Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 11hMy guess — he is taking the escalator down because he should be moving towards the camera, and filming from below shows him from a more flattering vantage point. 010
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 11hNow I ponder if there is something to ladders beyond my understanding. 000
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I am guessing it is some form of: privatize the profits, socialize the loss. 040
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 13/10/2026There is no comma after Tuesday, meaning that the first subject of the sentence is "Tuesday me". That's how I read it. 000
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 12/10/2026A weak mayor can only delivery on a policy agenda when heading a party that gets a majority on the council, as Ken Sim has done. And even then, it can be tough. Pete Fry is acting appropriately for someone running to head a divided council. 040
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 12/10/2026There are big differences on other issues. The NDP did fund transit, got homes built, and kept DRIPA. 000
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I voted strategically for the NDP last election, but this time the Conservatives are only a danger Eby himself has inflicted on us. I do not feel I can avert the threat by voting for the cause of it. 210
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I don't follow Conservatives' messaging, but they must be incredible communicators to talk about disrespecting millionaires and billionaires and not get laughed out of the room. 210
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Annoucing the cap in front of Jim Pattison's Save-on-Foods sounds like the appropriate choice, to me. What issue do you see with it? 100
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 06/10/2026#16 IKEA: - small stores: 0/10 - anchor tenants: 10/10 - food court: 10/10 - design/accessibility: 7/10 - x-factor: 8/10 OVERALL: 35 040
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Even if we had high-speed rail already, Carney would have privatized it. 000
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Also just saved $300 by buying WestJet tickets through a flight booking site. 010
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Did he approach a stone that seemed a sure easy shot, then look thoughtful and take a pass? 020
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is a better direction, but I wonder if he risks losing his own seat. 000
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just to keep a clear head about the value of those contributions. Besides, look at specific cases, like the RCH extension that has Pattison's name all over it. How much did he contribute? — $30 million. To a $2 billion project. Safe to say, it would have gone ahead with him or without. 100
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Remember, these donations are tax write-offs, so we the taxpayers are still shouldering much of the cost, even though we have no say over how it is allocated. 210
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 04/10/2026People use the self-checkout machines because they are convenient. Why should they be cheaper? 000
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I am amazed at how the Greens were able to find 71 new candidates in a week. 0130
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 03/10/2026> regulating the allowable markup by larger grocery stores on milk, eggs, butter, cheese, chicken and turkeys. Apparently, vegans are not his target demographic, either. 280
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...thetyee.caKitimat LNG Plant Asks for Massive Flaring Permit Increase | The TyeeRacked by technical problems, LNG Canada has applied to be allowed to flare far more gas into Kitimat’s airshed. 110
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It would be good for TransLink to run get out the vote ads on all the buses and trains. Party-neutral, just to increase voter turnout among transit riders. 030
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Eby making sure everyone understands he does not NEED that ladder. 030
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"I didn't say we weren't fun, but fun or not, pirates are still the baddies." (Mitchell and Webb) 000
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Gas is a lower emitter. However: "Drilling, moving, cooling and shipping gas from one country to another uses so much energy that the actual final burning of gas in people’s homes and businesses only accounts for about a third of the total emissions from this process, the research finds." 111
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026One problem with that ambition is that gas is worse than coal, when shipped as LNG. We are not helping to reduce anything www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...theguardian.comExported gas produces far worse emissions than coal, major study findsResearch challenges idea that sending liquefied natural gas around the world is cleaner alternative to burning coal 2111
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It is mostly due to refining costs. BC has very little refining capacity, relative to its size. Also, BC has just sold its largest refinery to the US, last year. 100
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is just moving the gas tax to our income taxes. Why not give the BC Utilities Commission the power to stop Big Oil from gouging us at the pump, without further ballooning the budget deficit? 030
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It was a rhetorical question. To put it plainly: if NDP could enforce price guards then it would have done it half a year ago, and no tax cut would have been necessary. It can't. 120
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If price guards are an option, why is the tax cut even needed? Why did the NDP not put them in place six months ago, when the war began and the prices started rising? 150
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is less standing up and more propping up Big Oil with taxpayer money, when the province's budget is already in dire straits. It is part of a trend, as just earlier this year NDP has lowered the EV mandate. 000
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is not what Carney ran on. We did not vote for this. 110
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Alexa Loo: "BC has… fewer jail cells per capita than Hong Kong does!" — what a baseline. Do we need to have more jail cells per capita than a region under an authoritarian regime? Wikipedia: "Hong Kong has one of the highest rates of imprisonment in the region at around 163 per 100,000." 010
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Is it true that LNG Canada Phase 2 expansion is expected to generate only 240 permanent jobs? 002
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We urgently need a unified registration system. Having each family get onto a dozen waiting lists, like now, is crazy and not good for anyone. 000
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What is this about? Provincial government not needing anyone's permission sounds like something Danielle Smith might say. 010
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I thought the idea just recently was to reduce interprovincial barriers... 000
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My opinion is based on this graph: bsky.app/profile/tyol... 110
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Could you point me to a list of these projects? I have not been able to find it. 100
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Suzuki is talking about a different kind of east-west grid. He is asking to connect the provinces. Let Alberta use BC hydro for base load capacity, instead of gas. Get Saskatchewan off coal and gas, as well. davidsuzuki.org/action/build-canada… 110
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026OK, but this does not say anything about an east-west grid. The North Coast Transmission Line is one of these national energy grid projects — the federal government is contributing 3.9 billion towards it. 100
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I see Carney having given up on reaching even the unambitious* $170/tonne tax on carbon by 2030. David Suzuki is still sending me petitions for the East-West grid — no sign of it being build. * www.nationalobserver.com/2021/10/01/a... 230
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026To be fair, building more and lowering home prices are promises NDP has actually made good on. 130
Don Reba @thedonreba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We have already gone through a wishful thinking stage with the TMP extension. Seth talks about the specific ways, in which Carney has been claiming he "wouldn't sugarcoat tough messages" and then doing exactly that. Even if vindicated in time, it does not change that it is a kind of denialism now. 170
