I should have posted about this ahead of time, but here’s a video I took of Niki Ashton on Tuesday evening when she spoke at the Lion’s Pub in Vancouver. Besides this stump speech, Niki spent most of the evening very casually talking to people (very literally) young and old.
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Politics, Re-Spun: Revitalizing COPE Vancouver, Right Now.
Today is the first day of the rest of COPE Vancouver’s life. Today is the day where the new executive needs to make its first priority revitalizing the party by building unity around progressive principles and policies, and moving past pettiness. If it cannot get past the factionism, it simply
Continue readingArt Threat: The power of citizens media at Vancouver Olympics – Friday Film Pick: With Glowing Hearts
This week’s Friday Film Pick is a documentary about the power citizen’s media has to diversify representation, tell under-represented stories, and contribute to community. With Glowing Hearts looks at the flurry of alternative media activity that took place in the lead-up to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. With corporate media
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Lazy Loitering Louts
In light of the Occupy movements, younger people will find this vintage video from Vancouver, very vivid. You have to wait until the very end too for a killer video joke. The mayor, pictured in 1968, passed away yesterday at age 85. His vision lives on in the 1%. ==
Continue readingThings Are Good: Vancouver Reduces Sexual Assaults by 10% Using Male-Targeted Ads
It’s unfortunate that we still need ad campaigns to remind women to be safe from sexual assault, it’s even more unfortunate that we target these campaigns at women when men cause the vast majority of assaults. In Vancouver they launched a campaign targeted at men called ‘Don’t Be That Guy’.
Continue readingeaves.ca: Algorithmic Regulation Spreading Across Government?
I was very, very excited to learn that the City of Vancouver is exploring implementing a program started in San Francisco in which “smart” parking meters adjust their price to reflect supply and demand (story is here in the Vancouver Sun). For those unfamiliar with the program, here is a
Continue readingTerahertz: Updates from the BC Humanists
I just thought I’d give a quick update of how things are going with the BC Humanists here in Vancouver. First, we’ve finalized the date and location of our new book club. We’ll be meeting the first Tuesday of each month at Our Town Cafe at Broadway and Kingsway in
Continue readingTerahertz: Stand against homophobia on the Vancouver School Board
Robin Perelle, writing for Xtra!, gives a good background on the swell of opposition to anti-homophobia policy in the lower mainland. Basically, NPA trustees Ken Denike and Sophia Woo have been caught red-handed in videos lying to the Christian Social Concern Fellowship that Vancouver has no anti-homophobia policy, when in
Continue readingeaves.ca: Open Data in BC – Good & Bad Examples from Bikes to Libraries
Some small examples of open data use and public servants who do and don’t understand open data from the Province of British Columbia to the City of Vancouver. Open Libraries? For the past several years – ever since the open motion was passed in Vancouver – the city has been
Continue readingImpolitical: (Un)Lawful Access
This looks like a great event for those in Vancouver on January 12th: (Un)Lawful Access: Premiere & Panel Discussion. It’s a premiere of a mini-documentary on the Harper government’s coming lawful access legislation. Additionally, the BC Civil Liberties Association is releasing a report they’ve done on the proposed law. Here’s
Continue readingSurvey: BC Liberals under Christy Clark slipping. NDP holding strong. Cons gaining on Libs.
‘Cannibal’ John Cummins takes the news cycle (Postmedia version) The big news in BC is the current dominance of the NDP in a new poll, which puts the party at 34 percent support. The Liberals and the Conservatives are split at 23 percent. Of course that would be the big
Continue readingeaves.ca: Using Open Data to Map Vancouver’s Trees
This week, in preparation for the International Open Data Hackathon on Saturday, the Vancouver Parks Board shared one neighborhood of its tree inventory database (that I’ve uploaded to Buzzdata) so that we could at least see how it might be leveraged by citizens. What’s interesting is how valuable this data
Continue readingTerahertz: I guess until now atheists knew to keep their mouths shut in Surrey
Wow I love newspaper titles. The South Fraser Unitarian Congregation was kind enough to send out a press release for my upcoming talk on humanism. Peace Arch News, based in White Rock, picked up the story under the headline “Atheist to speak in Newton.” It’s a fine article, but does
Continue readingTerahertz: #vanelxn Debrief
It’s hard to believe that the election was an entire week ago. Luckily though I handed in my thesis on Friday, so regular blogging can resume again. A lot has already been written about the Vancouver election, and I just thought I’d summarize my thoughts here quickly in a feature
Continue readingWhat Gregor Roberston’s win means to the right wing: “Vancouverites are now raising sheep and growing corn in their backyards”
You know how right wingers love to predict the end of the world if a non-conservative is elected? Republican presidential contenders in the States are predicting death panels, rampant socialism if not communism (or is it fascism – the right can’t seem to make up its mind), gay parents raping
Continue readingWhat Gregor Roberston’s win means to the right wing: "Vancouverites are now raising sheep and growing corn in their backyards"
You know how right wingers love to predict the end of the world if a non-conservative is elected? Republican presidential contenders in the States are predicting death panels, rampant socialism if not communism (or is it fascism – the right can’t seem to make up its mind), gay parents raping
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Occupy Canada – Tough going in the Canadain Winter.
Protesting the norm, the accepted, what is deemed credible will never be an easy task. Defenders of the status quo will defend their system with rationalizations that make sense to them and others in the system while dismissing outright, criticism and alternate points of view presented. This process of in-group/out-group
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Fixing Vision Vancouver’s Democratic Deficit
Now that Vision Vancouver has self-actualized as a political party, it’s time to see if they’ll now address some longstanding democratic deficits. The complexion of the city changed markedly last night as Vision elected all its candidates, the Greens got a seat on council, the NPA increased its representation and
Continue readingGregor Robertson’s stunning 23 point defeat of NPA’s Suzanne Anton
Leading up to last night’s overwhelming defeat of Suzanne Anton, you’d have believed the result would be reversed. Based on the highly-biased reporting in Vancouver’s two daily newspapers – both Postmedia – Anton was practically a shoo-in to defeat the more liberal Robertson. At the heart of Anton’s – and
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Liveblog – BC Civic Election Returms
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