James Glave 🇨🇦

@jamesglave.bsky.social

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Co-owner, Canada. E-bikes, complete streets, harm reduction, public health, cities. Neurodiverse. West End, Vancouver BC. I run brightfuture.studio (He, him, his.) #ElbowsUp

Our 2021 Kia Soul Limited charging at our West End Vancouver apartment building.
A decommissioned natural gas domestic hot water boiler sits on a strip of grass outside an apartment building in Vancouver, Canada, awaiting pickup to be scrapped. "I Will Remember You" by Sarah McLachlan plays. Overlay text reads: "RIP Natural gas boiler, Dec 2003 - Jun 2026." Then "Thank you for your service." A close up of the temperature gauge reveals the boiler is still hot. The hash tag #ElectrifyEverything is written in marker across the top of the machine.
Portrait of Canadian Member of Parliament Stephen Guilbeault superimposed with the word MERCI.
Book cover for KILLED BY A TRAFFIC ENGINEER: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underties Our Transportation System by WES MARSHALL
Climate stripes chart depicts temperature changes in Vancouver, B.C. Canada between 1850 and 2024 in degrees Celsius relative to average of 1961-2010 period. Red bars begin around 1980 showing hotter than average years, with the 2021 heat dome notable as a dark red spike.
Rendering of a green ALTO electrified high speed train traveling through a snowy Canadian landscape.
A battleship grey LAARS MightyTherm domestic hot water boiler, a stout steel box surrounded by piping and pumps.
In its 2023 budget, the province committed $100 million to fund such active transportation infrastructure over three years. While this represented the province’s largest investment of its kind until that point, given active transportation’s extensively documented co-benefits, the amount is modest. (To put it into perspective, the funding amounts to 0.2% of the $5 billion the province subsequently directed to widening Highway 1 through the Fraser Valley.)
Child wearing STOP sign halloween costume.
Cover of hardback edition of "LIFE AFTER CARS: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile," By Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon, hosts of the War on Cars podcast, and Aaron Naparstek. The cover illustration depicts an abandoned or obsolete traffic light, overgrown with greenery.
Child and vehicle collide outside elementary school in Maple Ridge Staff at Golden Ears Elementary asking drivers to stay alert and be patient GOLDEN EARS ELEMENTARY A student was hit by a vehicle outside Golden Ears Elementary School on Thursday, Oct. 9. / (Google Maps/Special to The No١٨٢)
Two side-by-side pictures of the same house, one of which is is clearly very well maintained with neat lawn, and the other somewhat ramshackle, taken from google street view. Caption explains that some landlords are using generative AI to make their rental properties look much nicer in their listings than they actually are in reality.
City of Vancouver rendering of the St. George Rainway
A six floor apartment building in Vancouver’s West End
Graphic shows an illustration of a streetscape and with BRING ROAD DEATHS DOWN TO ZERO text overlay and a PASSED stamp below it.
A small child stands in front of and is dwarfed by the grill of an oversized Ford pickup truck.
A 12” single of New Order’s “True Faith - Remix” is playing on a vintage FONS turntable.
WE ASK EVERYONE OUTSIDE OF THE CAR TO BE SAFE SO THAT DRIVERS CAN BE DANGEROUS THAT'S THE ENTIRETY OF OUR APPROACH TO ROAD SAFETY Rovelo Creative
Selfie of the author receiving a vaccination injection against measles, mumps, and rubella.
Graphic depicts a caribou and the words VOTE MARK CARNEY FIGHT • PROTECT • BUILD
Screenshot of Truth Social post by U.S. President Donald Trump on April 28, 2025. Text reads: “Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!”
Graphic compares travel from Canada to the United States via passenger vehicle, pedestrian, and air, between March 2024 and March 2025. Vehicles declined from 3.4 million to 2.5 million, peds from 162,600 to 120,800, and air travelers down from 1.4 million to 1.3 million. Source: USCBP.
Today, City Manager Paul Mochrie released the following statement regarding the April 5, 2025 municipal by-election: “Yesterday, City of Vancouver voters elected two new city councillors in the municipal by-election, with approximately 67,962 ballots cast and voter turnout of 15.09 per cent, a 40 per cent increase from the 2017 by-election. I want to thank each voter for your commitment to the democratic process and for the remarkable patience you demonstrated during long wait times experienced over the course of the day at many polling stations across the city. Moreover, I want to acknowledge that voting wait times that many electors experienced yesterday were unacceptable. The extended wait times at many voting places reflected flawed planning assumptions for this by-election that informed staff decisions and the plan presented to Council. Recognizing the effort by the City’s elections team to promote and execute this plan, it was clearly insufficient to accommodate the electorate in accessing an efficient voting process.
OneCity candidate Lucy Maloney stands with her arms folded somewhere on the waterfront seawall in False Creek.
Screen shot of a Google Gemini "AI Overview" response. Text reads: "Nazi Germany invaded and occupied France beginning on May 10, 1940, and the armistice, which formally ended the occupation, was signed on June 22, 1940." Screen shot has been annotated in red, with a circle of the error in the summary, and the correct date, below. A grade of "F" for failure has been added and circled, along with a cursive-style note, "Pls see me after class, Gemini."
NBC NEWS President Donald Trump's approval rating: 47% APPROVE 51% DISAPPROVE Notes: The NBC News poll was conducted March 7-11 and surveyed 1,000 registered voters. The margin of error is +/- 3.1 percentage points. March 16, 2025
King Charles gifts a ceremonial sword to Greg Peters, his Canadian personal attendant and messenger. Peters is the “Usher of the Black Rod” in the Senate of Canada.
View of Canadian side of Aldergrove BC / Lyndon WA border crossing as of 1:25pm, looking south. There is no visible lineup.
Screenshot shows statement from Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post and the second richest man in the world. Posted to X on Feb 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM. Text: I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning: I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job. I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity. I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t “hell yes,” then it had to be “no.” After careful consideration, David decided to step away. This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment — I respect his decision. We’ll be searching for a new Opinion Editor to own this new direction. I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I’m excited for us together to fill that void. Jeff
Dallas Brodie, MLA, Vancouver-Quilchena
The Flag of Canada is superimposed upon a hand that is giving the middle finger aka flipping the bird.
BC Premier David Eby addresses assembled media in a press conference where he outlined the impact of Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs and possible government responses. Finance Minister Brenda Bailey looks on. Photo for @thetyee.ca by @jenstden.bsky.social
New York Times headline reads New York Begins Congestion Pricing Without Hiccups. Picture shows cars entering Holland Tunnel in New Jersey.
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer still from stop motion animation classic TV special.
THAT Council approve, in principle, amendments to the Building By-law to provide an energy and carbon performance compliance path aligned with the top level (EL4) of the BC Zero Carbon Step Code for small residential buildings, and second from the top level (EL3) for large buildings, to come into force and effect on March 1, 2025;