0 means 0

In an interview on CBC right now: Gloria: Isn't the entry fee like $2.2 BILLION dollars? Ken Sim: Look, it's a big number, but it's a different world...

I had to turn it off.

Unrelatedly, in 2020 the city declared a homeless EMERGENCY. The word clearly means nothing to local government either.

Today many Vancouverites are feeling anger and grief reflecting on the more than 18,000 lives lost in the 10 years since the toxic drug crisis was declared to be an emergency by BC officials in April 2016.

Oh, it's asking staff to explore it. Because staff are sitting around with nothing to do (those who haven't been laid off, that is, after the "0 means 0" budget)

For no particular reason, I will remind you that there is a civic election coming in October.

Also, I come home and discover that our mayor wants to bring an MLB team to the city. WTAF? How much would that cost? Does a "0 means 0" budget support that? Where would a ball park go? How would it affect our deeply-love AAA Canadians?

"Social murder" is a good way to put it. If this many people were being killed by cars we wouldn't be blaming people for leaving their houses in the morning. We'd demand change.
Stigma is killing people. Stigma says because people use drugs the deserve to die. That is so wrong on so many levels.

Except, it's not. It should be but we're not treating it as one, so, by observation, it's not.

So disappointed in my government.

What do you do when responding to an emergency? Everything you possibly can. Why? Because it's an EMERGENCY.

Not helping? Shut up and get out of the way. Why? Because it's an emergency.

The ten-year anniversary of declaring a public health emergency due to the tainted drug crisis. Ten years of performative speech and action. It's an emergency. Treated it like an emergency. Our disappointing provincial governments certainly haven't. EMERGENCY. The word means nothing to them.

After *choosing* to cut $5 Billion from the long-promised-not-delivered Permanent Public Transit Fund, he now *chooses* to subsidize gasoline companies by more than $2 Billion.

He makes choices, Canada’s urban communities have not asked for this, but will bear the load of those choices.

Ok, fine, it turns out to be a not-so-unpopular opinion.

Meh, what's the government going to do with $2.4B anyway? 🙄

It won't be cheaper. There will be a momentary dip and then the petroleum companies will raise their prices up to whatever the market will support -- which they would have done with the taxes in place anyway.

Unpopular opinion: removing the fuel excise tax and the previous removal of the carbon tax on gasoline does not help the consumer in the long run, it puts more money into the hands of the petroleum companies.

zomg

I would very much like that to be the case 🤣

Thanks, Lisa

Came home to discover we now have a federal Liberal majority government.

Great turnout on a Monday night for our friends at @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social !

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Thanks!

Thanks, Shireen!

OMG, Christina had the room sing me Happy Birthday. 😳

Greetings from Vancouver BC

A screen showing a bike lane uprising slide.

Celebrating my birthday in style, at a @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social event, lol. #OnBrand #BikeYVR

A few new #bikeYVR consultations:

- Adanac between Rupert/Boundary final design: survey.vancouver.ca/s3/Adanac-St... (long overdue)

- New Neighbourhood Traffic Management Plan for Moberly Park (Fraser->Argyle, E57th->SE Marine): www.shapeyourcity.ca/moberly-park...

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My eyes jumped to the plot before reading the text of your post. I had come to the conclusion that punctuation was omitted: "The Red River was 13.11 feet, James, this morning."

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Gwen & Q did this over March Break. 🧓