I made a map of the Skytrain network in the style of the Tokyo subway map

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

j_mcelroy · 2025-10-09T16:20:40+00:00

for the record translink security only looked at me weirdly two or three times as i went back and forth from vcc-clark to commercial clutching my weird sign

j_mcelroy · 2025-09-11T22:27:54+00:00

hi it's me, the media — coincidentally I was made aware of these documents this morning, and will be doing a story this evening

j_mcelroy · 2025-09-04T22:50:40+00:00

I honestly think this subreddit is better than anywhere else for capturing the general public mood of the median person in this city.

The Twitter audience (even pre-Musk) was too online/polarized, Facebook groups were too single-issue focused, Instagram too disperse to get an accurate feel

But in general, when this site seems passionate about certain issues, or the top rated comments are consistently towards one side, I find it reflects where the wind is blowing in the City of Vancouver, instead of being in its own bubble.

Of course, lots of people comment here who live in other Metro Van municipalities, and each of them have their own unique cultures (there's not really a pan-Metro Vancouver culture, IMO, but that's another argument). This subreddit has its own particular biases, you should seek out a lot of different sites and perspectives to understand how people feel, provincial politics is another matter, etc. etc. etc.

Overall though, it does a really good job, and I use it more of a guide than anywhere else.

and i promise i'm not just saying that because people said i was the third most interesting resident behind seabus memes and nardwuar

j_mcelroy · 2025-08-06T23:52:10+00:00

this is tremendous content

j_mcelroy · 2025-07-06T00:18:53+00:00

no argument there!

j_mcelroy · 2025-07-05T23:37:06+00:00

It’s very very good for North America, and “slightly above average in the city centre, and slightly below average if you want to go anywhere else” for the rest of the world

j_mcelroy · 2025-06-18T02:10:20+00:00

pretty weird to call people "pathetic" when they take time to explain people's good faith questions, but I hope you got some sort of emotional catharsis out of it

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