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Active transportation advocate 🚎🚲. Cargo bike-riding Grandmama 👵. Vegan 🌱 for the planet 🌎 and the animals 🐖. No rage bait ⛔️, only collective action 🤲. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦
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"It’s long past time we stop thinking about what we deserve from the Earth, and start thinking about what it deserves from us." thenarwhal.ca/bc-parks-fir...

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Fun morning at the Esquimalt Celebration Station! Counted about 265 folks who stopped by to stamp their passports, have a snack and a chat. #gobybike #yyj #cycling

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Sigh— in some ways im glad I’m close to retirement. I can go back to using my fountain pen and notebook and pretend this all isn’t happening. Innother ways—I have children and grandchildren who need help to navigate this world www.404media.co/teachers-are...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I just listened to an entire discussion about money in politics between Nate Silver, Maria Konnikova (sp?) and Tim Harford without NO ONE once mentioning the Citizens United SCOTUS decision, or any countries where election spending is circumvented. 🤦‍♀️

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

In a just society this “N” driver would never get his license. If we’re going to insist traffic safety is all about individual accountability (it isn’t by the way) then we would be serious about it - but were not. cheknews.ca/suspected-im...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Time to ban right turns on red lights in cities across North America. momentummag.com/is-now-is-th...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

“The recommendations also include amending parking requirements to a minimum of one stall per unit” — How about make that a MAXIMUM of one stall per unit? And how about mandating better bike parking? Geez, I can’t believe we’re still hung up on parking for cars. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Intrepid cyclists who showed up for the West Shore Celebration Ride in the rain today. It was great to see you! I’ll be drying off and heading out again to the Langford Celebration Station later this afternoon. #GoByBikeWeek @capitalbike.ca

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Spring #GoByBikeYYJ kicks off Saturday, May 31! Stop by or join our guided group ride to our first Celebration Station (no mechanic there). Sign up for the guided ride: signup.com/go/ULEtjoL. In the afternoon, swing by our second station. Yay, Goldstream Bicycles will be there with a mechanic!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

AI doesn’t help you work less or get paid more, but does destroy the environment and climate.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

..provincial legislatures are resorting to policies like forced treatment to deflect attention away from their own failures that created these crises in the first place. breachmedia.ca/media-politi...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

There are 4 or 5 1500+ sq ft townhomes for sale in our immediate vicinity. Nothing has moved since early April. One has been on the market for two months. They just took it down and re-listed for $100k less than they were originally asking.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

Severance may have created the next trend in main title sequences. youtu.be/l6ix-COHfgg?...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations to Leo XIV, the Sun Pope.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s Commuter Challenge saw 16 teams hit the streets, and cyclists won 15 out of 16 matches, with one tie! Minister Herbert had the furthest commute from Langford City Hall and also won the first arrival at 7:49 AM on a bike. This competition kicks off Spring Go By Bike Week (May 31 – June 6)!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Did this guy seriously call women "females" while complaining about "misinformation" regarding the CPC stance towards women's rights? 😆 www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Happy birthday Pandora bike lanes! #yyjbike

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

They’re building rainbow cycle tunnels in Norway. With no cars. Nice video by Critical Mass Bergen.

submitted 33 days ago • 19 comments

Make car violence unacceptable again.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I will remind Canadians at this time that Australia has preferential voting.

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

I took a bus this morning (after dropping bike at the shop) and it was full despite the less-than-stellar service here. People want and need choice of transportation modes!

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Pedestrians who are hit by SUVs are 44% more likely to be killed than if they were hit by a conventional car, new study finds. Children are 82% more likely to die when hit by an SUV than by a car. In children under 10, the risk of death was 130% higher. Regulate vehicle size now.

submitted 36 days ago • 38 comments

B.C. says it will miss key climate target by half www.biv.com/news/bc-says...

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

Cars and freeways de-socialize the built environment, keeping us all apart. (That's why billionaires and autocrats love them.) Transit, bicycles, and active transport re-socialize the built environment, bringing us together. (That's why billionaires and autocrats detest them.)

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments