Corrections log

New homes vs target now says net new homes; Family income said “median, real” and now says “median, 2023” (the figure is in 2023 dollars). The business to home tax rate now says “times the home rate”. The emergency wait and the Crime Severity Index now have a plain-words line (CIHI’s 90th percentile; Statistics Canada’s index, set to 100 in 2006).

Where a date was read from the law or a published page, it is shown: the City’s financial plan bylaw (26-040) and 2026 tax rates, adopted May 7, 2026; the Province’s 2027 rent increase limit, announced August 27, 2026; the Bank of Canada’s October 28, 2026 rate and December 9, 2026 announcement; the police board’s November 30 budget deadline; the housing target report due November 14, 2026; and the last and next general elections.

It was left off because it fell after the last point drawn.

Election days were full-height dark lines; they are now short light ticks on the top edge marked M (municipal), P (provincial) or F (federal), showing the main decision-maker’s elections first, with a Show elections button for the rest. Shape markers and dashed lines for each series are gone: lines are told apart by colour and name, with Victoria-area lines drawn thicker than the B.C., Canada and Island Health comparisons. A tapped or hovered point no longer opens a dark box over the lines; a thin guide marks it and the values above the chart change in place. Axis labels drop “.0” and carry the unit on the top label. No figure changed.

The average is new on these charts; the headline figures did not change.

Added: Emergency wait to see a doctor; Days to issue a permit for larger buildings; Police-reported crime; Employment rate; Finishing high school. No longer key measures, still on the site: Police-reported crime in the City of Victoria; Business building permits downtown. The home page now gives one count line of the key measures’ labels, generated from the data.

It is now “Adults in B.C. with a regular health care provider”. No figure changed.

Construction value is removed, and the City’s tax rate is shown as a chart on the business tax ratio page. Old links lead to the new pages. No figure changed.

It now reads “Victoria and Esquimalt police area”.

It now lists the kinds of source it uses, public bodies first, and each measure page names its kind of source. Every measure today is read from a public body; the downtown pedestrian counts are credited by the City to the Downtown Victoria Business Association, as the page says. The home page now says the area is Greater Victoria unless a row names another area.

Each page now has an open “Who decides what” table: the body, what it decides, a link to the law, order or bylaw that gives it that role, and its last and next decision where these are set out in law or in a published report. A body is listed only where that link has been opened and checked. The same tables are gathered on a new page, Who decides. No figure changed.

It is now called “Who decides” (All, City of Victoria, Region, School district, Province, Federal) and shows each measure under its main decision-maker only: the first body in its “Who decides what” table. Measures that no government decides directly appear under All. No measure on the site is mainly decided by a school district yet, and the filter says so.

Changed: Net new homes vs the provincial target: Province · City · Federal → Province · City; Below-market and family-size homes: Province · City · Federal → Province · City; Victoria’s share of the region’s shelter and homeless housing: Province · Federal · City · Region → Province · Federal · Region; Mortgage payment, share of income: Federal · Region · Province → Federal · Region; People looking for work who can't find it: Federal · Province → Federal; Businesses operating in Greater Victoria: City · Province · Federal → City; People walking past downtown counters: City · Province · Federal → City. The CSV files now have main_decision_maker and decided_by columns in place of level_of_government. No figure changed.

Each measure lists the body that sets the budget, passes the bylaw or runs the service, with a link to the law. We do not say who caused a change: markets, households and other governments also move these numbers.” Charts now also mark general election days for the governments listed for that measure, by date and level only.

Public bodies do publish data on all four (the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the Victoria Police Department and BC Stats), so the entries are removed. Each will be added as a measure once it has been read and checked.

Old links redirect.

From 2025 the B.C. figure in the Public Health Agency of Canada series counts deaths involving any unregulated drug, including deaths still under investigation. The wording and chart title now say so; the numbers are unchanged.

The live site counts page views with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookies. The About page now says so, and a release check compares the live About page and the scripts each page loads with the build.

The City’s turnout is a share of registered voters (its voters list); the page now says so, and adds the 2022 election on the same base from the City’s 2022 statement of votes cast.

Each now links to the exact table, data file or report page.

Statistics Canada counts Esquimalt separately from 2020, so the figure covers the City of Victoria only from 2020 on. The page now says so and marks the 2020 change on the chart.

Recalculating the published figures shows they assume the minimum down payment, as BC Stats’ formula states.