Metro Vancouver transit: Highway 1 needs trains, not lanes (www.newwestrecord.ca)
Jury awards non-binary former Albany student $317K in school discrimination lawsuit (www.statesmanjournal.com)
B.C. woman says bus driver threatened to refuse service unless she put on a jacket (bc.ctvnews.ca)
“I started to walk forward and then she’s like, ‘Hold on. You need to put something over that if you’re going to come onto my bus,’” she recalled, adding the driver accused her of not wearing a shirt. “I’m wearing a shirt, it’s called a crop top. I bought it in the shirt section of the store. I know it’s a...
Portland Bureau of Transportation apparently thinks we all speak Spanish? 🤔 (lemmy.one)
Translation site here:...
TransLink studying platform screen doors for SkyTrain stations | Urbanized (dailyhive.com)
Poll Finds Surging Conservatives and NDP in a Dead Heat (thetyee.ca)
The BC United party is in such a “precarious position” that it could cease to exist after the next provincial election, says the public opinion researcher who worked on former premier Christy Clark’s winning 2013 campaign....
Govt paying vaccine injuries (tnc.news)
If the federal government has been obligated to pay out and reimburse people who were severely injured or damaged from vaccines, why should be get any injections?...
Council slams B.C. mayor’s wife for distributing controversial book on residential schools | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
Disagreaements
Why does it seem that people actively avoid expressing disaagreements on what somone says when they are out somewhere having a conversation? Why arwe people more concerned about trying to sound nice rather than being honest? It’s not provactive or antagonizing to simply say “I can’t agree with you on that, I disagree.” I...
Banning drugs on playgrounds "unconsititutional" (tnc.news)
How is such a ruling possible?
Police believe B.C. man's 21 drunk driving convictions most in Canadian history (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
Housing advocates call for moratorium on winter decampments in Vancouver - BC | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
Eby says governments must step up on housing, can't rely on private sector (bc.ctvnews.ca)
Eby says there are proposals at the federal level to sell public land and buildings to help solve the crisis, but B.C. is doing the opposite by taking inventory of provincially and municipally owned land in order to build more homes....
22 arrested in Portland Police Bureau retail theft mission (www.koin.com)
Report: Amazon tells its employees it is monitoring badge swipes (mynorthwest.com)
Study says drug decriminalization in Oregon did not cause more overdose deaths (www.opb.org)
B.C. looks to build faster, cheaper rental homes with prefabricated units (vancouversun.com)
‘We’ll do a condo an hour,’ said Chris Naychuk of Mitsui Home Canada, a builder of prefabricated homes.
B.C. woman who deliberately damaged neighbour's trees ordered to pay $150K in compensation (bc.ctvnews.ca)
Two semi trucks crashed through the guard rail into the Columbia River a few miles west of Biggs Junction just a few hours apart from each other. They will not be removed until Monday, Aug. 28. (i.imgur.com)
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‘Train Wreck’ Feared as BC Water Use Rules Begin to Bite | The Tyee (thetyee.ca)
B.C. Interior regions brace for scorching heat this weekend (www.cbc.ca)
Environment Canada says unseasonably hot weather in British Columbia’s Okanagan, Thompson and Boundary regions will push temperatures into the mid-30s this weekend....
B.C. transportation minister vows to raise fines, recover repair costs after overpass strike (bc.ctvnews.ca)
Clearly not in it for environmental impact reasons (lemmy.world)
But you do you
In interview, Oregon lawmaker suggests non-Christians are unfit for elected office (www.opb.org)
Reschke is such a huge piece of shit… oh and he was elected fraudulently in the first place. Doesn’t deserve the title of Representative.
