Community, housing, climate, urbanism. Also Victoria BC City Councillor, CRD Director. Civil discourse and good governance. Pragmatic progressive. Please email my City account for City business. My own views only. Seeking re-election in 2026! ☄️⏳#yyj 🇨🇦
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Amazing city-building work at Langford!
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2/3s of Council's initial investment in Community Safety & Wellbeing were upstream - to help people get housing, community re-connection, detox, treatment and other services.
Thursday we will hear from community partners on their good work with the funding. Join us!
And, happy Pride Mo!
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✅ The Point Ellice Bridge reopens to two-way traffic tomorrow morning at 7 a.m.
As the bridge reopens, note that it remains an active construction zone for the next few weeks. Please reduce speed, follow posted signage and watch for crews. 1/2
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List of Community Safety and Well-being partners we will hear from this Thursday evening.
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Johnson Street parkade rooftop generally has a lot of vacant spaces, including now. What do you think of allowing Downtown Residents Assoc. to have a community garden on it? (Motion on Thursday, with @jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social & @kristaloughton.bsky.social)
#yyj @downtownresidents.bsky.social
If you’re still on Elon Musk’s X, ask yourself this: why?
- Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
American Trumpist right-wingers have been promoting Alberta separatism, but it also comes from social media companies and content creators, who DGAF about Alberta but can make a buck on the algorithm.
#Misinformation #disinformation #Socialmedia #cdnpoli
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I noticed a lot of misinformation on social media about the rents at Caledonia. Many thanks to @jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social and @zacdevries.bsky.social for clarifying!
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Pedestrianized areas are almost always controversial at first. Has anyone looked up the letters to the editor from when Bastion Square or Fernwood Square were created? Remember the flap over Arbutus Way and Government Street?
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City of Victoria
Mobility scooters are no longer slow. This one was doing 19kmh on Vancouver Street bike and roll route yesterday. Affordable low-carbon car replacements! (Chill riders on acoustic bikes commonly go 10-15 k). #pwd #yyj #VictoriaBC
Some argue that quitting the platform formerly known as Twitter cedes the space to malign actors. But it’s an open sewer, beyond redemption, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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Eric Doherty
BIG NEWS! Our new city-wide Plan for Langford, BC is a FINALIST for the Canadian Institute of Planners AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE!
I love the message this recognition sends— you don’t need a big city & a big budget to create cutting-edge planning for a better city. We showed a better way in a small city.
Eric Doherty
Brent Toderian
CBC’s visual investigations team takes you inside the overseas industry profiting from Alberta separatism. We find more than a dozen overseas accounts posting in the most popular separatist Facebook g...
Sentiment shifted over time. What at first felt radical soon became normal. Residents who had grown accustomed to the vibrant street struggled to imagine it filled with cars again. Many described it as “bouncing” with activity and questioned why the idea had generated controversy in the first place.
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett
@jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social and I wrote this op-ed to explain the range of affordable housing options offered by the Capital Region Housing Corporation.
Each affordability level meets an important community need.
The combination of affordability levels supports the sustainability of the CRHC.
Zac de Vries
@zacdevries.bsky.social and I wrote an op-ed in the Times Colonist today to set the record straight on the variety of affordability levels offered in CRHC buildings.
www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...
Questions have been raised about the current non-market affordable housing boom. Let’s set the record straight.
