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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good morning to everyone except Alliance Grain Terminal Ltd which is puking out a cloud of grain dust, a proven respiratory hazard, across East Vancouver.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Automakers: “We are just delivering what our customers are asking us for.”

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please send your friend this @lucymaloney.bsky.social council update from July 18 - www.onecityvancouver.ca/news/oc_upda...

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

City of North Vancouver added Jersey barriers to approaches of new Crosscut Bridge, a $17-million pedestrian and cycling connector over Highway 1 -- BECAUSE A MOTORIST DROVE THEIR VEHICLE OVER IT. Bridge temporarily closed for engineering assessment. Pics: Geoff Fawkes, Facebook.

Approach to Crosscut Bridge seen with offset concrete barriers.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It IS indeed disabled by default in the EU - here's a screen shot of the pop-up under the "Learn more" prompt.

Learn how smart features use your Google Workspace content & activity
Important: By default, smart feature settings are off if you live in:

The European Economic Area
Japan
Switzerland
United Kingdom

When smart features are on, your data may be used to improve these features. Across Google and Workspace, we’ve long shared robust privacy commitments that outline how we protect user data and prioritize privacy. Generative AI doesn’t change these commitments — it actually reaffirms their importance. Learn how Gemini in Gmail, Chat, Docs, Drive, Sheets, Slides, Meet & Vids protects your data.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Here’s hoping they move on to banning the export of garbage products like this.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Drop a pic of your first phone. Here’s mine. Nokia 6190.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hey everyone, let’s keep our guard up for shit like this, K?

Screenshot of CBC news headlines about creeping law enforcement interest in and trials of FLOCK style surveillance cameras.

Montreal police take down high-powered surveillance camera after Radio-Canada story

Edmonton Police Service partners with U.S. company to test use of facial-recognition bodycams

Facial recognition technology gains popularity with police, intensifying calls for regulation

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sent up the whirlybird this past week for some fresh pics of BC Housing’s stunning and innovative Vienna House project. My company has documented it since it was a set of digital sketches.

Drone pic of new six storey housing project in vancouver.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Recently accessed a 50% BC Hydro rebate to install a Level 2 charger on our small #Vancouver apt building. Overnight we added 338kms of range for $6.11. We bought this 2021 Kia Soul in November. Ask me anything. #ElectrifyEverything

Our 2021 Kia Soul Limited charging at our West End Vancouver apartment building.

Dashboard remaining range indicator showing 430kms at full charge, enough to get us to the Okanagan.

Screenshot from our charging app showing 47 kilowatt hours added to battery.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Thank you 🙏🏻 for all the hot showers, but your services are no longer required. #HeatPumpSummer #ElectrifyEverything

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

At @cagbc.org conference and reminded that almost nine in 10 Canadians support stronger energy performance requirements in new housing. abacusdata.ca/canadians-se...

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This is quite good if you haven’t yet read it.

Book cover for KILLED BY A TRAFFIC ENGINEER: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underties Our Transportation
System by WES MARSHALL

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Climate stripes data for my home Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Credit: Prof. @edhawkins.org | University of Reading | showyourstripes.info #ShowYourStripes

Climate stripes chart depicts temperature changes in Vancouver, B.C. Canada between 1850 and 2024 in degrees Celsius relative to average of 1961-2010 period. Red bars begin around 1980 showing hotter than average years, with the 2021 heat dome notable as a dark red spike.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I guess it was inevitable that Canada’s conservative leader would set his sights on high-speed rail - the most exciting 🇨🇦 zero-carbon nation-building project since I dunno - and start throwing around lingo like “boondoggle.” 🙄

Rendering of a green ALTO electrified high speed train traveling through a snowy Canadian landscape.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Thank you @michellemorton.bsky.social for sharing the story of Gob the Very Social Marmot who is evidently “all about the peanut butter.” Much needed timeline cleanse.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

This natural gas boiler has been producing hot water for my small midcentury apartment building since 1975. We will finally retire it next month and replace it with a pair of electric heat pumps. Stay tuned.

A battleship grey LAARS MightyTherm domestic hot water boiler, a stout steel box surrounded by piping and pumps.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Live: Merran Smith and @danwoy.bsky.social are presenting highlights of the #CleanBC Review www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... #ClimateAction #bcpoli

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

SCOOP: After referring @lucymaloney.bsky.social "Safe Streets for Trick or Treats" motion direct to nowheresville this morning, ABC Vancouver releases list of "motorist-friendly" 🎃 fun costume ideas. Here's a sneak peek!

Child wearing STOP sign halloween costume.

Child wearing traffic light halloween costume.

Child wearing reflective traffic cone halloween costume.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Look what just arrived! Looking forward to digging in on LIFE AFTER CARS and catching @sgoodyear.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social in convo with @lucymaloney.bsky.social here in #Vancouver on Nov 8, hosted by @visionzerovancouver.ca. Tix here: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/01/l...

Cover of hardback edition of "LIFE AFTER CARS: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile," By Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon, hosts of the War on Cars podcast, and Aaron Naparstek. The cover illustration depicts an abandoned or obsolete traffic light, overgrown with greenery.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Another gross example of the degree to which we normalize traffic violence: A child and a vehicle somehow “collide” in a crosswalk outside an elementary school. Slow clap to Maple Ridge - Pitt Meadows News, owned by Black Press Media.

Child and vehicle collide outside elementary school in
Maple Ridge

Staff at Golden Ears Elementary asking drivers to stay alert and be patient

GOLDEN EARS ELEMENTARY
A student was hit by a vehicle outside Golden Ears Elementary School on Thursday, Oct. 9. / (Google Maps/Special to The
No١٨٢)

News story follows:

A student at Golden Ears Elementary School collided with a vehicle while using a crosswalk outside of the school, and went to the hospital by ambulance.

The incident happened during the morning drop-off on Tuesday, Oct. 7, and, according to a letter penned to Golden Ears families, it was witnessed by a number of students and staff.

First responders attended promptly, the letter signed by Tom and Tracey noted, and the student was taken to hospital for medical assessment.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The purpose of the motion is to allow more accessible & more affordable housing options in every neighbourhood, on the kind of streets people most want to live on – those that are quieter, safer, and less polluted. (2/3)

City of Vancouver rendering of the St. George Rainway

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

On Wed Sep 17, City of Vancouver Councillor @lucymaloney.bsky.social will intro a motion that aims to unlock new apartment buildings up to six floors, and corner stores, on quiet Vancouver streets, including cycling routes and local streets around parks. (1/3)

A six floor apartment building in Vancouver’s West End

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Sleep Country's most recent Annual Information Form, covering fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2023, shows net income at a healthy $71.5 million. It is solidly profitable. And look down here here in its "RISKS" section for a clue about why it has successfully fended off disposal regulations. (4 of 6)

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Actual candid photo of yours truly listening to a tax / accounting person explain how to calculate and report grossed up dividends as personal income.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Just learned there is a small neighborhood in East Vancouver called “Dickens.” It appears to be mostly residential and retail; I don’t see many workhouses…?

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Last night Vancouver council unanimously ✅ voted to reboot its #VisionZero work to focus on actions shown to actually reduce road violence. I’m so proud of Councillor @lucymaloney.bsky.social. Her hard work and leadership on this will save lives.

Graphic shows an illustration of a streetscape and with BRING ROAD DEATHS DOWN TO
ZERO text overlay and a PASSED stamp below it.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Today Kindred Construction craned the first five prefabricated + thermally broken Sapphire Balconies (@sapphirebalconies.bsky.social) onto the south facade of BC Housing’s Vienna House project. Really nice deep porches for this #passivehouse affordable housing community in East Vancouver.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Should we feel any compassion for men who buy dangerously oversized pickups? While captured regulators shrug, automakers manipulate (vulnerable? undereducated?) bros into believing these murder machines will make them more powerful & masculine. They’re suckers, and we’re all the ultimate victims.

A small child stands in front of and is dwarfed by the grill of an oversized Ford pickup truck.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

“I miss my pre-Internet brain.” -Douglas Coupland

A 12” single of New Order’s “True Faith - Remix” is playing on a vintage FONS turntable.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I went looking for more info on the "Agentic Web" and found a manifesto / advertorial on Forbes penned by a bro who leads a company called "Decidr." Who's ready to embrace the promise of unfathomable possibility...? 🫠

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Thank you for your faithful service to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Comrade COSMOS 482. We award you the Order of Lenin. 🫡

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Celebrating Australia’s defeat of Dear-Leader-tinged populism by re-upping this @troyagain.bsky.social tiktok clip that lifted our spirits up here. We’ve got your back too, mate. 🇨🇦 👊🏻 🇦🇺

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

That’s not a C19 booster, it’s an #MMR. I’m 56 and until this past week had zero #measles immunity. I'd long assumed I'd received a measles jab somewhere along the line in early childhood. Serology confirmed otherwise. If you're a #GenX Canadian, maybe you also slipped through the cracks?

Selfie of the author receiving a vaccination injection against measles, mumps, and rubella.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Canadians head to the polls today in the most consequential election imaginable. At stake is nothing less than our existence as a sovereign nation. Every vote matters. Every. Single. One. #ElbowsUp #Never51 #TeamCarney

Screenshot of Truth Social post by U.S. President Donald Trump on April 28, 2025. Text reads:
“Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!”

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

New cross-border numbers are out and frankly this is pathetic. We can do much better than this, Canada. Chart via @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social - which calls this dip “calamitous.”

Graphic compares travel from
Canada to the United States via passenger vehicle, pedestrian, and air, between March 2024 and March 2025. Vehicles declined from 3.4 million to 2.5 million, peds from 162,600 to 120,800, and air travelers down from 1.4 million to 1.3 million. Source: USCBP.

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

#Vancouver City Manager Paul Mochrie apologizes for yesterday’s by-election shitshow. Thoughts?

Today, City Manager Paul Mochrie released the following statement regarding the April 5, 2025 municipal by-election:
“Yesterday, City of Vancouver voters elected two new city councillors in the municipal by-election, with approximately 67,962 ballots cast and voter turnout of 15.09 per cent, a 40 per cent increase from the 2017 by-election.
I want to thank each voter for your commitment to the democratic process and for the remarkable patience you demonstrated during long wait times experienced over the course of the day at many polling stations across the city.
Moreover, I want to acknowledge that voting wait times that many electors experienced yesterday were unacceptable. The extended wait times at many voting places reflected flawed planning assumptions for this by-election that informed staff decisions and the plan presented to Council. Recognizing the effort by the City’s elections team to promote and execute this plan, it was clearly insufficient to accommodate the electorate in accessing an efficient voting process.

These shortcomings are deeply regrettable and I apologize to all voters impacted by delays, as well as to candidates and civic parties. I, along with City staff, are committed to ensure that lessons from yesterday’s by-election inform the planning and execution of the 2026 general municipal election and all future City of Vancouver election efforts.
The conduct of elections is one of our responsibilities as a local government that does not present a margin for error. Our role is to provide a voting process that is efficient, accessible, and reflective of the trust that voters and elected officials place in the civil service to support the electoral process. We will do better moving forward.”

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James Glave 🇨🇦 @jamesglave.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

#Vancouver peeps: By-election is this Saturday April 5; add it to your calendar. You have TWO votes to cast and I encourage you to give ONE of them to @lucymaloney.bsky.social. Thank you!

OneCity candidate Lucy Maloney stands with her arms folded somewhere on the waterfront seawall in False Creek.

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