...Victoria seems to be hanging on to a belief that the Feds will bail them out...
Laurel will have a lot of convincing to do in Parliament.
Posted 31 July 2020 - 03:13 PM
...Victoria seems to be hanging on to a belief that the Feds will bail them out...
Laurel will have a lot of convincing to do in Parliament.
Posted 31 July 2020 - 03:16 PM
Laurel will have a lot of convincing to do in Parliament.
The point was made on CFAX today that both Nanaimo and Vancouver have ex-MLAs as Mayors and they are cutting very quickly. They must think that with the Province in the hole $12B+ and the Feds $300B+ there is no free money coming to cities that can't even make the minimalist of efforts to try and balance their own books.
I am sure Helps doesn't care. By the time she is forced to pass the tax increases on to residents she will have left office and the pile of steaming poop will be someone else's problem to deal with.
Edited by spanky123, 31 July 2020 - 03:18 PM.
Posted 31 July 2020 - 03:19 PM
To cover the $17M, taxes would need to be increased by 15% plus whatever shortfall is anticipated next year!
So we should expect some aggressive pro-development initiatives shortly? You know, to help address the issue?
Posted 04 August 2020 - 07:31 PM
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Posted 04 August 2020 - 08:35 PM
If we don’t see a blog post from the mayor by the end of tonight, it’ll mark the longest period of time the mayor has not updated her blog in a few months, going back to at least March.
Her 12 PR staff must be on vacation.
Posted 04 August 2020 - 09:05 PM
If we don’t see a blog post from the mayor by the end of tonight, it’ll mark the longest period of time the mayor has not updated her blog in a few months, going back to at least March.
Posted 04 August 2020 - 09:08 PM
Posted 05 August 2020 - 03:50 AM
It's official, the mayor has been silent on her blog for the longest period since March 01, where the subsequent post was published on March 14th, the infamous "let's eat out" post that caught a lot of people off guard as the public began to socially isolate out of a concern for a spreading COVID.
Last week City Hall was shot up by a yet unidentified individual, after a week of serious incidents that escalated as far as parks crews requiring security to do their jobs at Beacon Hill Park. During that time the mayor also stopped utilizing her Twitter account, and it has remained offline since.
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Posted 05 August 2020 - 07:01 AM
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Posted 05 August 2020 - 08:24 AM
Posted 05 August 2020 - 08:26 AM
...to listen rather than advocate, defend or provide answers.
Her Worseship has mastered one third of this.
Posted 05 August 2020 - 12:55 PM
Her Worseship has mastered one third of this.
While living with our current leadership might cause many to need counselling, I would hope that our current leadership does not see themselves playing that role and ultimately it is absolutely up to those at that table to construct an answer, see how it works or doesn't, and revise accordingly. The answer they have provided is inadequate - its failing, and people are demanding better, so now is the time to go back to the drawing board and improve upon the solution.
Posted 05 August 2020 - 02:53 PM
Posted 05 August 2020 - 02:57 PM
Posted 05 August 2020 - 02:57 PM
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Posted 05 August 2020 - 03:03 PM
Why is the Times Colonist so reluctant to call out the behaviour/actions of Victoria's mayor and council? Is the CoV the only source of advertising revenue for the paper?
Posted 05 August 2020 - 03:06 PM
Seems odd to shut down a major communication channel over something so mundane. Just tune it out. Or was the issue that the mayor could no longer control the narrative, and it was better to kill the account than to have criticisms linger?
Has she ever heard of a blocking feature? Jeeezus.
Posted 05 August 2020 - 03:06 PM
Posted 05 August 2020 - 09:10 PM
it’s a major source. in dwindling revenues times.
Posted 05 August 2020 - 10:03 PM
Has she ever heard of a blocking feature? Jeeezus.
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