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Kathryn

@kmsheps.bsky.social
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Research coordination and collaboration. Regional Projects Coordinator, Marine Plan Partnership for the North Pacific Coast. Facilitator, marine scientist, happy mama and baseball fan.

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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 19h
Surprise surprise, I aligned with @onecityvan.bsky.social . Not shocking as I want to see Vancouver become a city with ample housing and transportation options for all. Check what civic party you're most aligned with!
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Man, @onecityvan.bsky.social is just heads and shoulders above the rest when it comes to housing in Vancouver. Credible, innovative and focussed on buidling a welcoming city where everyone belongs.
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DRaysBay @draysbay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
American League East Champs just like no one predicted
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Man's Triumphant Victory Reaction
ALT: Man's Triumphant Victory Reaction
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Nathan Lauster @lausterna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Remember as we head into a potential double-header of an election season: If your ONE is OneCity, you're sitting pretty. If your ONE is OneBC, you've messed up, buddy.
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OneCity Vancouver @onecityvan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Rory Brown is running for VSB Trustee with the OneCity Team to put resources back into the classroom — not the board room. Parents, students, and staff in our public schools have endured brutal cuts to basic supports the past four years. They shouldn’t have to suffer another four.
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I urge everyone to vote OneCity across the board, but especially for School Board. No other party has put forward a slate this experienced. VSB schools have seen brutal cuts in services and an apalling lack of open engagement at the board level. Schools, teachers and our kids deserve better.
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Brandon Yan 甄念本 @brandonyan.com · 10/09/2026
That's my team! They have shown up for each other AND the city this entire campaign. Honestly. The city would be so lucky to get this team to lead them. Please donate! Volunteer! Vote! @onecityvan.bsky.social
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm so dissapointed that @wazaroff.bsky.social has stepped down. While I agree that the election has to be about what's best for the city, not any one person, I am troubled by the lack of platforms, policy proposals - even statement of values I've seen from other ostensible progressives running.
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Iona Bonamis | 陶思穎 (she/her) @ionabonamis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We need to make sure the city is supporting working people. Over the past four years, Ken Sim and ABC have been doing everything but that. Check out @onecityvan.bsky.social's plan released today to reverse Ken Sim's harmful actions.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
COPE and OneCity are the two parties thinking seriously and substantively about how to make Vancouver better.
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is how a mayoral candidate and political party gets my vote: telling me clearly, proudly and joyfully what side they’re on, who they listen to, and how they think about solving problems. Happy Labour Day, Vancouver! #vanpoli
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Not only that, but I pay pretty close attention to local politics, and I don't know the policies or positions of the other ostensibly 'progressive' mayoral candidate, even though I've been watching him in council meetings for years.....
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Owen @oweninvan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I think it needs to be said: OneCity has been the ONLY party willing to stick their necks out to reduce carbon emissions, especially on land use policy, where City Hall can actually make a difference (& where it's cheaper than free)
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Not only that, but I pay pretty close attention to local politics, and I don't know the policies or positions of the other ostensibly 'progressive' mayoral candidate, even though I've been watching him in council meetings for years.....
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diluez! diluez! ok! @tds.xyz · 06/09/2026
✋ i think william azaroff would be a good mayor. in fact, a better mayor than anyone else who's running. i think he's got a great policy book, i think he understands the pressures on creatives and young families in this city, i think he's got a great track record of leadership on important problems
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A statement this short sure makes me wonder who else in ABC Vancouver might have been.....'involved' in VPD corruption....
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Name recognition and incumbency are still given too much weight in municipal elections, in my experience. We will have better leaders if we choose based on leadership ability, actual experience/background, policy priorities, listening/learning skills, integrity, and good judgement/decision-making.
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Brandon Yan 甄念本 @brandonyan.com · 03/09/2026
@lucymaloney.bsky.social and @onecityvan.bsky.social leading the way.
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Christine Boyle @christineboyle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Update: Amshen Joan Phillip passed this afternoon, surrounded by loved ones. Rest in peace and power, Joan. You made the world better. We are heartbroken for the loss, and unspeakably grateful for your life.
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it?
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I ❤️ Vancouver's Public Libraries and I especially love this plan to utilize the infrastructure that the VPL provides to decrease barriers to experiencing the best of the city's arts and culture.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Three choices for Vancouver in October: 1) Ken's War on Drugs 2) I wish it could be 1974/1996/the Paris Commune again (various parties) 3) Making Vancouver work better for ordinary people and families in the most tangible of ways
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“It might work as a campaign strategy to galvanize the ABC base. But it is as cynical as it is vapid, which comes with risk,” writes @vancolour.bsky.social about Mayor Sim’s public safety plebiscite questions. #vanpoli thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Public Safety Is a Serious Issue. Sim’s Plebiscite Is Unserious Theatre | The Tyee
The mayor reduces complex problems to shallow ballot questions crafted to rile his base.
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Ian Bushfield @bushfield.ca · 13/08/2026
In the last couple Vancouver municipal elections, I crowd-sourced your thoughts on where the various parties sat on the traditional political compass plus the urbanist axis. It's worked pretty well so let's do it again! Add your votes here: forms.gle/fEqcGzbiHGg5...
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Plotting the Vancouver municipal parties
In 2018 and 2022, we at the Cambie Report relied on you to help us plot the chaos that is Vancouver politics. We used a survey to help plot political parties along three axes (extending the concept of...
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David Eby @davidebybc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
If you’re picking fights with Canadians, you don’t have a friend in the world.
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 17/07/2026
There's nothing "gentle" about a city full of $3m bungalows
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The fires in Ontario - like so many others - demonstrating viscerally how climate change perpetuates the displacement and dispossession of Indigenous peoples, who have least contributed to emissions and over and over again put their bodies on the line to prevent fossil fuel development.
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Jason Collette @jasoncollette.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Son of a bitch.....hopefully Junior's hand is made of titanium
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
A few thoughts on the emerging future that is already here even as more folks, closer to the center of the current dominant system begin to deepen in alarm. As the end of this road becomes ever more looming.
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"a councillor"??? Weak stuff! If you're going to slander your colleagues, you should have the courage of your convictions. And if your love of the city and country are so deep, why are you posting fake photos??
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Milo Baynes and the Last Train to Backlashville @milobaynes.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
my oh my This essay/review is… …stunning (ie, may leave you stunned) via the craft with which it’s Virgil walks you — firmly but w/ the care of one who’s felt the blow — through that tall grass where you’ve hidden those political suspicions which are, by their nature & by yours, un-entertain-able.
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A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books
Did the Weather Underground have a point?
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Peter Waldkirch 華彼德 @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This is a real low for ABC. The vote itself is bad. But the spin and gas lighting from them shows a real contempt for the public. Disgusting. Shame on the lot of them. People: get out there and organize. Ken Sim's backwards, retrograde party needs to go.
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Yet another shameful and cowardly vote by ABC Vancouver. I can't wait until October....
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Gabrielle Peters @mssinenomine.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I wrote about how City of Vancouver almost celebrated National Accessibility Week by voting to reduce voter accessibility in upcoming election. The motion wasn't defeated. The agenda item was just moved to June 9th. Voter Suppression in Vancouver Election open.substack.com/pub/mssineno...
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Voter Suppression In Vancouver Election: Reduced Accessibility On Vancouver Council's Agenda for National Accessibility Week
Highlights:
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Joseph Planta @joeplanta.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I guess he's left it to voters to sanction him on election day. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Vancouver mayor won’t be sanctioned for harassing, personally attacking councillor
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim will not be sanctioned for breaching the municipal code of conduct by misusing his office to harass and personally attack a newly elected opposition councillor last year.
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
If you oppose the use of AI (Co-pilot) in Vancouver Secondary schools, please email info@vsb.ca to let them know. There's also a student-group - @vsb-copilot.socialbc.ca.ap.brid.gy -organizing against AI in schools who have created an email template generator: stopcopilot.henryvaniersel.ca/about
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Stop Microsoft Copilot!
Dear VSB: Please stop using Microsoft Copilot AI in schools.
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William Azaroff @wazaroff.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I’m inspired by the work being done in New York, Mayor Mamdani and his team are delivering: • More homes for more neighbours • An easier way to build & get to yes • Reforming a Peoples’ Builder for more affordable homes In October, we’ll do the same right here in Vancouver.
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Pivot Legal Society @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Starting today (May 13, 2026), the @cityofvancouver.bsky.social FIFA World Cup 2026 Bylaw is in effect. Before & during FIFA, you can expect intensified surveillance, increased enforcement of both new & existing bylaws, & the largest deployment of law enforcement in Vancouver’s history. 1/3
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Amazing to see the Mia-yaltwa Ha'lidzogm hoon NMCAR establishment agreement signed! Gratitude and congrats to everyone in the the Wuikinuxv, Nuxalk, Kitasoo Xai’xais, Heiltsuk, Gitxaała and Gitga’at Nations who have worked to see this day come. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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New protected marine reserve, larger than P.E.I., to be established on B.C.'s Central Coast | CBC News
The reserve is within the Great Bear Sea, a diverse marine ecosystem that covers more than half of B.C.'s coast and includes glass sponge reefs, salmon, killer whales and migrating humpbacks.
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
So impressed by this slate of candidates! While not everyone I supported won the nomination, I think this is a really balanced, skillful and capable @onecityvan.bsky.social slate and our city will be so much better off when these fine folks are elected!
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Just voted for my fave candidates running for the @onecityvan.bsky.social nomination for city council, school board and parks board. I’m impressed it was so easy to vote with the online system and even more impressed by the incredible candidates stepping forward to work for a better city!
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Sending my best thoughts to everyone at @cmarinescience.bsky.social on the devastating fire in the lab buildings. It’s heartbreaking as an alum, but the scale of the loss for current students and faculty is really unfathomable.
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Mo Amir @vancolour.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“The truth about B.C.'s unceded land (and your home)” This is grounded in the law, not politics. And until policymakers actually understand it, they can’t deliver the property rights protections that British Columbians deserve. This is VANCOLOUR Thursdays at 9pm @cheknews.ca 📺
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The @mspglobal2030.bsky.social team is delighted to announce new, free online course "Ocean Observations and Data Management for MSP" on the OceanTeacher Global Academy (OTGA) platform classroom.oceanteacher.org/login/index.... Available 07 April - 01 December in English 🌊 🦑 #gischat 🌎 🌍 🌏
Graphic with the words: "NEW MSPglobal online course on Ocean Observations and Data Management for Marine Spatial Planning"About the course: The goal of this course is to equip MSP practitioners with the skills needed to manage data in an efficient way, ensuring that planning decisions are evidence-based and sustainable - by focusing on the principles of data management, spatial data infrastructure, and ocean observations for MSP.
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Coast Funds @coastfunds.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Spring on the coast means oolichan are back in the rivers! For millennia, First Nations across the coast have marked winter's end with the return of these small, oil-rich fish. Learn how First Nations are stewarding these fish populations back into abundance: ow.ly/fYXZ50YF9sZ
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Oolichan and the Changing Season
As oolichan return to spawn, First Nations on the coast mark the transition from winter to spring with celebrations such as Hoobiyee and the spring equinox. For millennia, First Nations on the coast of British Columbia have sustainably harvested oolichan, a finger-sized oily fish that is a member of the smelt family. Oolichan (also spelled
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 23/03/2026
"The panic now visible in British Columbia is not evidence that reconciliation has gone too far. It is evidence that reconciliation has begun to have material consequences." @khelsilem.bsky.social in @macleans.bsky.social: macleans.ca/politics/can...
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Canada’s Reconciliation Panic - Macleans.ca
Indigenous peoples are gaining territory and political and economic clout. Not everyone is ready for what that will mean.
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Good. I still think Sim ought to resign, but it seems like he cares less about his colleagues, his 'party' or the city than himself. Just appalling behaviour and complete lack of judgement. Hopefully this induces more meaningful accountability.
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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
What a get for @onecityvan.bsky.social! Truly the civic party with the most buzz at this point in the campaign!
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