Category: Politics

Nathanael Lauster, Nazism, and tobacco tactics in housing crisis denialism
November 14, 2018
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“Hitler introduced tobacco control measures,” the tobacco industry propagandists would say. “Therefore, anyone who advocates for tobacco control measures is a Nazi.” The use reductio ad Hitlerum — a logical fallacy in the form “Hitler did X, therefore anyone who does X is a Nazi”1)http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/1874/1/How%20the%20growth%20of%20denialism%20undermines%20public%20health%20_%20The%20BMJ.pdf — is a common tactic used by the tobacco industry […]

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China meddling in Vancouver election to protect its billion dollar assets in the city
October 15, 2018
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Vancouverites woke up on Saturday to the chilling news that People’s Republic of China was meddling in the city’s municipal election. Vancouver Police Department announced an investigation into a vote buying scheme organized by a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) front group was underway1)https://thebreaker.news/news/wechat-wenzhou/. Canada Wenzhou Friendship, a group with ties to CCP United Front2)https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2018/10/16/vancouver-society-at-centre-of-vote-buying-allegations-has-ties-to-chinese-government.html, was […]

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Vancouver election lottery: the winners and the losers
September 22, 2018
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Who got lucky and who didn’t with the random ballot lottery? Here’s my quick analysis. Elizabeth Taylor (VANCOUVER 1st) emerged the luckiest, moving up 60 places compared to where she would’ve been in an alphabetically ordered ballot. She entered the race lucky with a memorable name. Lady luck must really like her. Glynnis Chan (YES […]

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My priorities
September 22, 2018
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End global speculation in our housing market Rental-only zoning along transit corridors VPD real estate crime unit Community owned housing on public land Locals-only presales Work with province to tax landbankers Crackdown on Airbnb Complete ban against Airbnb until Airbnb agrees to: Automatic licence verification Platform accountability Enforce existing $1000/per day fines against all violators […]

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Don’t let a callous City Hall bulldoze our neighbourhoods
September 18, 2018
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Update 8:30AM: Vision Vancouver is playing dirty again! The online sign ups for public hearings are supposed to end an hour before the hearings open. But they closed the hearings for mass rezoning the night before. If you haven’t already registered, please go to the city hall in person before 2:30PM and register to speak. […]

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578 new Airbnb listings added in the last 10 days
September 14, 2018
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Vancouver’s chief licencing officer announced with much fanfare that the number of Airbnb listings in the city have dropped from around 6,600 in April to just 3,742 in September. But in just 10 days since the City of Vancouver’s September 5 announcement, hosts have added 578 news listings, bringing the total to 4,320. Out of […]

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