in conjuction with other measures
https://news.gov.bc.ca/ministries/housing
From free standardized designs to building code changes to allow single stairways (Why North America Can’t Build Nice Apartments) to fixing outdated zoning rules that pisses off the NIMBYs plus hundreds of other initiatives, Ravi Kahlon has been an amazing housing minister.
They love trolling
Until we get a decent automod, I’m not interested in fighting off even more trolls.
Wab cleaning house?
The British Columbia government has filed a class-action lawsuit against manufacturers of so-called “forever chemicals” it says are involved in the widespread contamination of drinking water systems.
Attorney General Niki Sharma says the province is the first Canadian jurisdiction to sue makers of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl, known as PFAS chemicals.
B.C. has filed similar class-action lawsuits in the past, targeting tobacco manufacturers in 1998 and opioid makers in 2018 to recover health-care costs associated with those substances.
B.C. launches lawsuit against makers of ‘forever chemicals’
I wonder if this legislation had anything to do with them closing the war room?
“Growth at any cost” is a great motto for corporations, and cancer.
“Everybody can always do more,” Kang said. “But I will say that [B.C.] is doing more than what other provinces are doing.”
I wonder what the figures are for the rest of the country?
The Ontario Science Centre is shutting down immediately as an engineering report commissioned by the province shows the roof could collapse — but while it could be fixed at a cost, the province is choosing to shutter the location indefinitely.
where electric planes might make commercial sense
Exactly. Until batteries have similar power density to aviation fuel, electric flight is financially impractical.
Did you see that a Sunshine Coast homeowner fined $70,000 for dredging creek?
STOP SHAKING YOUR EYES AT ME!
https://www.nfb.ca/ if you’re looking for inspiration.
Also https://www.youtube.com/@nfb/videos
The Log Driver’s Waltz
Organizations:
[email protected] East Vancouver Island - Nanoose Bay to Fanny Bay
If the company is able to scale this technology large enough for consumer vehicles while keeping prices down …
The breakdown in negotiations was mostly due to Canada’s insistence on the UK loosening its food safety regulations, according to several people familiar with the matter.
Canada’s agriculture and food processing market is geared toward exporting to the US, where practices such as chemical carcass-washing and hormone-injected beef and pork are commonplace. In the EU, and the UK by virtue of its former membership of the bloc, such practices are banned.
I don’t blame them for not accepting that deal.
only hitting eastern Canada
No. The central part of the shadow is only in the east, but even in BC you’ll see a little nibble out of the sun.
The BC Hydrogen Office website talks about both electrolysis and removing hydrogen from natural gas then storing the left over bits underground.