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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 12h

Half of Victoria comes from elsewhere it seems, so not shocking

Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 1d

OMG this article is bad. Quotes a single person who says "Yep, Canada Post can be replaced by email". How about actually talking to people for whom mail is still an essential service @thetyee.ca ?

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 3d

Is Canada Post doomed, a victim of tech changes and competition that made daily mail delivery irrelevant?

Or has the 174-year-old institution been strangled by government policies that limited its chance to compete?

@isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. #canlab

Has Time Run Out for Canada Post? | The Tyee

Inside the debate over the Crown corporation’s future as unions and management battle.

thetyee.ca

Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 3d

Whose beer is that? Always on the lookup for new NA options

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 3d

Not to mention how that massive loan slows down life after school (because you cannot save money), even damages relationships

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Lauren Vanderdeen @lauvande.bsky.social · 3d

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 6d

I live in a place that's basically killed AirBNB. Hotels are jointer construction again & rents are coming down

Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 6d

Cool. Tell me how to do that when airbnb bros are busy taking up needed housing stock & making new hotels impossible to build. Regulations aren't all bad

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 6d

There's a very real risk that the drive for housing deregulation will lead to some bad results & massive political backlash against them

Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, but we have to manage the scarcity too. Regs here are a good thing (and without them, you don't get lots of hotels)

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 6d

Much the same applies to Uber et al - this is just capitalists ignoring labour rules, exploiting people & making cities worse. There's a reason all these things have been heavily regulated

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 6d

Ya, all this. F* AirBNB and fellow platforms and those people that used the loophole in regs to get rich at the expense of people who actual live there (and also made building new hotels uneconomic)

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 8d

Interesting divergence. Wonder how much of that is due to Victoria's better network of bike infra

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Brian Fung @brianfung.me · 9d

When people warn about the privacy and security risks of mandating digital age verification, this is exactly what they mean. It’s not hypothetical www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC article text: “Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack.
The platform, which has more than 200 million users worldwide, says hackers had targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users but the Discord platform itself was not breached.
People can provide ID photos to verify their age on Discord - a networking hub for players to chat and share files with others in the gaming community.
The leaked data may involve personal information, partial credit card details and messages that were exchanged with Discord's customer service agents, the San-Francisco-based company says.”

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 10d

Then use the cost threshold. The point is to keep money from distorting politics

Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 10d

Nah, I'm ok with this. Not everybody has property with this kind of visibility. The easy way to fix is to set a price or a size cap - make it $50 and under you're allowed.

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 10d

This is a staggering read and the parallels to Rob Ford are obvious (I'd actually argue Ford was a more successful mayor, and certainly more popular)

Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 11d

NEW: I teamed up with @castanetkamloops.net to write this long in-depth account of Reid Hamer-Jackson's three years as mayor of Kamloops. I also talked to the unrepentant mayor for two hours.

thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Mayor of Chaos: How Kamloops Politics Became Infamous | The Tyee

Car dealer Reid Hamer-Jackson won office with charisma and ideas. Then the wheels came off.

thetyee.ca

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 11d

I should also mention that I lead an org through a merger & a rebrand. Happy to chat offline about how we handled it

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 12d

Indeed. Random order is 100% the way here (surveys are my day job)

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 12d

Here's Hansard's draft transcript of the exchange
www.leg.bc.ca/hansard-cont...

Dallas Brodie: I have a point of order to raise.

I’m looking at section 40(2) and 40(3) of the standing orders. The first one is: “Disrespectful or offensive language forbidden.” That’s sub 2. “Irrelevance in debate.” That’s sub 3.

Sub 2 says: “No member shall use offensive words against any member of this House.” The Premier has repeatedly referred to me as being racist, denialist and hateful. Am I now allowed to use words like “stupid,” “incompetent,” “financially illiterate” and “anarchist”? How far does this go?

The second one is: “No member shall be irrelevant in debate.” He takes shots at me sideways whenever he can, and I’m not accepting it anymore. It’s unacceptable language in this House. I could call him lots of names — believe me — but I’m not taking this anymore.

Raising questions about public expenditures of money in this province is not against the rules. Anybody who takes public money is open to questioning, and you shouldn’t be questioned about whether you’re racist. If you want no questions, don’t take public money.

I would like a declaration from the Speaker about whether people can call each other names in this House anymore.

Hon. David Eby: I feel like I should be paying the member rent for the amount of space I’m occupying in her head.

Interjection.

The Speaker: Shhh. Please.

Hon. David Eby: In my answer, I was specifically referring to the staff member that was hired by the Leader of the Opposition who was fired recently for being a racist residential school denialist — properly fired, by the way. I congratulate him for taking that appropriate stand. A little late, but he did take it. I support it. You wouldn’t find me hiring people like that.

If the member thought I was talking about her, perhaps that’s her issue.

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 13d

Cleaning survey comments is a bit similar, usually not as bad however. I feel for those who have to deal with this daily

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 13d

Shelbourne was another missed opportunity too

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🌈 (andy) @andrw.bsky.social · 14d

open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight

“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

open.substack.com

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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 16d

This makes me feel crazy. Being aware of the speed limit is like step 1 for driving! "Stealing is illegal, sure, but how are people supposed to know which stores they can steal from without getting caught if the camera ones don't have giant 'NO STEALING' signs??"

www.thestar.com/news/gta/20-...

Chow is pushing for larger signage and changing Toronto’s program so that once a driver is fined for speeding the first time, they cannot be fined again for seven days. It gives drivers an opportunity to receive their fine in the mail and become aware of the camera’s location.

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Corey Burger @burgundavia.bsky.social · 15d

Imagine failing to understand your mission this badly. Seriously, coding a social media site is trivial. Moderating is not & here's hoping they don't keep failing here

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 16d

We’re system architects at core. We built a decentralized network so you could run your own moderation, but beyond that our upcoming healthy discourse project is taking some swings at the interaction model that drives these dynamics on Bluesky. Excited to start seeing it in action.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 16d

I get a lot of stuff wrong but my early call on all of this was that it's simply wrong to engage in this as an argument over congestion policy. I said on the podcast that it is, instead, an argument over who has the right to public space — and the Premier has decided the allocation.

Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 16d

I don't want to shock anyone, but I don't think that removing the bike lanes is going to improve congestion. The provincial government is putting people at risk for a few parking spots in midtown Toronto.

The documents also indicate that the government may reinstate on-street parking on Yonge Street, in the 400-metre section where the bike lane would be removed.

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