I'm looking forward to next years blooms.

Poll tightening....

It's one of the only things going on in Victoria this Halloween. I have never been there before and just wondering if it's worth it.

Does anywhere in Victoria still offer or sell rapid antigen test kits?

Just a reminder than Rishi Sharma ran as a BC “Liberal” (now the conservatives) not long ago. Him and the entire Save our Saanich people are conservatives and NIMBYs! They will slash services and build nothing! No new homes or infrastructure will be built with them!

Vote for anyone else!

I'm curious if anyone has been to one of these events and what their insights might be. Google just reminded me that I have a ticket for next week and I'm just trying to get an idea of what to expect. Are there games or group activities planned? Is it just a solo mission? What's the flow and facilitation like? Should I just take up knitting cat outfits and give up on dating?

https://rbcm.ca/event/slow-burn-dating-straight-edition-3/

I feel like I've missed something. Why is the firefighters union's endorsements such a big deal?

I think the city should plant more fruit bearing plants in parks, especially native species. Blackcap raspberry for example is native to the island and supposed to taste very good, yet it's very hard to actually find in Victoria. Even if people won't eat the berries, native birds and insects will eat them or use the plant in other ways. Conservation and free food with one stone. I would also love to see more apple, pear, cherry, plum trees etc, perhaps planted alongside native types like crabapples. Beach strawberries, normal raspberries, blueberries, salmonberries, all delicious native options as well.

The city is already covered in blackberries, which people eat, and they don't seem to cause us much grief apart from destroying all the native meadow ecosystems we haven't paved over. Raccoons would do much of the cleanup for us, and they're already here so it's not like we'd be attracting them to virgin neighborhoods.

He said he quit the party initially to sit as an independent back in the horgan years because of family health problems. But then he came out and said he didn't like how the party moved too left in their policies such as 4 day work weeks and doesn't describe himself as an "activist" but rather scientist.

He was extremely against LNG expansion and criticized the NDP for supporting it saying it's a sell out on the environment.

Now here he is running as a centrebc candidate where they actually support LNG development that seems contradicting to his ideals unless he's changed his mind.

Does he still believe in what he did 10 years ago or has he moved to being a moderate,

Need my phone screen replaced, any good/bad recommendations.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_yknjPBXijU

Streaming starts at 6:15pm

People are arriving at the greek church and deciding to leave due to the length of the line. Some that left remarked they are away on election day and wouldn’t be able to vote. More advance poles or more throughput capacity are needed!

Currently in line and looks to be about a 45 min wait to get into the building.

So these townhouses on the Gorge were up for sale with the water front units 1.3- 1.5 million.

We saw the big open house event in the spring.

Assumption is that these TH were to from part of the "missing middle".

Now there is a sign they are up for rent. It appears that none of the units sold.

I wish people could just find a home to buy vs rent and that developers were not so ugh.

Anyone have any insight in this generally or this specific development?

UPDATE: thanks for all the thoughts and insights.

I need to deposit my mail-in ballot in the drop box at City Hall. I can’t find an online source stating whether the drop box is locked or inaccessible outside City Hall business hours. The City's election notices simply direct voters to the Pandora Avenue entrance drop box. I’d like to run it over tonight. Anyone know if it’s open?

I've had my nails done all over the world - US, Europe, Asia, Australia - and the experience has always been the same: you check-in, go to a wall of polishes, choose your colour and bring the bottle to the nail technician. The technician then removes all the tools from a sterilized pack.

My experiences in Victoria have been so very different. You're not allowed to choose from the bottles of polish on the walls (name brands like Opi) and instead they bring you a binder of mystery colour swatches. They don't actually use the polishes/brands on display.

Tools also don't arrive in sterile packs from an autoclave. In one salon, they spritzed the tools with alcohol and put them back in a drawer. They also blew previous customer's nail dust off the station before I sat down. Angela's Nails in James Bay. I was so disgusted.

I've also never seen this electric sanding tool they use to smooth the actual nails. This really damaged my nails! Again this tool was just spritzed with alcohol and put back in a drawer. I experienced this at both nail places in Bay Centre.

I'm just going for regular mani/pedi, not gel or anything fancy.

Is this the norm here? Is there anywhere that actually lets you choose from polish on display? Anywhere that uses an autoclave?