flip flop / i hope nobody noticed

I am a smoker and get enraged at people who do this. Gives us a bad name. If you have a fancy car and you don’t want to get it dirty with cigarette butts pull to the side of the fucking road and have a smoke or quit. Or whoever is careless enough not to make sure their cigarette is out on a trail park etc. If you can get their license plate forward it to the cops.

I gotta get me one of those!!! Signed I hope!! Congrats Taylor~Keep on Rockin’

Great idea. The Philharmonic and Harbour House are offering something very special here, let’s support them! My wife and I and our friends will!

Organ will ruin us

is anyone smarter when the day is done

Maybe we should start parking side by side and the required distance apart like the cars ?

This is still going on and it seems to mostly st departure bay

I wonder if many Sooke residents are aware that 4 of our firefighters make more than $120,000 a year.

What’s the average wage for those in the private sector – $50,000?

Is this job still available?

I will help support this fundraiser.

In one graph, why the Paris Agreement is useless:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/05/31/in-one-graph-why-the-parisclimate-accord-is-useless/

I predict the NDP/Green Coalition will last less than 2 years, and will be a powerful reminder to BC voters what a disaster it was the last time the NDP held power.

Hi, Is or are the All Sooke Days logging event on this year.

And the resulting Provincial depression will lower prices and reduce and emissions because fewer people will be working.

Any update on the driver? I hope he will be ok….

Traffic moving around logging truck 3:15 nr Muir Creek- Robin Fleming and Karen Fonger, Ocean Wilderness

Word is WC Road will be closed in both directions at Muir Creek for up to 3 hours or more.

Facebook link not working and can’t find their Facebook page

Sure…the driver of the car changed lanes against a double yellow line…and the motorcycle was traveling so fast that the same thing would have happen with a legal lane change. SLOW DOWN! They were both at fault, but the law will go against the car because of that illegal lane change.

Thanks for the excellent coverage of our tour. It’s very much appreciated!

When are your steak nights

“A study of the effect of minimum-wage policies on restaurant employment revealed that minimum-wage policies hinder job creation,” wrote Breitbart’s Tom Ciccotta. “After Seattle increased the city’s minimum wage from $11 to $15, they saw a drop in overall jobs in the restaurant industry. At the same time, the state of Washington, whose minimum wage remains at $11, saw consistent job creation in the restaurant industry, adding 6,200 jobs over the same time.”

Those who lose their jobs, as in Seattle, don’t “get a raise,” as CNN claims. They get the boot.

Hundreds if not thousands will lose their jobs, and hundreds more will never get a chance to even have a job.

The Congressional Budget Office in 2014 estimated that merely raising the minimum wage nationally from the current $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour last year, and letting it grow with inflation, would kill 1 million jobs.

As we have noted before, and as columnist Larry Elder noted just this week, one of the largest studies done of minimum-wage hikes suggests few benefits at all. David Neumark of the University of California, Irvine, looked at more than 100 academic studies going back 20 years. As Elder points out, 85% of those studies found that “minimum-wage laws destroy jobs, causing workers to lose jobs and/or hours or causing businesses to shut down.”

The truth is, a minimum-wage hike is always sold as a compassionate move by left-wing politicians, who pretend to be doing low-paid minority workers a big favor. But they aren’t. In fact, they’re levying a punishing tax on unskilled labor that lands hardest on minorities and those with few skills or training. It’s progressive moral preening at its worst, hurting most those they pretend to help.

http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/minimum-wage-hikes-a-feel-good-lie-that-destroys-jobs-and-minority-kids-futures/

More importantly, where should the arts, food and technology incubator go? The housing makes the most sense to be built up high in the center, concentrated, and with a substantial incubator for startup companies in the arts, food and technology be located within walking distance.

This article on the elections, Asia, and exports was fascinating in a sense
https://www.biv.com/article/2017/5/bc-election-leaves-provincial-asia-strategy-doubt/

Thanks Herb. I thought you were going to name names and dirty deeds. Yes, we know you were a driving force to streamline getting permits through the District office and cut through the red tape to help your business. I did like having someone on Council like you who actually knew something about rezoning and building permits.
I hope you aren’t thinking about running again. As you saw from the last election, people want a greener environment and you scuttled every green initiative that came across your Council desk.

Yes. This problem is extremely serious; our present government needs to step up on this issue…. it’s time to have this issue addresssd in a public forum.
Btw, what the heck is going on in Sooke? Clear cutting to the road? Optics are terrible for advertizing the Juan de fuca trail….

Ahhhh April fools evryone …….hello

I agree with all of the above. Reading the stories on this issue, I get the impression that Mr. Laughren is land speculating and trying to threaten our town in to submission so he can turn a huge profit. Why would Mr. Laughren purchase these ALR properties last year (at a very reasonable price), if he felt they had no potential as agricultural lands? Clearly to turn a profit at all costs, with no consideration for the community. Perhaps he should consider selling his properties while still in the ALR, as all property values in Sooke are increasing. Our community cannot and should not cave to this type of unethical pressure from outside profiteers.

The $400,000 returned to use for sunriver park space is great news, money that should have never been tried to be taken away. The space is a great opportunity for a multi use park with a playground, grass fields and treed walking areas. The district lot at the end could easily be used for parking and access.

I didn’t get a pre voting card, not sure where I go to vote
I live on west 3rd postal code v6k 1l6

You are being manipulated:

“THE LIVING WAGE FOR FAMILIES CAMPAIGN IS CURRENTLY FUNDED BY:

BCGEU
BCTF
CUPE
Hospital Employees Union
Health Sciences Association
United of Food and Commercial Workers Union”

Unions always want a higher minimum wage because it makes non union labour less competitive.

An increase in the minimum wage to $20 or even $15 an hour will have a devastating effect on our economy, as thousands will lose their jobs.

Google the effects of a $15 minimum wage in Seattle and observe the Law of Unintended Consequences kick in.

How and where does an individual appt for tennency for housing in proposed site Sooke

My crew can clean anything up

Hi how do I find out who ownes the property at 7165 grant rd sooke bc I not only own constructin cleaning buisness an can get the place cleaned up id like to rent it thanks angela can email

I agree with Mr. Zigay and all of the other property owners in Sooke
the only reason they would rezone that property to CTC would be to sell it off
to make up for the original purchase. The land is now the communities
it was paid with our tax money and should of be zone P2. A better use would be
for the hospital Mia wants or a public/private partnership
for affordable housing , a new seniors center etc. none of which would need CTC zoning
Other properties do take months to rezone with many studies done before they
are rezoned -like environmental and traffic studies. definitely not a level playing field.

So right, Jeff. I don’t understand why money is going to a library at all. Widen the road, put in a left turn lane at Sooke Elementary and stop the ridiculous back up every weekday. Having a line of traffic at a standstill within a traffic circle (hmm, wasn’t that built to keep traffic flowing?) is another example of planning gone awry.

Rude staff and sub-par products, avoid at all costs.

Well, here it is Wednesday April 26 and still no voting card. Is this voter suppression or just incompetence?

I have voted in EVERY municipal, provincial and federal election for the past 52 years and have been at my present address for the past 5 years. If I haven’t yet gotten my voting card with advance voting beginning on Saturday, lots of luck to anyone not registered or recently moved.

I understand the cards are being mailed out now but it’s a pretty inept performance.

Attended the all-candidates meeting this evening in Sooke. A good showing and some interesting responses to some challenging questions. Most disappointing that our incumbent MLA had more imortant priorities than attendance. Other candidates performed very well and highlighted that we have other very viable options for representation to choose from in our community.

Well Said Lori

a bit late in the day, i was hoping for lunch

its the big payouts and pensions that scare me, never saw that in the private sector

one thing i noticed about living on the island is that the highways have traffic lights as opposed to overpasses, this is because the island has been predominately NDP, driving takes longer and also increased brake wear, if the NDP get elected, highway 14 will become a wagon trail

John Organ ……….not a donor

Hell! I can FLY to San Francisco from here FASTER than the 2 hrs door-to-door bus commute between Sooke and work in Victoria!!! A proper highway would cut our commute time considerably!

“A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury”. This is a quote from Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh in 1787.

and then there was the Dave Barrett NPD that made welfare into the provinces number one industry, chasing jobs away and business just to provide money for people to go through life with no esteem also instigating more donor operations.

Murphy is home safe. Thank you everyone.

and now, about the compulsory backup camera, our driving test required us to turn our heads to the right and look out the back window, if equipted