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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
IslandNotes posted topic 2026 Municipal Tax Increases Across Region
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Two petitions - one specifically in Sooke BC, the other a Provincial one.
Sooke Council Member Keven Pearson has signed, brave leadership there.
Sooke experienced large increases (2023: 6.99%, 2024: 10.53%, 2025: 15.29% 2026 headed in a similar direction - way up!). Here are the links:
Provincial Petition (Municipalities are being asked to manage growing responsibilities like housing pressures, infrastructure expansion, public safety and social challenges using a funding model that relies almost entirely on property tax)https://www.change.org/FairFundingModelBCCities (https://c.org/SqQCscs2Z9)Sooke Taxes Petition: (Stop Runaway Property Tax Increases in Sooke (https://www.change.org/p/stop-runaway-property-tax-increases-in-sooke)) https://c.org/SqQCscs2Z9 (https://c.org/SqQCscs2Z9)
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Two petitions - one specifically in Sooke BC, the other a Provincial one.
Sooke Council Member Keven Pearson has signed, brave leadership there.
Sooke experienced large increases (2023: 6.99%, 2024: 10.53%, 2025: 15.29% 2026 headed in a similar direction - way up!). Here are the links:
Provincial Petition (Municipalities are being asked to manage growing responsibilities like housing pressures, infrastructure expansion, public safety and social challenges using a funding model that relies almost entirely on property tax)https://www.change.org/FairFundingModelBCCities (https://c.org/SqQCscs2Z9)Sooke Taxes Petition: (Stop Runaway Property Tax Increases in Sooke (https://www.change.org/p/stop-runaway-property-tax-increases-in-sooke)) https://c.org/SqQCscs2Z9 (https://c.org/SqQCscs2Z9)
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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Victoria Watcher posted topic Toys!
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Victoria Watcher has just posted a new topic entitled "Toys!" in forum "Arts, Culture and Entertainment".
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The creator of some of the most beloved toys and games, including Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots and Lite-Brite, has died, according to reports.
Burt Meyer's death was confirmed by his son on Oct. 30, according to The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/arts/design/burton-meyer-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3k8.FCu8.DF2ZOffBXSWe&smid=url-share). He was 99 years old.
Meyer was born in 1926 in Hinsdale, Illinois. Before graduating from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1952 with a bachelor's degree in product design, he served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946.
https://www.ky3.com/2025/11/25/creator-rock-em-sock-em-robots-lite-brite-dies-99/ (https://www.ky3.com/2025/11/25/creator-rock-em-sock-em-robots-lite-brite-dies-99/)
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The creator of some of the most beloved toys and games, including Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots and Lite-Brite, has died, according to reports.
Burt Meyer's death was confirmed by his son on Oct. 30, according to The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/arts/design/burton-meyer-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3k8.FCu8.DF2ZOffBXSWe&smid=url-share). He was 99 years old.
Meyer was born in 1926 in Hinsdale, Illinois. Before graduating from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1952 with a bachelor's degree in product design, he served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946.
https://www.ky3.com/2025/11/25/creator-rock-em-sock-em-robots-lite-brite-dies-99/ (https://www.ky3.com/2025/11/25/creator-rock-em-sock-em-robots-lite-brite-dies-99/)
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Citified.ca posted topic Penny Lane Property Management expanding to Victoria from mid-Island base
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Courtenay-based Penny Lane has expanded into the south Island real-estate/property and strata management market with a new office at Haultain Corners. There is quite a lot of demand for property management services in the Capital, as some firms are getting quite large and boutique firms sometimes struggling to scale. I suspect Penny Lane will do really well on the south Island, and they can help local developers doing work up-Island to manage their properties, something that I get asked about relatively frequently as developers expand north.
Mid-Island strata and property management firm Penny Lane opens Victoria office
https://victoria.citified.ca/news/mid-island-strata-and-property-management-firm-penny-lane-opens-victoria-office/ (https://victoria.citified.ca/news/mid-island-strata-and-property-management-firm-penny-lane-opens-victoria-office/)
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Courtenay-based Penny Lane has expanded into the south Island real-estate/property and strata management market with a new office at Haultain Corners. There is quite a lot of demand for property management services in the Capital, as some firms are getting quite large and boutique firms sometimes struggling to scale. I suspect Penny Lane will do really well on the south Island, and they can help local developers doing work up-Island to manage their properties, something that I get asked about relatively frequently as developers expand north.
Mid-Island strata and property management firm Penny Lane opens Victoria office
https://victoria.citified.ca/news/mid-island-strata-and-property-management-firm-penny-lane-opens-victoria-office/ (https://victoria.citified.ca/news/mid-island-strata-and-property-management-firm-penny-lane-opens-victoria-office/)
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Victoria Watcher posted topic Lauren Southern
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Victoria Watcher has just posted a new topic entitled "Lauren Southern" in forum "Online Media".
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Crazy stuff here:
https://youtu.be/SX4nCraO7Ys?si=G2zgvFPuoWRe1_C6 (https://youtu.be/SX4nCraO7Ys?si=G2zgvFPuoWRe1_C6)
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Crazy stuff here:
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Victoria Watcher posted topic Mark Steyn
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Greetings from Provence, where my doctors are still trying to "stabilise" me. You'll be glad to hear that I remain profoundly unstable - possibly because, whenever I briefly emerge from the haze of medication, I find my in-box full of urgent requests to know what I make of what Mark Levin said about what Candace Owens said about what Ben Shapiro said about what Megyn Kelly said about what Josh Hammer said about what Tucker Carlson said to Nick Fuentes.
I haven't appeared on American TV or radio in over four years and, aside from random three-in-the-morning PBS reruns of BBC music specials I made forty years ago, doubt I ever will again. So I don't regard my correspondents' demands as a profitable use of my time.
https://www.steynonline.com/15709/winning-the-war-losing-your-country (https://www.steynonline.com/15709/winning-the-war-losing-your-country)
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Greetings from Provence, where my doctors are still trying to "stabilise" me. You'll be glad to hear that I remain profoundly unstable - possibly because, whenever I briefly emerge from the haze of medication, I find my in-box full of urgent requests to know what I make of what Mark Levin said about what Candace Owens said about what Ben Shapiro said about what Megyn Kelly said about what Josh Hammer said about what Tucker Carlson said to Nick Fuentes.
I haven't appeared on American TV or radio in over four years and, aside from random three-in-the-morning PBS reruns of BBC music specials I made forty years ago, doubt I ever will again. So I don't regard my correspondents' demands as a profitable use of my time.
https://www.steynonline.com/15709/winning-the-war-losing-your-country (https://www.steynonline.com/15709/winning-the-war-losing-your-country)
Sounds like he is still not well.
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Saturday, November 8, 2025
Victoria Watcher posted topic James Bay to receive heritage designation?
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The City of Victoria is looking at designating James Bay as a heritage conservation area.
Council asked staff this week to explore the possibility and its implications for development, as part of an ongoing review of the city's heritage program.
The motion was proposed by Mayor Marianne Alto, who noted James Bay residents showed up in droves during public hearings for the recently adopted official community plan to say their neighbourhood had been asked to carry too much of the load of housing and new development.
Alto said James Bay is unique in the city as its first colonial neighbourhood, and is somewhat isolated, with few entry and exit points.
The area also feels the impact of thousands of visitors as home to the city's cruise-ship and Belleville Street terminals, hosts thousands during parades, races and protests, and has seen poorly planned urban sprawl in the form of towers built in the 1970s, the mayor said.
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The City of Victoria is looking at designating James Bay as a heritage conservation area.
Council asked staff this week to explore the possibility and its implications for development, as part of an ongoing review of the city's heritage program.
The motion was proposed by Mayor Marianne Alto, who noted James Bay residents showed up in droves during public hearings for the recently adopted official community plan to say their neighbourhood had been asked to carry too much of the load of housing and new development.
Alto said James Bay is unique in the city as its first colonial neighbourhood, and is somewhat isolated, with few entry and exit points.
The area also feels the impact of thousands of visitors as home to the city's cruise-ship and Belleville Street terminals, hosts thousands during parades, races and protests, and has seen poorly planned urban sprawl in the form of towers built in the 1970s, the mayor said.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Victoria Watcher posted topic Victoria Butterfly Gardens
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Mango the Flamingo celebrates 50th birthday at Victoria Butterfly Gardens with public party
Mango's 50th birthday is remarkable, considering the average lifespan for a wild flamingo is about 20 years shy of that.
"While these birds typically live up to 30 years in the wild, Mango has far surpassed that, making him one of, if not THE, oldest living flamingo in the world," said Butterfly Gardens in a release Wednesday.
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Mango was first brought to Vancouver Island after he was seized by Canadian authorities who found him being smuggled from Cuba to Toronto.
He was eventually brought to Crystal Garden Tropical Conservatory (https://cheknews.ca/silent-centenary-100th-anniversary-of-crystal-garden-goes-unobserved-1263667/)in downtown Victoria, but when it closed in 2004, he and his bonded partner – Houdini, another male flamingo – were relocated to Victoria Butterfly Gardens in Central Saanich.
https://cheknews.ca/mango-the-flamingo-celebrates-50th-birthday-at-victoria-butterfly-gardens-with-public-party-1287746/ (https://cheknews.ca/mango-the-flamingo-celebrates-50th-birthday-at-victoria-butterfly-gardens-with-public-party-1287746/)
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Mango the Flamingo celebrates 50th birthday at Victoria Butterfly Gardens with public party
Mango's 50th birthday is remarkable, considering the average lifespan for a wild flamingo is about 20 years shy of that.
"While these birds typically live up to 30 years in the wild, Mango has far surpassed that, making him one of, if not THE, oldest living flamingo in the world," said Butterfly Gardens in a release Wednesday.
[...]
Mango was first brought to Vancouver Island after he was seized by Canadian authorities who found him being smuggled from Cuba to Toronto.
He was eventually brought to Crystal Garden Tropical Conservatory (https://cheknews.ca/silent-centenary-100th-anniversary-of-crystal-garden-goes-unobserved-1263667/)in downtown Victoria, but when it closed in 2004, he and his bonded partner – Houdini, another male flamingo – were relocated to Victoria Butterfly Gardens in Central Saanich.
https://cheknews.ca/mango-the-flamingo-celebrates-50th-birthday-at-victoria-butterfly-gardens-with-public-party-1287746/ (https://cheknews.ca/mango-the-flamingo-celebrates-50th-birthday-at-victoria-butterfly-gardens-with-public-party-1287746/)
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