British Columbia

Now that something like a quarter of car sales in BC are EVs, I am starting to think their privileged access to HOV lanes is no longer a sustainable concession. There are just so many that the priority should shift back away from single occupancy vehicles.

Alternatively, we could keep the allowance, but add a second HOV lane, leaving gas vehicles to whatever's left on the highway. But that probably be unpopular. 😀

Who in government would I write to express this opinion? MP or MLA?

$3.5M to be spent on bylaw and police enforcement

The announcement comes on the heels of a number of violent incidents across the city within a 12-hour period on Sunday.

Police said in a statement on Monday that a business owner was assaulted by a man unknown to him around 6 p.m. on Yates Street.

A man was arrested shortly after the attack and taken into custody by Victoria police but was later released on conditions, police said in the statement.

On Sunday morning, a man with a weapon threatened the Victoria Fire Department building on Queens Avenue, preventing the firefighters from entering the building to attend to a potential fire. He was subsequently arrested, police said.

Another "stranger-on-stranger attack" on Yates Street Sunday involved a man who assaulted a victim with an "edged weapon," Victoria Police Chief Del Manak said.

The victim "ran into London Drugs to seek refuge for their safety," Manak said, and the alleged attacker was subsequently arrested and was held in custody pending a court hearing.

crossposted from !victoria@lemmy.ca

People working in the construction industry benefit from ongoing access to opioid-free pain-management options as the Province supports two pain clinics in Burnaby and Langford.

Two peach farmers in B.C.'s Okanagan region say they're optimistic for the upcoming harvest after years of climate disasters wreaking havoc on their crops.

B.C.'s farmers have been particularly affected by climate disasters over the last few years, with a heat dome in 2021 cooking fruit on the branches, and two subsequent cold snaps in the winter. One of those, in 2024, led to the destruction of a year's worth of crops in some areas.

But now, two stone fruit farmers in the Okanagan Valley say they hope the push to buy local helps them as they look forward to a productive peach crop later this summer.

Jennifer Deol, the owner of There and Back Again Farms in Kelowna, says she hasn't had a full crop of peaches since 2021.

"It has been hard to survive these past four years, but we're just grateful," she told CBC News.

"This season we've got fruit on the trees and the trees are looking healthy — the trees that did survive the winter of 2024."

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Little early to the party here, but I wanted to wish the Canadian side of the Pacific Northwest a very happy Canada Day celebration. I've met so many people from this amazing province, and every conversation I've had with people from Vancouver, Victoria and inland BC have been extremely awesome (outside of Reddit of course). I visited the big Vancouver city in 2018, drove through much of inland BC on a road trip to Edmonton in 2011, and I'm visiting Vancouver Island later in July. I love British Columbia. Especially the people (outside of Reddit) and the nature.

I live in Washington (US state) and I feel sad at the political situation. I am NOT sad that Canadians are boycotting the USA en masse, and we honestly deserve it. I would happily boycott this country if I didn't live here, and I'm honestly surprised that cross border travel from British Columbia is only down 40 percent since I thought it would be much higher. I'm sad that these cultural ties that many US states have with certain Canadian provinces (like the West Coast with BC, New England with Quebec and the Maritimes) have been severely damaged and will be extremely difficult to repair. Anyways, I hate to bring the USA in this, but I definitely don't feel like celebrating 3 days after Canada Day, and I wish all Canadians a very happy Canada Day this year.