Reluctant Activist
@reluctantactivist.bsky.social
Human advocate and activist trying to hold accountable the agencies, municipalities and businesses that don’t give a crap about the little guys or the environment
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Hi @impurbanhealth.bsky.social do you have any suggestions for how to get fast action on a vicious #polluter in our mixed-use neighbourhood in #NorthVancouver? @metrovancouverorg.bsky.social and @cityofnorthvan.bsky.social haven’t been much help! We are bombarded here and it’s bad. Real bad. #help
And to think we’ve had a commercial wood burning restaurant move into neighbourhood 5yrs ago without consult or warning, permitted by @cityofnorthvan.bsky.social. And @metrovancouverorg.bsky.social lets them fill the air we breathe with smoke unabated. Even enters our home! @globalnews.ca
September 14, 2025 at 6:11 AM
And to think we’ve had a commercial wood burning restaurant move into neighbourhood 5yrs ago without consult or warning, permitted by @cityofnorthvan.bsky.social. And @metrovancouverorg.bsky.social lets them fill the air we breathe with smoke unabated. Even enters our home! @globalnews.ca
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📢Our Amplifying Voices strand partners with the communities who are most affected by air pollution to advocate for change.
🫶As part of that strand, we're proud to support TSIP's work to listen to the communities most affected by air pollution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbt_...
🫶As part of that strand, we're proud to support TSIP's work to listen to the communities most affected by air pollution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbt_...
Amplifying Voices: The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP)
We partnered with Imperial College London and social enterprise TSIP to work with residents in Lambeth and Southwark to create the UK’s first co-designed, solar-powered, outdoor air quality display…
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September 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
📢Our Amplifying Voices strand partners with the communities who are most affected by air pollution to advocate for change.
🫶As part of that strand, we're proud to support TSIP's work to listen to the communities most affected by air pollution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbt_...
🫶As part of that strand, we're proud to support TSIP's work to listen to the communities most affected by air pollution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbt_...
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Metro Vancouver unlikely to hit 2030 climate targets as total emissions climb
Metro Vancouver unlikely to hit 2030 climate targets as total emissions climb
Despite progress, Metro Vancouver's greenhouse gas emissions are still higher than they were in 2010, even as per capita carbon emissions decline. A report partially blamed it on population growth.
dlvr.it
September 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Metro Vancouver unlikely to hit 2030 climate targets as total emissions climb
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The range of blue and green jays has begun overlapping in Texas because of global warming, and they are now forming hybrids (middle pic below) despite being separated by an estimated 7 million years of evolution 🧪
An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
September 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The range of blue and green jays has begun overlapping in Texas because of global warming, and they are now forming hybrids (middle pic below) despite being separated by an estimated 7 million years of evolution 🧪
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Kirk LaPointe: Metro Vancouver taxpayers left in the dark over ballooning sewage plant costs
Kirk LaPointe: Metro Vancouver taxpayers left in the dark over ballooning sewage plant costs
Rejection of public inquiry into North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant abrogates province's duty.
dlvr.it
September 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Kirk LaPointe: Metro Vancouver taxpayers left in the dark over ballooning sewage plant costs
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B.C. not-for-profits call for funding reform amid burnout, rising costs
B.C. not-for-profits call for funding reform amid burnout, rising costs
The province's top organizations saw revenue growth last year, but smaller groups continue to struggle.
dlvr.it
September 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
B.C. not-for-profits call for funding reform amid burnout, rising costs
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B.C. company fined over $68K for polluting endangered fish habitat
B.C. company fined over $68K for polluting endangered fish habitat
A company operating a mobile home park has been penalized more than $68,000 for allowing sewage to flow into a Langley, B.C., river.
dlvr.it
September 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
B.C. company fined over $68K for polluting endangered fish habitat
Ummm…you see this @metrovancouverorg.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Ummm…you see this @metrovancouverorg.bsky.social
Hi @metrovancouverorg.bsky.social @cityofnorthvan.bsky.social when might you do something to stop the #toxic, chemical by-product air #pollution spewed into homes/lungs daily by restaurants? #Smoke/odor is all over neighbourhood. Be green. Stop virtue signaling.
#NorthVan #BC #bcpoli #climatecrisis
#NorthVan #BC #bcpoli #climatecrisis
September 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Hi @metrovancouverorg.bsky.social @cityofnorthvan.bsky.social when might you do something to stop the #toxic, chemical by-product air #pollution spewed into homes/lungs daily by restaurants? #Smoke/odor is all over neighbourhood. Be green. Stop virtue signaling.
#NorthVan #BC #bcpoli #climatecrisis
#NorthVan #BC #bcpoli #climatecrisis
Take note @metrovancouverorg.bsky.social and @cityofnorthvan.bsky.social… what is all that restaurant smoke doing to locals here in #NorthVancouver?!?
💔If you live in an area with high air pollution, you're 27% more likely to develop heart failure.
📈For every extra one microgram in an area where people lived, the risk of developing heart failure increased by 7% and the stroke risk grew by 3%
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
📈For every extra one microgram in an area where people lived, the risk of developing heart failure increased by 7% and the stroke risk grew by 3%
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Millions of Britons face higher risk of heart failure due to dirty air, study suggests
Exclusive: stroke risk is 7% higher and heart failure risk increases by 27% in areas with worst level of pollution, research shows
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Take note @metrovancouverorg.bsky.social and @cityofnorthvan.bsky.social… what is all that restaurant smoke doing to locals here in #NorthVancouver?!?
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Did you know that #airpollution, smoke, dust, and pollen can trigger dangerous #asthma attacks?
With the right inhaled treatment and clean air policies, we can fight back.
#WorldAsthmaDay
With the right inhaled treatment and clean air policies, we can fight back.
#WorldAsthmaDay
May 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Did you know that #airpollution, smoke, dust, and pollen can trigger dangerous #asthma attacks?
With the right inhaled treatment and clean air policies, we can fight back.
#WorldAsthmaDay
With the right inhaled treatment and clean air policies, we can fight back.
#WorldAsthmaDay
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"When I first found out about #WoodBurning & the #AirPollution it causes, I wanted to ignore it. I love a fire! But it's very hard to do something that you know is killing your family, so after a few more fires I stopped, & realised they were actually a huge pain. Now we just rely on the radiator."
May 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"When I first found out about #WoodBurning & the #AirPollution it causes, I wanted to ignore it. I love a fire! But it's very hard to do something that you know is killing your family, so after a few more fires I stopped, & realised they were actually a huge pain. Now we just rely on the radiator."
Hi @impurbanhealth.bsky.social do you have any suggestions for how to get fast action on a vicious #polluter in our mixed-use neighbourhood in #NorthVancouver? @metrovancouverorg.bsky.social and @cityofnorthvan.bsky.social haven’t been much help! We are bombarded here and it’s bad. Real bad. #help
April 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Hi @impurbanhealth.bsky.social do you have any suggestions for how to get fast action on a vicious #polluter in our mixed-use neighbourhood in #NorthVancouver? @metrovancouverorg.bsky.social and @cityofnorthvan.bsky.social haven’t been much help! We are bombarded here and it’s bad. Real bad. #help
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As a kid we had to "scratch then sniff" things.
So I know hardship.
So I know hardship.
March 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
As a kid we had to "scratch then sniff" things.
So I know hardship.
So I know hardship.
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President dances to YMCA at Justice Department after threatening judges democratic norms reduced to surrealist theater. Nothing reveals constitutional collapse quite like witnessing revenge fantasies delivered with disco soundtrack. Even dictatorships maintained better ceremonial dignity. I'm numb.
March 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
President dances to YMCA at Justice Department after threatening judges democratic norms reduced to surrealist theater. Nothing reveals constitutional collapse quite like witnessing revenge fantasies delivered with disco soundtrack. Even dictatorships maintained better ceremonial dignity. I'm numb.
This is depressing 😔
Insanity: today the EPA actually issued a press release with congratulatory quotes from the coal, oil and gas, forest products, and petrochemical industries congratulating them for rolling back environmental protections:
www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: Leaders Applaud EPA’s Historic Deregulatory Actions to Power the Great American Comeback | US EPA
EPA News Release: WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: Leaders Applaud EPA’s Historic Deregulatory Actions to Power the Great American Comeback
www.epa.gov
March 15, 2025 at 6:18 AM
This is depressing 😔
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I can't sign, but maybe some of my Canadian friends on here can, and help pass it along as well.
Let Elon know he's not wanted anywhere!
Let Elon know he's not wanted anywhere!
Okay friends this is a fun challenge.
Canada's right are rallying around Elon Musk to say much they love him.
They are freaked out that my petition is about to be become most signed petition in Canadian history.
Send a message to Elon, please sign my petition.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Canada's right are rallying around Elon Musk to say much they love him.
They are freaked out that my petition is about to be become most signed petition in Canadian history.
Send a message to Elon, please sign my petition.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
March 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I can't sign, but maybe some of my Canadian friends on here can, and help pass it along as well.
Let Elon know he's not wanted anywhere!
Let Elon know he's not wanted anywhere!
Good question @metrovancouverorg.bsky.social. If woodsmoke and tobacco smoke contain many of the same harmful, carcinogenic substances, why has @cmadocs.bsky.social… well, you get the idea ⤵️
#MetroVan #Woodsmoke
#MetroVan #Woodsmoke
Woodsmoke and tobacco smoke contain many of the same carcinogenic substances, for example formaldehyde, benzene and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
We don't have NHS-approved cigarettes, so why is it OK to have a Defra-approved stove?
#NationalNoSmokingDay #WoodBurningStove
We don't have NHS-approved cigarettes, so why is it OK to have a Defra-approved stove?
#NationalNoSmokingDay #WoodBurningStove
March 13, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Good question @metrovancouverorg.bsky.social. If woodsmoke and tobacco smoke contain many of the same harmful, carcinogenic substances, why has @cmadocs.bsky.social… well, you get the idea ⤵️
#MetroVan #Woodsmoke
#MetroVan #Woodsmoke
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I just telephoned the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, to express my concerns about his agency's planned rollbacks and urged him to reconsider them. I encourage others to do the same as well.
March 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I just telephoned the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, to express my concerns about his agency's planned rollbacks and urged him to reconsider them. I encourage others to do the same as well.
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Let's not forget the Tarnak Farm incident where US pilots bombs and killed 4 Canadian soldiers and wounded 8 others because they were high on government provided speed
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Grieving Canadians stunned U.S. pilots took drugs | CBC News
Relatives of Canadian soldiers killed by a U.S. bomb in Afghanistan are stunned that the pilots had been given amphetamines
www.cbc.ca
March 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Let's not forget the Tarnak Farm incident where US pilots bombs and killed 4 Canadian soldiers and wounded 8 others because they were high on government provided speed
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
🔥 @metrovancouverorg.bsky.social can you please explain why you’d issue a #Pollution Prevention Order to a #NorthVancouver restaurant and not see to it it’s enforced? Why is this so hard? Your own #literature says the #smoke is toxic! How #Trump of you!
#bcpoli #BC
#notgreen #environment
#bcpoli #BC
#notgreen #environment
March 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
🔥 @metrovancouverorg.bsky.social can you please explain why you’d issue a #Pollution Prevention Order to a #NorthVancouver restaurant and not see to it it’s enforced? Why is this so hard? Your own #literature says the #smoke is toxic! How #Trump of you!
#bcpoli #BC
#notgreen #environment
#bcpoli #BC
#notgreen #environment