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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 10h

What we say vs what we do

Say
🌎 Climate crisis: we need to rapidly decarbonize
🏘️ Housing crisis: we need more and cheaper housing

Do
🌎 Climate crisis: let’s put 154% tariff on cheap solar and 100% on cheap EVs
🏘️ Housing crisis: Let’s heavily restrict multifamily housing and tax it like it’s a sin

Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 11h

I first read that as 15.4%. Holy moly, we really don’t want solar in Canada.

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Westside Backyard @westside-backyard.bsky.social · 1d

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Nicholas Rae @nickrae.bsky.social · 1d

So if I understand this correctly - Because Vancouver has created zones that theoretically allow multiplexes, instead of having defaultish SFH zoning, this doesn't apply to them? It would only apply if they had original SFH zoning that had been updated to align with multiplexes?

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Nicholas Rae @nickrae.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so ready for the Park Board x Bitcoin Election! (I'm not ready)

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Nicholas Rae @nickrae.bsky.social · 1d

The pocket of low-rise at the top right of your image is also very silly.

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Nicholas Rae @nickrae.bsky.social · 1d

You're probably looking at the Jericho Lands future development by the local first nations. It's development plan was approved this year, so it's been included. The UBC skytrain extension will pass through the development. When that eventually happens there will be a similar corridor of land use

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Nicholas Rae @nickrae.bsky.social · 2d

Nanaimo has a huge primary healthcare deficit - This article states 20,000 without a family doctor. The south end has like one walk-in clinic. Council choosing not to support additional healthcare because they worry it will only be used by the unhoused is insane.

Raincouver Millennial @raincouver.bsky.social · 2d

I have never seen such clear evidence of individuals not even identifying the unhoused as people with basic rights to healthcare

The conversation was focussed on if regular people would access this healthcare

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Nanaimo council chooses not to provide letter of support for proposed community health centre | CBC News

City councillors in Nanaimo, B.C., failed to pass a motion to provide a letter of support for a proposed community health centre that would connect up to 2,700 people with a primary health provider, c...

www.cbc.ca

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 14d

Eby repealed a carbon tax that had been working in BC for almost 2 decades in order to make gas a bit cheaper, and handed out $410 million to drivers for basically no reason. And now there's no money for active transport grants. 300 people a year are killed in BC in motor vehicle crashes.

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting presser today with Premier David Eby, who seems to be hitting his rhetorical stride in response to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's push for the feds to prioritize a new pipeline through BC to the north coast
#bcpoli

“If Alberta gets a $50 billion publicly funded pipeline, then I want a $50 billion federal guarantee for projects in British Columbia as well. And I want $50 billion for every province across Canada and every territory, because their projects are just as damn important as Alberta’s pipeline is.”

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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 4d

RED ALERT: Ken Sim Plans to Drop HUGE CUTS on Vancouver's Public Services THIS WEDNESDAY

That could mean cuts to:
❌ Libraries
❌ Community Grants
❌ Road Safety
❌ Homelessness supports
❌ Arts & Culture
❌ Reconciliation
❌ Climate change programs

Write to council now:
www.votecope.ca/stopsim

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Nicholas Rae @nickrae.bsky.social · 7d

I don't mind curves for a living room, but for almost every other space it results in badly shaped rooms

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 9d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 9d

Keeping increasingly nuts suburban voters out of city politics must be a core goal of urbanists in the next decade

Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 9d

One overlooked aspect of this year's mayoral election is the hollowed out Boston media landscape. Yes, the Globe and Herald spent months smearing @wutrain.bsky.social in their reporting and editorials, but the Globe and Herald are written, edited, and mostly read by suburbanites who can't vote here.

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 9d

The geniuses of Boston real estate never considered that a very popular mayor would win her election.

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 11d

Prayer groups, book clubs, scavenger hunts, pub nights, debating clubs, knitting circles, park hangs, roller disco nights, bike trips, hiking groups, run clubs, etc.

There is absolutely no reason why politicians and civil society leaders can't be organizing these events.

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Lucy Maloney @lucymaloney.bsky.social · 11d

It’s underappreciated just how radical ABC's budget proposal is. It requires deep, deep cuts.

If they are approved, it’s impossible to tell what’s on the chopping block. Libraries? Community centres? Investments that improve public safety?

I don’t know - and I don’t think ABC knows, either.

Vancouver Sun

Big cuts are coming to Vancouver City Hall. Will they be 'reckless' or the cost-saving efficiency Ken Sim has long promised?
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is directing city staff to find millions in savings, which could mean slashing hundreds of jobs. He says "there’s room to be more disciplined in how the city operates." His rivals call the proposed cuts "reckless."

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Nicholas Rae @nickrae.bsky.social · 11d

E-bike subsidy programs are one of those perfect policies with zero downsides. Accessible, healthy, low cost, and moves people away from car use. AND IT MAKES PEOPLE REALLY HAPPY!!

City of Boston Streets Cabinet @streets.boston.gov · Sep 9

“Now I can see the world again.”

Steven Leonard has been housebound since 2010, since a bad back surgery left him unable to walk. Then his wife, Muriel, found out about the City of Boston's E-Bike Incentive Program.