“Richest Hill,” a new podcast from Montana Public Radio, will make you care intensely about the former copper-mining boomtown of Butte, Montana: nyer.cm/F2B6wkU

Very hard to see anything other than "three men in a hot tub" now ... thestar.com/politics/provi… via @torontostar

Guess who is 10! Happy birthday, Burrard bridge bike lane: today marks 10 years since the Burrard Bridge bike lane opened. Let's take a casual bike ride back through time and look at the calm, nuanced media commentary that greeted the plucky bike lane in 2009 #vanpoli

Had my bike half stripped apart while locked up at a mostly deserted UBC yesterday. With everything else going on I didn't consider that side effect of less foot traffic/eyes on the street.

Uganda has the best Coronavirus PSA.

For journalists, having a full 3D reconstruction of a scene unlocks the ability to tell the story in many different ways, from many different angles. rd.nytimes.com/projects/recon…

There are more books yet to be written about real estate here. Some great thoughts about our favourite endlessly fascinating (and infuriating) conversation topic.

Please stop everything & read this gorgeous tone-poem (sure, the NYT calls it 'opinion') to winter's approach written by Chris Solomon & reported from - no joke - Twisp, Wash. Thanks to Jacqui Banaszynski Kim Cross for highlighting it Nieman Storyboard nytimes.com/2020/10/17/opi…

Where to get your picture taken in Vancouver if you weren't Anglo White? Yucho Chow's, of course! The photographer captured hopeful immigrants in the first half of the 20th c. His daylighted works fill big gaps in our colourful history. The Tyee #vanpoli thetyee.ca/Culture/2020/1…

"In Canada,🇨🇦it's possible to find a man lounging on a chesterfield in his rented bachelor wearing only his gotchies while fortifying his Molson muscle with a jambuster washed down with slugs from a stubby." nytimes.com/2021/05/16/boo… by Ian Austen via The New York Times, eh

Mr Lordi, singer of Finnish heavy metal band Lordi, receives his second dose of Covid-19 vaccine in Rovaniemi, Finland on August 1, 2021.

Great to see this finally emerge. Jeremy Allingham's digging here, Ian Young's years-long FOI saga scoop this week and Sam Cooper's book are a great if depressing reading list on how we got to our sad state of housing affairs. Imagine if our FOI systems weren't so broken?

This bodes well. nytimes.com/2021/10/20/cli…

Heard a bang earlier. Possibly this. #BCStorm

"These cultural spaces are what make cities matter. This is why we’re here: to make things, to see things, to find people." Love Letter: An impassioned goodbye to Vancouver's last great independent comedy club LittleMountain vanmag.com/Love-Letter-Go…

A very earnest note to say that the City of Vancouver 311 team has been great each time I’ve called and just sent two city crews to fix a very plugged storm drain within an hour during a crazy rain event. Our alley is no longer a lake. Big thanks to city crews out tonight.

It is time.

It's been 125 years since Canadian James Naismith invented basketball! We've come a long way from peach baskets #WeTheNorth