Patrick Johnstone

jamie quinn 🏳️‍⚧️ @threnody.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 15:55 UTC

if you’re working with other adults to bully a child, maybe you’re actually trash. maybe you’re really a monster. maybe you’re the reason no one can have nice things & you’re the kind of person a social media site will laugh about when you die. maybe your children already hate you.

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 02:21 UTC

I’m busy, but enjoy the poetry!

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 02:25 UTC

Wow. Bobrovsky’s regression to the mean was tough.

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 04:42 UTC

Magenta Floyd

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 16:48 UTC

Minor Correction? New Westminster has *not* opposed Bills 44, 46, or 47 as implied in this article. We are moving forward with our Bylaw changes to be fully complaint with those regs. I find the Housing Targets Regulation unnecessary in some Cities, but that’s a different argument than made here.

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 21:10 UTC

Happy to support Matt getting it, as long as he commits to preparing a report to Mayor and Council.

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 19:37 UTC

I’ll take cycling one! Already have the strongtowns one.

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 15:52 UTC

I went to Calgary for #FCM2024, and saw some things. More reports coming to the newsletter (you need to sign up!) and the webpage, but for now here are some pictures.
www.patrickjohnstone.ca/2024/06/this...

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 22:44 UTC

It’s the musky odour that drew me in.

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 22:27 UTC

In their defence:

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 20:22 UTC

Nothing rhymes with “Calgary”

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 22:23 UTC

Living the dream.

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 16:01 UTC

#TeamNewWest at FCM 2024. Federal Gov’t meetings today, and Tasha is on-point, as usual.

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 16:18 UTC

We come to bathe in your soft clear prairie waters, and look what you do to us!

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 14:58 UTC

You were the glue holding it all together, Justin.

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 14:57 UTC

For reals. We are taking to call ourselves “the great unwashed“ 😂

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 14:27 UTC

The 1000’s of delegates arriving in Calgary today for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference - where local governments talk mostly about infrastructure challenges - are going to have a field day about this.

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 05:48 UTC

"For every complex problem, there's a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
Mencken wrote this more than a century ago. It has never been more true.
www.newwestrecord.ca/highlights/m...

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 22:10 UTC

IMO: Always runs up against thermodynamics. Except in a very few niche applications that don’t scale, it takes much more energy and $ to strip the oxygen off the carbon than we gained sticking the oxygen onto the carbon in the first place.

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 17:31 UTC

BC's Liquor laws are an embarrassing anachronism. www.newwestrecord.ca/highlights/b...

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 05:26 UTC

The State of the City address is an annual business luncheon organized by the Chamber of Commerce; a model that saves the City some money & gives the Chamber & some local businesses bit of a boost. Partnerships like this are a win-win.
Watch the 2024 SOTC here: www.newwestcity.ca/city_hall/ma...

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 05:11 UTC

Nope. That’s way up the Nanaimo Group succession - Gabriola Formation. Relatively boring and massive sandstones with some conglomerates. Really late Cretaceous that stuff, not much for fossils.

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 23:32 UTC

So... beyond just with his climate policies?

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 23:31 UTC

sedimentary, so *Soft Rocks*

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 22:28 UTC

Not mentioned in the Story: Pym was part of my Masters Thesis mapping area. Fault-repeated sections of Haslam Formation turbidites and Extension Formation shallow marine sandstones from the Upper Cretaceous. And trace fossils to boot!

www.newwestrecord.ca/highlights/a...

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 19:14 UTC

To update. I hated the Oilers two weeks ago. I will hate them next week. I’m not going to flip to the team that beat my team just because my team is no longer in the running. Who do you think I am, Eleanore Sturko?!

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 23:30 UTC

Thanks for doing this. Front line staff trying to keep people safe often get negative feedback because people don’t like their own behaviour being enforced. If just one in 10 people thanked them, it would make their difficult jobs much less stressful.

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 15:31 UTC

50 degrees Celsius in a city of 28 million. Hard to comprehend that this is the future we chose. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 22:55 UTC

Here's my report on Monday's #NewWest Council meeting, that ended with what I can only interpret as the most surprising Defund-the-Police motion I have ever heard in Council. www.patrickjohnstone.ca/2024/05/coun...

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 14:26 UTC

Thanks for having me! It was all I could do to stop from shouting out @jmcelroy.bsky.social when Malcom mentioned Steveston's status as the greatest neighbourhood in Christendom! 😆

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] May 29, 2024 at 19:37 UTC

With SSMUH and climate disruption, it’s frankly less a concern about usefulness of the land and more a concern about infiltration and run-off storm capacity.

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 22:19 UTC

Then he doubles down the insult by suggesting I need to talk to my community about our needs. I talk to my community every f#<%ng day - they are asking for schools, childcare, family doctors, and for the province to address non-market and supportive housing.

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