Glen Hoos @thisishoos.bsky.social Advocating at the intersection of disability and climate change. Mission, BC 🌎🔥♿️
Ian @idmb.bsky.social I like cities where drivers don’t kill people, taking pictures of dogs, and fiddling around with bikes. Go follow VZV: https://bsky.app/profile/visionzerovancouver.ca
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
Kyle Olsen @kyleolsen.com Vancouver based lobbyist. Former political staffer (Edmonton), lobbyist (Toronto, Calgary), and tax policy practitioner (Calgary)
michelle @chellers.bsky.social discord mod 💖 megatower megafan 🌆 brick wielding pedestrian 🧱 obnoxious cyclist 🚵♀️ professional transit rider 🚎 carshare enthusiast 🚗 city livin 🌇
Parker Johnson @parkercj50.bsky.social (he/him). US person residing in Canada. Living toward collective liberation.
Tessa Rowland @tessarowland.bsky.social adult forum kid. vancouver
opinions are mine
Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com A beautiful home,
in a healthy city,
on a thriving planet
Lanefab Design / Build
Oori Architecture
B.Eng M.Arch
www.Lanefab.com
Vancouver BC
#ThickWallsAreSexy / #SingleStair / #ElectrifyEverything / #Passivhaus
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
Nathan Lauster @lausterna.bsky.social UBC sociologist, demographer, housing & urban regulation scholar, author, immigrant, blogs at https://homefreesociology.com/
Ruofan 🚎 @ruofan.ca Transit planner in Vancouver, from Montreal. Cyclist and road safety advocate with @visionzerovancouver.ca. Interested in pro-housing reform, local governance, and semi-obscure indie rock.
Opinions my own - he/him
Marmot Recovery Foundation @marmotrecovery.bsky.social The Vancouver Island marmot is one of the rarest mammals on the planet. Our mission is to save the wild population from extinction. Your support makes it possible for us to save this species!
Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social Vancouver journalist. Strives to tell unique stories.
http://moremcbarges.ca
http://instagram.com/justindmcelroy
Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social I write about kings and prophets. Vancouver, BC.
BC Climate Emergency Campaign @bcclimateemergency.bsky.social Bringing together 600+ organizational signatories who are collaborating to increase the ambition of climate policy and action in so-called British Columbia.
https://bcclimateemergency.ca
Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social Reporter for The Tyee covering health and biodiversity. I write about local research, sex, salmon, toxic drugs, bats, what your grandmother is up to, and all the different ways you can (but haven't yet) become dead in B.C.
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/
🏳️🌈 🐈⬛ 📚 🌊 🌱
@amvan3000.bsky.social @amvan3000.bsky.social
kevin @kevinharding.ca Public policy nerd, co-op believer, photographer, wannabe polyglot. I talk a lot about co-ops, policy, laws, legislation, economies, and more.
📍 Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish land
【EN/FR/廣東話/中文】
Views here are my own and do not represent my employer.
David Finnis @yvrcyclist.bsky.social Safe Cycling Advocate
Retired library worker
Former Municipal councillor
Grandfather, organ donor
Urbanist living in
Vancouver, B.C
Threads & Instagram: @davidfinnis
EH! (social) eastvanbikeguy
Vyas Saran @vyas.bsky.social Lawyer & strategist.
Amanda Burrows @amandajaneburrows.bsky.social Community builder ❤️
Vancouver | unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ territories
Neal Jennings ☮️ @nealjennings.bsky.social Proud queer, based in Vancouver, BC (unceded Coast Salish territory). My politics are best described as eco-left. I will definitely also be posting about pop culture and urbanism, and will certainly be engaging in general nihilism. They/them, please.
angela @angelahjkim.bsky.social Busgirl™️ @movementyvr.bsky.social
Kelly Greene @kellyrichmondbc.bsky.social | MLA for Richmond-Steveston | Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness | Mom | Wife | Feminist | KellyGreene.ca 💚 |
Caitlin Stockwell @caitlinstockwell.bsky.social Strathcona resident. Climate advocate. Lawyer for Indigenous governments.
Vancouver City Council candidate with OneCity.
Kareem Hassib | 🇨🇦 | 🇯🇵🇪🇬 @kareemhassib.bsky.social Human Rights, Cities, Politics, Education, etc
Speaker of Council @ AMS | Board of Directors @ BCCLA | Policy @ BCYND & UBC NDP | Musician
Iona Bonamis | 陶思穎 (she/her) @ionabonamis.bsky.social OneCity Vancouver City Council Candidate. Urban planner, community leader, small business owner, and a mom.
All views expressed are my own.
Eva Uguen-Csenge @evacsenge.bsky.social investigative journalist at cbc's the fifth estate
William Azaroff @wazaroff.bsky.social Community housing leader & city builder.
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
isabella zavarise @isabellazavarise.bsky.social journalist @CTVVancouver | @USCAnnenberg alum | IG @imzav11
Isabella.zavarise@bellmedia.ca
Lewis For Leader @lewisforleader.ca The official account for @avilewis.ca's campaign for leader of the federal NDP.
They are the money, we are the many.
Join us: https://linktr.ee/lewisforleader
vanna orecchio @vannaorecchio.bsky.social real housewives scholar. lying dog-faced pony soldier. municipal politics enjoyer. long suffering mariners fan.
📍🌃 MST Territories
Julie Anne Genter @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz MP for Rongotai. Green Party of Aotearoa NZ.
Māmā working for healthier, happier cities and climate justice. 🚲🌏🌱💚🍉
Auth by M Ross, L5, greens.org.nz
Antonio Giraldo @giraldeo.es Geógrafo | Urbanista | Divulgador | Concejal en el Ayuntamiento de Madrid | Portavoz Urbanismo, Medio Ambiente y Movilidad | PSOE | #MadridPróximo | giraldoca@madrid.es
Jorge Pérez-Jaramillo @perezjaramilloa.bsky.social Architect and urban planner since 1987, works from MDE Urban Lab. Medellín. www.mdeurbanlab.com perez.jaramillo@mdeurbanlab.com
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.
bccla.org/donate
Jarrett Hagglund @jagglund.bsky.social
Adrienne Smith (they/them/iel) @vanalias.bsky.social Keeping the Social Just.
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 🏴🚩 ✊👩🏼🦽➡️🌈 ✊🏿 🍉🍖⚒️⚧️▶️
Lani Brunn @lanibrunn.bsky.social A housing planner, next door neighbour, local foodie and cat lover
Terri Evans @urbanterri.bsky.social PhD candidate exploring intersections between law, space, and homelessness;
post-secondary instructor.
Mira Oreck @miraoreck.bsky.social Executive Director, The Houssian Foundation.
Ange Valentini (she/her) @angevalentini.bsky.social urbanist, mom, city-builder, islander, activist, strategist, canadian, foodie, feminist. free agent #ladolcevita #cdnpoli #vanpoli #addwomenchangeeverything
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
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
Nikki Hill @nikkihill.bsky.social Public Affairs and publicly opinionated. 🍊 #bcpoli #cdnpoli commentator and strategist.
www.hilltoppublicaffairs.ca
Force of Nature Alliance @force4nature.bsky.social 100% volunteer grassroots environmental organization committed to climate action within Metro Vancouver
Site: https://forceofnaturealliance.wordpress.com/
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social Vancouver-based writer, editor, non-profit worker & volunteer, community advocate, democratic socialist, husband, dad.
Tamara Taggart @tamarataggart.bsky.social mum. friend. keynote. emcee. host.
30yrs in radio + television news
podcast host #TelusTalksWithTamaraTaggart
volunteer president @downsyndromebc
Sharon Gregson @sharongregson.bsky.social Advocate for the $10aDay child care plan. Vegan for the animals.
Patti Bacchus @pattibacchus.bsky.social Public education advocate, Vancouverite and Gulf Islander. I have some opinions.
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
Christopher Porter @canadianveggie.com Runner. Cyclist. Urbanist. Plant-Based. Software Engineer. Data Nerd.
Vancouver
Margie @margiesanderson.bsky.social she/her -- mostly here as part of Vision Zero Vancouver. also a child/youth rights advocate, + active transportation & child-friendly planning nerd.
Lesli Boldt @lesliboldt.bsky.social Active, activist, advocate, communicator. President and owner of boldtcommunications.com
Kathryn Harrison @profkharrison.bsky.social Climate policy researcher, UBC Professor, chemical engineer, political scientist, feminist, cyclist. Persistently hopeful, but losing patience!
Erin Arnold (she/her) @erinarnold.ca Patient Educator at UBC. Mother, Graduate of Arts in Leadership at RRU, survivor, social justice warrior, community advocate for children/youth and families. 🍎📚
www.linkedin.com/in/erinarnoldca
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
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.
Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social Mayor of New Westminster, though nothing here is Official City Communications.
Go Dumples!
Tom Davidoff @tomdavidoff.bsky.social Economist at UBC Sauder
Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social New Democrat Parliamentary Leader & MP for Vancouver Kingsway. Working for social, economic & environmental justice. https://linktr.ee/dondavies
Heather Stoutenburg @hthrwritesstuff.bsky.social Just having a nice time.
Garth Mullins @garthmullins.bsky.social Host @Crackdownpod.bsky.social VANDU veteran. Drugstore cowboy. National bestselling author. Award-winning journalist. Policy analyst. Shop steward. Blind. Be safe-Keep 6
SEAN ORR @seanorr.bsky.social Vancouver city councillor
Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders @movementyvr.bsky.social Fighting for better transit in Metro Vancouver! 🚌🚎🚞⛴️
https://movementyvr.ca
Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social Professor of Geography @ Manchester & UKRI Future Leader Fellow. Urban Crisis, Cities, Policy Mobilities, Health & Drugs, Climate & Social Justice. Views my own #urban #geography
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
Michael Schwandt @michaelschwandt.bsky.social Public health physician in Vancouver. Antiracist ecoanxious xennial numtot. Healthy environments, equity, climate. Once posted a viral tw!tter thread on COVID prevention. Clinical faculty @UBC. Views mine. He/him.
Danny Oleksiuk @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social Director with Abundant Housing Vancouver
Fellow @sightline.org
"There are four lights"
CAPE BC - Canadian Ass'n of Physicians for the Environment BC @cape-bc.bsky.social British Columbia Regional Committee of @cape-acme.bsky.social, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. A physician-directed non-profit working to secure human health by protecting the planet. 🌎🩺
Trudi @trudiagogo.bsky.social Your GenX Auntie.
Feminist. Funny. Forgiving.
Caffinated, curious, contemplator.
White, cis, straight, disabled, fat.
Doesn't respond to anonymous accts. This is isn't the message boards of the 90s.
On the land of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking people.
#NewWest
Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social Transit polls well. We use that popularity to push for more reliable & abundant transit. Let's make it better than driving.
I'm in Vancouver, unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ land.
ED @movementyvr.bsky.social
cohost @dwelltime.ca pod
Peter Waldkirch 華彼德 @pwaldkirch.bsky.social Vancouver lawyer & housing advocate
👇 pwaldkirch.ca
Landon Hoyt @landonhoyt.bsky.social urbanist | cyclist | swimmer | freediver | local politics nerd | Floridian in Vancouver | Tweets/opinions are my own. ED of @hxbia.bsky.social
@teemalleson.bsky.social @teemalleson.bsky.social
Ashley Zarbatany @ashleyzarbatany.bsky.social “We are against fracking, because fracking is the death of nature, and the death of humanity.”
Treaty person. Mama. Born on the former left coast. Fighting for a healthy climate. NDP Indigenous Peoples Commission Co-Chair. Loudmouth.
Laura Christensen @laura-christensen.bsky.social Vancouver Independent Park Board Commissioner / Park Board Chair / Engineer / Mom
Jennie Milligan @jenniemilligan.bsky.social Lawyer, cyclist, advocate for climate action, nature lover, living in Vancouver on unceded Indigenous land
Anjali Appadurai @anjaliappadurai.bsky.social Campaigns Director, Climate Emergency Unit
Ian Bushfield @bushfield.ca Humanism and politics. 📍 Coquitlam, BC
Work @bchumanist.ca
Podcasts: PolitiCoast & Cambie Report
More on me https://ian.bushfield.ca
Spike Lew @blewnote.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Vancouver, Arsenal, more housing, land back, climate action now…
Autoblocks for trolls, bots and marketers.
Mariel Cooksey @marielcooksey.bsky.social Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Canadian Institute for Far-Right Studies @cifrs.org | I study the radicalization of women, accelerationism, and far-right extremism in the era of climate collapse
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
Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social Economist and Director of the Centre for Future Work in Vancouver, Canada (https://centreforfuturework.ca/). He/him. Harold Innis Industry Professor, Economics Dept., McMaster University, and Honorary Prof. of Political-Economy, University of Sydney
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
Stand.earth @stand.earth challenging governments and corporations to make the health of our communities, our environment, and our climate the top priority.
“Stand for the people and places you love.”
📧 Email list: Stand.earth/Join
🗣️ https://stand.earth/take-action/
Pivot Legal Society @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social Using the law as a tool, we challenge unjust legislation, policies & practices that undermine human rights, intensify poverty, and perpetuate stigma.
www.pivotlegal.org
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
Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social Journalist at The Globe and Mail, based in Vancouver.
AndreaWoo@globeandmail.com
instagram.com/andreawoo
Moira Wyton @moirawyton.bsky.social Audience editor @TheGlobeandMail.com, interested in health, politics, the courts in B.C. + beyond. Past reporter at CBC News, The Tyee, Edmonton Journal, etc. EN/FR.
The Ricker, fka Ric Razor @eric-balaban.bsky.social Transitioning all good and bad habits, obsessions, self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating interactions to this platform to kill all others for the sake of sanity and protest.
BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social bcpolicy.ca | We are an independent, non-partisan research institute committed to advancing transformative policy solutions to the most pressing challenges facing people in BC. Join us!
Brandon Yan 甄念本 @brandonyan.com he/him
Vancouver, Canada
Politics, Urbanism, Gay Stuff, Amateur watch repair
Sunil @sunilsingal.bsky.social I love to talk about building electrification & transit + the difference local govs can make in reducing emissions.
campaigner for http://Stand.earth | former president of Force of Nature Alliance, and director with West Coast Climate Action Network
Russil Wvong @russilwvong.bsky.social Canadian. Interested in housing, and everything that goes with it: jobs, transportation, schools, community centres. Vancouver needs more housing.
helen (she/her) @helenl.bsky.social development professional working on vibrant, sustainable & inclusive communities
pro abundant & affordable housing, bike & bus lanes, & not getting hit by cars 🏡🏢🚎🚲 ❤️| posts & sarcasm my own |
Host of podcast urbanismvancouver.com
Matthew Norris @mnorris.bsky.social Associate Director, BCAFN. 2022 CoV Candidate with OneCityVan. President, UNYA; Board Member, CCPA BC; Nehithaw (LLRIB) - Treaty 6. PhD Candidate UBC (MrMatthewNorris on that other site)
Uytae Lee @uytaelee.bsky.social I make videos about our cities at https://www.youtube.com/@AboutHere