Hey Mayors' Council TransLink BC ….about that $600 million annual shortfall for transit revenue… ⬇️ 🤔

Excellent thread ⬇️ explaining why the Province is stepping in to force municipalities to loosen zoning restrictions. The old system, with municipalities as gatekeepers, failed to moderate housing prices. If we are to solve the housing crisis, we need a new, collective approach.

Excellent thread ⬇️ explaining why the community planning & approval process is so broken. (And inferentially, why the province has to step in).

The NIMBYs object to supervised injection sites etc, saying we need treatment & supports for those battling addictions. Then when detox facilities & supportive housing is prosposed, they object to that too. It’s almost like they don’t give a crap about people suffering…🤔

Paging Karin Kirkpatrick 🇨🇦 Please save the good folks of West Vancouver-Capilano from these nutcases… #westvan #northvan

I’ve been deeply involved with real life city governance and politics for 32+ years, and it’s always annoyed me when media and commentators expect candidates to have fully formed opinions and plans on almost everything while running for office. I say pick smart candidates that

Excellent thread ⬇️ from Russil Wvong on how we got here with carbon taxes. Taxes are never popular & this one is tied to a very unpopular leader. So, right wing and now left wing populist politicians have decided to use the carbon tax as a political wedge, damn the consequences

Nick nails it ⬇️ re the carbon tax. It’s not that the tax is bad policy or politically unsalable. It’s more that it has been chosen as a wedge issue, associated with an unpopular leader & buried in misinformation. The result of this is no meaningful action on climate change.

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