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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, for the record, of the people who parked in front of the cafe. The number of them who actually came in and patronized was a big ol goose egg. Zero, zilcho, not a one. This, in spite of the roguishly charming barista working the counter.

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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Meet your TEAM candidates

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.

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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Overjoyed that we'll soon be able to display our patriotism by paying $400 in junk fees on future flights out of Toronto's soon to be renamed Telus-Brookfield International Airport, sponsored by Bell.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2026

it is the same story everywhere. young men convinced by their phones that the reason they are unhappy is that they don’t live in the imaginary utopian ethnostate they think existed before they were born

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Speaking as someone who is currently almost entirely reliant on public transport: Public and active transport are mutually beneficial. You don't get better buses by throwing cyclists under them.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Blair 🇨🇦 @blurr65.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh damn that's steep, surely this means metrolinx/ GO has increased their illegal parking fines/ parking fare evasion fines to exceed these given that offenses outsized impact on a users ability to use the system safely... Right.... right? Oh it's $35-145 vs $200-1000 lmao

Reddit post about a go pamphlet with fines from $200-500 scaling maxing at $1000

GO transit parking fine matrix, with tier 1 showing 35 in paid within 15 days increasing up to 75 if late tier 2 50 to 95

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 07/08/2026

Fuuuuuck this capitulating, weak-ass, Neville Chamberlain-level bullshit. Our line should be either Trump drops ALL of his tariffs and his attacks on Canada's sovereignty or we start banning even more American shit. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Canada prepared to halt booze bans, meet other U.S. demands in exchange for tariff relief: sources | CBC News

The Canadian government is preparing to meet some U.S. demands — including ending bans on American alcohol sales — as trade talks heat up ahead of the latest tariff deadline, according to sources.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)

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What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off

In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.

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Blair 🇨🇦 @blurr65.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This city is just this meme on every issue. The only acceptable place for young folks & new neighbours in our city according to NIMBYs is cramming into basement suites or on slow buses from surrey or Langley. We will never solve this country's housing crisis and traffic will just get worse.

towers we need "Noooo don't build Manhattan style housing like Paris!!! They'll hold the same amount of people if we spread it out instead of just densifying existing apartment areas and ruining their character"

"Oh so we'll permit property owners to gradually redevelop their land to form new human-scale neighbourhood streets where the walk-ups and sho the frequent transit nsit already exlsts just like shops in lo Dunbar village etc., rather than tall towers on top of stations"

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Everyone loves large planning exercises like the Vancouver Plan. But when it's time for implementation people get cold feet. Even though the Villages is probably the mildest portion of the overall plan. Will the Vancouver Plan suffer the same fate as City Plan in the 1990s and just fizzle?

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In opposing the Villages Plan, Vancouver mayor Ken Sim’s ABC party repeatedly seems to conflate legalizing more apartments with *forcing* people to build apartments on their property or something?

What you do with your home should be your choice.
Your ABC Vancouver team has listened to residents and directed staff to cancel the proposed Villages Plan after concerns were raised about mandatory zoning in some neighbourhoods.
We believe Vancouver needs more housing-but it must be done thoughtfully. That means adding homes where they make sense while respecting existing neighbourhoods and the people who have worked hard and invested their lives into their homes.
No homeowner should feel that City Hall is deciding the future of their property without their voice being heard.
We heard your concerns loud and clear and have directed staff to stop and end the plan immediately.
Our goal is simple: build more housing, protect property rights, and keep Vancouver a city of diverse neighbourhoods—not one-size-fits-all

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Credit to @lucymaloney.bsky.social for being the only Vancouver city councillor (!?!?) to vote in favour of the Villages Plan to legalize medium-sized apartments in a large number of neighbourhoods across the city. Otherwise a major disappointment for the city.

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Ben ✨ @inparts.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

hov is transit priority by the way

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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

We got fucked. We got blackmailed. I suspect the resentment from this will last a long time, even with the brave face Canadians are putting up right now.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

Screenshot of the article's graphic, showing color swatches derived from the Earthcam archive, illustration the color of the reflecting pool calibrated against satellite imagery, from 8 June to 19 June 2026. I chose yesterday, 19 June, so it rendered the US American flag with a green hue instead of blue.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 20/06/2026

don't let anyone tell you that you can't poast your way into material change in this city

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Blair 🇨🇦 @blurr65.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I miss when Google was able to accurately pull summaries using Wikipedia, edited by humans and accurate or at least close to accurate depending on what it cut out. Now if you ask about something it hallucinates an answer that's wrong much of the time, especially if it's not something american.

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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Imagine driving on Bloor lol

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 26/04/2026

This is such a flagship moment for where America is right now. Gun violence, showmanship, celebrity, mass confusion, and also according to C-SPAN, people are opening the bottles of wine still on the tables.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

A “long tradition” of banning people who are Asian, Black or less wealthy. vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Put another tick mark down by this ending up as the baseball post of 2026

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

You know a really cursed echochamber? Traffic engineer LinkedIn. "90% of the time, speeding is just a perception" "It's just a handful of people with a 'slow is always safer' mentality" "Speed humps have a detrimental effect on slowing policy and fire"

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 11/03/2026

meanwhile, transit agencies across the country are on the brink of running out of funding (as usual). but yes, we need another tax break on the driving class and to help shield the more-evil governing party from the consequences of their own imperialism and warmongering

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/09/2025

in related news i'm excited to announce that i'm selling sam altman's house unless he asks me not to

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/03/2026

this is unspeakable

Reporter: Did the US bomb an elementary school and kill 175 people?

Trump: Based on what I’ve seen, it was done by Iran.

Reporter: Is that true Mr. Hegseth?
Hegseth: We’re investigating.

Trump: It was done by Iran. They are very inaccurate with their munitions.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 06/03/2026

It's really cool that the provincial government maintains a free font that displays all Indigenous characters used across BC. Slightly less cool that it only comes in three weights for some reason, all I want for Christmas is BC Sans Semibold

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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This need to be called out at perpetuating sexist policies that privilege bikers without child carrying, errand running responsibilities. Caltrain would never consider banning kids from trains, why is it ok to make it impossible for parents who travel bike to use the system?

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As Bike Cars Overflow, Caltrain Bans Large Bikes and Panniers - Streetsblog San Francisco

New rules heavily restrict the types of bikes Caltrain users can bring on board. Years ago advocates warned Caltrain that they weren't allotting enough bike space on the new trains

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 06/03/2026

It's amazing people will claim "Canada and the USA have the same culture" and then on something as fundamental as "do you trust your fellow citizens to be good" we are further apart than any other two countries

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

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Wyeth Leslie @wyethwashere.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The promise of a beer and ballgame in the near future is doing a lot of emotional heavy lifting these days.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 04/03/2026

linux heads were always right. time to sit my dumbass down and learn

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Major Combat Operation III

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 02/03/2026

"Zero means zero" (car free days)

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 02/03/2026

I never get to do BREAKING NEWS, but here's some: B.C. is scrapping the time change, which reams of scientific research and anecdata from exhausted parents can tell you is a good thing. here's an update to my reporting from last year, which now has a more celebratory tone:

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Brandon Yan 甄念本 @brandonyan.com · 02/03/2026

I welcome our new Pacific Time overlords

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

More than 80% of people consistently cited their preference for permanent daylight savings in polls, there’s a realm of data that says it supports better outcomes, and it’s very fun when a government can say “we control how time works”. About a slam dunk win as you can get these days.

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B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time | CBC News

March 8 will be the last time British Columbians have to change their clocks, B.C. Premier David Eby announced Monday.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Safe Parkside, site of the speed camera that was cut down over & over leading to Doug ford banning them, reports another high speed crash on Saturday via their IG account. Somebody will die here again. Doug Ford’s Ontario.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I’m actually not sure we can come back from “prediction markets for war crimes”, as a society. I think this might be it for us.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 01/03/2026

Canada's former foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy: "We invoke international law and the 'rules based order' when adversaries engage in unlawful actions, but abandon those same rules entirely when it's the Americans — whose gov't 60% of Canadians see as a threat" www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Lloyd Axworthy: Canada once rejected America’s aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it

By endorsing preventive strikes on Iran during ongoing diplomacy, and after Washington itself shredded the previous agreement, we are embracing the very doctrine we used to reject, writes Lloyd Axwort...

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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

What kind of dumb title is this?? Density is not like a reaper coming for you, if anything it’s savior coming to save your city’s financial viability and environmental sustainability.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Could not be more proud of you, Team Canada. You’re coming home with 21 hard-fought Olympic medals. Though what Canadians will remember most is how you wore the Maple Leaf: with pride, with grit, and with determination.

Prime Minister Carney is presented a jersey by the national women’s hockey team.

Prime Minister Carney watches the Winter Olympics.

Prime Minister Carney poses for a photo, wearing a hockey jersey.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

My kingdom for a referee who can count to five

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