Gabrielle Peters
Outgoing co-chair of Vancouver City Planning Commission, Co-founder of Disability Filibuster, words in Policy Options, Macleans, CBC & chapter author in 3 anthologies. Disabled af. Poor af. Lived experience + learned expertise applied to policy analysis.
@fabulavancouver.bsky.social
Cities are life! Writing about Vancouver region urban issues, politics, housing + more for Globe and Mail mainly, BCBusiness, Vancouver mag, and a few more. Grand-daughter of Saskatchewan farmers, mom/step-mom to four millennials coping with housing market
@mark-carney.bsky.social
Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral markcarney.ca
@anthropunk.bsky.social
Applied Anthropologist researching how people promote, manage, resist, and endure change; and how they, algorithms, and ethics coexist. (Or not). Social Systems/Culture. Sometimes write for Fast Company.
@shannonhammond.bsky.social
Severely disabled but still surviving with #MECFS. Animal loving queer. Poor. Helping and advocating for marginalized folk whenever and however I can. #PwME #MyalgicE Profile: Cute black and brown dog with turquoise leash sitting on leafy forest floor.
@cdndownsyndrome.bsky.social
Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS) is the national source of expertise promoting the abilities and contributions of people with Down syndrome. #SeeTheAbility
@sheilamalcolmsonbc.bsky.social
BCNDP MLA for Nanaimo-Gabriola Island Former MP & Islands Trust Council Chair Kayaker, islander, ocean protector 🌊
@blindcanadians.bsky.social
The Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians (AEBC) is a national charitable organization of primarily blind, deafblind, or partially sighted members. For more about us visit our website at www.blindcanadians.ca
@mansplainmybike.bsky.social
Bicycles, transit, making music. City tree bark appreciator. Yet another person airing opinions on social media. Has long covid and talks about it sometimes.
@sophiehharrison.bsky.social
UBC law student, living with #LongCovid #MECFS. Youth climate movement alum. She/her. Vancouver B.C. - MST territory.
@holz-bau.bsky.social
architect @ Larchlab.com (Seattle) activist for: car-light climate adaptive cities w/ low carbon + passivhaus buildings, social housing Author, 'Building for People' (Island Press, 12/2024: https://islandpress.org/books/building-people)
@cajournalists.bsky.social
The CAJ is the voice of Canadian journalists, committed to the public's right to know. Become a member: http://bit.ly/3GqvXNR L'ACJ est la voix des journalistes canadiens, engagé au droit de savoir du public. Devenez membre : http://bit.ly/3GqvXNR
@cfraz.bsky.social
Mostly lurking these days – a writing hiatus slowed/complicated by post covid crip effects. On board with justice struggles that honour life in all of its forms. Forever buoyed by the wonders of mother earth and the radical persistence of crip cultures.
@casinoshiftmd.bsky.social
ER physician. Author of four bestsellers including Nightshift, Power of Kindness and my latest The Power of Teamwork. My forthcoming book is called The Casino Shift. Visit powerofteamworkbook.com.
@rejadam.bsky.social
Deaf 🏳️🌈 born in Naarm, live in Scotland, Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Chair of the British Deaf Assocation. Views my own.
@habengirma.bsky.social
Author of Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law. Human of Mylo: the world-traveling Seeing Eye dog. https://habengirma.com
@daniellepeers.bsky.social
Crip, queer, and genderqueer researcher working on equitable and affirming sport, recreation, art, learning, and research practices.
@parkercj50.bsky.social
(he/him). US person residing in Canada. Living toward collective liberation.
@jenniferreed.bsky.social
Chair, Cardiac Rehabilitation | Scientist, Director: Exercise Physiology & ❤️ Health Lab @HeartInstitute | Associate Professor @uOttawa
@pattysullivan.bsky.social
She/Her OG host of TVOKids Crawlspace. KidsCBC. Series Dialogue Director "Mittens & Pants". Voice actor. Media Personality. Mom. Wife. Rescue pup parent.
@jihanabbas.bsky.social
Sociologist, activist, researcher, educator, justice seeker, dyslexic (not always in that order). Land back. Free Palestine.
@micievans.bsky.social
She/her. Fuelled by peoples' stories and strong coffee. Physically disabled and neurodivergent queer feminist. SFU alum. Work: Accessible Communications & Community Engagement. 📍unceded Coast Salish lands known as Vancouver.
@lanefab.com
Vancouver, BC Co-owner & Lead Designer Lanefab Design/Build B.Eng M.Arch Build beautiful. Build for a livable climate. www.Lanefab.com #ThickWallsAreSexy / #SingleStair / #ElectrifyEverything / #Passivhaus / #NetPositive
@jenrinaldi.bsky.social
Legal studies associate professor | queercrip theorist | committed to deinstitutionalization and prison and police abolition | she/her
@leilamw3.bsky.social
Passionate about transforming health and care! #NHS family, Chair Claire House Children's Hospice, Clean Air campaigner, Trustee Corsi Rosenthal Foundation UK, citizen journalist NW Bylines
@michellehewitt.bsky.social
Disabled woman with a gorgeous service dog. Chair of Disability Without Poverty and on other disability cttees here and there. PhD candidate and will be grateful when I am no longer a candidate. Lifelong MUFC.
@hanelizqui.bsky.social
PhD candidate | anti-ableist ethnography, crip intimacy, consent culture, sex ed, intellectual disability, mad studies, queer kinship | semi-retired | “a cool mom” 💅🏻 | Slow writer, fast talker | blue collar kid | 🔻
@alexdalion.bsky.social
⚒️🪨🛖🏺🏀✏️🎨🎲🎸 • reluctant cicero enthusiast • lover of dumpy levels & arco illustration • aspiring nation-state destroyer • multi-medium artist Unceded Dharug Country 🔴🟡⚫️
@torontofoodie.bsky.social
The Original Toronto Foodie through and through. Always looking for hidden gems but have my favourites. I never do a review and let owner know in advance. No freebies for me in exchange for good reviews. That’s just wrong. A die hard Leafs fan.
@jamillahussain1.bsky.social
Palliative Medicine Consultant | Bradford, UK | Academic (PhD) | Inequalities at the end of life | Antiracism | intersectionality | research methods | frailty Also sister, friend, wife, daughter …but mainly a tired mum
@wikidocjames.bsky.social
Emerg doc, #Wikipedian, promoter of free and open access health info, board chair Wiki Project Med www.mdwiki.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Heilman
@hiker-scott.bsky.social
BC Emergency / Disaster Preparedness BC Search And Rescue Webinar Host Local SAR Resource Member Telecom & IT for $$ I ⛺ over 100 nights/year Not an official source… may have insight nonetheless. AKA @hiker_scott 🐦 Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada
@aliciata.bsky.social
@caroltreardon.bsky.social
Lawyer, Masters in City Planning, MIT, interested in politics, land use, human and workers rights, environmental protection. Likes a good laugh.
@bfwriter.bsky.social
PhD candidate, Educational Studies. MA, Human Development, Learning, and Culture. gamer (not the bad kind), budoka, NOLA girl. I blog about POTS at barefootwriterhaspots.com
@guerillalibrarian.bsky.social
Service dog handler, inclusive feminist, disability-retired librarian, disability advocacy. WW. Board member serving Psychiatric Service Dog partners: PSDP (psych.dog).
@kwardvancouver.bsky.social
once called « Canada's only public intellectual » drug policy resercher & advisor ⁕ historian ⁕ artist ⁕ schemer ⁕ disorganizer institute for the history of possible futures https://free-futures-society.org/
@okaywolf.ink
queer fiction and dog hikes 👍🐺 they/them Read 🌲Sometimes The Mountain Buries You🌲 a novella about monsters and home okaywolf.carrd.co
@rebeccaleebligh.bsky.social
Vancouver City Councillor /President of FCM @fcm_online / Vice-Chair of Metro Van Parks/ Small business, sustainability & livability. Mom 🏳️🌈 she/her
@gwendal-c.bsky.social
Interested in cities what makes our relationship to them so complex and what might make our experience better. Also hobbies of all sorts.
@brendanmcewen.bsky.social
Working on decarbonizing buildings & transportation. Huge fan o’ nature, cities, art. Tend to use this platform to read & learn, but will try to tweet on occasion.
@trecresearch.bsky.social
An applied and partnered health services research program that develops innovations and practical solutions that contribute to sustainable improvements in quality of care and quality of life in long-term care (LTC) homes.
@chf.bc.ca
CHF BC is the voice of housing co-ops in British Columbia. We represent 260 housing co-ops with more than 14,000 co-op homes. www.chf.bc.ca
@charlesincities.bsky.social
Author, Happy City. Founder, Happy Cities. But speaking only here for myself! Design + social trust. 🧠🏙️🌈🏔️
@tracyglennyvr.bsky.social
Nurse | Traveller | Tattoos | Human and Animal Rights | Environment 🍃 | Volunteer | EV 🚙 but 🚫 to Tesla ELBOWS UP!
@annecasselman.bsky.social
Vancouver-based journalist: Public interest, climate, and science. www.annecasselman.com
@pothen.bsky.social
Counsel and Land Use and Land Development Program Manager for Environmental Defence. The "Hands off the Greenbelt" guy. Arch-Adversary of Mr. Sprawl. Tweets aren't advice or statements from Environmental Defence. he/him
@idcnc.bsky.social
National Coordinator of Indigenous Disability Canada (IDC) / B.C Aboriginal Network Society (BCANDS)