Delilah Black

@kens604 @SillyWorkMedia @shanathalas @CityNewsVAN Talk more about what you don't know. Please.

@SillyWorkMedia @shanathalas @CityNewsVAN People are just bad with money. You can’t have avocado toasts everyday. If you do, make it at home

A couple in Vancouver say they’re packing up and moving out of the city because it’s unaffordable to live there any longer. While they make good money, she explains it’s no longer viable for them to stay as they struggle with the cost of living. vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/02/01/van…

@TransLink Thank you so much!!!!! This is the best thing I heard today!!!!

Please share this widely! I couldn't be more terrified of our country's healthcare crisis and @ONThealth can do better! Ontario healthcare is broken and we've long known it. It's been like this my entire lifetime, and I'm not exactly young. This is my daughter's IV line, which she's been connected to since 2:00am this morning. She's been awake for well over 24 hours, as have I, as we await care at @StMarysGenHosp in Kitchener, Ontario. We arrived shortly after 10:00pm yesterday evening after my daughter complained of excruciating abdominal pain. As usual, care took hours to arrive. She was given a bed where she squirmed and sobbed until finally, shortly after 2:00am, the doctor paid her a visit and ordered pain meds to make things bearable. It was evident by 4:00am that we were almost certainly looking at appendicitis, as the pain was centralizing in the lower right quadrant. We all suspected this, but we couldn't confirm until 8:00am because... apparently we don't have ultrasound technicians during the evening. No one has medical emergencies in the middle of the night, I suppose? For those who haven't had the pleasure of an inflamed appendix, appendicitis often leads to a ruptured appendix after a period of increasing pain, and that rupture can be fatal. Fortunately for us that hasn't happened yet, but time matters. There's nothing this hospital can do for us as 'we need to confirm it's appendicitis'. We wait until 8:00am By 5:00am we are told that my daughter needs to give up her emergency room bed. Someone else needs it. She is still in pain, but will now make due sitting in the waiting room, putting pressure on her abdomen in the process. There's no negotiation—there are no beds available. We wait until 8:00am. We wait until 9:00am. Some guy walks in with a Tim Horton's cup during our tenure and gets the first ultrasound slot. I'm sure his condition was just as severe. By 10:00am the doctor confirmed what had been evident for hours—we've got a case of appendicitis on our hands and we need to move forward with emergency surgery. ...Except... they can't do that in this particular hospital and @grhospitalkw doesn't have any beds available either. No one knows when they will have a bed for my daughter who is both sleep deprived and in critical medical condition. I inquire. An hour? A bed by noon? Will we even get one today? No one has an answer. No one wants to have the conversation. I can tell I am a burden to the overworked staff. We return to the waiting room and my daughter keeps sitting. She's been awake now since yesterday morning. Her pain flares up every few hours and—after being brought almost to tears the edge is subdued with another dose of pain suppressants. She's refused a bed because there are no beds available, and I can't take her home to her bed because she needs surgery—though there's none of that available either. She hasn't eaten in more than 18 hours and she's been told that she's not allowed one bite because she might have surgery any moment... Or perhaps never... so we sit and wait—watching her IV machine go into upstream occlusion every 5 minutes. The nurses don't have time to do anything about it. This is a simple problem to fix. Fund our healthcare system! @SylviaJonesMPP, @fordnation, our citizens deserve better. Fix it!

@MarketManiaCa 3.8 mil in Vancouver

In Toronto maybe $2 million? 💵🤔🤣

Gas is 0.98 cents/L CAD in the Carolinas and 3000 sq/ft 4 bedroom homes are 400k Canadian. Canadians pay around 50% more for everything, but make less money and pay more tax. If you feel broke, start there.

@6ixbuzztv Only one is there a chance of being shot every day. I'd want to get paid more for that, too.

Social media users confused as to why police officers earn more than doctors in Toronto

@karen09152 @DouglasTodd @bcndp Honestly only the big schools should be allowed to qualify foreign students. BCIT, UBC, SFU, and a handful of the artistic schools. Highly accredited, established schools. And even then, capping the number of incoming foreign students to a certain % each year.

@DouglasTodd I would applaud the @bcndp if the decision to suspend awarding licences for diploma mills had come some years ago. It didn't. I would also applaud them if I knew they were going to investigate and close diploma mills. I don't think they will. The cap on nos. also came too late.

It's very disturbing the federal government, and the B.C. government, has allowed foreign-student numbers and shady schools to run rampant. To, ostensibly, stimulate the economy. It's going to take years to undo the damage, esp. for renters. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #cdnpse

@CityNewsVAN I thought we had environmental regulations to prevent industry from crapping toxic pollution all over unsuspecting people

@GlobalBC a "disturbing content" warning was NOT enough....blood or injury is what you expect from that. You really should have provided a bit more detail so we knew what we were going into there. Awful.

@sc0ttelliott @TransLink Maybe it counts as "news" so meta doesn't allow it?

Regular bus and SeaBus service is expected to resume by 5:00 AM on Wednesday, January 24. There will not be any NightBus service tonight/Wednesday morning. SkyTrain, WCE and HandyDART service are not affected and will continue operating as normal. ^at TransLink.ca/jobaction

@nasmadotali That amount won't even get you a one bedroom condo in vancouver.

A 3 bed bungalow with 56’ frontage in Etobicoke listed at $1,050,000 with an offer date, just sold with… 23 offers in 6 days 😳 Sale price: $1,350,000 Last November, a 50’ frontage nicer interior (though carport vs garage) sold in 24 days *under asking* for $1.2mil.

@TheophanesRex Agreed!!! 💯💯

Today’s announcement of the changes in the international student policy is a victory 4 all the people who spoke out against the insanity, even at the risk of being demonized & being called racist / race traitors. The new policy may not be perfect, but it’s a victory nonetheless.

@JamesHubert40 @jodyvance So would the rest of us who rely on transit & had to pay $80+ for Uber one way. More than 300k people over 21 municipalities. For 180 people who already get paid more than any of our front line Healthcare workers or many other jobs in industries that actually require education.

@jodyvance Maybe they’d like to be actually able to afford rent or their mortgage….

25%?!

@iamkennethchan FARGO COACH LINE, with a fleet of over 50 buses and available drivers, can provide essential bus services along the 99 B-LINE and R4 routes at similar rates and frequencies. We respectfully request that the Passenger Transportation of BC consider allowing temporary bus services.

@TransLink all compass pass holders should have a credit for 4 trips put on their card (two and from work for two days)...or more if the strike is extended.

@CyberV420 @TransLink It's not the drivers on strike....

Good morning all! It's Tuesday morning and we are here to answer all your Transit related questions! Feel free to reach out with anything you might need answers about and have a terrific day! ^jsk

@WassupDave @TransLink Yes trains operating as normal. Been seeing them go past my home for a bit now this morning :)

@TransLink Trains running?

YES. PLEASE. Transit IS an essential service. The economy cannot survive long term when it depends on workers getting to their jobs. The entire city shuts down when these strikes happen.

Anger & frustration on @TransLink transit strike is going to get violent if continued. 21 municipalities & >300,000 affected by > $200/day. So 180 ppl to get a 25% increase on already inflated salaries. Those 180 are likely to be targeted if online responses are any indication.