While Vancouver drags its feet on improving four measly bus routes, a true world-class city, Vienna, is looking to speed up 29 tram lines and 135 bus routes, basically its entire surface transit network. The city will invest 2 million Euros annually until 2030 on transit acceleration measures.

A real radicalizing moment for me was back in 2013 when I picked up a second job during the holiday season. I was ringing up purchases and heard people complaining about a guy panhandling outside. And yet, Salvation Army had a bellringer right outside the door.

The opinions on homelessness from people who have never experienced it do not matter more than the people who have experienced it. "It's a mental health issue" Why yes, being exposed to the elements and potential for experiencing violence affects your mental health. A real "water is wet" statement.

My husband goes through the world with a positivity and openness that makes him friends whatever he goes, and it makes his experience of the world so much better (and mine by proxy). It's crazy to watch and has made me a believer n how much our approach to the world shapes it. It's not naive at all.

An Open Letter to Members of the Legislative Assembly Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

"First Nations should not be asked by the Crown to compromise their human rights. No other segment of society is asked to put their rights on hold while the government seeks to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada to undermine those very rights." www.ubcic.bc.ca/open_letter_...

Pancreatic cancer usually kills within a year or two of diagnosis. In this trial, nearly all 8 responders are still alive six years later. The 5-year survival rate is usually only around 12%. We should be increasing federal funding for mRNA research, not cutting it.

All week, CBC has been asking "What does Carney's new majority mean?" But when they ask this, they're not asking how it will affect people, justice, enviro, rights, etc. They're asking how it affects other parties/politicians & their strategies, which is telling of how CBC approaches politics.

While I do think there needs to be a center-left alliance to beat fascism in USA, the center needs to move sharply left on 50 million issues.

Centrists have made it clear that they want leftists to abandon their values, but it's actually centrists who must develop values, which requires moving left

As long as some people can "invest" in real estate, housing will be too expensive.

Investors push prices up because that's how they increase profits. A profit-driven system will always push prices as high as possible until a crisis point is reached.

The purpose of a system is what it does.
#cdnpoli

it always surprises me when people react really viscerally to the idea of destroying systems and institutions that either no longer serve us (and can't be reformed), or never existed to serve humanity in general. putting the destruction of a system on the table shouldn't be a radical position

i gave a talk ~1 week back, unpacking an idea @tressiemcphd.bsky.social mentioned in November at the Urban Consulate in Detroit - that an optimistic future is one where we can exercise autonomy over our lives & consent is not some immaterial issue - a future with refusal. and a guy got mad about it!

NYC study shows men are 2.6x more likely than women to bike to work. When protected bike lane coverage is high, women’s cycling rates rise significantly faster than men’s.

When protected lanes are limited or fragmented, women’s participation drops sharply.

Good bike investments give women choices.

women who hate men generally just hate what men have done to them whereas men who hate women mostly just hate what women won’t do for them

the difference is crucial

I thought this was embarrassing, and then I noticed that you put your own name on it too? Ooof, this is so pathetic.

post from Jake Tapper Going to a formal event that celebrates Freedom of the Press where some of the other guests don't understand the importance of the 1st Amendment? The Reporters Committee for the Free Press has some great accessories - including the below pocket square! donate.rcfp.org/first-amendment rctp.org [photo of the pocket square, which reads: CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OR OF THE PRESS!]

canceling all my plans and taking to my bed due to a severe bout of secondhand embarrassment

I have tried living "in the moment;" I would like to select a different, funner moment

Canada has a choice to make: do what we need to do to save healthcare, protect workers, do right by people with #longCOVID, rescue the economy - or keep pretending it never happened, to protect a medical management class that stabbed us all in the back and now wants to cover it up.

UK inquiry 🧵:

This isn’t exactly new. The number of men I grew up around who had frequently younger wives from various Asian countries because the women were submissive and cooked, cleaned, and took care of them like children was not a small number.

Corb Lund: Facts dispute industry claims on coal mining Opinion:

"We are being asked to accept permanent environmental damage, long‑term public liability and water risks that can't be engineered away, all to support an industry in structural decline that contributes little in royalties and is largely owned by foreign investors."You tell 'em,@corblund.bsky.social.

When a family or person spends 50%+ of their income on rent or a mortgage, they have no disposable income to save, invest, or organize. They are too busy surviving to think about changing the system. Housing insecurity is a powerful tool for keeping the workforce compliant.

I never trust anyone who says “This isn’t about left vs right.”

The left stands for economic and social equality.

The right stands for economic and social hierarchy.

What's happening to healthcare in Alberta is potentially coming for all of us in Canada. Insurance companies will want this everywhere, and there doesn't seem to be much protecting Canada and its citizens at a federal level, @mark-carney.bsky.social. It's legitimately upending. #CdnPoli #CanPoli

So many of you alleged liberals are just vibrating with eagerness to be permitted to engage in one form of bigotry or another and it shows.

“The Province is partnering with law enforcement, scientists and health researchers in a groundbreaking pilot project, which uses advanced robotic and AI technology to fight the toxic-drug crisis”

I'm not joking, this is a real government announcement

news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

notice where income and housing costs become completely untethered from one another

Canada built 20,000+ social housing units a year in the 70s. By 2010: near zero.

Not a market failure. A policy choice. Every housing crisis since is downstream of that chart.

Delete the notwithstanding clause.

Two light purple and white Bossier’s glory-of-the-snow blossoms in the shade up against backlit bright green leaves.

White hyacinth in the foreground, pink and purple out of focus hyacinth in the background.

Purple hyacinth against a concrete wall.

Yellow daffodil with long green leaves next to a tree trunk.

It was a loooooooong winter, I’m so happy the flowers are finally back! 💖

My first #FlowerReport of the year🪻

I was blessed to be interviewed by Suzanne of @halifaxexaminer.ca fame! While the province seems adamant to let libraries wither on the vine, I've been working to make sure we can at the very least keep operating as the great institutions we are.
By unionizing!!! ^.^