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Aww, Serge Fiori died: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/24/quebec-singer-songwriter-serge-fiori-founder-of-rock-group-harmonium-dead-at-73/
That name won’t mean anything except to Canadians o…

Quebec singer Serge Fiori dead at 73
Quebec singer-songwriter Serge Fiori, founder of French-Canadian rock band Harmonium, died Tuesday at the age of 73.

TransLink is investing $145 million to improve local transportation infrastructure across Metro Vancouver through its Local Government Funding Programs. The programs collaborate with municipalities to co-fund upgrades that enhance sustainable travel options like walking, biking, rolling, and transit.
This year’s investment includes more than $65 million to maintain and repair the Major Road Network. These roads include more than half of the busiest bus routes in Metro Vancouver
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Now this is a shoe I’d buy.
#TerryFox
https://vancouversun.com/life/adidas-terry-fox-running-shoe-45th-anniversary-marathon-hope

Adidas re-releases Terry Fox running shoe in honour of 45th anniversary of Marathon of Hope 
Canadian icon Terry Fox is set to be honoured with a perfectly fitting release: running shoes. Find out more.

From Translink
With more Canadians opting to be tourists in their own country this summer, TransLink is making it easier (and a lot more fun) with a series of Transit-Friendly Summer Tours throughout Metro Vancouver.
More than 50 curated tours will be launched over the course of this summer, each of which offer unique ways to see different parts of Metro Vancouver while taking transit, cycling, or walking.
see full post at

@… (Vancouver proper, not Surrey, fwiw)

🇺🇦 #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

Efficient and Reuseable Cloud Configuration Search Using Discovery Spaces
Michael Johnston, Burkhard Ringlein, Christoph Hagleitner, Alessandro Pomponio, Vassilis Vassiliadis, Christian Pinto, Srikumar Venugopal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21467

Efficient and Reuseable Cloud Configuration Search Using Discovery Spaces
Finding the optimal set of cloud resources to deploy a given workload at minimal cost while meeting a defined service level agreement is an active area of research. Combining tens of parameters applicable across a large selection of compute, storage, and services offered by cloud providers with similar numbers of application-specific parameters leads to configuration spaces with millions of deployment options. In this paper, we propose Discovery Space, an abstraction that formalizes the descr…

(1/3) Our daughter, Rachel, participated in a podcast last week in Colorado Springs at the “Innovation Hub” where she has been working in an internship as an astronautical engineering major, “doing Space Force things.” Check it out:
“That's So Cadet with Rachel Fryer and Lucan Keyser, USAFA CSRP Interns®”
https:/…

That's So Cadet with Rachel Fryer and Lucan Keyser, USAFA CSRP Interns
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The BC Ministry of Transport has an album of all the pictures they have been taking of the Broadway Subway project. This can be found on flickr at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tranbc/albums/72157706275278374/

#Transit growth outpaces driving growth in Metro #Vancouver
More people in Metro Vancouver are choosing transit over driving as their primary option to get around, according to new data from TransLink. In 2024, there were 7.7 million more trips on transit, an increase of more than three per cent over 2023, o…