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May 04, 2026 |

By Ric Ernst

| BiggerPockets

From an appraisal standpoint, what are the driving factors for home price in the Indy market? Obviously location plays a large roll, but aside from that, comparing two houses on the same block what moves the needle most here in Indy?

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Aug 22, 2025 |

By Nick Giulioni, Ric Ernst, Dani Beit-Or, Rabeeya Khan

| BiggerPockets

Followed Discussions Followed Categories Followed People Followed Locations General Landlording & Rental Properties Market News & Data General Info Real Estate Strategies Landlording & Rental Properties Real Estate Professionals Financial, Tax, & Legal Real Estate Classifieds Reviews & Feedback Updated almost 5 years ago on 10/28/2020.

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Speed limits to drop on some highways after increase in crashes

Nov 07, 2018 |

By Ric Ernst, Lindsay Kines

| Times Colonist

Transportation Minister Claire Trevena is rolling back speed limits by 10 kilometres an hour on 15 sections of B.C. highway, including three on Vancouver Island. The move partly reverses a 2014 decision by the former Liberal government to increase speed limits on 33 sections and 1,300 kilometres of rural highway. A Transportation Ministry analysis concluded that the decision to increase speed limits led to a rise in crashes in which people were killed or injured.

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Province to roll back speed limit hikes on some B.C. highways, citing increase in crashes

Nov 06, 2018 |

By Ric Ernst, Pamela Fayerman

| Times Colonist

B.C. will lower speed limits on many of the rural highways on which the former government raised speeds in 2014, including three stretches on Vancouver Island. Transportation Minister Claire Trevena announced this morning the decision to drop speed limits on 15 of the 33 highway segments that saw speeds increased up to 120 km/hour.

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Province to roll back speed limit hikes on some B.C. highways

Nov 06, 2018 |

By Ric Ernst, Pamela Fayerman

| Times Colonist

B.C. will lower speed limits on many of the rural highways on which the former government raised speeds in 2014. Transport minister Claire Trevena announced this morning the decision to drop speed limits after a review of three years of police and ICBC data showed an increase in serious accidents associated with the higher speed limits. The most common contributing factor for crashes was driver inattentiveness but speed was also a major factor.

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Higher speed limits on some B.C. highways expected to be scaled back

Nov 06, 2018 |

By Ric Ernst

| Times Colonist

The British Columbia government was expected to announce Tuesday that some highway speed limit increases put in place more than four years ago are being dialed back. Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Claire Trevena was to be in Victoria to unveil what the ministry calls a safety announcement regarding changes to speed limits on certain B.C. highways.

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Island Voices: Salmon farms are at the tipping point

Jun 17, 2018 |

By Ric Ernst, Zureks via Wikipedia, Alexandra Morton

| Times Colonist

By June 20, Premier John Horgan will decide whether to renew 20 salmon-farm tenures, one-fifth of the B.C. industry. This is a make-or-break moment for salmon farming in B.C. While the industry is doing its best to present itself as good for B.C., British Columbians have lived with this industry for more than 30 years, and the diversity of voices warning the premier not to renew these tenures has become an unparalleled crisis for the industry.

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Little refugee’s life cut short

Apr 24, 2018 |

By Ric Ernst, Denise Ryan

| Times Colonist

VANCOUVER — The pressure had been building for days. Abdullah Kurdi, his wife Rehanna and children Ghalib, 4, and Alan, 2, were holed up in the port city of Izmir, Turkey, the place where Syrian refugees desperate to get to Europe meet up with human smugglers. Abdullah had $5,000, sent by his sister Tima Kurdi in B.C., to pay for the voyage, but every day he found another reason not to go. He was terrified of putting the children in the flimsy dinghies the smugglers used.

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Environmentalists 'red-wash' their fight against pipeline, First Nation chief says

Apr 16, 2018 |

By Ric Ernst, Randy Shore

| Times Colonist

VANCOUVER — Cancellation of the Trans Mountain pipeline would cost B.C. First Nations hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits, job training, and employment and business opportunities, according to Cheam Chief Ernie Crey. Crey has emerged as a leading voice for the First Nations that stand to benefit from the project, calling out environmentalists for “red-washing” their fight against the $7.4 billion expansion of the pipeline between Edmonton and Burnaby.

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B.C. woman fights strata to keep children’s therapy dogs

Nov 13, 2017 |

By Ric Ernst, Glenda Luymes

| Times Colonist

A B.C. woman claims her daughters faced discrimination when the company that manages their strata unit fined them for keeping two therapy dogs. According to a summary recently posted on the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal website, the woman’s two daughters have “mental health concerns” that require the assistance of therapy dogs. One of the daughters struggles with bipolar disorder, while the other has a mental disability.

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