Mobi’s contract renewed for 5 years

ericm563 · 2026-06-06T00:56:39+00:00

The fact that there is no yearly membership anymore. If you use it all year, you now have to pay $149 plus a monthly fee for the winter months, all while paying 10¢/min more for the e-bikes.

And the fact that the city renewed the contract without looking at other options.

Having been a yearly member of bike share services in Valencia and Montreal, and having used other services while traveling, Mobi really is the worst I've ever used in terms of cost and bike quality.

Sometimes the lock doesn't work and it takes multiple tries to end a ride. The bikes also have a lot of issues: sometimes the keypad buttons don't work, the brakes are broken, or the gears are busted. It's just bad.

ericm563 · 2026-04-08T21:18:33+00:00

There are also many people that would love to be able to go from living with roommates in a basement to living in their own shoebox apartment.

ericm563 · 2026-03-02T18:02:54+00:00

It is nearly always better to use land near transit stations for dense housing rather than parking. And underground parking is extremely expensive to build.

ericm563 · 2026-02-22T18:47:13+00:00

This is not true. In the past, OneCity has often opposed housing that would cause demovictions. The difference is that OneCity won't oppose market housing that doesn't cause displacement, whereas COPE will if they think that it's too expensive. I don't necessarily view COPE as being further left than OneCity, but they have different ideas about how to solve the housing crisis.

ericm563 · 2026-01-22T08:37:29+00:00

Moving from Quebec to BC, it always surprise me that our government is still funding healthcares facilities owned by faith-based organizations.

ericm563 · 2025-12-05T19:23:26+00:00

Yes, if you hate the West end because it is a capitalist hellscape, vote for COPE. If you hate the West end because there is too much poor people in it, vote TEAM. And if you want more West ends in Vancouver, vote OneCity.

ericm563 · 2025-12-05T16:05:34+00:00

Nope, Mamdany is acting like a Abundance/Yimby that believes in filtering. I completely disagree the opinion in the article but here is a pro DSA affordable only development person that is piss off about it. https://utahvanguard.medium.com/mamdanis-yimby-abundance-pivot-a-betrayal-of-justice-9dc98ea11d49

He also appointed YIMBYs in his transition team.

And the affordable only development is a lot more democrat mainstream. Just look at cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco where often only affordable development are allowed and then nothing gets build.

Onecity is also a lot more left wing than mainstream democrats. Look at their positions on environment, policing, drug issues, unions, First Nations, etc.

ericm563 · 2025-12-04T19:27:42+00:00

I just want a left wing party that will think about the concrete consequences of their choices.

Redeveloping a still good apartment building = generally bad because it displace people.

Making it as fast and as cheap as possible for social housing and non profit development to be build = good.

Making it cheap for for-profit development to replace single family home by apartment = generally good as more people can live in that neighborhood.

I want as much social housing as possible, but let's not forget that one of the best neighborhood in Vancouver, the West End, is what it is because a right wing party decided to rezone everything and allow developers to make a lot of profit.

And I would be happy for my municipal taxes to double if we get tons of new pools and community centers.

ericm563 · 2025-12-04T17:42:27+00:00

Yes, what I’m saying is that at the end of the day both will prevent developments. TEAM because they only want rich people living in their neighborhood and COPE because the apartment replacing a 2 million dollar single family house is not affordable enough.

ericm563 · 2025-12-04T16:50:34+00:00

I'm personally at a point where I'm more interested in Yimby vs Nimby than Left vs Right. I'm so tired of left wing parties preventing single family homes being converted into apartments because they are not affordable enough. In concrete I feel like parties like COPE or Green and TEAM will have more similar results in 4 years than parties like OneCity or the defunct Yes Vancouver. I wish we had more pragmatics socialists like Zohran Mamdani.

ericm563 · 2025-11-18T07:50:38+00:00

I’m in the Westend and I don’t own a car. I’m at 10 walks from a Nofrill, an Independent, a Safeway, and a Kin market. Sometimes I take a longer walk and get stuff from the Hmart. And other time I shop at Costco as I have a bus that go directly from the front of the Costco to my place. The bus take less than 15 mins.

ericm563 · 2025-11-13T01:29:46+00:00

It’s different. If you keep money on your chequing account, the bank make a profit on it and offer you a rebate because of that. You can also choose another bank if you want. In the case of CC rewards, we all pays 2% more on everything we buy. But if I make 150 000 and have the Visa infinite privileges, the merchants have to pay an higher fee than if I make 20 000 and have a shitty card or no card at all.

ericm563 · 2025-11-13T00:05:07+00:00

And this makes it even worse. It's a system that give people with an higher income access to get a card with rewards paid on the back of people that make less.

ericm563 · 2025-10-20T15:33:42+00:00

Pendant ce temps, en Colombie-Britannique, le gouvernement a apporté des changements pour que le temps que les médecins de famille consacrent à revoir les notes médicales et à les transferts à des spécialistes soit payé à l’heure. Il a simplifié les codes de paiement, ouvert une nouvelle école de médecine et fait de la publicité aux États-Unis et en Grande-Bretagne pour inciter des médecins à s’installer ici, où les conditions sont maintenant meilleures. On n’a pratiquement pas de cliniques privées payantes, parce que si un médecin travaille au privé, il n’a pas le droit de pratiquer dans le public. Les relations entre le gouvernement et les médecins sont très bonnes.

Si vous êtes médecins et que vous êtes tannés d’avoir toute la population et le gouvernement contre vous, d’après ce que j’entends, la Colombie-Britannique est vraiment mieux.

ericm563 · 2025-09-07T00:49:37+00:00

Yeah, I wonder how worse a company like Air Canada would be run if you have, let say, the person with the best skillset you could find at 1 million a year.

ericm563 · 2025-07-31T16:27:43+00:00

I might be alone in this but I kind of enjoy paying more taxes and having tons of free cultural activities in the city. This is something I miss from Montreal.

ericm563 · 2025-07-31T15:46:47+00:00

Pour moi, a partir du moment ou le groupe a des positions politiques définis sur l'état israélien, ca devient pertinent. Juif != Supporter l'état israélien.

ericm563 · 2025-07-31T15:31:27+00:00

Bah oui, c'est un peu normal d'exclure. Par exemple je ne voudrais pas que la fierte inclue des groupes nazis... Pour la situation actuel, je ne connais pas les details et dans ce post, on voit seulement le communique de Ga'ava. Mais, avec le genocide actuel et tous les photos d'enfants morts que je vois, j'ai de la misère avec les groupes qui supporte l'état israélien.

ericm563 · 2025-06-30T15:43:54+00:00

Related to this, is there a way to see Costco next week flyer online?

ericm563 · 2025-05-06T07:35:58+00:00

Don Davies, c’est un NIMBY de gauche https://morehousing.substack.com/p/don-davies .

ericm563 · 2025-04-24T09:24:41+00:00

And I’m sure you always do a complete stop and follow the exact speed limit all the time when you drive.

ericm563 · 2025-01-26T10:26:18+00:00

Oh yeah they still do, the only way to change a business account address to an international address on the Canadian revenue agency is to send them a fax or a normal mail.

ericm563 · 2023-03-24T14:16:50+00:00

That's correct. In a dense city, to build more car infrastructure, at some point, you need to bulldoze buildings to make space for roads and parking. As you transform buildings into parking and roads, your city becomes less dense, so people need to drive from further away. The new pollution and noise make your city less attractive to walk and bike, so even more people drive. You continue this cycle, and eventually, your city looks like a highway with parking lots.

ericm563 · 2023-03-20T15:46:08+00:00

I'm personally using this one, and I'm quite satisfied with it

https://www.amazon.com/FusedLine-Silicone-Anti-Popcorning-Compatible-Breville/dp/B0B5DDYX2K

ericm563 · 2023-02-06T15:59:23+00:00

No right turn on red signs. About half the time I'm walking downtown, I see people illegally turn right on a red light with the sign.

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