Council claimed we could save the environment by making our streets harder to drive. The results have been longer commutes, more traffic jams, and ironically, more pollution. Victoria's war on cars needs to stop.
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's treatment of is far more extreme than anything that happened to Bernie Sanders in 2016, yet the perception of vote rigging cost Democrats that election. Funny how parties with "democratic" in their name always behave so undemocratically.
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B.C. NDP candidate ejected from leader's race; David Eby to be premier timescolonist.com/national-news/
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A hate crime in the name of tolerance is the most dishonest form of hypocrisy.
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Will the media pick up on a place of worship being desecrated by far left activists? And this was after they trespassed on private property and refused to move. @DreaHumphrey @timescolonist @CTVCommunityVI @VictoriaRumble1 @Adam_Stirling @CHEK_News @CBContheisland
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Tax incentives for efficient use of existing property would facilitate affordability.
Bulldozing entire neighbourhoods and rebuilding them in a "zero carbon" manner would do the opposite.
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If 3 or 4 couples with affordable rents get displaced to remove one “mansion” in Fairfield and a ~year later four units are made available for $800,000 each that none of those families can afford, how does that help?
There’s no *effective* supply increase in a case like that.
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If City Council was trying to make housing as unaffordable as possible, it's difficult to imagine how they could outdo this:
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By 2025, all new construction in the City will be required to be zero carbon.
This is part of the City's accelerated climate action plan to achieve an 80% reduction in community greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Learn more: ow.ly/wltC50KfcAw
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The advantage of the "gig economy" is that "experts at Davos" aren't running it.
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When it comes to stability, the gig economy needs work, say experts at Davos bit.ly/39Uxbmr
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Prevailing wisdom is correct because all experts agree, and all experts agree because people who disagree aren't allowed to be experts. 🔄🙃
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A B.C. doctor who has been the subject of numerous complaints from his fellow physicians about spreading COVID-19 misinformation is asking the courts to step in and stop his professional regulator from disciplining him
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told that "the City Family ... should not have been conceived as an advisory body of Council and was never intended to be an advisory body."
Why does the Mayor persist in describing the City Family as an "advisory body" when it's not?
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Banning conspiracy theories is a surefire way to reinforce them.
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We really need to think lawyers' monopoly on providing legal assistance of all kinds. It doesn't work, for so many reasons.
'Unauthorized Practice Of Law' Rules Promote Racial Injustice law360.com/access-to-just
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The State exists in an environment of anarchy, and is about as trustworthy as individuals in that environment.
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Why Britain is ignoring the Google-Apple protocol for its tracing app econ.trib.al/e73FENm
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Businesses calling on government to increase regulation are motivated by reducing market access, not improving public safety.
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We're long overdue for repeal of self-destructive policies like Canada's #CarbonTax and BC's #SpeculationTax. Such policies have severe unintended consequences when markets react to events faster than governments ever could.
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People congratulating the coronavirus for improving the air quality and ecology of the world are happy hundreds of millions are unemployed & struggling -no pollution! - this is what the world would be like in future Ecotopia without fossil fuels. twitter.com/thomasschulzz/…
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BC Government falsely accused neurosurgeon of having "scaled back public work because he wanted more time to smell the roses and read a book."
What they forget is neurosurgeons are perfectly entitled to do that, and if private health care is banned, many will.
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Ian Mulgrew: Marathon medicare trial finally ends vancouversun.com/opinion/column
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Legislators who act like cops are as bad as cops who make up the law as they go. Separation of powers exists for a reason.
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Does 's role in protecting access to a market (e.g. establishing barriers to entry, prosecuting unauthorized practice, turf wars with , etc.) conflict with its public interest mandate to promote accessible justice? #A2JChatBC
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As NDP supporters chant "tax the rich" and Liberals talk over them with a similar message, who would bother to become rich in this country? Atlas will shrug.
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The voters don't "always get it right" ; When both sides are led by talented scam artists, it's inevitable that the voters get scammed.
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Whether it's climate science, health science, or social science, those who define the word "science" have immense power over our perception of truth.
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The term "climate science" is being used to include only those claims that reinforce the catastrophe narrative. All other science is rejected as "not climate science" because it is skeptical of the catastrophe narrative. This must be exposed for the anti-science sham that it is.
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Supply management is about more than milk quotas. The philosophical divide is about whether our government is for sale. Voters who continue to elect the status quo have only themselves to blame.
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Murderers get parole after 25 years, but #wrongspeak is incapable of redemption, even 35 years after the fact. Treating thought crimes more seriously than real crimes is a telltale symptom of an inquisitional mindset. twitter.com/jonkay/status/
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California’s biggest utility is in deep trouble econ.st/2FnNQgL
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Blocking traffic to protest climate change? They might as well be beating up electricians to protest lightning.
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Administrative gatekeepers between citizens and the courts may indeed violate constitutional rights, just like monopolistic price control is contrary to the public interest. This podcast by and is highly informative:
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Are the injuries #ICBC classifies as 'minor' really minor? @IRPlawyer invites lawyer and blogger @erikmagraken to weigh in. Also, what to make of new ride-hailing legislation? Will Uber finally be coming to Vancouver? @PaulDoroshenko and Kyla discuss.
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People who protest against the debate itself are not worth debating.
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"I'm here to protest against the free exchange of ideas" -- Protester who burst into flames of irony.
#MunkDebate
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John A. MacDonald, for all his faults, laid the groundwork for the country we're all supposed to believe in. Before judging him in hindsight, councilors should think about how ridiculous their actions will look in 150 years.
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consults with special interests from other municipalities, but ignores the views of residents. Council meeting scheduled for 9:00am on a weekday, with less than 24 hours notice to the public, to rubber-stamp a predetermined outcome. No democracy here!
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"In the U.S., the Constitution is civic religion. In Canada, it is not."
Does this make us more rational, or just more apathetic?
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If you are a Canadian in need of a quick smug self-satisfaction fix, look no further: nationalpost.com/news/canada/wh.
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Telling the truth has become a revolutionary act, and trying to fix the justice system, a punishable offence. bit.ly/2lxzH5t
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As usual, big government and reality are on opposite sides.
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In our constitutional trial, government and their experts contend that waiting for access to care is not harmful
This from the same that delivered two massive plastic bins to every household, supposedly to protect the environment. A ban on plastic bags won't keep plastic out of our oceans. It just means we'll have to *buy* plastic bags to line our garbage.
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Under the @CityOfVictoria bylaw, businesses are not allowed to provide customers with single-use plastic bags. Instead, they must offer paper or reusable bags — for a fee shar.es/ani1Qc #yyj
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Reasonable grounds to suspect alcohol impairment is already a low standard, crafted to protect the public from drivers who are actually impaired. Random roadside testing would gut the Constitution & upset the delicate balance between individual liberty and public safety.
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Former Conservative Senate leader blasts former colleagues for gutting impaired driving bill ctv.news/UUJXTAW
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When changing social values dictate legal outcomes, the legal process becomes a political process and the rule of law is rendered meaningless.
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"Public confidence" in the legal profession depends on the legal profession showing respect for the public, including religious minorities. Confidence cannot be won in court; it has to be earned. In the eyes of many Christians, you have proven yourselves unworthy of confidence.
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Funding the defence at a fraction of what gov't lawyers are paid isn't just unfair to legal aid lawyers. It tilts the entire playing field against the individual and in favour of the state, making real justice impossible.
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The plea bargaining process of extorting evidence in exchange for legal protection produces unreliable evidence. When carried out for political purposes, it is also an affront to the rule of law.
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“all American citizens should fear the harm that can be done to our nation and to our way of life by such ‘weaponized’ prosecutors with a politically-motivated agenda of prosecution and persecution” = absolutely true. thefederalist.com/2018/03/08/fiv
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ICYMI: Why the #SCC really did disparage history in Comeau, and why it's time to move on from the old myths about originalism doubleaspect.blog/2018/05/07/set
New legislation will "clamp down on the distribution of false statements," supposedly to prevent foreign interference in Canadian elections. If trades away free speech to ensure fair elections, we are destined to have neither. twitter.com/VoiceOfFranky/
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People in history did bad things, so let's erase the history of civilization and start over. 🙃
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The majority of inquisitive people accept the existence of a higher power. The decline of mainstream Christianity hasn't changed this, but has led many young people to question whether the higher power they believe in is a force for good.
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