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Why wait for spring? in advance of the province's referen-
dum on increasing the regional sales tax 0.5 per cent and
following a December 2014 poll by insights West, BCBusi-
ness conducted its own online poll. between December 15
and 17, 179 BCBusiness readers responded to the question:
Do you support a regional 0.5% PsT increase to fund transit
expansion? Here's how your answers broke down:
Poll of the Month
H e y M om , I t 's M e in BC B!
@curiousGeorgees
tweeted out a photo of
her co-worker, featured
in Paul Willcocks's story
on employee volunteer
programs ("The Gift of
Time," november 2014):
"so proud of our
@Vancity account
Manager, Massood baqi
for being featured in
@bcbusiness!"
i don't want to pay
any new taxes or
tolls, period
37.99%
(68 votes)
i'm willing to help pay,
but this is the wrong
method
13.41%
(24 votes)
i don't live in Metro
Vancouver and/or
don't care
2.23%
(4 votes)
Yes. We need to
get on this, now
46.37%
(83 votes)
Caffeine Nation
Judging from the responses to Trevor
Melanson's story about why Tim Hortons
can't compete with Starbucks in Vancou-
ver ("The Last Frontier," January 2015),
most BCBusiness readers not only dislike
Tims coffee ("Tim Hortons is just... so
horrificly bad"), they aren't too keen on
Starbucks either. Williams Hodgins
summed it up as: "We're not coffee
snobs, we're trendy snobs. The coffee at
both Tims and Starbucks frankly sucks."
Rod Mickleburgh tweeted: "Just not
hoser enough....hehe."
MarcH 2015 BCBusiness 15
Yes
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@curiousGeorgees
