Only 99 days

[2Fingers]

NDP will win because the 2 central parties will split the votes for them.

[Topper]

Moodys and Standard and Poors both downgrade BC credit rating, the third time since 2021, because of Eby's free spending ways.

This means BC taxpayers will have to pay higher interest on government borrowing.

[Topper]

Gave away Haida Gwaii but kept the Queen Charlotte's

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.7173601

[Topper]

BC celebrates the eighth anniversary of the opioid epidemic by having hospital staff protecting themselves from fentanyl smoke with respirators while asked to turn a blind eye to street level drug dealing, use and associated violence in their workplace.

[Cousin Strawberry]

Gave away Haida Gwaii but kept the Queen Charlotte's

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.7173601

So they keep the government cheques rolling in and all their infrastructure maintained by the Canadian taxpayers but get to call it their own while smoking the peace pipe around the longhouse

Cool achievement

[Per]

Gave away Haida Gwaii but kept the Queen Charlotte's

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.7173601

So they keep the government cheques rolling in and all their infrastructure maintained by the Canadian taxpayers but get to call it their own while smoking the peace pipe around the longhouse

Cool achievement

Well, if you don't like it, go back to where your people came from!

[Topper]

and so should the Mongol hoard.

[Topper]

New revisions to the regulations attached to the BC Mines Act - The Health, Safety and reclamation Code

climate change [new] “climate change” means a change of climate that
(a) is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity,
(b) alters the composition of the global atmosphere, and
(c) is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods.

Indigenous knowledge [new] “Indigenous knowledge” means the knowledge Indigenous peoples have, that
(a) has been acquired through their unique cultures, languages, spiritual teachings, values, history, governance, legal systems, experiences and observations within their traditional territories, and
(b) is dynamic, holistic, intergenerational and continuously evolving within contemporary society.


They got "intergenerational" in their but I guess "systemic" is yesterday's news

[Topper]

What the fuck is happening on the right side of BC politics.

The fucked up name change of the centrist BC Liberal Party to BC United. To distance themselves from the unaffiliated Federal Liberal Party they set up their tent on a soccer field. The BC United leader, Kevin Falcon is not likable and he has too many skeletons in his closet from his days in the BC Liberal government.

The other opposition party, the BC Conservatives, get popularity from their name as a word association, though no formal ties, with the Federal Conservative Party. Unfortunately the are a collection of far right conspiracy theorists and hard core religious right.

As the polls have come out over the past few months, the botched name change has lead to public fallout as the public pays little attention to Provincial politics. The reaction of many when polled has been, "I hate the NDP, who the hell is the BC United, Conservatives, yeah I hate Trudeau, I'll vote Conservative."

The United and the Conservatives completely fucked up a negotiated merger over the egos of their respective leaders. Former BC Liberal Premier said it best. in any merger, both leaders need to go and a new face has to come to the fore.

Meanwhile the NDP continues their Pivot Legal Society agenda in urban areas while divesting rural BC to to aboriginal and environmental groups. The resource sector is being killed through regulation and consultation. Aboriginals have been given control of old growth forest. The Mining Act for staking mineral claims is being rewritten by and aboriginal marine biologist with assistance from an aboriginals consulting firm. None have any experience in the mineral sector or mine finance sector.

Rent controls are limiting investment in rental housing, except low income rental housing built by the government. Why is our elected government going into the slum lord business?

[Chef Boi RD]

Rent controls are limiting investment in rental housing, except low income rental housing built by the government. Why is our elected government going into the slum lord business?

Dude, I’ve been screaming about the government and them going into the slum lord business for years. It will drive this province into the Calcutta gutters. We are not to far away from government row houses everywhere filled with a lower class society living on the dole.

The DTES housing ratio requires 60% social housing – including 20% shelter rate, 20% BC Housing Income Limits rates, and 20% low-end-of-market rental rates – and 40% market-rental housing. Apparently market housing numbers in the DTES is closer to 20% and shrinking. Small businesses like restaurants are closing doors permanently and pulling out of the downtown core because of the government’s growth into the slum lord business.

Special interest groups like Atirra and the Portland Hotel Society with the help of BC Housing will turn the entire downtown into the DTES.

Apparently they’ve pulled funding from the organization that literally power washes human shit and piss downtown, Vancouver’s streets will now be filled with shit left to fester, cover your nose and watch where you step, FFS.

Crime is out of control downtown and repeat offenders with a laundry list of charges are just slapped on the wrist and released the same day yet fuck faces like Kennedy Stewart want to direct monies away from the VPD and earmark it for more homes for the fentanyl and criminal society that keep the underfunded VPD busy, it’s like while one guy is baling water out of a canoe another dude is drilling holes in the boat.

Vancouver is not trending well

That former CEO bitch of Atirra Janice Abbott and her husband Shayne Ramsey former CEO of BC Housing along with Kennedy Stewart and his wife who sat on the board at Atirra all made a promise to house 120,000 homeless people in their campaigns but when they realized the impossibilities of meeting this promise they went on a buying spree buying up over 30 shithole SRO’s thanks to Abbotts husband Ramsey over at BC Housing cuttinf her cheques whenever she needed without any accounting to buy up a shithole hotel and toss bodies into, in buildings that were deemed uninhabitable not suited for housing the needy just so those slumlords fucks can say “see we met our promise!” And so because of this tsunami buying spree it imbalanced the market housing 40% vs 60% social housing to more like 80% social and 20% market you now have Zombietown YVR that created an industry of lazy as fuck social workers making 6 figures with fantastic pensions acting like saviours to the needy when they are truly just lining their bank accounts. It’s a fucking shit show.

[Topper]

Eby used to run the Pivot Legal Society. It all ties together.

What are the takes on the single staircase regs from the builders here? I'm reading fire departments hate it and hearing proponents say single staircase with sprinkler system is fine.

[Chef Boi RD]

Eby used to run the Pivot Legal Society. It all ties together.

What are the takes on the single staircase regs from the builders here? I'm reading fire departments hate it and hearing proponents say single staircase with sprinkler system is fine.

Eby is an idiot, he thinks turning a few lots in the lower mainland into multiplex’s will solve the problem. It’s a pipe dream. Listened to a couple municipal dudes on the radio from Surrey and Richmond the other day talking about the multi plex proposal Eby is pushing for on lots in the single detached home neighborhoods saying their neighborhoods Eby speaks of don’t have the infrastructure to support it from services (water, sewer, hydro), government workers, policing, not enough schools nor hospital beds, the roads are in serious need of improvement, blah, blah, blah…fucktards like Eby and Sims think that by just turning neighborhoods into sardine cans will solve the problem but all it does is create problems elsewhere, it just pushes more problems down the line somewhere else. Complete nimrods. They just tell some people what they want to hear without really thinking about the fallout or the implications. It’s astounding how dumb they are.

[Topper]

BC Housing built a 3 story complex in Grand Forks at the same time they built a women's shelter. the lone access to the three story unit is a two lane route through the middle of the woman's shelter parking lot, not a straight line either, there is a good jog in the route. City and fire dept voiced concerns about emergency access to the apartment building and the city offered a couple of lots they owned on the other side of the building that could be used for access. BC Housing said no.

Once built, BC Housing saw the result of the shitty access at the best of times yet alone in case of emergency, went back to the City and asked them, in the interest of safety, to give BC Housing the land for the second access. Fortunately the city told them they were still for sale and buy the way, the price has gone up.

Extreme flooding in 2018 wiped out two neighbourhoods when the dyke protecting those areas was broke at max water level. This was a 200 yr event that drowned the 1948 previous record by over a foot. City, Province and Feds came to the rescue and initially promised those affected pre flood market price for their properties if it came to a buyout. When the buyout of around 70 residences came down, it was a post flood assessment that was the basis. The offer came in at a point where suing for a better price wasn't going to be worth the the cost and delays.

Several of the bought out homes were suitable for relocation so the City hired the local aboriginal band to look after moving the houses. The band went in, moved the houses and hired a bunch of local contractors to refurbish and reconnect the houses so they could be sold. The whole relocation was to be funded by the sale of the houses with the City recouping some of the buyout money. The local contractors, after a few months of not being paid because non of the houses had been sold, packed up and left the jobsites. Everything ground to a halt for several months until the City decided two of the nicer places as is where is to pay the outstanding bills and work would resume on a house by house basis, as it should have been done from the beginning, to keep funding the work.

Great government efficiency on display.

Apparently the reason for reneging on the pre flood buy evaluation was fear of the same occurring along the Fraser, not just what subsequently occurred at Sumas Lake, but looking back to 1948 and thinking about south Vancouver and Richmond.

[Topper]

Provincial NDP politicians at the Anarchist Summit. Putting both the oxy and the moron in oxymoron while searching for a cookbook.

[Blob Mckenzie]

Yep