James Bay
Neighbourhood in Victoria, British ColumbiaWikipedia
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Oct 20, 2026
ScottHOST
Mary Griffin joining us now from one of the locations where it's been a struggle to get voters through.
ScottHOST
Mary, how are things at this hour in James Bay and what went wrong?
Mary GriffinCORRESPONDENT
Well, Scott, that's right.
Mary GriffinCORRESPONDENT
We're at James Bay Community School.
Mary GriffinCORRESPONDENT
Now, it's one of the 12 polling stations, voting places in the city of Victoria.
Mary GriffinCORRESPONDENT
Eight of the 12 voting places are schools.
Mary GriffinCORRESPONDENT
And when the polls opened up this morning, it was obvious there were some IT issues.
Mary GriffinCORRESPONDENT
Now, they managed to resolve those issues pretty quickly in seven of the schools, but James Bay Community School has been ongoing all day.
Adam StirlingHOST
Yeah, we were monitoring the very close race that took place over the weekend in Victoria, and I wanted to ask you your thoughts on it based on the standings being so close.
Arthur McInnesGUEST
Well, there are some questions regarding what's happened with the vote, especially in James Bay, where I live.
Arthur McInnesGUEST
So, first of all, there's a question over the mail-in ballots.
Arthur McInnesGUEST
I mean, what is going on there? At least 1,600 or 1,700 people didn't get their haven't had their votes accounted for.
Arthur McInnesGUEST
So again, that's kind of part of it.
Arthur McInnesGUEST
Then if you stand back and you take a look at kind of 22 and 26, you're going to see the percentages are up significantly, like about 13% across the board.
Arthur McInnesGUEST
But when you look at James Bayne, They're down something like 32%.
Arthur McInnesGUEST
When you look at Fairfield-Gonzalez, they're down 40%.
speaker_6ADVERTISER
Although I'd have to sit down and actually count the differences there.
Adam StirlingHOST
Textured71010 writes, Sterling, why are you not talking about, it says here, about the systematic voter avoidance, it says, by moving polling stations, not in walking distance in James Bay and Fairfield.
Adam StirlingHOST
If you're talking about the technical difficulties that the city of Victoria claims to have suffered over the weekend, in which...
Adam StirlingHOST
There was a polling station that was essentially moved and a shuttle bus, I believe, set up to transport people from James Bay to Crystal Garden downtown on Douglas Street.
Adam StirlingHOST
It was discussed earlier in the program.
Adam StirlingHOST
There is at least one candidate who has raised concerns as to whether or not the city of Victoria fulfilled its legal obligations with respect to how that election was conducted.
7 MINS LATER
Adam StirlingHOST
Listen to this.
Adam StirlingHOST
Will less enthusiastic New Democrat supporters turn out to vote or stay home? And this links back to the conversation that we had with Victoria Council candidate Arthur McInnes earlier in the day.
Alan PerryHOST
For those of you listening here in Victoria, as you will be hearing, lots of road closures in our neck of the woods, Charles.
Alan PerryHOST
You and I both live in James Bay, so lots of that coming up.
Alan PerryHOST
We also got a thing on the ferry that we want to talk about.
Alan PerryHOST
The reason that we particularly invited Charles in this week is, well, I was going to say twofold, but threefold.
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Charles MartinGUEST
Yeah, I like to take a break for a year of paying for phones and then start it all over again.
Alan PerryHOST
Shireen is like me.
Alan PerryHOST
She just moved to the James Bay area here in Victoria.
Alan PerryHOST
And she says, hey, I've just realized I heard you talking.
Alan PerryHOST
That's what we have in Victoria.
Alan PerryHOST
We just moved to Shearwater in James Bay.
Alan PerryHOST
So we're on Rogers to your value plan.
Alan PerryHOST
Yeah.
RyanAUDIENCE
But, but, yeah, but, yeah, but the, uh, if, if you look at all the numbers, you look at the real estate listings, the, the, the listing price, and then they tell you what taxes they're paying, and you can tell all the way across the board it's pretty well the case.
RyanAUDIENCE
So as soon as you mix them all together, though, suddenly the whole average shifts and, and you're gonna have a transferring of taxes from, like, the bigger, um, more valuable homes in Saanich, let's say, compared to a tiny home in James Bay or something.
RyanAUDIENCE
So it could easily be that the taxes would jump in Saanich and fall in Victoria, or vice versa, depending on how the whole p- thing plays out.
RyanAUDIENCE
But the, the, this committee has decided, "Oh, no, there won't be any effect 'cause right now it's comparable." Yeah, everything changes.
Alan PerryHOST
I love being able to access the files.
Alan PerryHOST
So, for example, now that we moved into Shearwater and James Bay, I was in Montreal, and they said, hey, can you please send us proof that you have your EnerPro electrical system set up? So I just find the EnerPro account on my phone, which comes from my computer, and click.
Alan PerryHOST
Email it from Montreal.
Alan PerryHOST
Exactly.
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Alan PerryHOST
Let's see.
DorothyAUDIENCE
Okay.
DorothyAUDIENCE
I moved into my apartment in James Bay in May, and I have had nothing but problems with my Wi-Fi ever since.
DorothyAUDIENCE
It will cut out and then come back and then I contact the company, and they tell me to unplug it, do all that kind of stuff.
Nicole CroneHOST
It's crazy.
Nicole CroneHOST
I have journals from when I first moved here where I, and I was like, you know, dreaming up having my own business and I have to find the journal entries, but I would walk through James Bay.
Nicole CroneHOST
That's where I very first arrived and everybody is senior there.
Nicole CroneHOST
Um, The folks are a little old.
Nicole CroneHOST
Okay.
Nicole CroneHOST
The folks are senior in James Bay.
Nicole CroneHOST
And it's a neighborhood outside in Victoria.
Nicole CroneHOST
And I would have these journal entries.
Adam StirlingHOST
Yeah, I'm hoping that everybody who can be headed towards the fire is headed towards the fire.
Adam StirlingHOST
Mary writes, Coast Guard helicopter just left James Bay.
Adam StirlingHOST
Mary writes, Coast Guard heading towards the fire.
Adam StirlingHOST
Oh, I can see it actually.
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Adam StirlingHOST
But we continue to have this convergence of a number of smaller fixed wing aircraft and aircraft.
Adam StirlingHOST
Helicopters at relatively low altitudes in the area.
Adam StirlingHOST
The Canadian Coast Guard chopper, by the way, that Texter Mary saw take off from James Bay at 7-10-10.
Adam StirlingHOST
Mary, I can tell you that that chopper, if it is indeed the same one, continued on a flight path due north to northwest.
Adam StirlingHOST
And if you want to see it for yourself and you are anywhere within the Capital Regional District, you just want to take a gander out to the Souk Hills, you will see a column of what appears to be smoke rising over the horizon, which is now visible from here in Esquimalt as well as in the West Shore.
Adam StirlingHOST
Mary writes, it's very visible in James Bay, a huge plume.
Adam StirlingHOST
I'm going to check the latest satellite data for that.
Adam StirlingHOST
I'm just trying to think.