#journliasm

[ufvcascade-blog]

Too Little, Too Late?

This week, B.C. announced, according to the CBC, that B.C. will be spending $1.9 billion to fund the building of 4,900 low-income rental units in 42 locations over the next three years. Each building will include a range of units and prices, ranging from middle-income families to low-wage workers. This is, of course, to attempt to combat the housing market crisis.

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UFV adds first electric vehicle to its facilities fleet - The Cascade

UFV has added a 2015 Nissan Leaf, a fully electric vehicle (EV), to the UFV facilities fleet to replace a retiring work van in their continued attempt to promote sustainable operations. Blair McFarlane, UFV’s energy manager, explained that the retiring van had been a lemon since the day it was purchased, riddled with defects. When …

[victoriaadvocate-blog]

BEHIND THE BADGE: His skill set is vast.

He can coax a drunken man to climb down from a precarious perch in a tree and evacuate residents from a burning building as the flames lick overhead.

He has faced murderers, gang members, drug dealers and rapists.

He can negotiate a neighborly dispute over barking dogs and then chase reckless drag racers on North Navarro Street.

It is, after all, just a day's work for Senior Patrol Officer Josh Robinson with the Victoria Police Department.

But when Robinson clocks out at the end of his 12-hour shift, he said, he needs to use the drive home to shed the stress and become someone else -- Dad.

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