Dylan Sherlock

Dad. Policy wonk by day (food systems and climate); tired by night. Passionate about doing government better. Opinions my own. RTs ≠ endorsements.

[Nathan Cullen @nathancullen]

A flyover of the Chilcotin River earlier today. The slide is significant as too is the water being held back. More updates to follow when we better assess the situation. Please follow all of the alerts and emergency orders being issued here: https://t.co/3qaJVVDu2y #bcpoli

[Dylan Sherlock @DylanSherlock]

Absolute bananas. @the_cra needs to fix this stat. Fundamentally unacceptable to say that any renter (but especially a low-income renter) needs to determine the residency of their landlord and manage tax payments on the behalf of a foreign resident landlord.

[Jack Hauen @jackhauen]

The CRA confirms that tenants are responsible for withholding 25% of their foreign landlords' rent and paying it to the CRA — something almost no one was aware of a month ago.

"The Government of Canada continuously reviews the tax system to ensure it is both fair and efficient."

[Dylan Sherlock @DylanSherlock]

Yikes. Even with food prices increasing by ~20% between Feb 2021 to Feb 2024, per capita expenditure went DOWN by a similar amount. That means people are doing big substitutions in their purchases for cheaper products and, in many cases, simply purchasing less overall food. 😬

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

This is troubling.

According to Statistics Canada, the average Canadian is spending less than $250 a month on groceries (retail).

That's a 19% decrease compared to January 2021.

[Dylan Sherlock @DylanSherlock]

Get ready for fruit to (continue to) cost more and taste worse. And also (since farmers always more adaptable than they are given credit for) lots of experimentation new varietals and switching to new more variability-hardy crops entirely. https://t.co/qEgXxvjS9I

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Stunning uptick in Canadian grocery prices as flyer compares 2019 to 2024 https://t.co/Ci5gqQjNYz

[Dylan Sherlock @DylanSherlock]

@TorranceCoste @bcndp @nathancullen @Dave_Eby Thanks for sharing Torrance!

[Dylan Sherlock @DylanSherlock]

@TorranceCoste @bcndp @nathancullen @Dave_Eby But curious if at large you are seeing a trend to messaging about increasing timber access - I am sure you are more exposed to this than I am, it's just I have only heard the opposite message - that timber supply is declining and industry needs to learn how to do more with less.

[Dylan Sherlock @DylanSherlock]

@TorranceCoste @bcndp @nathancullen @Dave_Eby The only reference to "timber" in Andrew Mercier's appointment mandate letter is in the context of its supply declining. https://t.co/lmvOl2noOY

[Dylan Sherlock @DylanSherlock]

👇 100% agree with this list below

[Dylan Sherlock @DylanSherlock]

Academic article but worth a read for folks on Coast Salish territories on the history of Coast Salish woolly dogs. I have been fascinated for years around the question of what happened to these dogs. Very cool that these researchers did this deep dive. https://t.co/CIv26UmLNd

[John Vaillant @JohnVaillant]

This looks really bad, #Canpoli
(via @alexYYC) #drought

[Dylan Sherlock @DylanSherlock]

@H2cents @marinapsaros There are actually some pretty cool open source programs for wildfire response and forest fuel management out there. Some enterprising game developer could probably pretty them up into something fun and educational. I would play it at least lol...

[Dylan Sherlock @DylanSherlock]

@H2cents @marinapsaros Also a sim city for forestry, where your cheap poorly planted monocrop tree farm turns into a giant conflagration before you have a chance to harvest it.

[Dylan Sherlock @DylanSherlock]

My daughter wrote her name successfully for the first time without anyone there helping her today. Unfortunately, she wrote it (and other attempts) in pen on the cover (inside dust jacket) of our copy of James Herriot's Treasury for Children. 😂

I guess it is a great keepsake.

[Dylan Sherlock @DylanSherlock]

Pretty astonishing takeaway here vs. the anti-bike narrative. Far from taking away from road works, tapping into federal and provincial funding for bike lanes has allowed the city to leverage safety upgrades to resurface the entire road surface at a level not seen in decades. 🤯

[Dylan Sherlock @DylanSherlock]

I am a bit shook looking into this - if you look back at almost any bike lane project in the city, there is federal and provincial funding that was brought in and used to not only build a bike lane but move forward with road resurfacing that that had been delayed for years.

[Dylan Sherlock @DylanSherlock]

Pretty astonishing takeaway here vs. the anti-bike narrative. Far from taking away from road works, tapping into federal and provincial funding for bike lanes has allowed the city to leverage safety upgrades to resurface the entire road surface at a level not seen in decades. 🤯

[Corey Burger @Burgundavia]

And for all the bike lane haters, paving budgets have gone UP, WAY UP since Biketoria was approved in 2016

[Dylan Sherlock @DylanSherlock]

@ChillAsHellYYJ Restore/Habitat for Humanity is a good bet. They can handle much more eclectic donations too (since they resell parts as well as finished goods).

[Dylan Sherlock @DylanSherlock]

This was a very good discussion on Indigenous food sovereignty and food security by two of the leading Indigenous thinkers on this topic. Highly recommend. https://t.co/PY6Oy1nPSb