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Just saw these new 2024 car sales facts on StatsCanada. www150.statcan.gc.ca/.../250313/dq2… Quebec leads in EV sales. It's why a pipeline to Quebec will never happen. EV sales up 41%, but gas car sales only increased by 1%! They will soon become collector items like horse drawn carriages.

@BaldUpNorth @stephen_taylor No. Wasn’t that Harper?

@stephen_taylor Changed our money too*

The Liberal Party of Canada: - Lowered the 🇨🇦 flag for 6 months - Rewrote the anthem because they said it was sexist - Removed national symbols from our passports - Removed portrait of Canada's Queen from govt buildings - Called Canada a post-national state guilty of genocide

@jimfarley98 @Ford As the price of solar power drops car companies will offer solar panel installation as a low cost option or maybe even for free and then the car is free to drive for life. This will happen for sure.

Auto shoppers say they're more likely to buy an electric vehicle if they could fill up at home. So we’re going to make it easy for our customers. If you buy or lease a new @Ford electric vehicle, we’ll include a complimentary home charger. This is part of something we’re calling the Ford Power Promise, which is about giving our electric vehicle customers convenience, peace of mind and expert service. I explain more about the #FordPowerPromise here:

@HeidiBriones Eat half of anything you get

Married people who aren't fat, what's your secret?

@geraldposner I wonder if the deputy secretary general could have something to do with it? un.org/sg/en/dsg/inde…

I must admit to using the ‘word count’ excuse to someone I’ve interviewed who didn’t make the final cut. But, never could I have imagined a UN official using ‘word count’ to explain why the UN did not include Hamas’s use of Gazans as shields in its Children in Armed Conflict rpt

@BrentToderian Vancouver. Uncanny that there is not one single pedestrianized street in this car-mad city. It would be so easy to do. Eg. Granville or Robson. I mean true pedestrianization 365 days. Limited Vehicle access from 11:00pm till 10:00am perhaps. Like a thousand other cities.

QUESTION: We often talk about cities doing great things that inspire us, and I usually don’t spend much time bashing other cities even when they deserve it. But there are special cities that just SHOULD BE SO MUCH BETTER than they are. Ottawa comes to mind for me. What yours?

@vortuosity Given that our species evolved for hundreds of thousands of years to sit by camp fires and candles or oil lamps It’s safe to say you will be fine.

What's Canada doing for global warming? Last summer production of crude oil rose 1.5% to 24.8 million cubic metres, the highest volume in history. This was the third consecutive monthly year-over-year increase, driven by production of synthetic crude oil, up 16.6%. Yay Canada!

Our bands latest music video with original song for Halloween 2023: youtu.be/Tv7NNUdA6Gc?si…

@j_mcelroy I am in Japan. There is no housing crisis. No homeless. A 1BR apartment in Tokyo or Kyoto rents for $350/mo. A small family home costs about $300,000 in CA$. These are world class cities arguably far more sophisticated than Vancouver. Housing is not an investment tool here.

here's a three-bedroom townhouse on the outskirts of the city of langley in 2004, it sold for $205,000 — ideal for working-class young families, without an inheritance, encouraged to stay in vancouver but live in the suburbs today, it was announced it sold again for $685,000

@melodyma @BillTieleman @CityofVancouver The totally empty multi floor parking lot is a total waste of real estate.

1/ The Chinatown Plaza Mall owned by @CityofVancouver is one of the most underused & mismanaged spaces in #ChinatownYVR. Management called police on tai chi seniors. The City would rather leave it vacant to get top dollar. It's empty & gated at night. It's maddening. #vanpoli

Every newscast about wildfires, hurricanes, and floods should state that national production of oil and gas INCREASES every month and that government policy encourages EVER INCREASING PRODUCTION of fossil fuels which is the root cause of this "unprecedented" disaster.

@j_mcelroy Lululemon ass bra

between the renovated sro unit going for $2000 a month and the daycare next to a park being rejected due to neighbourhood opposition my mentions are full of bees at the moment what's the most iconic piece of vancouver clothing

@j_mcelroy Canada line is a totally different technology from a different country (Korea) so it’s very very different.

alright we've had some good discussion now it's time to decide is it correct to say "I'm on the SkyTrain" for the entire rapid transit system, or just the Expo/Millennium Line?

can the entire TransLink rapid transit system be called “SkyTrain”, or does that make one sound dated? discuss

@teslaownersSV Vancouver Canada. There’s like 100,000 Teslas here.

Fam, #teslatakeover is going global. Where should we go next in 2024? Obviously the event in SLO will still happen but what’s the next place that needs this.

@fabulavancouver Every few years you have to get your broker to shop around and get you a better deal from a different company. It can be done. If they say no, get a new broker.

If you're willing to share, wondering what people are paying for house/condo insurance these days. I just got my bill and it was, well, startling. When I phoned to ask, the person said Lloyd's is charging a lot more for earthquake insurance. Great, except I don't have that. So ??

@peternowak Can someone please provide CA$ numbers for any of these new rates?

Today's duelling telecom news makes you wonder: if the "new" #CRTC actually makes a consumer-friendly decision, will the "old" telco-friendly government overturn it on the inevitable appeal?

This is worth reading. More than a century after colonization nearly eradicated key fish populations around Vancouver, British Columbia, the Tsleil-Waututh Nation is looking to the past to restore the ecosystem. hakaimagazine.com/news/we-knew-v… via @hakaimagazine

@drmichaellevin All good stuff on Earth right now is due to cheap energy (from fossil fuels) including your lab, research, home, food, everything. But it's hurting the planet and all life. We need to change to solar energy. This CAN be done, will be cheaper, and will define the world 2123.

Many have voiced concerns over futures they do not want: we're replaced by AI, modified beyond recognition by enhancements & biotech, etc. Focusing on the positive - best case scenario: has anyone posed a plausible vision of what you *do* want? In 2123, what do things look like?

@george__mack No one will build a house or building without solar panels in the same way that nobody makes homes or buildings without toilets today.

I'm shortly going to be starting a new series: "What ideas sound crazy today -- but will be normal 10 years from now?" If you have any great examples, please send them below.

What is ignored or neglected by the media -- but will be studied by historians? Here's the full list of 25 examples: