Joel Wood 🇨🇦

Deadline extended to March 31

Cyclist running a stop: Puts self at risk

Driver running a stop: Puts cyclist at risk

When people talk about "law-breaking" among cyclists and drivers, it's important to remember that the actions are not remotely equivalent. A cyclist running a stop sign or riding on a sidewalk does not pose nearly the same risk as a driver speeding or running a stop sign.

Call for Participants for the 12th Canadian Resource & Enviro Economics Association Early Career Workshop. Deadline is March 31st.

Sunday May 31, 2026 in Vancouver, Canada, immediately following the 2026 CEA meeting hosted at SFU. #EconSky

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hard to decide whether this offends me more as a journalist or as a citizen, but then I guess I don't need to choose.

Canadian governments hate and fear the public, a continuing series.

We can’t achieve housing affordability through inclusionary zoning while also giving exclusionary zoning a pass.

elmo from sesame street says yep in a cartoon ALT: elmo from sesame street says yep in a cartoon

𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙢𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩 of 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙥, 𝙈𝘼𝙂𝘼, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚. 𝙒𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨.

Except ~50% of the CPC voters in Canada

Canadian Arendz and Hudak win bronze medals at Paralympics Canadian Para nordic skiers Mark Arendz and Brittany Hudak won bronze medals Wednesday at the Milan Cortina Paralympics.

Canadian cross-country skiers Arendz and Hudak win bronze medals at Paralympics

Elder millenial nerd dad liked your post. My post is complaining about Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menance

I absolutely love that the account to ‘like‘ this post is called “elder millennial nerd dad”

They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE

“Thomson Reuters is a $50 billion Toronto-based company that owns the Reuters news service. It also operates a widely used legal research tool, Westlaw, whose operations are based in the suburbs of Minneapolis. Thousands of the company’s employees live there.”

Trump & Hegseth want pwn-ership of the Strait of Hormuz, because they pwned Iran

Yeah the movie starts with a good idea, but then spends what feels like half the movie on podracing. Not to mention the cringe caricatures of some of the aliens.

I refuse to ever apologize to George Lucas

they will have the university student government vote locked up

Don’t worry, Kevin Hassett has an Excel spreadsheet to adjust for that

Mariners fans are getting a higher end version of a Pirate Pack

Come to British Columbia and go get a Pirate Pack at White Spot

Democrats ask what happened to millions earmarked for Trump’s library ABC, Meta, Paramount and X reportedly agreed to pay at least $63 million in settlements with the president. The original fund was dissolved last year.

Looks like Trump pocketed the $63 million in settlement money that was intended for his presidential library.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

QUALIFIED FOR PLAYOFFS

The Canadian wheelchair curling team has clinched a semifinal berth at the Paralympics due the results in this morning’s draw.

At 6-0 Canada leads the way and now aims to lock up top spot in the round robin.

Canada is an incredibly rich country, it is incredibly sad that we cannot provide housing to some of the most vulnerable members of our society

Oh my god. This whole thread.

They just decided to YOLO a war.

After more than a week...

Them: AI is going to make workers more productive!

Also them: 👇

baseball. the sport of italy

Russia committed crimes against humanity through deportation of Ukrainian children, UN inquiry finds The forced deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children by Russia throughout its full-scale war in Ukraine amounts to crimes against humanity, a United Nations (UN) investigation published on March ...

⚡️Russia committed crimes against humanity through deportation of Ukrainian children, UN inquiry finds.

The forced deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children by Russia throughout its full-scale war in Ukraine amounts to crimes against humanity, a UN investigation published on March 10 found.

More than 600 RCMP officers faced gender-based violence disciplinary charges since 2014, CBC analysis finds | CBC News A CBC investigation of RCMP disciplinary records reveals hundreds of cases of alleged gender-based violence by members. Through a series of access requests, CBC received more than 10 years of discipli...

More than 600 RCMP officers faced gender-based violence disciplinary charges since 2014, CBC analysis finds

Researcher calls findings the 'tip of the iceberg'
www.cbc.ca/news/investi...

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Today Vancouver council is set to approve a staff recommendation to back away from their push to become a Bitcoin friendly city.

Here's my story about it, along with an extended montage about what Ken Sim has said about Bitcoin on various podcasts in the last two years.

Pierre Poilievre Wants You to Believe Adam Smith Was a Conservative. He Wasn’t. Today is the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Pierre Poilievre has marked the occasion with a National Post op-ed arguing that “free markets are moral” — invok…

A very necessary rebuttal to Pierre Poilievre's misinterpretation of Adam Smith. Thank you for writing this @lindsaytedds.bsky.social

Pierre Poilievre Wants You to Believe Adam Smith Was a Conservative. He Wasn’t.
deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/p...