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I would prefer the monarchy to go, however I don't mind Elizabeth as she (perhaps ironically) knows her place. As long as she quietly continues to sign whatever parliament puts in front of her, she is just as good as any other figurehead head of state. I expect that attitude to change when Charles is king.
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Pinterest Mom posted:About that. Turns out british governments have been secretly consulting the royal family on bills before presenting them, effectively according them a secret veto. On bills related to tuition fees, child rights, paternity pay, or national insurance. If that is British political tradition then she is fulfillling her part of it, and would seem to be doing her job. The Brits can do what they want. If it were revealed that Canadian politicians were doing the same, then off with all the heads.
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OSI bean dip posted:In this situation what options does he have? Could the courts find him insane based on his asinine religious beliefs? I believe his option will be to represent himself to the satisfaction of the judge, or take a legal aid lawyer and grumble about it in his cell.
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Jun 3, 2013 22:46
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^^: Good on the Cree and Ojibway for keeping their language alive.Geoid posted:There actually are some French colonies in Saskatchewan (e.g. Gravelboug, Val Marie), however the number of practicing Francophones - the Fransaskois - are pretty small. Regina has only one Francophone school and when I knew people there their graduating class was around 8 and everyone was proficient in English. Nonsense. French is the sixth most spoken language in BC (and only if you consider all Chinese as one language). http://www.welcomebc.ca/welcome_bc/media/Media-Gallery/docs/communities/Census-2011-Languages.pdf ocrumsprug fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Jun 4, 2013 |
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Team THEOLOGY posted:What resources? Do you mean the planes they bought? The Air Canada brand and the federally protected environment it operates "freely" in. Having someone on board that is fluent enough in French is a pretty minor price in Canada to pay. If those executives disagree, they are free to buy those planes for a new airline.
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Jun 5, 2013 00:26
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^^: Air Canada management also seems to have some advantages when it comes to getting the Labour Minister to impose contracts on their workers.Team THEOLOGY posted:When you say federally protected I assume you are talking about back in the day when they had a monopoly in air traffic in Canada? Are you going to try to tell me that Air Canada operates in a barrier free market? I seem to recall that we have some sort of diplomatic dispute with the UAE that is probably unrelated to protecting Air Canada from competition. ocrumsprug fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Jun 5, 2013 |
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quaint bucket posted:I don't know much about the scientists being muzzled but I can't help but feel that's common practice for most business? It is to a point, however the federal government isn't a business and should have no trade secrets or proprietary research that needs to be guarded. In fact, if they are doing research and not publishing it for public (corporate) consumption, then you should be probably be asking why they are bothering. * Hopefully, no one in government notices that they could save a lot of money on all this muzzled research they aren't using anyways.
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Jun 5, 2013 22:49
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Mr. Wynand posted:A life in game programming. Hey, I escaped from it when I decided I had better things to do than to uproot my family every 10-24 months chasing a poorly paid temporary programmer job around the world. And they are mostly all temporary positions in the end as you pretty much have zero job security. There are way better things to do.
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It's wierd how some posters think that unless the scandal is big enough and close enough to the next election, that it doesn't matter. Presumably the Harper government only loses power after he goes on a shooting rampage in after dropping the writ in 2019. Fine-able is 100% correct about this, governments lose power after they eventually collect enough of a stink of corruption to them. It generally takes years. Chretien/Martin wasn't that long ago if you don't remember the Mulronney days. The current scandals are big, and then next thing will just add to it.
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Jun 8, 2013 01:49
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Team THEOLOGY posted:I don't think I mean strategic in the way you do, I mean strategic in actually voting for their own interests. I have a buddy that a year after Harper was first elected, that was complaining to me about how poo poo child care in Ottawa was and how could it be so hard find a spot. To which I reminded him that he could blame everyone that voted Conservative since canceling it was the only item on their platform other than ADSCAM! You could hear the  through the phone. This is an educated man who isn't a sucker, and with two kids that need daycare spots voting to cancel the child care initiative.  I think we can all point to an anecdote like that, so it isn't like we don't agree with with you. It just disappoints me though, since it doesn't inadvertently work to my advantage. I think if we were lazily electing social progressives I would echo your sentiment.
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It is probably more that addiction isn't a real thing. If they don't want to be a drug addict, they should stop taking drugs. Also, all the negative consequences of their drug use are what they deserve for being drug addicts in the first place.
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Jun 9, 2013 22:00
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DynamicSloth posted:Yeah I doubt there's much there there with the specific charity asking for a refund a year later but Trudeau's speaking fees themselves are sketchy as hell. You do that poo poo after your retired to make a few bucks, a sitting MP is already paid to make speeches, it's called their salary. If you want someone and come and speak at your event, you pay for that privilege. In high school David Suzuki came and told us how we're all hosed, and got paid a  amount to do so.
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I have seen enough employers crash and burn that I would would be pretty hard pressed to accept "We'll pay you later" when I leave. Public service sure because they are good for the money. Private company hahahahaha.
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HookShot posted:Hahahahha Gooden literally says in that article that universities can adapt to this new "system" of not judging people at all There are a couple of IB schools (which don't operate on a letter grade or % basis) in the province, so the universities can certain use different standards when judging students. However, it definitely isn't clear that Abbotsford is actually using a standard for this. Or how much it differs from the other district test piloting the "system". ocrumsprug fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Jun 19, 2013 |
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Excelsiortothemax posted:I wonder if this disaster will be the breaking point for the housing market? Or would something have to happen to Toronto or Vancouver to tip the scales are pop the bubble? All real estate is local, so I wouldn't expect this to have any actual effect on the housing market nation wide.
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As I understand, there was a rail-line on the island that was to be maintained in perpetuity, as a condition of BC joining confederation. That line was a shut down a bunch of years ago, so maybe they could use that as their casus belli.
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From last page...MikeSevigny posted:I've never been able to find a GP anywhere I've lived outside of Victoria, except for back home where I had my doctor from when I was a kid. I was going to clinics if I needed anything. I think Victorians have it pretty good in that respect. https://www.cpsbc.ca/node/216 Obliviously it still won't help you if you live some place doctor's don't want to live.
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Jun 28, 2013 18:27
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BGrifter posted:If it was all a secret conspiracy to take guns away, how many Canadians would actually care? 10%? 20%? The Canadian people have shown a remarkable ability to remain apathetic about much worse incidents than this. High River was an inside job. 
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Jun 28, 2013 22:57
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Scaramouche posted:The more I read about the Victoria bomb thing the more it feels like it was a put up job like the fertilizer bomb in Ontario. Police have said they were aware of it for months, and there was "no danger" of the bomb going off, which implies they may have even supplied material to the bombers. This raises the larger question, were these guys "self" radicalized, or would they have done nothing at all without the RCMP egging them on? Someone or someones setting off bombs in BC is hardly unprecedented.
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 that video...crowoutofcontext posted:I was here to post this, which is also, TBH, pointless distraction: This is apparently the first my wife has heard of our tropical suitors, and it is less fun that is should be telling her why it will never happen.
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Geoid posted:I've asked people who've said racist things what percentage do you think First Nations, Metis, and Inuit make up of Canada (or Saskatchewan, or Manitoba) and usually hear 30% or more as the answer. They go on to assume every single one of these people gets a full free-ride to University, pays no taxes at all, and gets free money from the government (don't know it's less than Growing up with all of those "truths" you can easily imagine how well off the native communities are. Then you need to pay for your own school (hahaha) get a job, and pay taxes unlike all those "lucky bastards" living off your hard work. Couple that with the (well publicized*) failures, and it is just more proof that there is something wrong with them. Afterall you built them a Taj Mahal and they still manage to live in rotting houses. Jealousy and envy of an imaginary construct, built upon national self-delusion about our society. It's the mother of all Canadian privileges. * I actually don't blame the failures being made public, they really should be. However the media really needs to do better about the day to day conditions on native communities. There is no excuse for anyone in this country to labour under the belief that those communities do not have serious challenges.
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Fine-able Offense posted:The Vancouver Translink Fategate Fiasco (or how about FareGate? Well at least they didn't bother to fix that flaw that was identified when they first started construction. The best part of this is that the transfers are probably still valid on the skytrain, you just cannot get past the gate with them. Normally I am pretty forgiving of Translink since most of their really squirrelly crap seems to come from the Provincial government, however someone deserves to swing for this. Hopefully Pivot or someone else has them in court over it shortly.
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) continues to broaden from merely a total waste of $100 million dollars into a complete clusterfuck with classist overtones.
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Fine-able Offense posted:Ha ha funny story about the faregates: because they don't have the capacity to actually handle the volume of people going through them in the mornings, the transit police have been told to set them to permanently open "at first" so as to handle the traffic. Yeah, this was my suspicion when I saw the number of fare gates that they were adding to some of the busy stations. The gates, being open right now, are gigantic nuisances at Commercial Station during rush hour. I was expecting them to be vandalized immediately or just left open anyways.
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ZShakespeare posted:I don't get the safety angle. If someone is going to break the law by threatening your safety etc. wouldn't they also be willing to break the law by bypassing fare gates? Or is it that people are afraid of other is wheelchairs and rascals? I think most public officials quite rightly assume that if you say it is a matter of public safety, you have just made an unassailable argument. Evidence of danger? Why would you ask such a question, you a monster or something?
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The ferries have always been too expensive and under funded, like everything else in BC.
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Cultural Imperial posted:This is what happens when you are born unto parents who think self-esteem is the most important element in raising children. All of a sudden, no matter how dumb or ignorant you are, you're an expert on everything and no possible expert with lofty titles or degrees could ever know more than you. Counterpoint: All the experts the media presents to the public to tell us about real estate. Still isn't socialism though.
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What? And potentially touch a old lady to effect an arrest? That old person stink doesn't just wash off. It is probably for the best that they hadn't deployed the Taser in the 80s, or else the entire grandma population of Grand Forks, BC might have been wiped out.
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not even if sober posted:A lot more than the munitions simply being the same kind Assad happens to have. I bet other countries have these munitions as well. They could have been stolen from the Syrian army by the rebels (Al-Qaeda). Here's a real conspiracy - Israel has no love lost for the Syrian government and could have tried to frame Assad. As I said before, there is a good reason for the opposition to want to use them as it was the only way to get the USA involved and I can't think of any reason Assad would want to use them in a war he was starting to win. That information will likely never be released, and even if it was it would probably be a satellite photograph that a CIA analyst has said is x% likely to be what they think it is. You will be no more qualified to determine it's accuracy than now without the data. (Baring the low percentage chance you are also a CIA analyst.) Not really sure I agree with the sense of urgency though. Everyone is dragging their heels as much as possible, so it seems consistent that they know the probably have to intervene but really don't want to.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I lived in a town out by Edmonton which insisted on calling itself a City. If you can find your grandfather by walking down the street and asking people if they have seen Walter, it isn't a city. 
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Fine-able Offense posted:So I found a really gross thing today... I found one of those from the same hotel advertising for unpaid room service internships a few months ago. Hospitality education practicums you see.
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Training of co-op students, as opposed to just letting them work, is actually a surprisingly rare occurrence. The place I am at now is the only company that I have ever seen that actually puts any effort into it at all. Most places you get slotted in as a junior somewhere, hopefully with someone to mentor or supervise you, and they hope that you are smart enough to figure it out on your own. It is still better than not doing co-op though. (Seriously, do co-op terms at school.)
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Pinterest Mom posted:Maria Mourani, the Bloc MP who came out strongly against the charter of values yesterday, just got expelled from the party. Wait, I thought even the Bloc was opposed to the charter proposal, or did I misinterpret the thread earlier?
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If they lose healthcare professionals, it will be spun as anglophones poaching their talent by enabling their cultural slavery or some such nonsense. Someone probably ran the separatist calculus on it and it still turned out to be winner.
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THC posted:I'm not convinced that this kind of legislation would not enjoy similar levels of support in English Canada. Probably less, but not a lot less. It certainly would, as any WASP with unchecked privilege would look at it and say they could just take off their hat. ie. Legion halls across the country.
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Entropic posted:When was the last time you bought bootleg booze in Ontario? I was about to type that, but it occurred to me that if I was an organized criminal that I would sell bootleg booze to bars and restaurants since a dude on the corner with a bag of JD would be fairly ineffective. 100% of the liquor I bought at the bar over the last year could be illegal and I would never know.
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JohnnyCanuck posted:I keep on getting reminded that Canada has a serious racism problem, especially when it comes to our First Nations relations. I had managed to lull myself into thinking it wasn't actually that bad, seeing as it had been decades since I had seen any of it in real life. Unfortunately while fishing on Vancouver Island this summer I overheard some older gents talking about "the indians" which managed to dash my blissful ignorance.  I want to believe it is a partial generational thing, but I anticipate being disappointed with that should I spend anytime in small town Canada.
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Baronjutter posted:Sorry, that severely mentally ill alchoholic meth head that does nothing but smash car windows for drug money, piss his pants, and stand on the street corner howling and randomly shoving people doesn't need random police harassment and ineffectual and inappropriate jail time, he needs to be institutionalized. Oh yes I'm sure you truly care about his freedom and dignity to piss him self in a pile of trash in an ally and it's totally not about spending money on mental health. And I'd bet dollars to doughnuts the cost to properly and humanely treat and if need be permanently institutionalize people like this is cheaper than all the property damage they cause and policing/prison costs. But of course conservatives love broken windows and bloated police/prison budgets. While objectively true, left wing governments across the country have an equally appalling record on mental health issues. It is one of the last remaining taboos in western society, and governments of all strips are, unfortunately, accurately representing their constituents. 
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Cordyceps Headache posted:It's more a holdover from the times when we would shove mentally ill people away into a dirty little oubliette to be abused by staff that didn't care. The problem is that the alternative to that should not be the street. And depression is something that affects 8% of the population at some point, and is in general completely treatable. That is comparable to rates of diabetes, but only one of those two has adequate resources dedicated to treatment. ocrumsprug fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Sep 25, 2013 |
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flakeloaf posted:I heard about that file, the guy literally got Serpico'd and it's drat lucky he got out before someone killed him. It wasn't long ago that Edmonton PD was all "Oorah Professionalism!", what the gently caress happened? Where was Infernal Affairs in all of this? I keep hoping that the police services in Canada will notice that they are on the road to New Orleans and take some steps to fix their corruption controls before it gets too late. Unfortunately they are too stubborn and I think it is only a matter of time before we discover an actual criminal gang operating in a police force in the country.
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Fine-able Offense posted:You mean doing housing things like closing Little Mountain, kicking out all of the residents, and handing it over to his buddies the big property developers? It's not even the only one, they're set to close another social housing project that's full of mostly single mothers. It's absolutely disgusting how much social housing has been lost under Vision. Well you have to have a housing plan for the homeless when you have a plan to tear down all the social housing. It only makes sense. I am expecting him to win the nomination, as he would be par for the course for the BCNDP.
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