Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
Island Social Trends @islandsocialtrends.bsky.social Island Social Trends is a longstanding independent regional & national news publication on south #VancouverIsland, BC (series since 2008); editor & publisher Mary P Brooke. #News analysis to support readers who think for themselves. IslandSocialTrends.ca
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B.C. Green Caucus @bcgreencaucus.bsky.social Representing elected Green MLAs in British Columbia.
Paarth Mittal @pmittal3457.bsky.social UVic Student 📖 | Scholar ✍🏾 | Eco Leftist ⬅️ ⚖️🌎🌹✊🏾| Gay 🏳️🌈 #2SLGBTQIARights #TransLivesMatter 🏳️⚧️#BLM | Fan of pop music, drag & #Heartstopper ✨ He/him
Club Saanich @thesaanichdaily.bsky.social Anti-capitalist, environmentalist, nerd content from Saanich, BC on unceded land within the territories of the lək ̓ ʷəŋən, Songhees and Esquimalt Nations and the W̱ SÁNEĆ peoples
Jeremy Valeriote @jervaler.bsky.social Spouse, father of twin daughters, skier, former environmental engineer, committed to improving the way we live on this earth. BC Green MLA for West Van-Sea to Sky.
Kim Bolan @kimbolan.bsky.social Award-winning Canadian journalist at the Vancouver Sun/Postmedia covering organized crime. Canucks fan since 1970 (sigh) kbolan@postmedia.com 604-219-5740 WhatsApp/Signal
Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social Mobilizing Canada for the climate emergency 🤝
Thank you for joining our 5-year mission (2021-2025)
Learn more: www.davidsuzukiinstitute.ca/ceu
Khelsilem @khelsilem.bsky.social Posting live from Squamish Nation territory (Vancouver, BC). Posts are my opinion, which is subject to change based on new information.
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders @movementyvr.bsky.social Fighting for better transit in Metro Vancouver! 🚌🚎🚞⛴️
https://movementyvr.ca
Billy Young @billyyoung.bsky.social He/him, dad, cinephile, musician, photographer, hiker, skier, sci-fi lover, chess player. Settler on Coast Salish land. 🇨🇦🇺🇦
JoJo Beattie @jojobeattie.bsky.social Social impact
Strong coffee
Artist in the margins
Rachel @sisigwadconsulting.com SENĆOŦEN and Michif learner | Beader | Moccasin maker | Otipemisiwak ♾️ | sqʷaliʔabš 🪶 | She/Her
Victoria BC | Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territories #yyj #CSaan
Greater Vancouver Board of Trade @boardoftrade.bsky.social Official account of Western Canada's most active business organization. Advocacy, public policy, and 100+ #bcbiz events per year. Founded in 1887. #GVBOT
BC PolitiCAT @bcpoliticat.bsky.social Non-partisan #bcpoli cat content. Send ideas to @robshaw.bsky.social
Andrew Reeve @andrewjreeve.bsky.social 🎙️ Politics Contributor for CBC Radio
🏛️ Former Press Sec & Dep. Director of Comms for the BC Liberal Caucus
🏘️ Past Chair of Threshold Housing Society
🎓 UVic Alumnus
#BCpoli
Ian Bushfield @bushfield.ca Humanism and politics. 📍 Coquitlam, BC
Work @bchumanist.ca
Podcasts: PolitiCoast & Cambie Report
More on me https://ian.bushfield.ca
Bryan Crockett 🇨🇦 @bryancrockett.bsky.social He/him · Métis · @westcat.ca | Paralegal, ex–Parliament Hill staffer, other things too probably idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
✉️ bryan.crockett@westcat.ca
📍 BC, Canada
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
davidakin @davidakin.bsky.social Global News Ottawa Bureau Chief. My bio and disclosure statement is at www.davidakin.com. I'm usually in Ottawa 🇨🇦 but I work wherever.
Rumneek Johal @rumneeek.bsky.social Executive Editor @pressprogress ✍️
Send tips: rjohal@pressprogress.ca 📩
I also post about reality TV, pop culture & discourses I hated
rumneekjohal.ca
Frances Bula @fabulavancouver.bsky.social Cities are life! I've written in the Globe and elsewhere about urban issues, politics, housing for 30 years. Mom/step-mom to four millennials coping with housing market. Now aiming to run for Van city council with OneCity francesbulaforcouncil.ca
Chad Walcott @chadwalcott.bsky.social 
@annackeenan.bsky.social @annackeenan.bsky.social 
election-atlas.ca @electionatlasca.bsky.social Mapping election results across Canada- B Bryce Campbell @brycecampbell.ca Musk ruined Twitter.
#SkilledTrades worker in #BritishColumbia, #NeverConservative
Sean Holman @seanholman.bsky.social Wayne Crookes Professor of Environmental and Climate Journalism, University of Victoria. Founder, @climatedisaster.bsky.social. Trauma-informed and investigative journalism practitioner.
Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social Senior researcher & political economist @policyalternatives.ca
Health services, public finance, care economy, privatization, policy solutions
SFU PhD candidate. Views mine
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/author/andrew-longhurst/
Angus Reid Institute @angusreidinstitute.bsky.social www.angusreid.org
Canada's non-profit public interest research institute.
James Coccola @jcoccola.bsky.social unions, people powered movements, and #yyj life
Teri Mooring🇨🇦 @terimooring.bsky.social Teacher, Past President of BC Teachers Federation. Noni to 5 adorable grandchildren. She/her
Scott Ambler @scottambler.bsky.social 🇨🇦🏳️🌈he/him. Gay cat dad. Settler living on syilx/Okanagan territory. Making a career out of being a computer geek. Transit, housing & making people’s lives better through technology. Free from car ownership since 2023.
Andrew MacLeod @armacleod.ca Writer, Developer, Gamer 🇨🇦
Alex Boutilier @alexboutilier.bsky.social Reporter, Global News | Late of Nova Scotia
sean s. n. murphy @seansnmurphy.ca (he/him) • editorial @ black press media
hello@seansnmurphy.ca • vancouver, bc
@wolfgangdepner.bsky.social @wolfgangdepner.bsky.social 
stuart @ruralbynature.bsky.social Green Leftie. 'There can be no social justice without climate justice' Living in paradise on the traditional lands of the W̱SÁNEĆ people.
Lucy @luce22.bsky.social I am an aboriginal mother,grandmother, sister, and auntie. Proud Nuxalk woman. I want peace in the world. I am a cat lover. My granddaughter is my light in life she is my sunshine girl. I work at housing the homeless. I am also a huge sports fan.
Jody Vance @jodyvance.bsky.social 30 years in local and national media. 1st woman in 🇨🇦 TV to host her own sports show in primetime. Now: TV/radio news/current affairs. Emcee. Moderator. Media training & consultant. 🚫 DM
Janice Braden, Associate Member of EU @janicebraden.bsky.social Policy analyst turning a blank page into something special, negotiator. 3 countries, 4 prov/terrs, 1 kid. Liberal. Politics, urbanism, art, travel and pub trivia. 🇨🇦🇺🇦
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada
@duncankinney.bsky.social @duncankinney.bsky.social 
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Gord Baird @simplyliving.bsky.social Water systems design & policy nerd, food forestry, earthen building, greywater, compost toilets, goats, community, politics and… politician.
Mark Leiren-Young @leirenyoung.bsky.social 🐋 📚 🏆 Author, playwright & hockey nut in Canada Host @SkaanaPod https://leirenyoung.substack.com/ https://linktr.ee/leirenyoung 🇨🇦
Data for Progress @dataforprogress.org Equipping the progressive movement with the data and insights it needs to win.
dataforprogress.org
Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social Executive editor @thenarwhal.ca. Still hate gum. The lakes, they are Great.
(Illo by Andrea Bell, from The Leak, a kid's graphic novel about a girl that does environmental journalism!)
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
The Hill Times @hilltimes.com The Hill Times is an influential, independently owned newspaper. We've covered Parliament Hill since 1989.
www.hilltimes.com
SKGandhiMD @skgandhimd.bsky.social Father of 3, Dog dad of 1, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon
FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories.
https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
Sarah Cox @sarahkcox.bsky.social Environmental journalist & author of "Signs of Life: Field Notes from the Frontlines of Extinction" and "Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand Against Big Hydro." Biodiversity reporter for The Tyee.
Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social Victoria YYJ.
I post mostly about
1. Housing advocacy with @homesforliving.ca
2. Renewables, climate, EVs.
Real job in work integrated learning
Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com Interested in 🗳️ politics, 🌿 gardening, 🎮 video games and 🦎 cute pet pictures.
Brishti Basu @brishti.bsky.social Health reporter @pressprogress.ca *On maternity leave*
Co-founder at De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca
📧 brishtireports@gmail.com
✉️ brishtibasu@protonmail.com
DM for Signal.
Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social Vancouver journalist. Strives to tell unique stories.
http://moremcbarges.ca
http://instagram.com/justindmcelroy
The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca Our pod of investigative journalists dives deep to tell stories about the natural world in Canada you can’t find anywhere else. Sign up for our newsletter: http://thenarwhal.ca/newsletter or become a member: https://thenarwhal.ca/bsky-member/
Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com it's "see-sa"
hot takes bureau chief @thenarwhal.ca
writer @thewalrus.ca
adjunct prof @ubcjournalism.bsky.social
journalist, nêhiyaw, mom, roller skater
she/her ✌️michellecyca.com
Carl Meyer @meyer.bsky.social Ontario and climate investigations reporter for The Narwhal, based in Ottawa. https://thenarwhal.ca/author/carl-meyer/
Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca Investigative journalist
llebrun[at]thewatchdog[dot]ca | @thewatchdog.ca
ANGELA STERRITT @sterritt.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Author of national bestseller #Unbroken. Land Back podcast host. TV reporter at CBC. https://greystonebooks.com/products/unbroken
Mike De Souza @mikedesouza.bsky.social Quebec-Atlantic bureau chief at The Canadian Press. Journaliste d'enquête, Habs fan, Montrealer. mikedesouza.com
Penny Daflos @pennydaflos.bsky.social CTV News Vancouver journalist & coffee enthusiast 🇨🇦
Reporting style: confrontation with a smile
Big on BC issues, including healthcare #bcpoli #vanpoli
andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social Senior editor at The Tyee. Author of the essay collections Hearty: On Cooking, Eating and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence (ECW Press) & Like a Boy but Not a Boy (Arsenal Pulp). Co-editor of the BC bestselling Points of Interest.
Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social Journalist at The Globe and Mail, based in Vancouver.
AndreaWoo@globeandmail.com
instagram.com/andreawoo
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.
https://chekplus.ca/m/xPrh1pKc/this-is-vancolour
Stephen Quinn @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social Host - The Early Edition - CBC Radio One Vancouver
Shachi Kurl @shachikurl.bsky.social President angusreid.org 🇨🇦's public interest pollster. I ask ppl q's & tell u their a's. Opinions mine, unless they're yours. Chair, Jack Webster Foundation. Past Chair, Canadian Cancer Society. Neither of them are here yet.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Tamara Taggart @tamarataggart.bsky.social mum. friend. keynote. emcee. host.
30yrs in radio + television news
podcast host #TelusTalksWithTamaraTaggart
volunteer president @downsyndromebc
APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social Official account for APTN News, our stories told our way.
UBCIC @ubcic.bsky.social In 1969 the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs was created to fight PM Pierre Trudeau's White Paper & to defend Indigenous Title & Rights
BC Civil Liberties Association @bccla.bsky.social Equality. Liberty. Freedom. Justice. Fighting for civil liberties and human rights since 1962 through Litigation, Law Reform & Public Legal Education.
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Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 @steeletalks.bsky.social Podcaster - "Change My Mind", media trainer & performance coach - former TV news anchor/consumer investigator/radio talk show host - life long Oilers fan https://linktr.ee/steeletalk
youtube.com/@changemymindwithlyndasteele
Ana Komnenic @ana-kom.bsky.social Producer @ CBC News Go Public
Adjunct Professor @ UBC Sauder School of Business
CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca The CCPA is Canada's leading progressive policy research institute. We offer independent, non-partisan research on social, economic & climate justice.
www.policyalternatives.ca
Instagram & FB: policyalternatives Also on Gander social: @ccpa.gander.social
BC Legislature @bclegislature.bsky.social News, information and special events from the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. Updates produced by the Assembly staff.
Katie @kateytomatey.bsky.social Lekwungen lands (Victoria BC). Support harm reduction and safe supply, passionate about tomatoes, organ donation, trans rights 🏳️⚧️. Parent of a little kid. Emergency management and crisis communications and bikes. 🇵🇸
Marsha Lederman @marshalederman.bsky.social Columnist, The Globe and Mail
Author, Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed
Vancouver, Canada
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com Editor, McClelland & Stewart. Author. Writer. General purpose factotum. Lego enthusiast. PhD in political science, just in case.
Rick Smith @rjcsmith.bsky.social President, Canadian Climate Institute/ président de l'Institut climatique du Canada
@climateinstitute.bsky.social 🇨🇦
Jen Hassum @hassum.bsky.social Executive Director @broadbent.bsky.social
Former publisher @pressprogress.ca
Fait du bien jour après jour.
she/elle 🍞🌹
Sven Biggs @svenbiggs.bsky.social Climate campaigner for Stand.earth and progressive activist.
Jackie Wong @jackie-wong.bsky.social Senior editor @thetyee.ca
Subscribe to the Weekender: https://subscribe.thetyee.ca/weekender/
Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social Journo @ CBC Investigates.
Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social International Public Speaker.
Harm Reduction and Recovery advocate.
Survivor of addiction, gangs and homelessness.
Telling my story.
Charmaine de Silva @chardesil.bsky.social Communications, Issues & Advocacy. Recovering journalist. 🇱🇰born, 🇨🇦raised. She/Her 🌈
Adam P Olsen @adampolsen.bsky.social Practicing Constituent
Amanda Bittner @bittner.bsky.social I like data, dogs, and my dog named Data. Have I mentioned I like data? I study & teach political science. I live to traipse around the wilds of Newfoundland. www.amandabittner.com
Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social Editorial cartoonist for the Globe and Mail and the Hill Times.
Substack: https://substack.com/@deadder
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Ricardo Tranjan @ricardotranjan.bsky.social Ontario Research Director & Senior Researcher on Housing and Social Policy @policyalternatives.ca, PhD. EN/FR/PT/ES. Author of The Tenant Class.
Sarah Elder @sarahelder.bsky.social Running to be the next Mayor of Calgary.
Founder & all things Madame Premier. Host of The Briefing Note Podcast.
www.sarahelder.ca
Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca In a world drowning in conflict and grief, we crave what keeps us alive: joy—our daily bread; hope—our living water; kindness—the roof over our souls.