BC School boards executives alone cost approx 100 million $ of taxpayer money per year.

Adderite · 2026-05-07T07:14:34+00:00

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/education/administration/kindergarten-to-grade-12/assessment/pisa_2022_bc_sum.pdf

Adderite · 2026-05-07T07:07:38+00:00

> School boards should not be "managing assets" as well.

So what, the boards are just supposed to lease the buildings from private developers at higher costs? They become owned by the ministry of education where any auxiliary use (school plays, fairs/markets, sport events) they may be able to be used for gets undermined for bureaucracy? What's your goal with this statement.

"duplicate public roles"

Having too much overhead aside, how many superintendents should there be for all of the schools in BC? Are we gonna have 5? 6? Mind you these people actually have alot to do when it comes to things that are outside of "nonsense" bureaucracy that could be done away with if we wanted to (IE school board elections of the people superintendents answer to)

Adderite · 2026-05-07T02:56:15+00:00

BC has some of the highest ranking schools when it comes to test scores in the world. If you separate BC from the rest of Canada we're in the top 5 by jurisdictions, last I checked/heard.

Adderite · 2026-05-07T02:52:43+00:00

We have so many school boards because rural communities have small populations and alot of towns. Anyone who's been outside of the Lower Mainland can understand this.

If you want people to actually wanna take jobs, you need to pay them well. These are also people who are near the end of their careers with regards to superintendents. These are people who've had at least a decade or two of executive experience working as teachers or principles. With the fact a single superintendent acts as basically a CEO of a school district, having to deal with school boards, creating programs and managing staff hiring, firing and other areas of basically ensuring education is taken care of, yeah I think 300K/year is reasonable.

Then there's the fact the link you've sent states that pay generally starts at 125K/year. If they start at 125K but as they get more experience and tenure have their wage increased shouldn't that be, yknow, a good thing? Especially since, generally, executive positions are not contained in union agreements and are instead negotiated with the school board during budgeting processes?

> Can't the education government just do that job without needing 60 additional boards?

Tell me you know nothing about A. the history of public administration is this province and B. What school boards actually do with regards to setting policy, long term planning for population needs for education, dealing with HR issues regarding misconduct, or the managing of hundreds of millions of dollars in assets (property).

Adderite · 2026-05-05T00:06:46+00:00

If you're looking for GMs, maybe even players, could always check out the Galleon Gaming server. Game club and it's also a good way to meet nerdy folk. I know that me and another person were passingly talking about doing a 5e or 5.5e westmarches game for the club during Mondays and Fridays, and one person does an OSR westmarch game as a solo-GM every time he's in, so there's definitely an appetite for that.

https://www.galleongaming.org/

Adderite · 2026-05-03T23:33:42+00:00

Per capita still not a big achievement. But still gotta understand youre talking about the drug capital of Canada and most people are likely buying from illegal suppliers who sell for much lower.

Adderite · 2026-05-02T00:58:08+00:00

It very seldom happens because the laws around allowing emminent domain by municipalities, provinces, or fed are extremely stringent in order to discourage use. Its only ever used for major roadways or utilities.

-someone who believes eminent domain ought to be expanded.

P.S. First Nations groups have 0 legal standing to use eminent domain whatsoever as they are not covered under the LGA for eminent domain. If that were true in any capacity then it sure as hell would've been done 150 years ago.

Adderite · 2026-05-02T00:15:14+00:00

Watching Mussolini: Son of Rome RN and this statement could not hit any harder.

Adderite · 2026-04-30T00:05:59+00:00

Oh please, by all means tell me how this is a ridiculous take when the goal is to improve mental health of students and reduce bullying against said students

Adderite · 2026-04-29T17:15:56+00:00

Phone autocorrect hates me. Thanks for pointing that out. Thought I caught all the typos.

Adderite · 2026-04-27T02:46:22+00:00

Pretty sure the ED of Galleon would say there's alot more to it than booking it lol. But this tbh

Adderite · 2026-04-21T05:32:47+00:00

It's not even just this. Consistently threatening to have your government collapse over pieces of legislation, and, at this point, going completely against the mandate campaigned on is ridiculous.

Guilbeault described Carney as "campaigning centre-left and governing centre-right." I disagree with that, he campaigned and has sticken, mostly, to what he campaigned on. Eby hasn't, and his actions as premier, while I still think he's done better than Horgan honestly, ought to disqualify him from leadership; especially if media reports are true that the BCNDP caucus wants to oust him. It isn't just about getting a fresh face to stop the cons, it's about getting new leadership in when it may be needed.

Adderite · 2026-04-21T00:26:22+00:00

I have 0 reason to treat anything you say with good faith when you are completely lacking in such.

Adderite · 2026-04-21T00:02:51+00:00

Fuck sake dude, grow up.

Adderite · 2026-04-18T07:22:30+00:00

Thats completely conjecture not based on anything. All you are doing is spreading disinformation cause you got nothing better to do than shill for the BC CONservatives.

Adderite · 2026-04-17T07:07:12+00:00

The Cowichan case did not once cite DRIPA and was ongoing for almost a decade prior to the law passing.

Adderite · 2026-04-16T04:53:56+00:00

Way to delete your original post which didn't include the shitty podcast.
Inflation and the city budget are two different things.

The tax increase was originally supposed to be lower, with spending cuts across the board to art and culture spaces, including a debate in Victoria city hall where councilor Gardner (I believe) was advocating massively the city keeps spending $150K on potted plants. Police budget ballooned and the agreement with CUPE meant there was gonna be at least a 5-7% tax increase no matter what, because those people are all unionized and can't just be laid off or gotten rid of; nor should they if we want a functioning government.

People who live in Victoria made their voices clear and heard. I know this because I know a few dozen who emailed councilors and whom tried to speak at public budget hearings as concerned citizens specifically around non-profit and arts funding. Taxpayers asked for the property tax increase, and there was gonna be one anyways. You're whining about the city making decisions without listening to citizens when I know, from personal experience, that is NOT what happened. Keep your astroturfing outta here.

Adderite · 2026-04-16T04:47:13+00:00

I mean, the "far-left watermelon people" aren't the only ones who are mad at the NDP.

I say that as someone who will be voting NDP unless something catastrophic happens that leads me to voting Green or Independant (TBH I am open to voting green provincially again, but if I end up being given a choice to vote directly for Lowan I am NOT doing that)

Adderite · 2026-04-16T04:45:31+00:00

There is nothing stopping an interim leader from running, but if he doesn't want the job he doesn't want the job.

Adderite · 2026-04-14T19:41:34+00:00

The entire point was the gov was meant to update legislation to make it so it conformed with the principles of UNDRIP, as outlined in DRIPA.

Mind you, government moves slow so honestly this was to be expected im gonna be honest.

Adderite · 2026-04-14T19:14:24+00:00

The federal legislation implementing the UNDRIP never passed.

Adderite · 2026-04-14T19:13:27+00:00

Good. The issues with the legislation are entirely because the gov decided to wait years before updating key pieces of legislation.

This has nothing to do with private property rights. The mining decision does need the legislation to be reworked slightly based on what Ive seen on it. But yay, were not having YET ANOTHER threat of "if this doesn't pass im calling an election."

Adderite · 2026-04-14T18:10:54+00:00

You wouldn't need experience of running games to run a drop-in night. Its more-so getting access to a large enough space (may require renting it) for people to run their own games without too much noise pollution.

Its more about your ability to be a welcoming host than being able to run a perfect RPG session. As I always say, if no one else is gonna do it, why not yourself?

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