It’s not chaotic at all imho, it’s most often pretty organized. The landing and takeoff area is off limits, but once in a while someone will end up there anyway.

Falcon and Rustard hating each other is the best thing that ever happened in BC Politics

Noooo fuck if they join their voters NDP is screwed

Neoliberalism is just how social studies people call contemporary liberalism.

In politics and economics, this is what most people will understand as “liberal”. Not just some vague references to liberty like the dictionary meaning, neither classical liberalism from the 1850’s.

Folded like a cheap tent

lol 100%

First Nations blessing is a bit of a gray area because they are not necessarily performed as a religious practice. Instead of a prayer, it’s interpreted (by those present) more like a First Nations representative formally acknowledging that the decisions about to be made are made with their participation.

It’s a cultural complexity that elders are often also seen as religious leaders and they’ll often speak in religious terms, but their blessing is foremost under the guise of a representative - not a cleric.

As for a regular Christian prayer… its sole purpose is a ritual for those in that religion.

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

Crazy high increases for Burnaby while Vancouver goes down a little bit. High density in the burbs seems to be working!

For me, yes. I’ll have to vote for these same liars over and over to keep Cons and United out. They (NDP) do get some things right once in a while, so it’s a small victory.

As a Coal Harbour resident, I would value my apartment so much more if the seawall stretch around the Harbour Green Park had more stuff going on. More sports, more stalls, more cafés, more music, more everything. Coal Harbour’s specialties are nail spas, dentists and home decor. FFS there’s a dentist clinic with a view of the marina. What the hell. Meanwhile the whole seawall stretch from Convention Center to Stanley Park gets a single food vendor, which is of course overpriced hot dogs.

Ah here it comes, of course a conservative government will ask private companies their opinion on next steps, and next steps are beneficial to private companies.

It’s called a slope chart and it has several benefits compared to bar charts:

• https://datavizproject.com/data-type/slope-chart/
• https://seeingdata.org/taketime/inside-the-chart-slope-graph/
• https://www.storytellingwithdata.com/blog/2020/7/27/what-is-a-slopegraph

I for one think this is much better than using a bar chart for this use case, as the angled arrows make it immediately obvious the information that matters the most here (the rate of change) while still keeping it contextualized (by relative positions). The bar chart version of this would inevitably look more cluttered and would not be more effective in conveying the incredible progress in solar costs.

There’s so much of it that it’s hard to narrow it down to a manageable list just from that.

Thousands of possibly related articles since the 2000’s.

A much serendipitous coincidence: one of the economists that won the Economics Nobel Prize

for pioneering research that showed an increase in minimum wage does not lead to less hiring and immigrants do not lower pay for native-born workers, challenging commonly held ideas

is Canadian!

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/1830941/canadian-born-david-card-among-3-winners-of-nobel-in-economics

Yes, there are some counterpoints to minimum wage increases. That’s one of them: raising the bar for employability, which also raises the bar on business viability, both of which might ultimately decrease the job pool size. I think it’s a reasonable counterpoint. Inflation is another one.

On the other hand I think at this point most economies are in agreement that minimum wage increases above inflation are a necessity and that gig economy workers need some of that protection as well given we don’t have a well stablished legal framework for them. Because this is gig work, it doesn’t make sense to speak of layoffs. But one could expect a price increase passed on to consumers, which could lead to lower demand, therefore a risk of lower income for workers long-term; but it’s factored in and it’s a good experiment on the trade-off.

Just increasing the existing taxes should be enough. Being more expensive and consuming more fuel they are already subject to more taxes than regular cars, so increasing these existing taxes will proportionally affect more the consumer of these killing machines. Specially gas; still too much subsidy because so much of our society is now predicated on cheap gas.

it would waste city staff time and resources

Meanwhile they do exactly that with the speed cameras motion. “Let’s study this for two years more, even though it has been continuously studied for the past decades”.

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

Should? I don’t think so. Could? Certainly, I don’t see why not.

The most obvious comparison would be BC Liquor Stores, which is doing pretty good in fact. But we’ll see how they’ll fare once we get alcohol selling on supermarkets… by the end of this century perhaps

I’m a complete layman on this, but one disadvantage of trolley buses is that it’s hard to accommodate temporary route changes, which may happen a lot on specific regions that need lots of construction/repair or have events like scheduled pedestrian-only closures.

I love them, though, would like to see more and I’m sure there are plausible expansions to be made.