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Kishone Roy ✍🏾
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🇨🇦 Pacific Canadian Author 🌊 Victoria, BC 🏳️‍⚧️ they / them 🧘🏾‍♂️ yogi
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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.
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Hey all, our "This is Vancouver Metro Matters Edition" is now available.
51 weeks until the Civic Elections.
This week our municipal affairs reporter Justin McElroy looks at Mayor Ken Sim's housing plan and why it failed to pass at council.
Listen wherever you get your Podcasts .
Yeah, my point is that it’s always been a similar price range, and while a few games have pushed towards that $100 price point, it’s kinda wild that forty years hasn’t really budged it substantially. Maybe the consumer (and their parents) just have a limit built into our expectations.
I’m not sure how this is relevant, but the threat of $100 price tag has always been there. I worked in gaming at EA in the 90s and games often cost $60+ then, and in the 80s it was regularly $60 for a top Atari game at launch. Here we are in 2025 and at launch games still kinda cost the same amount.
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Covid-19 vaccines, credited with saving millions of lives during the pandemic, set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study.
Study finds mRNA coronavirus vaccines prolonged life of cancer patients
A study found that covid-19 vaccines appeared to awaken the immune system in lung and skin cancer patients, helping them live longer than those not vaccinated.
www.washingtonpost.com
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In Canada:

“Black homes are valued at 30% less than comparable white homes, Latin American homes at 26% less, and Indigenous homes at 16% less.”

“Newcomer single mothers looking for a rental unit were 563% more likely to be treated unfairly than their child-free counterparts.”
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The Cowichan Tribes debate is quickly becoming an international culture war issue, which means any attempt by someone to try and clarify facts, timelines or arguments by the people materially involved in the actual discussion will not matter in slightest.

But literally none of this is correct.
I suspect the whole country would be worse off, as it is likely almost everybody’s pensions, mutual funds, and foundational investments are heavily entwined with those same stocks.
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A ladder and a broken window, it’s really such a timeless tale. All that’s missing are the Crown Jewels.
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This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
A ladder and a broken window, it’s really such a timeless tale. All that’s missing are the Crown Jewels.
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Victoria has a *lot* of cargo bikes. More than Montreal maybe? Certainly more than you’d see in downtown Montreal.
Ahh! I am still learning.

I once had the rare joy of a day where I caught a ferry (from Crofton) to one side of Saltspring, walked across it, then grabbed a ferry on the other side to Vancouver. There were few public transport options mid island, but it made for a memorable adventure!
Yes, sorry, I use all the different ferries from time to time and the express ones in Victoria time up well, as well as the double deckers on the other side to the casino in Richmond!
The transportation between Victoria’s airport and ferry to downtown is a real fault. Even when driving it can be long stuck in traffic, with dark and scary rain or if you don’t have great headlights. When on a bus, it may never line up with ferries or flights, be over packed, or involve long walks!
One of the things I like most about a day of long walking is how wonderful laying down feels at the end of the day. Rest well!