For those who weren't up at 7:10 am to listen to @CBCEarlyEdition my thoughts on Sim's desire to get rid of the Vancouver Park Board... 1. In public service, how you do something is as important as what you do. Sim has done a lot of damage to himself and the public trust in his gov by publicly campaigning a year ago on keeping the Park Board, getting elected and then privately building a case to get rid of it.

I’ve been putting off writing this post partially because I haven’t had the energy but also because of the likelihood of bullshit responses. At the same time I think rights come with responsibilities and my right to good quality healthcare comes with a responsibility to defend it 10 days ago I started feeling the symptoms of the Covid infection. I didn’t actually realize it at the time - more on that later - but the next day the only other person in my two person bubble started having more obvious symptoms. By Sunday we both tested positive

Normally I stay out of council business but after working with community for well over a decade to do the heavy lifting that put Vancouver in a globally significant leadership position on climate action, i have to say something about the vote yesterday. TL;DR it was a huge loss To have a mayor cast the deciding vote against leadership on climate is emblematic of why we are in a climate emergency to begin with. Leaders need to lead. But it was not just a loss for climate action but also a loss for intellectual honesty in government.

There are only 2 reasons to have been shocked & outraged about the news of 215 Indigenous children found in a mass grave at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School: (1) personal trauma related to residential schools, mass graves and/or genocide was triggered .... /1 Or (2) this is the first time you are realizing that Canada is the perpetrator of residential schools, mass graves and genocide. If you are in the latter group and in a position of power, in a post Truth and Reconciliation Commission Canada there is no excuse for you. /2

For the past 8 months I have been supporting all 38 students @ubcSPPGA in their capstone Global Policy Projects w @jdierkes The projects ranged from reccs on decolonizing #VancouverPlan to climate adaption strategies for Laxgalts'ap to supporting remote education w @olenepal /1 It's been an incredible amount of work: for me and Julian but more importantly for the students. They have been working incredible hours under very difficult circumstances for client work and remote research while juggling COVID19 personal challenges with high stakes deadlines /2