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[Victoria Watcher]

Like in London with the ULEZ.

Take your older car out of the driveway and cameras detect it and ding you 15 quid.

EDIT: 12.50 and they give you grace on Christmas Day only.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 November 2023 - 11:24 AM.

[Mike K.]

You serious?

[Victoria Watcher]

Yup.

[Victoria Watcher]

You serious?

What happens if I drive my car more than once a day – do I pay each time?

No. One payment covers all driving within the 24-hour period, from midnight to midnight, regardless of whether you make one trip or 50.

https://www.standard...on-b942211.html

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 November 2023 - 11:19 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Ulez ‘Blade Runner’ vigilante: I’ve destroyed 150 cameras and won’t stop until expansion is scrapped

TfL says first £180 fines have been sent to drivers who failed to pay mayor’s £12.50 levy

https://www.standard...n-b1111265.html

The Met police announced earlier this week that it had recorded 795 crimes relating to Ulez cameras between April 1 and September 30.

This includes 200 reports of cameras being stolen and 595 cameras being damaged. The total number of cameras damaged or stolen is likely to be higher as a recorded crime can include multiple offences.

The Met insists that it treats Ulez vandalism serviously and had “deployed considerable resources” to hunting down culprits.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 November 2023 - 11:23 AM.

[Mike K.]

Ok, so the protests in Edmonton are not without precedent if there are hints of something like that being constructed. As soon as the cameras are up, they can be used for a wide range of things.

[dasmo]

See the Great Memo.... Pg 127

 

"Now that information and communication technologies permeate almost every aspect of our lives and forms of social participation, any digital experience that we have can be turned into a “product” destined to monitor and anticipate our behaviour. The risk of possible dystopia stems from this observation. Over the past few years, it has nourished countless works of arts, ranging from novels like The Handmaid’s Tale to the TV series “Black Mirror”. In academia, it finds its expression in the research undertaken by scholars like Shoshana Zuboff. Her book Surveillance Capitalism warns about customers being reinvented as data sources, with “surveillance capitalism” transforming our economy, politics, society and our own lives by producing deeply anti-democratic asymmetries of knowledge and the power that accrues to knowledge.."

 

"the pandemic will mark an important watershed in the history of surveillance.[127] The argument put forward by those who above all fear the grip of technology on personal freedom is plain and simple: in the name of public health, some elements of personal privacy will be abandoned for the benefit of containing an epidemic, just as the terrorist attacks of 9/11 triggered greater and permanent security in the name of protecting public safety. Then, without realizing it, we will fall 128 victims of new surveillance powers that will never recede and that could be repurposed as a political means for more sinister ends."

 

"What Morozov perceives as the greatest and ultimate danger to our political systems and liberties is that the “successful” example of tech in monitoring and containing the pandemic will then “entrench the solutionist toolkit as the default option for addressing all other existential problems – from inequality to climate change. After all, it is much easier to deploy solutionist tech to influence individual behaviour than it is to ask difficult political questions about the root causes of these crises”."

 

COVID-19:
THE GREAT RESET
KLAUS SCHWAB
THIERRY MALLERET

[dasmo]

Not so unhinged that people might draw conclusions.... 

[aastra]

 

Edmonton also has the kind of weather nearly half the year that makes even 15 minutes outside seem like torture.

 

In an ideal world the real world would have no bearing on the government's plans and programs. Methinks if we continue to scold winter harshly enough it will eventually wise up and start behaving the way we tell it to behave.

[Nparker]

...if we continue to scold winter harshly enough it will eventually wise up and start behaving the way we tell it to behave

If we believe the climate terrorists...err...I mean theorists, winter will very soon be a thing of the past anyway. Problem solved.

[Mike K.]

Here’s the first phase roll out.

Can anyone help me out with a transit exchange in View Royal? Only one that comes to mind is at VGH.

North Saanich exchange at McTavish was left out. Odd.

[Victoria Watcher]

I think McTavish is surrounded by ALR land.

[Mike K.]

Is that indeed the case?

[Nparker]

Ahh more selective legislation. Either one set of regulations for the entire province or none at all.

[dasmo]

Orders in council are not legislation.... 

 

"A federal order-in-council is a statutory instrument by which the governor general (the executive power of the governor-in-council), acting on the advice and consent of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, expresses a decision. In practice, orders-in-council are drafted by Cabinet and formally approved by the governor general."

"Provincial orders-in-council - orders of the lieutenant-governor-in-councils - are similar to federal orders-in council. At a provincial level, the lieutenant-governor possesses all the formal, prerogative and discretionary powers exercised by the monarch or the governor general. These include the duty to assent to (or withhold assent from) provincial legislation and orders-in-council."

 

This is how legislation is made....

https://www.leg.bc.c...glish-print.pdf