Masthash

#bcpoli

Steve Maclellan
8 hours ago

We followed an old-growth detective into the forest to fact-check B.C.’s suspicious claims about the age of trees

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2065-727a-a609-986003313425

We followed an old-growth detective into the forest to fact-check B.C.’s suspicious claims about the age of trees
Phoenix.Serenity
11 hours ago

A #Vancouver #renter says she’s one of a half-dozen #SubTenants cleared out of a #MountPleasant character home earlier this year only to find the house listed on #Airbnb during tourist season.

What’s more, the entire process was #legal. The #landlord arranged the long-term #tenancies as #subleases for her daughters — meaning the former #tenants weren’t entitled to regular #RenterProtections.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/subletter-cleared-from-house-airbnb

#YVR #RentalHousing #BChousing #BCpoli #RentalCrisis #HousingCrisis #YVR

Phoenix.Serenity
12 hours ago

#BCgovernment has asserted in court that it is not directly responsible for any #SystemicDiscrimination against #Indigenous people in #healthcare field; rather, such matters are the responsibility of local #HealthAuthorities & #hospitals.

#BCNDP government application was ultimately #dismissed by Justice Matthew Kirchner & proposed #ClassAction #lawsuit is expected to proceed to certification stage next year.

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/bc-government-denies-responsibility-for-alleged-indigenous-health-care-discrimination-7940217

#BCpoli #BChealth #SystematicRacism #BritishColumbia #Canada

Phoenix.Serenity
12 hours ago

A #VancouverIsland company says it’s unfairly being lumped in with #AirBnB operators under new #BCgovernment legislation.

#PremiereSuitesVictoria offers stays around the capital region to primarily working professionals coming to #VictoriaBC on short-term contracts, with a mandatory minimum stay of 31 days.

“We’re not vacation rentals, that’s not our clientele. We’re business to business,” said Rachelle Keeley, owner of Premiere Suites Victoria

https://www.cheknews.ca/victoria-company-feels-unfairly-lumped-into-b-c-s-new-short-term-rental-definition-1180777

#BCpoli #YYJ #VanIsle

Mat Wright
1 day ago

My greatest fear, in the current political sphere unfolding, is that captured Public Health officials now basically denying Covid19 is any sort of problem, also claiming they are 'learning lessons' to prepare for the next pandemic, have basically realized they can gaslight the public to accept mass disability and death.

The last 4 years have proven the balances we had with media, governance, judiciary are ephemeral, and require robust defence

#Covid #Covid19 #CDNpoli #BCpoli

Andy McKay
1 day ago

After 3 years of the crap cyclists have had to face in Vancouver around the Stanley Park bike lane, I have zero sympathy for the park board and am past caring about them.

#bcpoli

Jennifer Thuncher
1 day ago

#Squamish council opts not to write Prime Minister about Israel-Hamas war
By a 2-5 vote, council opts not to write to Justin Trudeau asking for a ceasefire with several members saying they believed it is an individual choice.
#bcpoli
https://www.squamishchief.com/local-news/squamish-council-opts-not-to-write-prime-minister-about-israel-hamas-war-7936032

@msquebanh @lacouvee Climenega: "The Canadian Taxpayers Federation, ..., has always been tight-lipped about the sources of its own funding and support" . #bcpoli https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/07/05/Canadian-Taxpayers-Federation-Get/

@msquebanh @lacouvee Who funds Atlas Network? The elites Aaron Gunn says he's fighting against. #bcpoli https://www.desmog.com/atlas-economic-research-foundation/

@msquebanh @lacouvee "working with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation" A friendly reminder that 'Canadian' TaxPayers Federation is an Atlas Network organization. Atlas is funded by the enormously wealthy of the US. " I believe in ... supporting the hard-working men and women who built (and continue to build) this country every single day" Taxpayers fed supports the wealthy, not the hard-working #bcpoli https://web.archive.org/web/20200619024718/https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/canada

Phoenix.Serenity
2 days ago

@lacouvee Have you seen this #BadNews? This #fascist #FarRight guy is popular on North Island. Scary.

#CampbellRiver filmmaker #AaronGunn has been officially #nominated as a #candidate by the #ConservativeParty of #Canada.

Gunn will be running as a #Conservative in the next federal election in #NorthIsland#PowellRiver, a seat currently held by the #NDP’s Rachel Blaney.

https://www.comoxvalleyrecord.com/news/conservatives-name-aaron-gunn-as-north-island-powell-river-candidate-7118748

#VancouverIsland #BCpoli #CanPoli #CDNpoli #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #BritishColumbia

Peter Kelly
2 days ago

Premier’s statement on National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
#bcpoli #cdnpoli
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023PREM0088-001931

Phoenix.Serenity
2 days ago

Michael White says there needs to be more specific #FinancialAssistance for those with the #PostViral condition — range of symptoms affecting some people months after recovering from a #COVID19 infection.

“I feel as though #GovernmentAssistance programs have not evolved to accommodate people like me with #LongCOVID who have no way of knowing when or if they’re going to make a complete recovery,” he said.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/12/05/burnaby-long-covid

#BCpoli #BChealth #BCNDP #NewDeathParty #NowDisablingPeople

The Tyee
2 days ago

Three years after the Old Growth Strategic Review, the province has made three big recent announcements. 🪵 A Tyee explainer from Zoë Yunker. #OldGrowth #BCPoli

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/12/06/BC-Paradigm-Shift-Forests/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

Mat Wright
3 days ago

Updated Novavax Covid vaccine FINALLY approved in Canada

Stupid it took so long

Now let's hope provinces make it quickly and easily available, so many have been delaying (including myself)

#Covid #Covid19 #CDNpoli #BCpoli

https://globalnews.ca/news/10149249/novavax-updated-covid-vaccine-health-canada-approval/

Mat Wright
3 days ago

The Growing Toll of Covid

numbers don't lie, public health does - everything is nowhere near fine or 'normal'

stress on the health system is insane, and unsustainable

we either quickly get out of denial, or watch systems crash in real time

#Covid #Covid19 #BCpoli #CDNpoli

https://www.policynote.ca/growing-toll/

The Tyee
3 days ago

BC Green Party MLA Adam Olsen is calling on the province to form a special policing unit dedicated to investigating the suspicious deaths and disappearances of First Nations people.

#BCPoli

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/12/05/Adam-Olsen-Protect-Indigenous-People/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

Two images side by side. Left: Adam Olsen, a lighter-skinned man with a close-shaven head and short beard, smiles at the camera. Right: Yellow background with text: "NEWS: The Last Thing Alberta's NDP Needs Is a Name Change. By Amanda Follett Hosgood." The Tyee's "T" logo in the top right corner.
Phoenix.Serenity
3 days ago

*Good. Oak Bay's been known as big NIMBY area & they need to start alleviating housing crisis too. It's overdue.*

That infill strategy was shelved when the province named #OakBay as one of the first 10 communities subject to the province’s #HousingSupplyAct, tasked with delivering 664 units in the next five years – in line with 650 units that were previously estimated in the recent Oak Bay #housing needs report.

https://www.vicnews.com/local-news/tough-to-do-oak-bay-facing-pressure-to-kickstart-housing-options-7118622

#YYJpoli #BCpoli #HousingCrisis #AffordableHousingNeeded

Phoenix.Serenity
3 days ago

#BritishColumbia #farmers face third year of crop loss as #TransMountain #pipeline project drags on.

In September, the #Canada #EnergyRegulator (#CER) allowed #TMX to go ahead with a pipeline route deviation for a 1.3-kilometre stretch of pipeline in the #JackoLake area near #Kamloops against the wishes of the #Stkemlupsemc te #Secwépemc #FirstNation.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/bc-farmers-crop-loss-trans-mountain-pipeline

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #CanPoli #PNW #EnvironmentalRacism #CorporateGreed #Ecocide #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #Environmental

Mat Wright
3 days ago

Our son's day program sent a notice one of the participants has head lice

Sure, a notice for lice, but no mention of Covid with staff and others constantly off ill

We don't pandemic well

#Covid #Covid19 #BCpoli

rhtunstall
4 days ago

Whelp, after masking profusely through the last few years my #immunocompromised wife and I finally got covid courtesy of #unmasked #bced teachers, staff and children following the almighty #BonnieHenry’s recommendations.

I blame this #BCndp completely for their dismissal of covid mitigations and gutless acceptance of societal sickness over empathy and simple measures that could have saved lives.

I’m currently out of work due to the film strikes, now my wife is out of commission as well because of this #bcndp embracing covid.

British Columbia is a cesspool of #covid but no one cares, no one is taking precautions, and no one is talking about it.

A tree in the forest that no one hears falling right Bonnie?

We are now that tree, which is what Bonnie always intended. Long abandoned by our families because we cared enough to continue #masking, now covid sick and alone due to complacency pushed by #BonnieHenry, #AdrianDix and this #corrupt #BCndp.

#FireBonnieHenry #NewDeathParty #NoDataParty #NeverAgain #WeWillRemember #OustTheBCndp #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Phoenix.Serenity
4 days ago

[We followed an #OldGrowth #detective into the forest to #FactCheck #BCgovernment's suspicious claims about the age of #trees.

When #conservationist Eddie Petryshen learned #BCTimberSales was #auctioning off #cutblocks in a globally rare inland temperate #rainforest that also provides core #habitat for endangered caribou, he took to the woods in search of #AncientTrees & @thenarwhal tagged along]

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-rainforest-old-growth-detectives

#BritishColumbia #Deforestation #StopEcocide #PNW #AncientForests #BCpoli

B.C. doctor fired for refusing COVID-19 shot loses bid to get hospital privileges back | CBC News https://bit.ly/3RtsoeI #COVIDCanada #BCDoctors #COVID19 #Vaccination #Doctors #Coronavirus #bcpoli @cdnpoli

a patient getting a shor
Pat
4 days ago

#Cdnpoli #Bcpoli #Covid

B.C. doctor fired for refusing COVID-19 shot loses bid to get hospital privileges back

You have the right to make a bad decision , but those impacted also have a right to make a decision to hold you accountable , and remove the risk

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/theresa-szezepaniak-bc-hospital-appeal-board-covid-vaccine-1.7046988

Cindy
6 days ago

Thanks to #VanRE #shadowflipping #casinogate + luxury condos:

"The loss of rental stock due to redevelopment has made the net number of purpose-built rental units in B.C. comparable to what it was in the early 1990s — while the population has grown by 50% since that time."

#Vancouver #affordablehousing #bcpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-rental-protection-fund-applicants-1.7045233

rhtunstall
6 days ago

Very sad and disturbing that #Israel has chosen to continue its ongoing #genocide of #Palestinians in Gaza.

This is not a war, it’s a open market slaughterhouse. #Canada, #US, and the #UK all have blood on their hands for supporting this #PublicExecution.

#Israel is practicing #eviction through #murder of civilians. I will not remain silent as this #genocide continues.

Also, #CTV is a just another biased, bought off media company just like all our other #covid loving, govt friendly #CDNmedia.

They are paid to deny #Palestine exists in the same way they deny #covid exists. Totally disgusting behaviour from a completely biased #CDNmedia.

#CDNpoli #BCpoli
#Palestine

Doctor will repay $100K loan provided as incentive to work in northern Manitoba town | CBC News https://bit.ly/46I1STw #Doctors #Manitoba #NorthernManitoba #Incentives #bcpoli #mbpoli @cdnpoli

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Phoenix.Serenity
1 week ago

#BCgovernment’s workaround to allow medical assistance in dying (#MAiD) at #StPaulsHospital will not prevent the continuing #ForcedTransfers of #EndOfLife #patients at other religious-run #hospitals & #hospices, says a #Vancouver #PalliativeCare #doctor.

“I’m actually shocked,” said Jyothi Jayaraman, who quit her job at a Vancouver hospice, May’s Place, because it stopped providing MAID once it was taken over by #ProvidenceHealth.

https://vancouversun.com/news/national/palliative-care-doctor-speaks-out-about-provinces-maid-changes-for-st-pauls-hospital

#BChealth #BCpoli #PatientRights

Phoenix.Serenity
1 week ago

A #PublicHearing recommended a transit #cop be dismissed for beating a man at a #SkyTrain station in 2011, but because the #PoliceAct process took more than a decade, his discipline was much lighter. As Kristen Robinson reports, #BritishColumbia's #SolicitorGeneral calls the delay excessively long & wants this addressed in reforms.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10141028/transit-police-discipline-delay

#Vancouver #YVR #BCpoli #PoliceReform #PoliceViolence #AbuseOfPower #ViolentCops #ACAB #DefundThePolice #AbusiveCops #VanPoli #TransitPolice

Phoenix.Serenity
1 week ago

The #Vietnamese government is #investing heavily in turning the country into the “factory of the world,” and making #Vietnam a gateway into the Association of #SoutheastAsian Nations (#ASEAN) region.

This is a strategy that offers opportunities for #BritishColumbia #businesses, according to #BCgovernment & #VietnamGovernment officials & business leaders who spoke at an event hosted by both governments.

https://www.delta-optimist.com/asia-pacific/vietnam-aims-to-position-itself-as-a-gateway-to-asean-for-canada-7904670

#BCpoli #BCbusiness #InternationalBusiness #AsianMastodon #TootSEA

Mat Wright
1 week ago

Ontario Greens have won in the Kitchner Centre byelection - and by a whopping margin!!!

#CDNpoli #ONpoli #BCpoli

https://rtr.elections.on.ca/RealTimeResults/en/electoral-district

Mat Wright
1 week ago

Looking at Covid wastewater data from across the US and Canada over the past few weeks and it's hard not to conclude the peak this winter, likely in late January, will be the worst one of the entire pandemic. This means incredibly high community transmission and positivity rates, and with an abysmal take-up of the Omicron specific monovalent vaccine

We are heading into a world of hurt and not a peep from public health - graph is Ontario

#Covid #Covid19 #CDNpoli #BCpoli

Graph of Ontario Covid wastewater signal posted November 30th showing a spike in cases possibly heading to a pandemic record
Phoenix.Serenity
1 week ago

Last month, scholars at the #UniversityOfCalifornia, #Berkeley invited a #Canadian expert to offer his analysis of the riddle that is crushing the dreams of an entire generation.

“What really surprised them in #California was the sharp decoupling there is in Metro #Vancouver between incomes and #housing prices,” said Andy Yan, an associate professor of professional practice at #SFU who also heads its City Program.

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-californians-taken-aback-by-vast-gap-between-wages-and-housing-costs-in-vancouver

#BChousingCrisis #BCpoli

Phoenix.Serenity
1 week ago

Quadra Islanders want to save a popular patch of #wetland from development to bring back #coho #salmon, after their hundred-year absence.

Paul Puddy is a director with the #QuadraIsland Enhancement Society. He says there are other places around the village to develop, and the #watershed will come back to life if salmon are allowed to return.

https://www.mycampbellrivernow.com/71706/news/campbell-river/volunteers-plan-to-restore-coho-runs-destroyed-by-historic-quadra-cannery

#environmental #BCpoli #WildFirst #SaveWildSalmon #WildSalmonAlliance #conservation #restoration #SalmonHabitat #ecology #PNW

The Tyee
1 week ago

There were tears and hugs in a Smithers courtroom Wednesday morning.

The first criminal trial involving an Indigenous land defender arrested in the #CoastalGasLink conflict has ended with a not guilty verdict.

@afh reports. #BCPoli

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/11/30/Judge-Sided-With-Peace/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

Two images side by side. Left: Two women, both wearing long brightly coloured skirts and one wearing a hat with an eagle feather, stand in front of a large building flying flags for Canada and British Columbia. The woman on the right looks at the camera while the woman on the left looks at her and smiles. Right: Yellow background with text: "NEWS: 'The Judge Sided with Peace.' By Amanda Follett Hosgood." The Tyee's "T" logo is in the top right corner.
Lauralee Dukeshire
1 week ago

📣 Urgent Action Needed! 📣 Join me to ensure BC gov puts #PublicHealth in #BCBudget2024 :
✅ Renewed pandemic funding
✅ Indoor #CleanAir Act
✅ Building retrofit strategy
✅ PPE tax credit
#LongCovid care
✅ Digital health solutions
Act now: https://donoharmbc.ca/budget2024-campaign/ #BCPoli #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne

Against BC's Parliament Building and a vivid blue sky is the DoNoHarm BC logo, and white and gold text reading, Renew pandemic support in BC's 2024 Budget. www.DoNoHarmBC.ca - Deadline December 15
Kevin Russell
1 week ago

@Iamgtsmith

Yeah, concerned, after the billions of trees burned, after the roads and major bridges destroyed, after 600 died of the day's heat, after hundreds of cattle die from drowning in rain floods, after $11 billion in climate losses in one year, BC is also concernned that carbon fuels fed CO2 is destroying the #climate because skiing is becoming a dirt sport.

There is no choice, no debate, Just EXCUSES.

Build ALL the New Energy NOW.

#bcpoli #ableg #canpoli #canada #climate #klima

The Tyee
1 week ago

The B.C. government was set to offer a promised apology Tuesday for removing Doukhobor children from their families 70 years ago and confining them.

It has decided at the last minute to delay, updates Andrew MacLeod. #BCPoli

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/11/29/BC-Cancels-Fall-Apology-Doukhobor/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

Two images side by side. Left: Young boys in striped T-shirts look without emotion through a chain-link fence, while two women look on. A partially obscured sign in the background says 'Will Be Prosecuted.' Right: Yellow background with text, "NEWS: BC Cancels Fall Apology to Seized Doukhobor Children. By Andrew MacLeod." In the top right, The Tyee's "T" logo.
Alan Rycroft 🇨🇦
1 week ago

Downtown housing opens for people experiencing homelessness in Victoria

The six-storey building features 46 studio units

The six-storey building is called the Juniper and features 46 studio units located at 1176 Yates Street

https://www.vicnews.com/local-news/downtown-housing-opens-for-people-experiencing-homelessness-in-victoria-7115756

#homelessness #homeless #housing #SupportiveHousing #yyjpoli #bcpoli

Phoenix.Serenity
2 weeks ago

Regional District of #Nanaimo & other jurisdictions along #IslandRail Corridor are in planning stages of what to do with the 289 km stretch.

In March, the #MinistryOfTransportation and Infrastructure provided $18 million in grant funding to 14 #FirstNations & 5 regional districts located along the #VancouverIsland #RailCorridor to develop a shared vision in the short-term as well as benefits for the impacted communities over the long-term.

https://www.cheknews.ca/planning-meetings-underway-for-island-rail-corridors-future-1179040

#BCpoli #Transportation

@thetyee Methane pyrolysis, the conversion of methane directly to hydrogen and solid carbon, is a more effective and established alternative than the ever elusive carbon capture. Suncor abandoned its partnership with Fortis and Hazer. If Suncor abandons this, why would it adopt carbon capture? Advocating for capture is a lame excuse to do nothing. #bcpoli https://app.sharelinktechnologies.com/announcement/asx/c0ebc1d5ffb6811dcfebf8bde34f257f

@thetyee Kevin Falcon said he would introduce a “common sense plan” Common sense told us the world was flat and the sun went around the earth everyday. When a politician says "common sense" are they asking everyone to be their most ignorant and misinformed? #bcpoli

The Tyee
2 weeks ago

As British Columbia emerges from its worst wildfire season on record, two of the province’s opposition parties say they would scrap the government’s climate action plan. #BCPoli

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/11/24/What-Climate-Crisis/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

Three images side by side. Left: A white man with styled hair and tortoise shell glasses smiles at the camera, wearing an open-necked white shirt and light blue sports jacket. Middle: An older white man wearing a blue shirt with white stripes, smiling. Right: Yellow background with text reads "NEWS: Climate Crisis? What Climate Crisis? By Andrew MacLeod." In the top right corner, The Tyee's "T" logo.

BC Greens Call for More Accountability for Child Welfare Services | The Tyee https://bit.ly/3Gdq9G9 #MCFD #BCGreens #ChildWelfare #bcpoli @canadiangreens @cdnpoli

Mat Wright
2 weeks ago

leaked email - this is just fucked - health care workers in British Columbia are no longer required to stay home for 5 days when Covid+ - this is basically a forced return even when knowingly ill, it's the opposite of infection control

#Covid #Covid19 #BCpoli #CDNpoli

Steve Maclellan
2 weeks ago

Indigenous rights collide with $35B Western Canada pipeline expansion

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1665-5e64-1388-624642188194

Indigenous rights collide with $35B Western Canada pipeline expansion
Steve Maclellan
2 weeks ago

Environmental concerns loom over Glencore takeover of Teck coal mines

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1865-5e62-610f-d6d771593103

Environmental concerns loom over Glencore takeover of Teck coal mines
Phoenix.Serenity
2 weeks ago

A new #American #study has confirmed southeastern #BritishColumbia #CoalMines are #contaminating waters shared by #Canada & the #USA, adding the miner’s attempts to remove #selenium from #wastewater aren’t making much difference to the amount flowing south.

“It’s making a small dent,” said Meryl Storb of the #UnitedStates #Geological Survey, lead author of the newly published study.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/u-s-study-finds-b-c-mining-toxin-in-american-waters-treatment-a-small-dent

#Ecocide #BCpoli #Pollution #BCNDP #PNW #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #environment

Say it with me:
Natural Gas competes with Renewables.
Natural Gas competes with Renewables.
[Fossil] Gas competes with Renewables.
#BCLNG #endFossilFuels #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #CanPoli #BCPoli https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/giant-batteries-drain-economics-gas-power-plants-2023-11-21/

“"Given that governments, production plans and targets helped to influence, legitimize and justify continued fossil fuel dependence, there is a real risk that such plans are undermining the energy transition by locking in long-lived fossil fuel infrastructure," Achakulwisut said.”

Looking at you Prime Minister Justin “Climate Champion but lets buy a Pipeline” Trudeau. Or you BC Premier David - “Still Loving the LNG” Eby.

#ClimateAction #BCPoli #CdnPoli #CanPoli #TransMountain #TMX #LNG #BCLNG
https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/canada-climate-fossil-fuel-production-report-1.7020988

Zeb King 🇨🇦
3 weeks ago

"The last resolution to pass at the BC NDP’s convention Sunday urged the Canadian government to call for an immediate ceasefire in the fight between Hamas and Israel." #BCNDPConvention2023 #BCPoli #cdnpoli #ndp #gaza https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/11/20/Gaza-Ceasefire-Centre-Stage-BC-NDP-Convention/ @AndrewMacLeod #thetyee

Zeb King 🇨🇦
3 weeks ago

BC's political party, called the BCNDP, had a policy convention. This resolution did not make it in time for a vote, but it was in the resolutions book. There were too many resolutions for a vote on all of them.
#BCNDPConvention2023 #BCPoli #cdnpoli #fracking #ndp #Mastodon

Phoenix.Serenity
3 weeks ago

#Patient observes collapse of #healthcare system.

"I finally got in for complex spinal surgery after a three-year wait. My surgery was delayed not due to the lack of a surgeon but due to a shortage of health-care staff, supplies, equipment and infrastructure. I observed this firsthand when I was in the hospital.

Staff shortages were obvious. There were several patients in the hall and the corridors seemed near impassable."

https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/opinion/letter-patient-observes-collapse-of-health-care-system

#BCpoli #BCNDP #hospitals #PublicHealth #YYJ

Phoenix.Serenity
3 weeks ago

Prime Minister #JustinTrudeau has lost touch with the struggles of #Canadians, while #Conservative Leader #PierrePoilievre only pretends to care about regular people, federal #NewDemocrat Leader #JagmeetSingh said Sunday.

Singh took #political swings at his two leadership #counterparts during a speech to more than 700 #delegates attending the #BritishColumbia #BCNDP convention.

https://vancouversun.com/news/politics/jagmeet-singh-bc-ndp-convention/wcm/b731dbb5-2160-484f-abad-3842c657d2ad

#CDNpoli #CanPoli #BCpoli #YYJ #VictoriaBC #Canada #politician #NDP

Zeb King 🇨🇦
3 weeks ago

Premier Eby mentions the changes of 6 yrs of BCNDP. Lots of accomplishments. Have brought roughly 4,000 previously privatized health workers back into the public sector. ICBC rates are down. Eliminated MSP, which was the largest middle-class tax cut in a generation. Fee birth control in BC started with a resolution at convention - way to go Teale et al!
#BCPoli #cdnpoli @KaliCooper @jsatre #ndp @AndrewMacLeo

Zeb King 🇨🇦
3 weeks ago

#BCNDPConvention2023.
The next resolutions section starts at 2:15 p.m. We will learn the state of the collective effort to move resolution B17 "End Fracking in British Columbia" up the priority list.

Premier/leader David Eby up next.

#BCPoli #cdnpoli #fracking @KaliCooper @jsatre #ndp @AndrewMacLeod

Phoenix.Serenity
3 weeks ago

The #BCSecuritiesCommission is joining most major jurisdictions in #NorthAmerica with the #introduction of a #whistleblower program aimed at catching bad actors in the #InvestmentIndustry.

The commission is offering between $1,000 & $250,000 for any information that leads to a much wider array of enforcement results, from a trade halt, preservation (of assets) order & minor administrative penalty to a hearing notice against a company or market participant.

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/new-bc-stock-market-whistleblower-program-must-face-test-of-time-says-critic-7843697

#BCpoli

Zeb King 🇨🇦
3 weeks ago

Just started the #BCNDPConvention2023 . Already this morning, we've had an emergency executive meeting of our EDA to support an appeal to move resolution B17 "End Fracking in British Columbia" up to B1. The executive passed this unanimously and submitted the form.
#BCPoli #cdnpoli #fracking @KaliCooper @jsatre #ndp @AndrewMacLeod

Photo of the text of resolution B17
Zeb King 🇨🇦
3 weeks ago

Here is Oak Bay Mayor Murdoch's video re recent provincial legislative changes around housing in BC. Is the province undermining democracy, or is it asserting its own democratic authority?

Some points are valid, such as that senior governments are responsible for the housing crisis - abandoning public housing for 30+ yrs, lacking financial support commensurate with immigration etc. But democracy, not so much.

https://vimeo.com/885543921 #BCPoli #cdnpoli #housing #yyj #oakbay @jeremycaradonna

Zeb King 🇨🇦
3 weeks ago

News from British Columbia, Canada

"In Victoria, former Airbnbs are flooding the market — but no one is buying"
-By Jimmy Thomson, Ricochet Media, November 15, 2023

"Dozens of former short-term rentals have gone up for sale since the ban was announced in October, and not one has sold"

https://ricochet.media/en/4010/in-victoria-former-airbnbs-are-flooding-the-market-but-no-one-is-buying

Like this online publication? Let's invite them to join us on Mastodon: editor@ricochet.media

#news #cdnpoli #bcpoli #housingcrisis #airbnb #yyj @seanholman @cgainor @jsatre

Zeb King 🇨🇦
3 weeks ago

Election day in the news from the North West Territories, Canada. 

"Cabin Radio’s Election Night Live begins on our live stream from 6pm with Ollie Williams. Live text updates will appear on our website throughout the evening from Emily Blake."

https://cabinradio.ca/161115/news/politics/your-guide-election-day-in-the-northwest-territories/

#cdnpoli #nwtpoli #BCPoli #AbPoli  

Stephen Rees
4 weeks ago

What Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi's ouster says about B.C.'s political culture

From Charlie Smith

https://charliesmithvancouver.substack.com/p/what-dr-sanjiv-gandhis-ouster-says?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=996986&post_id=138786689&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=pko3z&utm_medium=email

My posting of this link is an endorsement of what Charlie Smith writes about this sorry story

#bcpoli #BCGreenParty #BCNDP #COVID19

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Boris Mann
1 month ago

Ownership structures and finance are other opportunities for templates.

Legal & accounting, construction & mortgage financing.

VanCity produced a TikTok about a new product they have for groups buying & building together. A good start!

Can we support co-ops and co-housing as well as strata? Can community land trusts make for even more affordability and long term local ownership?

#bcpoli #housing #coop

Boris Mann
1 month ago

What do I mean when I say templates?

The “Vancouver Special” was a SFH design you could buy / build that is found all over the city.

What are some 3/4/6 unit designs we can work with architects & engineers to have designed as customizable starting points?

How can Canadian companies work together to provide materials and components that fit into these designs?

We have an opportunity for local supply chains.

#bcpoli #housing

Boris Mann
1 month ago

I don’t think it’s time for half measures. Zoning is just one part.

You need financing, you need architecture / engineering / construction, you need materials.

I am actually worried that we don’t have enough systems or templates in place for this to make an impact.

Most people don’t know this, but rentals are a BIGGER issue outside of urban areas in the province of BC: only SFH, and not affordable to rent an entire house!

#bcpoli #housing

Boris Mann
1 month ago

From a government news release https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023PREM0062-001706

In most areas within municipalities of more than 5,000 people, these changes will also require bylaws to allow for:

* three to four units permitted on lots currently zoned for single-family or duplex use, depending on lot size;
* six units permitted on larger lots currently zoned for single-family or duplex use and close to transit stops with frequent service.

#bcpoli #housing

Boris Mann
1 month ago

Listening to CBC The Current. Mayor of Langley saying they are building out “100s of acres of new urban land” (aka sprawl) so they don’t want to see multi-family homes in single family neighbourhoods.

The argument is that they can’t retrofit infrastructure for SFH neighbourhoods.

This is in response to new #bcpoli legislation around.

Zeb King 🇨🇦
1 month ago

Canada - More chaos within the British Columbia Green party ranks as the deputy leader of the party, hand-picked by the leader, has been fired for endorsing/liking a tweet that compared the BC provincial health officer, Bonnie Henry, to WWII Nazi, Josef Mengele, known as the 'angel of death.' #BCPoli #yyj #cdnpoli #news

Zeb King 🇨🇦
1 month ago

Republican presidential hopeful wants to build a wall along the Canada-U.S. border - Toronto City News

"It was a well-worn Canadian punchline during the Trump years: someone should build a wall along the Canada-U.S. border. 

One of the former president’s would-be successors says he wants to do exactly that."

👍You pay... We visit the other 194 countries on the planet.🌬

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/11/09/border-wall-us-canada-republican-presidential-candidate/

#bcpoli #cdnpoli #yyjpoli

Zeb King 🇨🇦
1 month ago

Drug use near public spaces (such as parks & bus shelters) was banned today with BC Legislation. The vote was 77 to 4. The 2 BC Green & 2 BC Conservative MLAs opposed. #BCPoli #YYJ #CdnPoli

neutron_chick
1 month ago

@dyckron Wow...The UCP making it official that politicians will be making health care decisions. I feel terrible for Albertans. And I'm not gonna lie, I'm glad I'm not there. We have a lot of problems in #BC, but not to this extent.

I am starting to hear of health care workers looking to leave #Alberta, maybe this will be a win for other provinces

#ABpoli #BCpoli #Healthcare

Zeb King 🇨🇦
1 month ago

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation unveils the state of police "rights" and "freedoms" (death by bureaucracy) designed as a pretense that actually exhausts public complaints until it's out of mind. Public oversight is a pretense. Whose interests are really served?

https://www.cbc.ca/1.7017512

#canpoli #cdnpoli #bcpoli

Mat Wright
1 month ago

There is recent mask guidance in BC, all clinical and long term care facilities need to mask for staff, and patient or resident can decide...

Surgical appointment, big sign 'Masks Required', and absolutely no one was wearing one - staff or patients

At the LTC - no one, not even the receptionist who is being payed by Health Authority to enforce

It's idiocy, make it an order

#BCpoli #Covid #Covid19

Zeb King 🇨🇦
1 month ago

Dear Pierre Trudeau's son,

Did you just read the news that "Israel bombed the largest refugee camp in Gaza?"

Apparently, they "got" the "bad guy." Is this enough for you to grow a spine and stand up for the rest of the people who were hurt or killed? What will it take?

Are you waiting for Isreal to claim the refugees bombed themselves?

We all await a Prime Minister.

Concerned citizen

#Gaza #Palestine #warcrime #CanPoli #bcpoli

Feel like I got punched in the left arm today... but otherwise, no other side effects from the #Covid19 and/or #Influenza shots yesterday. 💉 💉
#getVaxxed #healthcare #Canada #CanPoli #Covid19BC #BCPoli

Zeb King 🇨🇦
1 month ago

Let's hope the #BCNDP sticks with climate action and doesn't follow the recent pandering of the #BCLiberals / united/'X' party. Actually, let's see them be bolder with a #CleanBC 2.0!

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-premier-reacts-to-calls-to-lift-carbon-tax-for-home-heating-1.6624151

#climatechange #carbontax #yyj #BCPoli #notperfectbutbetter #canpoli