Christopher Porter
@canadianveggie.com
Runner. Cyclist. Urbanist. Plant-Based. Software Engineer. Data Nerd.
Vancouver
Vancouver
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You didn't ask, but we still answered - the most questionably-helpful holiday gift guide is back!
2025 Holiday Gift Guide
You have quirky friends? We have quirky gift ideas. Plus some great advent calendars, holiday jigsaw puzzles, and other themed goodies!
www.raincity.games
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
You didn't ask, but we still answered - the most questionably-helpful holiday gift guide is back!
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Mudslide closes part of Vancouver's Stanley Park Seawall after heavy rains
A 'small slide of mud, rocks, and vegetation' has caused a section of Vancouver's iconic Stanley Park Seawall to close Sunday.
#cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada
A 'small slide of mud, rocks, and vegetation' has caused a section of Vancouver's iconic Stanley Park Seawall to close Sunday.
#cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Mudslide closes part of Vancouver's Stanley Park Seawall after heavy rains
A 'small slide of mud, rocks, and vegetation' has caused a section of Vancouver's iconic Stanley Park Seawall to close Sunday.
#cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada
A 'small slide of mud, rocks, and vegetation' has caused a section of Vancouver's iconic Stanley Park Seawall to close Sunday.
#cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada
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🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨
After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!
The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…
🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉
After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!
The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…
🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉
December 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨
After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!
The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…
🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉
After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!
The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…
🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉
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Had a chance to sit down with William Azaroff, who wants to be @onecityvan.bsky.social's Vancouver mayoral candidate. Interview with fellow nominee Amanda Burrows coming soon!
William Azaroff, Who Builds Non-Profit Housing, Runs for Mayor via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
William Azaroff, Who Builds Non-Profit Housing, Runs for Mayor via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
William Azaroff, Who Builds Non-Profit Housing, Runs for Mayor | The Tyee
One of two nominees for the OneCity mayoral candidacy, the Strathcona resident also draws from arts industry experience.
thetyee.ca
December 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Had a chance to sit down with William Azaroff, who wants to be @onecityvan.bsky.social's Vancouver mayoral candidate. Interview with fellow nominee Amanda Burrows coming soon!
William Azaroff, Who Builds Non-Profit Housing, Runs for Mayor via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
William Azaroff, Who Builds Non-Profit Housing, Runs for Mayor via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
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If Amanda Burrows wins the OneCity mayoral nomination on Feb. 11, the executive director of First United will be in the running to achieve a Vancouver first on election day next fall: a woman as mayor.
And one of the few mayors in the city’s history who rents, not owns, their housing.
And one of the few mayors in the city’s history who rents, not owns, their housing.
Amanda Burrows Wants to be a Mayor Who Speaks for Renters | The Tyee
‘I have been evicted before, like so many people's stories in this city.’
thetyee.ca
December 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If Amanda Burrows wins the OneCity mayoral nomination on Feb. 11, the executive director of First United will be in the running to achieve a Vancouver first on election day next fall: a woman as mayor.
And one of the few mayors in the city’s history who rents, not owns, their housing.
And one of the few mayors in the city’s history who rents, not owns, their housing.
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🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨
We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...
We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...
December 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨
We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...
We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...
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Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
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No big deal, but the Alberta government just increased the fee to submit a citizen initiated petition from $500 to $25, 000. After the separatism initiative was approved, but before Corb Lund's coal mining petition gets re-approved. No political shenanigans going on here.
December 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
No big deal, but the Alberta government just increased the fee to submit a citizen initiated petition from $500 to $25, 000. After the separatism initiative was approved, but before Corb Lund's coal mining petition gets re-approved. No political shenanigans going on here.
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"The potential to have things seized will send a message that you can't ride on the sidewalk," Burnside said.
December 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"The potential to have things seized will send a message that you can't ride on the sidewalk," Burnside said.
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I did this interview at Yonge & St Clair, the reporter hoping he'd catch a gig worker bombing down the sidewalk. Instead a pickup truck was parked in the bike lane behind us, and for the entire conversation rider after rider was forced into traffic.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
December 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I did this interview at Yonge & St Clair, the reporter hoping he'd catch a gig worker bombing down the sidewalk. Instead a pickup truck was parked in the bike lane behind us, and for the entire conversation rider after rider was forced into traffic.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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BC Hydro: ~120,000 customers without power after rainstorm knocked down trees and debris onto electrical infrastructure.
Hardest hit areas:
• Surrey: 18,400 without power
• Vancouver: 11,200
• Port Coquitlam: 12,500
• Burnaby: 11,700
• Maple Ridge: 11,200
• North Vancouver: 10,000
Hardest hit areas:
• Surrey: 18,400 without power
• Vancouver: 11,200
• Port Coquitlam: 12,500
• Burnaby: 11,700
• Maple Ridge: 11,200
• North Vancouver: 10,000
December 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
BC Hydro: ~120,000 customers without power after rainstorm knocked down trees and debris onto electrical infrastructure.
Hardest hit areas:
• Surrey: 18,400 without power
• Vancouver: 11,200
• Port Coquitlam: 12,500
• Burnaby: 11,700
• Maple Ridge: 11,200
• North Vancouver: 10,000
Hardest hit areas:
• Surrey: 18,400 without power
• Vancouver: 11,200
• Port Coquitlam: 12,500
• Burnaby: 11,700
• Maple Ridge: 11,200
• North Vancouver: 10,000
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Institutional inertia has taken over our city's institutions, and it's a serious problem. Why can't the City of Vancouver get anything done anymore?
It's been 509 days since @christineboyle.bsky.social 's bus lane motion passed in Vancouver. Maybe 365 additional days since the previous ABC one did.
Do we have anything to show for it? Nope. Nothing.
Dude where's our bus lanes? 🚍🤷
Do we have anything to show for it? Nope. Nothing.
Dude where's our bus lanes? 🚍🤷
December 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Institutional inertia has taken over our city's institutions, and it's a serious problem. Why can't the City of Vancouver get anything done anymore?
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🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨
We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...
We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...
December 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨
We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...
We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...
Thank you brave hero who installed these barriers at night on Gabriola Island. But I wish we lived in a world where the ministry of transport was better at installing life saving infrastructure on its own.
#TacticalUrbanism
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#TacticalUrbanism
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Unsanctioned roadway barriers installed in the dark of night on Gabriola Island | CBC News
Just a few weeks after residents pleaded with local government to take action on "traffic chaos" at Descanso Bay Ferry Terminal on Gabriola Island, someone has gone rogue and installed delineators alo...
www.cbc.ca
December 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Thank you brave hero who installed these barriers at night on Gabriola Island. But I wish we lived in a world where the ministry of transport was better at installing life saving infrastructure on its own.
#TacticalUrbanism
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#TacticalUrbanism
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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⚠️‼️NORTH SHORE FLOOD WARNING⚠️
Stay clear of the banks of swift-running rivers and never drive across flooded roads, bridges or river crossings.
More info: https://bcrfc.env.gov.bc.ca/warnings/advisories/FWN_2025_12_15_0600_NorthShoreMtns.pdf
Stay clear of the banks of swift-running rivers and never drive across flooded roads, bridges or river crossings.
More info: https://bcrfc.env.gov.bc.ca/warnings/advisories/FWN_2025_12_15_0600_NorthShoreMtns.pdf
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
⚠️‼️NORTH SHORE FLOOD WARNING⚠️
Stay clear of the banks of swift-running rivers and never drive across flooded roads, bridges or river crossings.
More info: https://bcrfc.env.gov.bc.ca/warnings/advisories/FWN_2025_12_15_0600_NorthShoreMtns.pdf
Stay clear of the banks of swift-running rivers and never drive across flooded roads, bridges or river crossings.
More info: https://bcrfc.env.gov.bc.ca/warnings/advisories/FWN_2025_12_15_0600_NorthShoreMtns.pdf
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Alberta country music star Corb Lund says the citizens petition initiative he had filed against coal mining in the Rocky Mountains has been retroactively killed by Alberta’s new legislation:
December 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Alberta country music star Corb Lund says the citizens petition initiative he had filed against coal mining in the Rocky Mountains has been retroactively killed by Alberta’s new legislation:
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BREAKING: Officials in Sumas, Wash., immediately south of Abbotsford will be sounding their flood siren that warns residents to evacuate. This is a sign of likely flooding in Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
BREAKING: Officials in Sumas, Wash., immediately south of Abbotsford will be sounding their flood siren that warns residents to evacuate. This is a sign of likely flooding in Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford.
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
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Electric heat pumps anyone?
FortisBC is raising its gas rates, typical bill to rise by 11% (BC)
FortisBC is raising its gas rates, typical bill to rise by 11% - BC News
FortisBC gas customers in British Columbia will be paying more in the new year.
The British Columbia Utilities Commission has approved an 11.1 per cent increase to its gas rates starting
www.castanet.net
December 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Electric heat pumps anyone?
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Ken Sim and ABC just gutted the Social Housing Initiative. That's not pro-housing: that's full NIMBY.
December 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Ken Sim and ABC just gutted the Social Housing Initiative. That's not pro-housing: that's full NIMBY.
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Worst case: EVs are cleaner than gas cars
Best case: they’re a hell of a lot cleaner.
(BC being close to best case)
Best case: they’re a hell of a lot cleaner.
(BC being close to best case)
EVs beat petrol cars on lifetime emissions — even on “dirty” grids.
Battery production is carbon-intensive, but EVs quickly repay that debt and end up 21–71% cleaner over 250,000 km.
We can’t wait for perfect grids: electrify transport and clean the grid now.
Battery production is carbon-intensive, but EVs quickly repay that debt and end up 21–71% cleaner over 250,000 km.
We can’t wait for perfect grids: electrify transport and clean the grid now.
December 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Worst case: EVs are cleaner than gas cars
Best case: they’re a hell of a lot cleaner.
(BC being close to best case)
Best case: they’re a hell of a lot cleaner.
(BC being close to best case)
I need to stop watching live sporting events. It never ends in happy feelings.
Related: we're looking for a family from either Switzerland, New Zealand, or Belgium to swap places during the World Cup.
Related: we're looking for a family from either Switzerland, New Zealand, or Belgium to swap places during the World Cup.
December 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I need to stop watching live sporting events. It never ends in happy feelings.
Related: we're looking for a family from either Switzerland, New Zealand, or Belgium to swap places during the World Cup.
Related: we're looking for a family from either Switzerland, New Zealand, or Belgium to swap places during the World Cup.
I would like to know what teams are playing in the World Cup in Vancouver, but this FIFA draw is unbearable.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I would like to know what teams are playing in the World Cup in Vancouver, but this FIFA draw is unbearable.
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"Professionally incapacitated" does not show up even once in the entire @canlii.bsky.social database (and only 31 times in Google Scholar related to employment law). www.canlii.org#search/index...
We are going to have court cases in BC over what it actually means. That's how stupid this is.
We are going to have court cases in BC over what it actually means. That's how stupid this is.
We now have a more ridiculous political euphemism than "hiking the Appalachian Trail".
December 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"Professionally incapacitated" does not show up even once in the entire @canlii.bsky.social database (and only 31 times in Google Scholar related to employment law). www.canlii.org#search/index...
We are going to have court cases in BC over what it actually means. That's how stupid this is.
We are going to have court cases in BC over what it actually means. That's how stupid this is.
I might have been a bit optimistic on how long Rustad would last.
The year is 2028. Dallas Broadie leads a surging "Real Conservatives Only" Party that is cannibalizing support from the BC Conservatives. Just before the election is called, John Rustad announces his party is suspending their campaign and withdrawing all their candidates.
And the cycle continues...
And the cycle continues...
December 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I might have been a bit optimistic on how long Rustad would last.
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Two fantastic contenders just entered the race to be Vancouver’s next mayor.
OneCity Vancouver fields two candidates to battle for party leader
Amanda Burrows, William Azaroff square off in mayoral nomination battle set for February
www.biv.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Two fantastic contenders just entered the race to be Vancouver’s next mayor.