Keeping an eye on changes to the Agricultural Land Reserve
British Columbia
Joined November 2013
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SaveOurFarmland retweeted
The man's name is Josef Tesar. Bigots don't get to remain anonymous.
The man, who allegedly yelled at the child, said she was a boy and called her mother a groomer and pedophile, will be banned from any school property or event. #Kelowna
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It seems Pitt Meadows Council are concerned about potential smells and lights from a piece of farmland. So they're opting to pave it over instead. mapleridgenews.com/news/new-… #bcpoli #ALR #foodsecurity
SaveOurFarmland retweeted
Interview featuring @Gillanders_L with John Daly on CKNW "Back on the Beat". Discussing the state of #megamansions on #ALR and #foodsecurity #RichmondBC
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Highway expansion into ALR land worries small farm business owner comoxvalleyrecord.com/news/a… #bcpoli #ALR #FoodSecurity
In the UK, 1% of the population owns 50% of the land, driving up land prices to where they are not sustainable for farm production: wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/… #ALR #bcpoli #foodsecurity
SaveOurFarmland retweeted
With Land Bank farmland for young farmers, incubator farms & farm schools, the #ALR established by the #ecosocialist Barrett #BCNDP in 1973 saved farmland with world wide implications. Strange the @jjhorgan #BCNDPCaucus would consider destroying northern #FoodSecurity with #SiteC
Conceived of, helped design, implemented, protected, strengthened, and nuanced the #ALR, the best pro-farmland program in North America. nitter.gq/Harold_Steves/status/1…
Supreme upholds #ALC decision against landowner wanting to subdivide for a golf course and housing development in the #shushwap #bcpoli #ALR
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This is why we need to curtail #Monsterhomes They do not increase farm labour but rather eat up farmland #ALR
Most "houses" in the top 10 are on prime #ALR agricultural land. Many have lost farm status meaning they are no longer farmed despite the claim that large homes are for farming families. #bcpoli
The most expensive homes in #RichmondBC richmond-news.com/local-news…
The former sanatorium and current farmland making up Tranquille on the Lake are again being considered for a large residential development, and this time a winery could be included.castanet.net/news/Kamloops/3… #ALR #bcpoli
We always wondered how he got chosen to head a Food Security Committtee #payback
In #RichmondBC 2014 election "Richberry Farms & BK Farms owned by Peter Dhillon contributed $5000 each to Richmond First" opposed to limiting #MegaMansion size in the #ALR. He became chair of #BCNDP #FoodSecurity. With majority no need to appoint opponents richmond-news.com/news/richm…
Agri-tech, industrial ag, and expansion of the Port threaten the #ALR (on top of #SiteC!) watershedsentinel.ca/article…
SaveOurFarmland retweeted
The #ALR is just as threatened By #MegaMansions in the BC Interior & Okanagan as #MetroVancouver. As we prevent them in one place they move to another. That's why we must have one rule for all of BC. A rule that also stops dams,#fracking pads & roads to them, from destroying ALR
And #megamansions aren't just a problem in #Richmondbc . Check out this house on #ALR land in #Summerland
Developers have applied to exclude 40 acres of prime (Class 1-3) ALR land for housing. The local government approved the application so the ALC has to decide again, for the 3rd time!! Agassiz residents, write your Council!
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SaveOurFarmland retweeted
The previous government was also going to flood 10,000 acres for Site C while continuing the proliferation of mega estates. BC NDP eliminated mega mansions, let's hope they come to their senses and continue rebuilding a strong and defendable #ALR. #bcpoli
SAVE THE ALR FROM THE BC NDP! They plan to develop 28,500 acres for Agricultural Industrial. They are flooding 10,000 acres with #SiteC. Port Vancouver wants 2,600 acres. Losing 40,000 acres is far worse than mega mansions & non farm uses of previous govts facebook.com/countrylifeinbc…
SaveOurFarmland retweeted
Support your local farmers. Tell your MLA not one more exclusion from the ALR can be tolerated
If you don't think we need to save farmland; If you don't think we need to grow more of our food; If you think other countries are going to continue to feed us; Read this. #Covid19 has sped up the #ClimateChange food crisis #BuyLocal #KeepItInTheGround a.msn.com/01/en-ca/BB14CKLY?…
SaveOurFarmland retweeted
125 acres of prime farmland to be excluded for development. #ALR #farmland #bcpoli
Over 600 Pitt Meadows citizens sign petition to protest North Lougheed development mapleridgenews.com/news/over…
SaveOurFarmland retweeted
Why is this new 8 bedrm mansion on #farmland for sale? Weren't large homes on #ALR for large farm families to live in? Or was the argument that the small farm lots weren't worth protecting? Both. #vanre #bcpoli #RichmondBC fw.to/UOyfEZk
SaveOurFarmland retweeted
"Mansions have been built & flipped, left unoccupied or, worse, been the scene of criminal activity, said Gillanders."
Underlying this, is Farmland Owners lobby group actively aligning themselves with some councillors & BC Liberal MPs, trying to get ALR mansion rules quashed.
#vanre @WestcoastWood "We’ve always suspected money laundering has played a big role in the mansions on farmland ... & the illegal reported activity that goes on there. We know it’s certainly not local income or local farming income, said @geesahn4truth" vancouverisawesome.com/2019/…