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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Maybe bots (AIs) and/or automatic formulas are doing the buying decisions: they want x% in US bonds. If value of US bonds declines relative to all other investments, they buy more. Someone needs to re-think investment strategy at these organizations. I’m not sure I’d be long on US bonds RN.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Would be like my diploma for a B.A (Hons) in History from the university of British Columbia?

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

😂😂 - the comments are great

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Sad. Bike lanes are part of what makes Montreal so awesome.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Looking forward to judging the best new ideas for transit funding: Come watch!

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

But I see new typical family homes in the Vancouver and Toronto markets are still subject to the GST. It’s hard (impossible?) to add new 3 bedroom homes of any type (high rise condo or ground) for less than $1M, even if the developer makes $0 profit.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Didn’t he really just impose additional taxes on Americans because he doesn’t like an ad? Punishes Americans because Ontario premier Doug Ford ran an ad about Reagan in red states?

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Search for information Including the source. For example, “find me th statistics Canada table with labour force survey data by metropolitan area. “ I don’t trust it to necessarily tell me the numbers, as it can hallucinate. But it is really fast for finding sources.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Hasnt he said this a few times now?

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Oxycontin and other supposedly non addictive opioids became widely prescribed in that year, I would assume.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

We have door to door delivery and dislike it. Just junk mail. A killed tree every week. We have important stuff (what little we still get) sent to a PO Box already. Have for 25 years.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Not available in a lot of the US, including Seattle. Affiliate wont air it.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Anyone in Canada know if the show will air here if the closest affiliate usually on your TV is not airing it.

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Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

We've been campaigning to get people to fill out TransLink's survey about BRT and we're down to the last 29 hours before it closes! Many thanks to @rmtransit.bsky.social for sharing our cute little video with his 340k subscribers!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Tu...

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The Problem with Vancouver's Boundary Rd BRT (w/ @MovementYVR )

YouTube video by RMTransit

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Exactly. It’s good for Canada. We need the young, skilled labour force. What we also need is some of this group over time to do their own start ups. It would be nice to not be sending all the profits from work done in Canada back to Silicon Valley or Seattle. But it’s better than not having it

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

In Trump 1.0 there was a coworking-like place in Calgary Canada set up to house people working for US tech companies who had H1B issues. Secure servers and connections to their US employer, but paid via Canada and working in Canada. I wonder if this will be a massive growth industry for Canada.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Get detained n a detention centre or El Salvador, I suspect the H1-b is basically over in all But name.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Exactly. The airlines will have to decide. I suspect initially if you have an H1-B in your passport they will let you on. If they start having to pay for return flights for those not admitted, they will ask about the $100K. Of course if people arriving in the US who haven’t paid the $100K ….

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Not to mention the pro-stagflation stance. At least 50% of news stories should be in favour of higher prices and a shrinking economy with lower average incomes.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

The flat earthers deserve to have equal coverage at astronomy conventions.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Risk of ending up in detention? To avoid: fly to US via Canada if you’re from a country with automatic travel visa status for Canada. Then fly to US from Canada. You clear US immigration on Canadian soil at airport. If you are deemed inadmissible, you’re simply left in Canada.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

How are airlines going to interpret this? They typically don’t want to bring someone to a country where they will not be admitted as the airline could be responsible for taking them back to originating country.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Haven’t worked from home from my attic office in a while so just getting a good look at this. Side patio or parking for sure (dual use?) and the open-to-below skylights make sense, although with the asymmetry, have me wondering.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Not sure if it’s yours @lanefab.com or if it is Smallworks

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

What’s the story behind this laneway house shape? A regulatory requirement or just preference?

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I wondered why we were seeing them. But I consider it a feature. This said, more homes on these lots would be better.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I actually like these. The old craftsman “widow’s watch” if on the front or sleeping porch on the back. Our 1911 home has them. Some of my favorite spaces at our home.

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Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Have you filled out TransLink's survey on Bus Rapid Transit? The last day is Sunday. Surveys like this are why Movement needs to exist. You know that our region needs to change A LOT to make our streets safer, less congested, and less polluted. Buuut. . . 1/ movementyvr.ca/bby-heights-...

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Tell TransLink not to miss Burnaby Heights! | Movement

Burnaby Heights residents and businesses could miss out on direct, rapid transit service to Metrotown and North Vancouver. We need your help!

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We firmly believe firing comedians is not a sign of a healthy democracy. In some countries, they even elect them to defend against ambitious fascists. — PM Tuxley II

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Not saying it isn’t the right thing to be considering. But council may be wary of introducing this.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Previous programs such as the Grandview area plan take one (which failed), suggested more density by parks. Massive opposition from home owners living beside parks—and this was to townhouses (not 4-6 storey+ that she’s proposing). Council may worry about an uproar again.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Africa (Morocco) has a high speed train. Fast, clean, efficient and on time. Somehow we can’t figure out how to offer this wonderful service in North America. (Even clean, efficient and on time elude North Am).

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

He fired the head statistician because he didn’t like the data. He can fire anyone.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Multiplexes are a great option that should be allowed. But with some modest flexibility on assembly, and maybe some creativity, could we have a lot more 3 bedroom townhomes ? vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

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Townhouses now almost impossible to build in Vancouver, says developer

Ground-oriented townhouse clusters are now difficult to get underway in Vancouver because of upzoning promoting multiplexes on single lots.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Love that this also opens the North Shore to residents of Burnaby who prefer transit. Can quickly get to hiking trails, or alternate route to Lonsdale, or to Cap U.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Old enough to just give them some money and let them shop?

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The Museum of African-American History is one of the most exciting and surprising institutions in the USA, and I’m glad I had the privilege to see it when it was an acceptable country to visit. The president now says it should showcase the brighter side of slavery www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...

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Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Niagara on the lake area would be awesome for cycle touring. Fairly flat. Lots of wineries, cideries, distilleries to visit.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

They’re only talking because I cancelled flights to get my kid to McGill (which has orientation starting Saturday) and rebooked on a United Airlines milk run through the US. I’d figured luck would have it if we cancelled they’d find a deal.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Allow international airlines to do domestic flights in Canada? Right now Air Canada is protected from this. But it would be an easy way to introduce competition, if that’s what everyone wants. It won’t be better for wages/flight attendants though as an overseas airline could pay a lot less.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Didn’t see the skunk but could smell it this week (someone’s dog got it). No shortage of racoons And rats. Eastvan.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

@pattyhajdu.bsky.social Air Canada is too important to the Canadian economy and society to be allowed to shut down. It is infrastructure. Send everyone to arbitration or mediation and get planes moving again.

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Wendy Waters @wendywaters.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Non profits often have market rental units to help cover the costs of having below market units. Therefore no difference on market rents.

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