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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

A reminder that building more homes at SkyTrain stations has the same benefit as building new SkyTrain lines (ie. Increasing # of people near SkyTrain). One earns the government money, the other costs the government money. We should aggressively be doing both. I'm looking at you Nanaimo Station.

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Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 05/05/2026

After getting around #Morocco for 10 days on fast, comfortable, on-time trains, I have a new definition: “A developed country is one where you can easily, comfortably, and routinely travel between major cities more quickly by train than by car.” Morocco qualifies. Canada and the US? Not so much.

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I’m not sure this is quite a contradictory as people seem to think, but I get the discomfort around it.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Jane Jacobs, author of the influential 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Her criticism of so-called "urban renewal" projects helped cancel the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have levelled many NYC neighborhoods. #BicycleBirthday May 4 (1916-2006)

Photo of a woman standing with a bicycle on a city sidewalk.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I am begging “environmentalists” to understand that building dense infill housing is one of the most environmentally friendly policies possible

screenshot from a UC Berkeley study evaluating the environmental impacts of various local policies

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The Township of Langley has a different financial and building philosophy than the rest of B.C., racking up $400 million in new debt since 2022. The mayor says it’s a smart and safe strategy to actually get stuff done — but will voters agree? Here’s my video and @lauvande.bsky.social’s article.

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Why Langley Township's $600M debt is city hall's biggest debate | CBC News

The Township of Langley is aggressively taking on debt to build community infrastructure, despite some residents' wariness of wading into the red.

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Honestly, the fear of that happening in BC is what held me back taking the plunge with financing a solar panel install. They can change the rules and suddenly it doesn't make as much financial sense.

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

It's unfortunate that BC Hydro are switching to net billing in July, which really hurts this benefit from what I understand.

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Not where we originally intended to set it up, but you can read more about it here: strongtownslangley.substack.com/p/what-happe...

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What happened to our Telraam traffic counter?

What began with two miracles, ended suddenly with an unexpected roadblock.

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It’s funny how timing always undermines Pierre Poilievre. Shortly after shilling for O&G by calling to cancel Canada’s High Speed Rail project we now face an oil crisis which highlighted the need for alternatives like passenger rail more than ever. His position is now even more stupid and tone deaf.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

This is important — London Mayor calls out “The Outrage Economy!” @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social is calling for “significantly stronger action against social media companies that spread disinformation after a study showed a surge in hostile accounts posting falsehoods about London’s crime rates…”

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Sadiq Khan demands stronger action on social media ‘outrage economy’

Mayor says disinformation, including about London crime rates, is ‘eating away at basic bonds of trust’

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 07/04/2026

to imagine back on that beautiful blue orb that makes all of this unique life possible we can’t stop bombing and killing one another, it’s terribly sad

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

it’s frustrating when electric equipment is available that so many landscaping companies stick with these harmful machines. externalities not priced in

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Yep the little two-stroke engines burn a blend of oil and gas - why is smells so bad and incredibly polluting.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“This would lock the world into a new and hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach. The climate would also be very different to the benign conditions of the past 11,000 years, during which the whole of human civilisation developed.”

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Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say

Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

My hot take is that surface LRT doesn’t work very well in grid planned cities post-automobile. Skytrain is the best solution.

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This is fanta disguised as orange juice

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/04/2026

What To Know About ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ theonion.com/what-to-know-about-the…

Q: What is the film about?

A: The fight to make Rainbow Road less car-centric and more pedestrian-friendly.

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Do highways pay for themselves? Even Danielle Smith agreed that expanding highway infrastructure would be far more costly and less efficient than passenger rail in Alberta.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In my work with cities around the world, I find that a BIG difference between cities doing remarkable things, and cities that are floundering and failing, is having a culture of energy or a culture of excuse. Either of those cultures are chosen, and built. Either can be deliberately changed.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The idea of attending the hockey game as a lifestyle product is much more valuable to some people compared to the intrinsic value of the game and even the real culture behind it.

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

A reminder that top-down planning is the *only* reason this built form exists. When cities form organically they become human scale, not car scale. Strict regulations force this on everyone.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

18 days ago we launched our website, introduced ourselves and our mission, and explained what we’re going to do. Today we passed 5000 followers here on Bluesky. And counting. Thank you all for your interest and support, and for your OWN efforts to change cities for the better. #UrbanTruth

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I talk to people outside.

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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Last night I went to the B.C. Housing led meeting on the “Tiny Home Village” proposed on 20th Street in New West. The meeting was filled with coordinated attendees who came to spread misinformation drilled into them by the bigoted chaos agents known as NWP in #newwest. Some of the misinfo incl: 1/

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

WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown and all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social. And PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible. I’ve sent it to a LOT of politicians.

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Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

More than 80% of people consistently cited their preference for permanent daylight savings in polls, there’s a realm of data that says it supports better outcomes, and it’s very fun when a government can say “we control how time works”. About a slam dunk win as you can get these days.

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B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time | CBC News

March 8 will be the last time British Columbians have to change their clocks, B.C. Premier David Eby announced Monday.

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I’ve heard about this - there’s a chain thats like Norwegian Mexican Food, right?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

On Polymarket you can now bet on how many people in a different market on Polymarket think Jesus Christ will return in this calendar year. 29% of bets say that more than 5% of bets in the Jesus Christ return market will be a "yes" 9 days from now. Anyway everyone involved in this needs jailtime.

Jesus Christ return before 2027 Odds >5% February 17, 12-1 AM?

29% chance

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

There's a lunch train in India! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala

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Dabbawala - Wikipedia

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

We also need to stop the layers of contractors and subcontractors and actually build institutional knowledge.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Ontario and Canada needs to think about this.

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Brexit, Trump, Alberta Separatism - it all follows the same pattern - foreign influence intended to destabilize western democratic nations. They pick and choose the easiest target and use social media bots and money to fuel the campaigns.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You need to understand that there are not lengthy standoffs between protesters and ICE in Minneapolis. Alex Pretti was not a “protester” in a conventional sense. ICE lurks around the city and occasionally takes aggressive actions, and bystanders and observers document it and raise the alarm

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

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SlavaUkraini033 @slavaukraini033.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Stand with the people 💪💪

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Yep noticed the same thing watching that show “why didn’t they get that dealt with before it became a massive abscess?”

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James Hansen @jameshansen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It always amuses me how Real Canadian Superstore puts their frozen yorkshire puddings in the desserts cooler. The word pudding clearly throws people off.

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Brent Bellamy @brentbellamy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

My column today: 2026 might be an inflection point. When complete, construction in downtown Winnipeg that is both underway and soon to begin will create new homes for more than 5,000 people, increasing the population of downtown by nearly 30 per cent. www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

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Opinion: Winnipeg and a rush to downtown growth

Renowned urbanist Jane Jacobs once said, “You can’t rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there.” Planners and politicians have long understood that prosperity and renewal for downtow...

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Uytae Lee @uytaelee.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I’ve been working on this video with HUB Cycling since last summer and I’m incredibly excited to share it with you soon! It looks at the growing divide in how cities approach bikeshare and scootershare, and the messy history of how we got to this point.

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