Ryan Jabs @ryanjabs.bsky.social Dad who's fascinated by urban planning. Runner of a small #YYJ home development company. Trying to build the right things. www.lapishomes.com
Art by Elizabeth Upton (https://www.instagram.com/living.whimsically.rocks?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&)
Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social 🍁 General Manager Planning, Urban Design & Sustainability and Director of Planning at City of Vancouver 🍁
The Tyee @thetyee.ca Independent BC-based journalism swimming against the current. Paywall-free since 2003. support.thetyee.ca
Adrian Dix @adriandix.bsky.social BC NDP MLA for Vancouver-Renfrew. Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions. Collingwood resident.
NanaimoNewsNOW @nanaimonewsnow.bsky.social NanaimoNewsNOW is Nanaimo’s most comprehensive source for local, up to the minute news, sports, events, Real Estate and more. Our radio partners are: 106.9 The Wolf, 102.3 The Wave, 88.5 The Beach & 99.9 The Lounge.
Tarnjit Parmar @tarnjitparmar.bsky.social Born & raised somewhere in South Vancouver. On air at CBC Vancouver.
GRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com An account for Reilly Wood's bad takes about cities. My good takes about computers are over at @reillywood.com
Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca Recalcitrant Canadian. Political scientist at UBC in Vancouver. I research, teach and talk international relations, BCpoli, comparative democratic institutions, and contentious politics. stewartprest.ca | https://stewartprest.substack.com
Carmen Lansdowne @revviec.bsky.social 
Vancouver Rise FC @vancouverrisefc.bsky.social A founding club of the Northern Super League. Season starts Spring 2025. #VanRiseFC #StrongerByNature
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
Dr. Mark Tyndall @drmarktyndall.bsky.social Infectious Diseases and Public Health Doctor. Harm Reduction. Drug Policy. Human Rights. TEDMED 2017. MySafe. Vaping Advocate.
Local BC News Headlines - Curated by CivicInfo BC @bcheadlines.bsky.social Links to stories about British Columbia local governments and First Nations, posted Mondays though Fridays, excluding holidays. Also on Mastodon.
Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social Your Canadian Public Aggregator For Polling, Data, and Other Related Canadian Content // 338Canada Contributor // Consider Supporting: http://ko-fi.com/polling 🇨🇦🇺🇦
Sarah Slack @sarahjslack.bsky.social Human rights & community care
Anti-genocide 🇵🇸 & everywhere
Still 😷 + to prevent COVID
& other airborne disease
Curiosity, connection, and community at our common table
@commontable.bsky.social
Gabrielle Peters @mssinenomine.bsky.social Outgoing co-chair of Vancouver City Planning Commission, Co-founder of Disability Filibuster, words in Policy Options, Macleans, CBC & chapter author in 3 anthologies. Disabled af. Poor af. Lived experience + learned expertise applied to policy analysis.
Mark Sakai 🍁 @marksakai.bsky.social Housing government relations staffer, fan of good urban design, Lions STH, and committer of golfing atrocities. ⛳ Canada🍁 is a proud sovereign nation, and always will be. More Housing Options, For More People, In More Places. Opinions are my own.
Allan Seckel 🇨🇦 @allanseckel.bsky.social Aspiring mensch from Vancouver, Canada.
“I think the whole world's addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma” - Black Eyed Peas. 2003.
Pete Fry @ptfry.bsky.social Vancouver City Councillor. Fighting corruption and greed.
UBCM Director, planning commission, arts/culture, dog-guy. Green.
Ravi Kahlon @ravikahlon.bsky.social BC Minister of Health
MLA North Delta
Chair, Cabinet Committee on Tariff Response Two-time 🇨🇦 Olympian
Coach, Mentor and Proud Dad.
Ian Hanomansing @ianhanomansing.bsky.social Canadian journalist based in Vancouver.
Brendan McEwen @brendanmcewen.bsky.social Working on decarbonizing buildings & transportation. Huge fan o’ nature, cities, art. Tend to use this platform to read & learn, but will try to tweet on occasion.
Marc Lee @marclee.bsky.social Economist, talking head, Vancouver. 
Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social Still in that awkward pre-ghost phase
writer/editor at The Beaverton
she/her | Vancouver B.C.
Articles: https://www.thebeaverton.com/author/mary-gillis/
If you wanna criticize me, pay here first: https://ko-fi.com/marygillis
Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt.
Not a space for the cynical and snide.
Kady O'Malley @kadyo.bsky.social Chronicler of parliamentary antics, procedural shenanigans and associated other critical elements of Canadian democracy. Writer at iPolitics.ca, political musings on CBC and elsewhere. 
Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca Leader of Canada’s NDP / Le chef du NPD fédéral
https://linktr.ee/avi.lewis
BC Housing Management Commission @bchousing.bsky.social Making a difference in people's lives and communities through safe, affordable and quality housing.
Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social Toronto Star columnist, nice guy, jump shooter. 
Laura Christensen @laura-christensen.bsky.social Vancouver Independent Park Board Commissioner / Park Board Chair / Engineer / Mom
@brennanbastyo.bsky.social @brennanbastyo.bsky.social 
Thom Armstrong @thomarmstrong.bsky.social Chief Executive Officer of @chf.bc.ca, Community Land Trust, COHO Management.
Mary Wagner @marywagnerlangford.bsky.social Langford City Councillor and Council Candidate 2026; scientist and teacher; passionate about nature and community.
Authorized by Mary Wagner Contact: info@mary4langford.ca
http://facebook.com/mary4langford
Duncan Cavens @dcavens.bsky.social Dad, planner, gardener, cyclist, long suffering renovator. Esquimalt councillor. he/him. here mostly for the humour. 
Andrew Appleton @aaoakbay.bsky.social Outdoor Recreation guy. District of Oak Bay Councillor. GVPL Trustee.
“This is not a time to be dismayed. This is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer prepared you for. It is now time to go. You’re a good person. That means more now than ever”
Jeremy Caradonna @jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social Candidate for re-election as Victoria City Councillor and CRD Director in Victoria, B.C. PhD in History. Loves gardening, cello, democracy, climate action, housing, cycling, and family. Views my own.
Dean Murdock @deanmurdock.bsky.social Saanich Mayor, CRD director, transit commissioner, dad, husband, coffee-drinker, cyclist, guitar player
Keith Yacucha @keithyacucha.bsky.social City councillor, Economist, Father. Opinions are my own likes do not signify endorsement, usual disclaimers.
Zac de Vries @zacdevries.bsky.social Saanich Councillor, CRD Director, and Chair of the Capital Region Housing Corporation. Opinions are my own.
Andrew Leonard @mayorandrew.ca Mayor, Bowen Island Municipality.
Sean Wood @seanwood-bc.bsky.social Local Government Leader | Brand & Communications Strategist | Advocate for Stronger Communities
Matt Dell @mattdellvictoria.bsky.social 
Joel Grenz @joelgrenz.com Founder, president Motiontide #DigitalAgency / City Councillor, #Parksville / Entrepreneur / LL.B. / Husband, dad
www.joelgrenz.ca
Jessica Stanley 🇨🇦 @jessicastanley.bsky.social Mom, PhD (Psyc), Farmer, Regional District of Nanaimo - Area A Director. Focus: environment, politics, food security, education & community development. Posts are my own.
Kimberley Guiry @kguiry.bsky.social City of Langford Councillor. She/Her. I’m a mother, maker, builder, cyclist and social justice advocate. I love cities, trees, placemaking and libraries. Please reach out to me at kguiry@langford.ca. 🏳️🌈
Scott Harrison @scottharrisonqb.bsky.social Small town councillor, affordable housing advocate, kidney donor, and reader of way too many insufferably pretentious books.
Aaron Demes @aarondemes.bsky.social Government Relations for TransLink.
This is my professional profile.
karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social once called «Canada's only public intellectual»
drug policy researcher ⁕ historian ⁕ artist ⁕ schemer ⁕ disorganizer ⁕ ephemera
vancouver bc canada
institute for the history of possible futures
https://free-futures-society.org/
@jesshwprince.bsky.social @jesshwprince.bsky.social 
Gurpreet Kambo @gkam.bsky.social CBC Vancouver Journalist and radio producer
CityHallWatch Watcher @cityhallwchwchr.bsky.social Parody of X.com's @CityHallWchVan. Just asking questions.
©2024 CityHallWatchWatcher Media Foundation
J David Hulchanski @jdhulchanski.bsky.social Professor, housing and community development, University of Toronto. 
Andrea Reimer @andreareimer.bsky.social I spent 4 terms in local gov focused on climate action, reconciliation, social justice & a stronger democracy. I left in 2018 to figure out why Trump got elected. Now I teach power literacy & help courageous people take action on bold, progressive ideas.
Tim Richter @timshome.bsky.social Marauding do-gooder. Optimist. Fan of dad jokes. Founder of Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness. Recovering lobbyist & hack. Was a soldier once. CAEH.ca
Rebecca Bligh @rebeccaleebligh.bsky.social Vancouver City Councillor /Past-President of FCM @fcm_online / Vice-Chair of Metro Van Parks/ Small business, sustainability & livability. Mom 🏳️🌈 she/her
www.votevancouver.ca
Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social We're a grassroots organization of concerned citizens working to save an essential Canadian institution - join us ! 🇨🇦✌️
Check out our pages here! https://linktr.ee/save.thecbc
*Not affiliated with the CBC*
Brandon Yan 甄念本 @brandonyan.com he/him
Vancouver, Canada
Politics, Urbanism, Gay Stuff, Amateur watch repair
Alyssa_Jayne @alyssajayne.bsky.social Workaholic urbanist with a full time volunteer gig in Girl Guides. Sometimes a (bad) runner. Top 1% of car hatred and Taylor Swift listeners. Merely a stupid Canadian wolf bird at heart.
@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?!)
Scott Andrews @sjandrews.bsky.social Sleep deprived working dad on Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ territory. #bcpoli mostly
@michellehoar.bsky.social @michellehoar.bsky.social Mother. Partner. Community Gardener. Cyclist. Affordable housing enthusiast. Believer in importance of social connection. Opionated about many things. Talking to strangers is as close as I get to a spiritual practice. 
Happy Cities @happycities.com We build happier, healthier, more inclusive communities. Focus: learning + solutions around cities, wellbeing, & social trust.
Let's chat: info@happycities.com
Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social Architect Husband Dad he/him; past pres @oaarchitects.bsky.social; president @architectsdca.bsky.social; writer, public speaker, advocate for #procurement reform; #climatepoli @riseforarch
Make Housing Affordable @makehousingaffordable.ca Ottawa must be a world-class city for everyone. Let's build more homes, welcome more neighbours, and build a better Ottawa!
Women's National Housing & Homelessness Network @wnhhn.bsky.social We're a peer-led group working to eliminate homelessness and housing insecurity for women, girls, & gender-diverse peoples across Canada.
https://womenshomelessness.ca/
Abundant Housing Vancouver @ahvancouver.bsky.social We are a non-partisan group of advocates supporting more housing of all types for everyone in Metro Vancouver
HousingNowTO @housingnowto.bsky.social Monitoring Progress & Activity on Twenty-One (21) sites 🏙️ proposed under the Mayor's #HousingNow plan for creating new Affordable-Rental units
#TOPoli #YIMBY
HousingNowTO.com
Housing Affordability Task Force (Advocate) @housingforce.bsky.social YIMBY trying to hold the government accountable for housing policy failures.
Cathy Crowe, C.M. 🍁 @cathycrowe.bsky.social Longtime 🇨🇦 street nurse|✍️Dying for a Home & Knapsack Full of Dreams|✍️on urban issues.
Fighting for a national🏡 program.
www.cathycrowe.ca
Mike Bulthuis @mikebulthuis.bsky.social 📍Home is Ottawa, Hamilton-born | affordable housing, community ownership, land trusts | Ottawa Community Land Trust | Bouviers | always better after time spent on trails. 🏃♂️ | 🇨🇦🇳🇱🏳️🌈
Scott Piatkowski @scottpiatkowski.bsky.social Candidate for Waterloo City Councillor, Ward 5. WRDSB Trustee (2018-2026) and former Board Chair (2021-2022). Affordable housing champion. Opinions are my own. He/Him.
Arlene Hache @arlenehache.bsky.social Activist with lived expertise in homelessness. Working in the Arctic for 50+ years advancing social justice. Bearing witness to the ongoing genocide of Indigenous Peoples through colonial systems. Housing is a human right. No DMs.
Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social Working to buy and build affordable rental homes with @UnionCoopWR.bsky.social (www.unionsd.coop), and supporting purpose-driven organizations with www.scaledpurpose.com
Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social Senior housing researcher, University of Toronto School of Cities. Author, “Clara at the Door with a Revolver”(2023), “Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis” ( 2024).
Dr. Carrie Anne Marshall @cannemarshall.bsky.social Associate professor and researcher in homelessness and mental health at Western University in London, ON, Canada. My research focuses on intersections between poverty and mental health and homelessness prevention. Director of www.sjmhlab.com
Matt Pelletier 🇨🇦 @mattjpelletier.bsky.social Making charts and breaking hearts 📊| YIMBY | views are my own
📍Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social Co-Host, "Missing Middle". Husband. Father. Brother. Son. Economist. Housing guy. I used to do other stuff. 
Jim Dunn @urbanhealthprof.bsky.social Sen. Wm. McMaster Chair in Urban Health Equity | Prof @McMasteru | Scientist @MAP_Health |Go @Ticats. Housing: chec-ccrl.ca
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.
Hey Neighbour Collective @heyneighbourcollective.ca Hi! We're Hey Neighbour Collective. We’re building community, social connectedness and resilience in multi-unit housing communities. #YVR #YYJ #SocialDesign
https://www.heyneighbourcollective.ca/
Abe Oudshoorn @abeoudshoorn.bsky.social Associate Professor and Assistant Dean EDIDA, Faculty Scholar, Western University https://uwo.ca; Managing Editor - International Journal on Homelessness https://ijoh.ca; Fighting to end #homelessness; some triathlon on the side
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
Meg McCallum @cheeseinmysoup.bsky.social Affordable housing advocate / quilter / into cats and houseplants 
Catherine Boucher @bearswim.bsky.social housing and community activist. person. still hopeful in ottawa 
Derek Antoine @derekantoine.bsky.social PhD. I spend my days thinking about better housing outcomes @cmhc. Teacher @carleton_u. Keep it positive. 
Doug Pawson @dougpawson.bsky.social ED of End Homelessness St. John’s | Strategy, Governance & Leadership nerd | Posts are my own | he/him
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/
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
Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social Urban Planner•PanAfrican•BAP•former Vancouver Planning Commissioner• #newwest 📚
🏗️cities/‘hoods are capitalisms playground for race-class struggle and yet I love public housing, parks, trains, libraries, bike lanes & benches when we get them
Alex Hemingway @1alexhemingway.bsky.social Senior Economist @bcpolicy.bsky.social. PhD @UBCPoliSci. Former CCPA-BC. Social, economic & environmental justice. Views are my own. https://bcpolicy.ca/
Rafferty Baker @rafferty.bsky.social Radio producer, news reporter, cyclist, enjoyer of outside. Vancouver, BC
Mike Hager @mikehager.bsky.social Journalist at @theglobeandmail.com covering the political, economic and social issues that affect us all.
News tips, please: mhager@globeandmail.com
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/mike-hager/
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
Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social Senior International Correspondent for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. Now based in London, after stops in Moscow, Beijing and the Middle East. Author of The New Cold War (the book, not the thing).
Add me to your top-secret group chats!
Matt Galloway @mattgalloway.bsky.social I ask questions on the radio for a living. Also like running.
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
Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize + Peabody award-winning journalist http://instagram.com/_connie_walker Nehiyaw from Okanese
Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social Stubbornly sesquipedalian, just not at work
B.C. politics reporter with The Narwhal
She/her
Recent work: https://thenarwhal.ca/author/shannon-waters/
🏳️🌈 🐈⬛ 📚 🌊 🌱
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!)
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