LGBTQ+ Toronto & LA Film Festival @lgbtlatoronto.bsky.social Monthly festival showcasing the best of LGBTQ+ films and screenplays from around the world, using the audience feedback format.
https://lgbttorontofilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/LGBTTorontoFilmFestival
James Kennedy @jameskennedy.bsky.social Musician, author & podcaster
Album : http://linktr.ee/makeanger
Book : http://linktr.ee/noisedamage
Podcast : http://linktr.ee/jameskennedypodcast
Official site: http://jameskennedyofficial.com
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Philip Baldwin @philipcbaldwin.bsky.social LGBTQIA+/HIV author, presenter, speaker, writer and activist (he/him/his). Gay Times column. Trans inclusive.
https://linktr.ee/philipbaldwin.london
Diane Dyson @dianedyson.bsky.social Data geek in TO's #nonprofit sector
I do research & policy on equitable, livable urban places, poverty, neighbourhoods, education, housing, employment, immigration
Montrealer, so love to debate, dance
Local Garden Club member 'cause it makes me smile 🫛🪴😁🌼🌱
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Judy Saint @judysaint.bsky.social Doing good feels good. Liberal. Love inside jokes, optimism, reality, science, and my German Shepherd.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Lauren Wilz @lwilz.bsky.social Rainbow haired cattle dog mom 
Josh Wilson @pjoshwilson.bsky.social Clean energy nerd, wannabe technocrat, slow AF runner, cattle dog minder, and kidney donor living in Buffalo, NY.
City Mouse Garden @citymousegarden.bsky.social #NativePlants & #Pollinators Lover. Master Gardener. Master Urban Farmer. Cookbook Editor/Chef. Tiny #Chicago Garden Zone 6A. All photos mine unless otherwise indicated. #UrbsInHorto #GardenDogs #KitchenGarden #FantasticFoliage
@normanroots.bsky.social @normanroots.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Grandpa of 9, genealogist, MS Access developer, economist
LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social A lawyer and so much more. https://fractionallyyours.substack.com/
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social Public transit planning consultant and commentator. Author of the book “Human Transit” and the blog HumanTransit.org. The consulting firm is jarrettwalker.com. Also obsessed with literature and plants.
Stephen Quinn @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social Host - The Early Edition - CBC Radio One Vancouver
Pulpfiction Books @pfbvan.bsky.social YVR's legendary independent bookstore. Est. 6/00. 'The pessimism of the intellect, the optimism of the will.' (Gramsci). 2026 Living Wage employer.
Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, publishing (and funding, through the non-profit Antipode Foundation) the very best radical research
Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social Vancouver, B.C. journalist covering politics and housing for TheTyee.ca
Instagram and TikTok: @jenstdenis
Email: jstdenis at thetyee dot ca
Mo Amir @vancolour.bsky.social 📺TV: “This is VANCOLOUR” on CHEK +
📻Radio: CBC’s On The Coast - "Soapbox Social"
The most bleeped political commentator in B.C.
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Matt Galloway @mattgalloway.bsky.social I ask questions on the radio for a living. Also like running.
Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social Calgary journalist. Recovering architect. Reluctant urbanist.
http://ximena-gonzalez.com
Spacing @spacing.bsky.social Spacing.ca / Toronto urbanism uncovered in award-winning mag/web/books/podcasts.
Spacing Radio podcasts: spacingradio.bsky.social
Spacing Vancouver: spacingvancouver.bsky.social
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social We strive to improve equitable access to decent, affordable homes in thriving communities, and we conduct rigorous research to advance housing policy and practice. www.jchs.harvard.edu
dustin @godfrey.work it's not delivery. it's digiornalist
justice, drugs, housing, health
co-founder/member: @defactomedia.ca / defactomedia.ca
work in The Guardian, Globe & Mail, Tyee, Filter, The Maple
also at @debriefcomms.ca
they/them/thembo
Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social Architect & urban planning professor @UCLA. Urban change & climate justice. Author of Form & Flow (MIT 2021) bit.ly/3Q92Mkd
Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social Vancouver writer. Punctuation patrol at BCIT j-school. Author of "Very Vancouver" and "Under the White Gaze."
www.christophercheung.net
Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social The Eviction Lab is helping neighbors and policymakers understand the eviction crisis. Follow us for the latest housing research + news.
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Mitchell Silver @mitchellsilver.bsky.social Urban planner, speaker, placemaker and professor of practice. Former NYC Parks Commissioner, Raleigh Chief Planning Officer and AICP & APA President. Passionate about people, planning, parks & public space.
Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social Geographer at Simon Fraser University. Policy mobilities; urban politics; harm reduction; social movements. Managing editor, EPC: Politics & Space (journals.sagepub.com/home/epc). Host, 'Minor Revisions' podcast (http://bit.ly/3suN9ur). Views my own.
Harvard Graduate School of Design @gsd.harvard.edu gsd.harvard.edu
Gil Penalosa @penalosag.bsky.social Founder 8 80 Cities • Worked in over 350 cities • NEW keynotes & workshops on how CITIES can make HEALTHY & HAPPY LIVING the easy choice • Book Gil • Infra + Policy + Programs • Children • Olders • Top 100 urbanist (13).
Renee de St. Croix @reneedsc.bsky.social City planner & urban designer. Planning Director with a Metro Vancouver municipality. Mom of 2. Loves soccer, biking, design & cities. Posts are my own.
Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus |
Environmental and Urban Change | York University
Cities | Football | Music
Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social Geographer at UBC; https://blogs.ubc.ca/peck/
Jill Atkey @jfatkey.bsky.social Housing advocate by day and night. CEO at BCNPHA, Director at Rental Protection Fund, Community Housing Transformation Centre, Boann Social Impact, Community Housing Coverage, and Chartered Institute of Housing Canada.
John Belshaw @belshaw.bsky.social Writer. Historian. Cyclist. Writing a history of cycling.
🛋️ Vancouver based
📚 Open textbooks https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation/
🧭 Local stories https://www.anvilpress.com/books/vancouver-noir-1930-1960
Elbows up.
David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social Sociologist at LSE studying cities, housing, and social theory. Co-author, In Defense of Housing.
Gregor Craigie @gregorcraigie.bsky.social Sleep-deprived early morning radio host of CBC On the Island. Author of Our Crumbling Foundation, On Borrowed Time, Walls, Radio Jet Lag & Why Humans Build Up.
Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social 🍁 General Manager Planning, Urban Design & Sustainability and Director of Planning at City of Vancouver 🍁
Stanley Q Woodvine @sqwabb.bsky.social Formerly an artist (commercial sort); not much of a dog lover; always an avid reader. Currently a homeless binner in Vancouver, BC Canada. He/him. sqwabb@gmail.com
http://sqwabb.wordpress.com
Eleanor Mohammed, RPP, MCIP, EP @eleanormohammed.bsky.social Partner, Urban Governance & Planning @ DIALOG | UN-Habitat Professionals Forum Chair | Past President of the Commonwealth Association of Planners, Canadian Institute of Planners, & Alberta Professional Planners Institute #urbanism #cities
Meerakati @meerakati.bsky.social Journalist #YVR Eager for all kinds of tea. Enjoying life at CBC Vancouver after a tour of duty as a provincial affairs reporter in Victoria. Ops are my own.
Sonia Sobrino Ralston @sonrals.bsky.social 🌳🌳🌳
Neal LaMontagne @nlamontagne.bsky.social Urbanist, planner, educator (planning faculty at the University of Alberta). Making the jump from the old ways of social media.
Brent Richter @brentrichter.bsky.social Reporter for the North Shore News in North Vancouver and West Vancouver.
SFU City Program @sfucity.bsky.social We deliver courses, certificates, and public programming that help planning, policy, and development professionals build better communities.
@derrickpenner.bsky.social @derrickpenner.bsky.social Reporter with The Vancouver Sun / Province, sometimes photo hobbyist, resident of the West End. Reposts do not = endorsement. I will never use the term “skeet” here. (What even?!)
The City Institute @cityinstitute.bsky.social We study cities and everything urban.
Established in 2006 at #YorkUniversity in Toronto, our mission is to facilitate and mobilize interdisciplinary, critical and collaborative urban research.
@sandyjamesplanner @sandyjamesplanner.bsky.social West Coast, Advocating best practices walkable, livable spaces, accessibility & micro-mobility.I write original content.
Managing Director of Walk Metro Vancouver Society.TEDx speaker
City planner, writer, lapsed master gardener, public space champion.
The Housing Forum @housingforum.org.uk A Quality Home For All -
The cross-sector, public & private #ukhousing industry membership body representing 150+ organisations.
RT ≠ endorsement
https://housingforum.org.uk/
Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj.org 🤝 🏘️ Building & supporting infrastructure for a powerful, grassroots-led movement to win safe, affordable, equitable housing for all.
🔗 https://linkin.bio/aforhj
Environment and Planning D: Society & Space @societyandspace.bsky.social We publish articles, essays, interviews, forums, and book reviews that examine social struggles over access to and control of space, place, territory, region, and resources.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/EPD/current
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy @reepaere.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of REEP, first published in 2007 and consistently ranked in the top-20 of all economics journals and top-15 of all environmental studies journals.
https://t.co/lW3lVRHOhr
Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social An online magazine offering reporting, opinion, and analysis on global environmental issues. Published at the Yale School of the Environment. Our newsletter: e360.yale.edu/newsletter
Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social Urban Affairs Review is a peer-reviewed journal of urban politics and policy. https://www.urbanaffairsreview.com/
Check out our podcast, UAR Remixed, for interdisciplinary conversations about all things urban. https://www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-remixe
Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org We provide grant funding for innovative research projects that advance the frontiers of urban knowledge. Follow for news & updates. Read more on our website: https://urbanstudiesfoundation.org
Spacing Vancouver @spacingvancouver.bsky.social Spacing.ca/Vancouver /// Vancouver & BC urbanism uncovered in award-winning mag/web/books/podcasts.
Spacing: spacing.bsky.social
Spacing Radio podcasts: spacingradio.bsky.social
Spacing Store: spacingstore.bsky.social
Spacing Radio @spacingradio.bsky.social Spacing.ca/podcast /// Toronto urbanism uncovered /// Also producer of: Evergreen Canada's "Future Fix" • UBC's "The Overhead"
Spacing: spacing.bsky.social
Spacing Vancouver: spacingvancouver.bsky.social
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@pcondon2.bsky.social @pcondon2.bsky.social 
Michael Geller @michaelgeller.bsky.social An aging Vancouver-based urban planner, developer, retired architect, writer and SFU Adjunct Professor with a longstanding interest in urban design and affordable housing.
Vancouver Public Space Network @vpsn.bsky.social Last Candidate Tickets: https://thecultch.com/event/last-candidate-standing/
VPSN website: vancouverpublicspace.ca
@johnpasalis.bsky.social @johnpasalis.bsky.social 
Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) @ubchart.bsky.social An award-winning research group that works toward evidence and data-based solutions to Canada’s housing crisis. https://hart.ubc.ca
BC Non-Profit Housing Association @bcnpha.bsky.social We believe everyone deserves a safe, affordable home. We represent British Columbia's non-profit housing sector and our partners in #HousingCentral. bcnpha.ca
Housing For All Is Hot @ahouse4all.bsky.social LA. Mutual aid, my dog, social housing, and organizing the working class. Married to my husband and revolution. I write sometimes. Views strong + my + my own.
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social ED at the National Housing Law Project 🇺🇸 Housing nerd. @nhlp.bsky.social
Tara Raghuveer @taraghuveer.bsky.social KC Tenants
Tenant Union Federation
Canadian Urban Institute @canurb.bsky.social 
Placemaking Canada @placemaking-canada.bsky.social Founded in 2015. A cross-country collective working on placemaking and public space advocacy.
placemaking-canada.ca
Council for Canadian Urbanism @canurbanism.bsky.social The Council for Canadian Urbanism #CanU is a national organization of leading multi-disciplinary urbanists championing better city-building coast-to-coast! linktr.ee/canurbanism Conseil pour l'Urbanisme Canadien
J David Hulchanski @jdhulchanski.bsky.social Professor, housing and community development, University of Toronto. 
Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social Journalist at The Globe and Mail, based in Vancouver.
AndreaWoo@globeandmail.com
instagram.com/andreawoo
André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social André Picard is the health columnist at The Globe and Mail and the author of six bestselling books. I share stories and opinion pieces from a broad range of publications. Shares are not endorsements. 
99% Invisible @99pi.org Long running, award winning narrative podcast about all the thought that goes into things most people don’t think about.
www.99pi.org
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David Wachsmuth @davidwachsmuth.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in Urban Governance, McGill University
Nathan Griffiths @njgriffiths.bsky.social Graphic/data journalist 📈 📉 Currently @vancouversun 📰 Formerly @AP, @nytimes, @scmp 🗞️🗞️🗞️ Contributing photographer for thehub.vancouver, a social documentary project in east Vancouver. 📸
Yushu Zhu @yushuzhu.bsky.social Urbanist, Mother, SFU faculty. Research and tweets about housing, community, urban challenges and public policies.
SFU Urban Studies @sfuurb.bsky.social We are an interdisciplinary program at Simon Fraser University based in BC, Canada. Join us as we forge the urban future with our grads and undergrads! #sfuurb
Nick Falvo (he/him) 🇨🇦 @nickfalvo.bsky.social Research Consultant || Editor-in-Chief, North America, International Journal on Homelessness || Research Affiliate, The Mandel School (Case Western Reserve University) || I have a PhD in Public Policy.
My website: https://nickfalvo.ca/
WEST COAST MODERN LEAGUE @westcoastmodern.bsky.social 🇨🇦 [WCML/The League] Independent non-profit society (Est. 2013). A leading voice for modern architecture and design on Canada's west coast. Join our community.
WESTCOASTMODERN.ORG
Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com The first word in business news.
Newsletters: http://bloom.bg/newsletters
Podcasts: http://bloom.bg/podcasts
The Big Take podcast: http://trib.al/jtoXfuT
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Canadian Architect @canadianarchitect.bsky.social Canadian Architect is a magazine for architects and related professionals practicing in Canada, published since 1955. #architecture #architects www.canadianarchitect.com
Leilani Farha @leilanifarha.bsky.social Global Director, The Shift
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing
Co-Host PUSHBACK Talks
International law; human rights; housing; cities; finance
SFU Continuing Studies @cs-sfu.bsky.social Simon Fraser University Continuing Studies has been providing flexible learning options since 1971.
https://www.sfu.ca/continuing-studies.html
SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @sfufass.bsky.social FASS is Simon Fraser University's largest and most diverse faculty, with over 28 departments/programs in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
See what were up to! https://linktr.ee/sfufass
Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com Miss604.com est. 2004
📚 New book FREECOUVER is in stores now!
🏆 2025 City of Vancouver Award of Excellence
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Christine Hagemoen @vanalogueyvr.bsky.social Vancouver heritage advocate, researcher, writer, photographer, walking tour guide, and flâneur (flâneuse). Author: Mount Pleasant Stories: Historical Walking Tours - 2023 City of Vancouver Heritage Award recipient. Contributor at Scout Magazine.
Andy Yan @ayan604.bsky.social An Urban Planner taking the World on one bite at a time.
Director, SFU City Program + Assoc Prof of Professional Practice, Urban Studies
My thoughts are my own.
IG: publicyan | Twitter: ayan604
https://www.sfu.ca/continuing-studies/about/city-program
Jack Resists 'Sic semper tyrannis' 8647 @jack2011.bsky.social 🚫 Kleptocracy/Oligarchy, racists, ICE, the 1%, Republicans, MAGA, the Trump crime family.
💙 Ukraine, LGBTQ, Democracy, Human Rights, SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid, Voting Rights, the Constitution.
Retired, disabled, veteran. Dogs are the best people cats too.
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Upcycleability @lucycodex.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ✊🏿🌹 (She/They)
I upcycle secondhand textiles and goods into new supplies and products!
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Gardenermerc @gardenermerc.bsky.social Oregon. No, we aren't going to wake up from this. It's reality and it sucks.
Tim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social Climate variability and change | Professor of Climate Science & Director of Climatic Research Unit | UEA | Views expressed here are my own, not UEA's
Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social PhD, climate scientist @lsce-ipsl.bsky.social @CEAParisSaclay @IPSL_outreach @hc_climat. Was co-chair @ipcc.bsky.social (AR6 WGI). Member of French Academy of Technology and Academy of Sciences.
Benjamin Cook @dustybowl.bsky.social Climate scientist studying drought, land surface processes, climate extremes. https://www.drbenjamincook.net/