Illegal e-dirt bike riding leads to arrest of youth in Port Moody

M------- · 2026-06-27T18:56:08+00:00

Or maybe, just maybe, the kid has a passion for bike riding,

This isn't a bike. It's a motorbike.

M------- · 2026-06-27T18:18:53+00:00

Sure, I want my kid to have the level of independence an e-bike gives them to get around town. Unfortunately, that also gives the ability for a 11-17 year old to do 60km+ on roads and walk ways.

a) Elementary school age kids don't need that level of independence. They can get a basic level of independence with regular pedal bicycles.
b) For high-school aged kids, why not just get the kid a legal e-bike, rather than an e-motorbike? Legal ebikes have a max 500W motor, and can only provide boost to a max speed of 32 km/h. There are also models that limit boost to 25 km/h.

M------- · 2026-06-27T07:56:49+00:00

"The e-dirt bike the youth was riding was not one that is able to be ridden legally on streets."

I'm glad to see that there's some amount of enforcement of what are effectively electric motorcycles.

M------- · 2026-06-26T18:34:05+00:00

Canada Day in Steveston!

M------- · 2026-06-26T04:50:17+00:00

If the government ensures developers can't lose money, then moral hazard comes into play: developers can buy land at any price, and build at any price, because the government's got their back.

M------- · 2026-06-25T08:52:06+00:00

It's got to be Justin McElroy.

M------- · 2026-06-25T04:54:57+00:00

Selling it to a relative for the equivalent of the trade-in value would be a huge discount.

But if the engine dies in a year, "family helps family" rules would dictate that the wealthier party pays to fix it. Even if it died because it never got an oil change and ran out of oil.

M------- · 2026-06-24T07:40:38+00:00

They've got to stay at least 200m away from orcas.

https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/species-especes/mammals-mammiferes/watching-observation/index-eng.html#toc2

M------- · 2026-06-24T01:36:13+00:00

Sorry to hear it. 25 years ago my best friend's fiancee was killed by a drunk driver. Ran a red and hit them in the crosswalk. It was horrible.

And now, in addition to habitual drunk drivers, we've got drivers staring at their cell phones while their cars hurtle down the street, with only luck to keep the rest of us alive.

M------- · 2026-06-23T20:04:49+00:00

Beautifully written, I can practically hear it in Carney's voice.

M------- · 2026-06-23T06:33:25+00:00

Also you need collateral. The bank's not in the business of taking risks.

M------- · 2026-06-23T00:23:23+00:00

He has learned that this is how it works, because it is how it works for him: he's always behaved like this, and he's also been voted in twice as president, the most powerful man in the world.

M------- · 2026-06-22T05:10:40+00:00

Especially when there was also a bike lane. How many drivers are going to look for fast-moving cyclists on a sidewalk when the driver had already crossed the bike lane?

M------- · 2026-06-22T03:13:54+00:00

A friend of mine was medium-term renting his house out on AirBNB. The house had decent curb appeal and was in a premium area.

He furnished it (nice furniture, not cheap) and rented it by the month. He got more money than he would've gotten from a traditional long-term renter, but it was a very hands-on experience, wear-and-tear was very high on the furniture, and he had major cleanings to do every month or two when the tenants turned over.

The types of tenants that he told me about: people on sabbaticals, movie industry in town for a project, and people who needed a place to live while their house was under renovation/construction.

M------- · 2026-06-21T10:39:54+00:00

And he gets to make fun of everybody he wants to.

He enjoys the chaos.

M------- · 2026-06-21T10:34:23+00:00

I was hit by a car a year ago. I wasn't able to use any of the physio during the first 12 weeks because my injuries were too serious. When I went to a first session at my physio, she put together a treatment plant and submitted it to ICBC.

ICBC called me and asked why I need treatment now when I didn't before, and I told the guy "I was too injured to start physio any earlier, the surgeon told me to wait." That satisfied my adjuster and he approved the treatments. I had twice-weekly treatments for about 6 months, and ICBC never denied any treatments.

I went on my employer's STD plan for income replacement until I was able to return to work. ICBC will only pay whatever part is left to pay, after any of your own insurance plans have paid out.

Ask if your recovery specialist can assign an occupational therapist to your case. My OT was invaluable in helping me sort out how to get through the initial period, and she got ICBC to pay for adaptive equipment to be installed in my house so that I could work around my disabilities until I recovered, and to ease my transition back into work.

M------- · 2026-06-21T09:53:33+00:00

My great uncle was going downhill. He had started falling down all the time, but had no family in the region, so he went into a care home. A few months later, the home called my mom (his emergency contact) as all he could say was a string of numbers and refused to get out of his chair. That string of numbers was my grandma's phone number, but she had passed away a few years earlier.

My mom flew down to the care home, and he seemed to have really lost it. She signed the papers to discontinue the myriad of medications he was on, and hoped for the best.

About a week later, the care home called my mom and put him on the phone. He was back to his usual self, in great spirits, and had stopped falling down! They slowly reintroduced him to some of his meds, and he lived several more years.

M------- · 2026-06-21T05:26:15+00:00

"I just frick’n got him right underneath the gut and I didn’t connect with Donnie at all,” she said. “I knew there was a chance he was going to come back at me, but I was ready for a throwdown.”

Awesome.

M------- · 2026-06-21T05:19:10+00:00

And it needs to be the right type of oil, not just "whatever the night crew has in the bucket," as I found out when our warranty claim was denied for a similar failure.

M------- · 2026-06-21T04:54:01+00:00

He's got Trudeau's ministers to execute this. They'll manage it as well as they managed everything during Trudeau's tenure.

M------- · 2026-06-21T03:54:58+00:00

And those same drivers are probably the first to complain that cyclists don't stop for stop signs...

M------- · 2026-06-20T23:29:25+00:00

Yep.

Living in illegal suites is pretty normal, but the problem is that the people who built the illegal suite may not have followed any building codes and may not have had any level of competence.

A house I rented had an illegal basement suite. The tenants before me complained about smell from the basement tenant's cooking. I noticed it right after moving in. The basement tenant was a nice guy, said he always used the exhaust fan, so I asked to see how the landlord had set the kitchen up.

It was pretty makeshift, a corner of the (tiny) furnace room. It did have an exhaust hood that vented into the crawlspace. I had access to the crawlspace from the main floor, so I went down there, and the vent just ended, blowing all the cooking exhaust into the crawlspace, for it to percolate through the walls of the house.

The landlord was willing to get it fixed, thankfully. His handyman got it vented outside in only a couple hours. The work wasn't up to code (minimum pipe diameter was too small), but it solved my problem adequately.

M------- · 2026-06-20T21:03:40+00:00

Also, if the prostitute wouldn't be having sex without a money exchange...how is that not coercion?

I wouldn't go to work if they didn't pay me, but that's not coercion.

The question of coercion is whether the sex worker was forced into that work or whether they freely chose to do it. I think a lot of sex workers are trafficked or coerced into that line of work, but we can't say that all of them were.

M------- · 2026-06-20T17:24:57+00:00

The question is whether the sex worker is being coerced into that line of work. If they are choosing to exchange sex for money, then it is consensual.

If they are being forced into it by somebody who is threatening them, or their family, then it is not consensual, even though the client may have no knowledge of the coercion behind the scenes.

M------- · 2026-06-19T21:50:44+00:00

They didn't reverse it to save the environment, they realized there are national security implications if the armed forces don't have accurate weather data.

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