I know this is frustrating. I'm working on this directly with staff as well as formally through Council meetings and through advocacy to the VPD and the Province. Happy to talk further any time.

Sorry for your loss.

We need to work together to minimise the stigma and implement the solutions experts tell us actually work to reduce the risk of poisoned drugs and the harm they cause.

I regularly speak to members of our community who have lost loved ones and friends, or who are terrified of losing people that are struggling with addiction.

Today many Vancouverites are feeling anger and grief reflecting on the more than 18,000 lives lost in the 10 years since the toxic drug crisis was declared to be an emergency by BC officials in April 2016.

Vision Zero volunteers in front of a billboard designed by Tom Flood. Billboard pictures a child riding on a road with painted dotted lines delineating a bicycle lane. text: There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Join us in fighting for safe streets Vision Zero Vancouver | Rovelo Creative

Sat 10:50 PT | A second chance to hear excerpts from an evening last November with Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear of The War on Cars podcast, joined by city councillor Lucy Maloney and designer Tom Flood @visionzerovancouver.ca @tomflood.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Glad we found common ground on Council today and kept the Heather Lands project moving forward. This development is a meaningful step for both Reconciliation and housing affordability in Vancouver —
can't wait to see it built. 🏡

https://youtu.be/nG9cMzUl9FQ?si=9qlCUWTUYTo77rkw

We NEED free, accessible, public events and Car Free Days connect many neighbourhoods, community groups, charities, artists, makers, vendors. This would have been such a loss:

Thanks to @lucymaloney.bsky.social & @seanorr.bsky.social for this motion.

Car Free Day: SAVED. Elect progressives, get results.

I moved this urgent motion today with Cllr Orr and was thrilled that it was approved unanimously by Council.

Voting panel showing that the Save Car Free Day urgent motion passed unanimously.

Car Free Day: SAVED. Elect progressives, get results.

Thank you for your support, everyone.

Thank you so much, Lucy. Looking forward to many more talks. Where I'm not interviewing you, ha ha.

Absolutely.

Will this changes everything! Frances Bula is amazing. Huge get for OneCity and makes an already talented slate even more stacked.

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Can’t wait! We’re so lucky.

Welcome to OneCity Vancouver @fabulavancouver.bsky.social!

Photo of me on stage clapping while presenting awards.

I hope that after this October’s municipal elections that Vancouver City Council has a majority willing to make the decisions and investments required to get us back on track to be competitive for the Biggest Leap Award in the coming term.

City of North Vancouver staff and Councillors receive their award.

And congratulations to the City of North Vancouver, who received the coveted Biggest Leap Award for their commitment to reallocating street space and building a safer, more connected active transportation network.

Photo of me with Patrick and his award.

Big congratulations to my friend Patrick Johnstone, Mayor of New Westminster, for being the well-deserved winner of the Arno Schortinghuis Cycling Champion of the Year Award.

Photo of the City of Vancouver staff and Councillors receiving the award for the Granville Connector Cycling Infrastructure at the HUB Cycling Awards.

Two City of Vancouver projects took home Infrastructure Improvement Awards: the new Granville Bridge Connector and the Kitsilano Beach extension of the Seaside Greenway, which closed one of the most significant remaining gaps in the 28km-long Seaside Greenway.

Photo from the back of the packed room looking out over the audience towards the stage

This week HUB Cycling hosted its 13th Annual Bike Awards, celebrating the organisations and individuals making biking better across Metro Vancouver.

Iona Bonamis, me, Russil Wvong and Michael Tan from OneCity Vancouver at the West Coast LEAF 2026 Equality Breakfast.

Yesterday morning I went to the West Coast Leaf 2026 Equality Breakfast celebrating International Women’s Day with a number of @onecityvan.bsky.social candidate nominees including @ionabonamis.bsky.social, @russilwvong.bsky.social and Michael Tan.

Screenshot from VZV co-founder Jade Buchanan doing one of our first media interviews. CityNews describes him on the screen as "Jade Buchanan, bike share enthusiast"

There's a great Motion from @lucymaloney.bsky.social and @seanorr.bsky.social coming to Council this Wednesday, March 11th to improve bike share in the region! (full text: council.vancouver.ca/20260311/doc...)

As card-carrying bike share enthusiasts, we are excited. Here's how to support:

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Just listened to an interesting CBC radio program about militaries using AI to evade responsibility for their actions. 🤔

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The upgraded buildings

This week I toured a successful deep climate-and-energy retrofit of a non-market, multi-family housing community near King Edward & Trafalgar Streets. Electric heat pumps now provide residents with efficient heating & cooling while upgraded windows & insulation keep suites comfortable.

Me and Cllr Orr with a heat pump inside one of the homes

Unfortunately the funding source that made this work possible was cut by Cllr Lenny Zhou in an amendment to Mayor Sim & ABC’s 2026 austerity budget. After FortisBC complained, Mayor Sim & ABC cut $8.2 million that had been allocated to make rental buildings ⬇️ polluting & safer during hot weather.

One of the upgraded buildings.

Without investments from the city, landlords are unlikely to shoulder the cost of these upgrades because they do not see direct benefits; their tenants do.

Me with Jill Atkey, CEO of the BC Non-Profit Housing Association.

The now-cut program aimed to make homes safer & more affordable in multi-family rental buildings such as single-room occupancy buildings & apartments for mid- to low-income people.

The tour group.

Replacing gas heating with electric heat pumps not only reduces climate pollution, it also provides essential cooling during extreme heat events which, thanks to climate change, will become more frequent & more intense. The 2021 heat dome alone claimed 99 victims in the City of Vancouver.

Me and Cllr Orr with a heat pump inside one of the homes

Unfortunately the funding source that made this work possible was cut by Cllr Lenny Zhou in an amendment to Mayor Sim & ABC’s 2026 austerity budget. After FortisBC complained, Mayor Sim & ABC cut $8.2 million that had been allocated to make rental buildings ⬇️ polluting & safer during hot weather.