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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My personal rule is, always vote. Pick the least worst candidate. Pick the best referendum answer. The worst people don’t want you to vote. Vote

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

ABC is bragging they've raised $2 mil to buy this election. But guess what -- they raised $650,000, double OneCity, last year, presumably to fight the byelection and got drubbed. That said, every $ helps us get our message out. onecityvancouver.ca/people/frances…

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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“To pull the Community Housing Fund is actually a threat to public health writ large... It's like asking a carpenter to build you a bookshelf … and then they take away half the wood,” @susankimyyj.bsky.social www.biv.com/news/real-es... #yyj #bcpoli #ubcm26

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Municipalities urge B.C. to restore Community Housing Fund, realign housing targets

Victoria Coun. Susan Kim says: ‘It's like asking a carpenter to build you a bookshelf … and then they take away half the wood.’

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Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Police out of politics. In 2022 ABC's campaign manager Kareem Allam said, "We are extremely honoured to have the endorsement of the VPU." That was a dangerous precedent. Glad it's not happening again this election.

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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Vancouver doesn't have a Mamdani, but then again it doesn't need one - just vote OneCity (or Cope).

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 14/09/2026

Carfree day! Thanks @seanorr.bsky.social and @lucymaloney.bsky.social for saving this great event. Nice to see the @onecityvan.bsky.social team out in force. Also - Interesting to see the new security barriers.

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Braeden 🎣🦀🌲🦅 @bvd100.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Seattle Miracle: 1️⃣ Seattle’s tree canopy cover grew 50% (10pp) since 2007. 🌲 2️⃣ Seattle’s population has grown by about 25% (150k people) over the same timeframe. 🌆 This is an incredible civic achievement. Politicians should be shouting this from the rooftops.

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Iona Bonamis | 陶思穎 (she/her) @ionabonamis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It shouldn't require a lawyer to run for office with your given name. We're fighting for the right to use my given Chinese name 陶思穎 on the ballot. If you agree that candidates should be able to use their given names on the ballot, donate to my campaign so I can fight for fairer representation.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Once you stop trying to convince yourself that all of your policy preferences are secretely really popular if explained in the right way, you will be released from samsara

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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Vote OneCity and COPE, Vancouverites. Of course, if you don't mind being knocked off your bike and dodging cars on foot in intersections or think Nothing Can Be Done That's Just Vancouver, carry on.

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I really did it. At the Vancouver election office, signing my forms to run as a council candidate with OneCity

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sorry I was so late. I was trying to open one of those thin plastic bags in the produce aisle.

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you want to sample great food and perhaps hear surprise musical guests like DAN MANGAN, you should consider going out to one of the dozens of political soirées between now and civic election 0ct. 17. Here’s Dan at Red Cat Records tonight for our OneCity fundraiser. Omg, ty

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William Azaroff @wazaroff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My mom worked as a nurse here in Vancouver for 31 years & while it wasn’t always easy, she was able to raise my sister & me on her own and provide us a good life. Her union made that possible. #VanPoli #LabourDay2026 1/10🧵

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

weird take that's not really based in reality NDP has mostly been sitting out this election campaign, but more of their organizers supported Burrows than Azaroff in the OneCity race COPE voters locally are more aligned with the B.C. Greens than the NDP take time before making hot takes

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’m at this outdoor comedy festival right now, due to be interviewed about my political life at 6 p.m. and I’ll be hanging out indefinitely to answer questions about anything www.straight.com/arts/riot-va...

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RIOT Vancouver heads for the GreatER Outdoors Comedy Festival

The festival sees sketch comedy troupe RIOT Vancouver partner with the Mount Pleasant BIA.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It’s a traditional Japanese instrument called shamisen. It has only three strings. 🤯🎸🎶🎵

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm guessing Mayor Sim and team were a bit stung by this not-very-coherent response, plus all the negative stuff from many corners about them running a $500,000 survey, so they've posted a 15-pages "paper" with "footnotes" about their reasons over on Facebook ads

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Live-tweeting of the emergency meeting re plebiscite

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Oh, golly, this is so tiresome. I sometimes feel like I'm living in the Trump house

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

After cancelling the final council meeting before the election because ABC Vancouver said they ran out of time to get through everything, they've called an emergency council meeting to add their opinion poll to this October's election council.vancouver.ca/20260814/doc...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I’ve worked closely with a LOT of municipal politicians over my 34 years in city-making. Many come in thinking they already have all the answers. Some come in asking really good questions. I’ll talk with any Vancouver candidate who asks. @wazaroff.bsky.social has been asking great questions.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 09/08/2026

The “near collapse of civic friendship is a catastrophic threat to public life,” Robert P. George writes. “Restoring it depends on our capacity to practice civil discourse, which in turn requires us to acknowledge our fallibility.”

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The Two Great Threats to Truth

Moral relativism and fanaticism may seem to have nothing in common, but they lead to the same result.

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Tarnjit Parmar @tarnjitparmar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We are launching a live special right now across bc on cbc radio. Hearing from reporters im the area and residents that have been evacuated. We have the survival information you need to know.

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Our beautiful city and the people in it. Main Street festival

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The Binners Project is out in force at the Main Street festival keeping things tidy. Hellen Karanja is here staffing one of the many stations

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A lot of excitement at the Main Street festival over Indigenous band The Halluci Nation about to play. Shayla McLaren-Gabriel, of Kwantlen Nation (now living in Kits) and friend Jen Winter from Burnaby pretty excited to see them (and eat butter chicken poutine)

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Main Street is hoppin! Great street festival where you too could learn to pole dance from Atse Beyene. (I opted not to, ha ha)

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Great to connect today with Steve Ko and King Wan at today’s Chinatown Light Up festival organized by the indefatigable Carol Lee. (Somewhere out there is a pic with Sarah Kirby-Jung photobombing us

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Chinatown wonderfully lively and fun today with the launch of the Light Up festival. Sadly, some general dismay that Mayor Sim and ABC chose to politicize a community event by using their stage time to announce a new council candidate

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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'd love to credit whoever wrote this. No idea. But I'm 100% with its message. When I think of how the '80s ethos, "Greed is Good" has metastasized, it surprises and depresses me. Imagine having so many millions, hundred of millions, even billions & caring about nothing except your own vanity.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Almost every city in the world needs to urgently understand the need to get really good at planning and designing for shade. #UrbanHeat

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I’ve never been a street fair/parades/crowds kinda person but this weekend (Dyke March, Powell St Festival, Pride Parade) was so much fun for mingling with happy people celebrating life. Among them, my neighbour, Willow, whose daughter Sophie organized Powell and took it to a big new level

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 31/07/2026

you can have neighbourhood of multimillion-dollar single family homes or you can have a vibrant, walkable neighbourhood of shops and restaurants but babe, you cannot have both in one place

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 29/07/2026

AI "will likely accelerate differences already underway. Commercial news organizations will use more automation. Public broadcasters will include more human oversight. And independent outlets will focus more on stories written and reported wholly by people." www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/how-...

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How three newsrooms are charting different paths for AI use

In our recent research, we examined how three different media outlets — Reuters, the BBC, and The Guardian — were deploying AI in their workflows.

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

You know, ABC/Sim had the option to quietly ask staff not to bring the villages plan to council before the election. It's almost like they wanted to create a firestorm then swoop in to "save" the city. Interesting election strategy.

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Interesting that ABC has decided that killing off future missing-middle homes is an ideal fundraising pitch

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Brief commercial break here. If you join my OneCity gang of fun, progressive but practical idealists or come out canvassing with us, you will likely get some of my cooking at some point. Just sayin’

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I just tuned in to commenters on the villages plan. So far, I hear people asking for guarantees of top services on dozens of issues — transit, community centres, affordability, business support, trees for — that don’t exist in any other parts of the city. Interesting

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Political campaigning for a newbie like me has had a few surprise bumps, but one of the nicest parts is the people support. Today, a 30-something woman who looked like she was on her way to some important office on West Hastings called out “so excited to vote for you” when she saw my buttons.

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Lucy Maloney @lucymaloney.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

New hyperscale AI data centres are coming to Vancouver. We need to make sure our laws are up to the task of regulating them, constraining bad actors, and addressing any risks to the community. I gave ABC a chance to do all of that. Instead, they voted the motion down, calling it 'red tape'.

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is something I’ve been talking about for years. There did used to be housing for extremely poor people —- and it was terrible. We’ve steadily made it more expensive to build but never wanted to admit that was making it unaffordable to the poorest or to fix the gap with subsidies

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 22/07/2026

5 storey rental building going up next to the ~3 & 4 storey Vancouver Co-Housing (33rd Ave) VCH had to go through years of epic approval process and design review to get their project approved. Neighbours complained (a lot) but then many were happy when families w young kids moved in.

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I came across a little village the city created several years ago with no fuss or fanfare: 22nd/Rupert. It had a small node for years then got boosted with a few new buildings that gives the corner a bit more heft. A good location, provides some extras in a retail-sparse area

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Fabulous to run into Melissa Lem at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival this morning, while I was campaign schmoozing in between sets. Melissa, a doctor and advocate with Canadian Assoc of Physicians for the Environment, does amazing work speaking out on environmental issues.

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Loving the craft thing going on at the blanket next to me, three young women, two knitting, one with an embroidery hoop

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Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Sunday service, Vancouver Folk Music Festival

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