spiralbody
@spiralbody.bsky.social
dancer, bicycle rider, summit seeker, sustainable transportation delivery agent
As climate crises come at us faster and harder, regional support networks will become increasingly important in caring for those experiencing loss. We can't expect multinational companies or governments to step up. Only we can truly support each other. This fishing co-op is walking the talk
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR:“Newfoundland fishers donate cod to those who lost everything in summer wildfires” www.ctvnews.ca/canada/newfo... - CTV News
#DisasterRelief #NewfoundlandandLabrador #NLFire #Wildfires
#DisasterRelief #NewfoundlandandLabrador #NLFire #Wildfires
Newfoundland fishers donate cod to those who lost everything in summer wildfires
More than 300 pounds of cod donated by a Newfoundland fishers co-operative are en route to an area devastated by wildfires for distribution on Old Christmas Day.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
As climate crises come at us faster and harder, regional support networks will become increasingly important in caring for those experiencing loss. We can't expect multinational companies or governments to step up. Only we can truly support each other. This fishing co-op is walking the talk
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Eby "plans to spend $162 million to expand the Malahat highway through Goldstream Park, despite protests by First Nations... who recommend investing in frequent and affordable transit instead” @toddlitman.bsky.social www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm... #bcpoli #yyj #Nanaimo #VancouverIsland
Comment: We need more buses between Island communities
We know that motorists can reach virtually any village, town or city, but public transit users often cannot get where they need to go.
www.timescolonist.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Eby "plans to spend $162 million to expand the Malahat highway through Goldstream Park, despite protests by First Nations... who recommend investing in frequent and affordable transit instead” @toddlitman.bsky.social www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm... #bcpoli #yyj #Nanaimo #VancouverIsland
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My main problem with the well-meaning side of the argument is that it's enormously short-term thinking. Part of the affordability crisis is because climate change is cranking insurance risk, and thus insurance costs, through the roof, as just one example.
“I find it stunning that even some people in the climate community say that we should stop talking about the climate because there’s a cost-of-living crisis going on.....it’s a fundamental error to treat these issues as mutually exclusive – climate solutions are also cost-of-living solutions"
December 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My main problem with the well-meaning side of the argument is that it's enormously short-term thinking. Part of the affordability crisis is because climate change is cranking insurance risk, and thus insurance costs, through the roof, as just one example.
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Seems rather negligent that we have simple, inexpensive techniques to clean classroom air and we're not doing it. I'm put in mind of the health improvements when we stopped running raw sewage through the streets.
"Prof. Siegel said multiple studies have shown that improved air quality in classrooms results in better student performance on standardized tests, reduced absenteeism and less spread of infectious disease."
Schools must improve air quality to slow spread of respiratory illness, advocates say
Proper air filtration could help mitigate the rapid spread of flu and other illnesses, say experts and parents
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Seems rather negligent that we have simple, inexpensive techniques to clean classroom air and we're not doing it. I'm put in mind of the health improvements when we stopped running raw sewage through the streets.
Me: eating tiramisu for breakfast at noon
We have entered the season of no meal rules. Dessert is breakfast. Dinner is lunch. A snack is an entire honey-mustard ham
December 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Me: eating tiramisu for breakfast at noon
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Best explanation of the liar's dividend that I've ever seen.
December 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Best explanation of the liar's dividend that I've ever seen.
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Via @sustainabletall.bsky.social : The Swiss are building a 27 storey timber skyscraper in Zurich, with 10-stacked vertical neighbourhoods, each housing 22 apartments. Each neighbourhood is 3-storeys, and has a triple-height shared community space.
December 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Via @sustainabletall.bsky.social : The Swiss are building a 27 storey timber skyscraper in Zurich, with 10-stacked vertical neighbourhoods, each housing 22 apartments. Each neighbourhood is 3-storeys, and has a triple-height shared community space.
Must read. Especially by those who think we need ANOTHER pipeline. These numbers make it harder to justify the dredging of the Burrard inlet for more capacity. We aren't even close to needing that. Protect the sensitive inlet and all the care the Tsleil-Waututh Nation are pouring into the waters
Trans Mountain is making big profits now, right?
Actually, no.
Thanks to accounting wizardry and a shell company, the pipeline has transformed Canadians' losses into gains on its balance sheets.
My deep dive on this for @thetyee.ca:
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Actually, no.
Thanks to accounting wizardry and a shell company, the pipeline has transformed Canadians' losses into gains on its balance sheets.
My deep dive on this for @thetyee.ca:
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Is Trans Mountain’s Profitability an Accounting Illusion? | The Tyee
How the finances of Canada’s government-owned pipeline may look better than they are.
thetyee.ca
December 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Must read. Especially by those who think we need ANOTHER pipeline. These numbers make it harder to justify the dredging of the Burrard inlet for more capacity. We aren't even close to needing that. Protect the sensitive inlet and all the care the Tsleil-Waututh Nation are pouring into the waters
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it's going to be fun!
This holiday season, join me & @naomiaklein.bsky.social for a different kind of family gathering: a coast-to-coast gathering of our extended democratic socialist family!
On Dec 29, we’ll come together to reflect, strategize, and grow our movement.
RSVP here: act.lewisforleader.ca/outreach-party
On Dec 29, we’ll come together to reflect, strategize, and grow our movement.
RSVP here: act.lewisforleader.ca/outreach-party
December 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
it's going to be fun!
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Do you have the courage to embrace Kennedy Stewart's Road Tax?
this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)
December 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Do you have the courage to embrace Kennedy Stewart's Road Tax?
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"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter."
Creative developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
Creative developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter."
Creative developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
Creative developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
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Flex posts protect cars, not cyclists.
Less than a week after they were installed, many of the flex posts on the BU bridge have been destroyed by vehicles. Appreciate the thought but cyclists clearly need more protection at these intersections.
December 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Flex posts protect cars, not cyclists.
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We call these pieces "Shared Responsibility".
I hate it when places try to make their bike racks look like some sort of art sculpture.
December 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
We call these pieces "Shared Responsibility".
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Winter Wonderland.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
December 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Winter Wonderland.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
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In New York City, one of the arguments frequently made by the MTA against platform screen doors is that they would be difficult to implement because different trains running on the same line have doors located in different places.
Meanwhile, at Shenzhen's high-speed rail station:
Meanwhile, at Shenzhen's high-speed rail station:
Today Futian HSR Station in Shenzhen just installed a dual layer PSD system. Similar to the one I visited in Osaka, Japan; two layers of PSD units can shift around to match the door positions of any train. China has over 50 different HST models with a bunch of different door locations...
December 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In New York City, one of the arguments frequently made by the MTA against platform screen doors is that they would be difficult to implement because different trains running on the same line have doors located in different places.
Meanwhile, at Shenzhen's high-speed rail station:
Meanwhile, at Shenzhen's high-speed rail station:
And companies are lobbying to bring these to BC. This tech is not ready for prime time. Cities don't have to allow tech companies access to the streets. We can just say no
Much of SF lost power last night. Waymos blocked intersections across the city, even though they are Wayless than 1% of cars on the roads. They accumulated at their failure points--intersections with no green lights, in busy areas, and shut down traffic there.
December 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
And companies are lobbying to bring these to BC. This tech is not ready for prime time. Cities don't have to allow tech companies access to the streets. We can just say no
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This is your city on driverless cars.
A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.
sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/w...
A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.
sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/w...
December 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is your city on driverless cars.
A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.
sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/w...
A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.
sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/w...
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Climate change is the largest debt to be passed from one generation to the next in our history. And yet the 2025 federal government progress report on its climate plan confirms Canada is significantly off track to meeting its 2030 emissions targets. www.canada.ca/content/dam/...
December 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Climate change is the largest debt to be passed from one generation to the next in our history. And yet the 2025 federal government progress report on its climate plan confirms Canada is significantly off track to meeting its 2030 emissions targets. www.canada.ca/content/dam/...
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Excellent oped by Kiera Taylor: We’re sending BC’s extreme weather bills to the wrong people.
Costs for floods and fires are shifted onto residents and taxpayers while fossil fuel companies most responsible for driving disasters pocket profits
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Costs for floods and fires are shifted onto residents and taxpayers while fossil fuel companies most responsible for driving disasters pocket profits
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Opinion: We’re sending B.C.’s extreme weather bills to the wrong people
Costs for floods and fires are shifted onto residents and taxpayers while companies most responsible for driving disasters pocket profits
vancouversun.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Excellent oped by Kiera Taylor: We’re sending BC’s extreme weather bills to the wrong people.
Costs for floods and fires are shifted onto residents and taxpayers while fossil fuel companies most responsible for driving disasters pocket profits
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Costs for floods and fires are shifted onto residents and taxpayers while fossil fuel companies most responsible for driving disasters pocket profits
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
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Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
December 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
Poor sweet babies. Anyone looking for a holiday kitty should check in. Half were transferred to the Surrey location 💔
32 cats abandoned outside Sunshine Coast BC SPCA
32 cats abandoned outside Sunshine Coast BC SPCA
Staff scramble to care for dozens of abandoned cats after shocking drop-off at Sechelt animal centre.
dlvr.it
December 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Poor sweet babies. Anyone looking for a holiday kitty should check in. Half were transferred to the Surrey location 💔
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Two of my top City Hall men, car-tographers Bosco Campari and Chet Pachinko, complete work adding several dozen dead end streets to central Toronto.
December 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Two of my top City Hall men, car-tographers Bosco Campari and Chet Pachinko, complete work adding several dozen dead end streets to central Toronto.
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In 2003, they were the only two MPs to endorse Jack Layton for leader. They saw what our party could be.
That’s the tradition I want to help renew in the NDP. I’m humbled by their support.
Read their full endorsements here:
https://lewisforleader.ca/endorsements
That’s the tradition I want to help renew in the NDP. I’m humbled by their support.
Read their full endorsements here:
https://lewisforleader.ca/endorsements
December 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
In 2003, they were the only two MPs to endorse Jack Layton for leader. They saw what our party could be.
That’s the tradition I want to help renew in the NDP. I’m humbled by their support.
Read their full endorsements here:
https://lewisforleader.ca/endorsements
That’s the tradition I want to help renew in the NDP. I’m humbled by their support.
Read their full endorsements here:
https://lewisforleader.ca/endorsements
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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