Michael Schwandt

Also, from one article on the testimony: "He arrived at committee with one binder of documents featuring the CBC logo on the cover and another emblazoned with the word 'receipts.'"

Outrageous flex and I love it.

So sorry to read this -- important for people to know. Thanks for sharing it.

The 'who?' question about the list has got to be findable-outable, right? It seems like a _lot_ of producers etc who would need to be up on it...

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(“You know who is getting hurt from these geopolitical tensions??? Those of us who drive a super car. Time to get a bus pass.”)

Funding to save Vancouver Car Free Days unanimously approved by council Vancouver city council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve $30,000 in funding to prevent the cancellation of a popular summer event this year.

Huge thanks to @lucymaloney.bsky.social and @seanorr.bsky.social who brought a motion to fund Car Free Day and prevent its cancellation! And kudos to all of council for passing this unanimously. We will see you there!

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Swiss mountainside fault grows as evacuation plans prepared The “Fios fault” in the Val d’Anniviers region in southern Switzerland has now stretched to 250 metres and continues to grow.

It's all coming down @1.5C 😞

Swiss mountainside fault grows as evacuation plans prepared

www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-...

Excited to share our latest research, now published in the International Journal of Sustainable Transport: "Gender differences in bicycle infrastructure use and preferences: A disconnect between ideals and reality."

Article: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XMQVJ...

‘Mass Death on This Scale Is Incomprehensible’ | The Tyee Overdose deaths are trending down, but BC is still in the thick of a crisis. Here’s what the data tells us.

So far more than 19,053 British Columbians have been killed since early 2014, when unregulated fentanyl started showing up in the illicit drug supply.

thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

Story checks out.

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Federal immigration cuts lead to 'devastating' gutting of services for immigrants to Vancouver The budget cuts are so deep that neighbourhood houses like Frog Hollow will lay off seven full-time employees, Collingwood will lose 20.

“The federal government thinks they can turn funding on and off like a tap, but these are people,” said researcher @verosioufi.bsky.social. “People don’t get settled overnight.”
vancouversun.com/news/federal...

No one goes to war over a solar panel Fossil fuels aren't a shield against chaos. They are a conduit for it.

"Real energy security is about reducing strategic vulnerability. Every rooftop solar panel is an act of economic sovereignty. Every wind turbine is a barrel of oil that never has to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Every MW-hour of storage makes a grid less dependent on a pipeline or a tanker."

Millions more people are in the path of rising seas than previously thought Oceans are rising as the climate changes, threatening coastal cities. A new study shows that much more of the world's population is vulnerable than earlier predictions had estimated.

most scientific research uses ocean heights that are about 10 inches lower than they actually are today 👀🌊

Millions more people are in the path of rising seas than previously thought

www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

every journalist and historian in the country is going to flip the fuck out

A little shameless self promotion here.
Was honoured to be asked to write the environmental health chapter for the MedSci 101 textbook Core Concepts in Health (5th Ed).
It came out last week.
Definitely a stretch for me, something I've never done.
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By the book: Alberta schools pull at least 160 titles from shelves to meet provincial order | CBC News Alberta school divisions complying with a provincial order have removed dozens of graphic novels from their shelves, from illustrated versions of literary classics to coming-of-age memoirs and dramati...

"Parents for Choice in Education...sent volunteers hunting for copies in schools."

I'm not worried about the books in my kid's school but I would be worried about PCE creeps wandering around the library looking for what they deem to be smut.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If you haven't already, consider subscribing to @thetyee.ca -- they do amazing work and I'm so grateful to them for partnering with me on this story!

Fever dream: Australia sweltered through one of the hottest summers on record, with little relief at night Data shows that some locations stayed well above 30C through the night during a heatwave in late January

Scientists warned us for years that extreme weather events will intensify as the climate crisis advances. We don’t lack warnings; we lack action.

Better than “Nimrod”?

Actually, Nimrod is pretty good…

Generally people are doing a lot more outside in the affected evening hours than the affected morning hours, so I get that.

People complain about getting up and going to work in the dark. People complain about leaving work and doing evening activities in the dark. Hard to tell either they're wrong.

Today, if we had DST we'd have sunrise at 7:48am and sunset and sunset at 6:59pm in Vancouver.

I just don't find it surprising or so insensible that some people prefer that to a 6:48am sunrise with a 5:59pm sunset.

But evidently some people are thinking of other impacts; some horses aren't just thinking of water?

Enjoying daylight in the early evening doesn't seem like a wild position to me.

...and if someone thinks that phase delay and keeping sunrise as close as possible to waking time is the only thing worth considering, I guess it could feel like people who feel otherwise are horses who just won't drink that water.

_“The problem with daylight savings time is that it induces what we call phase delay,” she told CTV News Channel on Tuesday, explaining that morning darkness and evening light will cause people to naturally fall asleep and wake up later._

Sure, that makes sense...

Permanent daylight time will cause sleep problems, B.C. expert says While an end to the hassle of changing the clocks back and forth twice a year is welcome news to many, a sleep expert has health concerns about B.C.’s decision to remain on daylight time year-round.

Some media pickup on this: www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

I just don't think there is that level of certainty on daylight time vs standard time, one way or the other.

But I know some people do!

Thanks for sharing those articles, too.

2:35-2:55 🥲

Klendathu Drop (Starship Troopers) [accordion cover] YouTube video by Jackson Parodi

I know YouTube's algo is garbage because I only saw this when a friend sent it to me.

youtu.be/BTGZlflKzuw?...

Adopting permanent daylight saving time ‘Spring forward’ on March 8 will be the last time change, ending twice-yearly clock changes

Congratulations to all of the pet owners that live in British Columbia and no longer have to 'explain' to their fur friends why breakfast/lunch/dinner has shifted to a different hour in the day as part of a 'silly human tradition'

#PermaDST

Would you prefer permanent standard time, with more light in the morning and less in the evening? That could be nice, too!

From a health perspective, the twice-yearly changes seem to have negative impacts, perhaps more so than exactly where we put our 8 hours of winter daylight on the clock.

And a preference of humans at specific latitudes, at that! Much of the world never has days or nights longer than 10 hours, let alone 16-hour days and nights.

These are all just policy decisions, without a single "right" way to do it.

There's no natural law that sunrise needs to be at 8am on the winter solstice. That's just an invention of humans. (Like clocks.)