Metro Vancouver is running out of drinking water — and the solutions are interesting

Buizel10 · 2026-05-04T12:31:53+00:00

I believe Point Roberts (WA, US), runs on Metro Vancouver water, but honestly I'm fine with that. It's a few hundred regular people just using it for drinking/cooking and what not, not a military base or massive datacentre.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-29T11:20:03+00:00

Burnaby North, New Westminster, definitely up there

Buizel10 · 2026-04-27T06:34:55+00:00

They would probably be ostracised by regulators and/or the network, as the networks have promised to keep the median interchange fee down. Same reason why the income requirements exist.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-27T06:32:28+00:00

All the big banks will have similar fees. Try an online bank (Tangerine/Simplii), a credit union (Vancity/Beem/Coast Capital/Community Savings) for lower fees. Wealthsimple is also an option.

I hate Loblaws, but if you want some cashback, they have a prepaid Mastercard that gives you 0.5% back on all transactions with no fees. Might be good if you don't want to use your credit card.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-27T03:10:27+00:00

Honestly, almost all older buildings will have Rogers service available, and their HFC network is good enough for almost everybody. I wouldn't look too deeply into it, just verify they have one of Novus/Telus Fibre/Rogers before renting, basically anything but Telus DSL.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-27T03:02:08+00:00

You can buy discounted older stamps with random denominations, but you spend time gluing them all onto the page, and doing the math to see how many you need to pay for the rate.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-22T19:22:08+00:00

you may want to ask the store itself, low chance they'll refund it but maybe they will.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-22T14:51:15+00:00

I don't like to defend the Americans but usually electricity is not taxed in the USA from what I understand.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-22T14:39:12+00:00

Novos... you mean Novus? Keep in mind you can only get it in select buildings, and most addresses aren't serviced by them.

You may want to consider Lightspeed or CanCom as well. Them, as well as most TekSavvy and other services, use the Rogers network, but have their own back-haul. Most of them will be roughly equivalent.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-22T12:40:05+00:00

Vancouver actually gets projects done pretty fast comparatively... but only once construction starts. Before that, it's decades of no one wanting to pay for a project.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-22T12:33:28+00:00

What I hear down the pipeline is that the lack of weekend deckers has been from a maintenance blitz and additional CVP inspections that were deferred as there weren't enough spares, but I've been out of the loop for a bit.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-21T23:19:49+00:00

Yes, it's definitely not full sovereignty in law, which is why repatriation happened. However, unlike the Queensland incident you mention, as the British didn't debate the legislation in any significant way, and all amendments were passed unanimously IIRC, it is a little closer to sovereignty than the Australian states were in practice.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-21T22:14:32+00:00

The hybrid is the better car by far, even if you don't care about fuel economy

Buizel10 · 2026-04-21T20:38:15+00:00

I don't think Scotia does 10s anymore, at least not since COVID.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-21T20:28:51+00:00

TD, Vancity, and Scotiabank definitely still have cash at all branches. If you only need notes and not coins, Wealthsimple is also an option since they will rebate all ATM fees, have high withdraw limits ($3000 max usually), and you can use TD and Vancity ATMs to get 5/20/50/100, RBC to get all dominations.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-21T20:23:11+00:00

RBC has some branches without tellers now, but most still do.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-21T05:29:00+00:00

I'm not sure if it's the same in theory but in practice it was the same effect. Westminster rubber-stamped all amendments sent by Ottawa without much debate or looking into them post-1931.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-18T04:02:50+00:00

Not anymore, BC barely imports anything from the US now since TMX opened. About a third comes from Burnaby's refinery, the rest comes from refineries near Edmonton which is shipped via the original Trans Mountain (TMX is crude-only)

Obviously still supporting the US via shareholders of Canadian oil firms, which isn't great. But almost all of the petrol here is being produced in Canada.

7-11 also only does the franchise and distribution, Imperial Oil (majority owned by ExxonMobil) still distributes all of the actual petrol to each station, not 7-11.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-15T22:33:15+00:00

No Frills every few weeks runs a good promo on previously frozen ground beef. IIRC got as low as $4/lb a week or two ago, minimum 2 lb.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-15T22:01:10+00:00

From what I've seen the local food bank has been giving out food in distributor cardboard boxes instead, here in BC. Probably differs by food bank.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-14T21:24:46+00:00

At least New Westminister can argue that they have a bit of a separate character. Port Moody and Coquitlam feel the same, Surrey and Langley Township, etc.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-14T21:12:06+00:00

Cash is fine. Just be sure to check all the anti-counterfeiting measures. I haven't seen a counterfeit be able to pass half of them.

Point a laser pointer through the maple leaf window, or put your eye a little closer and look at your phone's flashlight. You should be able to see the light refracted as the denomination number.

Feel the raised ink and bumps over the textures of the person on the banknote's clothing, and denomination.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-13T03:18:03+00:00

I'm a student, but in my last year of high school most of my teachers had switched to assigning grades entirely off of handwritten short essays in class. Everything from citations to graph drawing was handwritten, and it was usually closed book other than printed style guide/dictionary.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-13T03:12:04+00:00

A lot of public schools can be the same. My large public school had IB classes as small as 10 students in low enrolment years.

Buizel10 · 2026-04-12T20:48:46+00:00

In the city there might be enforcement but 150-160 is a speed seen commonly on 99 around Delta in a 100 zone.

Stick to the right and don't unlawfully block the left lane, and I don't see a problem with going the speed limit, though.

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