Tom Digby
Mad scientist. Park Board Commissioner. Green Party of Vancouver. All about our urban tree canopy. Side hustle as US/Canadian attorney.
- Reposted by Tom DigbySCOOP: Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes in his proposed 2026 budget. Great source work by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson to uncover this www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/n...
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- Reposted by Tom DigbyKen Sim and ABC are bringing ~$120m in cuts to community centres, parks, and public services. On Thursday, City Council is voting on a $17m retroactive boost to the 2025 police budget. Now the Police Board is asking for another extra $50 million in 2026. #vanpoli #StopTheCuts #EvictABC
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- Reposted by Tom Digby@tomdigby1.bsky.social's motion for Affirming the Park Board’s Commitment to Transgender Lives and Rights PASSED UNANIMOUSLY! Thanks all who came to speak for sharing your voices & supporting the motion. Full discussion of the motion: www.youtube.com/live/dxYRKmj... #VanPoli #VancouverParks
- Reposted by Tom DigbyA big win for cyclists & safety! @parkboard.bsky.social votes 'YES' to bring back bike lane with buses on Stanley Park Drive! Thanks everyone who came to ride & added their voice to our calls to action! Help @tomdigby1.bsky.social keep up the momentum! Donate: www.vangreens.ca/donate #VanPoli
- Reposted by Tom DigbyBike lane. Stanley Park. Passed. EPIC. 🌲🚲 Thank you @tomdigby1.bsky.social and his fellow supportive commissioners for righting a wrong! #vanpoli
- ❗❗BREAKING: The future of transit in Stanley Park is on the agenda. We need YOUR help to make sure cyclists aren’t left behind. Sign our petition to tell the Vancouver Park Board you want the bike lane back: win.newmode.net/greenpartyof... #VanPoli #BikeVancouver
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- Reposted by Tom Digby❗❗BREAKING: The future of transit in Stanley Park is on the agenda. We need YOUR help to make sure cyclists aren’t left behind. Sign our petition to tell the Vancouver Park Board you want the bike lane back: win.newmode.net/greenpartyof... #VanPoli #BikeVancouver
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- Reposted by Tom DigbyThe only thing Marie-Claire Howard has consistently done on the Park Board… …is not show up. 📉 60% absentee rate 💨 0 in-person appearances in a year 🤫 Secret emails to dismantle the board 🔥 “Let the trees burn” in Stanley Park This is ABC’s idea of leadership? #vanpoli
- Batch has expanded at Kits pool concession. Cool new deck. DownLow chicken. Congrats to Britt and Johnny for making it happen with your favourite @parkboard.bsky.social @parkboardscott.bsky.social
- Reposted by Tom DigbyNo one should dispute the National Energy Program’s devastating impact on Alberta’s conventional oil and gas sector 40 years ago. But the oilsands, not conventional oil, propelled Canada to its position as the world’s fourth-largest oil producer. @ianurquhart.bsky.social writes.
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- Honoured to announce today as the Green Party of Canada candidate for Vancouver Quadra. With local, national and international experience, I am ready to be your voice in Ottawa. Solid leadership under Elizabeth May and Jonathan Pednault.
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- Reposted by Tom DigbyI keep getting questions about the “toxic environment” in city hall. It seems to me like it might be a toxic environment within a certain party and if not kept in check, the whole of Vancouver will feel it.
- Reposted by Tom DigbyThis week’s edition includes child welfare, self-governance, education, Aboriginal title litigation and more @ buff.ly/4gutWP2
- Reposted by Tom DigbyI am so proud and honoured to be running as the Green Party of Vancouver candidate in the upcoming by-election. I have incredible mentors in @ptfry.bsky.social and @adrianecarr.bsky.social . I am eager to join Pete in fighting for transparency on city council.
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- My friend, the narcissistic abuse recovery therapist says: You don’t fight a narc. You give them ideas. You agree to do things that benefit you too. Border controls is good for Canada too! You ignore their statements (ie. 51st State) - you don’t even acknowledge it. OMG so predictable.
- Also, one very important thing to remember, narcissists are “last minute” people. They wait until the final moment always. Observe and you will see it more and more …“The Game” they play is to watch everyone get all excited and upset leading up to the deadline. It’s soooo predictable!
- Deep down inside, Trump does not want to appear to be a “bad guy”. They are ALL the same!
- Reposted by Tom DigbyTrump's tariff's pose a grave threat to our national economy. 🚨🍁 I'm proposing an urgent motion for Vancouver City Council to consider at our earliest meeting Tuesday supporting Team Canada/Buy Local. As a Council, City, and as Canadians I'm confident we will come together. #chooseCanada #buylocal
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- Reposted by Tom DigbyNEW - Former MLA Sonia Furstenau is stepping down as BC Green leader. She lost her seat in October to NDP minister Grace Lore. #bcpoli
- Reposted by Tom DigbyB.C. Green Leader Sonia Furstenau steps down but the party’s two MLAs will not run
- Thanks Bsky chat - you sent me the link I need! www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
- Vancouver mayor wants to sell local naming rights to highest commercial bidder. Hey @brenttoderian.bsky.social , give me the best arguments to defeat this proposal at #ParkBoard on Monday night. We need to protect neighborhood identity, First Nation rights, sense of place. bit.ly/3WoVmyL
- Forever neighbours, never neighbors.
- Vancouver mayor wants to sell local naming rights to highest commercial bidder. Hey @brenttoderian.bsky.social , give me the best arguments to defeat this proposal at #ParkBoard on Monday night. We need to protect neighborhood identity, First Nation rights, sense of place. bit.ly/3WoVmyL
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- Reposted by Tom DigbyJan 6th The Sequel: Where Donald Trump scores a hat track for the world's dictators. Sending his dumb-assed son to Greenland while threatening Canada is a deliberate provocation of NATO. Step forward Vladimir Putin. Then there is validating China's designs on Taiwan. The chaos idiot goes global.
- Michael, I intend to challenge your theory below. This year. Pls standby.
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- Yikes! Another dead Hemlock falls in Stanley Park. Today. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xb3yr...
- Reposted by Tom DigbyEsto es algo muy importante y de lo que no se habla mucho: la falta de árboles y áreas verdes está relacionado con el exceso de carros y cómo las ciudades se desarrollaron para darle preferencia al uso de vehículos particulares.
- What, nobody interested that cougar came to hunt in a major urban agglomeration? Vancouver is the only city in the Americas with a glacier in its urban boundary. People routinely die from exposure lost in the mountains within site of city hall. Here,the city meets wild. Give it a cheer, Bluesky!
- Seen at W29th entrance to Pacific Spirit park (by St George’s) 3 days ago.
- Beavers hard at work in Jericho park. Someone call by-law enforcement!
- Reposted by Tom DigbySurely this is a deep fake
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- Adriane Carr: An icon for Greens - and for women in politics - in Vancouver, in BC and across Canada. Give a cheer for the leader who brought so many of us into politics (enough cheers, maybe she’ll stay 😊) vancouversun.com/news/vancouv...
- Reposted by Tom DigbyI accidentally opened a portal to a right wing MAGA hellscape when I posted my disdain for X and bluesky preference highlighting recent homophobic racist posts to me and a colleague. The President of the BC Conservative Party tried to normalize violent threats from a white nationalist as "scrutiny"
- Scene at Vancouver Green Party event.
- Hey. I just saw Santa & Mrs C taking the ceremonial first ride on the - Sold Out - Bright Nights Stanley Park Train. Site is wonderful for kids even if you don’t have train tix! Firefighters make it happen.
- Good science/news that supports green rooftops and Vancouver Park Board’s >48 Ha of pollinator meadows. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Tom DigbyThe nays have it - Montague's July amendment -inspired recommendation to re-introduce gas for space and hot water heating in new construction in Vancouver FAILS! with Bligh, Dominato, Meiszner joining Carr and me in opposition to support climate resilient solutions
- Reposted by Tom DigbyThank you for all your work on this, Pete! I am so grateful to have your wisdom and courage on council.
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- Reposted by Tom DigbyFor posterity: some of children’s artwork that Cllr Montague found “intimidating” and ordered removed at today’s Council presentation on his amendment to re-introduce gas to future construction. Imagine how intimidated those lil kids felt coming to City Hall to present about their climate future.
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- Thanks @eastsidedads.bsky.social 40 major projects rolling out by the Vancouver Park Board. On time, on budget. Abolish Mayor Ken Sim!!!
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- Reposted by Tom DigbyThis Tuesday, council votes on whether to go back to allowing natural gas for heating buildings in Vancouver. I want to take a look at the stated reasons behind this move, and assess their accuracy. A bit of a long thread but an important one... 🧵 www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/t...
