It’s REALLY important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally AGAINST downtown bike-lanes, later became one of their most vigourous supporters, because of EVIDENCE that bike-lanes are better for downtown business than any street parking they replace.
I’d heard rumors about massive money laundering operations happening via Canadian real estate and this seems to address some of it.
“I found out a huge mortgage fraud showing borrowers with exaggerated income from one specific country, China": The Bureau investigates whistleblower docs
"Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto Real Estate Bubble: HSBC Bank Leaks
I just tried and failed to get my 8yo kid into a doctor's office. And I want to talk about that.
I live in #Vancouver, #BC. #Canada. Many in the US see this as some kind of promised land, because there's a public health system. But it doesn't work.
It CAN work. I've also lived in Strasbourg, France. And in comparison, there my kid would have seen a pediatrician within hours of a call.
This failure is a POLICY CHOICE by authorities. Not some impossible social hurdle.
re:Mix is a kitchen blender which you use with your own glass jars. It’s made in #Berlin and “open source”, and the intent is for others to build & sell in their local region.
This is absolutely fucking gross. Hatred and bigotry has no place in modern society let alone an area as multicultural as metro #vancouver. This shit needs to be shut down immediately.
A new #introduction post since I moved instances from mstdn .ca to here. (I still have some respect for that server and community, but it's currently a bit under-moderated for my taste.) Most of my follows seemed to carry over.
I'm Dan Carkner, I work as a library technician in #Vancouver BC and in my spare time I sing in a #Yiddish choir, play the #cimbalom, write #Wikipedia articles and do historical research on #klezmer music. Also studying to become a UEB #braille transcriber this year.👋 🥺
Hey, if you’re in Vancouver, don’t plan anything much for tomorrow. Heavy snow starting 10PM, going on for 12hrs+. Accumulation: 15-20cm. The roads… it’s not gonna be pretty.
#Indigenous, 5'7", slim.
Last seen wearing black hoodie, black puffy jacket, ripped blue jeans. #Burnaby RCMP asks that we report sightings & information to them at 604-646-9999.
For #WildlifeWednesday I have this Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) perched on a log at Devonian Harbour Park, near Coal Harbour and Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The building reflection in the pond shows how close to downtown Vancouver this is.
Due to the overwhelming success of the 2023 Repair Cafe Series, SPEC and the City of #Vancouver have scheduled more Cafes throughout 2024.
These interactive community spaces encourage individuals to bring one broken small appliance, electronic product, bicycle or item of clothing to be repaired for FREE by volunteer fixers. Participants may be asked to engage with the physical repair of their item, participating in the empowering act of learning to repair.
After weeks and months of chanting for violence against Jews worldwide, and calls for "Long Live October 7th" and "Intifada", at the protests, an attack on a synagogue in Vancouver