Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com Freedom through Truth for Service.
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com Parent & safe streets advocate 🚲🚶🏻🚌
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League Certified Cycling Instructor
Minneapolis, MN
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Chrystia Freeland @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. Proud Canadian, mother, and wife. | Ancienne vice-première ministre du Canada. Fière Canadienne, mère et épouse.
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Cailynn Klingbeil @cailynn.bsky.social Alberta-based freelance writer, editor and journalist. Happiest outside, especially urban cycling and mountain hiking. www.cailynnk.com
Kyla Lee @kylalee.ca Lawyer. Badass. Shameless Self-Promoter. That lawyer from TikTok. https://linktr.ee/kylaleelawyer
Isaac Phan Nay @isaacphannay.bsky.social Labour and corporate responsibility reporter for The Tyee.
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Previously reported for CBC News, Canada's National Observer, CityNews1130 and the Toronto Star. Bylines in The Narwhal, The Breach, IndigiNews, etc.
ColinRThomas @colinrthomas.bsky.social Theatre critic, formerly of The Georgia Straight, now posting on colinthomas.ca and producing Fresh Sheet, a weekly newsletter about the intersection between art and politics.
Dog lover. Vintage homosexual.
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.
Anne Shibata Casselman @annecasselman.bsky.social Vancouver-based journalist: Public interest, climate, and science.
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Vancouver Public Space Network @vpsn.bsky.social Last Candidate Tickets: https://thecultch.com/event/last-candidate-standing/
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Ryan Voutilainen @yvrwxwatcher.bsky.social Vancouver based Weather/Storm Chaser & freelancer documenting notable weather & other events with a focus on BC & PNW weather.
On the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm/Musqueam, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh/Squamish, & səlilwətaɬ/Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social Member of Parliament, Vancouver East
NDP Critic for Housing and Infrastructure, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Justice, Public Safety, National Security and Pacific Economic Development
Dan Mangan @danmanganmusic.com Natural Light - OUT NOW // txt me “😇” @ 310-347-4597 to join back end effort
City Duo @city-duo.bsky.social We're Hannah and Darren, a married couple in Vancouver.
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Sarah Kirby-Yung @sarahkirbyyung.bsky.social Vancouver City Councillor
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SFU City Program @sfucity.bsky.social We deliver courses, certificates, and public programming that help planning, policy, and development professionals build better communities.
Laura Christensen @laura-christensen.bsky.social Vancouver Independent Park Board Commissioner / Park Board Chair / Engineer / Mom
Stephanie Allen @stephanieformayor.bsky.social Running for Mayor with COPE.
Power to the people.
Caitlin Stockwell @caitlinstockwell.bsky.social Strathcona resident. Climate advocate. Lawyer for Indigenous governments.
Vancouver City Council candidate with OneCity.
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
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/
isabella zavarise @isabellazavarise.bsky.social journalist @CTVVancouver | @USCAnnenberg alum | IG @imzav11
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Dave Thompson 🇨🇦 @davethompsonvic.bsky.social Community, housing, climate, urbanism. Also Victoria BC Councillor, CRD Director. Civil discourse, good governance. Pragmatic progressive. Please email for City business. My own views only. Seeking re-election in 2026! www.davethompsonvictoria.ca ☄️⏳#yyj 🇨🇦
Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social Mayor of New Westminster, though nothing here is Official City Communications.
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Dave on VanPoli and other stuff 🤨😤🧐😳 @vanpolimorphus.bsky.social Commenting on politics and other issues, primarily related to Vancouver, but it's all connected, so I stray. 
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com My New York Times bestseller: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social Journalist.
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Ex-MSNBC (Up, Countdown), ex-CNN (AC 360), ex-ABCNews
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, civil-military relations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army
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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
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org Independent journalist in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton).
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca Investigative journalist
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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.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
Arno Kopecky @arnokopecky.bsky.social Writer at large (but mostly Vancouver).
Environment, culture, politics...
All too earnest.
Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social I plan cities for people & other living things. I focus on SEA, PDX, Utrecht, women who create cities, bikes, climate. I'm on Boards @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social @streetsalliance.bsky.social & volunteer @ BikeFlip + DeFietsmeesters in Utrecht. She/her. PhD
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Karoli @karoli.bsky.social Grantifa in CA. Card-carrying member of the human race. Managing editor at crooksandliars.com Podcast at MOMocrats.com
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Senator Mary Coyle @senatormarycoyle.bsky.social Independent Senator representing Nova Scotia. 🇨🇦 Champion for international & local development, women & gender equality, & the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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Sénatrice/Senator Rosa Galvez @senrosagalvez.bsky.social 
Senator Tony Loffreda @senatorloffreda.bsky.social Honourable Canadian Senator (Independent) - Senate of Canada/
- Chairman, Standing Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets & Administration
- Chairman, World Bank & IMF PN, Canada
- Chair, Senate Immigration Working Group
- Former RBC Executive, Vice-Chair
Senator Rosemary Moodie @senmoodie.sencanada.ca Independent Senator from Ontario representing the Greater Toronto Area.
Senator Donna Dasko @donnadasko.bsky.social Independent senator representing Ontario
Senator Stan Kutcher @stankutcher.sencanada.ca Senator from Nova Scotia. Committed to improving mental health/health outcomes and the use of best available scientific evidence to guide decision making.
Yuen Pau Woo @ypwoo.bsky.social Independent Senator for British Columbia, Parliament of Canada
Sénateur indépendant de la Colombie-Britannique, Parlement du Canada
Peter M Boehm @senboehm.bsky.social Senator/Sénateur 🇨🇦 
Senator Kim Pate @kpateonthehill.bsky.social 📍 Working from Algonquin Anishinabe Aki, Homeland of the Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation, for equitable access to robust social, economic & health supports. Worked with/for marginalized, victimized, criminalized & institutionalized-CoHost of Appointed podcast
Senator/Sénatrice Bernadette Clement @senatorclement.bsky.social Independant Senator. First black female mayor in Ontario. Legal aid lawyer. Sénatrice indépendante. Première Mairesse noire en Ontario. Avocate de l'aide juridique.
Freshet News @freshetnews.bsky.social Next newspaper: Sept. 17, 2026
Burnaby, New West & Tri-Cities
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William Azaroff @wazaroff.bsky.social Community housing leader & city builder.
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Michael John Lo @michaeljohnlo.bsky.social Skeetin' from Victoria, Canada. Reporter with the Times Colonist newspaper, prev. words in the Globe and Mail, The Tyee, Capital Daily & more. He/him. Allergic to eggplant, shrimp, lobster.
Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social Data, analysis, visualization, #CensusMapper, transportation cyclist.
📍Vancouver, BC
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
Alanna Kelly @alannakellynews.bsky.social Journalist, based in Squamish
• Covering the Sea-to-Sky & Sunshine Coast
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. Air National Guard (ret). Founder of Country First
Adamkinzinger.komi.io
Adamkinzinger.com
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
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Karen Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social Trying to adapt. Also, Chief Political Correspondent for the Washington Post. You can follow what I write here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/follow-karen-tumulty/
Sabina Vohra-Miller @sabivm.bsky.social Doctor of Public Health candidate | MSc Pharmacology | Vohra Miller Foundation w @craigmillr | Unambiguous Science | South Asian Health Network | First Exposure
Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social Private sector economist. Former professor at China's Tsinghua University and Columbia SIPA. Author of “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”, now available on Amazon. Visit me at http://patrickchovanec.com
Ahmed Zidan @zidan.bsky.social Platforms | Press Freedom | Journalism
Good takes and bad jokes. Dark humor and 🦋hite 🦋ine.
Deputy director, audience, @freedom.press and @pressfreedomtracker.us.
@zidanism on that other site.
Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy at @freedom.press. Interested in reducing overclassification, FOIA reform, enforcement of the Presidential Records Act, and preservation of federal records. Opinions mine. Signal leharper.89
John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social Apocalyptic shit disturber elephant trainer -
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Founding board member
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
Board member @freedom.press
Speaker at UTA
Philippe Lagassé @plagasse.bsky.social Academic working on defence policy/procurement and executive power in Westminster states. I'm aware of the typos.
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Brett McKay @brettmckay.bsky.social Reporter for the Investigative Journalism Foundation
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Peter Waldkirch 華彼德 @pwaldkirch.bsky.social Vancouver lawyer & housing advocate
👇 pwaldkirch.ca
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social Just another Twitter refugee
she/her 🏳️🌈 🇨🇦
Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca ㅤ
Public-interest tech person • former Founding Editor, Canada Healthwatch
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nicktsergas.ca
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
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. 
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social Editor. Political director for Progressive Mass. Opinions are my own. Phone-banking-while-walking evangelist. 
Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social Tabatha Southey is a freelance writer who is based, in Toronto. She/Her. Bylines Globe and Mail, Macleans, Foreign Policy, National Post, Toronto Life, Explore Magazine, Toronto Star and more, author of three books, and the River-Daughter. 🇨🇦
Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social I am an independent Senator, representing Alberta in the Senate of Canada. I live on Treaty Six Territory. Host of the podcast Alberta Unbound. She/her/elle Vive le Canada. Forever a Canadian. No to the Nine. senatorpaulasimons.ca
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. 
Matt Gurney @mattgurney.bsky.social Toronto-based Canadian journalist. Co-founder and editor of The Line (readtheline.ca). Columnist and some-time reporter at various places. 
Tom Babin @shifter.info Creator: Shifter | Urban cycling and bike commuting
Author: Frostbike: The Joy, Pain and Numbness of Winter Cycling
More here: linktr.ee/shifter
Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social More housing, bikes, and transit.
https://youtube.com/@ohtheurbanity
📍 Montreal, Quebec
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
BC Search and Rescue Association @bcsara.com BC SAR Association (BCSARA) represents 78 SAR groups with 3,250 unpaid professionals who responded to 1,940 callouts in 2025.
Outdoor Education @bcadvsmart
BC AdventureSmart @bcadvsmart.bsky.social BC AdventureSmart enhances awareness among enthusiasts to reduce the impact on search and rescue while contributing to the safety culture in British Columbia.
Instagram & Facebook @BCAdvSmart + https://bcsara.com/outdoor-education/
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.
Jas Johal @jasjohal.bsky.social 730 CKNW Radio Host. Former Global National East Asia Bureau Chief (Beijing), Former South Asia Bureau Chief (New Delhi), former MLA, and former Director of Communications, BC LNG Alliance
Katie Hyslop @kehyslop.bsky.social Journalist. Cat enabler. Status quo de-stabler. Too old to join the circus, too young to quit trying. City/ed journo for TheTyee.ca. Settler on stolen xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ, and Skwxwú7mesh lands, born/raised on stolen Beothuk land. They/them
Vancouver Is Awesome @viawesome.bsky.social Keeping Vancouver in the know about news, food, Canucks hockey, and events since 2008. Miss us on Meta? Sign up for our newsletters: http://bit.ly/47G6jjw
Justin Ling @justinling.ca Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
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Michelle Bellefontaine @mbellefontaine.bsky.social Provincial affairs reporter for CBC News based in Edmonton
Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social Provincial affairs reporter, CBC Edmonton 📻📺📝👩💻 Mildly obsessive about reporting on education. #AbEd
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social Happy writing fun ball. Born and raised on Treaty One territory. Living back in Winnipeg, for now, but left my heart in Kyiv.
Lauren Boothby @laurby.bsky.social Video journalist for CityNews Edmonton in gloriously 🐀-free Alberta now on the police & crime beat. Former Edmonton Journal & NEWS 1130 reporter trained up by B.C. community newspapers. From Southwestern Ontario. Tips: lauren.boothby@rci.rogers.com
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