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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 4h

I can think of a lot of properties in Vancouver that are more highly trafficked than that one.

I don't think it really passes muster to say you can only exercise your charter rights if one has to stand right beside it to read what is said.

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 4h

The unsympathetic nature of Chip and the over the top rhetoric aside, I don't think a citizen in a democracy should be fined for expressing their own political views via a sign on their own residential property

Castanet.net @castanet.net · 5h

Elections BC fines billionaire Chip Wilson over signs in front of mansion #Vancouver #MetroVancouver #YVR

Elections BC fines billionaire Chip Wilson over signs in front of mansion - Metro Vancouver News

Elections BC says billionaire Chip Wilson contravened third-party election advertising rules when he put up signs in front of his Vancouver mansion last year, one of which said the NDP is "Communist."

www.castanet.net

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 1d

More cities should have ziggurats

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 2d

We used to be a proper country

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 2d

New ceremonial robes vs old ceremonial robes. #SCC

2026 photo of the Supreme Court of Canada, where the new robes are black with red piping.

2025 photo of the Supreme Court of Canada, with the red velvet and ermine robes.

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Owen @oweninvan.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking up the massing's final boss

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 5d

As a former combat arms guy, I saw this and I laughed. Then my back laughed. Then my knees laughed. So funny.

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 6d

The irony is that a lot of the replies to that and reactions to McPherson's comments is to purity test over the use of the phrase "purity test"

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Trevor Tombe @trevortombe.bsky.social · 7d

The real danger lies not in the growing size of today’s deficit, but in failing to plan prudently for what comes next.

My latest for @TheHubCanada on federal finances: thehub.ca/2025/10/01/... #cdnecon #cdnpoli

Trevor Tombe: The budget warning that Canada cannot ignore

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 7d

“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.”

www.kelownanow.com/watercooler/...

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...

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Davis Kyle @daviskyle.bsky.social · 7d

dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc...

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.

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.

dailyhive.com

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 11d

The average Canadian leftist believes they are an American living in the year 2024. The only obstacle to the resolution of every social and economic ill is a willingness to tax billionaires and strip the military budget, and direct the presumed-to-be-infinite income to their favourite non-profits.

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 12d

Also, not sure Don Davies knows that rural folks are already using community mailboxes

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 12d

And I thought Ford's 401 tunnel was a stretch as a "nation building project" but that's nothing compared to using that to describe not having to walk down the block to pick up the 3 non-junk mail letters that show up every month.

Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 13d

Home mail delivery was - and is - a nation-building project that connects Canadians across our country. Ending it will hurt many, esp. seniors, rural folks & businesses who rely on this crucial service.
And it’s not “Ottawa” who’s giving the green light - the Liberals are.

Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 13d

The Liberals should be protecting good jobs and strengthening our public services.

Instead they’re allowing Canada Post to cut services, fire Canadians and make it harder to get your mail.

globalnews.ca/news/1145024...

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 12d

I think the problem is they did try to compete and were unsuccessful at it. Not sure how much is management vs union intransigence.

Either way, from 2019 to 2023, their package market share dropped from 62% to 29%.

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 12d

There is probably some room to get their package service cost structure to be more competitive with others in that market.

But at the end of the day, the decline is driven by technology and there isn't going to be a fix outside of something crazy like banning email

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 12d

Would anyone miss having to toss out a mailbox full of flyers and junk mail daily instead of twice a week?

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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 12d

Folks, the delivery of junk mail to your door does not a nation make

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 13d

I'll believe the UBCM delegates are sincere about this when they remove all the barriers to housing in their own municipalities.

A right to housing necessarily requires a right to build housing. Anything else is empty symbolism.

Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 13d

UBCM delegates endorsed a resolution to ask the province to declare housing a human right

Resolution was brought forward by a consortium of 9 local governments with Langford as listed sponsor

No Con speakers, it passed with little opposition but fairly sparse support #bcpoli

Housing
NR17 Declaring Housing as a Human Right Langford
Whereas recognizing housing as a human right fundamentally shifts government motivations by adding critical
urgency and responsibility to ensure access to affordable housing (meaning housing costs are aligned with
income) through policies that prevent homelessness, address the escalating housing and homelessness crisis,
eliminate discrimination, and prioritize the needs of vulnerable and marginalized populations;
And whereas the Government of Canada affirmed the right to housing as a matter of international law and
enshrined it domestically through the National Housing Strategy Act (2019), recognizing housing as a human
right and establishing mechanisms for accountability and inclusion:
Therefore be it resolved that the UBCM call for the BC Government to enshrine housing as a human right in
legislation and forthcoming housing and homelessness strategies, ensuring that housing policy in British
Columbia is grounded in principles of equity, accessibility, accountability, and the inherent dignity of all people.
Submitted Directly to UBCM
UBCM Resolutions Committee Recommendation: No Recommendation

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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 14d

Like if you take seriously the idea that this is about dangerous infectious diseases that are a serious threat to both the ecosystem and agriculture then it’s not something that ought to be postponed for a year while the Supreme Debate Club ponders their feelings about it

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 16d

A lot of politics of this era is breaking ancient truces and assuming that the other-side won't fight back

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 15d

You can take my Tylenol from my cold, train obsessed hands

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 15d

If its a small reactor why cant I fit it in my pocket? Checkmate Atom-bros

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 16d

Oh for sure. That is entirely inappropriate

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 16d

I barely open it anymore. But when I do, at least once a month I have to go though and select "not interested in this" to dozens of algorithmic slop posts in order to get the feed into something remotely usable that shows me my friends posts.

Just terrible and not worth it

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 16d

This is one of those cases where the scandal is saying out loud what everyone already knows.

In addition to saying its all about Quebec, the minister also admits that he knows licensed legal gun owners aren't the problem and that the program is misdirected

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 16d

#StarExclusive: Liberals’ push for gun buyback program fuelled by pressure from Quebec, public safety minister says in leaked audio

Liberals’ push for gun buyback program fuelled by pressure from Quebec, public safety minister says in leaked audio

A gun-owning tenant recorded a conversation with Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree without the minister’s knowledge.

www.thestar.com

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