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@depaneuse.bsky.social
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Expert en logiciel, amateur de ⚽️, papa deux fois. Lives in beautiful Vancouver, cycles, screams at clouds.

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crompsy @crompsy.com · 05/10/2026
THIS. ⚡️🗳️⚡️
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The article from CBC: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Vancouver police issue more than 200 tickets, 1,000 warnings in e-scooter enforcement blitz | CBC News
Vancouver police say they've handed out more than 200 tickets and over 1,000 warnings as a part of a blitz targeting unsafe e-scooter riders.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Vancouver Police misses the mark completely on this ideological campaign to curb death and injury coming from e-scooter riders. 1 death vs 40 the last 4 years caused by cars and trucks yet they target e-scooters. Thousands more injured by C&T. Number of fines to; - e-scooter: +10,000% - C&T: -60%
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Vancouver police issue more than 200 tickets, 1,000 warnings in e-scooter enforcement blitz | CBC News
Vancouver police say they've handed out more than 200 tickets and over 1,000 warnings as a part of a blitz targeting unsafe e-scooter riders.
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Lucy Maloney @lucymaloney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Vehicle crashes are a significant source of preventable injury and death in Vancouver, and traffic-related fatalities have skyrocketed under ABC, who have taken no meaningful steps to improve safety for pedestrians, cyclists, seniors, and schoolchildren. We can change that.
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Lucy Maloney @lucymaloney.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Road safety is public safety. Every year, the numbers speak for themselves. I'm proud of my work on Council to bring traffic fatalities and injuries to zero. We need political will to deliver results, and Ken Sim and ABC have shown us time and again that this isn't a priority for them.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
READ: If you haven’t seen this yet, please take a look. Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people from making rational judgements about driving. This study co-authored by @ianwalker.bsky.social looks at where this bias comes from & how it works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Screetshot of study title “Why Do Cars Get A Free Ride?” #CarBrain #Motonormativity
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OneCity Vancouver @onecityvan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Commute got you down? We can fix that. OneCity Candidate Iona Bonamis 陶思穎 outlines Project Greenlight, which could save you weeks of your life in traffic. If you want City Hall to help you get you where you're going faster, volunteer, donate, and VOTE OneCity. #transit #vanpoli
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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Empty Homes 🤝 ABC After voting down increases to the Empty Homes Tax, and creating new loopholes for developers to leave empty homes vacant, and giving $3.8M to developers in EHT earmarked for affordable housing... ABC signs are now popping up in front of empty apartments and lots across the city.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Four years ago the vancouver municipal elections had 35% voters turnout. Help out by taking this poll before the election: create.engageleap.ca/elections/va... @brenttoderian.bsky.social @jmcelroy.bsky.social @fabulavancouver.bsky.social @savethecbc.bsky.social @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social
create.engageleap.ca
EngageLeap
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What happened to needing private investors for the project to make sense? This new pipeline is 90% public money. We’re all paying for it. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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Opinion: Is it really a good idea for the government to subsidize a pipeline?
Designating the West Coast pipeline as a project of national interest exposes a global reality: Fossil fuels haven’t just lost to clean energy – they’ve already lost
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s remarkable how many people can move on a street when those people don’t feel the need to always take a massive car with them. Mobility in cities is about space.
Busy European street with buses filled with people in a long line of people on bikes, waiting for the light to change in a separated, protected bike lane. Imagine if all those people or each in a separate car.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For those curious, we unfortunately will not be doing a Vancouver debate. Ken Sim's team decided to focus on a limited number of events (five in total) with other organizations, telling us "we're making sure [voters] hear directly from us about our record." As they say, it is what it is.
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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is more to keeping people safe than skyrocketing police budgets. Ken Sim and ABC voted down safety measures for pedestrians, for vulnerable people, and for climate safety. COPE will fight for a Vancouver that is safe for everyone.
COPE Policy 2026
MAKE VANCOUVER SAFE FOR EVERYONE (everyone is underlined)
There is more to keeping people safe than skyrocketing police budgets.In 2022, Ken Sim and ABC ran on a platform of “public safety” using outdated and inflated crime rates. This time around, they are using outdated crime statistics to create a false narrative while pushing a costly & meaningless plebiscite to distract voters from their failures.

HEADLINE: Vancouver police union, mayor's party cite dated crime statistic in lead up to election

Instead of keeping our communities safe, they’ve thrown hundreds of millions into the overinflated police budget while voting down safety measures for pedestrians, for vulnerable people, and for climate safety.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Vancouver votes Oct 17. Here's a quick poll on what issues people actually care about, not what the campaigns say we do. Results go public Oct 14, 3 days before the vote. See where the city actually stands: create.engageleap.ca/elections/va...
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 28/09/2026
Really fantastic to see "reduce pedestrian fatalities" in the COPE public safety pillar of their platform, with tangible concrete actions. Great work from @copevancouver.bsky.social recognizing that road safety = public safety.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Common problem
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Subsidies to corporations and businesses are quite common in our societies. Some say most jobs are created this way. However when subsidies go against available resources and health of citizen you have to wonder why these are approved. Accountability is missing.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You need money to build public housing. There hasn’t been money since Mulroney divested in social housing then Chrétien and Martin killed it. In the mean time, any solution in mind?
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Subsidies to the rich is the only constant for this municipal gov. Across party lines. You would think owners of 10 million $ homes could afford sandbags.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How would you propose we dramatically increase supply? Seems like the point where the two visions collide. Michael is suggesting you need for profit developers to do that and they will build high end (high profit) units. I would argue, reality supports that statement.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Should the province or the feds pay for city sewers? Water treatment plants? Of course not. If the federal/provincial gov pays for those infrastructure it tells all the cities that they can mismanage their funds, under-tax their citizen and let sewers burst. This discussion needs to happen.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That picture represents what's wrong with north american cities. Infrastructure is in disrepair? Maintenance is pushed back till sewers explode? The city is a corporation that should build what it has the means to maintain. Simple as that.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That picture is perfect. Here's a modern city (Vancouver) that tries to give everyone (who can afford it) a single family home. They do this with all the services you would assume a modern city offers. But how do they pay for it if every family owns 4000 square feet of land? They can't
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m glad the Tyee is doing a profile on the likely future mayor of vancouver but I’m not sure the tone is adequate. Vancouverites more than anything want to see a mayor that is professional and will manage this city as best as possible. They recognize Ken Sim’s shortcomings.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More discussion on the municipal elections. More information. Good stuff!
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Typical “not a solution” policy from ABC who are trying their best to be relevant. 4 years of their amateurism has cost vancouverites greatly. They exploit fear in the worst possible way to no result.
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Michael Wiebe @michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Vancouver has a housing shortage because it prioritized maintaining its single-family neighborhood character. blog.michaelwiebe.com/p/how-vancou...
blog.michaelwiebe.com
How Vancouver planned a housing shortage
The city put neighbourhood character first and housing supply second
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good ole politics that.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This has to be said, Ken Sim has been an enormous void in terms of leadership. Instead of being a beacon he has returned into small mind topics and focused on what matters for a very small group of people at the expense of everyone else.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Vancouver is a majority progressive city. We shouldn’t be ruled by regressive mayors.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The least qualified mayor needs to go. Being incompetent cannot be rewarded.
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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Notice served. One month til election day. Ken Sim and ABC have been working for their super-rich backers, while the rest of us get left behind. COPE is fighting to make the city more affordable, reverse the damage of Ken Sim, and to give power back to the people. Vote the COPE slate on Oct 17.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
One Month to End Tenancy for Cause
Residential Tenancy Act, s.47, s.48 and Manufactured Home Park Tenancy Act, s.40, s.41
#RTB-33

THIS IS AN EVICTION NOTICE

☑ Vancouver City Hall ☑ School Board ☑ Park Board

TO THE MAYOR AND RULING PARTY
SIM, KEN
ABC VANCOUVER

WE, THE TENANTS OF VANCOUVER, GIVE YOU ONE MONTH TO VACATE
You must move out of office by: 2026/10/17

REASON FOR THIS ONE MONTHS EVICTION NOTICE (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
☑ Giving $3.8M to rich developers earmarked for afforable housing
☑ Scapegoating the poor and homeless
☑ Stopping new supportive housing
☑ Slashing climate safety programs
☑ Shutting down the Renters Office

Residential Tenancy Branch
#RTB-33
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
incredible things are happening in the politics
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Huuuuuuuh scandal! A party leader spies on a journalist!?! Findlay should resign immediately
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone but Sim really. Fry is a green as in, he likes grass a lot, but he’s competent and has integrity. Two things Sim does not have.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
More of this discussion please. We need ambition for this community to be great. Right now BC is scared of talking about building things, scared of raising taxes.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Urban areas sterilized by a blanket of grey asphalt, built for the speed and convenience of machines will never appeal to the livability that humans, animals, and nature desire. But this, yes.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Currently about 2/3rds of all Dutch children walk or bike to school, with 75% of secondary school kids cycling to school. By enabling safe and active travel, #Dutch cities prevent an estimated one million car journeys to school each morning.” — @modacitylife.bsky.social in book #CurbingTraffic
Teens riding bikes on Copenhagen bike infrastructure. #LetKidsBike #LetKidsWalk
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So the police getting more funding is resulting in more people getting hurt
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Probability of Apprehension: Evidence compiled by organizations like the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) suggests that penalties only work as a deterrent if enforcement is consistent and drivers believe they are genuinely likely to get caught.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The limits of knowledge are bordered by ignorance.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yes Margie is excellent! To me the 60% figure is a scandal. BC has such little journalism especially on local issues that i doubt it’ll be talked about.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Road safety is safety and yet the VPD has handed over 60% less road fines than 10 years ago. With a lot more cars on the roads. The explanation is simple, their budget is now so big they don’t need the fines to operate anymore. So road safety is not a priority anymore.
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Rob Cottingham @robcottingham.ca · 13/09/2026
This is a really good point. The right loves to reframe safety as a purely crime-related issue. And more serious threats to our well-being — including road safety — go unaddressed.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And you sir are an expert in road design because …
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you are in Vancouver take a look at what @visionzerovancouver.ca did, super guide on the upcoming elections visionzerovancouver.ca/vote/?zlinki...
visionzerovancouver.ca
Election 2026
We asked each party to commit to implementing key road safety measures if they form government, within their first year in office.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
prioritizing transit and bikes over cars is a massive public health win
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Jacques Nacouzi @jacouzi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Le paradis.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Compare those numbers to highways on the same corridor. I dare you. It’s infrastructure, one and the other. But one of those requires a massive private investment in a car that the other doesn’t require.
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Mayor of Gastown @mayorofgastown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Now do the same math for highways.
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