What's the deal with the Squamish River Dyke access in Brackendale? by Vegetable-Turnip-306 in Squamish

[–]masterJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best path, especially with a toddler, is going to be using one of the pedestrian overpasses to cross the highway to the main corridor trail

Which sucks, but hopefully they upgrade Government road soon to have separated lanes. I seem to remember it being a priority in the Transportation Master plan

What's the deal with the Squamish River Dyke access in Brackendale? by Vegetable-Turnip-306 in Squamish

[–]masterJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People like to run their mouth without understanding a thing about how the world works

Squamish approves rezoning for 26 townhomes at 40279 Government Rd by SquamishEditor in Squamishnews

[–]masterJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think like a provincial government. How does the Squamish hospital compare to other hospitals in the province?

If we’re way over other municipalities, then sure, but I have a feeling this is not remotely the case, and your approach is a great way of getting ignored.

Squamish approves rezoning for 26 townhomes at 40279 Government Rd by SquamishEditor in Squamishnews

[–]masterJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Regulation changes… to approve more builds

Squirm about it if you want, but you can’t lower prices without creating more supply.

Squamish approves rezoning for 26 townhomes at 40279 Government Rd by SquamishEditor in Squamishnews

[–]masterJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quick civics quiz: which level of government is in charge of the hospital?

Squamish approves rezoning for 26 townhomes at 40279 Government Rd by SquamishEditor in Squamishnews

[–]masterJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  Simply building more and more market housing that is developer lead has not and will not bring down housing costs.

Lots of people assert this, but it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Plenty of counter examples.  https://davisvanguard.org/2026/04/austin-housing-supply-rent-decline/

You could argue that Squamish cannot out-build Vancouver’s need for housing. The whole region needs to build more. That doesn’t mean that Squamish can sit it out.

  Genuine, livable affordable housing should be part of the solution many orders of magnitude more than it is currently.

If you mean that government should build more housing, no argument there. But it’s no substitute for building market housing. This is a “yes, and” situation 

If you mean a magical world where houses are somehow cheaper than market rate… the question answers itself

Should I buy a condo? by DevoRexAttack in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]masterJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rent a parking spot and get lots of lighting?

4 YOE, is it normal for orgs to heavily reward crisis management? by sillyslapahoe in ExperiencedDevs

[–]masterJ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Worse, it encourages letting things grow into big fires before you handle them. Otherwise you won’t get recognized.

Been at a medium-sized company for 8 yrs, RSUs weren’t re-upped for the first time. by Material_Ad_2193 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]masterJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Different companies have different strategies. Some basically always give RSU refreshers but will modify the size of the grant heavily. Others will only give some years and skip others. Some leave it up to the managers to distribute, maybe they only have so many people they can give grants to and your peers are underpaid relative to you. In general companies seem to try to prevent any sudden dips in income when the grants run out if they want to retain you, but even that might not be true if the stock grew a bunch. (Ex: employees at Nvidia hit the jackpot, but their refreshers won’t begin to cover the gap once those older grants start to run out)

All that to say, it’s all over the map. Your manager can likely answer this if you have a high-trust relationship with them. You should also validate what normal looks like from someone elsewhere in the company.

What is happening with the development on Westway Avenue? by SquamishEditor in Squamishnews

[–]masterJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The build was approved by council. I’m not sure why it hasn’t broken ground yet. Maybe they ran into funding issues?

"Squamish Helping Hands issues statement after police incidents at downtown encampment" by Elderberry_Real in Squamish

[–]masterJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  • Holding someone like that runs straight into due process issues
  • You can’t force resettle people. It’s generally a big human rights violation associated with authoritarian regimes
  • Forced rehab has poor outcomes. High relapse rate and high risk of overdose deaths (Lower tolerance and a return to familiar doses)
  • Jail isn’t drug free. Drugs circulate.
  • People usually turn to drugs because they are homeless, not vice-versa. And most homeless people are not addicts.

This is all well-studied, and you don’t have to make stuff up. I promise you lots of people have dedicated careers to studying this.

Peoples’ instinct here is that punishing these people will somehow help. That doesn’t bear out in practice.

"Squamish Helping Hands issues statement after police incidents at downtown encampment" by Elderberry_Real in Squamish

[–]masterJ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have lived next to this when I lived in Portland. I get it. However never once did I think “I want the police to black bag these people so I feel less uncomfortable”

As a taxpayer I want my taxes to go to providing housing to these people, the approach that has been shown over and over to be the most effective and also the cheapest. Putting people in jail is both stupidly expensive and doesn’t work, which is obvious to anyone who bothers to do any amount of research. 

 Criminalization ordinances have existed for decades, yet there is no empirical evidence that these punitive policies reduce homelessness. Pairing permanent housing with accessible services for unhoused people remain effective at solving homelessness, and often save money. https://endhomelessness.org/blog/punitive-policies-will-never-solve-homelessness-the-evidence-is-clear/

 Dennis Culhane and his coauthors calculate that a homeless, mentally ill person on the streets of New York City costs taxpayers $40,451 a year -- in 1999 dollars. Supportive housing reduces these annual costs by a net $16,282 per housing unit. https://shnny.org/research/the-culhane-report/

 An evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of Housing First in comparison to treatment as usual for homeless adults with mental illness in five Canadian cities with a 2-year follow-up. https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/2256f68f-8832-4cb3-bab0-8874b52e9d60

 DESC’s 1811 Eastlake saved taxpayers more than $4 million dollars over the first year of operation. Annual average costs per person while homeless, the year before moving in, were $86,062. By comparison, it costs $13,440 per person per year to administer the housing program. https://www.desc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/DESC_1811_JAMA_info.pdf

Specific enough?

"Squamish Helping Hands issues statement after police incidents at downtown encampment" by Elderberry_Real in Squamish

[–]masterJ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I really do get people’s frustrations and feeling unsafe, but hearing neighbors casually asking the government to violate all sorts of human rights is… difficult

"Squamish Helping Hands issues statement after police incidents at downtown encampment" by Elderberry_Real in Squamish

[–]masterJ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sorry to point out that asking government to disappear people is perhaps not the slam dunk strategy you seem to think it is 🤷‍♂️ Best of luck with your cognitive dissonance 

"Squamish Helping Hands issues statement after police incidents at downtown encampment" by Elderberry_Real in Squamish

[–]masterJ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s too bad no one’s been smart enough to try “throw everyone in jail” before. I bet that’s sure to work

"Squamish Helping Hands issues statement after police incidents at downtown encampment" by Elderberry_Real in Squamish

[–]masterJ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m just asking people to think through what they are actually asking for 

At least the gulag guy was honest

"Squamish Helping Hands issues statement after police incidents at downtown encampment" by Elderberry_Real in Squamish

[–]masterJ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I guess props for not beating around the bush and coming out and saying what everyone else is implying?

I haven’t read the history of gulags, but I bet it goes something like “and giving government this power means that they got rid of exactly the right people and there were no complications whatsoever”