Cyclists’ safety has been sacrificed for the convenience of drivers: since the bike lane had been removed from Stanley Park Drive there has been an increase in the number of vehicles driving over 50km/hr (30km/hr speed limit) from 11% before the lane’s removal to 50% after.

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Although ABC has indicated in the media that no one has been removed from the party, the email this morning and the absence of communication today (and throughout this major decision) has signalled to me that our relationship has ended.

Terrific thread on the soft power role of the Mayor re: Park Board saga

This is a pretty well substantiated take at this point. It strikes me that the early middle stage of a political term is often when the campaigning mask drops and voters get a more honest view of their representatives. Dishonest admins rely on voters forgetting

Was wondering when Canadaland staff would publicly push back on Jesse’s myopic and often misleading focus on antisemitism in Canada. Duly noted

Wednesday is a 2x vote day for retweets, so if you tweet something like #NHLAllStarVote Thatcher Demko #NHLAllStarVote Elias Pettersson #NHLAllStarVote Brock Boeser #NHLAllStarVote J.T. Miller and someone retweets it, the RT will count 2x. But I won’t tell you how to vote.

Really quite striking how Shape Your City feedback is not representative, yet this information is regularly treated as representing public opinion on developments projects.

This is what happens when hatred shapes your worldview. "it was a crappy piece of land with nothing on it...there were, you know, several 100 thousand people, but other than that" is a wild thing to say out loud. This kind of racism does not belong in govt. #FreePalestine

Celebrating an unbelievable five seasons of The Botchford Project with Alumni and Media tonight! My gawd the love, energy and passion tonight is surreal in honour of Jason’s legacy and what we have created!

People have always lived in Stanley Park, but did you know someone has been there for 34 years? He's been there by choice, and his time is coming to an end. This is part 1 of a 3-part story. Meet the man who’s lived 30 years in Stanley Park. Global BC globalnews.ca/news/10418430/…

*sweeping generalization* Van media: only Canucks fans are qualified to talk about this team. nobody else has ever watched a canucks game due to bed time Edm media: only beat reporters and people who won a cup in the 1980s are qualified to talk about this team

My conversation with Nate Lewis for Vancouver Lookout.We looked at problematic location for cyclists & pedestrians, examined why, talked about why outdoor urban design is so essential to places, great streets, and universal walkability. Thank you Nate! vancitylookout.com/p/streets-peop…

Lululemon told government officials it might pull the plug on a planned expansion in Vancouver if it didn't get a special exemption to let it hire temporary foreign workers without first offering those jobs to Canadian residents theijf.org/lululemon-tfw-…

All of this is to say, this is super complicated As the #bcpoli election campaign ramps up and we start hearing rhetoric around the historic Riverview site, understand how thorny this site and the issues are Watch/read my 6-part deep dive here 👇 8/8 bc.ctvnews.ca/riverview-in-f…

So, yes, she has resigned, effective today, leaving Pete Fry as the only non-ABC councillor still at city hall. By-election date hasn't been set yet for OneCity Christine Boyle's departure, but the two seats will now be included in that.