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28 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
So apparently the carcass of this forest god is worth $30,000, which makes as much sense as valuing your children by their weight as hamburger mince
BC govt says it was killed last year between March and Aug 2020...ie: one month before laws to prevent the felling of super-large trees came into effect. So it was legal, if you think that matters vancouverisawesome.com/video/old-grow… via @viawesome
Priceless? Nope. Price of a Honda Civic, they reckon
“How much do you love your grandparents?”
“Dunno, what’s the price of fertilizer these days?”

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28 May
These are the max diameters of trees that are STILL ALLOWED TO BE KILLED under the BC govt's law that is meant to protect especially large trees.

Sitka spruce (yellow): 2.83m
Coastal red cedar (red): 3.85m

(assumes logging truck width 2.6m) Image
Diameters are including bark, measured at "breast height", ie: 1.3m off the ground. BC govt says this tree, a spruce, "might" have been saved under the new laws. Others (incl me) are not sure. Look at that yellow circle. Image
And just because, here are the supposed maximum growth potentials of these two species which was used to devise the big-tree law...again, Sitka spruce (5.6m) in yellow, and coastal red cedar in red (7.7m). Hard to even conceive that trees this big ever existed Image
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27 May
It began as an internet beef. The women used a variety of insults on Chinese forums: donkey, dog, 'most famous cheap woman of Shanghai', ‘old aunt selling bus tickets’. On Tues, it spilled into real life, when Jin Lu was stabbed in a Vancouver courtroom... scmp.com/news/china/dip…
Lu's online rival Catherine Qinqin Shen has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault. It's a wild tale, first told by @proctor_jason of @cbcnewsbc (hat tip). No way was I not picking this one up.
(and while on the subject: reporters should be as free and frequent with hat tips, online and in their content, as their employer allows, IMO. @proctor_jason did the heavy lifting on this...he reported on the original case last year. So yeah. No harm acknowledging a good pickup)
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21 May
Yesterday, Dr Bonnie Henry phoned me for a long talk abt my reporting, outbreak protocols...and a document I had obtained revealing a deadly Covid-19 outbreak that WAS NOT PUBLICLY DISCLOSED. Day ended with Dr H scooping me at her press conf. A THREAD... scmp.com/news/china/dip…
DBH told yesterday's presser that undisclosed outbreaks were added to tally. What she didn't say: this happened only after I told health authorities I'd obtained documentation of undisclosed cases at the Terraces on Seventh: 10 residents infected, 1 dead (later updated as 2 dead)
What shocked me most was this: the VCH document I showed DBH suggested the Terraces infections were NOT considered an outbreak. Instead the document listed the fancy retirement high-rise in Sth Granville as being only under "enhanced surveillance". What??
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13 May
A thread. For 4 months I’ve been investigating Covid-19 disasters in Vancouver care homes. The story drops now: Documents obtained via FOI reveal dozens of Vancouver care homes deliberately DID NOT DECLARE OUTBREAKS when a worker first tested positive 2/ scmp.com/news/china/dip…
In many cases, the outcomes under this new strategy known as "enhanced surveillance" or "enhanced monitoring" were horrendous. The FOI docs show that 42 homes failed to stop the virus spreading. More than 1,000 people became infected in these outbreaks. And 192 residents died 3/
The obscure strategy was introduced on Nov 9. Implementation varied, but Vancouver Coastal Health told homes if one worker tested +ve without "high-risk" exposure, visits, group activities, group meals, admission, transfers could continue. Mass testing? Not required (policy here)
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16 Feb
So, regarding Kevin Falcon and his probably run for BC Lib leadership. Falcon was instrumental in creating BC Panda Bonds, joined by HSBC on trip to China to pitch the idea of the yuan-denominated bonds. He left govt in 2013 to join the #VanRe industry as VP of Anthem Capital
At the time, Anthem CEO Eric Carlson said Falcon’s duties were to “assist in raising [money] from institutional and individual investors.” HSBC would go on to be the joint lead underwriter of BC panda bond, along with Bank of China
The BC Lib govt would go on to pitch the province to China (and elsewhere in Asia) as an investment destination on the unusual basis of the strength of its real estate price growth. These slides are from the province's 2016 pitch to Asian investors
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7 Jan
1. The disaster at Vancouver's Little Mountain Place care home - 41 elders dead, 87% infected - is stunning. How did it occur? A leaked briefing by VCH investigator says infected staff tried to "push through" symptoms & kept going to work. Result? Tragedy scmp.com/news/china/art…
2. Pre-outbreak covid detection system at LMH (and across BC homes) is based on "active self-monitoring" by staff, instead of having them tested. It failed. Multiple infected carers infected numerous frail residents, other staff, said VCH officer Dr Andrew Hurlburt in Dec 29 call Image
3. As staff started going down, it created roster shortages, and a deadly snowball effect. Other staff fell prey to the phenomenon of "presenteeism" - they downplayed their own symptoms because they felt compelled to make up for the shortages. All told, 70 staff would be infected
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