Hydro prices are growing like crazy soon. Looks like those gas furnaces are paying for themselves. Maybe we need a hydro freeze and more hydroelectric projects around the province. I wonder how much of our energy costs result from the selling off of the waters, and state facilities to private hands. The excuse that “A recent Hydro report says rates must rise by 25% because of the expected cost to maintain and upgrade BC’s aging electricity grid,” is problematic because we’re not really dealing with an old grid, it’s ONLY about 50 years old! Compare that the grids in the States, or Europe, or China.
Meanwhile we’ve got gas leaks in Chilliwack — for some reason the RCMP is the speculator on the scene, telling us how long it would take to get fixed. I didn’t know they were in the gas business.
Particularly little has been done in the way of welfare and minimum wage reform in BC, with not so much in the way of our housing issues either. How ’bout for a brilliant parody of the olympic spirit given our housing issues: “Spectators can come to Carnegie Theatre (401 Main Street) and check out the poverty-line high jump, the welfare hurdles, and a ‘broad jump across a bedbug-infested mattress’.
Is it possible that “The indoor farming of cannabis—a multi-billion-dollar crop in British Columbia—may be contributing the rental crunch.”? Are grow-ups affecting renters or are they helping pay the rent? I’ve never heard a renter complain that grow-ops are contributing to them finding too few ads on craigslist? Have you. In fact, only law-enforcement agencies seems to think that one should have an effect on the other.
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