Gregor Craigie

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@gregorcraigie.bsky.social oh ya my uncle Neil in Powell River also had a smoker made out of an old fridge! They worked really great because of the insulation, it allowed for excellent heat retention & a long, even smoke

They're kind of a dying BC coast tradition but you still see them now & then

🧵This morning, I joined @gregorcraigie.bsky.social for CBC On the Island from the dock at Banfield Park. What a beautiful day to broadcast outside!

The dock, installed in 2022 by @victoria.ca, was expanded in 2024 with a new floating swim platform and more water safety features, including

Thanks, it's nice to be back!

Thanks Michael, good to make the connection!

Radio road trip to Saanich Commonwealth Place for a live poolside broadcast from the Canadian Swimming Trials... 🍁🏊

Saturday cycling on Saturna Island.

Here's our crew of launching authors! Monique Gray Smith, Jess Willows andJohnny Aitken @franbwrites.bsky.social Mark Leiren-Young, Gabrielle Prendergast, @gregorcraigie.bsky.social and me! Fly high, little books! (Thanks for the photo, @orcabook.bsky.social)

Big thanks to @orcabook.bsky.social, Munro Books, the other writers, and everyone else who came to tonight's group book launch! Saving Wolfgang is now available in fine bookstores and libraries near you. 📖🏒🥅

What a privilege to talk about my new book on the Calgary Eyeopener with my friend @lorenmcginnis.bsky.social
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I'm honoured that Our Crumbling Foundation will receive this year's George Ryga Award for Social Awareness. Thanks to the judges and everyone who has read this book!
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How to Rebuild Canada’s Crumbling Housing Foundation | The Tyee Victoria journalist Gregor Craigie’s new book dives into the depths of the crisis, and offers ways to fix it.

Gregor Craigie was shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize awarded to the author of the best original non-fiction literary work:

Thanks!

A very nice starred review of Saving Wolfgang, in the School Library Journal. Thank you Carol Youssif!

Repairing Canada's crumbling foundation: a new book offers solutions to our housing crisis John Ackermann sits down with Gregor Craigie, author of Our Crumbling Foundation: How we Solve Canada's Housing Crisis.

#OTD in 2024, I spoke with @gregorcraigie.bsky.social about his book, Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada’s Housing Crisis. #NewsRadioBookshelf ⁦‪https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/04/06/citynews-bookshelf-our-crumbling-foundation/

For our first session We’ll be joined by an amazing group of journalists for a panel on “Framing the Crisis: Media, Ethics and the Housing Conversation.” They include @michaeljohnlo.bsky.social @robshaw.bsky.social @fabulavancouver.bsky.social @gregorcraigie.bsky.social & Michael Vonn CEO PHS

Thank you @spacing.bsky.social and Glenn Miller for this fine book review.

ANALYSIS | The U.S. has covertly destabilized nations. With Canada, it's being done in public | CBC News Former senior Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating 51st state threats. T...

Former Canadian intelligence officials say Canada should watch for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid Donald Trump's escalating 51st state threats - likely on social media, such as X - fomenting or financing pro-annexationist groups within Canada.

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Stop the ride I want to get off...

It was nothing against the retrofit companies, just a question of trusting the seismic engineer who had retrofitted dozens of public buildings and private houses and was able to design retrofit plans I could do myself to keep costs relatively low.

Yep, the longer you can be self-sufficient, the better.

Timely advice after today's earthquake in Victoria.

Felt & heard that in Sidney…

Whoa! An early morning #earthquake in Victoria #yyj.

Thanks for listening Mathew!

Oh Canada!!! 🇨🇦🍁

I'm still buying Canadian.