Sarcastic poetic humour – worth a watch.

This award appears to be baseless, similar to best employer awards: if you pay the $200 fee, congrats! Looking at what comox has done (and the paragraph from their application) their bee efforts are minimal but at least exist (2 large flower beds).

The purpose of this award is to get people talking about bees, so they have succeeded. I prefer to recognize significant accomplishments however.

It is well known that BC buys cheap power from AB, but I didn’t know the extent of the restrictions to sell power back to them.

I guess competition is scary and in their mind hampers further investment? And the bout of banning wind/solar farms still defies any explanation.

I attended the information session the city hosted at the Filberg… was useful but a bit long winded – this is the accompanying survey seeking public input (please fill it out!)

It’s a bad attempt at copying Nate Silver’s work, but lacks any statistical quality or funding. It’s something to read but in my opinion, total BS.

here we go! (election call sunday?)

Gord framing it as a two party race is clearly to his benefit, but I expect all the candidates will be up to the usual shenanigans that come with first-past-the-post.

riding map: https://www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/maps/59009.pdf

wikipedia page with redistributed results from last election: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtenay—Alberni (new riding boundaries since last election)

please add !comoxvalley@lemmy.ca (BC)

I think only a few of us are actually local, given the lack of activity… but I was on the subreddit!

Nursing is also one of the few professions where they still have to pay for their own internship (going further into debt).

A doctor in training is paid while a nurse in training is not only working for free, but paying a fee to be there. Not sure if this is consistent in every province though.

i hope this looks nothing like the sr&ed tax credit

nominal capital gains that are purely due to inflation seem like dubious tax targets (you didn’t earn anything, the canadian dollar was simply worth less)… pairing this with the end of the capital gains exemption for principal residences could be interesting

honestly, real capital gains should be taxed a lot higher but inflation wrecks the math (i’d wager the 50% exemption was an attempt to account for this)

This looks more accurate: https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/12865436#DOC--12867863

It would be fun to throw something random in there like term limits. I’d appreciate barring anyone who has been an MP for 20 years from running again.

hard to follow the article with only a short blurb… it starts by saying he was happy to pay for the privilege but is now complaining of it costing too much?

I think a one month extension costs $470 NZD, but I can’t tell what longer term residency permits cost (it’s probably a combination of multiple fees)

https://mfai.gov.ck/cook-islands-ministry-foreign-affairs-and-immigration-schedule-fees

His journey will probably start by driving past the old rail station in downtown Ottawa (a couple blocks from parliament) out to the boonies.

Due to donation limits ($1700 / year), it’s hard to amount to much unless you sprinkle it across all members of the household and donate to the party and EDA too.

https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=lim&document=lim2023&lang=e

That’s a boundary error – they’re all next to BC

me too, but do tell about this e-sim app 😮

^ let’s keep building so we get more traction when the next bump hits 😎