@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caBell with another round of layoffs. The r/bell thread seems to think 10% across the country. It’s can't actually remember a time when Bell announced they were 'hiring'.
How is this company one of the 'big’ telecoms and yet continues to offload people?
#Bell
https://flipboard.com/@dailyhive/daily-hive-vancouver-ar91atkoz/-/a-IvwInjurQyG1YqTyz8NjVg:a:3765800918-/0
@StephenRees@mas.toEndangered marmots make comeback on Vancouver Island
CBC reports that efforts by conservation groups to restore Vancouver Island marmots – a separate species endemic to the island that was near extinction twenty years ago – have rebounded to more than 400 animals.
https://www.
@jby@ecoevo.socialA softly dapper dark-eyed junco, Junco hyemalis oregonus, in Stanley Park, Vancouver
#naturalist #bird
@jby@ecoevo.socialFacing down a new week of too many deadlines like this chestnut-backed chickadee (Poecile rufescens) in Stanley Park, Vancouver
#naturalist #wildlife #photography
@timbray@cosocial.caAnybody know anyone on #Vancouver City Council? Because they’re talking about seeking alternatives to Xitter: https://bsky.app/profile/jmcelroy.bsky.social/post/3m7qmxxutss24
@boris@cosocial.ca
@relcfp@mastodon.socialLECTURE> Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series: A Paradigmatic Case? The Unpredicted Revitalization of Newar Buddhist Traditions in the Kathmandu Valley
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Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, LLM, JSD: "Recognition and Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in…
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@StephenRees@mas.toTransLink preparing transit services for winter weather
Deeper tread tires expanded to 70 per cent of bus fleet to help keep customers moving
TransLink is equipping roughly 500 more buses than last year with tires featuring deeper tread patterns for improved traction, to prepare for winter weather in Metro Vancouver.
Up to 1,100 buses, about 70% of the fleet and double from 2024, will be operating with Michelin Grip D tires this upcoming season.
@newstik@social.heise.de"Right now, a lot of condos [are] coming online that people don't really want to live in."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/unsold-condos-metro-vancouver-bc-2025-1.7647776
@emd@cosocial.caHe’s coming to Vancouver as well: #enshittification
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, James Ehnes, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra & Bramwell Tovey:
🎵 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, op.35: I Moderato Nobile
https://open.spotify.com/track/3xOpO67YbCpHKVOpvEThmy
@roland@devdilettante.comOver 40 in Vancouver Episode 91: Saturday Morning Cartoon Cereal Saturday At the Rio Theatre: https://over40invan.com/91-saturday-morning-cartoon-cereal-saturday-at-the-rio-theatre/
@bici@mastodon.socialThe NE Thing Co' s Eye Scream Resturant on 4th Ave in the 70s ... loved their Cubist Salad.
#vancouver #1976
@timbray@cosocial.ca
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialIf #MayorLurie could only explain how this plan would provide housing affordable to the full mix of household incomes, without trotting out the hypothetical (and misleading) explanations of #filtering and related misleading
@paulwermer@sfba.socialIf #MayorLurie could only explain how this plan would provide housing affordable to the full mix of household incomes, without trotting out the hypothetical (and misleading) explanations of #filtering and related misleading
@paulbusch@mstdn.caIn October of 2017, I extended a business trip to Vancouver and had my wife fly out to meet me for some touristy stuff. Vancouver is an awesome holiday destination, and there's no shortage of activities in and around the city. We spent a couple of days exploring Stanley Park, walked the interior trails, played at the Pitch and Putt golf course (opened in 1927), and circled the park on rented bikes. I highly recommend it as a place to visit.
#Vancouver #Vacations
@scott@carfree.cityI only noticed after getting home from Stereolab that the song Laetitia introduced as "Capitalism is a Wound" is called, on the album, "Melodie is a Wound." Did the label censor it?! She introduced it that way in Vancouver too apparently https://exclaim.ca/music/a…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comICE agents under scrutiny after man's legs allegedly crushed in Vancouver arrest (Winston Szeto/OPB)
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/12/06/vancouver-ice-alleged-crushing-legs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251206/p63#a251206p63
@boris@cosocial.caGive us feedback on what you want to see in Vancouver in March!
Please share this far and wide: this is not just a tech conference, it's building the communities and shared spaces that we want together.
#WeCanJustDoThings
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@StephenRees@mas.toAre Vancouver's Parks Facing Tens of Millions in Cuts? via @… https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/11/10/Van
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesWe are asking for the public's help in identifying attendees of the white nationalist networking event 'Exiles of the Golden Age that happened in Vancouver last summer
https://www.antihate.ca/white_nationalist_organizing_exiles_golden_age_identify
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.socialGetting going on the first hour of tonight’s #Drone Accordion Three Hour special episode of @…
Live on #Vancouver Co-Op Radio 100.5 FM 9–Mid
Or catch th…
@timbray@cosocial.caWent for a weekend walk in QE park; the colors of autumn are fading, but there are still treats for the eye.
#Photography #Vancouver
@StephenRees@mas.toTransLink boosts winter bus service on 37 Metro Vancouver routes
Coquitlam and New Westminster have highest number of routes being increased
https://link.etranslink.ca/v/443/61496305bc86358c93c5a1c5d88c8fb724b98893a48c639a23f1f694ea2850…
@almad@fosstodon.orgHello #Vancouver.
Finally.
@gevoel@mastodon.greenPurcell - O Solitude performed by Reginald Mobley | EMV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns4flJJ04qg
> Henry Purcell's 'O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice' Z.406. Performed by Reginald Mobley on February 3, 2023, at Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver, BC.Reginal...
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Александр Константинович Глазунов & Vancouver Symphony Orchestra:
🎵 Concert waltz for orchestra no 1 in D major, Op 47
#KazuyoshiAkiyama #АлександрКонстантиновичГлазунов #VancouverSymphonyOrchestra
@mapto@qoto.orgI learned about Repair Cafe by the news its funding is discontinued. But more cities need to support this type of events. In a world of planned obsolescence, the environmental bill is being paid by communal waste collection services. A targeted analysis of which repairs could be most cost-effective for waste management could help justify funding of such initiatives with volunteer-based repairs.
@relcfp@mastodon.socialLECTURE> Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series: A Paradigmatic Case? The Unpredicted Revitalization of Newar Buddhist Traditions in the Kathmandu Valley
https://ift.tt/LHwJoFK
Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, LLM, JSD: "Recognition and Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in…
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@bici@mastodon.socialDoes Apple Maps not believe in Public Transportation?? I dont see a bus option in their Directions!
https://
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
In July 1871, the City of Victoria officially became the capital of British Columbia, when the province joined the rest of Canada. At the time, the city was larger than Vancouver and had served as the most important settlement in the area for decades. The Colony of Vancouver Island also stamped their little feet and demanded that Victoria be designated as the capital in return for the island to join with the mainland to become part of Canada. Captain James Cook was the first British person to set foot on Vancouver Island in 1778, and in 1843, Fort Victoria was established by the Hudson's Bay Company. There is a long history of Vancouver Island serving as a naval base, and today, Victoria is the home of Canada’s Pacific Coast naval and military headquarters in nearby Esquimalt. Victoria is a top tourist destination and is regularly rated top 5 worldwide as an awesome place to live.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria-bc
@krone@frawas.deNach Pleite im Finale - Entscheidung fix! Thomas Müllers Zukunft geklärt #News #Nachrichten
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… @… I’ve gotten books from various university libraries via the Fort Vancouver Regional Library system.
One of them stuck with me enough to get my own copy… which involved calling the author’s widow and mailing her a check. At…
@relcfp@mastodon.social @bici@mastodon.socialN.E.THING CO. LTD.
Riverside Drive North Vancouver
Project
1969
#IainBaxter
@timbray@cosocial.ca“An Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon killed five people Sunday, including three children, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said … four of the killed, the three children as well as their father, held U.S. citizenship”: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025…
@StephenRees@mas.toThe city turning lawns into pollinator meadows
Jennifer Cole
Nov 7, 2025
In #Vancouver, a city-led (and research-backed) initiative is converting chunks of park land into wilder ecosystems.
https://www.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caJason Proctor is contributing to the CBC's live blog scroll from a legal perspective and as always, his stuff is illumniating. I'll paste his report in because it can get lost in the scroll easily.
"Creditors circle as cull looms
Jason Proctor
I'm Jason Proctor, a reporter with CBC Vancouver who looked into a series of lawsuits facing the owners of Universal Ostrich Farms Inc.
Last month, I spoke with three creditors who are watching today's ruling with great interest — and some skin in the game.
B.C. Supreme Court judges have ordered the farm's owners to repay debts worth more than $250,000 but, up until now, the creditors have been unable to collect. Normally in this kind of situation, a creditor would move to seize the business assets — but because in this case those assets are ostriches caught up in a legal battle, that's been challenging, to say the least.
All three creditors have tried to garnish the CFIA to intercept any money the agency might pay out as compensation for killing the birds (potentially up to $3,000 a bird, the CFIA says) but it remains to be seen how that will work. The creditors, however, told me they are anxious to recoup their losses.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/bc-ostrich-farm-decision-scoc-9.6968394?ts=1762453717737
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
If you live in Montreal, Vancouver, or Victoria, congratulations. According to Condé Nast Traveler, those 3 Canadian cities were top destinations based on the results from its annual Readers' Choice Awards. No other country on the planet had 3 locations named on list of the best cities in the world for 2025. In the top 10 of large cities category, Vancouver was #7, and Montreal was #9. In the small cities category, Victoria was #1 for the 3rd consecutive year.
The article takes a few swipes at Toronto for being excluded as a top tourist destination. Why so mean?
#CanadaIsAwesome #Travel #WorldClass
https://www.narcity.com/canadian-cities-best-in-the-world-to-travel-2025
@cjust@infosec.exchange10 lost works of Canadian art you'll wish you could see
Kinda thinking that at least one of these could see a comeback - albeit maybe not as an art installation so much as a reflection of a new Canadian-US relationship
via
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@boris@cosocial.caThe 2026 #ATmosphereConf is aiming to be about 2x this year.
If we hit 350-500, then year after 2027 will be roughly double and we need to start planning a year ahead to secure venues.
And! Start planning your 2026 regional confs too!
We’re growing and need to plan for it!
@timbray@cosocial.caO rly? Given that Alberta & Ottawa united to shove the TMX pipeline down the throat of the BC & Vancouver governments and several indigenous nations. And given that Carney has been saying “build all the pipelines”. ?!?!?
If my cynicism is misplaced I heartily apologize and salute in the direction of Minister Hodgson.
@jby@ecoevo.socialA bright-eyed spotted towhee, Pipio maculatus, in Stanley Park, Vancouver
#naturalist #bird
@StephenRees@mas.toFungi seen on Salish Trail, Pacific Spirit Park this afternoon
#Vancouver
@StephenRees@mas.toA new park for the #Vancouver Region with limited access arrangements
https://miss604.com/2025/10/widgeon-marsh-is-metro-vancouvers-new-regional-park/
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Jeff Buckley:
🎵 Vancouver
#JeffBuckley
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/3arPUfxsE4jRiwrG9h8tzN
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom Translink
Stadium–Chinatown SkyTrain Station elevator replacement begins
Alternative travel plans needed for customers requiring use of station elevator
TransLink is replacing the 40-year-old elevator at Stadium–Chinatown SkyTrain Station with a higher-capacity one. The new elevator will have 20 per cent more room — roughly equal to three standing adults or two extra manual wheelchairs.
#Vancouver
@StephenRees@mas.toTiny birds, and their tiny superfood, could decline due to ‘irreversible’ effects of Vancouver port expansion
The Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion at Canada’s busiest cargo port could be fast-tracked by the federal government. It’s a major stop for 3.5 million western sandpipers to eat and recharge while travelling the entire Pacific
From The Narwhal
@jby@ecoevo.socialAn American crow, Corvus brachyrynchos, keeping watch at the water taxi landing by Sunset Beach, Vancouver
#naturalist
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCFP> Emerging Voices in the Study of Theravada Civilizations 2026
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@StephenRees@mas.toAnd about time too!
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-public-washroom-metrotown-skytrain-station
TransLink officially opens first public washroom at Metrotown SkyTrain Station
@timbray@cosocial.caWow, this means the shelves at the liquor and cannabis stores can be re-filled. 😉
But seriously, good news, and congrats to the negotiators on both sides.
https://mastodon.social/@Maxfieldripken/115442407123016124
@StephenRees@mas.toNEXT WEEK: VANCOUVER CIVIC THEATRES PRESENTS
Silent Movie Mondays:
The Black Pirate (1926)
Produced By & Starring Douglas Fairbanks
DECEMBER 8, 2025 AT 7:30PM
ORPHEUM
Ahoy Mateys! 🏴☠️ Watch the first-ever pirate movie while a soundtrack is played LIVE on the Orpheum's Wurlitzer organ!
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Your call: I feel uncomfortable these days in downtown Vancouver - so hanging around waiting for a bus when going home ....
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.socialGetting going on the first hour of tonight’s #Drone Accordion Three Hour special episode of @…
Live on #Vancouver Co-Op Radio 100.5 FM 9–Mid
Or catch the stream or podcast at http://AccordionNoir.org 🪗
Listening to the extend mix its some fantastic #ExperimentalMusic and one of my favourite of these shows we’ve done
This right here weirdness is Derrick Stacy Denholm
#AccordionBandcamp
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caCarney is a carbon industry plant.
nothing says environmental “blank cheque” to industry like: “voluntary certification program”.
"But operators have another compliance option, which some may find controversial because it could give industry players some more leeway. Operators can design their own approaches, providing a facility meets "methane intensity thresholds" that are on par with standards from "leading international voluntary certification programs.””
That's what private forest companies (Mosaic) on Vancouver Island use to claim they are following ‘best practices' as they clear cut whole sides of mountains and leave a 10m ‘riparian zone' around streams while falling trees right over them.
It's a license to make up their own rules and do whatever they want, wider impacts be damned.
#ClimateEmergency #CdnPoli #CanPoli #Carbon #Methane #Emissions #Oil #Gas
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCFP> Emerging Voices in the Study of Theravada Civilizations 2026
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@timbray@cosocial.caGood explainer from Khelsilem of the Squamish about the recent Cowichan land decision, the background, and what it really might lead to: https://khelsilem.substack.com/p/setting-the-record-straight-on-the
@StephenRees@mas.toA cafe at Heather and Broadway in #Vancouver refused to serve me because I only wanted a cappuccino not a meal. I cannot recommend them
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom SPEC
We are writing today to share some difficult news. #Vancouver City Council has eliminated funding for the citywide Repair Café program in its newly approved 2026 budget. Because Repair Cafés operate through a City contract, the loss of this funding will significantly erode SPEC’s ability to deliver these events at their current scale. The cuts mean that several of the planned 2026 Repai…
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Clément Janequin, Thomas Crecquillon, Claudin de Sermisy, Ray Nurse, Nan Mackie, Patricia Unruh, Margriet Tindemans, Liz Baker, Vancouver Chamber Choir & Jon Washburn:
🎵 Four Renaissance chansons
#ClémentJanequin #RayNurse
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCFP> Emerging Voices in the Study of Theravada Civilizations 2026
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@StephenRees@mas.toHow B.C.'s property tax system delivers big benefits to multimillionaires, and why some say it needs to change
Anyone in B.C. who pays provincial income tax or sales taxes — including lower-income renters — helps cover the costs of this subsidy, which benefits some high-income homeowners in mansions
But many of those with the greatest need for the program do not even know about it, ...only an estimated 16 per cent of seniors defer their taxes.
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Stanley Park is a 405-hectare public park in British Columbia, Canada, that makes up the northwestern half of Vancouver's Downtown peninsula, surrounded by waters of Burrard Inlet and English Bay. It opened in September of 1888 after negotiating a lease from the federal government who owned the land for $1 per year. On this day in 1889, it was renamed and dedicated in honour of Lord Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, a British politician who had recently been appointed Governor General of Canada. It doesn't crack the top 10 of city parks in Canada (despite what the attached article states) but it's special because much of the park remains as densely forested as it was in the late 1800s, with about a half million trees, some of which stand as tall as 76 metres and are hundreds of years old.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Parks #GetOutside
https://todayinconservation.com/2018/10/october-29-stanley-park-vancouver-dedicated-1889/
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThe new fence is basically done!!
Funny story that will hit home to anyone on Vancouver Island:
Two days ago the builders hadn’t added the new top section to the big gate in the back. A very large buck/deer jumped the fence and bent the wire so they had to try and bend it back out the best they could”
This is particularly funny for us because the other side, near the chicken coop (before it was there) the old fencing was bent from an over-eager bear trying to climb in.
Just mother nature ensuring balance, new and old, bent and unbent.
I am glad we are now bylaw-compliant for the #poolpond and the edibles should be out of the reach of the larger animals (racoons and birds and cats and squirrels and whatever other small creatures are inescapable)
The arbutus tree is now leaning against the fence. We'll see if it gets the message and grows in a more vertical kind of way naturally relieving stress from the fence, or if we might have to provide in a portal.
The most surprising part they managed to conquer was lifting the grape as high as they did! Very satisfied with that development!
#animals #garden #deer #PortAlberni
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.socialThis year's @… special episode of #Drone & #ExperimentalMusic Squeeze into the Long Nights (Drone Accordion V) 🪗 is available online for global listeners!
Broadcasting tonight on #Vancouver Co-op Radio 100.5 FM starting EARLY from 9PM to Midnight 𝄐
#Accordion #Halloween 👻
@StephenRees@mas.toMuch of what I post on here is about Vancouver transit. But today I got to read about (some of) the history of Seattle. I recommend it. And venture to suggest that you might find Transit Sleuth's upcoming material worthy of your attention too.
https://transitsleuth.com/2025/12/06/s
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCFP> Emerging Voices in the Study of Theravada Civilizations 2026
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@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Lorraine Reinhardt, Ludwig van Beethoven, Stephen Powell, Linda Lee Thomas, Gwen Thompson, Eugene Osadchy, Vancouver Chamber Choir & Jon Washburn:
🎵 Five Scottish and Irish songs
#LorraineReinhardt #LudwigvanBeethoven
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Jeff Buckley:
🎵 Vancouver
#JeffBuckley
https://open.spotify.com/track/3EpttYJLCx0QCqDDhr1aPR
@jby@ecoevo.socialSunlight through steam rising off a fallen snag in Stanley Park, Vancouver
#naturalist #forest #photography #Vancouver
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom SPEC
Repair Café News
Next up:
📍 Kitsilano Community Centre
📅 Saturday, October 11, 2025
🕤 9:30am–1:30pm PT
Bring your small appliances, clothing, bikes, and more — our team of volunteer fixers is ready to help you repair, learn, and connect with your community. Full schedule available and registration for the October Café available at
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caWant to help identify Nazis (“white Nationalists”) in Canada?
Of course you do! Check out the link to antihate.ca!
This summer there was a conference in Vancouver that had people come from all over Canada and elsewhere to talk about being hateful, horrible, human beings.
Help the Anti Hate Network identify and expose these people so we can keep our communities safe (especially if you go to a local gym or martial arts studio!)
#hate #Canada #Nazis #whitenationalists #antihate #antiracist #antifa
https://www.antihate.ca/white_nationalist_organizing_exiles_golden_age_identify?utm_campaign=eotga&utm_medium=email&utm_source=antihate
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Happy Plush Animal Lover’s Day to all who celebrate this special holiday. Because we are an inclusive country, I hope all you Furries out there have a special day as well.
Today's holiday would be a good day to review Canada's top sports mascots because why not. Today, I learned that Curling Canada has a mascot, although it's not an animal. He/She has a curling stone for a head. I may disagree with the ranking - IMO, the Raptor should be ranked higher and Youppi! deserves #1 status - but overall, it's a decent collection of Canadian wildlife. The Canada Goose is missing, and sports teams are missing a lot of marketing mayhem by not having a Beaver mascot. I suspect there are some great mascots at lower levels of organized sport, or at the college/university level.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Mascots
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canadian-sports-mascots-ranking
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Franz Liszt, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra & Sergiu Comissiona:
🎵 Hungarian Rhapsody no 1 for orchestra in F minor
#FranzLiszt #VancouverSymphonyOrchestra #SergiuComissiona
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom the Vancouver Sun
Opinion: British Columbians are ready for heat pumps. Is the province?
Opinion: Closing the gap to B.C.’s economic, affordability and climate targets will require continued support for consumers and businesses.
https://vancouvers…
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom SPEC
Repair Café: Registration Open for Marpole/Oakridge Community Centre on November 8th
When: Saturday, November 8th, 9:30am-1:30pm
Where: 990 West 59th Ave, Vancouver
https://spec.us7.list-manage.com/track/c…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Last weekend our granddaughter visited to help decorate our tree and we watched Elf, a movie about #Christmas spirit, because we were feeling Christmassy. I think the majority of Canadians believe in the spirit of this season. We're a little bit more polite and kinder, if that's even possible, and underneath the snark, the passive aggressiveness, the ##ElbowsUp, is a pack of big cuddly beavers. You don't have to take my word for it because places like Quebec City, Banff, and Vancouver regularly end up on lists for best places to sit on Santa's knee. He lives in Canada so not a surprise. Did you know that in 2018, Canada was ranked as #1 most Christmassy country in the world. They can't put it on the internet if it isn't true.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MerryChristmas
https://dailyhive.com/mapped/canada-ranked-1-most-christmassy-country-in-the-world
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom Translink
Sleigh through the holidays with TransLink’s Reindeer Bus and Santa Train
Toys for Tots marks 40 years of supporting Metro Vancouver families in need
https://link.etranslink.ca/v/443/61496305bc86358c9a870350b998cd04…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caIn other news, the Federal NDP leadership debate is starting at 4PM PST! Get the link by rsvp here. There is one Fediverse connected candidate @…
Tangle Johnston from Vancouver Island!
#ndp #fediverse #canpoli #cdnpoli
@relcfp@mastodon.socialLECTURE> Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series: A Paradigmatic Case? The Unpredicted Revitalization of Newar Buddhist Traditions in the Kathmandu Valley
https://ift.tt/XEYHJWf
H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
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@StephenRees@mas.toPosting a photo to show support for @…
Colour of autumn
Larger version can be found at https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_rees
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Alexander Glazunov, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra & Kazuyoshi Akiyama:
🎵 The Seasons (Op.67) - ballet in 1 act
#AlexanderGlazunov #VancouverSymphonyOrchestra #KazuyoshiAkiyama
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caNothing more to be said here…
“An inmate who has pleaded guilty to murdering Robert Pickton in prison last year says he did it for the serial killer's victims.
Martin Charest admitted on Thursday morning to fatally assaulting Pickton with a broken broom handle at the Port-Cartier federal penitentiary in May 2024.
Charest pleaded guilty to first-degree murder during a court appearance in Sept-Îles, Que., northeast of Quebec City.
Pickton was convicted in 2007 of six counts of second-degree murder, but confessed to killing a total of 49 women whom he lured to his pig farm near Vancouver.
A statement of facts read out in court detailed how Charest locked himself into a room with Pickton and assaulted him twice while guards were unable to enter.
Charest told the judge he murdered Pickton after the serial killer had continued to brag about the murders and told other inmates he'd commit more crimes if he was ever released.”
#Justice #Canada #RobertPickton #MMIWG #Indigenous
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pickton-s-killer-murder-charge-1.7643499
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Scott Joplin, Anthony Averay, Lorne G Buick, Hamish Gordon, Anthony Averay & Vancouver Wind Trio:
🎵 Elite Syncopations arr for wind trio
#ScottJoplin #AnthonyAveray #LorneGBuick #HamishGordon #VancouverWindTrio
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Checking my fake holiday calendar, and I see it's Go For A Ride Day. I guess that could include cars, trains, skateboards, horses, and your favourite human, but let's focus on bicycles. Some people say Canada is too big to have a cycling culture and that's why there's only 1 bike for every 4 Canadians. But those are the people who have never heard of cities... or are named Doug Ford. Only 6% of Canadians are active commuters, meaning walking or biking, but it's more prevalent in Victoria (18.7%) and Halifax (12.3%). About one-third (34%) of neighbourhoods across Canada have no cycling infrastructure but some municipalities have invested in high-comfort bike lanes (dedicated & protected pathways), including Montréal (360 km), Vancouver (246 km), Edmonton (226 km) and Québec City (190 km).
Here's some #StatsCan data on commuting by bike.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Biking #GetOutside
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/6203-bike-work-day-cycling-through-data
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Joseph Haydn, Henriette Schellenberg, Vancouver Chamber Choir, CBC Radio Orchestra & Jon Washburn:
🎵 Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo, Hob XXII:7, 'Kleine Orgelmesse'
#JosephHaydn #HenrietteSchellenberg #CBCRadioOrchestra
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caDetails of the MOU as reported by CBC. Hot Take:
It's a sh_t show of oil soaked hopeium and climate defeatism.
- Shovels in Ground by 2029 *(may this be forever extended)
- Tanker Ban will be lifted if the project is approved by MPO *(Coastal First Nations setting rhetorical fire to MPO in 3-2-1)
- July 1, 2026 deadline for submission to MPO *(OIL CANADA DAY)
- 75% methane emissions cut on 2014 levels from methane by 2035 *(*shaking head* We are VERY GOOD at hitting 10 year targets *shaking head*)
- "both sides commited to net-zero by 2050” (implied via CCS) *(carbon capture and storage? should be Carney Can't Stop -- Emissions)
- industrial carbon price of $130 -- down from $170
*(Oil Industry - Very Poor)
- Alberta exempt from fed O&G emissions cap and clean electricity regulation *(Woop Coal! Let's Mine the Rockies!)
- No private proponents have been announced. *(Hear No Evil)
- No pipeline path/route has been announced. *(See No Evil)
#TMX #EndFossilFuels #ClimateSellout #ClimateEmergency #CdnPoli #CanPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli
Since multiple Ottawa CBC reporters seem utterly incapable of understanding what First Nations groups are what in BC here are some facts about the Coastal First Nations. It has existed since 2003.
https://coastalfirstnations.ca/about/
"The Great Bear Initiative Society (a non-profit society under the BC Societies Act), also known as Coastal First Nations-Great Bear Initiative (CFN), is an alliance of First Nations on the North Pacific Coast that includes the Gitga’at, Gitxaała, Haida, Heiltsuk, Kitasoo Xai’xais, Metlakatla, Nuxalk and Wuikinuxv First Nations. " Their territories span on the mainland coast of BC from the top of Vancouver Island to the Alaska Border including Haida Gwaii.
