What can’t you do in Vancouver B.C.? Off the top of my head in no particular order, a list of Vancouver facts to ponder –
1 – Buy a detached home anywhere in the city for under a million dollars. This 2 bedroom, 1 bath bungalow built in 1946 is listed at $1,189,000.
2 – Purchase a cat, dog or rabbit from pet stores. Last week city council voted unanimously in favor of the ban, citing a means to curb unscrupulous puppy mills. ( Unrelated, but while on the subject of animals – since 2011 Vancouver households can keep up to 4 backyard chickens, but no roosters, turkeys, ducks or geese. And absolutely no backyard slaughtering or sale of manure. )
3 – Smoke a cigarette in city parks or at the beach.
4 – Exercise as a group in city parks without a permit. No impromptu outdoor yoga, Tai Chi, swing dancing or cross fit without prior approval.
5 – Purchase alcohol for off-site consumption after 11 pm, or buy liquor at a grocery store.
6 – Be in possession of or offer fireworks for sale other than between October 24 and November 1. Anyone wanting to purchase fireworks must produce a permit obtained after passing an online safety quiz.
7 – Rely on public transportation to make your way home from the bar. Train service shuts down between roughly 1:30 and 5 am. Clubs on Granville Street in the downtown entertainment district serve patrons until 3 am, an hour later than 2 am shutters mandated establishments outside the district. Not that it makes a difference, either way public transit is limited to several woefully inadequate bus routes.
8 – Remove any tree measuring 20 cm circumference at 1.4 meters above ground without a permit. Application for removable must be approved by an arborist, verified by utility companies as a risk or fall into a strident category of other considerations. Fines are steep and justice swift, Vancouver takes trees seriously.
9 – Wood burning fireplaces are banned in new home construction. Additionally, all new construction must be wheelchair accessible and electric car charging station equipped.
Like France, how you get ten bureaucrats for every tax-payer… Your post reminds me of that show they used to have on TV, “This is the Law” demonstrating some of the stupidest laws in the books.
Why October 24 to November 1 for the fireworks thingy?
Only at Halloween.
Aha. I see. I thought it must be for Halloween. So you can’t have them for Canada Day?
In Chilliwack, only by permit, and in approved areas and by people trained to handle them. In this case I concur as risks of fire is high this time of year.
You do not want this argument with me. I spent a lot of my childhood and adolescence blowing things up . But even I was never this dumb. 🙂 https://nobodysreadingme.wordpress.com/2015/10/31/how-to-blow-up-a-toilet/
I think the politicos and bureaucrats love death and they want to see it celebrated… 🙂 As for stupid rules, why point nine on a liter of gas? Why daylight saving time? Control. Just to demonstrate that they can do it. Anyone involved in new construction today knows how rules on materials and how such materials must be applied have mushroomed in the last 20 years – totally nuts. You don’t live in a house anymore, you live in an airtight plastic and chemical bubble. That too contributes to making housing unaffordable as costs pile upon costs…
really surprised by the no-exercise rule. the others I could have predicted on some level based on the developments in society — not so much that one.
considering I’m not a night owl, I’d be happy if the city shut down completely at 11 p.m.. but then I’m just a cranky old codger. 🙂 🙂 every time I read a story about someone getting shot at 2 a.m. by the cops I ask myself what the heck were they doing out at that time of night in a dark alley anyway….