Robyn Hanson

VPD officers tracked down a big, furry suspect last Tuesday around 1:00 a.m. after the VPD received 911 calls about a black bear wandering around Commercial Drive and Grandview Highway. Patrol officers located the bear, and the Emergency Response Team assisted when the bear was getting a little too close to people nearby. The BC Conservation Officer Service was called, while VPD officers contained the bear as it moved toward Hastings and Commercial. When the Conservation Service arrived, the bear was tranquilized and taken to North Vancouver. Nobody was hurt, the bear slept it off, and was released without charges.

Collaborating with the awesome Jonni Walker on this Vancouver AIS visual featuring @Kpler data on top of what is probably the most stunning map I've seen created in @Mapbox! Kudos Jonni 🙌 #dataviz #motion #gis #maps #ais

Vancouver in 1988. credit: vancouver archives

🪿Mom and her littles one crossing Georgia St this morning heading to spend their day at the park. 🏞️ ⚠️A good reminder to👁️watch👁️for wildlife, even in major city centres. 🌆 #Vancouver #BCHwy99 #StanleyPark

We have our Alpha Tomato Plants for sale. Tomato planting time is arriving fast this year, 12C at night, tomatoes delight. Alpha is the earliest producing tomato for our climate and produces the latest.

What did the Artemis II astronauts do when they landed back on Earth? Share a bag of peanut M&Ms. "When we landed, we splashed down into the Pacific Ocean ... and Christina, out of her spacesuit pocket, goes, 'I got some peanut M&Ms, anybody want some?'" Wiseman said on CBS Mornings. "And so we're leaning against the side of the spacecraft, just come back from the moon, eating peanut M&Ms. We were happy."

Japanese tall ship Kaiwo Maru, 110m (361 ft) long and 55m (182 ft) high, arrives in #Vancouver April 29, 2026 and will be in #Steveston this weekend for viewing. 2X speed video. #tallship #richmond #timelapse

A significant heatwave is expected in the PNW, particularly in British Columbia. Saturday, Sunday and Monday should be the hottest days. We should have 30°C in Metro Vancouver [not in Vancouver itself, of course] and 35°C is not out of the question in Lytton or Ashcroft. #BCstorm

@nathano235 It looks legit. Nicely done!

Canadian/québécois friends, I’ve made my first poutine as a fat American. How did I do visually?

IT'S OFFICIAL... La Maison #Simons will open a 92,000 sf store within a portion of the former Nordstrom space at CF Pacific Centre in downtown Vancouver. It's one of 4 new retailers, including Aritzia, set to occupy the former Nordstrom. #vancre #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/simo…

#Whale putting on a great show from #StanleyPark at sunset. #Vancouver

It's our home. This Earth Day, see our planet as our Artemis II astronauts saw it with these new images from the mission.

Every time I look up at the Moon now, even the one at Space Center Houston, it feels different. It’s no longer just a distant light in the night sky — it’s a place I’ve studied up close with my own eyes. I find myself tracing its features, recognizing the shadows, the craters, the quiet stories written across its surface. The Moon hasn’t changed, but now when I observe it, it comes back to life in my mind with a new and treasured perspective.

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

The closest I got to donning my ski socks this season! I haven’t been able to get any turns in from my temporary home at the @Space_Station, but at least I have stunning views of the mountains where I fell in love with backcountry skiing. Though I started x-country skiing at the age of 2 (thanks to my Swedish mother!) and took up alpine skiing in college, it was only while doing my post-doc at @UBC that I realized I could combine the two for the most ultimate of snow passions. How was your ski season? Photo 1: Ski socks over Vancouver and the Coast Mountains, taken in the @Space_Station Cupola Photo 2: View of Vancouver and the Coast Mountains with Earth limb from the Cupola Photo 3: Zoom of @WhistlerBlckcmb (seventh heaven baby!) at center of image

Jeremy Hanson is a class act! @NASA

PS- it’s hard not to love this little guy. I cant let Rise out of my sight…currently tethered to my water bottle.

Hi! I’m Rise! About a week ago, I launched aboard the Artemis II mission with four of my besties. Since then, I have been serving a very important purpose aboard the Orion spacecraft… I float. (And I look cute.) Today, I am taking over the Artemis social media accounts! -Rise

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…

Jeremy Hansen became an astronaut in 2009. He waited 17 years to go to space. His first trip off Earth is a flight around the Moon. He grew up on a farm near a small town in Ontario, Canada. As a kid, he saw a photograph of Neil Armstrong standing on the lunar surface and wondered what it would feel like to be up there. He joined the Air Cadets at 12. Earned his glider wings at 16. Had his pilot's license at 17, before he could legally drink or vote in Canada. He went to military college and studied space science. Got a master's in physics. Then he spent six years as a fighter pilot flying CF-18 Hornets (Canada's version of the F-18) out of Cold Lake, Alberta, protecting North American airspace under NORAD, the joint US-Canada defense system that monitors every aircraft entering the continent's skies. He flew Arctic missions. Logged more than 4,000 hours in the cockpit across 25 different aircraft. The Canadian Space Agency picked him in 2009. Two spots opened up out of the entire country. He got one. Moved to Houston. Finished NASA's astronaut training in 2011. Then he waited. And waited. Canada only gets a crew seat on the International Space Station about once every five or six years because of how funding is split among countries. His colleague David Saint-Jacques, who was selected the same year, flew to the station in 2018. Hansen kept training. He lived underground for six days in a cave in Sardinia, Italy. Spent a week on the ocean floor in a small habitat off the coast of Florida, simulating what deep space isolation feels like. Joined a geology expedition in the Canadian High Arctic, studying rock formations that look like the surface of the Moon. In 2017, NASA asked him to lead the training of an entire class of new astronauts, the first time they had ever given that job to someone who wasn't American. He did all of that without ever leaving Earth. Canada earned its seat on Artemis II because of the Canadarm, the robotic arm that flew on every Space Shuttle mission for 30 years and now runs on the Space Station. Canada put roughly $2 billion toward building the next version for future Moon operations, and NASA gave them a crew spot on the first flight back. Hansen was the pick. Five days ago, on April 1, he launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. His three crewmates, Wiseman, Glover, and Koch, have all been to space before. Hansen hadn't. His first time feeling weightlessness, his first time seeing Earth from outside it, his first time in a spacecraft at all, is a ten-day trip around the Moon, roughly 252,000 miles from home, farther than any human has ever traveled. He told reporters from orbit that it "makes me feel like a little kid." He is 50 years old, with three teenagers and a wife named Catherine, who is a doctor back in Houston. On flight day one, as Orion swung back toward Earth before the engine burn that would send them to the Moon, Hansen turned to his commander and said, "It feels like we're going to hit it. It's amazing that we're actually going to go around and miss this thing."