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belshaw.bsky.social
Writer. Historian. Cyclist. Writing a history of cycling. 🛋️ Vancouver based 📚 Open textbooks https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation/ 🧭 Local stories https://www.anvilpress.com/books/vancouver-noir-1930-1960 Elbows up.
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Why these predatory delays on social housing aren't human rights challenges are beyond me.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

No. No. No. That's a really bad idea. Stop it.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Pierre Poilievre

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Today, a man rejected by voters, will meet with people elected by voters, to dictate to them how to vote in our elected body, which he himself was denied entry, due to our democratic vote. #cdnpoli

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Buy Canadian. If unavailable, anything but American. Easy. Effective.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Support John Belshaw cypresschallenge.ca/participant/... The boilerplate is right there. You can see it, yes? I would say something pottymouthed more like "Pancreatic cancer is a total bastard, a f*cking death sentence that cannot be prevented by clean living and good thoughts. So, maybe donate.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

submitted 17 days ago • 25 comments

Did a dive into ChatGPT this a.m. and had an...experience. We got into a conversation re: modernity. It turned to whether modernity is simply an expression of energy surpluses.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

submitted 21 days ago • 705 comments

it's a boy!

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

Nicely put @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social: “The question is not ‘can you live without a car?’ but ‘what would a world where people did not need to own their own cars look like?’” Exciting research. Delivered in the perfect place given Leeds' aim of "being a city where you don’t need to own a car"

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

It's Stanley Tucci the Pope now? Please can somebody check?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The party claiming good fiscal responsibility has a history of leaders that take advantage of access to $$ #cdnpoli #Conservatives

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Canadians wonder if they can win trade war against famously self-sacrificing and unified Americans

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

The Orangutan is calling for 100% tariffs on movies made outside of the USA. This will hurt Hollywood North a ton, and -- as with anything else he does -- the cruelty is at least part of the point. Time to ratchet up the CRTC's CanCon standards again. #elbowsup

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Situated 60 kilometres west of Shanghai, Kunshan is “small” city home to two million residents, and a number of bike producers including Giant and Shimano. In recent years, it has established its brand as a cycling city, as part of a strategy to put itself on the map as “Kunshan Innovation Valley”.🧵

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

"One more [factor in the crisis facing History departments...] has been the popular and politically sanctioned, indeed politically led, culture of hostility towards those working in the humanities in UK higher education." - Lucy Noakes. Historians stand between brutal incompetent regimes...and you.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

That's my club!

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

*North Americans :)

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Vote, goddamit.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I am on record as not a fan of bagpipes. The way they spring out at you in the mall or show up unexpectedly at funerals. But today I encountered one in the wild, in its natural environment, and it was amazing. So let's return bagpipes to the wild, shall we? Thanks @MacmillanCancer for a great event.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has been a bit more quiet lately about Canada because he got the memo from Poilievre & Danielle Smith to lay low until the Canadian election’s over. But he’s still making it very clear when asked that he wants to annex Canada through (at least) economic war. Vote like Canada depends on it.

submitted 42 days ago • 19 comments

#kamloops cyclists, how much does your cycling contribute each year?

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Voted at the Advance Poll this morning. There was a substantial line-up but I did not see a single person call it quits. Progressives of all stripes, loyal Canadians ... you know what to do so do it.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

As this is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of concentration/death camp #BergenBelsen, I think it would timely to begin a boycott of all products imported to Canada from El Salvador, where people are being held without due process of law and in flagrant violation of their rights.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Bergen Belsen. On this day in 1945 -- 80 years ago -- British and Canadian forces liberated the concentration camp and its captives. B-B was Anne Frank's last stop, along with another 70,000 or so Jewish Europeans who were initially 'detained' as hostages for the release of German POWs.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

“The Conservatives claimed that the Edmonton-area rally was attended by 15,000 people, for example. CBC News counted roughly 1,558 in one panorama photo shared by the campaign”

submitted 49 days ago • 45 comments