Yesterday I watched a group of about 20 people at albert head lagoon get confronted for releasing balloons for a "memorial service". They claimed they were biodegradable so it was fine, and got angry and aggressive with the person who confronted them.

This is still littering. Biodegradable doesn't mean anything when a bird, fish, or sea mammal can easily eat that balloon by accident, choke on it, and die. There is also a protected bird sanctuary less then 5km away on the other side of the beach.

They got extremely aggressive with someone that confronted them. With the men in the group shouting threats, getting in their faces, shoving them, and calling them a lot of nasty words like "Re****ed liberal"

If you were in that group, you should be ashamed. Your behavuour was disgusting and when confronted with littering at the beach you chose to be hostile and use threats of violence to try and get your way.

Lastly, this is VICTORIA. Using liberal as an insult makes you look really really stupid. Conservative bigotry has no place here and your loud mouth spouting off made me go out and vote NDP.

this thing has saved me from pissing myself countless times

Man you guys wont believe it ,I’m in line to vote and who to i see strut in with his god damn smug head , that’s right MY BOSS . This guy has been wetting my bread for weeks about this election , blasting c fax ,prancing around the office like a jack ass. Now I’m here fired up to vote ,and he comes up to me and tells me im not allowed to have my groceries with me in here and tries to swipe my chips. Enough is enough . This isn’t the office , you aren’t my boss today , pal. Im voting for dell and you can’t do anything about it . see ya on Monday , your gonna be one sad little fat bald man . Get out there and vote guys . No bigots no land barons.

Its been here all day, its been entertaining to see the crows try to start a territory beef and then chicken out.

Today I voted twice

It was even legal!

Early voting for the provincial election in the same place as the municipal election

Be sure to vote... It's kinda important

I present to you, on voting day, my last map. 5 municipalities instead of 13. Thanks for all the fun comments everyone!

We have no shortage of people with opinions about what’s happening in our communities.

Housing affordability, development, traffic, infrastructure, public safety, property taxes, the list goes on.

And yet, when the opportunity comes to elect the people who will actually help make decisions about them, so many don’t participate.

Municipal elections are arguably the most important election to vote in because those results will directly affect your neighbourhood.

C’mon people. Do better.

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Edit to add:

So far, the percentage of eligible voters who didn’t vote is 67% in Langford, 60% in Sooke, 68% in Colwood, 67% in Sidney, and 78% in Duncan.

It’s 8 am and I’m waiting for the store to open for shopping and it’s a huge line of dead eyed cardboard hunter-scalpers waiting for their turn to buy tulip- I mean cardboard. Not to yuck anyone’s yum but this can’t end well for anyone but the Pokémon company.

Well, the municipal election is a wrap, it's time to turn our attention to the the provincial election. I am voting Green for the 1st time in my life.

I am so pissed at Eby and an the NDP and I send them a cheque every month and have for 20 years! They need a good spanking for cynically and opportunistically calling an election 2 years into their majority mandate during province wide municipal campaigns.

They knew we'd be distracted, they knew voter turn out would be lighter, they thought the right would be in disarray. So they decided to take $80 -100 million dollars from already stretched provincial coffers to extend their time in power. Don't let anyone tell you that we'll end up with vote splitting in Victoria-Beacon Hill. The Cons, in any form, have never polled high than 20%. The election in this riding is between Green Candidates and New Democrats. Send a message to Eby and his unscrupulous opportunists, send a Green.

Asking for a friend. Also if you had any weird interactions with a certain group wearing an identifying themselves by profession surrounding the James Douglas elementary polling station and telling people how to vote

It's deeply embarrassing that this many people in Vic have decided naked bigotry is not an issue for them.

Welp, enjoy having another time-wasting culture warrior on Council.

I was happy to lose Kim. Replacing her with the right-wing version is dumb as hell.

https://www.victoria.ca/city-government/elections

For Victoria: Eligible voters can vote at ANY of the following locations on General Voting Day on Saturday, Oct. 17 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.:

Central Middle School, 1280 Fort St.

Crystal Garden, 713 Douglas St. (An accessible voting machine will be available.)

George Jay Elementary School, 1118 Princess Ave.

Glenlyon Norfolk Senior School, 781 Richmond Ave.

James Bay Community School, 140 Oswego St.

Oaklands Elementary School, 2827 Belmont Ave.

Quadra Elementary School, 3031 Quadra St.

Quadra Village Neighbourhood Gym, 950 Kings Rd.

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 292, 411 Gorge Rd. East

Sir James Douglas Elementary School, 401 Moss St.

Victoria High School, 1260 Grant St.

Victoria West Elementary School, 750 Front St.

Go Vote !!

With 26/29 polls reported so far it seems pretty clear that unfortunately Rishi Sharma and Save Our Saanich will be running the city for the next four years until they probably (hopefully) crash and burn since none of them understand much beyond kicking the can down the road.

As someone who has lived in Saanich for over 12 years I've come to really enjoy the convenience of the city's location and very much would like to actually own a home here. However even with a good income, no dependents, and a six figure inheritance in savings solely for using as a down payment I hardly see much of anything here pop up that I can afford that feels like an improvement over my often cramped rental accommodations.

I truly don't see a future in any reasonable time frame to be staying in this city where there will be meaningful improvements to the planning, design and what's being built or my ability to afford to actually settle down here.

I felt like I voted for a good selection of progressives and quality candidates if like to see and a few who I thought would be decent enough but also good alternatives to the SoS crowd. Only a single one of them has been elected.

Not that I am completely surprised, before any smart asses chime in I am well aware that reddit does not represent the majority of those who actually get out to vote and that the older generations have always been strong in getting out and voting.

On another note I was really hoping to just see a whole or at least mostly rejection of slates in Municipal elections as regardless of why they're running I don't think it's healthy to have political party groups in municipal elections.

Slates work.

Going into next municipal election, progressives, housing advocates, and left-leaning supporters need to pool their resources and run as political parties or slates.

I know it sucks, but gone are the days of independent municipal councils.

We’ve just had many NIMBY slates get into government, because the candidates worked together and used their resources to get out their voting base.

Also, Millennials & Gen-Z, we need to step it up when it comes to voting. We’re the biggest voting blocs, and still we don’t show up to vote. Our parents/grandparents generations are showing up in droves, which is why we got the result that we did tonight.

Good morning, Victorians!
It’s been a million years since I last took a BC Transit bus! I still have these bus tickets lying around. Does anyone know if BC Transit still accepts them?

Thank you in advance and hope everyone has a great and beautiful Saturday!!!!😃

Cuteness overload. 🥰

Fyi, the Petsmart at the Victoria Uptown is having a kitten adoption drive.

I am so, so, so sorry for all the smoke coming out of my truck. It broke down earlier and I managed to get him going just enough to limp home. Im so sorry for all the smoke I made and I actually just sobbed on the whole way home because of how bad it is. Please forgive me :(

Yep. It’s just as good as when I first went this summer.

First time did their pasta tasting. This time we did the à la carte options.

1. Pesce in saor
   
2. Tigelle
   
3. Lingua di manzo
   
4. Agnolotti
   
5. Casunziei