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  • Facepalms | Local | New Westminster | Politics

    Daniel Fontaine’s Bad Math

    ByBrad Cavanagh October 28, 2024October 28, 2024

    Earlier today (October 28, 2024) New Westminster City Council debated a rezoning application coming for downtown New Westminster. During the debate, Councillor Daniel Fontaine stated the development would bring “four World Trade Centers onto that site” as a visualization of what sort of development would be coming. The development in question (88 Tenth Street —…

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  • 2018 Municipal Election | Facepalms | New Westminster

    Can New West municipal candidates follow simple rules?

    ByBrad Cavanagh September 25, 2018

    The New Westminster Record published New West municipal candidate profiles recently, and in them the candidates had to answer a handful of questions. While they weren’t nearly as good as my questions, they did come with one simple rule: Answers were limited to 50 words unless otherwise specified. Pretty simple rule, right? Let’s see who…

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    Donald Trump’s 650 million person migration

    ByBrad Cavanagh October 30, 2016

    Tonight Donald Trump claimed Hillary Clinton would let 650 million people into the US in a week. While Trump has said some crazy and dangerous things in the past, this one really beggars belief. Let’s look at some of the ways that this is completely off-the-rails insane. Getting people in 650 million people is a…

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  • 2015 Transit Referendum | Facepalms | TransLink

    The astoundingly bad logic of Jordan Bateman

    ByBrad Cavanagh March 17, 2015November 20, 2017

    Today BC Transportation Minister Todd Stone announced a ten-year transportation plan for BC. During the press conference he was asked about the Metro Vancouver transportation plebiscite, and if the province is considering reforming TransLink, because this is one of the reasons why people are considering voting ‘no’. His answer? At this point in time, the…

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  • 2015 Transit Referendum | Facepalms

    Yet another way the CTF is wrong

    ByBrad Cavanagh February 11, 2015November 20, 2017

    The Canadian Taxpayers Foundation continues to say that the proposed 0.5% Congestion Improvement Tax will result in an average household tax increase of $258. This number is wrong. Plain and simple, it is wrong. I’ve shown this before [here] and here], but I just found a third way to show that they’re wrong. Back in…

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