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The West Wing literally did a bit on how free trade stops wars. (Bonus points, trade does reduce international conflict)

He’s so incredibly stupid.

Don’t see that too often. A pro-bike post on Kelowna Rant and Rave.

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Really good long-form piece.

Class 1 e-bikes, which require pedaling and have electric assist that tops out at 18mph, are very different than throttle-operated class 2 and 3 bikes, which are themselves very different from the bigger, faster electric motorcycles that are proliferating under the “ebike” label.

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BC Electoral Reform Committee: 93% support for proportional representation in public consultation 93% of those who participated in the public consultation of the BC Electoral Reform Committee with an opinion on the voting system recommended proportional representation.

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I am thankful every day for the Victoria Council members who, for more than a decade, have resisted the "bikelash" and made building a safe bike & roll network here. It's how this senior citizen gets around, and I love it.
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Latest bit of Montreal 'bikelash' sidesteps the facts to please bike-lane haters The findings of a study about bike lanes vs car infrastructure have been twisted by a Montreal publication in a cheap bit of bikelash.

Here’s a good example of calling out liars lying about better city-building, via @taylornoakes.com in @cultmtl.com:

“What’s particularly annoying about Roberts’ column is that he’s using his position of power to reinforce ignorance. Shame on him for doing so, but especially the Montreal Gazette…”

Vacancy trutherism is the left’s Voter fraud, a totally made up, exaggerated, angry because they’re wrong, made up issue that is so tiring to talk about because it’s a fools errand. Dispel one thing, they pivot to another. Waste of time. We need more homes and voter fraud doesn’t exist

Homeless people are not the only people who need housing. There are millions of people who would like to move out of their parents’ houses, ditch their roommates, or leave bad spouses but cannot because they cannot afford their own place thanks to the shortage of homes.

Vancouver Island college student dies after collision with cyclist | CBC News Students and instructors at North Island College's campus in Courtenay, B.C., are grieving the death of a student who died of a brain injury following a collision with a cyclist on the night of Sept. ...

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This is also a tragedy, and also a failure of infrastructure.

A shared shoulder, no sidewalk or protected ATC. Big wide road. An accident waiting to happen, and a typical failure of north american traffic engineering.

Ban these.

A great end to fall Go By Bike week. A social ride and drinks at Railside.

More and more momentum at KACC this year.

The best city on earth

I’m thrilled that Victoria’s new Official Community Plan has passed! It:

✅ Increases housing choice and makes it easier to build affordable housing

✅ Adds green space / parks to every neighbourhood

✅ Targets 40% urban forest canopy coverage

✅ Adds strong tenant protections

✅ Plans for lightrail

4.11 Dwelling Unit Density The Districts Schedules place a limit to the density of dwelling units permitted for each development site, based on site size and floor area. The intent is to encourage developments to include dwelling units large enough to accommodate families. The Dwelling Unit Density is calibrated for freehold rowhouses and townhouses – developments that typically require internal staircases, which may displace floor area that could otherwise be dedicated to living areas (e.g. bedrooms, living rooms). As such, an increase for projects above 1.2 FSR should only be considered for developments that provide single-storey dwelling units, where a majority of units are accessible by a shared elevator (i.e. 4-storey apartment buildings). This permission will nevertheless be dependent on design criteria set out in the Guidelines including: number of 2- and 3-bedroom units; dwelling unit size and liveability; opportunity for cross- ventilation; and provision of useable private open space.

What am I missing. This is from Vancouver's RM-9 zone: the density was "calibrated for freehold rowhouses and townhouses".

But...freehold rowhouses aren't allowed in the CoV! Why would they calibrate anything to something that isn't allowed? Were the planners just feeling particularly Kafkaesque??

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

/4 The other side of this is not merely saying “you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs,” it‘s people who say “lol fuck those eggs.” It’s between decency and thuggish, swaggering, nihilistic evil.

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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Sent in a letter to Castanet.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Kelowna councillor suggests referendum to determine possible electoral reform - Kelowna News Is Kelowna ready for a new system of electing its civic leaders? Coun. Ron Cannan thinks so.

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Good to see a Kelowna councillor floating STV as an option to consider for local elections. That would be the best reform, imo.

City of Kelowna report on repeat offenders says the system is failing British Columbians The City of Kelowna is once again calling on higher levels of government to act immediately to improve public safety across British Colu...

“According to the paper, 15 people accounted for 1,335 police files in Kelowna in 2024, an average of 89 each and a negative contact with the RCMP every four days.”

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BC Greens’ new leader wants to bring back rental tool extinct since the '70s | Urbanized The BC Greens’ new leader says it’s time to revive a housing tool scrapped in the 1970s. Here’s what she told Daily Hive.

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Describing upzoning and filtering as “trickle down” economics while calling price controls a viable solution displays a level of policy ignorance or willful blindness on housing that I hoped we had put behind us here in BC.

Talks break off between B.C. government and its public service union - BC News Contract talks between the British Columbia government and the union representing public service workers in the province have broken off shortly after they began.

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Extremely disappointed in this government.

Events coming up on Wednesday and Friday. A documentary viewing, and a group ride. Everyone welcome.

Attended a great fall go by bike week launch today. Thanks to all who attended. Good turnout and good activities.

Attended the BCGEU solidarity rally today. Rob Ashton is a good speaker!

Thanks to the NOLC for putting this on. Fair contract now!

I've put together a wider scale map covering the inner suburbs.

One of the things immediately evident is the weakness of the Millennium Line compared to the other lines, with its route on a wide suburban boulevard and paralleling a major freeway as well as the forced transfer travel time impact

Looking forward to tuning into this panel tomorrow.

Some of the best YIMBY-LVT synthesis thinkers in North America presenting.

Yeah, Sutherland is quite nice, particularly before Burtch.

As soon as you get to Burtch, modern traffic engineers absolutely pummeled the hell out of the livability of the neighborhood.

It's just fantastic that practically everything planned relatively recently is noisy, congested, etc.