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Renewables SaaS PM by day, Urbanism by night. Scot in #newwest

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 6h
We recorded an episode today about the bike lane removals in Toronto and decided to text Ontario Premier Doug Ford to give him the opportunity to comment. (Yes, we have his real phone number.) He wrote back.
Hello, Premier Ford. We just interviewed Michael Longfield from Cycle Toronto and Bronwyn Roe from EcoJustice for the podcast and was hoping to get a comment from you on the bike lane removals in Toronto. Feel free to give me a call back whenever. We are releasing the episode on Tuesday and will love to have your voice included if possible. Thank you! - Doug Gordon, The War on Cars podcastThank you for the offer. I do not do podcast because if I do one I will be doing everyone. I love the title. The war on the car has going on since David Miller days! Good luck!
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 18h
Still working out some kinks but I thought I'd share for people in a similar situation. We have a mostly nonverbal autistic kid who can actually do sight-words OK. I realized I could make music videos with exactly his sight-word set and favorite topics using Claude (the model was sonnet 5.5).
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alex 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 8h
Check out this #Halloween Art Market tomorrow night at 118 West Hastings #Vancouver Support local artists!
Acorn Collective Presents

Halloween Art Market 

Gallery Show and open mic

22 local art vendors
Live poetry and music
Costume contest
Tarot
Kandi making
Snacks

October 16th 5 - 11 pm

118 West Hastings

Costumes encouraged

Free entry

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Derek Kwan @dgk1969.bsky.social · 6h
With a 36 page extra-heavy @freshetnews.bsky.social issue out today, the delivery volunteers definitely got to skip their normal gym day today! Get your copy at your usual pickup locations. Workout optional. #october15th #freshetnews #burnaby #newwest #tricities
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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 5h
Just introduced to beabadoobee and Steve Lacy by my G9er. It’s alright this modern music.
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Herr Kaschke (i do music 🦍🖖🏼💋) @herrkaschke.com · 15h
Oh ich mags. Beabadoobee! music.apple.com/de/album/pyl...
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„Pylon“ von beabadoobee bei Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 14 Titel
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Brandon Yan 甄念本 @brandonyan.com · 7h
Vote for the progressives with a plan!
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 6h
As an economist, why do I like gas taxes? - Ramsey: demand for gas is relatively inelastic, so the tax is less distortionary than taxes on goods with relatively more elastic demand -Pigou: gasoline use has externalities, so tax it to change behaviour in a way that accounts for those negative effects
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Sightline Institute @sightline.org · 6h
The pollution is coming from inside the house. @rpelai.bsky.social
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The Health Case for Electric Appliances Keeps Growing | Sightline Institute
Here are five ways policymakers can protect Northwesterners’ health and climate from polluting gas stoves, furnaces, and water heaters.
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stephanie wilson | windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 6h
Translink will not provide ad space for Poetry in Transit after 2027. Poetry in Transit is a partnership with Books BC, Translink & BC Transit that promotes local writers on buses. Petition from Save Poetry in Transit: c.org/2HXw675dpp Tom Wayman's A City Most at Home in the Rain is on the 228!
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 6h
Now that the BC NDP are promising to cut the gasoline tax, it seems like an apt time to reshare my commentary on their cancelling of the BC Carbon Tax in April 2025
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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Huge YIMBY win at the CNN Talarico town hall tonight: asked about lowering housing costs, Talarico touts his work on single-stair reform! "Our outdated buildings didn't allow for single-stair housing, which is smaller apartments, smaller condos. It’s a great entry point for homeownership."
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SparcMotion @sparcmotion.bsky.social · 16h
Chinese EV manufacturers are looking at Canada to be the main penetratrion point into the US market. insideevs.com/news/811996/...
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Canadians Are Holding Out For Chinese EVs
Now that Canada changed the rules to allow Chinese EVs on a quota-bases, half of potential EV buyers are looking to wait for brands from China.
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New York Post @nypost.com · 13h
China may be secretly stashing US debt holdings in Canada, Wall Street analysts suspect
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China may be secretly stashing US debt holdings in Canada, Wall Street analysts suspect
US Treasury data shows Canada’s reported holdings of American government debt and federally backed mortgage bonds have soared to nearly $600 billion.
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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
ramon-astudillo.github.io/notes/audio/...
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Can Open Models Keep Up With the AI Frontier? | Nathan Lambert · The a16z Show @ 9:45
“The Chinese labs are very technically excellent [...] what they don't have is compute. [...] an average OpenAI researcher has 5000 H100 equivalents that they can access at any time”
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 16h
NEWS! Mark Zuckerberg malfunctions after sip of Guinness damages his CPU newsthump.com/2026/10/15/m...
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Mark Zuckerberg malfunctions after sip of Guinness damages his CPU
Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg has malfunctioned, after a video of him sipping a pint of Guinness showed the billionaire’s CPU catching on fire.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 18h
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A ripped up billboard that's says a safer Ontario means
Doug ford in prison
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 16h
I love that Foucault and Winnie the Pooh were born one day apart.
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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Good deal through B.C. Hydro
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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
70s inflation innit. Input costs up, earnings multiples squeezed down.
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Peter Waldkirch 華彼德 @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
What brings ABC, COPE, and the Greens together? Voting AGAINST legalizing apartments in low-density neighbourhoods. I joined Rob Fai to talk about the role of housing in the Vancouver election and why the Villages Plan failed. Full interview in the post below!
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Rachel @rachelcinema.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My god. Mettre un frein à la piétonnisation dans un quartier historique pour prioriser la fluidité automobile - on l'aura compris -, des accès et sorties du site de l’hippodrome. Une décision absurde et blessante. Le manque de vision de EM n'est plus à prouver. Qu'en est-il de son amour pour MTL ?
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La piétonnisation du Vieux-Montréal définancée au profit de l’hippodrome
La piétonnisation du Vieux-Montréal est mise de côté au profit du prolongement d’une rue du secteur Namur-Hippodrome.
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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Anvil Centre in #newwest hosts British Columbia Canada’s Craft Brewers Conference #bcbeercon Thursday and Friday this week www.bcbeercon.ca Who’s inviting me for samples?
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BCBeerCon October 15 + 16, 2026 - BC Craft Brewers Conference
The BC Craft Brewers Conference (aka BCBeerCon) will be returning to New Westminster's Anvil Centre on October 15th & 16th, 2026.
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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 14/10/2026
I built a thing. I LOVED making it. It's called TinyLittleOffice. It's a web office suite (word processor, outliner, decks, spreadsheet, calculator, drawing tool, diagram maker, animator, calendar, trip planner) that stores the docs in your URL. tinylittleoffice.com?c=hgmcggn#/v...
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This Link Is This Document
QR code:…
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This area in front of Gare du Nord in Paris used to be full of cars and totally chaotic, but they recently limited the street to pedestrians and cyclists and it has made a huge difference. This is what cities that care about people do.
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Dan Bertolet @danbertolet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Always satisfying to see yet another rigorous academic study confirming what we YIMBYs have been saying for a long time now: "permitting duration is positively associated with housing prices and negatively associated with production" evansoltas.com/papers/Durat...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you really should watch and share this excellent news story. Ford LIES that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Remember and share this as Ford tears out Toronto bike-lanes.
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Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes removed.
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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Doing my boring life stuff by bike while on the other side of the city the same infrastructure is being taken away. Today this city moves backwards. but the kids still need to go to the dentist.
My kids in the front of a cargo bike riding down the Danforth cycle track
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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Both sides now
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Sticker preview of a pelican riding a bike
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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A pelican riding a bicycle
AI slop of street art depicting a pelican riding a bikeAI slop of a colourful cartoon pelican riding a bikeAI slop azulejo tile of a pelican riding a bikeAI slop line drawing of a pelican riding a bike
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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"No way to prevent this" says economic regime specifically managed to maximize it
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Carl Quintanilla: Real average hourly earnings down 0.7% on the month, that's the sixth straight month... Jim Cramer: Look, rich people are making a lot of money. God, I sound like Marx. I really don't want to sound like Marx. It's just, look at the data.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
this image tells me everything I need to know about who actually cares about road safety.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Summer 1987: New York City mayor Ed Koch announces a bicycle ban in midtown. Slow-ride protests led by bike messengers fought the ban, & city residents sided with the cyclists. The ban was lifted before it ever went into effect. 📷Carl Hultberg
Photo of bike messengers marching with their bicycles held aloft above their heads on a city street.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Honour guard at Downing Street ahead of Zelenskyy’s arrival.
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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Bike lanes help protect vulnerable road users and keep them safe. Yet, we now have cops, in the name of 'safety', clamping down on protestors who are trying to protect those lanes. #SafetyForWhom?
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
dude is a natural
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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 14/10/2026
Reading about Joseph "Fighting Joe" Martin, who, in a nice piece of timeline synchronicity, served for three months as Premier of British Columbia in 1900, before later moving to the UK and serving as a Liberal MP for St. Pancras.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 14/10/2026
CoreWeave stock drops 15%+ and its bond yields near 15%, over concerns that some tech companies are borrowing too heavily for the AI build-out; ORCL is down 7%+ (Michelle Fox/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Trudi @trudiagogo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
If you're looking to support the residents of Sunday's fire #NewWest
New West Neighbourhood House is directing people to donate gift cards by dropping them off at St Barnabas Church or Century House Monday to  Friday only.  Cash donations can be e-transfered to admin@newwestnh.ca
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Energy & Climate Reporters, my new Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/4uS575R Far from matured, but nice already. No idea why only men made it to the title page, or how I can change that... Suggestions welcome.
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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
People say the most unrealistic parts of the Apple homeview ad are the power line hole drilled through the countertop, nobody being on their own phones, and a teenager reading private messages on a public device. From here in BC what struck me was: it’s daylight when everyone’s leaving the house.
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hey look, it’s possible to be a rocket scientist and also an idiot.
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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Sidewalks vote Democrat, and apparently so do Data Centers. Build baby build!
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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
#newwest #streetpiano
AI image of a street pianist in New Westminster skytrain stationAI image of a street pianist in New Westminster skytrain stationAI image of a street pianist in New Westminster skytrain stationAI image of a street pianist in New Westminster skytrain station
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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
When I'm mayor, I'll give you more than parking meters to complain about... #newwest
AI image of New Westminster bus station, more colourfully decorated
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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Funky jazz night on Saturday evening in #newwest
AI image of the storefront at the end of New West station
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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I think it's a fair comparison, interior-design wise. Yes there's the train noise, but I think even if a train rumbled over the top of La Foret every 3 minutes, it would be part of the character of the place. You might say the station is a public space, but it's not. It's privately secured.
Interior of La Foret cafe. Concrete surfaces, plants, wood paneled walls, lighting fixtures, some natural light from above and light at the end.New Westminster skytrain station. Industrial lighting, concrete all over, some natural light from above and at the end.
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neil21 @neil21.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
#newwest more ideas, including leaning into the rainfall
Photograph of New Westminster stationAI image of New Westminster station, upgraded with materials, lighting and furniture.AI image of New Westminster station, upgraded with materials, lighting, furniture, and a water feature.
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