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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 9h

The innings will continue until morale improves

Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 1d

More and more US cities are adopting the practice, it would be excellent to allow municipalities to decide for themselves.

fairvote.org/our-reforms/...

Very common internationally. Ireland, New Zealand, etc.

Proportional RCV Information - FairVote

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 1d

www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna...

Would encourage @christineboyle.bsky.social to look at this resolution.

Allowing municipalities to use ranked ballots is a small, simple change that is strongly supported by the excellent advocates at @fairvote.ca .

Improves proportionality and accountability.

Kelowna city councillor calls for review of local voting system - Kelowna News

A resolution asking staff to begin a review of Kelowna’s municipal election system will come before city council Monday.

www.castanet.net

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing."

John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 2d

Really hope to see more elected officials act with far more urgency on a pro-abundance and productivity agenda. So critical that we focus on doing more with less -> because with these tariffs less is happening whether we like it or not.

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 3d

Of interest:

2 new parkades proposed for downtown and Pandosy

A fair bit of new road and ATC planned for the next 2 years.

Dedicated transit lanes for 97 listed for 2031-2035.

Just skimming for now.

Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 3d

This upcoming Monday Kelowna is reviewing the 10-year capital plan.

Link here:

kelownapublishing.escribemeetings.com/filestream.a...

Pretty steep inflation adjustments, a few new projects added I believe.

kelownapublishing.escribemeetings.com

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 3d

Presentation by KPAC at the rotary next month. See you there. Should be interesting!

Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 4d

If you have some time this weekend, consider supporting some local community theatre this weekend by attending at OC..

Michael Minions and the volunteer team at Red Dot are excellent service leaders and community volunteers. Appreciate them a lot.

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 5d

Shifts away from income tax are absolutely worth exploring.

One thing we can learn from Texas and not from California.

Stop taxing productivity in a per-capita GDP growth crisis.

www.commonwealth.ca/bclvt

B.C. Land Value Tax: Putting our greatest asset to work — Common Wealth Canada

By shifting taxes to land, B.C. could lower prices, replace anti-productive taxes, and restore housing accessibility — while putting more money in the hands of families.

www.commonwealth.ca

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 5d

Charging for parking at hospitals sucks. But free parking is just so much worse (BC went to back to charging for parking in many urban hospitals because of this)

Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 5d

People have apparently beeing struggling with the Super Awesome Free Parking policy at the children's hospital, and are now relieved that enforcement will be ramped up.

Facebook comment of someone who couldn't find parking when it was free.

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 5d

People have apparently beeing struggling with the Super Awesome Free Parking policy at the children's hospital, and are now relieved that enforcement will be ramped up.

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 5d

Man, BC needs pro-rep.

3-5% min req DMP, 3-5 seat STV+, something…

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting thread below.

Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 7d

I'm telling you, we're going to have Universal Home Insurance for All, before we ever have Medicare for All.

At this rate, the whole nation is going to Prop 103 (1988) themselves and cause home insurance companies to all stop offering insurance /1

www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 7d

FPTP Moment.

RealMattHopkins @realmatthopkins.bsky.social · 7d

Extremely early in the process. The delay of results is definitely noticeable. I wish I knew more about the race and the players but, alas, I am a neophyte to Calgary politics. #yyc #cdnpoli hubs.la/Q03PhWzB0

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 7d

It's this photo if you missed it, savaging the East Wing to make a vanity ballroom.

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Homes For Living @homesforliving.ca · Jun 11

The Province could fix this! Washington came close last year - we're calling on @ravikahlon.bsky.social to modify the BC Building Code and legalize elevators certified under ISO 8100, the global standard, allowing BC to join the global market for elevators.

www.theurbanist.org/2025/04/03/e...

Elevator Reform Falls Short at Washington Legislature - The Urbanist

# Despite considerable momentum behind SB 5156 coming from the state Senate, the idea of reforming Washington's strict elevator codes met resistance from firefighter groups and the powerful elevator c...

www.theurbanist.org

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 11d

Highly recommend Chris England’s paper on the subject as well. Besides my own research, it was invaluable. Certainly got me going.

The first left-wing party in BC was not actually the CCF. It was a collection of Georgist proto-parties in Nanaimo and Vancouver.

Nationalist & Labour, respectively.

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 18d

This is how cheap our solar could be if we didn’t tax it like cigarettes

This system would cost over $30k in Canada vs $8500 in Australia

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Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 17d

The rationale behind our 154% duty is to protect local manufacturing. I get that.

But even with that in place there is just very little manufacturing of panels in Canada. Its around 1000 jobs in the whole country vs tens of thousands in install / servicing we could gain if solar was a lot cheaper

Leo Spalteholz @leospalteholz.bsky.social · 18d

This is how cheap our solar could be if we didn’t tax it like cigarettes

This system would cost over $30k in Canada vs $8500 in Australia

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 11d

(Someone with a bigger follower account than me could do a pretty good bracket for this)

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 11d

www.burnaby.ca/our-city/new...

Well this is a top contender, along with Toronto's Craven road cutout, for the worst NIMBYism by a Canadian city council in 2025.

City Council cuts height and size of new Province-mandated developments | City of Burnaby

Burnaby City Council has approved changes to the R1 Zoning Bylaw to reduce the height and size of small-scale multi-unit housing (SSMUH) projects, aiming to protect neighbourhood character and livabil...

www.burnaby.ca

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 11d

Hope to see plenty of my mutuals there in Vancouver. Highly encourage attendance at the Victoria one as well - @davethompsonvic.bsky.social will be an insightful member of that panel along with Andrew Rose and some other esteemed panelists.

A very good lineup for some meaningful discussion.

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 11d

This is not a LVT.

It annoys me that she’s toxifying the waters on LVT by making it just another luxury home tax that is applied only on expensive property. Total misunderstanding of what it is and how it should be done.

www.biv.com/news/real-es...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12d

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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