James Wanless 🇨🇦
@wanless.bsky.social
Live Simply • Think Critically • Move Daily
Retired ux designer & research analyst, reader, writer, photographer, musician, runner, cyclist, other things.
Born 319 ppm
Colwood, BC, Canada
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Retired ux designer & research analyst, reader, writer, photographer, musician, runner, cyclist, other things.
Born 319 ppm
Colwood, BC, Canada
🔗 wanless.info
Pinned
James Wanless 🇨🇦
@wanless.bsky.social
· Sep 20
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.
wanless.info
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
wanless.info/journal/near...
#crash #braininjury #stroke #recovery #visionzero #retired
wanless.info/journal/near...
Amidst all the what-ifs and consternation surrounding the #Canucks, they are actually looking better at center, assuming Rossi pans out. If they're truly going with youth, then maybe Cootes is promoted after WJC.
EP40, Rossi, Cootes and Rãty/Blueger. I'd love it if Chytil got healthy, but ... 🤷♂️
EP40, Rossi, Cootes and Rãty/Blueger. I'd love it if Chytil got healthy, but ... 🤷♂️
December 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Amidst all the what-ifs and consternation surrounding the #Canucks, they are actually looking better at center, assuming Rossi pans out. If they're truly going with youth, then maybe Cootes is promoted after WJC.
EP40, Rossi, Cootes and Rãty/Blueger. I'd love it if Chytil got healthy, but ... 🤷♂️
EP40, Rossi, Cootes and Rãty/Blueger. I'd love it if Chytil got healthy, but ... 🤷♂️
I am not easily moved to fits of hyperbole, but the Quinn Hughes trade absolutely should be the last thing this management team does, and they should be fired. I had a lot of hope for Rutherford and it's gone now.
Problem is the owner only thinks short-term and is fucking clueless.
#canucks
Problem is the owner only thinks short-term and is fucking clueless.
#canucks
December 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I am not easily moved to fits of hyperbole, but the Quinn Hughes trade absolutely should be the last thing this management team does, and they should be fired. I had a lot of hope for Rutherford and it's gone now.
Problem is the owner only thinks short-term and is fucking clueless.
#canucks
Problem is the owner only thinks short-term and is fucking clueless.
#canucks
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A long-stalled vision for commuter rail between the Westshore and downtown Victoria took a significant step forward Monday as local mayors and First Nations leaders signed a new agreement aimed at moving the project forward.
First Nations and mayors sign ‘reconciliation corridor’ agreement, reviving hopes for Westshore–Victoria rail
A long-stalled vision for commuter rail between the Westshore and downtown Victoria took a significant step forward Monday as local mayors and First Nations leaders signed a new agreement aimed at moving the project forward.
cheknews.ca
December 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
A long-stalled vision for commuter rail between the Westshore and downtown Victoria took a significant step forward Monday as local mayors and First Nations leaders signed a new agreement aimed at moving the project forward.
Listening to BC Today on CBC, taking calls about the possibility of banning right turns on red lights, and the idiocy is astounding. A lot of people think moving 'stuff' is more important than safety.
Force drivers to change, and make it financially crippling to disobey by using red light cameras.
Force drivers to change, and make it financially crippling to disobey by using red light cameras.
December 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Listening to BC Today on CBC, taking calls about the possibility of banning right turns on red lights, and the idiocy is astounding. A lot of people think moving 'stuff' is more important than safety.
Force drivers to change, and make it financially crippling to disobey by using red light cameras.
Force drivers to change, and make it financially crippling to disobey by using red light cameras.
Movie you've watched more than six times with a GIF.
December 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a GIF.
Perhaps they should stop the clock in soccer when nothing is happening and just play 90 minutes, instead of somewhat random "extra time" tacked onto each half. It's a lovely game but some of the rules, and the histrionics, and faking injures, bugs the ever-loving fuck out of me.
#MLSCup
#MLSCup
December 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Perhaps they should stop the clock in soccer when nothing is happening and just play 90 minutes, instead of somewhat random "extra time" tacked onto each half. It's a lovely game but some of the rules, and the histrionics, and faking injures, bugs the ever-loving fuck out of me.
#MLSCup
#MLSCup
Shandy, at her post, patiently waiting for the cats across the way to emerge.
#pitbull #pibble #dog #dogs #dogsofbluesky
#pitbull #pibble #dog #dogs #dogsofbluesky
December 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Shandy, at her post, patiently waiting for the cats across the way to emerge.
#pitbull #pibble #dog #dogs #dogsofbluesky
#pitbull #pibble #dog #dogs #dogsofbluesky
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The City of Victoria is moving ahead on a new e-bike-share system. Aim is to be operational by spring 2026. 🚲
The RFP is open until Jan 13 victoria.bonfirehub.ca/opportunitie...
#yyj
The RFP is open until Jan 13 victoria.bonfirehub.ca/opportunitie...
#yyj
victoria.bonfirehub.ca
December 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The City of Victoria is moving ahead on a new e-bike-share system. Aim is to be operational by spring 2026. 🚲
The RFP is open until Jan 13 victoria.bonfirehub.ca/opportunitie...
#yyj
The RFP is open until Jan 13 victoria.bonfirehub.ca/opportunitie...
#yyj
How the fuck can Public Mobile - entirely online with no phone support - have such a horrid account creation process? If you click 'change plan' and return, everything resets. A valid CC results in endless failed payment errors. It's over $20 more a month for more data I don't need with Telus.
December 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM
How the fuck can Public Mobile - entirely online with no phone support - have such a horrid account creation process? If you click 'change plan' and return, everything resets. A valid CC results in endless failed payment errors. It's over $20 more a month for more data I don't need with Telus.
December 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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HEARTBREAKING: Local Four-Way Residential Intersection Frequented By School Children Receives New Paint And Reflector Curbs That Will Do Nothing To Calm Traffic
December 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
HEARTBREAKING: Local Four-Way Residential Intersection Frequented By School Children Receives New Paint And Reflector Curbs That Will Do Nothing To Calm Traffic
This is probably the most lights and decorations I've put up in years, and likely just about the earliest as well. I guess I'm inspired by the decorations around our new neighborhood, and being in our new home.
#chtistmaslights
#chtistmaslights
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This is probably the most lights and decorations I've put up in years, and likely just about the earliest as well. I guess I'm inspired by the decorations around our new neighborhood, and being in our new home.
#chtistmaslights
#chtistmaslights
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No deaths in a year
That's pretty incredible, given the severity of the toxic drug crisis in BC this past decade
That's pretty incredible, given the severity of the toxic drug crisis in BC this past decade
This club sold to 47 adult members and it seemed to work. After one year of operation members reported fewer overdoses, incidents with police, hospital visits, crime. There were no deaths.
Having a dedicated source of known potency and purity seemed to help stabilize people.
Having a dedicated source of known potency and purity seemed to help stabilize people.
November 29, 2025 at 4:41 AM
No deaths in a year
That's pretty incredible, given the severity of the toxic drug crisis in BC this past decade
That's pretty incredible, given the severity of the toxic drug crisis in BC this past decade
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THIS! 👇
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
THIS! 👇
"Mounties say the driver of the vehicle remained at the scene."
Nothing like reporting that the driver did the bare minimum they are legally required to do as though they are heroic or something.
This is basically right down the street from us.
#visionzero #yyj
cheknews.ca/cyclist-seri...
Nothing like reporting that the driver did the bare minimum they are legally required to do as though they are heroic or something.
This is basically right down the street from us.
#visionzero #yyj
cheknews.ca/cyclist-seri...
Cyclist seriously injured after crash with driver in Colwood, B.C.
A cyclist was taken to hospital with serious injuries following a crash between a bike and car in Colwood early Thursday morning.
cheknews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
"Mounties say the driver of the vehicle remained at the scene."
Nothing like reporting that the driver did the bare minimum they are legally required to do as though they are heroic or something.
This is basically right down the street from us.
#visionzero #yyj
cheknews.ca/cyclist-seri...
Nothing like reporting that the driver did the bare minimum they are legally required to do as though they are heroic or something.
This is basically right down the street from us.
#visionzero #yyj
cheknews.ca/cyclist-seri...
At least Guilbeau had the decency to resign over the Carney-Smith deal.
What about Julie Dabrusin? I don't think I'd even ever heard of Canada's Environment Minister until I looked up who it was.
If she is a lightweight, it makes all the more sense now. Seems Canada's gov't is a one-man show.
What about Julie Dabrusin? I don't think I'd even ever heard of Canada's Environment Minister until I looked up who it was.
If she is a lightweight, it makes all the more sense now. Seems Canada's gov't is a one-man show.
Eye on the ball folks! It seems the pipeline piece may well be a distraction. While a pipeline remains very unlikely, the practical impact of this deal are all the immediate concessions to oil & gas industry & the federal abandonment of core climate policies.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/n...
BREAKING: Alberta gets its way in deal with Ottawa
A newly signed memorandum of understanding gives Alberta almost its entire list of demands, from the removal of regulations to the fast-tracking of a pipeline.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
At least Guilbeau had the decency to resign over the Carney-Smith deal.
What about Julie Dabrusin? I don't think I'd even ever heard of Canada's Environment Minister until I looked up who it was.
If she is a lightweight, it makes all the more sense now. Seems Canada's gov't is a one-man show.
What about Julie Dabrusin? I don't think I'd even ever heard of Canada's Environment Minister until I looked up who it was.
If she is a lightweight, it makes all the more sense now. Seems Canada's gov't is a one-man show.
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I don't know who needs to hear this but making deals with Alberta and the oilpatch
doesn't
fucking
work
Just ask the last person who tried.
doesn't
fucking
work
Just ask the last person who tried.
As Carney-Smith pipeline deal looms, Catherine McKenna says oil companies can't be trusted. She would know
Justin Trudeau's first environment minister spoke with Canada's National Observer about misogyny, policy and broken promises.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this but making deals with Alberta and the oilpatch
doesn't
fucking
work
Just ask the last person who tried.
doesn't
fucking
work
Just ask the last person who tried.
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“The answer is still no. No pipelines in British Columbia, no further fossil fuel pipelines, period,” said Stewart Phillip, grand chief of Syilx Nation and president of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/n...
BC First Nations denounce reported Alberta-Ottawa agreement
Ahead of Thursday's expected announcement, Indigenous leaders in the province are accusing the federal government of making a "back room deal" to force through a pipeline to the province's northwest c...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
“The answer is still no. No pipelines in British Columbia, no further fossil fuel pipelines, period,” said Stewart Phillip, grand chief of Syilx Nation and president of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/n...
Further, if you don't realize by now that the problem is mostly ownership and partly mismanagement, I don't know what to tell you.
Management takes their marching orders from the one who cuts the cheques. When the owner is fucking clueless, it's fully dysfunctional.
Management takes their marching orders from the one who cuts the cheques. When the owner is fucking clueless, it's fully dysfunctional.
This is, essentially, the #Canucks admitting that the playoffs are already out of reach.
Personally I would like them to tear it down and fully rebuild. Tinkering repeatedly has not worked.
Gut it.
Report: Canucks make veterans available for trade, not moving Hughes
thescore.com/nhl/news/340...
Personally I would like them to tear it down and fully rebuild. Tinkering repeatedly has not worked.
Gut it.
Report: Canucks make veterans available for trade, not moving Hughes
thescore.com/nhl/news/340...
Report: Canucks make veterans available for trade, not moving Hughes
The Vancouver Canucks have let teams across the NHL know they're listening to trade offers on veteran players in an attempt to get younger, according to Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman.However, the Canu...
thescore.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Further, if you don't realize by now that the problem is mostly ownership and partly mismanagement, I don't know what to tell you.
Management takes their marching orders from the one who cuts the cheques. When the owner is fucking clueless, it's fully dysfunctional.
Management takes their marching orders from the one who cuts the cheques. When the owner is fucking clueless, it's fully dysfunctional.
This is, essentially, the #Canucks admitting that the playoffs are already out of reach.
Personally I would like them to tear it down and fully rebuild. Tinkering repeatedly has not worked.
Gut it.
Report: Canucks make veterans available for trade, not moving Hughes
thescore.com/nhl/news/340...
Personally I would like them to tear it down and fully rebuild. Tinkering repeatedly has not worked.
Gut it.
Report: Canucks make veterans available for trade, not moving Hughes
thescore.com/nhl/news/340...
Report: Canucks make veterans available for trade, not moving Hughes
The Vancouver Canucks have let teams across the NHL know they're listening to trade offers on veteran players in an attempt to get younger, according to Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman.However, the Canu...
thescore.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
This is, essentially, the #Canucks admitting that the playoffs are already out of reach.
Personally I would like them to tear it down and fully rebuild. Tinkering repeatedly has not worked.
Gut it.
Report: Canucks make veterans available for trade, not moving Hughes
thescore.com/nhl/news/340...
Personally I would like them to tear it down and fully rebuild. Tinkering repeatedly has not worked.
Gut it.
Report: Canucks make veterans available for trade, not moving Hughes
thescore.com/nhl/news/340...
Apparently the PWHL is what you get when the game is completely devoid of testosterone. The athletes just play hockey, with zero shenanigans or antics. A very nice change.
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Apparently the PWHL is what you get when the game is completely devoid of testosterone. The athletes just play hockey, with zero shenanigans or antics. A very nice change.
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
One of the many great walking and running parks in our new 'hood in #Colwood.
Latoria Ravine Park.
#photography
Latoria Ravine Park.
#photography
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
One of the many great walking and running parks in our new 'hood in #Colwood.
Latoria Ravine Park.
#photography
Latoria Ravine Park.
#photography
November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM