How BC Could Tax Soaring Property Values for the Public Good | The Tyee
The vast majority of B.C.’s residential property wealth — $1.5 trillion — is in the value of the land rather than in the buildings on it. Unlike the value created by…
Back to School and Covid
Will Back-to-School COVID Crush Families? BC’s status quo approach is not good enough, says a grassroots organization of doctors and teachers. With new variants of covid hitting hard, we’re all…
Municipal election recommendations for #YYJ
I live in a family of three with a young kid, downtown adjacent, in a condo. Here are my voting recommendations.
Regulating fake video
Deep fakes, or the ability to manipulate people’s actions in videos, were in the news recently. Macleans wrote a very concerned article December of 2018. This will be the year…
The many boats of climate change
Their (the IPCC’s) dramatic report on keeping that rise under 1.5 degrees C says the world is now completely off track, heading instead towards 3C.Keeping to the preferred target of 1.5C…
My picks for city of Victoria’s Mayor and Council
From housing and affordability, transportation, childcare, and budget priorities, here is how I’m voting on October 20th in the Victoria election for mayor and council…
Bharat’s pocket scraps you own a pipeline! edition
Ottawa fails to find new buyer for Trans Mountain pipeline by deadline The federal government is set to become the official owner of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion after failing…
Bharat’s pocket scraps – Making room edition
Vancouver makes room for more people, charities get political, and more…
Bharat’s Pocketscraps NUMTOTS edition
Scraps are back after a while, read on
Let all residents vote in Canada
This year, I will be asking Victoria’s municipal election candidates where they stand on letting permanent residents vote in our elections. Join me!
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps: Jeans, not Genes!
Where we wade into the “new” controversy on genetics and race, and talk about e-cigarettes, food and more
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps: Jagmeetophobia TV facebook and more
Canadian media is still hung up in the 1980s on Sikhs, is facebook really to blame for polarization, and more!
Pocket Scraps – Jan and Feb 2018
Convergent evolution, cat mass spectrometers, love jihad and more!
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps Dec 3
Grizzly overpasses, alt-right scariness and more
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps Nov 24
This shall become a weekly thing again, I decree it so. Universal Family Care As millennials have kids and Baby Boomers live longer, we need to create a new, integrated,…
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps 03-Nov
In which you get a sneak peak at my numbered rant system
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps October 28
Songbirds and twitter, insects, google and more.
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps October 13
Two weeks worth of scraps, whales, weinstein and more…
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps Sep 29
On American colonialism, racism, football and more
Bharat’s pocket scraps Sep 22
All the charismatic mega(and not so mega)fauna news
Bharat’s pocket scraps September 15
Google , car accidents, climate change and more
Pocket scraps Sep 8 (ish)
The octopus story, and more…
Bharat’s Pocket Scraps Sep 1
Spicy food, terrible Indian government decisions and more
Bharat’s pocket scraps August 25
Birding, Margaret Atwood, so much to look forward to on Spec-Fi TV, and justice