Eugene McCann
@ejmccann.bsky.social
Geographer at Simon Fraser University. Policy mobilities; urban politics; harm reduction; social movements. Managing editor, EPC: Politics & Space (journals.sagepub.com/home/epc). Host, 'Minor Revisions' podcast (http://bit.ly/3suN9ur). Views my own.
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Eugene McCann
@ejmccann.bsky.social
· Dec 31
Didn't introduce myself here. Maybe should since the Nov 24 follower influx. I'm a critical urban political geographer, studying how #socialmovement activists use space & place, locally & globally. I also study the politics of urban development & public space. Some things published in 23 & 24 🧵👇
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November 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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I just wrote a letter urging the Provincial and City governments to purchase the 570 Columbia / 105 Keefer site for community uses rather than gentrifying market condos. You can write a letter too: share.nwmd.social/s/p7r32R7G #vanpoli #vanre #chinatown #keefer
Tell Premier Eby and Mayor and Council to Acquire 570 Columbia / 105 Keefer
share.nwmd.social
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I just wrote a letter urging the Provincial and City governments to purchase the 570 Columbia / 105 Keefer site for community uses rather than gentrifying market condos. You can write a letter too: share.nwmd.social/s/p7r32R7G #vanpoli #vanre #chinatown #keefer
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This resident is objecting to the new Lime scooter station because - not a joke - it's "ruining her view."
This is what we're up against when we push for more micromobility.
vancouversun.com/news/east-va...
This is what we're up against when we push for more micromobility.
vancouversun.com/news/east-va...
'We had no recourse': East Vancouver residents object to new e-scooter docking stations
During its first phase in Vancouver, Lime introduced e-scooters and docking stations in the Hastings-Sunrise and Grandview-Woodland areas.
vancouversun.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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"Outwith" really is a valuable word. Everyone should use it. For example: "The English language is broad and varied. It exists outwith the narrow constraints of Microsoft English."
Comment to editor: “Outwith is a commonly used and very useful Scottish word which Microsoft refuses to accept.”
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
"Outwith" really is a valuable word. Everyone should use it. For example: "The English language is broad and varied. It exists outwith the narrow constraints of Microsoft English."
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Stop Ken Sim’s Cuts!
Use our letter-writing tool to 'barrage' ABC with opposition to this disastrous budget.
This budget:
Cuts Arts & Culture
Cuts Community Services
Mistreats city staff
Under-funds Libraries
Cuts Millions from Parks and Rec
Cuts baby changing tables(?!)
votecope.ca/stopsim
Use our letter-writing tool to 'barrage' ABC with opposition to this disastrous budget.
This budget:
Cuts Arts & Culture
Cuts Community Services
Mistreats city staff
Under-funds Libraries
Cuts Millions from Parks and Rec
Cuts baby changing tables(?!)
votecope.ca/stopsim
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Stop Ken Sim’s Cuts!
Use our letter-writing tool to 'barrage' ABC with opposition to this disastrous budget.
This budget:
Cuts Arts & Culture
Cuts Community Services
Mistreats city staff
Under-funds Libraries
Cuts Millions from Parks and Rec
Cuts baby changing tables(?!)
votecope.ca/stopsim
Use our letter-writing tool to 'barrage' ABC with opposition to this disastrous budget.
This budget:
Cuts Arts & Culture
Cuts Community Services
Mistreats city staff
Under-funds Libraries
Cuts Millions from Parks and Rec
Cuts baby changing tables(?!)
votecope.ca/stopsim
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Write a letter to Vancouver Mayor Sim & his ABC Council majority share.nwmd.social/s/OgwWFi3l
Stop Ken Sim's Cut-Filled 2026 Billionaire Budget
share.nwmd.social
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Write a letter to Vancouver Mayor Sim & his ABC Council majority share.nwmd.social/s/OgwWFi3l
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Today is World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. One of our volunteers @margiesanderson.bsky.social spent the morning postering locations where pedestrians have been killed this year in Vancouver alone.
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Today is World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. One of our volunteers @margiesanderson.bsky.social spent the morning postering locations where pedestrians have been killed this year in Vancouver alone.
One of my main goals in life is to keep my name and courses off of my university's subreddit. #academicsky
November 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
One of my main goals in life is to keep my name and courses off of my university's subreddit. #academicsky
someone needs to do this for the 20! #vancouver www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Samuel Ojo on the world of the night bus – cartoon
There’s never a dull moment on the top deck
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
someone needs to do this for the 20! #vancouver www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This piece on Locating Crisis, along with the other fascinating commentaries, now has a home in Vol 3.3 of Dialogues in Urban Research! journals.sagepub.com/toc/DUS/curr...
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This piece on Locating Crisis, along with the other fascinating commentaries, now has a home in Vol 3.3 of Dialogues in Urban Research! journals.sagepub.com/toc/DUS/curr...
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A human rights-based approach to the toxic drug crisis would require public policy that recognizes the full humanity of people who use unregulated drugs
which would be a whole new thing
which would be a whole new thing
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
A human rights-based approach to the toxic drug crisis would require public policy that recognizes the full humanity of people who use unregulated drugs
which would be a whole new thing
which would be a whole new thing
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I’m back.
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I’m back.
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.
Honest Government Ad | Ksi Lisims & PRGT Pipeline
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.
On #NeilYoung's 80th birthday, for ppl who know #Glasgow ... The time in 1976 when he sat busking at the Gordon St. entrance of Central Station. Makes you look differently at that corner by the coffee shop, near the Blue Lagoon. archive.org/details/neil...
Neil Young Busking 1976 : mlmarmer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Neil Young Busking in Glasgow, Scotland April 1, 1976
archive.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
On #NeilYoung's 80th birthday, for ppl who know #Glasgow ... The time in 1976 when he sat busking at the Gordon St. entrance of Central Station. Makes you look differently at that corner by the coffee shop, near the Blue Lagoon. archive.org/details/neil...
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"what extreme flooding would look like in #Vancouver by 2100 if no action were
#ClimateEmergency
Source:
earth.org/data_visuali...
#ClimateEmergency
Source:
earth.org/data_visuali...
November 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
"what extreme flooding would look like in #Vancouver by 2100 if no action were
#ClimateEmergency
Source:
earth.org/data_visuali...
#ClimateEmergency
Source:
earth.org/data_visuali...
I hope I never get on the wrong side of Joyce Carol Oates.
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I hope I never get on the wrong side of Joyce Carol Oates.
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according to the proposed budget, Vancouver’s climate plan is police
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 AM
according to the proposed budget, Vancouver’s climate plan is police
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'Devastating': Chinatown’s last post office set to close vancouversun.com/news/chinato...
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
'Devastating': Chinatown’s last post office set to close vancouversun.com/news/chinato...
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"Tax exemptions allow Fifa to suck vast amounts of money out of its hosts. The majority of the cost of preparing the tournament falls on hosts, while Fifa pockets all the revenue [from] broadcasting & marketing rights"said @ncgeehan.bsky.social @fairsq.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Zohran Mamdani has upended US politics. Now he should take on Fifa | Jules Boykoff
New York’s mayor-elect has taken on powerful institutions. With the World Cup taking place in his city, he should challenge Fifa next
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"Tax exemptions allow Fifa to suck vast amounts of money out of its hosts. The majority of the cost of preparing the tournament falls on hosts, while Fifa pockets all the revenue [from] broadcasting & marketing rights"said @ncgeehan.bsky.social @fairsq.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Just saw a cybertruck with a “baby on board” sticker. Yeah …
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Just saw a cybertruck with a “baby on board” sticker. Yeah …
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DULF co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were each found guilty of three counts of trafficking meth, heroin and cocaine this morning.
The pair are launching a constitutional challenge later this month of the CDSA and their convictions won't be entered until then. Story up shortly on @thetyee.ca
The pair are launching a constitutional challenge later this month of the CDSA and their convictions won't be entered until then. Story up shortly on @thetyee.ca
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
DULF co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were each found guilty of three counts of trafficking meth, heroin and cocaine this morning.
The pair are launching a constitutional challenge later this month of the CDSA and their convictions won't be entered until then. Story up shortly on @thetyee.ca
The pair are launching a constitutional challenge later this month of the CDSA and their convictions won't be entered until then. Story up shortly on @thetyee.ca
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Court finds DULF guilty for compassion club "heralded as success"
Convictions are on hold as the compassion club founders prepare for a Charter challenge to begin on November 24.
drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...
Convictions are on hold as the compassion club founders prepare for a Charter challenge to begin on November 24.
drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...
Court finds DULF guilty for compassion club "heralded as success"
Convictions are on hold as the compassion club founders prepare for a Charter challenge to begin on November 24.
drugdatadecoded.ca
November 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Court finds DULF guilty for compassion club "heralded as success"
Convictions are on hold as the compassion club founders prepare for a Charter challenge to begin on November 24.
drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...
Convictions are on hold as the compassion club founders prepare for a Charter challenge to begin on November 24.
drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...
As @drugdatadecoded.ca reported, the judge noted DULF "are being hung out to dry. As soon as politicians started complaining, all of a sudden VPD [local police]—which before was fine—suddenly was not fine.” She nonetheless ruled on procurement and distribution? Legal hair-spitting over justice?
BREAKING: DULF organizers found guilty of trafficking. More to come w/ @tsk.bsky.social in the courtroom today.
Legal fund linked below ⬇️ please give what you can. This is just getting started.
Legal fund linked below ⬇️ please give what you can. This is just getting started.
Huge decision this Friday from the BC Supreme Court on whether the DULF compassion club organizers, Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx, walk free. 1/
drugdatadecoded.ca/everyone-kne...
drugdatadecoded.ca/everyone-kne...
November 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
As @drugdatadecoded.ca reported, the judge noted DULF "are being hung out to dry. As soon as politicians started complaining, all of a sudden VPD [local police]—which before was fine—suddenly was not fine.” She nonetheless ruled on procurement and distribution? Legal hair-spitting over justice?