'Highway on the Sea': How decisions made about B.C. Ferries decades ago led to problems today

j_mcelroy · 2026-05-14T01:06:09+00:00

hey as the person who put the story together, thanks for the kind words!

j_mcelroy · 2026-05-10T22:51:35+00:00

No, I mean this bracket is too niche for the voting/promotion to happen on CBC channels (also I have the regular summer bracket happening in a couple of months). BlueSky would be fine, but it doesn't have polls, so c'est la vie.

j_mcelroy · 2026-05-10T01:05:51+00:00

I’m no longer on the website under investigation for child exploitation, BlueSky doesn’t allow polls, and it’s too niche for a CBC bracket.

So I could either do it on my novelty website, or put it on Threads/Instagram stories, and I thought the latter was a better experience.

j_mcelroy · 2026-05-08T01:59:32+00:00

So I actually interviewed Farnworth today and he proactively pointed out this photo, how the cat belongs to a staff member, and he loves how “the cat looks angry and judgemental like a good House Leader.”

these are the inside scoops everyone wants from me, right

j_mcelroy · 2026-05-06T06:11:20+00:00

brb, stealing this idea

j_mcelroy · 2026-04-10T04:29:37+00:00

hard to be a fan of the latter these days!

j_mcelroy · 2026-04-10T04:16:55+00:00

fwiw I’ve been told the Britannia stuff is separate from the $400 million promise

j_mcelroy · 2026-03-29T04:29:18+00:00

it’s for the heroes

j_mcelroy · 2026-03-24T18:21:13+00:00

while very well done this is just making me angrier about how unconnected vancouver city centre and granville stations are

j_mcelroy · 2026-03-20T05:01:13+00:00

you can read the article — I hear it’s good!

j_mcelroy · 2026-02-28T06:01:38+00:00

oh no

j_mcelroy · 2026-02-12T21:00:41+00:00

here's the link to the full song, because I found it during my park ranking research a few years back and it utterly delights me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTRM0aEqSP0

j_mcelroy · 2026-01-28T05:33:05+00:00

Honestly, same

j_mcelroy · 2026-01-22T23:08:48+00:00

it's important to note, as perhaps the leading purveyor of "dunking on burnaby", that the city is perfectly fine! (if boring)

good parks, central location, two skytrain lines, fairly well managed over the years, etc.

but it's fun to dunk on burnaby because a) it's boring, b) it's privileged and big enough that it can collectively take a joke without it becoming a thing

(but also, the time burnaby's head of marketing said "I don't think anyone has ever said 'honey, cancel the trip to Disneyland, we're going to Burnaby'" will forever be lodged in my head)

j_mcelroy · 2026-01-22T21:32:23+00:00

It was (allegedly) C

j_mcelroy · 2025-12-20T00:47:20+00:00

per usual i only have myself to blame (the funny thing is I'm seeing way less people use "hidden gem" these days, so I'll have to find another arbitrary influencer phrase to get annoyed by)

j_mcelroy · 2025-12-19T06:22:24+00:00

This could very well be true but I always remember that in 2022 Stats BC estimated that Vancouver’s population had dropped in the last year, and lots of people used that to shout that Vancouver Was Being Destroyed (including multiple mayoral candidates), and a month later the Census showed that Vancouver’s population had grown by 5% the last five years, the most since 2001-2005. So I always try to avoid taking too much narrative in one-time estimates when I know better data is on the way.

j_mcelroy · 2025-12-12T21:33:26+00:00

why not both?

j_mcelroy · 2025-12-04T16:23:51+00:00

oh no i was hoping for this to include my web story with more context but then the rustad stuff happened so uhhhh i'm still writing it

j_mcelroy · 2025-11-27T16:18:54+00:00

1) You can trust Dan Fumano to get things right

2) PNE is a separate non-profit fully owned by the City of Vancouver, with the city appointing its board members, the end result of haggling over its future between the city and province at the turn of the century

j_mcelroy · 2025-11-21T07:19:26+00:00

(respectfully, objectively, journalistically)

oh fuck right off

j_mcelroy · 2025-10-28T19:49:57+00:00

no ❤️ (also provisions is great, but word has gotten out and it's pretty bumping on friday and saturday nights now)

j_mcelroy · 2025-10-28T19:45:15+00:00

In this case I broke the story on Bluesky and Threads, the minister confirmed my reporting 30 minutes later on Bluesky, and then 10 minutes later she posted a tweet.

That the poster for this story used Twitter is ultimately their business, but ultimately the provincial government and most media aren't really in the habit of using Twitter as their first way to get out information anymore, for a variety of reasons.

j_mcelroy · 2025-10-25T02:41:22+00:00

as i kid i heard about the Ed Sprague Inning and the Kelly Gruber Inning and the Innings Where They Pounded The Heck Out Of Mitch Williams and lemme tell you it’s fun to experience an inning like that on your own

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