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Brenda @brendawe.bsky.social · 25d

For anyone interested, @happycity.ca posted the three debates held recently; one At-Large, one Mayor/Deputy Mayor, and one Ward 2.

Watch the three city council candidate debates - Happy City St. John's

In the last few days we have hosted or helped to host three debates among the candidates for city council in the upcoming […]

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · 25d

Do you live in one of these areas of St John's? The city is starting the public engagement process for strategic neighbourhood plans there. Visit www.engagestjohns.ca/rennies-rive... or www.engagestjohns.ca/central-and-... to get involved. (And don't forget to check out stjohnsvotes.ca and vote!)

Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · 27d

Join us for a walk exploring how urban infrastructure impacts pedestrian safety, comfort, and enjoyment in St. John’s. Hosted by a member of Challenge Car Culture, this walk invites conversation about building a city that puts people first.
Parking (ironically) is available in Churchill Square.

Join us for a Jane’s Walk exploring how urban infrastructure impacts pedestrian safety, comfort, and enjoyment in St. John’s. We’ll walk through key areas to examine crosswalk design, sidewalk conditions, traffic flow, and accessibility features—highlighting what works and what doesn’t. This is a participatory event: bring your observations, ideas, and walking shoes. Hosted by a member of Challenge Car Culture, this walk invites conversation about building a city that puts people first.
Jane’s Walks are a series of free community walks held annually to highlight the unseen, under-celebrated and unique stories in the cities where we live. This walk begins at the intersection of Pine Bud Ave and Rowan St. Parking is available in Churchill Square.

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Sep 11

Meet the mayoral/deputy mayor candidates for St. John's!

Join us Sept 15 at 7pm at Memorial University's Bruneau Centre to hear their plans for our city's future.

Register at donorbox.org/events/81254...

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Sep 4

Attention Ward 2 Residents!

Meet your municipal election candidates at The Lantern (35 Barnes Road) on Sept 16, 7pm.

Hear their plans for St. John's future & ask questions.

Moderated by Brad Greeley.

Send questions to [email protected] by Sept 12.

St. John's Municipal Election poster for Ward 2 Candidates Talk event. Features blue and yellow branding with city skyline silhouette. Main text announces event on September 16, 2025 at 7:00pm at The Lantern, 35 Barnes Road. Includes circular photo of moderator Brad Greeley, a man with glasses and dark hair. Poster invites residents to meet candidates and hear their plans, with instructions to send questions to georgestownneighbourhood@gmail.com by September 12. Sponsored by Georgetown Neighbourhood Association and Happy City St. John's. Website shown as stjohnsvotes.ca.

Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Sep 1

New At-Large Candidate Talk Poster Alert!

Join us on Sept. 10, 6:30pm at Memorial University (Core Science Lecture Hall - Whale Atrium CSF 1301,2,9) to hear their vision for our city's future.

What issues matter to you?: stjohnsvotes.ca/issue-survey/

Registration: donorbox.org/events/79876...

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Jun 13

🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community?

Happy City Campaign School - Building a Campaign and Communicating Change panel featuring:

Deatra Walsh
Jess Puddister
Shannie Duff

📅 June 14, 9AM
📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall
📱 Register via QR code! It's Free!

See you tomorrow!

Happy City Campaign School flyer announcing panelists for Building a Campaign and Communicating Change discussion. Features three professional headshots: Deatra Walsh (white woman with curly brown hair wearing dark top against red wooden siding background), Independent Consultant; Jess Puddister (white woman with long blonde hair and glasses wearing dark blazer against yellow wooden siding background), Strategy and Operations Manager with Nunavut Nukkiksautiit Corporation; and Shannie Duff (white woman with short curly reddish hair wearing gold/yellow top against blue background), Former Mayor of St. John's. Event details: Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM, located at MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine, DH2002. Includes QR code for registration. Sponsored by Memorial University, Harris Centre, Deucor, and The Hub. Red and blue color scheme with white background.

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Jun 12

🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community?

Happy City Campaign School - Affordable Housing, Homelessness, and Youth panel featuring:

Hope Jamieson
Jen Crowe
Doug Pawson
Grant Horwood

📅 June 14, 9AM
📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall
📱 Register via QR code! It's Free!

Stay tuned for more announcements!

Happy City Campaign School flyer announcing panelists for Affordable Housing, Homelessness, and Youth discussion. Features four professional headshots: Hope Jamieson (white woman with blonde hair wearing red top and black jacket), Affordable Housing Researcher and Consultant; Jen Crowe (white woman with brown hair wearing black blazer), Executive Director of Choices for Youth; Doug Pawson (white man with receding hairline wearing light blue collared shirt), Executive Director of End Homelessness St. John's; and Grant Horwood (white man with gray hair wearing dark suit and blue shirt), Secretary of Happy City St. John's. Event details: Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM, located at MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine, DH2002. Includes QR code for registration. Sponsored by Memorial University, Harris Centre, Deucor, and The Hub. Red and blue color scheme with white background.

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Jun 11

🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community?

Happy City Campaign School - Inclusive Civic Engagement with Municipalities panel featuring:

Rob Nolan
Dr. Schwartz
Dr. Giwa
Sarah Worthman

📅 June 14, 9AM
📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall
📱 Register via QR code! It's Free!

Stay tuned for more!

Happy City Campaign School flyer announcing panelists for Inclusive Civic Engagement with Municipalities discussion. Features four professional headshots: Rob Nolan (white man with brown hair and beard wearing dark sweater), CEO of MNL; Dr. Elizabeth Schwartz (white woman with curly brown hair and glasses wearing gray top), Assistant Professor of Political Science; Dr. Sulaimon Giwa (Black man wearing yellow shirt), Associate Professor of Social Work; and Sarah Worthman (white woman with blonde hair and glasses wearing orange/yellow top), Writer & 2SLGBTQIA Activist. Event details: Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM, located at MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine, DH2002. Includes QR code for registration. Sponsored by Memorial University, Harris Centre, Deucor, and The Hub. Red and blue color scheme with white background.

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Jun 10

🗳️Ready to make a difference in your community?

Happy City Campaign School - Meet our panelists!

Climate Change, Public Transportation, Infrastructure and Resilience panel featuring:

Dr. Tolulope Akerele
Dr. Mahyar Masoudi
Luke Quinton

📅 June 14, 9AM
📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall
📱 Register via QR code!

Happy City St. John's Municipal Election Campaign School flyer announcing panelists for Climate Change, Public Transportation, Infrastructure, and Resilience discussion. Features three professional headshots: Dr. Tolulope Victoria Akerele (Black woman with glasses wearing black top), described as Visionary Leader, Urban Planner and Researcher; Dr. Mahyar Masoudi (man with glasses wearing blue patterned shirt), Assistant Professor in Department of Geography; and Luke Quinton (white man in red checkered shirt with arms crossed), Writer and Audio Producer. Event details: Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM, located at MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine, DH2002. Includes QR code for registration. Sponsored by Memorial University, Harris Centre, Deucor, and The Hub. Red and blue color scheme with white background.

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Jun 9

🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community?

Happy City is hosting a Campaign School for the St. John's Municipal Election!

Keynote Speaker: Joshua Smee, CEO Food First NL

📅 June 14, 9AM
📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine (DH2002)
📱 Register via QR code! It's Free!

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Jun 2

🌟 We're hiring!

Happy City seeks a Website Coordinator for Major Events - Summer 2025.

8 weeks, 35 hrs/wk, $16/hr.

Apply by June 13 at happycity.ca

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · May 26

🗳️ Happy City Campaign School for St. John's Municipal Election!

For candidates, campaign staff & anyone wanting to learn about municipal politics.

📅 June 14, 9:00 AM
📍 Gushue Hall Mezzanine (DH2002)

📱 Register via QR code in flyer!

✨ Stay tuned for more details!

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · Apr 17

Cities are missing from this federal election, writes senior editor John Loirinc [ @johnlorinc.bsky.social ]. With the debates this week, the parties still have time to advance urban-oriented platform planks.

spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
#TOpoli #ONpoli #CNDpoli

Cities are missing topic in the 2025 federal election campaign - Spacing Toronto

There’s nothing even the least bit surprising about the fact that cities, or urban affairs more generally, have had so little play in the federal election. Yes, all three major parties talk about hous...

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Apr 11

Speaking of housing, this Little Street apartment building near MUN that the developer was unable to get approved by council with 96 units despite staff recommendation (because it needed "relief" for 16 parking spaces) can now proceed - but with 16 fewer one bed apartments and two fewer two beds.

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Apr 9

This could certainly be useful for cities and businesses, but it would also be great if it was easier for, say, the media or policy activists to take advantage of these tools to level the information playing field.

The Verge @theverge.com · Apr 9

Google Maps is launching tools to help cities analyze infrastructure and traffic

Cities can easily access data about over 250 million places.

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Apr 9

The City of St John's has stopped using Twitter but (as far as we know) has not yet decided to move to BlueSky or another "live" platform.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · Apr 9

Halifax council votes 16-1 to stop using Twitter for the city's corporate communications by July 15 and eventually switch to BlueSky:

Halifax council votes overwhelmingly to discontinue using X platform | CBC News

The move comes after a staff report highlighted concerns with X politically and following debate on its effectiveness as a communication tool. It only applies to the eight accounts overseen by corpor...

www.cbc.ca

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Apr 9

Excellent @choicesforyouth.bsky.social and @ehsj709.bsky.social initiative. April 22nd get answers on housing policy from Federal candidates. They have limited direct powers over housing locally but their funding can encourage city & provincial policy changes. www.facebook.com/choicesforyo...

Choices for Youth

In partnership with End Homelessness St. John’s (EHSJ), CFY is hosting a Federal Candidates Forum on Housing and Homelessness 👏 This forum will offer several federal candidates the chance to answer....

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Apr 5

Some interesting analysis by @justinling.ca here. For local context:
St John's isn't on the Conservatives' list of "high cost cities".

In 2024, 41 apartment dwellings were started in the city, 25 single family homes and 14 semi detached and row houses.

www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/who-has-th...

Who Has the Best Housing Plan?

Canada has a housing shortage. Who has a plan for housing abundance?

www.bugeyedandshameless.com

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Mar 8

One appealing feature - most of the designs offer an "accessible" option to make it easier for developers and builders to understand how to make homes that people can comfortably stay in the rest of their lives.

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Mar 8

Interesting to see "sixplex" as a "missing middle" option - would require apartment building zoning here in St John's. What do you think of all the designs and the ideas? www.housingcatalogue.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/designs?regi...

Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · Mar 8

Canada has released it's "Housing Design Catalogue" which includes 50 middle-housing designs from ADUs to six-plexes.

Each design is developed by local architecture & engineering teams to align with regional building codes, planning rules, climate zones, construction methods & materials. 🇨🇦

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NTV News @ntvnewsnl.bsky.social · Mar 5

St. John’s Councillor Debbie Hanlon passes away after courageous battle with cancer ntv.ca/st-johns-cou...

St. John’s Councillor Debbie Hanlon passes away after courageous battle with cancer

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David Brake @drbrakeyyt.bsky.social · Jan 14

Am sure there will be some interesting innovations in here - take a look at how what your city might learn from them! (Yes, there are smart people in North America still working on making cycling easier and safer, thank goodness)

National Association of City Transportation Officials @nacto.bsky.social · Jan 14

With more detailed technical guidance than previous editions, the Guide points the way for cities to plan and implement bike networks that account for the many different types of people who may be using the street. nacto.org/2025/01/07/n...

NACTO Launches New Urban Bikeway Design Guide for the Next Generation of Innovative Cycling Infrastructure

NACTO launched the revised edition of the Urban Bikeway Design Guide, updated for the first time in a decade.

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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · Jan 13

We share Equal Voice NL's passion for welcoming and supporting new voices to the community and political arenas. 2025 could be a pivotal year (eg several local elections) so act now! This is a free event and open to people of any gender to attend.

www.eventbrite.ca/e/dont-get-m...

Don't Get Mad - Get Organized!

Learn about channeling frustration into community or political action with local esteemed women and gender-diverse leaders. (FREE)

www.eventbrite.ca

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essentialtransitnl.bsky.social @essentialtransitnl.bsky.social · Dec 10

It's a 🎄miracle! Metrobus announced a new bus route 33 - an express between the Village Mall, Avalon Mall and Memorial University. Not until the new year, not on weekends or in the evenings but better than a lump of coal! www.metrobus.com/33/33details...

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