Frustrating argh

“Political or issues advertising”, it’s at the bottom of the campaign level setup. with the appropriate disclaimer.

I get these errors when I forget to check the correct box in the set up, and that box does not appear on mobile.

Big news. OneCity, COPE, and the Greens have signed a Progressive Unity Agreement. We did the hard work, and we got it done. Here's what it means and why it matters.

The project in question if you want to see renders.

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Vancouver's Urban Design Panel just spent two and a half hours debating the aesthetics of 216 non-market homes and 74 daycare spaces. Their recommendations, as always, could increase costs or delay the project.

Worth it?

the real crime here is comparing a ferry exurb of Vancouver with Patagonia.

A function of “I” statements outperforming on the algorithm (right now) because it signals real person.

People want to follow along with one main character instead of getting a new one every chapter. Series outperform short stories in books, too.

Supportive housing voted down in Vancouver. Again. Not surprised. But it's hard to understand how anyone stands behind a vote against something we know improves and even saves lives. I believe those voting 'no' know this. Which makes the politicization of it harder to accept.

The Vibes Mayorality has to end.

Hey, a mayor who gets it.

There’s a lot coming, turbine orders are backed up to 2032 now so huge proportion of energy has to come from solar, wind, if they want to get to market fast. And these folks can do math, solar and battery is cheap energy.

Quarterly reminder my day job is making you look good and talk pretty. Need a creative consultant who can do the work? Give me a ring!

I'm not super involved but it is typically tints and exhausts that attract attention.

The sports car community gets hit with VI’s all the time! The fact these trucks get a pass is insane to me.

I’m hopeful for this change of approach with D66, but the same party Rutte led is a major part of this minority coalition and I struggle to see them keeping it all together long enough. Pushback against development in Holland is significant.

Oh don’t worry, the Dutch have dragged their feet here for all the same reasons and more. And tried all the same stupid tricks we have tried in Canada.

Going to have to be a different resolution this time as much of the gains in the 90’s and 2000’s was simply ever lowering interest rates.

That brief peak in the 1987-1991 is the only other time housing was as unaffordable in Canada as it has been for the last 10 years (although much lower nominal prices, much of it was driven by that massive interest rate spike).

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Funny how the Chinese government forces JVs on any new entrants, and Chinese companies are less enthusiastic about it.

Someone will take the conditions, there are 20 other large automakers in China and many are desperate for new markets.

Hard to like a policy that requires $3,000 one bedroom market rents to build below market housing.

That’s wild if there’s that many!

A fun little video project.

Kinda makes sense? There’s a legal obligation to show that you’ve made real attempts to find someone.

Is it more than just the one? An ad like this is like $1500.

Based on what I know about the cost of basics like fences and portapotties (multiples, not percentages), it’s become insane to throw large scale events in Vancouver. Police run on overtime for all events. I can’t even imagine the security planning costs now. All borne by the small businesses.

Inside a Surrey ‘local news’ site run by AI Surrey Speak published fake news about a politician and an AI-generated picture of a real murder victim

Wild to see a company supported by @sfu.ca’s Venture Lab spewing political disinformation and AI slop on the net.

I’m still not convinced this is an ad grab/AI slop bucket, the timing and error is so large. Good digging by @zakvescera.bsky.social at @theijf.org.

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@alyssajayne.bsky.social it’s you

It does help keep prices down, though, taxes landlords, encourages people not to hoard land.

The US has some of the most progressive tax rates globally.

The reality of the Nordic dream is that someone in a 500k home there pays lots more tax than we do, in addition to taxing the rich.

Could you go higher? Texas (Texas!) cities charge like 10k on a 500k home, 25k on 2m.

A land value focused increase that probably looks at something closer to what Toronto charges, a 3m home here is 10.5k/year rn, would be closer to 15-16k there. Apply it broadly to the land so people are rewarded for sharing.