2 days into The Canadian (sleeper train from Vancouver to Toronto) and it rules, very good value, food, staff and scenery

The Subdivision Bylaw

aka
One of the various ways our city gov. protects "estates" from the pesky intrusion of modestly sized or affordable housing.

This policy document needs to go. Now.

If we can allow 40' to 50' min lots for our apartment zones,
we can do that everywhere.

*thinks about spouse and majority of friends who came to Vancouver from afar*

You can take my cosmopolitan, welcoming city when you pry it from my cold dead hands

Why People Aren't Lining Up for This $120,000 Job

Listening to this podcast episode about why Ford can’t fill dealership mechanic positions and listening to the kinds of car problems they’re fixing I couldn’t help but think – EVs don’t require these kinds of repairs! They don’t even have pistons that can break! open.spotify.com/episode/2J2Q...

Opening night celebration for new PNE amphitheatre set for early June | Daily Hive | Urbanized An opening night celebration event will be held for the Freedom Mobile Arch, the new PNE amphitheatre, on June 5, 2026.

Freedom Mobile Arch, the new #PNE amphitheatre, is now in the last stages of construction, with a major grand opening night celebration now scheduled for early June.

Just a week before its use for the FIFA World Cup Fan Festival begins. #vanre #vanpoli

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I do this but have been thinking I need an offsite backup. OVHCloud maybe? 🤔

Cover of "The Death of the Automobile" by John Jerome, and illustrated by Robert Osborn. Text at the bottom of the page reads, "The Detroit car is an ecological, economic and engineering disaster - and the sixty-year-old love affair between it and the American people is ending." Illustration features a car in the style of a dying bug or animal.

More recently, I've heard that some Cambie Corridor homeowners were pissed that the upzoning was so limited in scope (basically limited to townhouses off the arterials); they were hoping to sell to developers for more.

Also, active support from people ready to cash out can sometimes outweigh NIMBY opposition. This was a big thing in 1950s+1960s Vancouver, homeowners often banded together to request upzoning. Adriane Carr (yes, that Adriane Carr) wrote her thesis on this phenomenon in Kits

I still think buying people off is underrated tbh. NIMBYs can be irrationally against any change and still willing to compromise for cash!

mentally I am here

(have to wait 3 days for the physical experience)

Did you miss the LinkedIn screenshot I shared? I'm blocking you now.

The talking points are basically: this will be unsafe, this will block views, this is a developer giveaway. Not a single mention of wages or concessions for hotel workers. It's extremely fucked that an organization is attempting to use our discretionary planning process in such a dishonest way.

For those watching Vancouver City Council tonight: we are now on speaker 17 of a hearing about whether to allow a floating hotel, Unite Here has literally stacked it with paid contractors opposing the project. How is this OK? csg001-harmony.sliq.net/00317/Harmon...

Also construction costs are generally 📈📈📈

He has a series of paintings of Granville Street that make me feel more warm and fuzzy about the area than I ever thought I could davidwilson.ca/art/ill-wait...

an acrylic painting of downtown Vancouver in the rain

Here Comes The Sun Again - David Wilson, 2021
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Avant / Après Rue du Bourg Tibourg dans Paris Centre. L'actuelle place piétonne au bout de la rue quand elle débouche sur la Rue de Rivoli est méconnaissable sur la photo de 1970 - où l'aspect "place" n'existait pas. D'ailleurs la "place" actuelle s'appelle toujours "rue" comme avant.

always fun to see the baby sweepers around town

Including (maybe even mostly) Vancouver's policy choices, to be fair :'(

I am not thrilled about my MLA likely torpedoing the BC NDP.

Every summer I ride my bike on the Kettle Valley Rail Trail near Penticton and I think "wow, how was it ever economical to build this?"

New Coal Harbour dock eyed for passenger ferries to Bowen Island, Sunshine Coast | Daily Hive | Urbanized CIRQL Ferries could build a new Harbour Green Dock for its new ferry service linking downtown Vancouver with Bowen Island and Sunshine Coast.

A brand-new Coal Harbour dock could be built for the new battery passenger ferries linking downtown Vancouver with Bowen Island and Sunshine Coast.

CIRQL Ferries would cover the cost of building the new dock. #vanpoli #vanre

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I think a lot about this one bsky.app/profile/dawe...

Rather than mock Surrey for having ambitions we should direct our ire at the Vancouver decision makers who would prefer Vancouver be some sort of a village

As I Look For You - David Wilson, 2024
davidwilson.ca/art/5394145

Yeah I am very unhappy about it as someone who:

1. Wants family to visit
2. Thinks we have a moral imperative to welcome visitors (Vancouver is the hub for a lot of things in BC, including specialty medical care)

2 could be kinda-sorta legitimate bargaining tactics in theory but straight-up lying about the reasons for their opposition crosses several lines IMO

I think it is 2 things:

1. Drive up room rates at existing union hotels
2. Make it hard enough to build new hotels that developers+operators will be willing to offer concessions in exchange for Unite Here dropping their opposition to a given project

Unite Here has been hiring canvassers and deploying them in East Van (maybe elsewhere too?) before the election. This is so, so toxic when their whole thing is opposing new hotels under false premises www.uniteherelocal40.org/2026/03/job-...