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Council briefs – Town of Osoyoos
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETING Petitions And Delegations Jayme Friedt, Managing Director of the Osoyoos Desert Society, presented the Osoyoos Desert Centre’s 2020 year in review to Council. Kester Bonsu and Bruce McCaskill, Account Executives, made a presentation to Council regarding Granicus’ Host Compliance service. The purpose of the presentation was to offer cost-effective solutions to the Town’s short-term rental registration, compliance monitoring, fraud, audit, and enforcement challenges. At Council’s request Gina MacKay, Director of Planning and Development, will bring a report on short-term rental enforcement options to a future meeting. Staff Reports The Committee of the Whole recommended that the Community Service Grant requests in the amounts outlined in Director …
Flurries ??
Canada in focus
Is this fair? Big gov, Big Bank, Big law firm – a simple case of unfairness
Tan house is the home of the Massey family JAIME MASSEY, a victim of the 2018 flood of Grand Forks, whose home was destroyed. She was given 7 days notice to attend a Kamloops court hearing or face foreclosure, we trust you will story worth sharing, it involves a class action suit alleging over–logging, floods, mishandled relief, complex expropriation and foreclosure, by Industry, Government, the Financial and Legal systems. Rallies for Jamie Massey and her family will be held at Kamloops Court House, Grand Forks City Hall and at the Legislature in Victoria today. JAIME MASSEY, a resident of Grand Forks all her life and a local school trustee lost her house and her tenant because of the massive flood in Grand Forks on May, 2018, which completely destroyed her entire …
Monday – a tuff new day _ Easter cancelled
The B.C. government has announced new restrictions in an attempt to cut down COVID-19 transmission. The new public health orders are effective midnight, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. “COVID-19 continues to create challenges for people and businesses throughout B.C., and we are grateful for the sacrifices people continue to make to keep one another safe,” Premier John Horgan said Monday. “We know that the idea of more restrictions is not welcome news, but we are asking people to rise to the challenge with the confidence that vaccines mean better days are ahead. We are not out of the woods yet, but the provincial health officer’s orders, combined with our vaccines give us the tools we need to move out of this pandemic together.” All food and liquor-serving premises must only provide take-out …
Concerns
Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization is expected to recommend today a pause in the use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine on those under the age of 55 because of safety concerns. On Friday, 908 new cases of COVID-19 and three more deaths were announced. A total of 1,449 people in B.C. have lost their lives due to COVID-19 since the pandemic began. On Friday there were 294 people hospitalized due to COVID-19, 81 of whom were in intensive care. Active cases of coronavirus are above 6,000 as of Friday, the highest they've been since the beginning of January …
The Steele report
Please note this article is mainly about another jurisdiction but it should be noted injustice is universal. My father used to say , be aware , if unjust things can happen elsewhere they can happen here given the right circumstances. I have watched with interest the backward view of lawmakers in Georgia. What's happening there would be difficult to get away with here. In the US the States make the rules regarding how people get to vote. In Canada we have a third party Elections Canada entrusted with the rules. Provincially there is a third party as well Elections BC. So what is going on and what is behind the changes and what might be the long term effects? The southern white population is motivated by fear a fear they themselves created. Instead of providing services and …