Incumbent Oak Bay Councillor Tara Ney: Oak Bay website is being updated so councillors can “better communicate with public.”

VIVIAN MOREAU: Oak Bay residents have their say at town hall meeting

‘I am the face of things to come,’ Oak Bay resident and renter Lee Carlson says as he faces the audience at Tuesday’s town hall meeting at Monterey Recreation Centre.

Vivian Moreau/News staff

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Published: April 14, 2011 10:00 AM
Updated: April 14, 2011 10:57 AM

 

Plenty talked about at tightly-run forum

 

 

As 200 people filled up Monterey Recreation Centre for Tuesday’s town hall meeting, I was eavesdropping on two men arguing.

 

 

“I have no problem with secondary suites,” one said. “Young people need a way to buy a house.”

 

 

The second man countered, “But that turns the house into a commercial enterprise.”

 

 

It was an indication of the even divide of opinion that would prevail at a gathering tightly run by hired front man Jamie Chicanot.

 

 

The audience suggested discussion topics: secondary suites, heritage home preservation and trees, to name a few. Surprisingly, no one mentioned the future of Oak Bay Lodge or Uplands sewerage system, topics that have drawn fractious crowds to council meetings.

 

 

Speakers such as Lee Carlson, 34, who rents an apartment in Oak Bay, provided a voice rarely heard since the secondary suite debate recently heated up: that of an actual renter. Carlson addressed the crowd, rather than councillors.

 

 

“I’m the face of things to come. I don’t look like you,” he said to the largely older, and sometimes unruly, audience. He echoed remarks made by UVic grad student and renter Jayna Brulotte, who said “The idea that people who rent are somehow different is offensive to me.”

 

 

Heritage consultant Stuart Stark made an impassioned plea, complete with hand on chest, that council not allow Blair Gowie, a heritage-designated Runnymede Avenue property, to be subdivided.

 

 

He provided concrete evidence, recounting conversations he’d had with the home’s former owner, the late Pamela Ellis, about designating the house and the property as a way of saving it.

 

 

“Her intent was never to have the garden built on,” he said to applause. Oak Bay administrator Mark Brennan said legislation doesn’t require a public hearing for a heritage revitalization agreement.

 

 

As more residents spoke, a common theme became apparent: lack of communication. Whether it was Ewa Lupin’s concern that letters written to council about Blair Gowie had not been responded to or another man’s point that councillors’ contact information isn’t on the municipal website, there was a palpable sense of frustration.

 

 

Coun. Tara Ney clarified that the municipal website is being updated so councillors can “better communicate with the public.” Councillors also agreed that Oak Bay’s 15-year-old official community plan needs revising.

 

 

Oak Bay resident Mary Douglas-Hunt spoke out against legalizing secondary suites and was applauded when she asked councillors if they have suites in their homes. All except Coun. Pam Copley said they do not, but Copley said the suite in her house, built before she bought it, has never been rented out.

 

 

Friends of Oak Bay Neighbourhood member Mike Wilmut was roundly criticized by an audience member and Coun. Nils Jensen for making unkind comments – which won’t be repeated here – about absent Mayor Christopher Causton, who is busy running a federal election campaign.

 

 

Once the discussion turned to climate change and trees, many seats, including mine, were vacated as the two-hour meeting wound down.

 

 

Residents will have more opportunities to discuss hot topics such as secondary suites and heritage designation at municipal committee of the whole meetings this month, and at public meetings in May.

 

 

Stay tuned.

 

 

vmoreau@oakbaynews.com

 

Break a CFL lightbulb? Here is what sold-out Globalist genius bureaucrats at Health Canada say you should do… thanks to Jack Etkin via Bill Woollam’s Blissful Wisdom news service

If you think The Corporate Media are telling you the truth about ‘smart’ meters being safe, then please think again. 

Corporate profits are the only thing that matters to our government representatives.  As you are reading this, ask yourself why our own governments would force us to put these things in our homes…

Here is what Health Canada says you should do

if you break a CFL lightbulb. 

• Leave the room
• Remove people and pets from the room and keep them out of the room during the clean-up process.
• Avoid stepping on any broken glass.

• Ventilate the room for at least 15 minutes prior to starting clean-up by opening windows and doors to the outdoors. This will ensure that mercury vapour levels are reduced before you start cleaning.

• Clean-up Directions for Hard and Carpeted Surfaces
  • Do not use a vacuum to clean up the initial breakage, as it will spread the mercury vapour and dust throughout the area and may contaminate the vacuum.
  • Wear disposable gloves, if available, to avoid direct contact with mercury and to prevent cuts.
  • Scoop or sweep up the broken pieces and debris with two pieces of stiff paper or cardboard.  Do not use a broom.
  • Use sticky tape, such as duct tape or masking tape, to pick up any remaining fine glass or powder.
  • Wipe the area with a damp paper towel, cloth or disposable wet wipe to remove any residual particles.
  • Place the broken glass and clean-up materials in a glass container with a tight fitting lid to further minimize the release of mercury vapour.
• Carpeting – Steps to Take After the Initial Clean-up
  • If the rug is removable, take it outside, shake and air it out for as long as is practical.
    • The first time you vacuum on installed carpet after the clean-up, shut the door to the room or close off the area as much as possible and ventilate the room in which the lamp was broken by opening the windows and doors to the outside. When the vacuuming is done, remove the bag, wipe the vacuum with a damp paper towel, cloth or disposable wet wipe, and then place the vacuum bag and paper towel in a sealed plastic bag outside.  In the case of a canister vacuum, wipe the canister out with a wet paper towel and dispose of the towel as outlined above. Continue to ventilate the room for 15 minutes once the vacuuming is completed.
• Disposal
  • Immediately place waste material outside of the building in a protected area away from children.
  • Dispose of the waste at a household hazardous waste location as soon as possible.  Check with local, provincial, or territorial authorities about the requirements for recycling and for the location of household hazardous waste depots or pick-up.
  • Do not dispose of the waste in your household trash.
  • For further information on disposal, please contact Environment Canada.
• Washing
  • Wash your hands after storing and disposing of waste.

• Additional Information
  • Remove and install the CFL by handling only the base of the lamp to prevent any unnecessary pressure on the glass that may cause it to break.
  • Consider using a drop cloth when replacing a CFL to minimize the chance of breakage should the lamp fall or to protect the flooring and assist in clean-up should the bulb drop and break.
  • Store fluorescent lamps in containers that prevent them from breaking, such as in their original packaging.
  • Consider avoiding the use of CFL s in areas where the lamps may be easily broken.

NOTE:  They have forced these CFL light bulbs on us, and they are deliberately keeping secret the information that would probably cause a lot of people not to buy them.  There are also problems with UV Radiation from the CFL bulbs, and people should not be too close to them for longer periods of time, like children studying with a lamp…???  But they don’t tell us about that either.

   The following link should take you to the health canada report:

www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/prod/cfl-afc-eng.php

You can also call toll-free at 1-866-225-0709 or TTY at 1-800-267-1245*

Updated: May 2010

Jack Etkin

jetkino@yahoo.ca

Gregory Hartnell, Victoria antiglobalist artist-historian, cites anti-war pro-life veteran flight surgeon Dr. Ron Paul, Presidential candidate who promotes Austrian School of economics, in announcing his standing for 1 of 3 vacant Oak Bay Council positions in November, 2011 election

I am a former resident of Yale Street in the 70s, Beach Drive in the 80s and Hampshire Road after 9/11, who still worships at Saint Patrick’s Church on Haultain, borrows books from the Monterey library, does not believe the Globalist New World Order war propaganda and lies of the ‘lamestream media’ and instead reads alternative free papers like Agora, Common Ground, Epoch Times and Focus.

We have cancelled our subscription to the Victoria Times Colonist because of its warmongering, lies about 9/11 and demonization of Muslims.

I use the bank in the village (but don’t really trust the ‘banksters’).

I shop for increasingly expensive produce with my dear wife across the street.

We patronize the galleries, restaurants and independent shopkeepers of this lovely leafy suburban village, designed as a ‘Garden City’.

I am a 58 year old student of Modern European and Latin American History (University of San Francisco, California, BA), and believe that the prudent economic principles of the Austrian School of economics, as espoused by Dr. Ron Paul, 75, have stood the tests of time.

This wise old pro-life gynecologist-obstetrician has delivered more than 4,000 babies, has authored half a dozen books on ecomomic policy based on free markets and sound money principles (gold and silver standard), has a Campaign for Liberty, is a twelve term Texan Congressman and pro-peace anti-militarist Viet Nam war veteran flight surgeon who is now in the top tier of the Republican presidential candidates.

As a married man, and a responsible property-owning citizen with a common sense understanding of practical economics, I am concerned to ensure that Oak Bay’s government shrink in its ambitions, costs and size, in order that more new jobs are created here, as a natural consequence of less burdensome residential property tax bills.

So as not to repeat the unnecessary aesthetic, fiscal and social problems associated with the as yet unfinished Oak Bay Beach Hotel, I would work to limit apartment, commercial and domestic buildings in Oak Bay to four storeys in height only, and require more bona fide assurance from the applicant developer’s bank that the necessary financing for the proposed project was strictly in order.

I am opposed to the CRD plans for a costly sewage treatment plant that is not mandated by pertinent scientific data.

I support the less costly alternative advocated by Responsible Sewage Treatment Victoria, but only when the supporting science is incontrovertible.

I do not believe that the District of Oak Bay is legally or constitutionally bound by socialist stimulus mandates for such unnecessary ‘sewage treatment’ from senior governments.

I also firmly believe that property taxpayers in Oak Bay must be protected from out-of-control non-accountable central planning by the Capitol Regional District.

There must be an overwhelming citizen participation rate of at least 66% of electors, and 66% of that cohort must endorse any proposed bylaw to mandate such major borrowing and spending for any major public works project.

As we seem to be entering a global depression, now is certainly not the proper time to undertake such costly projects.

Therefor, I am also completely opposed to grandiose ‘greenwashing’ plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on Light Rapid Transit.

A compassionate preferential option for the poor must inform our transit policy, but bus rides should not be free for everyone, as some socialist planners advocate.

Disabled, homeless, unemployed and other poor citizens should be able to ride free on public transit buses in the Capitol Region.

Citizens who are employed and can afford bus tickets should continue to pay for them, but the price of these tickets should be frozen for at least a year, and reviewed annually.

I do not believe that any further money, resources or time should be spent by Oak Bay Council co-operating with bogus ‘climate change’ studies or initiatives of any sort whatsoever.

Nor should the District of Oak Bay co-operate with the present Liberal Government (or any subsequent government) of the Province in phoney carbon tax schemes which only discourage the awakened citizenry and reward tax-exempt polluters, while taking revenues out of the hospitals and schools.

Real environomental concerns on the minds of the people of Oak Bay include dangerous radiation from so-called ‘smart meters’, toxic geo-engineering chem trails polluting the air and our vegetables, and dangerous, unwanted and unannounced nuclear ship visits.

I do not hear a great clamoring for any further ‘climate change’ spending in Oak Bay, rather I witness a great awakening of the citizenry to the junk science of this Globalist fraud, based on highly suspect eugenicist philosophy, and a nasty anti-human population control agenda.

As an historian I am concerned to effectively stop the tendancy of all governments, and particularly the government of the District of Oak Bay, toward police corruption, bureaucratic expansionism, creeping militarism, higher taxes, Council and bureaucratic secrecy, and counterproductive Keynsian socialist ‘stimulus’ spending.

Therefor, late today, I filed papers with the Electoral Officer of the District of Oak Bay, to stand for the position of Councillor in the upcoming election.

I encourage all Concerned Citizens in Oak Bay to read this GPMH blog on a daily basis, for a truly revolutionary critical political analysis of the current Globalist economic crisis, as it pertains to Oak Bay, Vancouver Island.

Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell, Artist-Historian

1357 Rockland Avenue,

Victoria, V8S 1V7

Tel. 250 382 97 67

gregoryhartnell@yahoo.ca

GREGORY PAUL MICHAEL HARTNELL: gregoryhartnell.wordpress.com

LA ROSA: goyodelarosa.wordpress.com

PLEASE VOTE:

GREGORY HARTNELL

FOR OAK BAY COUNCIL

NOVEMBER 19, 2011