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Michael Ledger-Lomas

@michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social
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I write about kings and prophets. Vancouver, BC.

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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 15m
Boats to gin palaces with rooms is a model we should revive.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 1h
Curious as a fan of such things where you recommend - l liked Chez Claudette on my last trip.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 6h
We live in a time of terrible news updates www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Pope Leo diagnosed with lung cancer as growth removed during surgery
Vatican says pontiff had lower lobe of right lung removed in ‘successful, on schedule and as planned’ operation in Rome
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11h
The whole thing leaves me excited to hear the Con plans to expand childcare provision - or to improve provision of any other public goods.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11h
What I don't really get (converse of your original question) is why a lot of young people respond to parties going, 'hello, we are going to slow down housing and cut the public services you use'.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11h
The same suites that star in Pete's campaign ad!
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11h
The old are Carney's mainstay too.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11h
This is my sense of it too. And as Fry has been there longer, he's been able to set himself up as The Resistance (though Lucy has been at least as and arguably more effective in that capacity with a shorter run-up).
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11h
Does this leave Paul as the Thinking Person's Pain Quotidien? When I left the UK it too was on the way to being French Greggs, but here in Vancouver it's an aspirational brand.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11h
I semi agree to be honest as Lucy is an extraordinarily gifted politician - maybe next time around is the thinking?!
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11h
The Tyee is of course for all its virtues a Left Nimby paper, which dotes on Patrick Condon.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11h
There's so much Andy Yan in this piece that I thought I must be reading Kerry Gold, not the excellent Howard Chai. With 'deep urbanism', Nimbyism has taken a mystical turn! thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...
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What Vancouver Council Did and Didn’t Do on Housing | The Tyee
A performance review of the ABC-led council. And what the parties are promising this election.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 12h
Did a 24 floor building last week with about ten people and ONE fob, which was...interesting.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 12h
Very interesting finding: I have a Jacobin thing out in a few days on 'property value' politics....
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 12h
Here in Vancouver, it can be very difficult to get into rental buildings to canvass them: managers tell renters not to let you in (altho' you are authorized to do so under electoral law).
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You can imagine an ABC response: 'we get on great with the people who rent our suites too'.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The case for Fry (his own argument too) since about last year has always just been that he has the temperament for the job, rather than the ideas. Maybe it's true! We get to find out.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Strange to miss nearly all the advance voting days, for sure.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I think it's good - although you suspect that Pete is in no rush to get little guys out of basement suites.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This was Ken Sim's only idea too (he did not, as far as I can tell, plant many trees).
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Accidental Takeo Tanabe
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Bit harsh. He's a very likeable and nice guy. It is also true that Fry is more sellable to the average voter (and I say this as an Azaroff supporter).
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Pristine landscapes hide things in BC - also how good would an Edwardian Japanese steamship resort be today?
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Me, barreling to the ferry in my F-150 from my five bed, log burning house: visitors need to respect NATURE.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Good to see that in the Bowen Island election there is now reluctant non partisan agreement that you cannot prevent people from visiting Bowen.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Group of Sevenism
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Dankbarkeit
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I met a traveller from an antique land / Who said
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Curious what Freud you think is especially good to read.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We also have our own Colosseum.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Excellent video.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hope so!
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Your Guy.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Carneyite centrism: bike lane nation building.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Poor Kerrisdale (tho' her policy positions also seem indistinguishable from those of the nice young Mr Binda)
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I would say it's entirely possible! The NDP had to put a cop in there to blunt Melissa deGenova last time, who was running entirely on crime. This time I expect running on needles + chaos might work - Yung doesn't seem much of a campaigner.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Reminds me of my one visit to Whistler which 'looks European' (if you half close your eyes).
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'm assuming there's some damaging footnote e.g. 'they all went to Keble'.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
As the Driscoll's thing shows, USA fruit is bad for you.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
For Doerkson to mumble that he doesn't want to be the 51st state doesn't change that reality.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Was it a good idea for David Eby to trigger an 'anti-Trump' election? No. Are his BC Conservative opponents steeped in the Muslamic rape gangs, Jihadi Mamdani, Defend Western Civ rubbish that circulates on X and generates support for Trump? Absolutely. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C. Conservative campaign director under fire for anti-Islam posts | CBC News
The campaign director for the B.C. Conservatives is facing criticism over anti-Islam posts she shared on social media earlier this year, just days after the party fired another candidate over his own ...
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Patrick Meehan @patmeehan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Absolutley disgraceful. Just unbelievably unacceptable things to say about an entire community.
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B.C. Conservative campaign director under fire for anti-Islam posts | CBC News
The campaign director for the B.C. Conservatives is facing criticism over anti-Islam posts she shared on social media earlier this year, just days after the party fired another candidate over his own ...
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It has offered a strange window into their world. 'Oh you think Merrifield is so bad? Well what about this accurate thing Nikki Sharma said? What about the time the NDP made Selina Robinson step down for calling Palestine a "crappy" land?" And so on.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Delighted you voted OC!
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I should really but the sandwiches are too good. Also now: soft serve caffe di Napoli flavour.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Me, a foot passenger: shrugs.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Glad to see you going with OC!
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Noooooooooh Renzullo!
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Todds Unlimited @toddindeed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Saw a bunch of I voted stickers on my ride today, and one bitter old dude replacing a giant Ken Sim sign that got vandalized.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I thought Ken had saved Chinatown? Why the need for treating?
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