Nickolas Collinet
@ncollinet.bsky.social
Executive Director of Public Disco Society | Guest on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ territory | Queer | Cultural Producer | Urbanist | He/Him🌈 Thoughts are my own
www.publicdisco.ca
www.publicdisco.ca
Vancouver City Council’s decision to pause new supportive housing in the DTES is a cruel and shortsighted move. With homelessness at record highs, this moratorium will push more people onto the streets instead of providing the housing they desperately need.
dailyhive.com/vancouver/va... #vanpoli
dailyhive.com/vancouver/va... #vanpoli
Temporary pause on new supportive housing in Downtown Eastside approved | Urbanized
Vancouver City Council has approved a temporary pause on any net new supportive housing units in the Downtown Eastside.
dailyhive.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Vancouver City Council’s decision to pause new supportive housing in the DTES is a cruel and shortsighted move. With homelessness at record highs, this moratorium will push more people onto the streets instead of providing the housing they desperately need.
dailyhive.com/vancouver/va... #vanpoli
dailyhive.com/vancouver/va... #vanpoli
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February 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Turns out being supported by the same people who support Trump, copying Trumps lazy insult lines, doing Trump-like things like refusing to get the normal security clearance (assuming he CAN get it), & generally wanting to BE Canada’s Trump isn’t all that popular in Canada.
Via @nationalobserver.com
Via @nationalobserver.com
Poilievre is losing ground thanks to the Trump effect
A plurality of Conservative supporters in Canada support Donald Trump. Do they realize that's about to cost them the next federal election?
www.nationalobserver.com
February 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Turns out being supported by the same people who support Trump, copying Trumps lazy insult lines, doing Trump-like things like refusing to get the normal security clearance (assuming he CAN get it), & generally wanting to BE Canada’s Trump isn’t all that popular in Canada.
Via @nationalobserver.com
Via @nationalobserver.com
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Urbanists should make a good effort to use communication that’s clear and less likely to be misunderstood.
The people you need to convince are probably much less familiar with how zoning works than you are, and many of them will hear “end single-family zoning” as “ban single-family homes”.
The people you need to convince are probably much less familiar with how zoning works than you are, and many of them will hear “end single-family zoning” as “ban single-family homes”.
“‘End single-family zoning’ is sloppy, imprecise language that doesn’t help policymakers think through the details of their policy choices. Moreover, the vagueness and negative framing can unnecessarily confuse and scare voters.” @jennyschuetz.bsky.social
www.brookings.edu/articles/end...
www.brookings.edu/articles/end...
‘End single-family zoning’ is bad political messaging
www.brookings.edu
February 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Urbanists should make a good effort to use communication that’s clear and less likely to be misunderstood.
The people you need to convince are probably much less familiar with how zoning works than you are, and many of them will hear “end single-family zoning” as “ban single-family homes”.
The people you need to convince are probably much less familiar with how zoning works than you are, and many of them will hear “end single-family zoning” as “ban single-family homes”.
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The very same people that Pierre Poilievre promised to ‘bring home’ drug-free are now, by Poilievre’s own definition, ‘fentanyl kingpins’ who should be imprisoned for life.
My latest in @thetyee.ca:
“Pierre Poilievre’s Pipe Dream: Imprison Drug Users for Life”
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
My latest in @thetyee.ca:
“Pierre Poilievre’s Pipe Dream: Imprison Drug Users for Life”
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Pierre Poilievre’s Pipe Dream: Imprison Drug Users for Life | The Tyee
Just about every sale of fentanyl would apply, clogging our justice system. Time for a logic check.
thetyee.ca
February 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The very same people that Pierre Poilievre promised to ‘bring home’ drug-free are now, by Poilievre’s own definition, ‘fentanyl kingpins’ who should be imprisoned for life.
My latest in @thetyee.ca:
“Pierre Poilievre’s Pipe Dream: Imprison Drug Users for Life”
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
My latest in @thetyee.ca:
“Pierre Poilievre’s Pipe Dream: Imprison Drug Users for Life”
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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As a denizen of East Van, I am SO excited about some of these proposed new bus routes, especially the line on East 1st and the Renfrew Express to North Van. Please take the survey and express your support for ✨new bus routes✨!
February 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
As a denizen of East Van, I am SO excited about some of these proposed new bus routes, especially the line on East 1st and the Renfrew Express to North Van. Please take the survey and express your support for ✨new bus routes✨!
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The weekend event list for Metro Vancouver is ready!
🏅 Invictus Games Opening Ceremony
🌲 Forest Journaling and Tea in Stanley Park
🕺 @publicdisco.bsky.social After Dark ft. DJ Hermano
🍄 Creating a Magical Felted Mushroom
🎭 Vancouver Opera presents Flight
+ 40 more #events listed here:
🏅 Invictus Games Opening Ceremony
🌲 Forest Journaling and Tea in Stanley Park
🕺 @publicdisco.bsky.social After Dark ft. DJ Hermano
🍄 Creating a Magical Felted Mushroom
🎭 Vancouver Opera presents Flight
+ 40 more #events listed here:
Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend Events Feb 7-9
Weekend events and things to do around Vancouver February 7-9, 2025. Activities and events around Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.
miss604.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The weekend event list for Metro Vancouver is ready!
🏅 Invictus Games Opening Ceremony
🌲 Forest Journaling and Tea in Stanley Park
🕺 @publicdisco.bsky.social After Dark ft. DJ Hermano
🍄 Creating a Magical Felted Mushroom
🎭 Vancouver Opera presents Flight
+ 40 more #events listed here:
🏅 Invictus Games Opening Ceremony
🌲 Forest Journaling and Tea in Stanley Park
🕺 @publicdisco.bsky.social After Dark ft. DJ Hermano
🍄 Creating a Magical Felted Mushroom
🎭 Vancouver Opera presents Flight
+ 40 more #events listed here:
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President Trump has been misrepresenting the unregulated toxic drug crisis for political gain, according to local experts.
No Evidence of Steady ‘Flow’ of Fentanyl into the US | The Tyee
Experts say Trump is using overdose deaths for political gain.
thetyee.ca
February 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
President Trump has been misrepresenting the unregulated toxic drug crisis for political gain, according to local experts.
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Here are a few images from the proposal. More available via the survey link and Daily Hive article. #vancouver #downtownvan @downtownvan.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Here are a few images from the proposal. More available via the survey link and Daily Hive article. #vancouver #downtownvan @downtownvan.bsky.social
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🚨 Big changes ahead for #GranvilleStreet! 🚨 Check out the new master plan & share your thoughts. Feedback from the creative community is imperative. Take the survey here: survey.talkvancouver.com/jfe1/form/SV... #YVR #CityOfVancouver #urbandesign #musicbc
This is the proposed car-free transformation of the Granville Strip | Urbanized
This is the City of Vancouver's proposal to transform Granville Strip into a vibrant car-free destination with major mixed-use developments.
dailyhive.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🚨 Big changes ahead for #GranvilleStreet! 🚨 Check out the new master plan & share your thoughts. Feedback from the creative community is imperative. Take the survey here: survey.talkvancouver.com/jfe1/form/SV... #YVR #CityOfVancouver #urbandesign #musicbc
Disgusted by this. We’ve been calling it out since the assault on Gaza began.
UPDATE: Trump said he and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu talked Tuesday about relocating Palestinians and leveling Gaza, which he suggested could be the “Riviera of the Middle East” under U.S. ownership.
Trump says he wants the U.S. to take ownership of the Gaza Strip
Trump said he and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu talked Tuesday about relocating Palestinians and leveling Gaza, which he suggested could be the "Riviera of the Middle East" under U.S. ownership.
www.npr.org
February 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Disgusted by this. We’ve been calling it out since the assault on Gaza began.
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Public Disco is back this Saturday with our next warehouse party featuring Brazil born, MTL based artist @djhermano.bsky.social bringing his feel good tunes to The Birdhouse. Grab tix: www.eventbrite.ca/e/public-dis... | #yvr #dancemusic
February 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Public Disco is back this Saturday with our next warehouse party featuring Brazil born, MTL based artist @djhermano.bsky.social bringing his feel good tunes to The Birdhouse. Grab tix: www.eventbrite.ca/e/public-dis... | #yvr #dancemusic
Disappointed by The Rec Room’s building on #Granville. A heritage restoration is lovely, but where’s the vibrancy? No patios, no garage windows, no interaction with public space. It’s a fortress, not a place that invites people in. How does this add life to the street? Missed opportunity. #vanpoli
February 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Disappointed by The Rec Room’s building on #Granville. A heritage restoration is lovely, but where’s the vibrancy? No patios, no garage windows, no interaction with public space. It’s a fortress, not a place that invites people in. How does this add life to the street? Missed opportunity. #vanpoli
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Support Canadian alternatives!
February 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Support Canadian alternatives!
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Hey EU, UK, Mexico etc you guys seem smart, funny and reliable trading partners who don’t illegally break relatively recent trade agreements by imposing ridiculously high tariffs to start a trade war against long-time partners & allies while plunging your nation into fascism.
Wanna do more trade?
Wanna do more trade?
February 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hey EU, UK, Mexico etc you guys seem smart, funny and reliable trading partners who don’t illegally break relatively recent trade agreements by imposing ridiculously high tariffs to start a trade war against long-time partners & allies while plunging your nation into fascism.
Wanna do more trade?
Wanna do more trade?
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Share your fave locally/Canadian/non-US made/produced food and products to help me (and anyone else who is similarly included) to put my money where my mouth is… #buylocal
February 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Share your fave locally/Canadian/non-US made/produced food and products to help me (and anyone else who is similarly included) to put my money where my mouth is… #buylocal
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Hey Canada, as we watch the Trump admin erase info from public websites, remember when the Harper government muzzled scientists, shut research libraries and labs and tossed irreplaceable documents into dumpsters.
www.nationalobserver.com/2015/09/29/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2015/09/29/n...
Exclusive: Inside the Harper government's trashing of a research library
The inside story on how one federal library's journals and documents ended up in a dumpster.
www.nationalobserver.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Hey Canada, as we watch the Trump admin erase info from public websites, remember when the Harper government muzzled scientists, shut research libraries and labs and tossed irreplaceable documents into dumpsters.
www.nationalobserver.com/2015/09/29/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2015/09/29/n...
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Yes it feels strange to post this much about “politics.” I don’t really like doing it. But what’s happening isn’t politics. It’s far worse than we’re letting ourselves contemplate. You may just want to hear about city-building but we all have a moral obligation to speak out about what they’re doing.
February 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Yes it feels strange to post this much about “politics.” I don’t really like doing it. But what’s happening isn’t politics. It’s far worse than we’re letting ourselves contemplate. You may just want to hear about city-building but we all have a moral obligation to speak out about what they’re doing.
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The recent CD Howe study arguing to push people out of big cities and into midsized cities had obvious, serious errors. Now it's been picked up by the most shameless anti-growther in Canadian media. vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
It's time to end our obsession with bloated big cities, like Vancouver and Toronto
Douglas Todd: Future of housing affordability lies in providing more support to mid-sized centres, such as Kamloops
vancouversun.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The recent CD Howe study arguing to push people out of big cities and into midsized cities had obvious, serious errors. Now it's been picked up by the most shameless anti-growther in Canadian media. vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
Exciting to see this development in #Kits bringing 200 units of social housing, along with retail and office space! Projects like this add vibrancy, services, and walkability to neighbourhoods while addressing housing needs. A win for community and sustainability! #yvr #vanpoli #urbanplanning
A 21-storey social housing tower with 200 units is proposed for Kitsilano near #SkyTrain's future Arbutus Station.
With retail, restaurant, and office space, too. #vanre #vancre #vanpoli
dailyhive.com/vancouver/20...
With retail, restaurant, and office space, too. #vanre #vancre #vanpoli
dailyhive.com/vancouver/20...
21-storey Kitsilano social housing tower proposed near future SkyTrain station | Urbanized
Brightside Community Homes Foundation is proposing to build a 21-storey tower with 200 social housing units at 2079-2085 West 5th Avenue.
dailyhive.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Exciting to see this development in #Kits bringing 200 units of social housing, along with retail and office space! Projects like this add vibrancy, services, and walkability to neighbourhoods while addressing housing needs. A win for community and sustainability! #yvr #vanpoli #urbanplanning
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“…a pair of recent polls shows a substantial rebound in Liberal fortunes, with both putting the Liberals back in the game in key battleground of Ontario. And with Conservatives still visibly divided over whether to respond to Trump’s threats by defending the country or just its oil & gas industry…”
Mark Carney has Canada’s Conservatives running scared
Is it Carbon Tax Carney? Canapé Carney? Redistribution Carney? Right now, Canada's Conservatives can't even settle on a nickname for their likely opponent in the next federal election, much less a com...
www.nationalobserver.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
“…a pair of recent polls shows a substantial rebound in Liberal fortunes, with both putting the Liberals back in the game in key battleground of Ontario. And with Conservatives still visibly divided over whether to respond to Trump’s threats by defending the country or just its oil & gas industry…”
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Tonight in Vancouver
A series of photos I took around the Lantern City installations for Lunar New Year:
🏮 Hundred Pace Snake by Godkidlla 小子
#photography #cities #city #artsky
A series of photos I took around the Lantern City installations for Lunar New Year:
🏮 Hundred Pace Snake by Godkidlla 小子
#photography #cities #city #artsky
January 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Tonight in Vancouver
A series of photos I took around the Lantern City installations for Lunar New Year:
🏮 Hundred Pace Snake by Godkidlla 小子
#photography #cities #city #artsky
A series of photos I took around the Lantern City installations for Lunar New Year:
🏮 Hundred Pace Snake by Godkidlla 小子
#photography #cities #city #artsky
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We’re absolutely thrilled to see one of our own, @lucymaloney.bsky.social, running for Vancouver city council! The election is April 5th. Lucy has been an awesome Vision Zero Vancouver volunteer, continuously pushing for safer streets, and we know she’ll bring that same passion to City Hall.
Vancouver byelection: OneCity chooses road safety advocate
Road safety advocate Lucy Maloney has been chosen by OneCity Vancouver to run in the 2025 Vancouver civic byelection.
vancouver.citynews.ca
January 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
We’re absolutely thrilled to see one of our own, @lucymaloney.bsky.social, running for Vancouver city council! The election is April 5th. Lucy has been an awesome Vision Zero Vancouver volunteer, continuously pushing for safer streets, and we know she’ll bring that same passion to City Hall.