Vancouver

Personally I think Vancouver's residential areas desperately need more commercial spaces to make communities more walkable. Here's your chance to have your say.

The Vancouver Aquarium was bought up by a for profit American entertainment company a few years ago. Since then there have been disagreements with the nonprofit rescue & rehab branch, with the aquarium wanting to take over some things run by the MMR (I'll find the post about it later)

Having a clear distinction between the two would be great news

'We'll do a condo an hour,' said Chris Naychuk of Mitsui Home Canada, a builder of prefabricated homes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/4273550

It's a bit overwhelming. I see a lot of documentation, but it's a lot to read through for the average user.

Should I just download the surveyor app and start fixing things? Is there another community that's updating things?

A big issue I notice is that the building lines are all janky, which makes it annoying to use.

As of Monday morning, the average price of gas in Vancouver was $2.08 per litre and expected to climb

That is all

Harrison Fleming served Alberta premier Jason Kenney by barraging critics with hard-right insults and attacks.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3972223

I come from a generally dry country and the concepts of drought & conserving the water are not new to me.

One of the things that have stunned/upset me ever since I set foot in Canada (both east & west coasts) is watching people washing their cars using a hose and tap water:

For starters, tap water is not cheap. Moreover, one definitely doesn't need sanitised water to wash their car.

But more importantly, washing cars using a hose at home is very inefficient compared to taking it to an automatic car wash: something which is programmed to make every second of operation and every litre of water count (that's how they make a margin after all.)

TBH I'm not sure about the real impact this has on our water reserves & if there have been any studies on similar water-inefficiencies but I have yet to watch/read/hear a advertisement, newspaper column or radio talk on this topic: these dry seasons take extra measures as, IMHO, they're going to stay w/ us for the foreseeable future.

Am I being too sensitive about water shortage b/c of my background? What are your thoughts?

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