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Ian Robertson @ianwrob.bsky.social Modest egomaniac + secular humanist misanthrope + erratic Marxist + I design buildings, hopefully passiv, and once climbed Grouse Grind 17 times in a day. Same handle on the bird.
Martin MacMahon @martinmacmahon.bsky.social Journalist at CTV Vancouver. Please send tips and story ideas to: martin.macmahon@bellmedia.ca
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All too earnest.
Matt Holland @mrwindupbird.bsky.social Coder, cyclist, North Vancouver resident, he/him
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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social Join the movement to Evict Ken Sim and fight for housing, public services, climate action, and integrity at City Hall.
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Green Party 🌿
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@squamishviews.bsky.social @squamishviews.bsky.social World traveler. Retired teacher. Fight for democracy like your life depends on it. Southsider and Whitecaps FC supporter. CNV. Team Carney. BC NDP. Elbows Up! 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦💙🍀
Jennie Milligan @jenniemilligan.bsky.social Lawyer, cyclist, advocate for climate action, nature lover, living in Vancouver on unceded Indigenous land
Stephen Quinn @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social Host - The Early Edition - CBC Radio One Vancouver
Richard Zussman @richardzussman.bsky.social Victoria, BC, Canada. Legislative Reporter at Global BC. Host of Focus BC. C division curler. Rookie minors baseball coach. He/him.
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Living on Syilx/Okanagan Territory
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David @otddavid.bsky.social Teacher, East Van based. Parks, Transit, Local politics.
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social Vancouver-based writer, editor, non-profit worker & volunteer, community advocate, democratic socialist, husband, dad.
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Pam 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @a-le-map.bsky.social 6th gen settler in the unceded homelands of the Mi'kmaq; in life, an imperfect follower of Christ; in work, a follower of John Snow (not Jon Snow)
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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
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Charles Montgomery @charlesincities.bsky.social Author, Happy City.
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I post on the connection between design + social trust.
Cities, algorithms, laws and invisible systems.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social Past Team Lead, Climate Emergency Unit; author of "A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency"; columnist w/ Canada's National Observer; former social justice think tank director
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https://sethdklein.substack.com
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.
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in a healthy city,
on a thriving planet
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Vancouver BC
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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social Canadian Urbanist and Chief Planner for the City of Toronto 🇨🇦
Canadian Climate Institute @climateinstitute.bsky.social Canada’s leading climate change policy research organization.
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Gil Penalosa @penalosag.bsky.social Founder 8 80 Cities • Worked in over 350 cities • NEW keynotes & workshops on how CITIES can make HEALTHY & HAPPY LIVING the easy choice • Book Gil • Infra + Policy + Programs • Children • Olders • Top 100 urbanist (13).
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
Valérie Plante @valplante.bsky.social Mairesse de Montréal | Projet Montréal | Amoureuse de Montréal ❤️
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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. 
Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social Lead columnist for Canada's National Observer.
Also: Mariners fan, crypto skeptic and descendant of Canada's worst prime minister (no, not him)
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social Architecture critic @theglobeandmail.com. Also author, @utoronto.ca Daniels Faculty instructor, husband, father of two city kids.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/alex-bozikovic/
David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social NYT Columnist, visiting professor at Lipscomb University. Married to @nancyfrench.bsky.social.
Iraq vet, Grizzlies fan, born in War Eagle Country and raised in Big Blue Nation.
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.
Sass LaRock @sasslarock.bsky.social Music enthusiast and writer in 📍Vancouver, BC, 🇨🇦 I am also on Gander Social.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social Vancouver journalist. Strives to tell unique stories.
http://moremcbarges.ca
http://instagram.com/justindmcelroy
Westside Backyard @westside-backyard.bsky.social just a millennial, standing in front of a city, asking for an affordable home
Ben Dooley @bentdooley.bsky.social Jill Bennett Show Lead Producer Got a tip or story idea? ben.dooley@cknw.com. Born with Spina Bifida
Abigail Turner @turnerabigail.bsky.social Journalist covering social impact stories with Future of Good 📰
Vancouver📍
Formerly CTV News Vancouver and Global News Winnipeg
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🚲 Safe cycling advocate
📷 Photography
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⚙️ 3D Printing
✈ Composites
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🎓 PhD
🍁 Vancouver BC
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Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada @citizenslobbyca.bsky.social Empowering citizens to advocate for pollution pricing and climate-aligned finance. Building a liveable world since September 2010. Focus is our superpower.
canada.citizensclimatelobby.org
Oana @oanababy.bsky.social Vancouverite, immigrant, lawyer, hobby sewist, gardener, owned by 2 cats, she/her
#freepalestine
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rae @raeintheworld.bsky.social she/her | therapist | slow runner | alberta escapee living my dream on the best coast | 🍉
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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.
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social Journalist. Entrepreneur. Kwantlen FN, Nooksack Tribe. rjago.substack.com / knowledgekeepr.ca
isabella zavarise @isabellazavarise.bsky.social journalist @CTVVancouver | @USCAnnenberg alum | IG @imzav11
Isabella.zavarise@bellmedia.ca
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/
Ernest @fintechernest.bsky.social Observing politics, democracy, media, and institutional drift through a human lens.
Interested in policy, social cohesion, fairness, democratic stability — within a core belief that character still matters.
No DMs. No Porn (immediate block)
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Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social Ancienne Maire de Paris
Green Party of Vancouver @vangreens.bsky.social The municipal Green Party for the City of Vancouver.
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Simone_s_off @ssimone.bsky.social Just a small town girl (intern-)architecting in Vancouver | City lover |
Advocate for people-centered design | Passionate about active travel & transit
Ker 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @kcaceres.bsky.social New to this platform Nov 2024. PG- British Columbia. Girl mom. Proud Canadian. 🇨🇦 I stand with Ukraine and Democracy. Please update profile pic and bio or probably won’t follow back. 🚫DM 🚫Crypto
JohnSqFrench @johnsqfrench.bsky.social Elected official, life-long resident of Squamish, BC 🇨🇦 Husband, father, Pickleball player and held to account by two cats. Occasionally rides a bike.
Laura Christensen @laura-christensen.bsky.social Vancouver Independent Park Board Commissioner / Park Board Chair / Engineer / Mom
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Kooriki @koorikifox.bsky.social East Van municipal spectator. 
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Steve Cavers @cubey.bsky.social From Steveston, BC, but I appear in a metaverse near you.
"Cubey Terra" in #SecondLife
Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social Intersections: art, politics, culture, tech, food, cities, sustainability, language. Vocations: videogames, 3D, product design. Avocations: cooking, baking, making, gardening, dogs. 🇨🇦🇵🇭 Vancouver BC