I saw it in the news, therefor it must be correct. In an article about the excellent news of $1 million for the E&N Rail Trail was this line (emphasis mine): The funding was announced by Gary Lunn, PC — Saanich-Gulf Islands. Oops.
Posts under ‘News coverage’
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside makes the Beeb
On the eve of the Olympics, right on the front page of BBC News is a story about Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The story is lovingly titled Vancouver: ‘Drug Central’ of North America and recounts many of the horrors of the DTES including rampant drug use, homelessness, and prostitution. It also brings in the gang wars [...]
Oak Bay News web fail
The web is filled with fail, as I pointed out the other day, and it appears that Oak Bay News is no less guilty than anybody else, as can be seen on the right. Given how strict most old media places are about posting, I really wonder how this slipped through. Might it have been [...]
Grab bag o’ Links
Saltspring Island Coffee Roastery runs into difficultly getting a new factory zoned (Times Colonist). I am deeply suspicious of statements by the proponents that appear to be ultimatums, such as Mickey McLeod who said that “the operation might move off-island”. However, given Saltspring Coffee’s track record, I am inclined to believe them. Hopefully a compromise [...]
Tri-City News backs more bike infrastructure
The Tri-City News, covering Port Coquitlam, Coquitlam and Maple Ridge and part of the Black Press stable of regional newspapers that includes Oak Bay News, has published an editorial calling for governments and business to do more to support biking. They start: Those road warriors who are taking to the streets in rain gear and [...]
Metrocascade: a new website of Victoria blogs
A new one-stop shop for all of the blogs about Victoria, including the Times Colonist, was launched recently at Metrocascade.com. Alongside a whole bunch of blogs I didn’t know about, Metrocascade includes Michelle Kirby, Sean Holman’s Public Eye Online and Bernard van Schulmann, all fairly well known. The site itself has a blog, which apparently [...]
Labour intensive buses are a problem
So laid-off lumber workers don’t want to relocate to Victoria or commute to get paid less driving our buses? So says the Globe and Mail. Imagine if we had a transit vehicle that would have a better rider to driver ratio? Oh wait, we do. It is called rail transit. I guess all those years [...]
Thoughts on the election
It has been almost two weeks since the election and I have been doing a great deal of thinking. . These past two weeks have been a mad scramble as I finish up coursework for my college term. I have had some time to chat with various people and think myself about what it all [...]
Times Colonist finally posts candidate profiles
The Times Colonist has been teasing people in their community profiles that they would post full candidate profiles online. Well, they are now up and you can read the Oak Bay page. I don’t expect many people to see these and to date I haven’t had any traffic from the TC site. Why don’t I [...]
Solving the housing crisis by cutting off water to illegal suites
The Central Saanich Council has come across a unique solution to solving the housing crisis: cutting off water to “persistent offenders.” Quite frankly, I’m horrified. Access to fresh water is a fundamental human right, not something to be used by a government in a dispute with a land owner. In the Times Colonist article, Denis [...]
