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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

❤️ @ttcriders.bsky.social “Public transit is a right. “Frequent service and affordable fares will win back transit users. “Public transit is a climate solution. When transit is frequent, reliable, and affordable, more people will use it and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” www.ttcriders.ca

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The province’s position “amounts to the erasure of Innu history,” Innu Nation Grand Chief Simon Pokue said. “It is contrary to the accepted historical and archaeological record and dismisses the knowledge, history, and lived experience of our people.”

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We need to teach kids cycling safety but what do you tell them when the only safe place to ride is the sidewalk? I recently did a #PedalPollSondoVelo count on a busy street near several schools and a park. All but 2 of the cyclists I counted were riding on the sidewalk. ntv.ca/news/rnc-hig...

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RNC highlight importance of bike safety - NTV: Newfoundland and Labrador's Most Trusted News Source

The RNC is reminding cyclists and all road users of the importance of bicycle safety. With summer upon us and children heading outdoors to play, there will be more cyclists on our roadways. With such ...

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Shared Responsibility. @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

black car with a red x and a bright yellow car with a green check mark.
It's getting dark out earlier, be sure to add a bright coat of paint to your vehicle. Remember road safety is a shared responsibility.

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

If you still haven't voted in the St. John's election, have a look at candidate responses to Bicycle NL questions on active transportation. In fact, even if you have voted, have a look. The responses are so heartening--real cultural shift on this issue: bicyclenl.com/2025-st-john...

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2025 St. John’s Municipal Election Questionnaire Results – Bicycle Newfoundland and Labrador

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

You may have heard on The Independent that 3 MUN students are part of the current Freedom Flotilla, delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza. Please read the linked petition and consider signing. Sincerely, Barry docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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An Open Letter from the Memorial University Community Concerning University Students Aboard the Freedom Flotilla

To: The Prime Minister of Canada, The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada's Ambassador to Israel, The Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Canadian Elected Officials We, the undersigned from the...

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

For anyone in St. John's still undecided, here are the comments from the at-large candidates in the municipal election on accessibility and transportation (including active and public transportation). roadrage.blog/2025/09/21/a...

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At Large Candidate Debate, St. John’s Elections

At Large Transportation Notes:It was really wonderful that so many candidates were well informed on this issue. Since that was the case, I won’t try to tell you who to vote for but I will mak…

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

For anyone who's interested in St. John's elections, I transcribed what candidates had to say about transportation and accessibility. Here's a link to comments from Ward 2 candidates with the rest to follow. roadrage.blog/2025/09/21/w...

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Ward 2 Candidate Debate, St. John’s Elections

The St. John’s candidate debates this year were wonderfully refreshing in that almost all the candidates emphasized accessibility, better public transit and clear sidewalks year round. Most a…

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I am so looking forward to @tomflood.bsky.social's talk in September!

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Jeremy Caradonna @jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The culture wars over cycling need to stop in this country. It is incumbent upon elected officials to ask “what is the best way to ensure that people can get around safely, equitably, affordably, and efficiently?” Walking, cycling, and mass transit are major parts of the answer.

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The new Newfoundland and Labrador Climate Change Mitigation Plan falls short in the area of Transportation. Even though it accounts for 44% of our emissions, their only suggestion is more electric vehicles. @parismarx.com has other, more practical ideas. theindependent.ca/commentary/m...

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Province misses opportunity to reimagine public transportation in climate action plan – The Independent

Transportation accounts for 44 per cent of Newfoundland and Labrador’s greenhouse gas emissions

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Exploring new science podcasts since Quirks and Quarks is on vacation. I loved this one so I thought I'd share: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/o...

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Salugenology (WHY HUMANS REQUIRE HOBBIES) Part 1 with Julia Hotz

Podcast Episode · Ologies with Alie Ward · 2025-04-23 · 1h 7m

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

It's so great that we now have skate parks and cycle tracks in St. John's but basket swings, hammock nets and more types of seating (including with shelter from rain and wind) would be great too.

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This is so striking, and I had not really thought about this specific contrast before. How did we get here??

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Sara F.L. Kirk @sflkirk.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Removing choice in transportation mode is inequitable. Not everyone can drive - like children, older adults or people with disabilities. Thanks to the Halifax Examiner for publishing my commentary. Currently not paywalled: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/b...

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Bike lanes don’t cause congestion, cars do - Halifax Examiner

If our premier and HRM mayor truly want to demonstrate fiscal responsibility they’d build those bike lanes faster, because the cost of car-centric infrastructure is unsustainable.

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · 13/06/2025

🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community? Happy City Campaign School - Building a Campaign and Communicating Change panel featuring: Deatra Walsh Jess Puddister Shannie Duff 📅 June 14, 9AM 📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall 📱 Register via QR code! It's Free! See you tomorrow!

Happy City Campaign School flyer announcing panelists for Building a Campaign and Communicating Change discussion. Features three professional headshots: Deatra Walsh (white woman with curly brown hair wearing dark top against red wooden siding background), Independent Consultant; Jess Puddister (white woman with long blonde hair and glasses wearing dark blazer against yellow wooden siding background), Strategy and Operations Manager with Nunavut Nukkiksautiit Corporation; and Shannie Duff (white woman with short curly reddish hair wearing gold/yellow top against blue background), Former Mayor of St. John's. Event details: Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM, located at MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine, DH2002. Includes QR code for registration. Sponsored by Memorial University, Harris Centre, Deucor, and The Hub. Red and blue color scheme with white background.

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Transport Action Canada @transportaction.ca · 13/06/2025

The local community has started a petition to restore passenger train service to Whistler, BC. Please sign and share! chng.it/WzPpgSdpqM

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Build the Train! Vancouver to Whistler - The Sea to Skytrain

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

@rgwhitaker.bsky.social this is another thing I wish drivers (and planners) knew. My ebike is also my mobility aid.

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

We still have shifts available in St. John's for velocanadabikes.org/pedalpoll/. If you have two hours to help out on Tuesday or Saturday this week, you can sign up at this link or contact me for more information. Also, please share with your networks.

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Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo

Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo 2024 is taking place June 4 to 9. The count is a chance to evaluate the state of cycling in our communities. Together we get a “snapshot” of what cycling looks like in communitie...

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Robin Whitaker @rgwhitaker.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Fellow cyclists: I'm planning a playful educational piece for @independentnl.bsky.social's Making Connections column on 'things cyclists wish drivers knew.' Share your wishes here or by DM & tell me how you want to be credited (eg: Robin in St. John's wishes..) thx! theindependent.ca/commentary/i...

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Introducing ‘Making Connections’ – The Independent

Welcome to The Independent’s new series on transportation in Newfoundland and Labrador

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Pedal Poll starts in nine days. Please help us gather data to advocate for safe cycling routes! If you can do even one two-hour shift it would really help. Here's a 3 minute video about the Pedal Poll with a link to the sign-up sheet. Please re-share too--thanks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea2r...

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Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo 2025 - How to participate

YouTube video by Vélo Canada Bikes

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Transport Action Atlantic @transportactionatl.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Wow - UK-focused but much will surely be applicable to 🇨🇦 as well - topics include transportation poverty, disabled people's access transport needs, a just transition for transit and more. Downloading now!

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 9/10 memoirs: The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets by Bart Moore-Gilbert #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

This book cover is yellow at the bottom merging gradually into red at the top, sunset style, with an Indian looking lattice pattern superimposed over it (or maybe I'm just imagining it's Indian because the book is about India). In the centre is a sepia photo of a man in a tropical type uniform. I believe it is Bart Moore-Gilbert's father, who was in the Indian Police, though that too is a guess based on the content of the book.

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 8/10 memoirs: All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Saga by Teresa Wong #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

This book cover is hand drawn, graphic novel style (and the book is a graphic, well, not a novel, but a graphic memoir). The colours are exquisite: deep sapphire blue and black water, two people in deep shade with highlighted areas in bright turquoise, and a crimson rope linking them. Text of title and author overlaid in white.

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 7/10 memoirs: The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

The cover is bright citrus yellow with a jigsaw pattern of geometric shapes cut from, presumably, the author's family photos in black and white and some undecorated brightly coloured shapes to round out the design. Other information on the cover, apart from title and author noted above are: a blurb from Dwight Garner (NY Times) stating, "A major book that I suspect will be among the essential memoirs of this vexing decade;" a black medallion inscribed "The New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2019;" a gold medallion inscribed "National Book Award Winner;" and, in red "A New York Times Bestseller."

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 6/10 memoirs: Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #Beaches

"Compelling...sharply observed, clued up, environmentally aware and deeply researched" says the blurb from the Independent at the bottom of the cover image, which is of a beach. It's quite an ordinary looking beach: beige sand, some wooden fencing and water in the distance shining in the evening (or perhaps early morning) sun. The title is in red against an evening or early morning sky, palely glowing, with author's name in black below. I agree with the blurb. I seem to remember this book had slightly mixed reviews but I loved it.

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 5/10 memoirs: The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam: An Illustrated Memoir by Ann Marie Fleming #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

This book cover is a vivid light-filled turquoise with the title and author printed in white, along with a blurb from the Globe and Mail: "A delightful look at just how wide one life can spread." The extraordinary life of Chinese acrobat and magician, Long Tack Sam, did indeed "spread wide," over at least four continents, and his great-granddaughter, Ann Marie Fleming's telling of his story is a masterpiece of research and mixed media. (It's a film too, free to watch online at https://www.nfb.ca/film/the_magical_life_of_long_tack_sam/.) To get back to the ALT text cover description, there's also a coloured ink (I think) drawing of a man in a traditional bright yellow Chinese gown and hat holding a fiery sparkler over a black dragon with a multi-coloured face surrounded by stars.)

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 4/10 memoirs: The Color of Water by James McBride #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 3/10 memoirs: Deeper Than Indigo: Tracing Thomas Machell, Forgotten Explorer by Jenny Balfour Paul #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

The image shows the cover of the book referenced in the post, its title and author and a blurb from A.N. Wilson: "One of the most remarkable books I've ever read." The cover is stark black with white lettering. The only image is a replica of an envelope or packaging of some kind with 19th century stamps (I assume, knowing the content of the book) in red and blue (the only colour featured) and handwriting that is partly occluded by the postage franks but the legible part says "Machell" and "Calcutta, India." Like A. N. Wilson, I also thought it was a remarkable book: for its strangeness, its lyrical story of love across centuries, and its scholarly detail--not to say obsession.

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 2/10 memoirs: Belonging: A German Reckons With History And Home by Nora Krug #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

The cover of the book features a view of a green valley with a bit of blue water in the distance and two red roofed houses in the foreground. I think it's intended to look (and probably is, since it's a photo) rural and German. Superimposed on this scene are two more layers: a red bordered label at the top with the author's name and title (noted in the text of my post) and a cartoon drawing of a brightly clad young woman standing on a rock looking out over the valley. One more detail that you only notice when you look closely is that the photo of the bucolic valley seems to be printed on lined yellow writing paper, perhaps suggesting old documents and hidden histories.

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 1/10 memoirs: Giving Up The Ghost by Hilary Mantel #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

I love how alt text lets you write more. It's like a secret message that maybe will never be read, or maybe it will, either by someone who can't see the photo or by someone who, like me, is fascinated by how people describe their images and keeps hoping they'll do it more imaginatively. Anyway, this photo shows one of several covers of Hilary Mantel's memoir, Giving Up The Ghost, the deeply sad and searingly witty story of Mantel's childhood loss of her father through family breakdown and her later inability to have children of her own. In this version of the cover, a wooden but pink cushioned and vaguely Victorian "sidechair" stands in the middle of a room suffused with sunlight. The light streams through closed and gauzily curtained French doors framing a garden outside and making patterns on a wide plank probably pine floor inside. The colour scheme is dusty rose and spring bud, muted versions of the complementary Christmas primaries, red and green.

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I'm writing a memoir and need to make lists of 10 favourite memoirs and 10 books that resemble my own (the latter because publishers want to know what similar books are already out there). So @heidiklaassen.bsky.social's post seems like my "sign" that it's time to do that. First one coming up.

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Excellent new article for our series, Making Connections. And a good question from my co-editor, @rgwhitaker.bsky.social-- reasons for using or not using the bus? #YYT #StJohns #PublicTransit #bus #Pedestrian #Sidewalks

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Dave Daniels @davedaniels.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

@tomflood.bsky.social someone in dt Vancouver doesn't want to be free??? Tried to push it back up as best I could. 🚲👍❤️💪

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Elizabeth Yeoman @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The same tulips on my kitchen table, a week apart. Sylvia Plath wrote, "The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here." It's a very sad poem and I don't feel about tulips as she did but this seems to describe my tulips and their context. #tulips #SylviaPlath #winter #spring #drawing #Derwent

A brown and green Lorenzen jug holding some tightly furled and very upright multicoloured tulips on a table covered with an oilcloth decorated with dragonflies. The wings and head of one of the dragonflies emerge from under the jug so it looks as though the jug squashed it but I didn't do that on purpose!

The same jug with the tulips now wide open, lolling all over the place, some missing fallen petals. The table is now white because I got tired of drawing dragonflies, but I think I did a better job on the jug in this one. It feels more three dimensional and shows the reflected light better, at least in my opinion. (The medium is mostly Derwent aquarelle coloured pencils by the way. Also, I love how alt text allows me to write so much more than the regular caption feature!)

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