So... Fontaine's motion wants to eliminate "unnecessary train whistles". Well, it turns out that whistles by trains as they go across level crossings are necessary and required for safety. The city could do nothing and still adhere to Fontaine's motion.

Daniel Fontaine wants to write a letter to the Federal Minister of Transportation to speed up whistle cessation in #NewWest. City staff clarifies that the Federal Minister of Transportation has nothing to do with whistle cessation. Daniel Fontaine is way out of his element here.

Sounds like Larry Church maybe needs to go home and relax a bit.

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Cheers mates, for a glorious Wednesday

30 years ago today, #StarTrek was introduced to an absolute legend when Chain of Command, Part 1 first aired during TNG's 6th season. In addition to the regular lineup today, I'll be dusting off some classics to celebrate #CaptainJellicoDay

The student food bank at UniversityOfVictoria is facing a $200,000 deficit due to massively increased demans. Campus student unions are asking uni administration to help cover $150,000 and provide fundraising supports. That hasn't happened yet, UVSS reps said. #yyj capitaldaily.ca/news/unprecede…

Yesterday a senior living in #NewWest was manipulated by fraudsters into handing over several thousand dollars in cash. The fraudsters used techniques that encouraged the victim to share information that was later used to manipulate her. nwpolice.org/blog/2022/12/1… 1/5

Drives me crazy that people are still pining away for some magic blue-light arc-reacor sci-fi energy source to save us when solar and wind are out there doing it, as we speak.

What We Do In The Shadows has a character who is an "Energy Vampire" that just sucks other normal people's energy by engaging others in the most soul-draining ways. And it doesn't take long before you see the energy vampires in one's own midst and they're *everywhere*

you can’t be the most wealthy and the most generous.

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He (and all ultra-rich people) should be forced to plug millions into measures that will help everybody through greatly increased taxation. Billionaires should be nonexistent, not fawned over.

This tweet ages like a fine wine literally every single day

If you follow me here and you'd like to follow me on Mastodon, I'm @[email protected]. I'm not going away from here (yet) but am gradually looking and writing over there more.

Car culture: pedestrians should stay off the 100s of kilometers of road in Richmond that don’t have sidewalks. Also car culture:

Just a tip: saying “you can find me on mastodon with the same username” is almost like saying “you can find me on email with the same username”. You kind of need to tell people the mastodon instance you’re on too.

Elon is taking Twitter policy advice from a dude who was banned from Magic: The Gathering events for harassing women and pissed on his own floor during a live stream because he was mad his wife got pizza without him

As we see an elected councillor wear the thin blue line, a reminder that we are not entitled to redefine symbols or rewrite history as individuals. Symbols have collective meaning, and that collective meaning causes harm to Black people. Mayor Ken Sim please talk to him.