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[mbjj]

Last week over the space of a few days, we trapped over ten rats in our garage. We used to dispose of them in plastic grocery bags in our garbage can. Now we have to pay to buy Glad bags for them. I miss plastic grocery bags.

[Matt R.]

Wrong.

10% Tuesday was nutty. Lots of $300+ orders. They always paired me up with the fastest cashier and the owner would direct traffic at the tills. Biggest carts went to us.

I got good at getting 3x3 bags of milk into one paper bag.

Matt.

[sebberry]

I have about 15 - you can have a couple of mine.

 

Thanks for the offer, but I don't particularly like tossing them into the laundry after using them to pick up after the dog.

[Nparker]

It's easy to keep a supply of reusable bags in one's vehicle...not so much on one's person.

[DustMagnet]

It's easy to keep a supply of reusable bags in one's vehicle...not so much on one's person.

 

I want to go there, but I'm not going to go there.   

Of course, I don't literally want to go there. 

[Matt R.]

It's easy to keep a supply of reusable bags in one's vehicle...not so much on one's person.

Fortunately, salt spring is so ahead of the curve on the green front you basically have to drive everywhere.

Matt.

[LJ]

Funny story. We went to a grocery store in Zihuatanejo Mexico over the holidays and low and behold they don’t offer bags of any type for any price. If you didn’t bring a bag you are just plain out of luck. We went by taxi and the transfer of these goods (we had a crap load) in and out of the taxi and then into the condo was not going to be pretty.

Then, as luck would have it, a grocery stock person walked by packing some cardboard boxes. So armed with our Costco skills, we relieved the chap of his boxes, packed them up, and carried on about our way.

Really....no bags ..... not even for gringos.....but the town and the beaches were spotless.

You must have gone to the wrong store, my wife is down there right now and I just asked her and she said the groceries were boxed for them.

[Mike K.]

We don’t know if Sparky actually paid for his. The kid with the box showed up just as the taxi did, so...

[LJ]

^No straws in the drinks, and you have to pay a deposit on bottled water as well.

 

Maybe Lisa should take a fact finding trip down there.

[Sparky]

The cardboard boxes were a free snag. It was an amazing coincidence.

I paid much more attention to my surroundings after this event and I have to say the Mexicans seem to be way ahead of us with regards to disposable containers.

[Nparker]

Maybe Lisa's next junket will be to Ottawa to give the Supreme Court an earful.

Plastic bags won’t be banned in the City of Victoria any time soon.The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed the City’s application for a leave to appeal the decision that halted efforts for a plastic bag ban...As is customary for a leave to appeal decision, the Supreme Court does not issue any reasons for its decision...In a statement, the CPBA [Canadian Plastic Bag Association] said it welcomes the decision to “respect limits” placed on B.C. municipalities’ authority when addressing environmental issues...

https://www.vicnews....court-decision/

 

[spanky123]

^ At least it won't cost taxpayers anything!

[rmpeers]

Maybe Lisa's next junket will be to Ottawa to give the Supreme Court an earful.

Has any government anywhere ever wasted more time on vain flights of fancy than our beloved CoV team? Curious to know how many hours were spent by City lawyers and other city staff on a project they should have known they lacked the authority to undertake. Also how much did various businesses have to spend to comply with the whole scheme?

[Bernard]

Once again, plastic bags (and pesticides, and oil tankers, and forestry, etc...) are not a municipal issue.   Only the province can create the plastic bag ban and the CoV should quit wasting time on **** like this and focus on what they are supposed to do.

[rmpeers]

Do they literally have no idea what their job is, or do they choose issues outside their scope because they think cooler-sounding issues will help get them votes?

[Nparker]

Most on CoV council are ideologues; normal behavior is a foreign concept to them.

[Bernard]

The actual ongoing things that councils should be dealing with is mainly rezoning, the budget, and long term planning of land use.    There is a lot municipalities do that need virtually no council consideration (waste management and recreation are two).   There is no reason the CoV could not do all the work that is actually their requirement in two 4 to 5 hour meetings a week.    For a city of 85,000, there is no reason the actual mandate of local government should take up more than part time hours for any councilor.  Every hour spent on issues that are not under their jurisdiction should not be counted by the councilors or public as them being "on the job"

[Nparker]

 

Every hour spent on issues that are not under their jurisdiction should not be counted by the councilors or public as them being "on the job"

This x 1000.

[mbjj]

Aren't they also now talking about birth control? Meanwhile, in Cook St. Village near where the new little flower and plant store is, the sidewalk was a massive puddle this week. The drain is in that sorry excuse for a boulevard (mostly mud) and is higher than the sidewalk. Pedestrians had a choice of wading through the puddle or slogging through the mud. THIS is what the city should be focusing on. Oxford Street in the block off of Cook is deplorable. It's one massive series of bumps and hollows that is a lake when it rains.

 

Sorry, off topic a little.

Edited by mbjj, 25 January 2020 - 11:15 AM.

[Daveyboy]

^

Your comment is very relevant to the wasted time (and money) spent on ideas that are not part of their mandate, while ignoring pressing issues that affect the daily lives of people in Victoria.