by Sean Orr | Premier a no-show at Pride Parade. Man, it would be way too easy to jump all over this, especially considering whatshisface‘s comments. So I won’t. Because I don’t really care.
Editorial: Water meters are a total waste of money. “Vancouver council’s recent decision to force water meters on us is yet another example of government coming up with an expensive, feel-good solution to a non-problem and using your money to prop up the egos of politicians”. See! Check out the picture, look at all that water! Look at all those mountains and shit! Also, who even drinks tap water nowadays? You can just go to the store and by some. And I mean, how much does it rain in this city? Total non-issue bro.
Cue the chorus of hard-headed reactionary NIABY outrage: Vancouver Coastal Health to hand out $50,000 worth of crack pipes. It makes them so stressed out to hear about such ‘perversions of government’ and ‘waste of our tax dollars’ that they forget who gave them the free anti-anxiety meds they pop every morning to deal with it.
Down and Out in Abbotsford, BC. The best part of the story is author’s note at the beginning. Real talk. It’s like a mea culpa and manifesto all in one. He also hung out in my hometown of Whalley, where I could probably write a similar preface about my own experience growing up.
Plan to revitalize industrial land progressing. I don’t know if I like this article more for it’s discussion on urban land use issues, or it’s frequent mention of beer.
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Do you have a good article that’s pro water meters? What’s the data supporting them? Does metro Vancouver use too much water according to the freshwater available? Are there other considerations that need to be considered (I’m totally uneducated on this subject, do ‘water tables’ figure in somehow? Uh, top… soil?)?
Well, I know the Green Party is against them for an entirely different reason (health affects of wireless technology) but I’m sure the city’s own engineering page would have more info. I know that we are relative water hogs and that surrey actually leads the way on metering. I think it’s more a case of infrastructure- it would cost billions to upgrade the current system and build a new reservoir.
The “tough on crime” clowns ranting against harm reduction really can’t wrap their heads around the idea that it actually does more to make our streets safer than locking people up, can they? It makes one want to put up signs to the effect that being tough on crime means implementing policies that have been shown to reduce it regardless of how they appear at first glance, rather than policies that might be popular but don’t actually work. That’s not being tough on anything; it’s just posing.
To their credit, they are calling themselves ‘tough on crime’, not actually ‘effective against crime’.