Maria Cruciano and her husband Jim White bought a 1957 Chevrolet from Robert Bradshaw in February 2023. After storing it and making repairs over the winter, they went to register the car in early June, only to discover it was now listed as belonging to Grogan Classics.

White called Grogan, who explained that there had been an error. Grogan offered to sign over the ownership slip and courier it to Bradshaw. White picked it up the next day and registered the car in his name. (Cruciano and White provided CBC News with a copy of the signed slip and phone records documenting the call to Grogan’s dealership.)

Yet the Chevy was still declared stolen six months later. The OPP seized and returned the car to Grogan in July.

“[Grogan] absolutely knew our car had been sold,” said Cruciano. "We spoke with him. He signed the ownership. He couriered it to Bradshaw.

“And you know what the man didn’t say to us? ‘Holy hell, that car was stolen! That guy can’t sell my car!’”

This is insane. How is it not fraud to report a car as stolen after signing the documents personally?

I think they’ll have a hard time with her new riding as well as the new candidate for her old riding. I think a not insignificant portion of Green voters in Cowichan voted for her personally, because of how she fought for the Valley as Shawnigan’s director, and not for the party.

It sounds more like a "whichever comes first, which I’d argue makes a lot more sense. The mortgage on the 60% would be paid off by 25 years and if you sell early you’d basically use any appreciation/the full value to pay back the 40%. In your scenario you could just immediately sell it and pocket the 40% for the next 24 years.

It’s absolutely insane that market value of a studio is over $600,000.

I don’t have confidence in the Liberal government, but I am confident the Conservatives would be worse.

It’s because there is no nuance anymore. With every issue you have to either be 100% on my side or 100% on the other side. So many times people argue for and against things that aren’t mutually exclusive. It doesn’t mean we should “both sides” everything, but sometimes both sides each have half of a good idea.

Yeah, I imagine if you’re in a city it’s a different story. TransLink has been great every time I’ve used it in Vancouver. Greater Victoria seems to be pretty decent if you’re in the core or you’re near one of the commuter corridors, Nanaimo seems ok but I haven’t used it myself.

I’m in the Cowichan Valley, and like I said all our routes seem to be big loops that go out to all the smaller communities and back to Duncan. The only way I see it being more effective with a similar amount of buses is if there was more of a direct highway route and/or a hub and spoke model. You could then put a local route in each community/ group of communities or even an on demand system if it’s more rural. Obviously that’s based on my area, but I can’t imagine it’s much different in many other small towns and spread out communities.

Honestly I wouldn’t start to use the current transit in my area if it was free. The issue isn’t cost, it’s that the service is stretched so thin it’s only usable as a last resort and your day has to be planned around the schedule. On the rare occasion I can’t use my car I have ended up walking for an hour and a half because it’s more convenient than the bus. I’m just glad I’m not disabled or I’d have to turn some of my outings into overnighters.

I’d rather live in a modern house I could afford to own that happens to look kinda boring than the poorly converted basement of someone else’s boring old house that also looks like every other house on the street.

Why would you assume they’re talking about a foreign election in a country that doesn’t even have a Conservative or Liberal party?

We have our own carbon tax in BC, it has nothing to do with the federal government.

The rest of us really dodged a bullet, look how they treat their own people…

Hold on, you can get an apartment in a major city for under $2000? Is the minimum wage in Quebec $10/hr? I don’t live particularly close to any city and you’d be hard pressed to find anything more than a studio for $1500, you’re looking at close to $2000 for something decent. I wonder how many months it would take to break even after moving costs from BC…

Might-E Trucks are pretty awesome, but I’m definitely not going to be commuting on the TCH in one.

And even if this was one of them, it clearly can’t be that secretive if we’re hearing about it.

Didn’t Harper kind of screw us over by signing FIPA back in 2014? I haven’t heard anything about it but those Chinese EV companies will probably sue us over these tariffs.

If we had vacancy control, we could swing almost every other policy way closer to what the landlords want. There’d be almost no incentive for bad faith evictions, and at the same time the financial impact of having to find a new place to rent would be minimized (if not initially, over time).

Right now we’re so far the opposite way, we have to have all these protections in place. Of course landlords would love to toss their long term tenants to get double or triple rent each month, and at the same time it’s financially ruinous for a tenant to have to suddenly find themselves an extra $1-2000/mo to afford even the cheapest rental on the market.

I’m not sure exactly what your point is, but we do ship a lot of raw logs across the Pacific right now. If China had good logs maybe Japan wouldn’t import them from BC.

Positive pressure hallways/staircases would make a huge impact on the spread of smoke. Smoke would still be an issue if the fire was in the hall itself, but no amount of staircases can help you if you can’t access them. The quote from the Fire Chiefs Association really makes me think we’re using the second staircase to skimp on every other aspect of fire safety.

I was going to agree with you, but I think after reading your points I actually feel the complete opposite. I think if there’s a role for heavy taxation to play it should be on new ICE vehicles, as opposed to on the gas itself. We’re talking about new vehicles here, there are millions of perfectly good used vehicles out there that would fill all the roles you’re talking about. Increasing gas taxes ends up punishing the people who can least afford it. Like the farmers who have to have to haul their equipment hundreds of kilometers between farms, the condo dwellers who aren’t allowed to charge at home, and the renters who can’t afford to install an EV charger, let alone buy a new car. The tax should also go towards making EVs more affordable at the low end (it would be nice to subsidize used EVs but I can see many ways to abuse something like that).

We need to get the percentage of new EVs up today so that tomorrow’s used market is where we want it to be. We can only do that by encouraging those who can afford a new car to pick an EV, not by punishing those who can’t afford a choice.