Christopher Porter
@canadianveggie.com
Runner. Cyclist. Urbanist. Plant-Based. Software Engineer. Data Nerd.
Vancouver
Vancouver
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Two people want to be @onecityvan.bsky.social first Mayor: @wazaroff.bsky.social & Amanda Burrows. I spoke to them both for the latest episode of Cambie Report (which is very much still a thing!)
www.cambiereport.ca/e3-281-oneci...
www.cambiereport.ca/e3-281-oneci...
E3-281 OneCity’s mayoral candidates
William Azaroff and Amanda Burrows both want to be OneCity's first Mayor of Vancouver
www.cambiereport.ca
January 9, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Two people want to be @onecityvan.bsky.social first Mayor: @wazaroff.bsky.social & Amanda Burrows. I spoke to them both for the latest episode of Cambie Report (which is very much still a thing!)
www.cambiereport.ca/e3-281-oneci...
www.cambiereport.ca/e3-281-oneci...
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A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.
January 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.
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Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.
January 6, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.
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Caracas takes to the streets to denounce American aggression today:
Video: BreakThrough News via X @BTnewsroom)
Video: BreakThrough News via X @BTnewsroom)
January 6, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Caracas takes to the streets to denounce American aggression today:
Video: BreakThrough News via X @BTnewsroom)
Video: BreakThrough News via X @BTnewsroom)
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TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 5, 2026 at 11:26 PM
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
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Really, a remarkable statement from Colombia’s President.
January 5, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Really, a remarkable statement from Colombia’s President.
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Over 11 million games of Spellie were played in 2025. Thanks for a great year.
January 1, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Over 11 million games of Spellie were played in 2025. Thanks for a great year.
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Kate Hammer: who is the politician to watch for 2026?
Richard Zussman: So, I think it's going to be William Azaroff. So, this is a guy who a lot of people may not be familiar with right now, but he may be the mayor of Vancouver in a year from now.
Check out the full clip below!
Richard Zussman: So, I think it's going to be William Azaroff. So, this is a guy who a lot of people may not be familiar with right now, but he may be the mayor of Vancouver in a year from now.
Check out the full clip below!
December 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Kate Hammer: who is the politician to watch for 2026?
Richard Zussman: So, I think it's going to be William Azaroff. So, this is a guy who a lot of people may not be familiar with right now, but he may be the mayor of Vancouver in a year from now.
Check out the full clip below!
Richard Zussman: So, I think it's going to be William Azaroff. So, this is a guy who a lot of people may not be familiar with right now, but he may be the mayor of Vancouver in a year from now.
Check out the full clip below!
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You didn't ask, but we still answered - the most questionably-helpful holiday gift guide is back!
2025 Holiday Gift Guide
You have quirky friends? We have quirky gift ideas. Plus some great advent calendars, holiday jigsaw puzzles, and other themed goodies!
www.raincity.games
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
You didn't ask, but we still answered - the most questionably-helpful holiday gift guide is back!
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Mudslide closes part of Vancouver's Stanley Park Seawall after heavy rains
A 'small slide of mud, rocks, and vegetation' has caused a section of Vancouver's iconic Stanley Park Seawall to close Sunday.
#cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada
A 'small slide of mud, rocks, and vegetation' has caused a section of Vancouver's iconic Stanley Park Seawall to close Sunday.
#cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Mudslide closes part of Vancouver's Stanley Park Seawall after heavy rains
A 'small slide of mud, rocks, and vegetation' has caused a section of Vancouver's iconic Stanley Park Seawall to close Sunday.
#cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada
A 'small slide of mud, rocks, and vegetation' has caused a section of Vancouver's iconic Stanley Park Seawall to close Sunday.
#cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada
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🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨
After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!
The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…
🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉
After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!
The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…
🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉
December 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨
After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!
The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…
🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉
After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!
The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…
🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉
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Had a chance to sit down with William Azaroff, who wants to be @onecityvan.bsky.social's Vancouver mayoral candidate. Interview with fellow nominee Amanda Burrows coming soon!
William Azaroff, Who Builds Non-Profit Housing, Runs for Mayor via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
William Azaroff, Who Builds Non-Profit Housing, Runs for Mayor via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
William Azaroff, Who Builds Non-Profit Housing, Runs for Mayor | The Tyee
One of two nominees for the OneCity mayoral candidacy, the Strathcona resident also draws from arts industry experience.
thetyee.ca
December 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Had a chance to sit down with William Azaroff, who wants to be @onecityvan.bsky.social's Vancouver mayoral candidate. Interview with fellow nominee Amanda Burrows coming soon!
William Azaroff, Who Builds Non-Profit Housing, Runs for Mayor via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
William Azaroff, Who Builds Non-Profit Housing, Runs for Mayor via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
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If Amanda Burrows wins the OneCity mayoral nomination on Feb. 11, the executive director of First United will be in the running to achieve a Vancouver first on election day next fall: a woman as mayor.
And one of the few mayors in the city’s history who rents, not owns, their housing.
And one of the few mayors in the city’s history who rents, not owns, their housing.
Amanda Burrows Wants to be a Mayor Who Speaks for Renters | The Tyee
‘I have been evicted before, like so many people's stories in this city.’
thetyee.ca
December 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If Amanda Burrows wins the OneCity mayoral nomination on Feb. 11, the executive director of First United will be in the running to achieve a Vancouver first on election day next fall: a woman as mayor.
And one of the few mayors in the city’s history who rents, not owns, their housing.
And one of the few mayors in the city’s history who rents, not owns, their housing.
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🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨
We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...
We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...
December 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨
We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...
We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...
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Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
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No big deal, but the Alberta government just increased the fee to submit a citizen initiated petition from $500 to $25, 000. After the separatism initiative was approved, but before Corb Lund's coal mining petition gets re-approved. No political shenanigans going on here.
December 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
No big deal, but the Alberta government just increased the fee to submit a citizen initiated petition from $500 to $25, 000. After the separatism initiative was approved, but before Corb Lund's coal mining petition gets re-approved. No political shenanigans going on here.
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"The potential to have things seized will send a message that you can't ride on the sidewalk," Burnside said.
December 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"The potential to have things seized will send a message that you can't ride on the sidewalk," Burnside said.
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I did this interview at Yonge & St Clair, the reporter hoping he'd catch a gig worker bombing down the sidewalk. Instead a pickup truck was parked in the bike lane behind us, and for the entire conversation rider after rider was forced into traffic.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
December 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I did this interview at Yonge & St Clair, the reporter hoping he'd catch a gig worker bombing down the sidewalk. Instead a pickup truck was parked in the bike lane behind us, and for the entire conversation rider after rider was forced into traffic.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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BC Hydro: ~120,000 customers without power after rainstorm knocked down trees and debris onto electrical infrastructure.
Hardest hit areas:
• Surrey: 18,400 without power
• Vancouver: 11,200
• Port Coquitlam: 12,500
• Burnaby: 11,700
• Maple Ridge: 11,200
• North Vancouver: 10,000
Hardest hit areas:
• Surrey: 18,400 without power
• Vancouver: 11,200
• Port Coquitlam: 12,500
• Burnaby: 11,700
• Maple Ridge: 11,200
• North Vancouver: 10,000
December 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
BC Hydro: ~120,000 customers without power after rainstorm knocked down trees and debris onto electrical infrastructure.
Hardest hit areas:
• Surrey: 18,400 without power
• Vancouver: 11,200
• Port Coquitlam: 12,500
• Burnaby: 11,700
• Maple Ridge: 11,200
• North Vancouver: 10,000
Hardest hit areas:
• Surrey: 18,400 without power
• Vancouver: 11,200
• Port Coquitlam: 12,500
• Burnaby: 11,700
• Maple Ridge: 11,200
• North Vancouver: 10,000
Some good ones have been mentioned. But I'll add
Maya Goldstein and others at HUB
Reece Martin from RM Transit. Torontonian, but good perspective on transit in North America.
Uytae Lee
Maya Goldstein and others at HUB
Reece Martin from RM Transit. Torontonian, but good perspective on transit in North America.
Uytae Lee
December 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Some good ones have been mentioned. But I'll add
Maya Goldstein and others at HUB
Reece Martin from RM Transit. Torontonian, but good perspective on transit in North America.
Uytae Lee
Maya Goldstein and others at HUB
Reece Martin from RM Transit. Torontonian, but good perspective on transit in North America.
Uytae Lee
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Institutional inertia has taken over our city's institutions, and it's a serious problem. Why can't the City of Vancouver get anything done anymore?
It's been 509 days since @christineboyle.bsky.social 's bus lane motion passed in Vancouver. Maybe 365 additional days since the previous ABC one did.
Do we have anything to show for it? Nope. Nothing.
Dude where's our bus lanes? 🚍🤷
Do we have anything to show for it? Nope. Nothing.
Dude where's our bus lanes? 🚍🤷
December 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Institutional inertia has taken over our city's institutions, and it's a serious problem. Why can't the City of Vancouver get anything done anymore?
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🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨
We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...
We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...
December 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨
We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...
We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...
Thank you brave hero who installed these barriers at night on Gabriola Island. But I wish we lived in a world where the ministry of transport was better at installing life saving infrastructure on its own.
#TacticalUrbanism
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#TacticalUrbanism
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Unsanctioned roadway barriers installed in the dark of night on Gabriola Island | CBC News
Just a few weeks after residents pleaded with local government to take action on "traffic chaos" at Descanso Bay Ferry Terminal on Gabriola Island, someone has gone rogue and installed delineators alo...
www.cbc.ca
December 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Thank you brave hero who installed these barriers at night on Gabriola Island. But I wish we lived in a world where the ministry of transport was better at installing life saving infrastructure on its own.
#TacticalUrbanism
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#TacticalUrbanism
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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⚠️‼️NORTH SHORE FLOOD WARNING⚠️
Stay clear of the banks of swift-running rivers and never drive across flooded roads, bridges or river crossings.
More info: https://bcrfc.env.gov.bc.ca/warnings/advisories/FWN_2025_12_15_0600_NorthShoreMtns.pdf
Stay clear of the banks of swift-running rivers and never drive across flooded roads, bridges or river crossings.
More info: https://bcrfc.env.gov.bc.ca/warnings/advisories/FWN_2025_12_15_0600_NorthShoreMtns.pdf
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
⚠️‼️NORTH SHORE FLOOD WARNING⚠️
Stay clear of the banks of swift-running rivers and never drive across flooded roads, bridges or river crossings.
More info: https://bcrfc.env.gov.bc.ca/warnings/advisories/FWN_2025_12_15_0600_NorthShoreMtns.pdf
Stay clear of the banks of swift-running rivers and never drive across flooded roads, bridges or river crossings.
More info: https://bcrfc.env.gov.bc.ca/warnings/advisories/FWN_2025_12_15_0600_NorthShoreMtns.pdf