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@lidsville.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 6:04 PM

It's advance voting today for the Vancouver civic election!

Find your nearest polling place here (take the voter info thing you received in the mail if you can).

@pqpolitics.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:46 AM

The Cruel and Corrupt Administration of Ken Sim, and His ABC Vancouver Colleagues

"The most morally bankrupt and cruelest civic administration the woeful citizens of Vancouver have witnessed in the past 60 years, and perhaps even longer than that."

vanramblings.com/vanpoli-the-... #Vanpoli

@pqpolitics.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:44 AM

Vancouver is a #RenterMajorityCity.

Ken Sim's #DeveloperParty ABC Vancouver killed off the city's Rental Office:(

55% of the city’s households rent, yet these renter households survive on a median income of $63,200, compared to $100,000 for homeowners.

archive.is/8Zjxe#select... #vanpoli #Vanre

@pqpolitics.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:41 AM

The fault lines in Vancouver society are particularly pronounced.

9th largest in the country, Vancouver holds the second-highest level of income inequality among major Canadian cities, behind only Toronto.

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#vanpoli #Vanre

@pqpolitics.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:52 PM

Please ask #bcpoli & #vanpoli pols

If elected, will you screen people in BC rehabs for ADHD?  

Screen people at homeless shelters for ADHD?

Ask RCMP & #VPD to screen people arrested for ADHD?

Require all BC doctors to have #MandatoryCMECoursesOnADHD?  

So they stop un & misdiagnosing us?

@pqpolitics.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:41 PM

All #Bcpoli & #vanpoli parties have talked about Substance Use Disorder, homelessness or crime  

No one's talking about the first pillar of the City of Vancouver's Four Pillars Drug Strategy.

Prevention. On ADHD.

You can't say you're a fiscal conservative if you're not talking about ADHD

@pqpolitics.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:38 PM

If small businesses want to reduce crime, drug use & homelessness?

Bus Improvement Assn's should demand BC govt screen all people with SUD, in rehabs, in homeless shelters & arrestees by VPD & in jails & prisons for ADHD

We have huge rates of all, 40 years of research shows

#vanpoli #bcpoli

33% of methadone users had ADHD
35% of cocaine users had ADHD
33% of alcoholics had ADHD 65% of drug users had
ADHD 47% of teen prescription opioid abusers and 21% of
heroin addicts had ADHD
70% of crystal meth inpatients had ADHD
Only 8-10% of kids & 5% of adults have ADHD
https://addcoach4u.com/adhd-addictions-articles/

SUDs in Adolescents with ADHD
Substance Use Disorders, Addictions
100
P<0.001
80
75%
60
40
25%
18%
0
Nonmedicated
ADHD (N=19)
Medicated
ADHD
(N=56)
Non-ADHD Control
(N=137)
Biederman et al. Pediatrics 1999;104:e20.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC5533180/table/T2/?report=objectonly
110%
Childhood Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Homelessness:
Table 2
A 33-Year Follow-Up Study
Features of Homelessness in Probands and Comparisonsa
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC5533180/
ADHD Probands (n=32)
Comparisons (n=6) Non ADHD
Variables Mean (SD)/n Median (min-
(%)
max) Mean (SD)/n Median (min-
(%)
max)
Place stayed while homeless b
Street-Shelter
Family-Friends Longest continuous duration of
homelessness (months)
Total duration of homelessness (months)
Number of homeless periods
19 (59.4)
13(40.6)
10.7 (17.8)
15.5 (22.9)
2.3(2.8)
3.5 (1-78)
6.0 (1-96)
1.0 (1-12) aPresented for information's sake. Small n (n=6) precludes meaningful statistical contrasts.
bif more than 1 episode was reported, the most severe is presented
2 (33.3)
4 (66.6)
2.0 (1.3)
2.5 (1.8)
1.3 (0.5)
2.0 (0-4)
2.0 (0-5)
1.0 (1-2)

https://adultaddstrengths.com/2011/01/12/adhd-and-crime-ignore-now-jail-later-15-clinical-studies/
Numbers of people with ADHD in jail
• 46% of female prisoners in Rhode Island met criteria for childhood ADHD.
• Swedish study showed 40% of adult male longer-term prison inmates had ADHD. • The overall prevalence of ADHD in young male prisoners according to DSM-IV was
45% • Half of the male prisoners in Iceland (50%) were found on screening to have met
criteria for ADHD in childhood
• Studies show that at least 25% of prisoners in the United States have ADHD. • Diagnosable ADHD was found to occur in 25.5% of the adult male inmates, and major
depression occurred in 25.5 % of the inmates. A significant relationship between
ADHD and depression was found to exist.
Rates of arrests and types of crime • Follow up study using arrest records showed significantly more people with ADHD than comparisons had been arrested (47% vS. 24%), convicted (42% vS. 14%), and
incarcerated (15% vS. 1%). • Follow up study using arrest records showed people with ADHD had significantly
higher rates of felonies and aggressive offenses than non adders • The ADHD symptomatic group had significantly higher rates of total, acquisitive and
violent offending than other prisoners, as well as greater regular heroin use. • For violent offending, ADHD symptoms were the strongest predictor followed by
alcohol dependence. • Hyperactive subjects had significantly higher juvenile (46% versus 11%) and adult (21% versus 1%) arrest rates. Juvenile and adult incarceration rates were also
significantly higher. Childhood conduct problems predicted later criminality,

@redeyeradio.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:34 PM

Saturday | 10:35 PT Clara Prager of Women Transforming Cities talks with us about the six policy commitments they asked for from municipal candidates in Vancouver. @womentcities.bsky.social @michellecyca.com

Report: www.womentransformingcities.org/ourcityhall
#vanPoli

10 city council candidates on stage at Women Transforming Cities Our City Hall Forum debate in Vancouver. We see the audience from the back and a large slide projected behind.

@redeyeradio.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:21 PM

Saturday | 10:20 PT Alex Hemingway joins us to talk about how BC’s biggest cities need to do a lot better if they want to fix the housing crisis.
@bcpolicy.bsky.social
@1alexhemingway.bsky.social
@pwaldkirch.bsky.social
#vanPoli #BCPoli #housing

Modern low-rise apartment complex along a shopping street in a Vancouver neighbourhood. People sitting outside a cafe, street tree in foreground.

@glenkorstrom.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:59 PM

Small business owners in lead-up to elections voice concerns — rising costs, construction disruptions, bureaucratic delays, etc.
#vanpoli #bcpoli

@pqpolitics.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:44 PM

LOL. So why didn't Ken Sim and ABC politicians be free interns for a year to "learn the ropes" instead of doing their incompetent, negligent clown show for 4 years? #vanpoli

@jenstden.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:03 PM

@isaacphannay.bsky.social reports on a kerfuffle between an ABC supporter and COPE, as COPE alleges the property manager of Sun Wah Centre in Chinatown improperly offered tenants and seniors food to vote in Vancouver's civic election. #vanpoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...

@thetyee.ca Oct 9, 2026, 8:46 PM

The Sun Wah Centre mall is a popular gathering space for Chinese-speaking seniors in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Now it’s the site of an election dustup: COPE alleges the mall manager urged elderly tenants to vote for ABC Vancouver.
@isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. #VanPoli

thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...

@sitkamedia.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:35 PM

Vancouver voters will weigh in on public drug use and addiction treatment in a plebiscite alongside the Oct. 17 municipal election. A drug policy expert says enforcement is only one piece of the puzzle.

🔗 Read the exclusive: https://loom.ly/GD9Im78

#vanpoli #bcpoli

@kmsheps.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:31 PM

This is the kind of integrated, comprehensive planning that have been missing in the City for the last several years. Vote @onecityvan.bsky.social for council, parks board and school board, and get back to a city that can work with its residents, senior governments and its own self again. #vanpoli

@onecityvan.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:20 PM

A school board plans a school. A park board plans a park. The City plans the housing, the business permits, and the street in between.
Nobody plans the whole neighbourhood.
Here's the plan to fix that. 💜

🧵#VanPoli #BCPoli