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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 2h

Class 1 e-bikes, which require pedaling and have electric assist that tops out at 18mph, are very different than throttle-operated class 2 and 3 bikes, which are themselves very different from the bigger, faster electric motorcycles that are proliferating under the “ebike” label.

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 4h

My unpopular urbanist opinion is that big, hyperfast two-wheelers are a menace and should be banned from bike lanes/paths (with enforcement).

These things endanger everyone riding a bike or legal e-bike. Worse, they deter some from even trying.

E-bikes have evolved into e-motorcycles. Law enforcement is lagging behind.

Serious injuries are on the rise in emergency rooms around the country, as electric cycles become bigger and faster. Lawmakers and police departments are scrambling to address the problem.

www.inquirer.com

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 20h

KelownaNow offering nothing but the highest quality journalism.

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BC Electoral Reform Committee: 93% support for proportional representation in public consultation www.fairvote.ca/06/10/2025/b...

BC Electoral Reform Committee: 93% support for proportional representation in public consultation

93% of those who participated in the public consultation of the BC Electoral Reform Committee with an opinion on the voting system recommended proportional representation.

www.fairvote.ca

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Jim Mayer 🇨🇦 @pentastich.bsky.social · 3d

I am thankful every day for the Victoria Council members who, for more than a decade, have resisted the "bikelash" and made building a safe bike & roll network here. It's how this senior citizen gets around, and I love it.
#yyj #yyjbike

Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 21d

The data on #Bikelanes are clear & consistent: GREAT for cities in just about every metric you can think of. So why are politicians across Canada attacking them? We dig in with @bikecalgary.bsky.social's Doug Clark & Alyssa Quinney

PODCAST: www.podcastics.com/episode/3835...
#yyc #yyccc #yycbike

Divide & Conquer: The B.S. Against Bike Lanes

Build barriers between cyclists and cars, not between people and their neighbors.

www.podcastics.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s a good example of calling out liars lying about better city-building, via @taylornoakes.com in @cultmtl.com:

“What’s particularly annoying about Roberts’ column is that he’s using his position of power to reinforce ignorance. Shame on him for doing so, but especially the Montreal Gazette…”

Latest bit of Montreal 'bikelash' sidesteps the facts to please bike-lane haters

The findings of a study about bike lanes vs car infrastructure have been twisted by a Montreal publication in a cheap bit of bikelash.

cultmtl.com

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 8d

Vacancy trutherism is the left’s Voter fraud, a totally made up, exaggerated, angry because they’re wrong, made up issue that is so tiring to talk about because it’s a fools errand. Dispel one thing, they pivot to another. Waste of time. We need more homes and voter fraud doesn’t exist

Josh Linden @joshlinden.bsky.social · 8d

Vacant units come up a lot in discussions around the housing crisis

This is a good opportunity to go over what the data actually shows 🧵

Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, that’s what I thought. Keep your dishonest framing to yourself.

Klein’s housing policy fails to address the fundamental cause of this housing crisis.

In the US, there are currently 15mil vacant homes. There are ~650,000 homeless.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 9d

Homeless people are not the only people who need housing. There are millions of people who would like to move out of their parents’ houses, ditch their roommates, or leave bad spouses but cannot because they cannot afford their own place thanks to the shortage of homes.

Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, that’s what I thought. Keep your dishonest framing to yourself.

Klein’s housing policy fails to address the fundamental cause of this housing crisis.

In the US, there are currently 15mil vacant homes. There are ~650,000 homeless.

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 3d

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

This is also a tragedy, and also a failure of infrastructure.

A shared shoulder, no sidewalk or protected ATC. Big wide road. An accident waiting to happen, and a typical failure of north american traffic engineering.

Vancouver Island college student dies after collision with cyclist | CBC News

Students and instructors at North Island College's campus in Courtenay, B.C., are grieving the death of a student who died of a brain injury following a collision with a cyclist on the night of Sept. ...

www.cbc.ca

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 4d

Ban these.

SFist @sfist.bsky.social · 4d

The new Meta Ray-Ban video-recording glasses are being used exactly as you would expect, as some lonely perv is harassing and recording women on the USF campus, and posting his videos of this to social media. buff.ly/YobUeC9

Here Come the Creeps: Meta Ray-Ban Glasses Dudebro Stalking Women at USF, Posting Videos to Social Media

The new Meta Ray-Ban video-recording glasses are being used exactly as you would expect, as some lonely perv is harassing and recording women on the USF campus, and posting his videos of this to…

buff.ly

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 4d

A great end to fall Go By Bike week. A social ride and drinks at Railside.

More and more momentum at KACC this year.

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Jeremy Caradonna @jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social · 4d

I’m thrilled that Victoria’s new Official Community Plan has passed! It:

✅ Increases housing choice and makes it easier to build affordable housing

✅ Adds green space / parks to every neighbourhood

✅ Targets 40% urban forest canopy coverage

✅ Adds strong tenant protections

✅ Plans for lightrail

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Peter Waldkirch @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 4d

What am I missing. This is from Vancouver's RM-9 zone: the density was "calibrated for freehold rowhouses and townhouses".

But...freehold rowhouses aren't allowed in the CoV! Why would they calibrate anything to something that isn't allowed? Were the planners just feeling particularly Kafkaesque??

4.11 Dwelling Unit Density
The Districts Schedules place a limit to the density of dwelling units permitted for each
development site, based on site size and floor area. The intent is to encourage developments to
include dwelling units large enough to accommodate families. The Dwelling Unit Density is
calibrated for freehold rowhouses and townhouses – developments that typically require
internal staircases, which may displace floor area that could otherwise be dedicated to living
areas (e.g. bedrooms, living rooms). As such, an increase for projects above 1.2 FSR should
only be considered for developments that provide single-storey dwelling units, where a
majority of units are accessible by a shared elevator (i.e. 4-storey apartment buildings). This
permission will nevertheless be dependent on design criteria set out in the Guidelines including:
number of 2- and 3-bedroom units; dwelling unit size and liveability; opportunity for cross-
ventilation; and provision of useable private open space.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5d

/4 The other side of this is not merely saying “you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs,” it‘s people who say “lol fuck those eggs.” It’s between decency and thuggish, swaggering, nihilistic evil.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5d

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 5d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 6d

www.castanet.net/edition/news...

Sent in a letter to Castanet.

Wants voting referendum - Letters

Re. Kelowna electoral reform? (Castanet, Oct. 1)

www.castanet.net

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 7d

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a

desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 7d

www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna...

Good to see a Kelowna councillor floating STV as an option to consider for local elections. That would be the best reform, imo.

Kelowna councillor suggests referendum to determine possible electoral reform - Kelowna News

Is Kelowna ready for a new system of electing its civic leaders? Coun. Ron Cannan thinks so.

www.castanet.net

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 7d

“According to the paper, 15 people accounted for 1,335 police files in Kelowna in 2024, an average of 89 each and a negative contact with the RCMP every four days.”

www.kelownanow.com/watercooler/...

City of Kelowna report on repeat offenders says the system is failing British Columbians

The City of Kelowna is once again calling on higher levels of government to act immediately to improve public safety across British Colu...

www.kelownanow.com

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 7d

dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc...

Describing upzoning and filtering as “trickle down” economics while calling price controls a viable solution displays a level of policy ignorance or willful blindness on housing that I hoped we had put behind us here in BC.

BC Greens’ new leader wants to bring back rental tool extinct since the '70s | Urbanized

The BC Greens’ new leader says it’s time to revive a housing tool scrapped in the 1970s. Here’s what she told Daily Hive.

dailyhive.com

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 8d

www.castanet.net/news/BC/5752...

Extremely disappointed in this government.

Talks break off between B.C. government and its public service union - BC News

Contract talks between the British Columbia government and the union representing public service workers in the province have broken off shortly after they began.

www.castanet.net

Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 9d

Events coming up on Wednesday and Friday. A documentary viewing, and a group ride. Everyone welcome.

Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 9d

Attended a great fall go by bike week launch today. Thanks to all who attended. Good turnout and good activities.

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 11d

Attended the BCGEU solidarity rally today. Rob Ashton is a good speaker!

Thanks to the NOLC for putting this on. Fair contract now!

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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 13d

I've put together a wider scale map covering the inner suburbs.

One of the things immediately evident is the weakness of the Millennium Line compared to the other lines, with its route on a wide suburban boulevard and paralleling a major freeway as well as the forced transfer travel time impact

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