I just don't understand why opening back up as people get vaccinated also has to mean closing down all the accessibile alternatives created in the last year

What if I told you there was a single intervention we could deliver in our cities that would cool them during heatwaves, reduce flooding, scrub pollutants from the air, boost biodiversity, improve public health, and even reduce crime? You wouldn't believe me. But it's true.

Healthy people do not understand the sheer panic when you try to refill a script of lifesaving medication and your refill doesn't go through. Because that that moment you know you are in for some shit. And that no this is not going to be a quick fix. 1/11

A route planned to pass all the hospitals is a route planned with the intention to cause loss of life.

ISNT IT INTERESTING HOW THE RANDOM FIRES IN VANCOUVER OVER THE LAST ~2 YEARS HAVE ALL BEEN IN OLDER BUILDINGS MORE FREQUENTED BY LOW INCOME PEOPLE IN NEIGHBOURHOODS THAT ARE BEING PREYED ON FOR REDEVELOPMENT?

Expropriate big telecoms. Nationalize the internet. Subsidize shortwave. Publicly owned social media

"Supportive housing is too dangerous to put near schools" says the NIMBY, unconcerned that every school is surrounded by roads and cars (the number one cause of death of kids under 19 #vanpoli

📣ACTION ALERT📣 Please help us send a message to the City of Vancouver, letting them know the harms of displacing unhoused community members - through fire orders, street sweeps, or other hostile acts of decampment:👉🏽bit.ly/3PI0dp4 1/3

.SEAN ORR is running for council in this election and for this exchange alone you should vote for him. #vanpoli

Please people. This is huge. You can vote as early as October 1st! Tell all the renters in your building! Tell all the people at work!

Tax them like a business. Hire more inspectors.

Policy #5: More dog parks — including at Dude Chilling Park in Mt. Pleasant. Dog parks are social infrastructure, because they bring people together and create community. We need more of them all over town (and pets-ok policies for all rental housing!) #vanpoli #VoteSocialist

Sean Orr was not invited to the Vancouver Police Union municipal election debate this evening. But he went anyway, to deliver a message: “Police out of politics.” (He was immediately asked to leave.) #vanpoli #RefundOurCommunities #VoteSocialist

And people are thinking of voting for a cop-sponsored mayor and councillors? Defund the VPD, get these goons off our streets. Don't vote for cops and their besties. Easy.

Vancouverites are really so terrified of homeless people that they will elect a fascist government just to avoid having to look at them. Wild.

Hi Mayor Ken Sim. Here's a revenue stream idea for #vanpoli: actually implementing fines for businesses and property owners who don't clear sidewalks of snow/ice. Brings in revenue AND help seniors, people with disabilities, strollers, kids, people carrying groceries....everyone!

A new policy rule: you can’t keep increasing police budgets while calling housing and health care too expensive.

i am going to build a thread of photos of vandalism in Vancouver and discuss the different things it does in our city.

VISIBLE distress is not a medical condition

-wore white vans to Remembrance Day ceremony -said he hopes Canucks never play a home playoff game -increased Mayor’s budget to $1.5 million (150,000,000 pennies) -dismissed integrity commissioner -converted a meeting room at City Hall into a personal gym