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James Wanless 🇨🇦

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Live Simply • Think Critically • Move Daily Retired ux designer & research analyst, reader, writer, photographer, musician, runner, cyclist, other things. Born 319 ppm CO2. 🌍 Victoria, BC, Canada 🔗 wanless.info

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · Sep 20

Updated / edited this many times over the past 18 months - one long post now. Pinning it to my profile for posterity. Essentially, I was severely injured by a careless driver in April 2024, while cycling.

#crash #braininjury #stroke #recovery #visionzero #retired

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Near Death

On April 14, 2024, I was involved in a severe crash while cycling, resulting in extensive injuries. This post includes regular updates to my recovery progress.

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 14h

What difference would that make? Both are just platforms of hot garbage, and a complete waste of time.

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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 22h

Sign the petition:

Remove Pete Hoekstra as US ambassador to Canada.

Let’s send Pete packing! 🖕👋

#Canada
#PeteHoekstra
#MrPotatoHeadNeedsToGo

Canadian Cpt. Picard @cdncptpicard.bsky.social · 1d

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Sign the Petition

Remove Pete Hoekstra as US ambassador to Canada. Let's send Pete Packing!

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 2d

Exactly

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 2d

That wasn't a difficult guess but I got all three correct.

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 2d

When the police and ICBC team up for road safety "advice," they will always place responsibility entirely on the most vulnerable users. With my crash (which nearly killed me), the police left it up to us to charge the driver or not, and we couldn't even get a copy of the police file.

James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 4d

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Striking B.C. public service workers announce tentative deal with government | CBC News

The B.C. General Employees' Union (BCGEU) has announced a tentative deal has been struck with the provincial government, which could bring an end to a weeks-long strike that has impacted everything fr...

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 5d

I get that take, but my issue is that it just makes the arbitrary barring of entry or kicking people out for no reason beyond them wanting to, easier all the time. It's just another indication that the country doesn't respect people's rights and freedoms. In most cases they also don't need to.

James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 5d

“They didn't tell me anything, and I just feel violated.”

Why anyone would willingly go south to the authoritarian regime now is utterly beyond me

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U.S. to photograph Canadian travellers when they enter and exit at all land borders, airports | CBC News

The United States is expanding its facial identification program for travellers, with the goal of collecting images of non-U.S. citizens entering and exiting the country by all modes of transport.

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 5d

"They're"

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 6d

If anyone is looking for a mortgage broker, we had stellar service from Kam at Auxilium Mortgage. We reconnected when we came back almost a year ago. Our application had challenges associated with my early retirement, and he still came through like a champ. Highly recommend. DM for contact info.

James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 7d

CBC should stop setting their hair on fire about every comment Trump makes. He's an amoral jackhole.

There's never going to be a decent trade deal. Trump is using tariffs to try and break Canada economically.

The entire focus should be new markets and surviving the tariffs until Trump is gone.

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 7d

This guy goes to a pub, kills a pedestrian, panics, flees the scene, then lies about how his SUV was damaged, and all he needed to do was write a letter to get no jail time.

The alcohol, fleeing, and lying alone should have warranted jail time.

#visionzero

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No jail time for driver who pleaded guilty in death of 90-year-old pedestrian in Nanaimo - Nanaimo News Bulletin

Judge hands down nine-month conditional sentence

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 8d

I mean, the whole party is "turmoil" and loaded with science deniers, conspiracy nutjobs, racists and homophobes, so when even THEY can't get behind you, it's probably time to bail.

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B.C. Conservatives management committee calls on John Rustad to resign as leader | CBC News

John Rustad is facing calls to resign as leader, according to a scathing letter from the B.C. Conservative Party management committee. Five MLAs have been kicked out or quit the party since it became ...

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 8d

Nice afternoon out for the dog walk. I like sunny haze.

#photography #victoria #yyj

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 10d

Certain life events that happened to me about 18 months ago taught me the value of not putting off until tomorrow what I want to do today, and coupled with the impact those events had on me, I just couldn't go back to work. Plus my employer offered a small $ incentive to retire early.

James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 10d

We are both newly retired, so this one had better be our "forever" home. Fairly new and decent space is a good start.

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 10d

I don't think we saw one place in Victoria that wasn't "extremely lived in," and we've been looking for a few months.

James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 10d

Our main goal was finding something that we knew would be affordable in our retirement now that we're both on pensions, new ish if possible, and definitively not in the car sewer that defines Langford. It became pretty clear that anything in Victoria was going to require a lot of work.

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 10d

Having said that, it doesn't take very long to get to it. I can go along ocean Blvd and then up a little Hill and hit the Goose where it turns into Wale Rd, if you know the area all at all. Our address is only 17 km from downtown Victoria so not far in the grand scheme.

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 10d

Not quite as close as I'd like, we are in Royal Bay. While it is pretty uniform from a townhouse perspective, we've really had the biscuit with living right in Victoria, with the tourists and the noise. We also found most places were really lived in overpriced and had high strata fees.

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 10d

We bought a townhouse, only 6 years old, and completely move-in condition.

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 10d

Colwood.

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 10d

So it begins again ... But hopefully this will be the last time for a while.

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James Wanless 🇨🇦 @wanless.bsky.social · 11d

Whatever you say, Homer. Keep defending the guy who's been suspended six times, almost entirely for shitty cheap shots. Sorry, but I don't give an asshole like that the benefit of the doubt. It was late and high.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12d

The Night Epstein Died

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