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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

3 years

My nextdoor neighbour died of an OD a week before he was found. Really friendly guy who was even smiling when asking me to turn my music down. Fuck anyone standing in the way of safe supply.

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3 years

First in line at Vancouver's hottest new sports bar

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6 years

#BREAKING Burnaby RCMP have descended on Camp Cloud and begun arresting protesters. Soon after this video was taken police told me and one other member of the media to leave the area and threatened us with arrest. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

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@byGawley

7 years

APD, RCMP and AFRS members salute fallen officer, as he's transported to in a procession. #Abbotsford

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@byGawley

4 years

The word is out! After 19 months at the Burnaby Now, and almost four years at community newspapers, I’m reading for the next chapter! So grateful for everyone that’s helped me so far!

Charmaine de Silva

@char_des

4 years

Please join me in welcoming the latest addition to the @NEWS1130 team - the incredible @byGawley ! Kelvin will be our Digital Reporter, covering stories that matter to #MetroVancouver . He starts early February. Can't wait to work with you, Kelvin!

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5 years

Jagmeet Singh has been painted as a parachute candidate in #BurnabySouth by his opponents, but he's actually the only party candidate living in the riding and able to vote on Feb. 25. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Jagmeet Singh only party candidate eligible to vote in Burnaby South byelection

Other party candidates live outside the riding; Independent Valentine Wu lives in Burnaby South

www.burnabynow.com

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

5 years

I picked a good night to have a layover in Toronto. #NBAPlayoffs2019 #raptors #wethenorth

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@byGawley

8 months

This city has bottomless pits of cash to shovel into police budgets, but can’t open the central library branch before 11am. There’s a couple dozen people waiting around to access one of our last bastions of truly public space.

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2 years

Just gave someone Narcan for the first time after carrying it for five years. I think he’s going to be OK, but it was scary! Ambulance a block away at the same time suggests a bad batch is going around East Van right now. Stay safe and demand safe supply ❤️

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@byGawley

7 months

SFU has hired Lions Gate Risk Management—the same corporate security firm that spied on and infiltrated Fairy Creek land defenders—to surveil @tssu picket lines. Unvelievable. #cdpoli #bcpoli

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5 years

Bernier explains what he means by "Canadians first" and his plan to cut immigration and favour econokic immigrants. #cdnpoli

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@byGawley

5 years

What are the PPC's chnaces on Monday? Bernier confident Laura-Lynn Thompson will win. #cdnpoli

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

3 years

Hey... So today was my last at NEWS 1130. I might post a self-indulgent thread sometime down the road about my reasons for moving on, but for now I'll just say I'm really grateful to have worked with such a passionate, kind, and smart team this last year. ✌️

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@byGawley

3 years

People in my neighborhood are literally cheering on the thunder and lightning?

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

9 months

Two years ago, my mental health forced me to leave a career in journalism. I enrolled in some university courses as an excuse for putting off finding another job. I just submitted my final assignment for my bachelor's degree, something I never thought I would do.

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@byGawley

4 years

soooo im pretty sure i just stumbled across something i wasn’t supposed to see

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@byGawley

4 years

If it looks like a taxi, swims like a taxi, and quacks like a taxi, then licence it like a taxi. That's the approach Burnaby is taking to ride-hailing companies, charging them a $510-per-vehicle annual fee. #vanpoli #bcpoli

'They are taxis': Burnaby to charge ride-hailing cars same fees as cabs

New licensing scheme expected to be temporary as Metro Vancouver municipalities work on a regional model

www.burnabynow.com

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8 months

#BREAKING : The Toronto Raptors' NBPA members have donated $10,000 to @TSSU 's strike fund. Raptor & NBPA VP Garrett Temple: “The members of the NBPA stand in solidarity with members of Simon Fraser University’s Teaching Support Staff Union.”

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

6 years

Imagine being told five years ago that we would get debit on the ferry and legal weed at the same time.

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6 years

WHAT SORCERY IS THIS???!

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5 years

Is he just going to stand on a street corner and react to whatever happens in front of him?

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@byGawley

5 years

Burnaby is "laying down the gauntlet" to protect and create rental housing. Plan includes: 🔹rezone all existing PBR as rental only in perpetuity 🔹Require 20% of units in all new developments be rental 🔹vacancy controls for all new rentals #bcpoli #vanre #vanpoli

Burnaby NOW News

@BurnabyNOW_News

5 years

Burnaby unveils stunning rental-only zoning package to stem the housing crisis

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

7 months

When you get your Pinkertons from

kelvin gawley

@byGawley

7 months

SFU has hired Lions Gate Risk Management—the same corporate security firm that spied on and infiltrated Fairy Creek land defenders—to surveil @tssu picket lines. Unvelievable. #cdpoli #bcpoli

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5 years

"Save the NDP! Defeat Jagmeet Singh so the NDP can get a new leader." This last-minute plea for votes from the Conservatives takes concern trolling to a whole new level. #cdnpoli #BurnabySouth

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@byGawley

5 years

RuPaul tweeting about urbanism is like 40% of my feed consolidated into one tweet.

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@byGawley

5 years

The Green Party is offering "socks for your Birkenstocks" in the most on-brand fundraising drive I've ever seen. #cdnpoli

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@byGawley

5 years

I'm in downtown Toronto and everyone is wearing airpods, all the men are sockless in loafers, I've heard three conversations about cottages and one bro evangelize about CrossFit with religious fervour. I miss East Van.

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

6 years

All you bums complaining about the heat have lost your right to whinge about our awful winters. I, for one, will continue to enjoy the sun and bitch about the rain for eight months.

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

5 years

"Not true. All fake. Please stop." Comedian Rick Mercer calls out Burnaby North-Seymour riding association for posting imagine falsely indicating he said "vote Conservative." Looks like the Facebook post has been deleted. I'm waiting on a response from CPC. #elxn43 #cdnpoli

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@byGawley

7 years

By far the most amazing #Eclipse2017 photo I've see. (By Redditor Solarscars)

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@byGawley

5 years

#BREAKING : Adorable beavers caught cuddling near Still Creek. 😍😍😍

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@byGawley

8 months

#BREAKING : 1,600 @TSSU members at SFU are stopping all work starting Thursday. We won't go back to work until we have a deal. Escalating pickets begin the same day, in Surrey. “SFU’s administration is eroding the foundation of the university from underneath their own feet"

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

7 months

WHAT'S DISGUSTING?! UNION BUSTING!! SFU sends private investigators after us instead of offering a fair contract—and our resolve grows only stronger. @TSSU is unbreakable. Send a million Pinkertons after us and we will still win. Solidarity forever!

kelvin gawley

@byGawley

7 months

SFU has hired Lions Gate Risk Management—the same corporate security firm that spied on and infiltrated Fairy Creek land defenders—to surveil @tssu picket lines. Unvelievable. #cdpoli #bcpoli

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Farhan Mohamed

@farhanmohamed

1 year

One of the reasons I started @OverstoryMedia was because I felt most journalists weren’t very good at business, and they should focus on everything but that. Now my thoughts have changed. Many journalists don’t understand business. But worse? They don’t care to.

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6 years

And just like that, the carver's cabin is a pile of rubble. #CampCloud #bcpoli #cdnpoli #TransMountain

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3 years

hey covid, get fucked

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@byGawley

4 years

Protesters are blocking traffic at Broadway and Cambie in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs opposed the the CGL pipeline. #bcpoli

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@byGawley

6 years

Dozens of cops pulled up suddenly shortly after 5 am and began arresting everyone in sight. Two have been taken away on sitting stretchers. Seemingly for resisting arrest. #CampCloud #TransMountain #bcpoli #cdnpoli

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@byGawley

5 years

In typical CBC fashion, they have omitted the fact @mdgmedia broke the WeChat/Wang story. Why is it so hard to credit a competitor with a great scoop? #cdnpoli #cdnmedia

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@byGawley

3 years

Seeing a body wheeled out of your building is a pretty unnerving experience, so I’m gonna have a couple beers to relax with full confidence they won’t poison me to death. What a concept!

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

7 months

Union workers showed up for us throughout our strike. So when media asked us to talk about our tentative agreement today, we told them to meet us on the @SugarStrike2023 picket line. Solidarity forever!

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@byGawley

5 years

Just got a call from the Burnaby Public Library. They had no idea Karen Wang was planning to hold a press conference at its Metrotown branch this afternoon. Hosting a press conference is contrary to the library's policy, caller told me. #cdnpoli #BurnabySouth

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

3 years

"There is this 'Defund the police' thing going on in the States. There are some huge racial issues that I don't think we face here." -- Surrey NDP MLA and former RCMP officer Garry Begg yesterday at new committee to reform B.C.'s Police Act #bcpoli

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@byGawley

6 years

Kids are giving it to the cops

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

5 years

What the hell happened to Joey Shithead? The punk rock legend seems transformed since becoming a municipal politician. Did he sell out, or just grow up? #vanpoli

What the hell happened to Joey Sh*thead?

The legendary punk seems transformed since becoming a municipal politician. Did he sell out or just grow up?

www.burnabynow.com

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

5 years

This just might be what finally makes Jordan Peterson implode.

andrea tomkins

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5 years

So the Canadian Tire catalogue arrived at my door the other day. I was flipping through when I saw this…

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5 years

I'm at the People's Party campaign office in #BurnabySouth where Maxime Bernier is set to speak to media. A volunteer told me I was "fake new" and not allowed in, but a campaign official said I was welcome in. #cdnpoli

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

6 years

SCOOP: Burnaby council has made the first move in a major shift to its demoviction policies in Metrotown. They want to: -Be the first in B.C. to use the new rental zoning law -Guarantee new rental homes for displaced ppl #vanre #vanpoli #bcpoli

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

4 years

On one hand, the world is falling apart and my mental state is declining rapidly — but on the other hand, I get to order delivery every night and tell myself it’s a civic service.

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@byGawley

5 years

Jagmeet Singh stood apart from rivals at first debate: prof #cdnpoli

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

5 years

The City of Burnaby decided not to install a traffic light at a crosswalk. A few months later, three people were hit by cars there in a week. A teen died. Now, a light has been installed there. Has the city learned anything? "What's there to learn?" - Coun. Calendino

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

5 years

And this is where the 338 projection is now. So maybe people should just vote their conscience.

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

4 years

Classrooms at the mall? @BrentToderian says the Vancouver school board should consider leasing space at this shopping centre to keep kids learning in their own neighbourhood. #bcpoli #bced #vanpoli

Classrooms at the mall? City planner suggests unique solution to school crowding in Vancouver

Former Vancouver chief planner suggests renting mall space for classrooms

vancouver.citynews.ca

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@byGawley

4 years

I saw a man on the bus wearing nothing but a towel. That’s it. That’s the whole tweet.

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

5 years

Overwhelmingly depressed that I lived long enough to see Ed the Sock become an insufferable Liberal toady

Ed the Sock

@EdtheSock

5 years

The #blackface pic of #Trudeau raises questions - it's a b&w photo, what colour was makeup? Was he playing a genie? Was the performance derogatory toward POC, as blackface was? Answers we don't have. What we do know - since that pic, JT has opened door to POC immigrants/refugees.

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@byGawley

5 years

Easily the sassiest press release of the election. The NDP's response to Trudeau's climate announcement.

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

3 years

Large rolling protest in support of Punjabi farmers headed down Clark Drive. Signs read “No farmers, no food” and “F*ck Modi” @NEWS1130

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7 months

DULF saves lives!

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

5 years

The graph is not proportionate, making the NDP and Greens seem farther behind than they really are in the projection. It should look like the the second graph.

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@byGawley

5 years

ummmm

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@byGawley

4 years

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight? Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you Me: Not now Dad Dad: Not asking for a journalist to help, are they? Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now Dad: Go and see if live tweeting helps

jackson hayes

@jacksonhvisuals

4 years

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight? Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you Me: Not now Dad Dad: Not asking for a cinematographer to help, are they? Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now Dad: Go and see if “moody lighting" helps

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@byGawley

4 years

If your biggest worry is being inconvenienced by a road blockage, you’re pretty lucky, this protester says.

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@byGawley

3 years

Every journalist in BC: The FOI system couldn’t possible get worse John Horgan: Just watch me

Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

What a fucking joke. Instead of hiring adequate staff to meet legislated timeline rules, they're going to put barriers between people and their information. In other words, it's exactly what you would expect.

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@byGawley

5 years

Friends, I have two ferry anecdotes to share. 1. Someone left their Porsche running the entire voyage 2. There was a furry from Switzerland

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@byGawley

4 years

Ads telling people to have fewer kids are more than impolite for presuming to dictate your personal choices, critics say. They say these billboards inflame fears of overpopulation and provide a stepping stone to eugenics and eco-fascism. #bcpoli #vanpoli

Vancouver ads urging one-child families fuel eco-fascism: critics

Billboards urge Vancouverites to have few or no children, but some residents fear the rhetoric will fuel a dangerous overpopulation myth.

vancouver.citynews.ca

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

5 years

Shout out to the Star for capturing the moment I thought to myself “Oh wow, an orange. How incredibly on brand, Jagmeet.”

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@byGawley

5 years

Sir, this was a Denny's

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

7 years

Tomorrow's front page of the #Abbotsford News

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

4 years

Good news everyone: My neighbour (with whom I share an apartment wall) is settling into the quarantine nicely with a seemingly solo karaoke party, including driving base. 🙃

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

7 years

Flowers and candles laid at the front door of #Abbotsford police department. Citizens paying respect to fallen officer.

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

4 years

Decided to venture a full block away from my apartment to read my book in the park. Overheard woman on the phone saying it’s OK that farmers markets remain open because they are frequented by “wealthier” people who are therefore “cleaner.” Came back home. Thanks, Karen

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

7 months

A huge shoutout to the @Teamsters brothers who turned their cement trucks around at our picket lines today — and the solidarity from @cupenat @ILWUCanada @vancouverdlc @polyparty and many more. Construction and all other work at SFU will have to wait until we get a fair deal.

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@byGawley

11 months

Frances deserves this award for her Langara teaching alone. A generation of Canadian journalists hear her voice in their heads every day, telling them cut jargon and fluff from their copy and get to the damn point.

Jack Webster Fdn

@JackWebsterFdn

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So pleased to announce the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, @fabulavancouver , and the Bill Good Award recipient @GlobalRepCentre . Read more here and congrats Frances and the GRC.

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

7 years

To whoever anonymously sent the Abby News pizza, THANK YOU!

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

6 years

Will George and other activists are hanging under the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge right now to block tankers leaving the Westridge Terminal with oil from the #TransMountain pipeline. #bcpoli #vanpoli #cdnpoli

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@byGawley

4 years

@j_mcelroy DBH: Only socialize with people in your household Me:

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

6 years

Tzeporah Berman says the eviction on Camp Cloud will not stop opposition to the pipeline expansion.

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

5 years

ok who's been flushing flannel shirts, diamond rings and screws on BC Ferries?

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@byGawley

7 years

Reddit made a Bohemian Rhapsody/Scaramucci parody

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@byGawley

6 years

If, hypothetically, @KelvinGawley were to leave his job for the last time, but leave his Twitter account open and active on the desktop of his computer, he would have to have some real great former co-workers for them to only write a gentle and non-harmful tweet in his name.

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

4 years

You gotta admire Doug McCallum's dedication to calling it "Yoober"

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

8 months

The people who make @sfu work, @TSSU , are at the table, ready to bargain. Where are the university’s negotiators? They’re hiding from us, complaining the room THEY BOOKED is too small.

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

4 years

This Afghan restaurant in Surrey is: - Offering 30% discounts to health-care workers - Delivering free food to ERs - Collecting and matching food banks donations They hope other restuants follow suit. #COVID19 #vanpoli

Surrey Afghan restaurant giving health-care workers discounts during COVID-19 pandemic

When Hassib Sarawari saw that health-care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic were still finding parking tickets on their cars after long, grueling shifts, he thought that was sending...

vancouver.citynews.ca

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

6 years

I'm in total agreement with this letter to the editor. It's standard for the loser in an election to congratulate the winner over the phone, but it took guts for Corrigan to enter a potentially hostile environment to shake Hurley's hand.

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@byGawley

5 years

I really enjoy that the City of Burnaby has gone to the trouble of putting citizens at the top of its organizational chart Democracy, baby!

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4 years

Oh cool! Thanks to whoever votes on these things!

BC/Yukon Newspapers

@NewspapersWest

4 years

Kelvin Gawley ( @byGawley ) wins the Arts and Culture Writing Award for Smash the State! Great work! #mamurray2020

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@byGawley

4 years

Reader: This is shoddy journalism! You didn't let the group respond to criticism. Me: Yeah I did... Reader: I don't like the last word!

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@byGawley

6 years

The single greatest tweet from an all-candidates meeting you'll see this election

Theresa McManus

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6 years

Jimmie Bell shows off a very impressive radish. Says Queensborough was once fertile farmland but has been paved over by buildings.

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5 years

I went to a Whole Foods for the first time three weeks ago. I've since been back three more times and now have a La Croix fixation. My anarchist teenage self is so deeply disappointed in me.

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@byGawley

8 months

SFU underestimated us. Our members are out in full force, demanding a fair contract NOW. @TSSU

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4 years

It’s day... 47?!? of self isolation in my small studio apartment. Loneliness level: just ordered a bird feeder to attract some new friends.

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@byGawley

5 years

Bernier: Make CBC viewer-supported like PBS, privatize Canada Post and cut foreign aide #cdnpoli

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@byGawley

2 years

Yellowjackets, Season 2 filming in East Van

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@byGawley

5 years

Millennial culture is having a vague sense I have plans on Wednesday and anxiously trying to remember what they are but then remembering I just have an amazon package arriving that day.

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

4 years

WOE AND BEHOLD: It's my last Burnaby council meeting as a Burnaby NOW reporter. I have Dustin Godfrey, my city hall reporting replacement at my side.

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

6 years

Here's a video of Siyamiyateliyot Elizabeth Phillips reading the story of Bear and Coyote in Halq'emeylem. She has been working with linguists for decades to preserve the Sto:lo language. Full video:

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

4 years

Anyone who thinks millennials are the entitled generation hasn't seen a Boomer interact with service staff.

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kelvin gawley

@byGawley

8 months

It’s true, @TSSU members are horribly underpaid. We love teaching and just want to pay rent and buy groceries in return. (But McDonald’s workers deserve a union and a raise, too)

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@byGawley

4 years

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you can book an appointment with a psychiatrist (or other doc) in a matter of minutes using this app. It’s fully covered by MSP.

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@byGawley

5 years

I had a good time in Cuba. That's it. That's the whole tweet.

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