Shifting blame to other municipalities doesn’t solve the crisis, it just abandons those most at risk. We need leadership that prioritizes solutions, not delays.

Temporary pause on new supportive housing in Downtown Eastside approved | Urbanized Vancouver City Council has approved a temporary pause on any net new supportive housing units in the Downtown Eastside.

Vancouver City Council’s decision to pause new supportive housing in the DTES is a cruel and shortsighted move. With homelessness at record highs, this moratorium will push more people onto the streets instead of providing the housing they desperately need.

dailyhive.com/vancouver/va... #vanpoli

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Poilievre is losing ground thanks to the Trump effect A plurality of Conservative supporters in Canada support Donald Trump. Do they realize that's about to cost them the next federal election?

Turns out being supported by the same people who support Trump, copying Trumps lazy insult lines, doing Trump-like things like refusing to get the normal security clearance (assuming he CAN get it), & generally wanting to BE Canada’s Trump isn’t all that popular in Canada.

Via @nationalobserver.com

Urbanists should make a good effort to use communication that’s clear and less likely to be misunderstood.

The people you need to convince are probably much less familiar with how zoning works than you are, and many of them will hear “end single-family zoning” as “ban single-family homes”.

Pierre Poilievre’s Pipe Dream: Imprison Drug Users for Life | The Tyee Just about every sale of fentanyl would apply, clogging our justice system. Time for a logic check.

The very same people that Pierre Poilievre promised to ‘bring home’ drug-free are now, by Poilievre’s own definition, ‘fentanyl kingpins’ who should be imprisoned for life.

My latest in @thetyee.ca:

“Pierre Poilievre’s Pipe Dream: Imprison Drug Users for Life”

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

As a denizen of East Van, I am SO excited about some of these proposed new bus routes, especially the line on East 1st and the Renfrew Express to North Van. Please take the survey and express your support for ✨new bus routes✨!

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Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend Events Feb 7-9 Weekend events and things to do around Vancouver February 7-9, 2025. Activities and events around Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.

The weekend event list for Metro Vancouver is ready!
🏅 Invictus Games Opening Ceremony
🌲 Forest Journaling and Tea in Stanley Park
🕺 @publicdisco.bsky.social After Dark ft. DJ Hermano
🍄 Creating a Magical Felted Mushroom
🎭 Vancouver Opera presents Flight
+ 40 more #events listed here:

No Evidence of Steady ‘Flow’ of Fentanyl into the US | The Tyee Experts say Trump is using overdose deaths for political gain.

President Trump has been misrepresenting the unregulated toxic drug crisis for political gain, according to local experts.

Here are a few images from the proposal. More available via the survey link and Daily Hive article. #vancouver #downtownvan @downtownvan.bsky.social

This is the proposed car-free transformation of the Granville Strip | Urbanized This is the City of Vancouver's proposal to transform Granville Strip into a vibrant car-free destination with major mixed-use developments.

🚨 Big changes ahead for #GranvilleStreet! 🚨 Check out the new master plan & share your thoughts. Feedback from the creative community is imperative. Take the survey here: survey.talkvancouver.com/jfe1/form/SV... #YVR #CityOfVancouver #urbandesign #musicbc

Some great directions in here! Excited to see some innovative approaches. Will be sharing with our community for feedback :)

Disgusted by this. We’ve been calling it out since the assault on Gaza began.

@jwhiteyvr.bsky.social curious for your thoughts on this :)

Public Disco is back this Saturday with our next warehouse party featuring Brazil born, MTL based artist @djhermano.bsky.social bringing his feel good tunes to The Birdhouse. Grab tix: www.eventbrite.ca/e/public-dis... | #yvr #dancemusic

Disappointed by The Rec Room’s building on #Granville. A heritage restoration is lovely, but where’s the vibrancy? No patios, no garage windows, no interaction with public space. It’s a fortress, not a place that invites people in. How does this add life to the street? Missed opportunity. #vanpoli

Support Canadian alternatives!

Hey EU, UK, Mexico etc you guys seem smart, funny and reliable trading partners who don’t illegally break relatively recent trade agreements by imposing ridiculously high tariffs to start a trade war against long-time partners & allies while plunging your nation into fascism.

Wanna do more trade?

Share your fave locally/Canadian/non-US made/produced food and products to help me (and anyone else who is similarly included) to put my money where my mouth is… #buylocal

Exclusive: Inside the Harper government's trashing of a research library The inside story on how one federal library's journals and documents ended up in a dumpster.

Hey Canada, as we watch the Trump admin erase info from public websites, remember when the Harper government muzzled scientists, shut research libraries and labs and tossed irreplaceable documents into dumpsters.
www.nationalobserver.com/2015/09/29/n...

Yes it feels strange to post this much about “politics.” I don’t really like doing it. But what’s happening isn’t politics. It’s far worse than we’re letting ourselves contemplate. You may just want to hear about city-building but we all have a moral obligation to speak out about what they’re doing.

It's time to end our obsession with bloated big cities, like Vancouver and Toronto Douglas Todd: Future of housing affordability lies in providing more support to mid-sized centres, such as Kamloops

The recent CD Howe study arguing to push people out of big cities and into midsized cities had obvious, serious errors. Now it's been picked up by the most shameless anti-growther in Canadian media. vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

Exciting to see this development in #Kits bringing 200 units of social housing, along with retail and office space! Projects like this add vibrancy, services, and walkability to neighbourhoods while addressing housing needs. A win for community and sustainability! #yvr #vanpoli #urbanplanning

Mark Carney has Canada’s Conservatives running scared Is it Carbon Tax Carney? Canapé Carney? Redistribution Carney? Right now, Canada's Conservatives can't even settle on a nickname for their likely opponent in the next federal election, much less a com...

“…a pair of recent polls shows a substantial rebound in Liberal fortunes, with both putting the Liberals back in the game in key battleground of Ontario. And with Conservatives still visibly divided over whether to respond to Trump’s threats by defending the country or just its oil & gas industry…”

The Vancouver Art Gallery’s north plaza at night. In the background, the gallery is lit up with banners advertising the FIRELEI BÁEZ exhibit. On the plaza, 8 giant lanterns, each adorned with artwork, hang from a metal frame.

Tonight in Vancouver

A series of photos I took around the Lantern City installations for Lunar New Year:

🏮 Hundred Pace Snake by Godkidlla 小子

#photography #cities #city #artsky

Vancouver byelection: OneCity chooses road safety advocate Road safety advocate Lucy Maloney has been chosen by OneCity Vancouver to run in the 2025 Vancouver civic byelection.

We’re absolutely thrilled to see one of our own, @lucymaloney.bsky.social, running for Vancouver city council! The election is April 5th. Lucy has been an awesome Vision Zero Vancouver volunteer, continuously pushing for safer streets, and we know she’ll bring that same passion to City Hall.

Sen̓áḵw rendering & current stage of construction…

Montreal will continue the largest pedestrian street program in North America, committing $12mil to 9 pedestrian streets over 3-years.

“These projects are not only good for the economy, they also contribute directly to the quality of life of the population.” @valplante.bsky.social