Show threadDoug Baker - Elbows Up! 🇨🇦Apr 7, 2025
@fsinn @Pinchy63 It might be a very small portent how #Vancouver's #MayorSim lost two seats this weekend at a byelection, both to progressive opposition candidates. Folks are tired of stupid disruption, something Sim seems to specialize in. Or maybe they were concerned that for the first time ever a line was crossed when THE POLICE UNION endorsed Sim and his law and order patter.
Doug Baker - Elbows Up! 🇨🇦Nov 25, 2023
Welcome to #SimCity (#MayorSim). No wonder #Vancouver faces 18.3% tax increase over 2 years (10.7 this year, 7.6 proposed 2024). Ya gotta keep the cops happy...at all costs. We need to talk about #policeunions
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-police-tentative-agreement-highest-paid-1.7039727
Vancouver police set to become highest-paid officers in Canada under tentative deal, union says | CBC News

The union representing Vancouver's police officers says it has reached a tentative labour agreement that, if passed, will see its members become Canada's highest-paid officers.

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Doug Baker - Elbows Up! 🇨🇦Apr 6, 2023
Reporters (except for a pool camera) were barred from observing this #VPD operation. When #Vancouver's #MayorSim says "We are one unified team..." of the Mayor and police, we should be very worried. Welcome to #simcity https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/downtown-eastside-tent-removal-1.6803218
ANALYSIS | A 'sad day' on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside — but one we've seen before | CBC News

The circle of people being offered housing, some accepting and some refusing, and the latter being joined by new people finding themselves on the streets is nothing new.

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