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I am starting the process to immigrate to Canada from the US. Maybe unsurprisingly I find I have no ideas where I would like to live. I do enjoy mountains, and don't want to be in the heart of a city.
  • If you want mountains, you're kinda limited. Vancouver, BC, has great mountains, ocean, and forest access, but COL is pretty high for Canada compared to almost anywhere in the world. Calgary, AB is the closest city to the Canadian Rockies, but is in the middle of nowhere elsewise.

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  • U.S. searches for ‘how to move to Canada’ soar after election
  • I'm from BC and my experience is the same. I will say however I have stayed in hotels and Airbnb's with thermostats/hot tubs set in F. So whether or not that was deliberate, it's a simple setting to change. You could easily get by with F for all your personal temperature needs, just not talking to others about the weather.

  • Larger Provincial Distribution Centre Will Support BC Transit Bus Fleet
  • The title and article don't seem to have anything to do with each other. I'd assume this means they're putting doors on the left side of all the buses exclusively for drivers, but the article sounds more like they're putting doors on a warehouse to drive buses through.

  • Woman who died in bakery oven at Halifax Walmart found by her mother, organization says | Globalnews.ca
  • I haven't worked in many places with a walk in freezer, but the several I have all had alarms in them. Not automatic, but if the door was stuck there was a big red button next to it that would set off a siren and flashing light outside.

  • Save our public transit systems before they go down
  • Yeah, these crown-corp/government owned corp systems are run like a for profit business because they aren't funded enough to run like a true public service. On the flip side this is exactly why governments do it, they can say, "hey we gave them $x. It's their problem if they can't make it work, not ours."

  • Just 20 votes in this riding separate NDP, Conservatives in B.C.
  • This is such a weird riding. You can't get from the Western Communities/CRD side to the South Cowichan/CVRD side without passing through a different riding. The new boundaries across the Island are all kinda weird. Another good example is Ladysmith Oceanside, another one you can't get from one end to the other without passing through 2 different ridings.

  • CRTC wants telcos to make roaming rates more affordable
  • This is a good thing, but why aren't people giving the "discount" brands a shot? I use Public Mobile (it's been fully owned by Telus for years) and I have 50gb that also works in the US for under 40 bucks/month. I can't think of any reason people should be willingly giving these companies twice as much money for less service.

  • The Devastating Attack on Safe Consumption Sites – The Rover
  • Isn't there a huge difference between safe supply and safe consumption sites? I agree with safe consumption sites if it keeps people from dying on the streets, but if the safe supply is allowed to leave the site it's not really solving any of the problems.

  • They owned their cars for years. Now Ontario police say they're stolen property
  • Maria Cruciano and her husband Jim White bought a 1957 Chevrolet from Robert Bradshaw in February 2023. After storing it and making repairs over the winter, they went to register the car in early June, only to discover it was now listed as belonging to Grogan Classics.

    White called Grogan, who explained that there had been an error. Grogan offered to sign over the ownership slip and courier it to Bradshaw. White picked it up the next day and registered the car in his name. (Cruciano and White provided CBC News with a copy of the signed slip and phone records documenting the call to Grogan's dealership.)

    Yet the Chevy was still declared stolen six months later. The OPP seized and returned the car to Grogan in July.

    "[Grogan] absolutely knew our car had been sold," said Cruciano. "We spoke with him. He signed the ownership. He couriered it to Bradshaw.

    "And you know what the man didn't say to us? 'Holy hell, that car was stolen! That guy can't sell my car!'"

    This is insane. How is it not fraud to report a car as stolen after signing the documents personally?

  • Greens reject acrimony, setting them apart from other B.C. parties: Furstenau
  • I think they'll have a hard time with her new riding as well as the new candidate for her old riding. I think a not insignificant portion of Green voters in Cowichan voted for her personally, because of how she fought for the Valley as Shawnigan's director, and not for the party.

  • Hullo ferry workers in B.C. vote to unionize

    Nearly 80 Hullo ferry employees have voted to unionize, according to the B.C. Ferry and Marine Workers' Union.

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    2,600 new homes to be sold at 60% market value in Vancouver
  • It sounds more like a "whichever comes first, which I'd argue makes a lot more sense. The mortgage on the 60% would be paid off by 25 years and if you sell early you'd basically use any appreciation/the full value to pay back the 40%. In your scenario you could just immediately sell it and pocket the 40% for the next 24 years.

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