Proud to see #PortAlberni 
mentioned in a positive light!
We're an old company town, mostly single detached residential.
Densification is happening (including in my neighbourhood) but the biggest examples have been taking over former school properties that closed decades ago. The next step will be for the City to start making it easier for developers to buy a block of residential homes and densify. We need an OCP!
#Housing #Affordability
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6619884
First #SocialBCPoll Open Ebyall Canadians! #PleaseBoost
BC Premier Eby says if there are tariffs, consider not travelling or buying in America!
Multiple choice poll!
What will you do if Trump imposes new Tariffs on Canada and/or BC?
CBC: “Tariff threat should force British Columbians to rethink travel to the U.S., premier says “
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rethink-u-s-travel-premier-says-1.7437593
#BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli
Wwwaaayyy ahead of you Dave m’Boy. Way ahead of ya.
#nousa #canada #usa #travel
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rethink-u-s-travel-premier-says-1.7437593
More big news/upheaval in the local radio space. Reports are coming in that CKNW AM980, a stalwart news radio station in Vancouver, is moving frequencies to AM730.
This website is reporting it: https://radioinsight.com/headlines/292809/cknw-to-move-from-980-to-730/
I haven't listened to CKNW this morning. If anyone can confirm if they have said anything there? There is nothing on the CKNW website.
#BCPoli #BCNews #CKNW #Radio #Media
@jandi @Belladonna_SciArts that is very kind. Thanks! I post more varied stuff on my personal account @[email protected]
Thought related to this story about the demise of AM730 radio station.
I wonder if there is a way where a hashtag like #YVRDrives could exist so that the feed was announced audibly.
Every new post in the feed announced in someone's notifications? Could it work as a replacement or augmentation to traffic radio stations or would it just be too chaotic?
Over 200 days ago, Vancouver lost a radio station that was all traffic, all the time. People are still mourning the station's loss.
(dailyhive.com)
#Threads #SocialBC
When @PhotographyElf @arbutus @jrenken and the rest of us started the idea of this server back in September, I admit I was probably the most willing to look past worries about Threads.
@zuck @mosseri policy changes have made this untenable.
As a team we believe we should block Threads.net for the health and safety of current and future SocialBC users.
However, we want to give SocialBC members time to comment and talk about it.
We’ll block it starting 9AM PST Monday.
#Meta
Morning #SocialBC folks! 
If you would like to follow some fun and useful hashtags, just click these below. It’ll help fill your timeline and get you acquainted with some of the quirky tendencies of Mastodon.
BC Specific:
#bcpoli
#bcstorm
#bcmuni
#SocialBC
General Mastodon fun:
#introduction
#firstpost
#monsterdon
#bloomscrolling
#mosstodon
#hnom
#pollodon
#fediverse
Day specific
#mondog
#tuesdog #tuesdaytoolsday
#wellnesswednesday
#thicktrunkthursday
#fensterfreitag
#caturday
#SilentSunday
#cišaaʔatḥ #tseshaht 
Elder Tom Watts turns 90 this month. He's a basketball star. He was the only Indigenous player on the 1965 ADSS team that won the Canadian Men's Basketball Championship.
If you want a great story about basketball, family, hard work, love, racism, indian residential schools, perseverance, kindness, and respect, here it is:
Navigating a sea of red Totem 69 fans, an unassuming Tom Watts slipped into the Alberni District Secondary School (ADSS) gymnasium and posted up in the ‘Lifetime members’ seating area to watch the finals of B.C.’s longest running high school basketball tournament. The whiff of fresh popcorn and Taylor Swift’s ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’ filled the air as the Alberni Storm senior girls team ran onto the court, sinking warm-up shots before a closely fought championship game against Pacific Christian School.
(www.hashilthsa.com)
#PortAlberni #Basketball #Canada #BC #Indigenous #Reconciliation #TotemTournament
New CBC local reporters! Yes!! 
Fraser Valley 
#chilliwack 
#Abbotsford
North Island 
#Courtenay 
#Comox 
#CampbellRiver
Interior East 
#SalmonArm 
#Armstrong
Peace Region: 
#FortStJohn 
#Chetwynd
#Penticton: 
#Osoyoos 
#Summerland
Sea to Sky 
#Squamish 
#Whistler 
#Pemberton
#bcpoli #bcnews
https://www.cbc.ca/news/editorsblog/editor-s-blog-local-news-cbc-hires-1.7430811
We’re on Day 30 of our $2500 SocialBC Launch Fundraiser to propel us through the next year! People have been so generous! #PleaseBoost and Donate.
Any amount will make a difference!
Now that we're seeing a bunch of new people come to #SocialBC we'll need those funds to make sure everything keeps running smoothly as more join.
Thank you! 
️️
https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=NYQ8LSFB5GP6N
Got a wonderful little flurry of 20 new accounts from the CBC radio interview!
That doubles the number of people that have signed up since January 1st.
We'll keep promoting. There is definitely demand for it. It's just a matter of getting the word out to people so they know that we exist!
I will also try to mention our launch fundraiser! We will be extending it today so we can reach our $2500 goal! It’d be pretty great if we had donations coming in this morning!
If we get a surge of interest from the interview we might need your donations quickly!
Excited to be talking about #socialbc, the #opensocialweb and the #fediverse today on CBC Radio Victoria at 8:10 AM PST.
Interview with CBC Radio Victoria set for 8:10AM tomorrow! #SocialBC
Christy no more.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Canada #LiberalPartyofCanada
Elon hasn't noticed the @ joinsocialbc account yet on his platform. 🤫🤫
Have to keep these things under wraps a little bit. There seems to be a history of the Big Corporate Social Media folks seeing us little-old-free-open-web-standard social media as a threat? 
Go @dansup!!
#GoPixelfed #InstaMigration #OpenSocialWeb #TwitterMigration
Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."
404 Media (www.404media.co)
Today's recruitment post on X! If you're still over there, give us a boost!
https://x.com/JoinSocialBC/status/1878840724214657153
#Mastodon #Fediverse #TwitterMigration #DumpMusk #OpenSocialWeb
SocialBC is growing! This morning I had to increase our resources from masto.host. We are now at $CAD50/mo to get us up to 100 users on the instance.
Our launch fundraiser continues to raise $2500 to get us through 2025. We have currently raised over $1250! Help us grow #Mastodon and the #Fediverse!
Any amount helps! Donate here: https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=NYQ8LSFB5GP6N
or DM me for other methods.
lives in and around the area known as Nanaimo. www.snuneymuxw.ca