Профиль

I enjoy driving around Saanich with all the new protected bike infrastructure

Proving once again that municipal government is fundamentally the wrong level for big reforms to make housing abundant. Not to say that local govt doesn’t matter, it matters a lot, but foundational change can only hold at provincial level or above www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Vancouver council decisively rejects villages plan after 'tsunami' of opposition | CBC NewsVancouver city council has decisively rejected an ambitious but controversial plan that would have reshaped the growth of the city for decades to come.www.cbc.ca

Island folks know nothing beats that “last car on the ferry feeling”

do a breakthrough

Condon makes an incredibly compelling argument for broad upzoning. Why fiddle around parcel by parcel when we can broadly allow housing and unleash years or decades worth of future homes?

Trying some electric camping

Love it when I go for my usual walk and a bunch of new housing suddenly pops up

What www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'Here we go again' after CRA pays out another bogus $5M income tax refund, agency insider says | CBC NewsThe Canada Revenue Agency has paid out another $5-million refund to a single taxpayer, this time to a B.C. businesswoman, despite what it now alleges was a bogus return that included "illogical" and "...www.cbc.ca

I’m actually not against data centres at all but building them in a place where we have to power them with new natural gas generation at ~350 gCO2e/kWh instead of where we have clean power seems like a terrible idea www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Meta building its first Canadian data centre northeast of Edmonton | CBC NewsMeta has announced it will build a massive one-gigawatt data centre northeast of Edmonton, the company's first such project in Canada.www.cbc.ca

Victoria asking rents (rentals.ca) update

Remember all the fear mongering about how big companies were gonna buy up all the houses? Another myth about why house prices are high debunked by data

Please consider signing to advocate for plug-in solar in Canada pluginsolarpower.ca

Plug-In Solar for CanadaOver 5 million European households cut their power bill with a balcony solar kit, plug it into a wall outlet. Canada hasn’t legalized it yet. We’re working to change that, province by province and fed...pluginsolarpower.ca

In 2016 BC introduced the owner builder exam. That is, anyone wanting to build their own home would have to pass a completely useless exam that did nothing to improve the quality of their build. No other province requires this. It did do one thing, completely kill people building their own homes

Let’s just scrap restrictive covenants completely. They’re used to stifle competition They’re used to block housing They were used to enforce racism www.canada.ca/en/competiti...

Our home was built by a greedy developer that did it to maximize their own profit It’s lovely and we’re so grateful to have it.

Getting relentlessly downvoted on Reddit for arguing that expanding the stock of affordable housing by buying existing units is a good thing But people don’t care, they’d rather see developers punished than have more affordable housing. Decent policy but gov’t clearly failed to sell it.

A mini split heat pump for under $600? Couldn’t resist. Let’s see how the DIY install goes

😂

With Site C online, better water flow, and some more renewables on the grid, net energy in BC looks better. 6 month average sharply higher and in the green, first time in 3 years But snowpacks are low, we need to continue rapidly adding other renewables to the grid to stay there.

Zac would be a great mayor for Saanich