Updated 2021 – My BC Property Assessment in Port Alberni – 20%, 28%, 13% increase. Property Taxes? Not so much.

Updating the post with 2021 Numbers I thought that instead of reinventing the wheel with a new post, I would just update this one. Here is the current picture of my home property value. I’ll add the updated tax amounts in the original post. Original Post We have seen a slight cooling off (2021: It …

On this day, December 15 – In memory of the Tani Family

Updated Dec 7 2019 Ancestry stumbled on a new and interesting record just yesterday… so I have added it to the story below… I would like to tell you a story about a man named James Tani. Mr Tani came to Canada at the age of nineteen. He was a fisherman and came like many others …

Monitoring and getting a handle on my Screen Time using Apple’s built in iOS tools

This morning a notification popped up on my iPad. Weekly screentime notification. The latest versions of iOS have a setting included called “Screen Time”. It is meant to help us all (adults and children) get a handle on our addiction to these devices through tracking our time on the applications that we use.  It provides …