Holy smoke and buckets of blood me hearties! Gordon Campbell has announced his intention to resign.
Wonder if he said; "Either that tax goes or I do"? Nah.....
H/T Small Dead Animals
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http://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/58037/Big-Brother-interested-in-your-garbage
.... please don't say I came to Canada, to get away from this sort of thing in the UK, only to find the great white north is going to go down the same path.... add this to the smoking bans and I'm starting to get a little twitchy....
Yeah, I think Canada was, but it's kind of stalling. Speed cameras have been kicked into touch. CCTV coverage is extremely limited (Could you look at pictures of trees all day without going ga-ga?).
Interesting that West Kelowna has refused to participate in the scheme.
Very true. Luckily, as I cling on to hope, I find myself in the area that has refused them.
Which is interesting, as I had a bit of ding dong going on with the same bunch about their water monitoring transmitters,.... sorry, "water meters", all installed for our benefit of course...
Just had a "discussion" with my council man about "illegal items"...
"What happens , bearing in my they're not locked as they sit at the curb, waiting to be collected, when someone walking by dumps something "illegal" into my bin?"
"Oh, er...."
Pip, pip, Unckz. Glad to have you back Canada-side, anyway!!!
JB
Just been told that the District of West Kelowna is not signing up to the "bin plan" because it's just starting up as a municipality, so to speak, so the extra cost that’s needed could not be covered.... "yet".
JB
JB,
Cost is what will kill it. As the full complexity sinks in, the scheme will be quietly shelved and forgotten. Unlike in the UK, local authorities over here don't appear to think they've got bottomless pockets.
On a positive note, I was doing the weekly call to the mother in law in the UK after commenting and we got onto the bins and what not...
"Don't you even think of bringing my grandchildren back here!", the old dragon proclaimed. "It would a monumental mistake. They're much better off out there, where they are."
So it's not all bad news today!... mind you, she also wants to come out for 6 weeks next year....
Cheers, Uncle Bill! Have a good weekend.
JB
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