Anyone looking at a map of the 2017 provincial election results has to notice the "beyond Hope" issue. The interior of Britsh Columbia is largely represented by the Liberal party, whereas the urban areas of the lower mainland and island are represented by the NDP.
At the same time, Metro Vancouver is calling foul when it comes to school and property taxes. Just a heads-up.
I have posted a webinar "walking tour" of finances in Area F of the RDOS. It is just under 30 minutes long and attempts to explain (for example) why our taxes are generally higher than those in Naramata:
This webinar follows-on from my previous video in which I looked at the 2017 Area F budget.
In both cases these are pretty amateur affairs based on my dashboarding tool, which can be found here if you wish to explore on your own:
One of the things I teach at Simon Fraser University is a course called Business Analytics. Part of that course is the emerging field of "visual analytics", which is really just a fancy way of saying charts and graphs. I personally am a big fan of charts and graphs and have been trying to create a tool to translate the massive RDOS budget into a series of pretty pictures.
