A Councillors 68 Hour Day

August 27th 2026

SICAMOUS, BC — If you tuned into the last Committee of the Whole meeting, you didn’t just witness a standard local government debate on council pay raises. You witnessed the unveiling of a medical marvel, a chronological wizard, a localized superhero right here in our own backyard. No not Legs.

Now let’s be perfectly clear: Sicamous Local News is not opposed to our local politicians getting a fair shake. In fact, we firmly believe the Mayor should be making at least the provincial minimum wage($37,960). I think we can all agree that the minimum is the least we should do. Tie the Mayor’s salary directly to the B.C. minimum wage, give the councilors exactly half of that as a standard baseline, and call it a day. It’s a clean, direct reflection of the provincial economy that can be gradually rolled out. It should be sufficient until Sicamous’s economy changes to the point that it needs to be reassessed.

Instead of waiting for actual provincial prosperity, the Mayor and Councillors were forced to debate the idea of pay raises right before the upcoming elections. Is this a cruel Joke? One councillor laid out their undeniable reality. They boldly declared that, when they “did the math,” their current workload breaks down to a meager $0.62 cents an hour.

While cynical skeptics might scoff, Sicamous Local News took this literally. We stand with our councillors, and we want to officially salute the hardest working politician in human history.

The Transcendent Math

Let’s look at the cold, hard numbers, because facts don’t lie. A Sicamous councilor pulls in a stipend of maybe $15,428 a year.

If they’re earning $0.62 an hour, that means they’re clocking a mind melting 24,884 hours of municipal work every single year.

Now, the narrow minded critics among us might point out a slight logical speed bump here, there are only 8,760 hours in a calendar year. They will claim it’s mathematically impossible.

But we refuse to doubt the commitment! To hit 24,884 hours in a single 365 day cycle, this absolute machine of a public servant is somehow squeezing 1,036 days of work into one single year. They are working a breathtaking 68 hours every single day.

While you are sleeping, they are working. While you are eating breakfast, they are working. While you are working, well, they’re also still working, you get the idea. They’re sacrificing their morning, their evening, and two other entirely different timelines just to keep the District running. Sicamous has a councillor working 2.8 full time, round the clock lifetimes simultaneously every single year. To suggest they don’t deserve a raise after conquering the space time continuum for there constituents is nothing short of insulting.

The “Now or Never” Panic

Naturally, when you are working 68 hours a day, your perception of time gets a little distorted. That must explain why another councillor piped up to declare that passing this pay raise was a case of “now or never.”

Now, we suspect, municipal adjustments can happen down the road. It is never truly “never.” But when you are dealing with a colleague who is living 1,036 days a year, the calendar moves fast. Besides, general local elections are staring Council right in the face. Perhaps they really do feel like it is now or never for them, because let’s be honest, why else would a councilor say that.

No wonder the rest of the room looked about as thrilled as a dog at the vet. Giving yourselves a fat raise right before an election is a brutal sell at the doorstep..

A Genuine Salute to the Sacrifice

Look, we love to marvel at the chronological gymnastics on display. But all jokes aside, we wouldn’t exactly nominate Legs to run for office ourselves. We know, all too well that being a municipal leader is a massive mountain of work for compensation that would never realistically replace a primary day job income.

So, we absolutely salute our 68 hour a day mathematical wizard and the rest of Council for the genuine, reality bending sacrifices they make for Sicamous. If they need a raise to fund there time machine, we say give it to them, and then wait till the rest of BC gets a trickle down raise first.

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