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The primary goal of this site is to provide mature, meaningful discussion about the Vancouver Canucks. However, we all need a break some time so this forum is basically for anything off-topic, off the wall, or to just get something off your chest! This forum is named after poster Creeper, who passed away in July of 2011 and was a long time member of the Canucks message board community.
The B.C. government ended the last fiscal year with a surplus of $2.7 billion, largely in line with an unaudited financial picture released about two months ago by the province's former B.C. Liberal government.
James also repeated an intention to invest in sustainable economic growth and talked about investment in social programs like housing and education.
"It's really tough for people out there to see the benefit of a surplus this size when they're struggling day to day to manage, when you take a look at the poverty rates in our province," she said.
Over the Internet, you can pretend to be anyone or anything.
I'm amazed that so many people choose to be complete twats.
"The B.C. government ended the last fiscal year with a surplus of $2.7 billion"
Surplus thanks to screwing us all on numerous levels notably ICBC.
Eby and other ICBC supporters single out the actions of former Liberal premier Gordon Campbell as marking the beginning of the corporation’s troubles.
Campbell required ICBC to keep much higher amounts of backup capital. The resulting stockpile proved irresistible to politicians in 2010 following the global financial meltdown, critics say, when the government began siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars of “excess capital” almost every year.
In all, the Liberals withdrew $1.2 billion from the lucrative optional side of ICBC’s business, and also transferred $1.4 billion to offset deficits on the compulsory side providing basic coverage beginning in 2012.
“The reason we’re in a bind right now is that there’s no more money left in the optional piggy bank,” said retired civil servant Rick McCandless, who has written extensively on ICBC.
but they are only asking the Utilities Commission for a 12 month rate freeze while they try to figure out BC Hydro's books. They aren't freezing anything. They have no authority to freeze rates.
Meanwhile BC Hydro has already said the need a 10% rate increase if Site C is cancelled in order to pay for mop up and cancellation clauses.
Greens are not happy with the bullshit....but not unhappy enough.
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Over the Internet, you can pretend to be anyone or anything.
I'm amazed that so many people choose to be complete twats.
Here; I've got one for ya.
If you call Hydro in respect to something on your bill or anything for that matter, as you chat with them, they are
very helpful with advise in keeping your cost down.
They will tell you to insulate your hot water tank and then it wont have to work so hard and draw more power.
Use blankets, rolls of attic material and so on.
Of course they don't ask if you have a electric or a gas tank and they don't tell you to read your manufacturers
handbook on dos and don'ts.
Yes, very helpful.
So Andrew Wilkinson is the new leader. Seems like an extremely intelligent man to say the least. Let’s hope he can get the Liberals back in power sooner rather than later.
“I don’t care what you and some other poster were talking about”
Blob Mckenzie wrote: ↑Thu Mar 08, 2018 6:04 pm
Lol uk Canuck’s govt is bringing back photo radar.
Fuck me.
lol I got a kick out of the old-school Astro parked on the side of the highway back in the day. Super stealth.
Quebec has it. Crossing the river to Gatineau (booze run) they have signs to advertise approaching radar locations, and list them online. Seems counterintuitive.
Nor the new employet payroll tax to replace BcMed premiums comes into effect a year before BCmed premiums are fine away with. The a-holes are collecting double.
Over the Internet, you can pretend to be anyone or anything.
I'm amazed that so many people choose to be complete twats.