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#portalberni

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Chris Alemany

Hey! Interesting new #BCFerries announcement with a #PortAlberni connection!

This summer the oldest ship in the fleet, Queen of Alberni, which currently serves the Tsawwassen - Duke Point route, will be shifted to a special, one way, once a day 4:30PM Tsawwassen to Departure Bay sailing!

This could be a very interesting experiment!

I wonder when the last time was that the Queen of Alberni did a trip to Nanaimo (outside Pandemic times).

#Travel #Transportation #BCPoli
cheknews.ca/nanaimo-bound-pass

CHEK · Nanaimo-bound passengers have new option of Tsawwassen-Departure Bay sailing for summerBy Liz Brown
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Chris Alemany

At the local community watering hole, Char's Landing, listening to the local jazz combo headed by my former high school band teacher (at the piano) Barry Miller.

We have a wonderful tradition of all kinds of music in #portalberni

Jazz, Blues, Rock and Country (most famously, Lauren Spencer-Smith)
#music #jazz #local

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

I am so over our local politicians bickering and passing the buck!

It is a travesty that our Visitor Centre is closed over Spring Break because the City decided it was going to pick this moment to try to get the Regional District to take on the cost.

#PortAlberni #Municipality #Unity #bcmuni #bcpoli #SproatLake #BeaverCreek #CherryCreek

@chrisblog

chrisalemany.ca/2025/03/20/202

Murkyview · 2026 Municipal Referendum on Uniting Port Alberni - MurkyviewThe author criticizes the City Council and Regional District for mismanagement and delays, leading to financial losses and job cuts, especially during a crisis. They urge unity among local communities and advocate for providing information for a 2026 referendum on regional unification.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

I made a short video this morning to mark the anniversary of AW Neill’s first speech in the Parliament of Canada. March 16, 1922. Neill was a white supremacist and especially hated Japanese immigrants. He was a cheerleader not only for exclusion of Asian immigration, but their forced deportation including after internment in WWII.
Sound familiar?

youtube.com/live/8BQhMdYRQUY

This morning I found an exchange between him and Prime Minister Mackenzie King. It was on a trade treaty with Belgium, but Neill turned it into a debate about immigration.
Sound familiar?

I mark this day because we still honour this white supremacist with the name of a street in #PortAlberni

The school board removed his name from a school a few years ago — he was also an Indian Agent in charge of Indian Residential Schools in our area — but multiple city councils have not had the courage to do the same with the street.

Here is his original speech : lipad.ca/full/permalink/620136

And here is his debate with Mackenzie King : lipad.ca/full/1924/07/11/13/

#immigration #whitesupremacy #racism
cc: @dustindame

YouTubeAW Neill in the context of Donald Trump's attacks on immigrants and white supremacy.By Chris Alemany
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Removing some parts from the 1976 Fiat Spider before it is sent to the scrapper on Friday.

❤️ this car, wanted to restore it and electrify it, but it is just too far gone and restoration these days is ridiculously expensive. Better for the brain and wallet to buy one of many used versions available around for under $10,000 if I want to do that one day.

But in the meantime this one can be recycled and we can keep some bits to keep the memory of fun times over the past 45 years in our hearts. 💕.

The cargo rack should make a nice towel rack for the bathroom. :)

(Picture of the car in the snow is from a few years ago when we got a big snowfall that destroyed the shelter for the car… truly the end of the end for it. It was either build a small greenhouse/garage for it to restore it, or not.)

The car sits on its grey mat in the yard beside the purple shed. There is snow all around.
A few years later, she looks a little dirtier, a view from the front with the yellow car cover partially resting over it.
The cargo rack is chrome with four horizontal cross pieces and two vertical. It is curved and the vertical pieces curve to the rear where they would screw into the car trunk. There is a small horizontal bar that shuts out for, the bottom, to act as a stopper to keep the luggage from sliding off the back of the car.
Checking the fit of the rack on the wall of the bathroom.
#cars#fiat#spider
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Chris Alemany

YES! So proud this is happening in my region. #AlberniClayoquot Congrats to #Nuuchanulth language keepers and learners!

This is also the launch of a *brand new* transit service! The West Coast has never had public Transit before. It has been years since the private bus companies (formerly Greyhound) severely cut trips.

It's very hard to get around without a car. I am hoping a connecting service will be created to get people from the #Hwy4 junction to #PortAlberni

cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col

CBCIndigenous language now included on Ucluelet bus stop signs — a first for B.C. Transit  | CBC NewsB.C. Transit says this is the first time an Indigenous language has been included on its signs anywhere within its system, but it does plan to work with other communities to include local language in other communities.
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