A common theme with Tom Dyas and Denciti Development is the screaming need in Kelowna for Pickleball courts. Indeed, servicing Pickleballers is their rally cry for paving over Kelowna Springs. A letter published on Castanet explodes that false narrative.
"Most pickleballers do not support the (change at) 480 Penno Road. It would have severe consequences for the neighbouring farmers and everyone living along Mill Creek. Nothing is certain with the developer. The developer (Dencity) may supply the land and then (the city) would have to pay for construction of a (pickleball) building. Dencity’s offer is not free."
Volodya Gusak
"The association already allocates all the money it receives from their members. The pickleball association did not go to Dencity (to ask for a pickleball facility), Dencity went to it for its endorsement as a large group. Most of the players do not support this development on this land."
(pkcregistrar@gmail.com)
Garry Fawley
"Players from West Kelowna say 480 Penno Road is too far to travel.
Do not destroy this green space in the hope of extra pickleball courts. Dencity may never build them. We have 5.6% industrial vacancy now and a supply for 36 to 56 years.
Pickleball can be played anywhere. It is not too late to say no to the developer."
Another citizen's letter states; "I read two separate reports, one from the City of Kelowna and one from the Regional District of Central Okanagan. They both clearly indicate there is an industrial land surplus of 5.6% and rising, with a 36 to 56 year supply."
One should be impressed with the simple logic. Pickleball REQUIRES no specialized courts or buildings. An empty space of any description is perfectly fine. Since there is a virtually inexhaustible supply of that in Kelowna, it makes no sense to build a fixed pickleball court. To build one over irreplaceable greenspace when it clearly isn't needed is a sin. Tom Dyas, Volodya Gusak and Garry Fawley can go to hell.
There is something inherently annoying with Tom Dyas verbiage. His voice, his demeanor, his appearance. He comes across as a crooked used car dealer, and that isn't far from the truth. His insulting lies are constant.
Citizens of Kelowna are fed up with Tom Dyas as he leads them into a severe economic decline.
The city takes control of the 60 acre golf course property (which is unsuitable for development because of aquifers) at 480 Penno Road while transferring 9.1 acres of city-owned industrial land at 3199 Hollywood Road North.
The newly created lot was carved out of a municipal property that will become the Central Okanagan’s new bus barns. The land was removed from the ALR. It's a prime commercial location, close to Highway 97 and the University of B.C. ChatGPT tells us that on the low end, 10 acres of commercial land in Kelowna will be worth $20M. Assuming the high end is closer to $30M, the City of Kelowna is returning the entire purchase price of the Kelowna Springs purchase to Denciti.
Denciti retains it’s 46 acres of land adjacent to the golf course which remains subject to an application for industrial land use. The sweetheart Denciti deal clears the way for industrial development on the 9.1 acres it would acquire from the city as well. Why would the City give away lands that it might need for its bus depot expansion? Why did the City buy that land if it was going to then give it away?
Perhaps folks should ask bum-like city manager Doug Gilchrist. (dgilchrist@kelowna.ca)
His salary increased from $264K in 2019 to $384K in 2024. Gilchrist’s pay package is just $5k less than the city manager’s salary in Vancouver, a city more than four times the size of Kelowna. “There’s vast differences about the breadth and depth of the services we provide.” he lied.
Stealing from citizens appears a big part of Doug Gilchrist's very expensive services.
Meanwhile, new zoning is coming for major business park development in Lake Country. The Lake Country Business Park, formerly known as the Glenmore Industrial Lands, will encompasses 200 acres stretching south along Glenmore Road and west along Okanagan Centre Road. Conservative estimates suggest there is already in excess of a 50 year supply of industrial land in the Okanagan. There is zero demand for more.
Gavin 'Fuzzy' Dew announced he is NOT going to try to attain leadership of the B.C. Conservatives.
Few are more tightly connected to Kelowna mayor Tom Dyas than Punjabi Mohini Singh (Ubhi). Here.
Gavin Dew is a know nothing refugee from the Liberals. He finished dead last in the Liberal leadership race before magically becoming a B.C. Conservative under the disgraced 'Indo Packing' John Rustad. Dew was anointed in the riding of KTF (Khalistan Tiger Force) boss Bir Singh Sandher by Rustad.
Gavin Dew has taken grease from the Sandher Crime Family multiple times. He is grossly dirty and corrupt. There is no question that MLA Gavin Dew is on the Sandher payroll. The $11m Sandher fentanyl bunker is in his riding.
Gavin Dew has absolutely no skills of any description, he watches his wife run a daycare as a career choice. He has 'done' nothing else, ever.
"Dew, in an interview with Kelowna city councillor Mohini Singh on her new podcast Chai and Chat, said his primary concern on if he runs or not is his family." Gavin Dew trots his children out for virtually EVERY photo op. He consistantly uses them as a political tool. “When your kids having a tough day, they just want to see daddy and you can't be there for three more days, it breaks your heart.” Gavin Dew is a screaming hypocrite.
For over 7.5 years Bir Singh Sandher illegally dumped his plant waste water into the ditch in front of his plant on Old Vernon Road in Kelowna. Instead of digging a $25k settlement pond he elected to have his unpermitted, illegally built plant dump into the environment. His illegal discharge stank to high heaven, causing multiple complaints that FINALLY resulted in over $115k in fines.
His downhill neighbor and vocal opponent was turfed as the B.C.Conservative candidate in Bir Singh Sandher's riding because he told leader John Rustad to do it. His choice was his grease taking Gavin Dew and that is who is MLA today.
The KTF and Bir Singh Sandher bought Gavin Dew and John Rustad. Both are considered KTF assets.
Gavin Dew took Sandher grease through the corruption of Conservation officer Ken Owens and ALC Dave Birchmore and Brandon Jacobsen. Here.
Owens was busted cold receiving $50k from Sami El-Helou and the Sandhers. Grease was to quash the ALC investigation into their massive drug lab bunker on Black Mountain. Cash went to Brandon Jacobsen of the ALC and Gavin 'Fuzzy' Dew.
Tom Dyas says the city is in 'uncharted territory' as the rental vacancy rate is 6.9%, the highest of any city in Canada. This goes with Kelowna's 11% unemployment rate, also the highest in Canada. Dyas's Kelowna is in economic freefall.
285 Dougall Road is a new rental build by Khalistani backed Troika Developments. Completed four months ago it is still half (or more) empty. This begs the question why a housing partnership between the City of Kelowna and Troika Developments for more terrible cheap quality, tiny wood frame shitbox condos is proceeding.
Troika applied for development permits for two city owned sites in Rutland and Glenmore. The city provides the land while Troika builds and manages the buildings. Projects are 129 wood frame units at Dougall Road North in Rutland, and 71 units on Glenmore Road. The vast majority are studio and one bedroom.
The 'below-market' rental prices will be as follows:
Studio - $1,250
One bedroom - $1,660
Two Bedroom - $2,040
Three bedroom - $2,370
'Eligible renters' will need a combined household income between $80k and $120k to pay no more than 30% of their income. Once development permits are approved, Troika will seek building permits and begin construction. According to CMHC, 1,300 new rental units were added to the rental pool in Kelowna in 2025.
Kelowna citizens (unlike the corrupt Tom Dyas) aren't stupid. Their comments sum it up ...
"Dyas, pointing to several city programs and incentives"...
The more government involvement there is, the more supply goes off kilter with demand. Governments should stick to their knitting.
"Mayor Dumba&& can pat himself on the back all he wants, people can see through his bull crap word salad."
"hey dyaas
thousands of little studio shoe boxes for rent less than 300 square feet at a cost of $1700, where are all the Kelowna jobs to fill these low quality units?"
"cost of a 350 sqft shoe box that no one actually wants to live in, takes up their entire income for the rent, so it becomes a choice, do i want to eat, or have a safe place to sleep and live"
Kelowna city councillors were eager to start their month-long Christmas break. For the second straight meeting, council deferred hearing a presentation from staff about ways in which city streets are being made safer. They decided they needed their vacation instead. Council was scheduled to meet Santa, and “That’s the most exciting thing today,” said Maxine DeHart. She invited councillors for free coffee on the Jhajj's dime at the Ramada Hotel. Over achieving council won’t meet again until January 12, 2026.
UBER tight up Tom Dyas anus is the over the hill, past her prime, Maxine DeHart. "Mayor Tom Dyas and I attended the URBA Holiday Mixer with the Kelowna Chiefs and were asked to “drop the puck” at the hockey game." Here DeHart has spent 30 years as Director of Sales and Marketing at the Ramada Hotel and Conference Centre in Kelowna. For the past 3 years her paycheque has been signed by Khalistani heavyweight Gurjit Singh Jhajj. She SURELY needs to recuse from the Kelowna Springs vote because her boss stands to gain off her positive vote.
DeHart is in a conflict of interest. mdehart@kelowna.ca
Hobnobbing with the gruesome twosome is none other than the also Khalistani conflicted Gavin 'Fuzzy' Dew. The permanently unshaven bum is B.C Conservative MLA. He's taken grease from Bir Singh Sandher multiple times. The Sandher drug lab on Black Mountain is in his riding.
Here was Tom Dyas' criticism of Colin Basran from September 2022.
“Kelowna’s taxpayers deserve to have their hard-earned money respected and used for the betterment of our community not to promote the image and personality of their Mayor.” “As Kelowna’s next Mayor I will commit to banning all City of Kelowna advertising spend not related to public safety, community engagement and consultation, or required advertising by upper levels of government,” Dyas said.
Uncle Tom then got an 'Office of the Mayor' with its own staff. A Chief of Staff, Communications, and Policy Advisors are costing taxpayers a fortune. He has someone to write all his speeches and press releases, his online presence, and to shoot videos of him.
“I am running to be Kelowna’s next Mayor because I can see so many of the critical issues facing our city failing to be addressed, not because I want to boost my own image.”
Tom Dyas ... “commit(ted) to hiring an external third-party to undertake a line-by-line audit of the City’s finances." “Over the last eight years property taxes have increased 30% and development charges have increased by tens of thousands of dollars — yet we haven’t seen drastic improvements to infrastructure or services as a result,” he said.
Mayor Tom has averaged 4.28% yearly tax increases. Basran’s last four years averaged 3.99%. The Kelowna city budget went up 16.8% from $777 million in Tom Tom’s first year to $908 million in 2025. The preliminary 2026 Budget is $1.05 billion.
Dyas acknowledged the rising unemployment figure of 7% in Kelowna, the highest it's been in three years. Unemployment then reached 11% in November 2025, (9.3% in October) which is the highest in Canada.
Kelowna's cost of living is exorbitant, with a single person needing $3,700 - $4,000/month and potentially a $75k+ annual income. This is being driven by rising rents and home prices.
Tom Dyas's fully insulting verbal strokery speaks for itself. Dyas moved to British Columbia in 1986 to become a sous chef, becoming executive chef of Delta Hotels while living in Whistler. Dyas first ran for mayor of Kelowna in 2018 against his very good friend Colin Basran. He lost by a 2 to 1 margin, nearly 9,000 votes.
The Denciti steal is the brainchild of Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas.
Dyas appeared on local press November 22 2025 to explain the benefits of the Dencity steal for citizens. There are none, other than Pickleball.
What's missing is his explanation of why he's reneging on his election promise, the one that got him elected over the grossly corrupt Sikh shill Colin Basran. “Residents have told me that they expect their next mayor to fight to save Kelowna Springs, and that’s what I will do,” Here.
Dyas even penned his own bullshit lies for voters, on an abandoned blog. “Leadership is about making difficult choices ..." Here
"July 26, 2022. KELOWNA — Kelowna Mayoral Candidate Tom Dyas has announced that as Mayor he would fight to save Kelowna Springs Golf Course from being turned into warehouses."
After being elected, Dyas increased salaries 35% and punished those who objected. Dyas stole an instant 15% pay hike for himself to over $145k per year. Kelowna Springs rezoning was Colin Basran's pet project, pushed by his Khalistani masters. The steal was reversed unanimously (including Dyas) because citizens revolted overwhelmingly against it, something Tom Dyas forgets in 3 short years.
This citizen received fair warning of the corruption of Tom Dyas and sidekick Mohini Singh with the cops watching their meeting with Gurtaj Singh Sandher on board the new $1m+ Sandher Regal 42 yacht moored at the Kelowna Yacht Club in August 2024.
That open corruption comes home to roost with Tom Dyas now.
Mohini Singh
Dyas currently sits on the RDCO Board as a Director, Chair of the Airport Advisory Committee, Chair of the Mayor’s Task Force on Crime Reduction, Member of the BCUMC, as part of the RDCO board a representative on the Municipal Finance Committee. He sits on the board of Uptown Rutland Business Association and a member of the Audit Committee.
Dyas runs the 'family business' TD benefits
(admin@tdbenefits.ca)
"We specialize in employee group benefits solutions for small to medium-sized businesses within the Okanagan region."
tdyas@kelowna.ca,
msingh@kelowna.ca
mdehart@kelowna.ca
mayorandcouncil@kelowna.ca
rcannan@kelowna.ca
chodge@kelowna.ca
glovegrove@kelowna.ca
lstack@kelowna.ca
lwooldridge@kelowna.ca
rwebber@kelowna.ca
The terms of Dyas and councillors expire next year. Dyas, Singh, and Dehart are beyond redemption. Dehart works for Khalistani heavyweight Gurjit Singh Jhajj and has SAID she will recuse herself from the Kelowna Springs vote, which directly effects property acquired by boss Jhajj adjacent to Kelowna Springs.
Councillor Loyal Woolridge voted with Basran. He was the BC NDP’s losing candidate in Kelowna Centre in 2024. He is a very close Dyas peon.
"The only surprise for me was Loyal Wooldridge escaping the fray. He spent his entire first term sucking up to Basran, supporting and voting with him in lockstep. He was rewarded with, and gleefully took, the chair of the Central Okanagan Regional District." Here.
Former Kelowna mayor Colin Basran was charged with one count of sexual assault in December 2022 stemming from an incident in May while he was still in office. That charge was stayed in June 22, 2023. Among other allegations, Basran rented a mansion of property developer David Negrin, former CEO of Aquilini Investment Group.
Basran denied all conflicts while Negrin had done a great deal of business in Kelowna. Basran refused to disclose how much rent he paid to Negrin. "that’s not anyone’s business.” Some said it was zero. Reporters suggested the $4.5m waterfront home should have rented for $50k per year. Basran earned $110k that year.
White knight for the people of Kelowna for Kelowna Springs has been the well respected Luke Stack.
DeHart is in a conflict of interest. mdehart@kelowna.ca
gavin.dew.mla@leg.bc.ca
Mohini Singh
tdyas@kelowna.ca,
msingh@kelowna.ca
mdehart@kelowna.ca
mayorandcouncil@kelowna.ca
rcannan@kelowna.ca
chodge@kelowna.ca
glovegrove@kelowna.ca
lstack@kelowna.ca
lwooldridge@kelowna.ca
rwebber@kelowna.ca
