Dad. Policy wonk by day (food systems and climate); tired by night. Passionate about doing government better. Opinions my own. RTs ≠ endorsements.
Victoria, British Columbia
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Dylan Sherlock retweeted
A flyover of the Chilcotin River earlier today. The slide is significant as too is the water being held back. More updates to follow when we better assess the situation. Please follow all of the alerts and emergency orders being issued here: emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/ev… #bcpoli
Absolute bananas. @the_cra needs to fix this stat. Fundamentally unacceptable to say that any renter (but especially a low-income renter) needs to determine the residency of their landlord and manage tax payments on the behalf of a foreign resident landlord.
Yikes. Even with food prices increasing by ~20% between Feb 2021 to Feb 2024, per capita expenditure went DOWN by a similar amount. That means people are doing big substitutions in their purchases for cheaper products and, in many cases, simply purchasing less overall food. 😬
This is troubling.
According to Statistics Canada, the average Canadian is spending less than $250 a month on groceries (retail).
That's a 19% decrease compared to January 2021.
Get ready for fruit to (continue to) cost more and taste worse. And also (since farmers always more adaptable than they are given credit for) lots of experimentation new varietals and switching to new more variability-hardy crops entirely. theatlantic.com/science/arch…
Dylan Sherlock retweeted
Stunning uptick in Canadian grocery prices as flyer compares 2019 to 2024 vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/0…
Academic article but worth a read for folks on Coast Salish territories on the history of Coast Salish woolly dogs. I have been fascinated for years around the question of what happened to these dogs. Very cool that these researchers did this deep dive. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
My daughter wrote her name successfully for the first time without anyone there helping her today. Unfortunately, she wrote it (and other attempts) in pen on the cover (inside dust jacket) of our copy of James Herriot's Treasury for Children. 😂
I guess it is a great keepsake.
Dylan Sherlock retweeted
Pretty astonishing takeaway here vs. the anti-bike narrative. Far from taking away from road works, tapping into federal and provincial funding for bike lanes has allowed the city to leverage safety upgrades to resurface the entire road surface at a level not seen in decades. 🤯
Pretty astonishing takeaway here vs. the anti-bike narrative. Far from taking away from road works, tapping into federal and provincial funding for bike lanes has allowed the city to leverage safety upgrades to resurface the entire road surface at a level not seen in decades. 🤯
This was a very good discussion on Indigenous food sovereignty and food security by two of the leading Indigenous thinkers on this topic. Highly recommend. thenarwhal.ca/food-sovereign…
Milwaukee just proposed legalizing the final piece of missing middle housing - where past missing middle laws have failed to go - small apartment buildings. Great work!
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Dylan Sherlock retweeted
This week, Scorsese releases his film Killers of the Flower Moon: the true story of the mass murder of the Osage and the theft of their oil wealth. But the story doesn’t end when the credits roll. For 27 years, I've been investigating what happened next... 🧵
Dylan Sherlock retweeted
if the worst stories the b.c. government gets from their new rules for short-term rentals
are people who bought 400 square foot condos a year ago with $3,000/month mortgages who commodified them into vacation rentals based on 1990s sitcoms
i imagine they will take that deal
Dylan Sherlock retweeted
If you haven’t watched this before, you should. The brilliant Carl Sagan testifying before the United States Congress in 1985 on #ClimateChange.
We should have listened then. Will we now?
Climate change isn’t an on & off switch. It’s an exponential dial. xitter.cf/SophiaKianni/status/17…
Dylan Sherlock retweeted
REMINDER: Those choosing to live in the subsidized suburbs for a bigger house and yard are NOT also entitled to free-flow car traffic capacity (aka “easy car commute”) into the city at the expense of the taxes, health, safety & quality of life of city-dwellers.
HT @IanLockwoodPE
Super fascinating study for folks interested in rural policy
New paper! 📈
Why do kids born into poverty in rural areas climb the income ladder at higher rates than their urban peers? Answer: rural boys, who benefit from life in small places with more two-parent households.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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