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 …

Followup Blog: Graphs from the Referendum

I wrote a blog a few weeks ago poking at the media for making such a big kerfuffle about the "low turnout" in the Referendum after just a few days of data coming back from Elections BC.  I noted the differences in numbers indicated a likely connection to patterns in how ballots were mailed out, …