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Craig Hermanson

@craighermanson.bsky.social
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Experienced creative thinker, educator and designer of web and print communications. Avid cyclist, amateur urbanist, nature lover and proud parent of two amazing adults. Profile picture by @brittlestar Vancouver, Canada. Elbows Up!

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MeidasCanada @meidascanada.ca · 22/08/2026
Prime Minister Carney went out of his way to negotiate a trade deal with gangsters. He held Team Canada together despite the constant insults from the MAGA gang. Canada will go more than the extra mile to find common ground, but we will never bow and kiss the gangster's ring. We hold the line.
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Wealthy nations devastate vulnerable ones with foreign militarism, weaponized economics, & worsening climate impacts. The need for foreign aid has never been greater, particularly with the death of USAID, which already has a disturbingly high body count. 🧵1/ www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo...
Four images in sequence. First is an image of repugnant sociopaths Donald Trump and Elon Musk, two of the very, very worst human beings in the entire history of the world by an unspeakably wide margin, with overlying text: "Cut billions in foreign aid"

Second is an image of two hungry Ethiopian children, which any even remotely decent human being cannot help but feel compassion for, with overlying text: "Vulnerable children die"

Third is an image of Canadian prime minister Mark Carney speaking at a campaign event in the most recent Canadian federal election. It also has overlying text that reads "Carney campaign promise:" The photo is taken directly from a video of the event where he clearly promises "My government will not cut foreign aid." and that quote is reproduced on the image in a word bubble to indicate that yes, he really did promise that. 

Finally, another image of Mark Carney, also with overlying text: "Cuts billions in foreign aid"

Which will also kill vulnerable children.
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
'The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.' @adamtooze.bsky.social @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b6ca...
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Wasting China’s solar panel surplus is madness
Clean power is within our reach — yet factories sit idle
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Craig Hermanson @craighermanson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Oh how I wish more people understood the rules of the road & crosswalks! Great video and worth sharing outside of our own urban mobility bubbles
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 07/05/2026
In the past 5 years ICBC has spent $4.7 million in road safety improvements. Last year alone they spent $410 million giving every driver a one-time $110 rebate. We call on ICBC to spend an order of magnitude more money on road safety. It should be their number one concern.
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ICBC reminds road users to be vigilant in assessing their surroundings
A warning out to BC drivers Wednesday to slow down and be aware of their surroundings, as more pedestrians and cyclists head out this spring. Sarah Jones has more on the call to protect vulnerable roa...
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Craig Hermanson @craighermanson.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
So true! I’m an avid lycra-wearing cyclist AND I fully support cycling infrastructure! I want more people to enjoy cycling and I want fewer cars on the roads when I’m in a car, on a bike or in a bus.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Every Canadian and American should watch this.
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
In most places Nuclear power isn't even worth considering anymore. #Solar, wind, storage, and HVDC transmission has won the price race.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
They want us to think that Suburban Sprawl is cheap. But the truth is, the costs are FAR too high. #UrbanTruth
Graphic with “suburban sprawl” at the top and four checked boxes that say “bankrupting public costs, skyrocketing, household costs, paralyzing car dependency, and irreversible harm to the future.”

The bottom line says “the cost is far too high.”

Via the URBAN TRUTH COLLECTIVE
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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
VERY PUMPED for Pedal Poll 2026: a full micromobility count collecting a brand-new dataset of the types of micromobility devices people are using across Canada. Mark your calendars for June 2-7 and get ready to snag a counting shift soon!
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Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
If you want this in BC, please email Minister.Transportation@gov.bc.ca
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I think this is a great idea whose time has come!
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This looks like a complicated chart, but in fact it's some of the simplest and best news imaginable: batteries are quickly turning night into noon. Worth a read if I say so myself open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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Night Into Day
The thing changing the world this year is...batteries.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Night Into Day The thing changing the world this year is...batteries. Latest from @billmckibben.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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Night Into Day
The thing changing the world this year is...batteries.
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 23/03/2026
The "Four/Five" Vancouver Special Single Stair Accessible Flats on a 50' lot. This version, with the stair on the side, has ~2000sf floor plates that can be 1, 2 or 3 units per floor. If building 1 unit per floor you'd have 4 large townhouse flats with a smaller penthouse unit.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Western carmakers are retreating from EVs just as oil hits $100 a barrel. The parallels with Detroit in the 1980s are striking. They ignored fuel-efficient Japanese cars. Now they’re ignoring Chinese EVs. BYD just unveiled 600-mile range and 250 miles of charge in 5 minutes.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
What to say about the morality, patriotism and character of someone who only regrets their three Trump votes only after he made gas cost $3.54?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Reporter: “If you could say something to Trump, what would it be?” PA voter: “You're a worthless pile of shit.” Reporter: “How many times did you vote for him?” PA voter: “Three times. That was my bad. Apparently I'm an idiot.”
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/03/2026
"this is actually something that I think should make people stop and think: Ukraine has provided the United States with more aid in 2026 than the United States has provided to Ukraine." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/phillips-o...
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Phillips O'Brien on Iran
How clueless are our leaders? Very
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Watch our full conversation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7a9...
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Decoding Trump’s Brain (Ft. E. Jean Carroll)
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
E. Jean Carroll, one of my personal heroes, took on Trump and won. She’s one of the bravest people I’ve met. She shared some thoughts on Trump and Epstein’s awful friendship.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Worth noting that on a different website, multiple ABC Vancouver officials follow accounts that post constantly about how Sean Orr is a terrible human being and make all sorts of unproven claims, including one account that creates AI videos of Orr doing all sorts of illegal or evil acts
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
#IdeasAtWork A month in hospital costs: $30,100 Month in prison: $9,400 Month in shelter: $6,800 Supportive housing per month: $3,800 @uhn.ca's Dr. Andrew Boozary h/t @urbantruth.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Toronto hospital to double housing program that reduces ER visits
University Health Network will build 54 new apartments next to Dunn House
Liam Casey · The Canadian Press · Posted: Jan 20, 2026 4:53 PM EST | Last Updated: January 20


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The University Health Network will build a near replica of Dunn House, which was built on a parking lot the hospital owns in Toronto's west end, next door. ( Igor Petrov/CBC)A Toronto hospital network will double its unique permanent housing program for homeless people who frequently visit emergency departments, a model that has seen great success for both residents and the hospital.

The University Health Network will build a near replica of Dunn House, which was built on a parking lot the hospital owns in Toronto's west end, next door.

Preliminary data shared with The Canadian Press shows the 48 residents who live at Dunn House made nearly 2,000 visits to an ER in the year before moving in. A year later, those same residents visited emergency rooms 52 per cent fewer times, and they also saw a 79 per cent drop in their length of stays when they were admitted.

"These are patients with advanced chronic disease, mental illness and substance use disorders," said Dr. Andrew Boozary, the director of UHN's Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine.

"They cycle through emergency departments because our care has failed and because we've discharged them back into instability. And if you don't have a home, you can't store medications, you can't recover from surgery, and you can't stabilize mental health."Dunn House is the brain child of Boozary, who first thought of the idea more than seven years ago. "Housing is health," he said.

The residents say their new homes have transformed their lives and given them hope again.

The expansion will see the hospital build 54 new apartments, with involvement from all levels of government.

Dr. Andrew Boozary, Executive Director of UHN's Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine, and primary care doctor, is photographed at Dunn House, Canada's first social medicine housing project, in Toronto on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chr
Dr. Andrew Boozary, executive director of UHN's Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine, and primary care doctor, is photographed at Dunn House, Canada's first social medicine housing project, in Toronto on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press)The federal government's Build Canada Homes will spend $21 million to build the project while Ontario will spend $2.6 million annually to run the place, which features direct access to doctors, nurses and a host of other health professionals. The City of Toronto will invest $10 million and lead the delivery of the new homes.

The Dunn House model needs to be scaled up across the country, said federal Housing Minister Gregor Robertson.

"We need to make it simpler, faster to get these projects off the ground," he said. "We need to help thousands and thousands of people across Canada find safe, affordable homes."

The scale is daunting in Ontario alone. Last week, the province's 444 municipalities released updated data on the number of homeless individuals across Ontario. It found nearly 85,000 Ontarians were homeless in 2025, the vast majority of them living in emergency shelters.

WATCH | Toronto continues clearing encampments:

Toronto clearing more encampments but root causes of homelessness remain: advocates

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Two months after prioritizing the removal of encampments near children's spaces, the city says it's made significant progress. But as CBC's Lane Harrison reports, critics argue it doesn’t address the root causes of the problem.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 26/02/2026
NEW: The Chinese-language messages that accused non-ABC Vancouver councillors didn't start with Lenny Zhou, who has since apologized for them. They started with the mayor.
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Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim started false claim councillor 'handed out illegal drugs'
Sim on Tuesday had applauded Coun. Lenny Zhou for "acknowledging his mistake" and retracting elements of the claim that Zhou shared on Chinese-language social media, but Sim did not reveal that it was...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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Bowinn Ma @bowinnma.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I know the hearts of everyone in North Vancouver are also with the community of Tumbler Ridge. Please hold your loved ones close through this profound tragedy. 💔
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Standing with and sending love to the trans community today. You don't deserve any of this. You deserve so much better. I am so fucking sorry.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 31/01/2026
www.resistandunsubscribe.com
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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A grim day to note that Canada Pension Plan Investments has ~$264M in PALANTIR, which is enabling muderous ICE + its horrific terror campaign. Pensions will be useless if brownshirt billionaires kill democracy!!! (see👆post re BCI) Latest CPP inventory is here: www.cppinvestments.com/wp-content/u...
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The Tech CEO ‘Making No Apologies for the Work With ICE’
A conversation with an author who had a six-year-long window into the most interesting MAGA conversion in Silicon Valley.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 24/01/2026
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Manitoba hires 13 U.S. doctors, Premier calls moves a show of Canadian values
Restructuring of U.S. health, science agencies provided opportunity to attract workers, Wab Kinew says
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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
When Trump criticized the fiery Tuesday address of Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, he delivered perhaps his boldest line: That Canada only exists because of US defense. "Oh wow," someone behind me blurted out. A minute later, a few people started heading for the exits.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A heartfelt thanks to the truth-telling prime minister to our north. robertreich.substack.com/p/o-canada
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A heartfelt thanks to the truth-telling prime minister to our north.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Let’s be clear — if Trump doesn’t end up invading Greenland, or doesn’t end up doing any other of his seemingly unlimited batshit insane, illegal and corrupt crimes, it WON’T be “evidence that we were overreacting.” It will ONLY be BECAUSE WE DIDN’T UNDER-REACT.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/01/2026
Trump: “Sometimes you need a dictator."
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
My latest: Mark Carney just delivered the most important speech in recent Canadian history. Now, we wait for the fallout. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
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Mark Carney just shook up the world
His speech in Davos might be the most important one ever delivered by a Canadian prime minister. Its consequences will determine his place in history — and ours.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Say the hero’s name. Ahmed Al Ahmed. #Sydney #Bondi
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
This x 1,000,000
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The future of transportation isn’t the #Hyperloop* or self-driving cars. It’s the bus, the bike and the elevator. Via @slate.com. AND it’s better land-use & infrastructure decisions, reprioritizing space & budgets, accessible streets, & smart pricing mechanisms. *hyperloop was always a distraction
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The Future of Transportation Is Not the Hyperloop or the Self-Driving Car. It’s the Bus, the Bike, and the Elevator.
Getting people around in new, different ways relies mostly on technologies that we have had for a while.
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Mark Sweeney 🇨🇦 @marksweeney.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
BC Conservatives: "John Rustad is 'Professionally Incapacitated' and has been removed as Leader." John Rustad: "Nuh uh! I'm still leader! of the BC Conservative Party!" #bcpoli #cdnpoli
From the Simpsons: 
3 Panels
1: Moe (BC Conservatives) throws Barney (John Rustad) out of the bar.
2: Moe (BC Conservatives) dusts his hands off as he looks out the door of the bar.
3: Barney (John Rustad) walks up behind Moe (BC Conservatives) inside the bar.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Here's my message to MAGA ambassador Pete Hoekstra. He gaslights our nation, blames Canadians for being mean to the US. He accuses of us being anti-American. He says we are mean and nasty and doesn't like us saying Elbows Up. Too bad Pete. We are proud anti-fascists www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Jh...
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MESSAGE TO MAGA AMBASSADOR PETE HOEKSTRA
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
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Snitkicker 🇨🇦 @snitkicker.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Greenland, Panama and Canada all relax momentarily as America turns its imperialistic ambitions onto ... *checks notes* America. They're going to invade America. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
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Perkus Tooth @perkustooth.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
why terraform mars when we can turn earth into mars
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 30/08/2025
BREAKING: Nope, not yet
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 30/08/2025
Report: Entire world refreshing newsfeed for no particular reason
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Alex Berg @itsalexberg.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Harvard providing free U.S. civics courses in response to the Trump administration's attacks shows how to be petty for the greater good.
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