Jim Mayer 🇨🇦

It's something that I'm happy to pay taxes for. Those changes make the network much stronger, and, for any form of transportation, cars, rail, buses, sidewalks, or bikes, the network is everything.

My favorite, from another part of the world, was "they're luxury apartments that nobody can afford and will be filled with drug dealers and poor people."

Then they can call it the Deaccelerated Active Transportation Plan.

Hills of dirt and crushed stone in the foreground, with the city in the background.

The crusher is dropping crushed stone into a pile. The city is visible in the background.

Another picture of the crusher dropping stone into a pile with the city in the background.

The crusher, no longer spitting dirt, with a plane flying overhead.

2/ The industrial section off of Bay looks very architectural in black and white!

Yellow flowers against a backdrop of pink blooms on the Galloping Goose Trail.

A bee snacks on nectar on a pink flower on the Goose.

More pink flowers, looking somehow tropical, on the Goose.

1/ I took a walk down the Goose, across the trestle, picked up some Honduras coffee at Mile Zero, then home across the Point Ellice bridge. What a beautiful day!
#yyj

Yecch… they should be ashamed of themselves.

I hope you feel better soon!

Recommendation That Council direct staff to: 1) Prioritize expansion of the All Ages and Abilities (AAA) bike and roll mobility network on Pandora street, east of Cook, to connect with both Oak Bay Junction and the Shelbourne protected route via Begbie by the end of 2026. 2) Provide a verbal update to council on the current plans for the expansion of the cycling network in 2026 and what the implications to the 2026 financial plan would be, if any, to complete the Pandora East Begbie/Shelbourne project by the end of 2026.

Councillor Thompson's and Dell's "Pandora East" motion just passed unanimously. Notably, this DOES NOT commit the city to build anything, but asks staff to prioritize this project, and to report back on funding implications.
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Could we defund active transportation this way? Give me 22 new bike lanes instead of 24! Or, perhaps, the province could defund BC Housing along the same lines! The possibilities are endless!

Just saw that this was advanced, unanimously I believe, which is good news! It's an excellent project.
#yyj #housing

Family seeking $1.3M owed by Alberta separatist leader Dennis Modry after court order | CBC News Relatives of a prominent Alberta separatist who met with U.S. officials are upset that he has failed to pay back more than $1.3 million that he owes from a court order issued almost a year ago. A B.C....

Is anyone surprised?
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Similarly hideous massive SFH mansions go up in Oak Bay all the time, replacing tiny lil cottages, and no one says "boo" unless the new build is for two or more families... in which case, it's the devil. (ie: It's not the size, it's the classism.) #OakBay #YYJ

Wowsers! I see what you mean.

Yes, and, weapon or not, the violence is predictable. Theft, especially repeated theft, is infuriating. It's a violation. That doesn't excuse the violence, but it makes it easy to understand. I remember how I felt they last time i had something stolen from me, and it wasn't pretty.

3/ …NOT the shoplifting—the assault by the security guard. Shoplifting, bad as it is for the people trying to make a living at the store, does not legitimize physical assault. And it's all linked to our refusal to seriously engage with the underlying problems.

2/ The person being beaten is indigenous, and the article says they were stealing $95 worth of goods from the store. We refuse to grapple seriously with poverty and our abuse of indigenous people and nations, which leads to crime, which reinforces stereotypes, which leads to THIS crime…

A screenshot from the video in the article that shows SOMETHING on the guard's hand that looks like brass knuckles to me.

1/ I hate this. The article is about an incident in Manitoba, and, when I looked closely at the video, it looked to me like the security guard is using brass knuckles.
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Interesting contribution to the 15-minute city idea. #yyj

Now? Though it might be after their bedtime.

This is smart city planning. #yyj

Thanks. I deleted the post. I'm not a fan of CTV News, but I prefer not to make unfounded accusations! Here's my retraction:
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I deleted the post, below. @jodinechase.bsky.social pointed out that CTV uses quotes a lot, and that these probably aren't "air quotes".

Hmmm… @jodinechase.bsky.social points out that CTV uses quotes a lot, so maybe they're not "air quotes". I can't tell exactly what they're using words for, but there certainly are a lot of them.

A screenshot with the words "property crime spree" in quotes.

A screenshot with no quote marks.

Interesting. I've got no clue what they're doing. Here, they quote "property crime spree" but the words never appear in the article. And in the one about Tumbler Ridge, they don't use quotes at all.

I have added you as a friend, but I won't see many of your posts since I nearly never log in anymore!

Our table at Boom+Batten with our helmets hanging on the hills.

This is cool. It's absolutely beautiful today in Victoria (#yyj), and my bread just finished baking, so we headed to Boom+Batten for lunch. The hostess noticed we had bike helmets and offered us hooks!

Councillor @susankimyyj.bsky.social does a great job of posting what's going on at Victoria BC Council meetings. I really appreciate the effort she puts into this.

I'm sure it's temporary. IIRC, the brush is being removed because this is where the new line is going.

Huh? I say high to the flaggers when I go by and they've always been friendly.

That sounds frustrating. FWIW, the app works well on my Android phone, so maybe there's a configuration issue somewhere.