Davis Kyle

When truth and reconciliation arrives, Tim Cook should be hauled before a tribunal and probably thrown in jail for bribery

If there’s any parents in Kelowna who feel like becoming a school trustee, please DM me. There is a candidate training session coming up for locals.

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

Helsinki hasn't had a traffic fatality in a year: "Helsinki's current traffic safety strategy, covering 2022–2026, is nearing completion. It has focused on improving safety for children, youth, pedestrians and cyclists with safer crosswalks and smarter intersection design."

I don’t understand why, as forestry struggles, youth unemployment surges, and construction employment falls off a cliff, that we haven’t seen any demand-side policy for wood through supply-side wood frame and mass timber housing reform.

I don’t understand why, as forestry struggles, youth unemployment surges, and construction employment falls off a cliff, that we haven’t seen any demand-side policy for wood through supply-side wood frame and mass timber housing reform.

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Youth employment the worst now since 1998 and massive layoffs in a couple of fields.

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Not great!

Dont think Kelowna has good urbanism, older buildings up the street like mine (built in the 90s) are actual 4 story apartments. So hardly a place where upzoning should’ve been limited to 4.

Across the street, the health authority razed a whole block for a parking lot that pays $50 a year in taxes.

(All homes pictured are fourplexes)

It’s hard to tell from these pictures, but I actually live on the same street and one block over from where nine of 10 homes in a row have been replaced by fourplexes after the 2017 upzoning.

What’s interesting is that road wear is at the 4th power of vehicle weight.

In theory you could tax by damage, including weight and VKT as a revenue-neutral abolishment of the gas tax, and you could also use it to replace some income tax if you wanted.

Comedian Norm Macdonald on Saturday Night Live saying, "Now this might strike some viewers as harsh, but I believe everyone involved in this story should die."

The New York City Menace's statement to Norm Macdonald dated February 27, 1996. It details Brandon Teena's tortuous rape and murder and forcefully condemns Norm for his hateful words on Saturday Night Live.

When you share this image, you are blindly repeating one of the most unapologetic, vile pieces of transphobia ever uttered on television. Spitting on Brandon Teena's grave for Internet points. I'm posting this because I still see it randomly posted without any context.

Good grief Doug Ford is such a moron. It’s physically painful.

Seems likely which is their whole problem.

Im self aware enough to know that my kind of politics (wonky left-libert technocracy) is unlikely to ever be dominant.

But I don’t see the path to old-school social credit populism or Campbell conservatism.

The C base wants to pivot right on social issues, not tax cuts + social moderation.

The (almost too small to be useful) park near my apartment is full of tents, once of which I had to call in a fire truck for on Friday because it caught fire as I was walking by.

It doesn't have to be this way!

September 17, 1787: A Republic, If You Can Keep It (U.S. National Park Service)

“If you can keep it”

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Castanet readers share beautiful skies from past weekend - Kelowna News As storms moved in and out of the Okanagan this past weekend, the skies put on quite a show. 

Castanet readers share beautiful skies from past weekend #Kelowna

My guess is that you’d see this pattern all over the anglosphere because they are all part of the horrific Anglo planning paradigm.

I imagine you’d see far less of this in Japan.

And just imagine, the market is extraordinarily supply-constrained due to rapid population growth and closer stations not having this kind of TOD

I would respectfully disagree.

Most would rather live closer to the employment and amenity hubs, but trade distance for dollars as they drive until they qualify.

The intentional result of the broken Vancouver planning system championed by Hardwick, Geller, Condon, etc.

Financial exclusion, hollowed communities, and longer commutes.

This video is 🔥🔥🔥

"Left nimbyism treats prices as a trick, a mirage of capitalism, rather than a reflection of an underlying material reality...But unless you fix the underlying supply imbalance, all you've done is replace high prices with long waitlists."

Inclusionary Zoning mandates are NIMBYism though. I have seen them championed by many conservative NIMBY councillors.

Direct funding is the better model.

shut UP

bro shut UP

We should move to Euro safety standards for sure. They at least evaluate crash safety for people outside of the vehicle. We just copy the Americans.

In the US, orthodox traffic engineering treats the safety of walking and the convenience of walking as opposing goods, then purports to make walking safer by making it less convenient. In fact, however, wherever walking is welcomed and convenient, it is also safer.

One doesn’t wonder why fatalities are up nearly 3x since 2019.

Higher traffic volumes and poor intersection designs. Full stop.

Pedestrian safety in the spotlight in Kelowna after two deaths this summer - Kelowna News Safety advocates and the Kelowna RCMP are urging road users to use extra care after two pedestrian deaths this summer.

Someone gets hit standing at a pedestrian island and the “road safety expert” has the gall to blame phones, headphones, and “pedestrians not making eye contact”.

Some criticism of bad driving that amounts to “focus on the road”, but had bothsidesism for sure.

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Interesting critical history of Vancouver’s Millenium Line

Wow it’s almost like they’re cowards who support seperation but refuse to outright say so.