1. In 2019, @BowinnMa rose in the legislature to give a lesson on induced demand. Widening highways, she said, does not solve congestion problems. 2. In 2020, John Horgan told Ma: Widen Highway 1 to Abbotsford!
So we asked her about that: bit.ly/2Punelu @currentfv
5. I'm not sure a satisfactory answer is possible on an issue that is stacked politically in a certain direction, as Highway 1 in the Fraser Valley is. It's to have politicians willing to engage in these discussions.
6. One problem is that genuine non-highway solutions are either incredibly expensive (as, granted, is the highway solution), or just a huge ton of buses on lanes on.... Highway 1.
*It's *nice* to have....
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1. Was reminded of this, and I can talk about this now, so a short thread on why media monopolies are bad, a shortage of journalists is problematic, and why Twitter can be good.
*This is about structures, not people. One episode
of journalism says nothing about individuals.
2. @robyndoolittle's great 2017 unfounded series prompted Statistics Canada to begin reporting data on the rates at which sex assault complaints (and other crimes) were deemed "unfounded" by police departments. Those statistics began to be included in annual crime stats releases.
3. They show the rate at which a police department deems a report of sex assault to be "unfounded." They vary incredibly from one region to the other, suggesting one's likelihood of being believed is highly dependent on the police officer, and the agency they belong to.
1. Let's look for a quick second at how decreasing "normal COVID" cases can obscure how much of a problem contagious variants can be until it's too late.
This is a thought exercise to illustrate the numerical illusion. Don't take specific numbers too seriously.
2. Let's give, for the purpose only of this exercise, the variants a weekly new-case increase of 50% and "normal COVID" a weekly case decrease of 5%.
Again, these are chosen just to illustrate the concept.
Anyways, we start and new case numbers look to get better for weeeeks.
3. (The numbers are conceived of as daily new cases, FWIW) Anyways, look how small that green chunk is! The number of total cases keeps going down. Things seem under control. They are not at all.
'Italian virologist Andrea Crisanti said 'the risk of spreading the virus rises sharply," citing a recent study which found "if there is one positive case in a choir they can infect 50.“'
Just talked to Abbotsford-area Liberal MP Jati Sidhu: He said @Puglaas is not "a team player," speculated whether her father or somebody else was "pulling the strings."
He said: "The way she's acting, I think she couldn't handle the stress." #SNCLavalin#cdnpoli
I asked whether those suggestions took agency away from the person the PM had appointed as A-G.
Sidhu said: "I think these are sour grapes."
He said the discussions she outlined were "normal" and didn't amount to political interference.
Sidhu said he would have resigned if he felt unsettled in such a situation.
"If there's interference, I would be concerned, but there's no interference."
Sidhu's race in 2015 was the last in the country to be called. He will be in tough to retain the seat this fall.
THREAD: We need to talk about the BC electoral riding of Abbotsford South. You may know this as a safe BC Liberal seat that has also been, for the last 7 years, an ongoing nightmare for the BC Liberal Party, and which has played a huge part in BC politics since 2012. 1/x
The riding had been represented by John van Dongen for years. But in 2012, van Dongen - who had served in cabinet for years - left the party and became the BC Conservatives first MLA. This was a Big Thing. abbynews.com/news/john-van-…
3/x Van Dongen was mad about several things, was an opponent of Christy Clark, and thought the BC Rail stuff was shady. He later left the Conservatives in 2012 to sit as an independent.