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Eugene McCann
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Geographer at Simon Fraser University. Policy mobilities; urban politics; harm reduction; social movements. Managing editor, EPC: Politics & Space (journals.sagepub.com/home/epc). Host, 'Minor Revisions' podcast (http://bit.ly/3suN9ur). Views my own. .. more

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · Dec 31
Didn't introduce myself here. Maybe should since the Nov 24 follower influx. I'm a critical urban political geographer, studying how #socialmovement activists use space & place, locally & globally. I also study the politics of urban development & public space. Some things published in 23 & 24 🧵👇

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 3d
Couple of hooligans outside our (second floor) window last night #yvr #wildlife #synanthropes

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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 5d
The motion Ken Sim's party defeated included proposals for a Vote Bus polling station like the one implemented in Calgary, direction to staff and TransLink to look at the possibility of fare-free public transit on voting days, and a transition to Ranked Balloting for Mayor beginning in 2030.

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 5d
Tell me about it ...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d
Fantasy About Impressing Coworkers Unimaginably Pathetic https://theonion.com/fantasy-about-impressing-coworkers-unimaginably-pathetic/
Fantasy About Impressing Coworkers Unimaginably Pathetic

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 8d
In Vancouver, on the other hand ...
phscss.bsky.social PHS Community Services Society @phscss.bsky.social · 8d
A Toronto hospital network's supportive housing development for homeless patients has saved so much healthcare time and money that it's being doubled.

Dr. Andrew Boozary’s team at Toronto’s University Health Network announced a new 54-bed building.

Read on:
Toronto hospital to double housing program that reduces ER visits
The residents say their new homes have transformed their lives and given them hope again. It's also halved their hospital emergency room visits and given them stability.
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PHS Community Services Society @phscss.bsky.social · 8d
A Toronto hospital network's supportive housing development for homeless patients has saved so much healthcare time and money that it's being doubled.

Dr. Andrew Boozary’s team at Toronto’s University Health Network announced a new 54-bed building.

Read on:
Toronto hospital to double housing program that reduces ER visits
The residents say their new homes have transformed their lives and given them hope again. It's also halved their hospital emergency room visits and given them stability.
tinyurl.com

Reposted by Eugene McCann

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Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social · 8d
People won’t stop using because a supervised consumption site closes.
They’ll just use unsafe drugs in unsafe places.

I thought communities wanted to reduce the amount of public drug use? This will definitely makes it worse!

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU CELEBRATE.

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Vancouver overdose prevention site closes less than 2 years after relocation | CBC News
A Vancouver overdose prevention site has closed less than two years after it moved from its previous location, raising concerns among health officials and harm reduction advocates as the province sees...
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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 9d
This is really excellent from @upstreampodcast.bsky.social "How Fascism Works." A reading of the first chapter of Michael Parenti’s “Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism & the Overthrow of Communism“ with contemporary commentary Well worth a listen.

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[UNLOCKED] How Fascism Works (a Michael Parenti Reading)
Podcast Episode · Upstream · 2026-01-24 · 1h 34m
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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 9d
I want one!
telekitnetic.bsky.social Jay 🍄➡️ Vancoufur 2026 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · 9d
#formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart

🤖🚮 There are some things a machine can’t replace.
A picture of a 3-inch anti-generative AI holographic sticker with a formline design on it. The design has a black border with sparkles lining it. Text within the border reads “you cannot automate the human experience.” The formline design depicts a decapitated robot head with vacant eyes. Next to it are two ravens, with one raven perched on the head with a piece of the robot’s antenna in its beak. A picture of a 3-inch anti-generative AI holographic sticker with a formline design on it. The design has a black border with sparkles lining it. Text within the border reads “you cannot automate the human experience.” The formline design depicts a decapitated robot head with vacant eyes. Next to it are two ravens, with one raven perched on the head with a piece of the robot’s antenna in its beak. This picture shows the sticker in more detail, being held up by fingers.

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 9d
Five classes ...

Historical Geography (focus on Glasgow)
Scottish History (because of the guest lecs by Tom Devine)
Regulation Theory
Critical Theory (2 parts: Frankfurt School; Walter Benjamin)
Cultural Landscapes of the American City
emayfarris.bsky.social Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 9d
The five classes trend is fun to see the value of liberal arts education.

You can see that the most meaningful/impactful classes for folks typically don’t have anything to do with basic training for some job.

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Jay 🍄➡️ Vancoufur 2026 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · 9d
#formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart

🤖🚮 There are some things a machine can’t replace.
A picture of a 3-inch anti-generative AI holographic sticker with a formline design on it. The design has a black border with sparkles lining it. Text within the border reads “you cannot automate the human experience.” The formline design depicts a decapitated robot head with vacant eyes. Next to it are two ravens, with one raven perched on the head with a piece of the robot’s antenna in its beak. A picture of a 3-inch anti-generative AI holographic sticker with a formline design on it. The design has a black border with sparkles lining it. Text within the border reads “you cannot automate the human experience.” The formline design depicts a decapitated robot head with vacant eyes. Next to it are two ravens, with one raven perched on the head with a piece of the robot’s antenna in its beak. This picture shows the sticker in more detail, being held up by fingers.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 9d
The five classes trend is fun to see the value of liberal arts education.

You can see that the most meaningful/impactful classes for folks typically don’t have anything to do with basic training for some job.

Reposted by Eugene McCann

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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 10d
Big news from me:

I’m thrilled to be joining @policyalternatives.ca as a senior researcher and launching a health policy desk.

The focus will be national and provincial health policy and services analysis, including privatization, finance, wait times, and solutions.

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 12d
I had thought of Alan and Martine. Thanks. Will point her in the direction of the others too.

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 12d
Any recommendations for acad sources on social mix (or lack of) & gentrification in Canadian cities? I have an undergrad doing directed readings on gentrif, soc mix, & schools. Not locating Cdn content but we must be missing some. @lellyk.bsky.social @nblomley.bsky.social @lorettaclees.bsky.social

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 15d
Hardly an epic, but I still think about this guy ...
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ejmccann.bsky.social Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · Nov 6
Guy on the bus today wearing a sleep mask. All sprawled out, comfy-like. Dude, it's a 30 min bus ride, not the red-eye to Heathrow! #R5

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 15d
The original fyi …

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musicologyduck.bsky.social Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 21d
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 15d
They can never take our bus stories …

(I have numerous transit nerds in my courses. I wonder if they’re aware of this emerging literary genre).
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15d
I’m on a bus in Germany. As far as I know, it’s going to the right place but a woman just ran from the back of the bus to the front to talk to the driver. She’s agitated.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15d
I’m on a bus in Germany. As far as I know, it’s going to the right place but a woman just ran from the back of the bus to the front to talk to the driver. She’s agitated.

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 17d
Nice!

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Ross Jamieson @rossjami.bsky.social · 17d
Truth Before Reconciliation: How to Identify and Confront Residential School Denialism. An online presentation by @seancarleton.bsky.social , Thurs, Jan 29 11:30 am PST. To register: sfu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Sponsored by the SFU Depts of Archaeology, English, History, and Indigenous Studies
A poster giving the details of Sean's talk, with a QR code, and image of Port Alberni Residential School facade.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19d
PhD here, built a website with other PhDs devoted to organizing PhDs and future well respected people to criticize and comprehend kleptomaniac grifter plagiarist incapacitating machine

against-a-i.com

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 19d
It's kinda amazing the depth and breadth of the positive reaction to the Carney Davos speech. I get it - Canadians like when int'l people laud us. But Carney said similar things during the election campaign and we've seen how he's governed since. I'm almost stupefied by how naive everyone is being.

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 20d
Nice area. Hasn't changed much (unlike lots of the city) but a fancy new London Drugs is getting built on the same site :)

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 20d
Oh yeah? This is close by - near Hastings/Commercial

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 21d
In honour of the fog still hanging around ...
ejmccann.bsky.social Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 23d
Living close to a port on a foggy winter’s night #vancouver #eastvan #yvr

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 21d
B.C. health authorities tried for four years to create a heroin compassion club whose members could purchase a regulated version of the drug without a prescription, an effort to reduce toxic-drug deaths that was ultimately derailed by political blowback
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e0c398c...

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 21d
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21d
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today we welcome his imperial highness archduke franz ferdinand to sarajevo. unity, stability, progress.

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wild that austria thinks this is a good idea but ok
aelkus.bsky.social ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 21d
as a black comedy, someone should write a version of WWI leadup that has social media. Don't bother about incongruity of fitting 21st century social media tech into early 1900s. Just imagine what it would have been like

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 21d
as a black comedy, someone should write a version of WWI leadup that has social media. Don't bother about incongruity of fitting 21st century social media tech into early 1900s. Just imagine what it would have been like