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[Mattjvd]

That's an absolute nothing story. You don't go anywhere with a fire-arm if you aren't 'prepared' to use it.

[Victoria Watcher]

native on native attacks.  didn't we have a national commission to explore that?

 

Woman injured in Christmas Eve attack in Duncan has died: coroner

 

https://www.timescol...oner-1.24043247

 

Nellie's fund

 

https://www.gofundme...nellie039s-fund

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 29 December 2019 - 02:06 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

The Senakw development aims to ease the city’s chronic housing crisis – and to challenge the mindset that indigeneity and urbanity are incompatible

 

 

https://www.theguard...MP=share_btn_tw

 

 

The scrubby, vacant patch beneath the Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver looks at first glance like a typical example of the type of derelict nook common to all cities: 11.7 acres of former railway lands, over which tens of thousands of people drive every day.

 

This is not any old swath of underused space, however. It’s one of Canada’s smallest First Nations reserves, where dozens of Squamish families once lived. The village was destroyed by provincial authorities more than a century ago.

 

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 January 2020 - 03:15 PM.

[spanky123]

^ Nice rendering. Any bets as to whether that is what gets built?

[Victoria Watcher]

It looks too complex (costly).

[newbie_01]

^ Nice rendering. Any bets as to whether that is what gets built?

 

architects and developers always like to release these futuristic-looking renderings first, to get people's support for a project. then at some point along the way the design changes to your typical Canadian slab-tower and we all just accept it 

Edited by newbie_01, 03 January 2020 - 08:23 PM.

[Bernard]

One advantage with this development is that the owner of the land is the one who wants to do the development and are the ones that control all the zoning and planning powers.   

[Rob Randall]

^Ah, like the Victoria fire hall project.

[Mike K.]

Jawl Residential did not/does not control the zoning or planning of the fire hall site, that is the City of Victoria’s domain.

In the case of the Vancouver project it’s beyond the jurisdiction of the City of Vancouver.

[Bernard]

In the case of the Vancouver project it’s beyond the jurisdiction of the City of Vancouver.

 

 

As is any project outside a municipal or regional district boundary

[spanky123]

Jawl Residential did not/does not control the zoning or planning of the fire hall site, that is the City of Victoria’s domain.

In the case of the Vancouver project it’s beyond the jurisdiction of the City of Vancouver.

 

I think the comment was tongue in cheek. Lots of people will tell you who they think controls the Mayor and City Hall!

Edited by spanky123, 06 January 2020 - 05:50 PM.

[Mike K.]

People say all sorts of nonsensical things. It doesn’t mean it’s true.

[Nparker]

People say all sorts of nonsensical things...

And a few of those people aren't even on CoV council.

[Nparker]

The Ardmore Golf Course in North Saanich, owned by the DuTemple family since 1946, has been sold to the Pauquachin First Nation, who intend to keep it as a golf course. 

 

https://www.vicnews....n-first-nation/

 

[Bernard]

 

The Ardmore Golf Course in North Saanich, owned by the DuTemple family since 1946, has been sold to the Pauquachin First Nation, who intend to keep it as a golf course. 

 

https://www.vicnews....n-first-nation/

 

It will be interesting if this becomes reserve land - I am not sure the current government will as liberal with the issue as the previous one was.   People may have issue with the former Liberal government, but they did not stand in the way of First Nations buying land and adding it to reserve lands.   The NDP government from 1991-2001 opposed new reserve lands unless it was small pieces of land being returned to the First Nation (the Socreds had the same policy)

[spanky123]

^ I would think that it would remain fee simple.

[Bernard]

^ I would think that it would remain fee simple.

That then becomes a governance problem for the First Nation.   Much clearer for everyone if the land has the same jurisdiction as the rest of their lands

[lanforod]

That then becomes a governance problem for the First Nation.   Much clearer for everyone if the land has the same jurisdiction as the rest of their lands

 

Change all their land to fee simple. 

[Bernard]

Change all their land to fee simple. 

That only works with a Treaty in place like the Nisga'a one.   Their Treaty created fee-simple like land that is under Nisga'a jurisdiction.   The Indian Act does not allow for fee simple lands on reserve.   The important thing to keep in mind is that the land they bought could not be governed by the First Nation's bylaws unless it is made into reserve lands

[Mike K.]

Wouldn't turning reserve land into fee simple not effectively lead to the land being sold?