Many thanks for your contributions to my platform! Over the last year, I’ve basically co-developed it with input and feedback from Victorians – in my open-to-the-public coffee chats (over 45 …
[ez-toc]Welcome to my blog! I’m clear and transparent about my thoughts on municipal and regional issues, and I have posts on a range of topics. You can search for topics …
Property owners will have seen this year’s tax bills. And of course renters pay property taxes through their rent. And everyone may have seen some misinformation circulating about Victoria’s 2025 …
Many thanks to the Vancouver Sun for publishing my op-ed (image above). You can read it here at the Vancouver Sun website, where it displays well. If you can’t see …
The Galloping Goose and Lochside are getting wider! Bike-and-roll routes are getting more use, including the Galloping Goose and Lochside Regional Trail. People on foot, people using mobility aids, e-bikes, …
This week, Councillors Caradonna, Dell, and I will bring a motion that would be the first step toward requiring landlords to allow and/or provide cooling in Victoria’s rental buildings. In …
Local social media (you shouldn’t pay too much attention to social media) sometimes suggests that an overwhelmingly large proportion of BC’s unregulated drug deaths take place in Greater Victoria. The …
[Let the coffee chat come to you! In addition to the coffee chats I schedule around town, I also attend apartment / condo building chats. I went to a gathering …
Above is a significant gap in our protected bike-and-roll mobility network – Pandora east of Cook to Fort Junction. (Blue is the protected network and orange is paint, and paint …
Update (Feb 27, 2026) The trend line note in this post (below) hasn’t improved. The CRD’s latest regional growth indicators report came to our Planning and Protective Services Committee this …