or] three-bedroom apts, it’s ‘game-over’ for families in downtowns, he says.” Read on — my interview on kid-friendly downtowns, in Bloomberg Citylab.
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Struggling Downtowns Are Looking to Lure New Crowds
Traditional business districts in cities like Chicago and Portland are still waiting for office workers to return. Can younger residents and families fill the gap?
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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
If you hold CTRL, it will pause Task Manager so the processes don't move around when you're sorted by resource usage
Screenshot of a post from the PC master race subreddit. It says "Man please stop dodging me I'm trying to conserve minuscule amounts of cpu/memory". Below, a photo of someone banging their desk with the text "When I  try to end a task in task manager just for the app to jump to another spot causing me to end some other fuckass app"
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
NEW: Paris reopens the Seine River to public swimming after a century-long ban! “About 1,000 swimmers a day will be allowed to use 3 public bathing sites after €1.4bn clean-up program.” 14 more bathing spots beyond the city are planned. Big, bold leadership. @annehidalgo.bsky.social @paris.fr
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Paris reopens River Seine to public swimming after century-long ban
About 1,000 swimmers a day will be allowed to use three bathing sites after €1.4bn clean-up programme
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 10/06/2025
B.C.’s information and privacy commissioner is concerned about the number of freedom of information requests going unanswered in the province. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports. 📄
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BC Privacy Office Forced to Obtain Court Order for FOI Request | The Tyee
Commissioner says the ‘unprecedented step’ reflects the growing problem of the government neglecting its duty to provide records.
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Kelly McGahey @kellymcgahey.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This. #CovidIsNotOver #PublicHealth
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusiness
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Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane
Research from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of.
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Big Sag ♐️Traveling Menace @neau.blacksky.app · 09/05/2025
I cried, so now y’all can too. Mr. Riddick graduated at 80 years old! It’s never too late, and this is important as I constantly doubt myself. 💙💙💙 congratulations to you sir!!!
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Meaghan McLeod @meaghanmcleod.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
What is the job of a school board trustee if not reading emails from interest holders and being responsive to them? One ABC trustee in @vsb39.bsky.social decided to treat advocacy emails from over 200 parents/caregivers as “spam”, and to post his grievance on X, compromising parent privacy.
X post that says “Alfred Chien @alfredchien1  Apr 23
As a VSB Trustee, I expect emails — it's part of the job. But getting 160+ identical emails from the same DPAC admin account, just with different names, isn't advocacy — it's spam.

Let's raise the standard of communication. Our schools deserve better.”

With an accompanying image of his inbox revealing the subject line “Budgeting for Inclusive Education” with some names of people who sent the emails (blacked out in this screenshot for privacy purposes).
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