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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hope you found a way to watch - that was an all-timer Rays performance!!

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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah, I'm watching the #Rays from Vancouver online (on sportsnet+)

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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ok. @onecityvan.bsky.social voters. Is anyone else still undecided about how to vote for Mayor and additional council or parks board seats? (personally, I've made my decisions for school board already). Spending my afternoon watching baseball and researching candidates.....

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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wish! If I still lived in St Pete, I'd be walking to the Trop. But I will be watching from Vancouver BC

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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A wonderful way to mark the day that Sim appointed as Chip Wilson Day.

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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey Vancouverites. Time to chuck out the worst mayor of my lifetime and the entire rancid ABC team!

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Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know I'm deeply biased but I genuinely think OneCity has the best candidates. Like every single one is excellent. I was impressed by some of the other parties' candidates, but no one has a full slate as strong as OneCity does.

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OneCity Vancouver @onecityvan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Commute got you down? We can fix that. OneCity Candidate Iona Bonamis 陶思穎 outlines Project Greenlight, which could save you weeks of your life in traffic. If you want City Hall to help you get you where you're going faster, volunteer, donate, and VOTE OneCity. #transit #vanpoli

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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

So dissapointing. I think this is the first time I have been truly undecided about my mayoral vote.

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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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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

True, they haven't released a specific housing policy in this election, but they have a vision of the Vancouver they want to build and a statement of values both of which are backed by their elected members' voting record and approach in council going back several years.

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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ethics and good governance are important, for sure. But towards what end if our systems continue to favor the wealthy and privileged and ignore the real needs of people for housing, transportation and livable climate and we continue to fund the VPD over community centres and libraries?

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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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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

yeah, agreed. I have no idea what Fry stands for, what his values really are- not being Ken Sim isn't enough. The bar is well below sea level and yet....

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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

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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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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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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My friend used to call ppl w that specific vibe in Tampa "30 thousand dollar millionaires" (this was ca. 2002, so adjust for inflation)

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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 BOO!-aynes👻 and the Centrists Scared of Socialism @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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Kathryn @kmsheps.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

my neighbor in FL used to fatten up squirrels on the block for eating. He said they were delicious if fed up right. This was...uh..in the early 2000s....

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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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