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April 4th

We See – Spring

And also April Showers

 

 

CityWest internet usage and Netflix

 

Rupert’s Charitable Donations ‘scam’?

 

SQCRD and Rupert pays 72% Admin

 

 

 

A who done it

Some vehicle knocked over the street light at Five Corners --- superficially looks like a truck hit the sign --- red arrow --- there are skid marks at white arrow --- the yellow arrow shows the base of the pole with no signs of any impact --- the truck/ kayak sustained minor damage ---- presumably though cleaned up by O’Brien --- never reported to RCMP --- thus the yellow tape etc

 

 

 

First Bockbusters went into bankruptcy in US – then local video store reopened under a smaller more regional franchise--- Economist says even Movie theatres in the downturn from peak in 2005

CityWest internet – and Home Entertainment industry

Recent Economist magazine had an article about the shifting fortunes of the ‘home entertainment’ industry--- How Hollywood is trying to recoup its high costs of producing pictures --- yes there is piracy – but the latest consumer ploy is to use Netflix --- even in US about 20% of internet usage in evenings streaming from Netflix

 

 

At Monday Council meeting CityWest blamed some heavy users (7% of total) who hog much of the internet bandwidth --- CityWest tries to ‘shape’ its usage during peak periods (evenings) --- even though I had not used the internet all day Tuesday – I had no ‘signal’ from 10PM till 1:30Am --- presumably part of the shaping’

 

G&M where Netflix lowering ‘image quality’ to get under data caps imposed by Internet providers

Mtl Gazette article where suggests Netflix and CRTC should be ‘talking’ as former not Canadian

 

 

 

City Council ‘Flow through charitable donations’

This was originally Councillor Bedard’s idea – she mentioned it at Monday Council meeting in terms of Shames Mountain co-op – which led me to inquire from City Treasurer Dan Rodin --- so appears City of PR issued about 50T$ in Charitable Donation Tax receipts in 2010 – covering about 150-200 donors I was told --- plus I was given a copy of the ‘application’ form – more later

 

 

 

And then there is the SQCRD

This is from the recent 2011 Budget --- for ‘Administration’ Rupert pays 72% --- which highlights how small most the other players really are --- the good news is that electoral Area remuneration is now coming out of their pockets (new this year) --- but presumably we still pay 70% of Masset etc ‘remuneration’ --- ‘we’ even paid his medical last time I checked --- more later

 

 

April showers bring May flowers?

Earlier in day Monday there was hail – and then in afternoon there was a ‘blinding’ snow storm – the white arrow points to large snow flakes etc --- but within a few hours it was back to sunshine

 

 

Grad of ’79

This prank graffiti visible on cliff face about this time of year --- then the green shrubbery hides it

I like the idea that these fellows must now be around 50 years old --- and we see no one else has been able to scale the wall since then

 

We See --- City Hall entrance appears to be getting a new roof --- Wonder why City crew could not do it—etc

 

 

Coastal Shellfish Corp

Here is all I find on Internet --- http://www.haidanation.ca/Pages/Splash/Job_Postings/PDF's/coastalfnofficeman.pdf

 

The potential irony is that shellfish aquaculture and the Port’s reliance upon international shipping might prove incompatible --- thus invasive species in ballast waters and even encrusted upon ships hulls have often meant ruin for shellfish aquaculture ventures – eg the Great Lakes etc – more later

 

A Settlement Feast at Nisga’a Hall

I did not get the details correct --- this was the 7th year after the woman’s death --- Nicole Robinson from Kincolith(?) --- I was told there were 400+ people inside to pay their respects – more later

 

 

 

And after the showers come the Rainbows

‘City of Rainbows’ you say?

 

End of rainbow could have been the new facility that CN building down on the waterfront

 

More later

Created by LG on 4/4/2011

Last updated on Tuesday, April 05, 2011