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Lesson learned: Don't get a flu and covid shot while sleep deprived from jet lag because your immune system will dip and make you feel like you have every disease at once

There's currently a 30 minute queue to vote at the Vancouver-South Granville district electoral office for the provincial election because there are zero advance voting locations in this riding today 🙃

Why does every Asian airline think that the optimal cabin temperature is somewhere between Death Valley and the surface of Venus

The biggest source of preventable injury and death in Vancouver is car crashes, said Margie Sanderson of Vision Zero Vancouver, and people need to consider road safety as part of their public safety this election. thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...

what they would call me if i was really good at pottery

Did a longer write-up of why this is a five-alarm fire for safe streets in Vancouver bsky.app/profile/bett...

Yeah I bet they do

It appears that the federal NDP may be the only people in the country who actually believed Gordon Campbell when he said he privatized BC Ferries by turning it from a Crown corporation into a private corporation whose sole shareholder is the province and whose board is appointed by the government

I can exclusively reveal that I've come into possession of Daniel Fontaine and NWP's transportation platform

Apparently travelling in Asia right now means waking up at the equivalent of 5pm PDT and finding out what terrible ideas got proposed in the provincial election today

Spent most of today biking on rural highways in China and I was struck by how okay it was despite the lack of infrastructure. People actually driving at the 40 km/h speed limit because of ubiquitous photo radar makes a huge difference. Speed enforcement works! (Also check out this cool karst)

Just as I'm about to start writing a blog post about how BC Ferries needs to fix this, I discover that—I think for the first time in its history—BC Ferries has uploaded a GTFS feed that correctly lists all of its routes and sailings for the next six months. Mission accomplished I guess?

I'm in China and there's always a funny contrast between the efficiency of the rail system and the inefficiency of the passenger loading. This is just a queue for every single train at once. Whenever a train pulls into the station, it's mayhem as people push their way up to the front to enter.

Weirdly, this isn't actually Ken Sim's fault. Scott Jensen and Brennan Bastyovanszky voted to create paid parking at Hillcrest, which makes it all the more baffling that their party leader Kareem Allam has spent the past month railing against community centre parking fees.

Three weeks ago, Golden became the only place in BC to adopt year-round standard time instead of DST. This went over like a lead balloon: 2,395 people in a town of 3,900 signed a petition, forcing council to reverse itself. Seems like pretty good evidence that people in fact prefer later sunsets.

I think the coverage about the number of ministers stepping down should mention that everyone and their second cousin is a cabinet minister in BC for some reason. The 47-member government caucus has 23 ministers, 4 ministers of state and 14 parliamentary secretaries. What's up with that anyways?

can't a premier call a press conference in front of the lieutenant governor's house on three hours' notice without causing an election speculation frenzy

Here's a rare sight: a raised crosswalk on a rural road in BC. That's because the province owns most rural roads and has a rule to ban raised speed control everywhere, whether it's UBC or the Kootenays. This road is owned by the District of North Cowichan, which isn't bound by this arbitrary policy

I'm sure Mike Bernier, leader of CentreBC (at least until 1pm), is a nice guy but you can't be running for office as M. Bernier and be surprised that everyone thinks you're the more infamous M. Bernier

The defeat of Vancouver’s Villages Plan is a major setback for addressing our housing crisis and appears to mark the end of the Vancouver Plan, which has been the main focus of our planning department since 2018. Read more in my first piece for Sightline!

I'm really mad about this decision and decided to elaborate on my thoughts in a long-form blog post. If a judge doesn't overrule the chief electoral officer's stance, the next council can and must take matters into its own hands and order the city clerk to cease enforcing this racist policy.

This case is really upsetting to me. For the city to claim that complete nonsense monikers like "Rollergirl" and "Evil Genius" qualify to be on the ballot but then deny racialized people the right to use the name they were given AT BIRTH is an act of white supremacy. This can't be allowed to stand.

Kind of obsessed with the ridiculous three-way handshake that Carney has to do because the EU can't figure out whether the European Commission president or the European Council president is its ceremonial head of state

Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (2003)

a seattle cement plant's push to do what for what

With road injuries & fatalities on the rise, the next Vancouver council must act to make our streets safer. We created a list of 10 actionable items for Year 1 of the new council and sent it to all the parties. Read the list, who endorsed, and who declined to do so: visionzerovancouver.ca/vote/

Don't worry, we can just put all the bike routes on side streets. No wait, not like that.

British Columbia needs an equivalent mandate, if for no reason than to force BC Ferries to publish a GTFS feed that's not inexplicably missing half its routes

TODAY is the last day to tell the city you want to see Granville stay open for people and closed to traffic! Make sure to fill out the survey, every positive response builds a stronger case for vibrant car-free streets in Vancouver.

‼️My bike was stolen last night from 41st and Main in Vancouver ‼️ It's a tan electric Muli, very unique. No battery on it when stolen. Please keep an eye out in your alley, bushes, or Fb Marketplace etc. I rely on this bike and really hope to be reunited! project529.com/garage/bikes...

Very late to this, but the new bike and pedestrian bridge over Highway 1 in North Van is super cool! Glad that there's now an alternative to Lynn Valley Road.

So I tried MapQuest out of curiosity and wow, these are the worst cycling instructions I've ever seen. I put in my home to my office in New West, and it thinks the best options to get there are along 1st Ave, Kingsway and Lougheed Highway. Clearly zero thought went into the bike route algorithm.

That’s why we need to buy buses from outside North America because MAN and Alexander Dennis have massive double deck bus markets in Australia, Singapore, Germany, etc. Solaris and Hess make 9-10m buses.

This downsizing seems inevitable after Vicinity, the only manufacturer of midibuses in the Canadian market, folded. It illustrates the pitfalls of relying on fragile, uncompetitive supply chains for transit. What happens to BC Transit if AlexanderDennis, the only double-decker bus maker, pulls out?