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Apr 7 6 tweets 3 min read
#BESTSMALLTOWNBC

SWEET SIXTEEN

INTERIOR AND THE NORTH

LET'S BRACKET

cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
Me: I'm not gonna profile Nelson yet because I think they're the favourites to win it all, so I've got time to tell their story

Kimberley: and i took that personally
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Revelstoke-Osoyoos, Nelson-Kimberley and Queen Charlotte-Smithers are insanely tight at the moment
In the last two hours, Osoyoos has gotten 70% of the vote, and now leads Revelstoke.

Our auditors are vigilant, but this appears to be a fully legitimate FB campaign within the town, and not the shadow IP campaign for Sun Peaks.

The giant cherries could knock the bear out!
for the last month i've been like "yep, it's definitely nelson vs. revelstoke for the interior final" and we are one hour away from CHAOS
(a quirk about this bracket that will interest me and like 13 other people is that we're getting like 200% more votes than any other bracket, but because it's on the cbc website and focused outside metro van most of the engagement is playing out on facebook instead of twitter)

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More from @j_mcelroy

Apr 8
who is ready for some charts
Levels of #COVID19 in wastewater transmission rose in four of Metro Vancouver's five treatment plants over the last week, continuing a trend we've seen the latter half of March.

Levels for now between 72 and 90% lower than what they were during the Omicron peak in January. Image
We can see a clear increase in the rise of hospitalizations now, though the we have not reached the point where ICU cases increase — though that is likely coming Image
Read 9 tweets
Apr 6
folks seem to be pretty upset about this photo because there's lots of incentives to make people angry at the media in 2022, but this is sort of the rudimentary building block for television that is done hundreds of times every day across this continent
Here's finance minister Jim Flaherty in 2013, doing the shoe thing for a budget preview.

Look at all those reporters! Why were they there, and couldn't they spend time doing something else? Image
Here is the budget shoe story I did in 2017 with B.C. finance minister Mike de Jong.

You can see a bunch of cameras.

As I recall, the event was at a store a 15 minute walk from the office.

It took 30 minutes.

Then I went back and kept working.

cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
Read 5 tweets
Apr 6
Here's my feature on small communities with big population growth, and the worries when the taco shop and craft brewery come to town

cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
The small towns with big population growth in B.C.. since 2016 tend to share a few characteristics, including access to nature and/or decent proximity to Vancouver or Victoria.

But they've also seen big increases in property values. ImageImage
We've been doing these short stories about small towns in each of the votes through this competition, but I'm glad I was able to spend more time on this one — these regional trends across multiple cities take time to report on, but are important to do
Read 5 tweets
Mar 27
google is so committed to privacy that they blurred the face of the sasquatch sitting at the harrison hot springs welcome sign
thinking about this more

is google being respectful of the sasquatch's privacy

or this is another BIGFOOT COVER UP BY BIG TECH
i've done some deep investigative journalism and the evidence is clear: google has engaged in a years long campaign to obscure the fact a sasquatch lives in harrison hot springs
Read 5 tweets
Mar 26
So, where are we at for #COVID19 transmission in British Columbia now?

It seems pretty clear that the downward trend stopped earlier this month.

What's less clear is how whether we're decisively going up yet, and if so, at what speed.

Here's our main chart once again.
After 43 straight days of declines, hospitalizations have gone up two of the last three days.

Not by a lot mind you, but enough to add to the pile of evidence that the sharp downward curve is over.
What about wastewater?

We have data up to this Monday for Metro Vancouver, and the rolling average is inching downwards in two plans, and upward in three.

Overall, transmission is down between 86 and 91% from the peak in all five stations, which is pretty consistent.
Read 10 tweets
Mar 25
In 1991, Metro Vancouver's population was 1.6 million people.

There were 118,749 primary rental units in the region.

In 2021, Metro Vancouver's reached 2.6 million people.

There were 117,168 rental units.

A million more people in 20 years, and rental supply decreased.
During the last 20 years, the median rent for Metro Vancouver primary rental units went from $600 a month to $1,475 a month.

Which works out to an extra $10,500 a year.
Today, there are 68,333 rental units in Metro Vancouver that were built between 1960 and 1979.

There are 11,850 built between 1980 and 1999, and 19,765 built after 2000.
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