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Abolish the CBC and pay npr to set up a Canadian bureau imo
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 18:12 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 03:23 |
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These companies are delusional in the sense that without the cbc, their viewers/readership would be forced to pay for content (they won't) or that their advertising revenues will sharply rise (again nope)
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 18:21 |
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namaste faggots posted:Abolish the CBC and pay npr to set up a Canadian bureau imo This would actually be good. Keep it government funded and a good arm's length from any political control. Or just gut CBC's management class and replace with some NPR folks to do a house cleaning.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 18:42 |
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You've gotta love the clickbait title and laundry-list writing style that passes for Canadian journalism here, but this is a decent rollcall of poo poo the Liberals did (or didn't) do this month, plus some conservative gloating over how Trudeau's pretty much just continuing Harper's governance. quote:In September, Did the Liberals Out-Harper the Conservatives? The article's thesis that "progressives" are upset at the government isn't really born out by the poll numbers, so I think what he means is that various activist organizations are realizing how dumb it was to expect anything from the Liberals. I think for the vast, atomized masses of regular voters the only thing actually hurting the Liberals right now is the steady drip of spending stories that the Tories have been digging up.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 22:36 |
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The Haida allowed the royals to visit Haida Gwaii, but denied access to JT and Christy Clark. This fact has been erased from all news accounts, of course.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 22:40 |
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THC posted:The Haida allowed the royals to visit Haida Gwaii, but denied access to JT and Christy Clark. This fact has been erased from all news accounts, of course. That's a great gently caress you, although I don't see why the royals get a pass. Any link at all for this?
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 22:41 |
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Are the Haida Treaty signatories? If so, that would explain the deference to the crown. I legit don't understand BC treaties for the most part. Y'all confusing with your unceded land.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 22:57 |
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Holy poo poo what would it take to make you loving white people shut up about treaties
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 23:09 |
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Baronjutter posted:That's a great gently caress you, although I don't see why the royals get a pass. Any link at all for this? They allowed them because Haida Nation leadership views the British crown as equals, and it was a meeting of royalty of different empires. Stickarts posted:Are the Haida Treaty signatories? If so, that would explain the deference to the crown. I legit don't understand BC treaties for the most part. Y'all confusing with your unceded land. No, the Haida never signed a treaty.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 23:10 |
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While the fetishistic American approach to their constitution is taking things too far, Canada and Canadians would be well served if we were more aware of the laws that this country is explicitly founded on and built around. The wailers and teeth gnashers about immigrants and those drat Indians would probably die of apoplectic shock if they actually knew what the Charter was made up of. e. Thanks for the quick Haida answer. I thought so but, again, BC treaty be complicated.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 23:25 |
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I just realised reading through the last 50 or so pages that I am the embodiment of everything this thread hates: - Live in a rural county - Own four dogs (pit bull, bull mastiff, border collie and shih tzu) - Have multiple trucks on the property - Work in the residential construction industry - White, male In my defense, though, I hate it here and I throw my vote away every election to vote NDP along with writing in to the local paper chiding them for their awful articles about the nearby reservations. Oh and I don't own any guns. Can I still be part of the cool kids club?
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 23:30 |
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^^LOL if you think this is the cool kids' club. More like the surly Goths smoking behind the gym and listening to Skinny Puppy.namaste faggots posted:Holy poo poo what would it take to make you loving white people shut up about treaties Albino Squirrel fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Sep 30, 2016 |
# ? Sep 30, 2016 23:30 |
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nozh posted:Can I still be part of the cool kids club? I'm a social justice activist in an area thoroughly locked down by the Green Party, where I live in a converted garage. I study health policy and advocate for community inclusion for folks with disabilities. My father was an immigrant, and my mother was a sociologist. I think we cancel each other out, dude.
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# ? Sep 30, 2016 23:45 |
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Pixelante posted:I'm a social justice activist in an area thoroughly locked down by the Green Party, where I live in a converted garage. I study health policy and advocate for community inclusion for folks with disabilities. My father was an immigrant, and my mother was a sociologist. Gulf Islands or Oak Bay?
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 00:06 |
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The Butcher posted:Fresh from the top few comments on a CBC article as usual. (From one about BC LNG getting approved). 75% of comments on the CBC forums are now people angry that they aren't able to voice their views on the latest news story on First Nations people or pro Donald Trump/ anti Hillary, it may as well just be deleted
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 00:14 |
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Baronjutter posted:Gulf Islands or Oak Bay? Oak Bay. I re-introduce myself to the neighbours every year or so because they don't seem to be capable of remembering renters.
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 00:29 |
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Pixelante posted:Oak Bay. Oak Bay's greatest collective shame is that they ever allowed for any rentals to be zoned. If they pretend the renters just aren't there it's easier.
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 00:31 |
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Omg I can cut the loving white guilt in this thread with a butter knife
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 00:51 |
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Postess with the Mostest posted:Ontario teachers gotta get them returns. A Modest Proposal was supposed to be political satire, not an eighteenth century version of The Art of the Deal. Helsing can correct me on this, but I think there used to be a time when union pension funds came with a social conscience. This, of course, created problems for Those In Charge. Still catching up with this thread after some time away; I like your description several hundred posts back of honey bee politics. You didn't mention drones though. Drones are male honey bees. Produced in limited numbers their only purpose in life is to mate with a virgin queen during her sole mating flight. When they aren't sunning themselves on the hive's front porch (while being fed and groomed by the workers) they loiter with thousands of other drones in local "mating yards", hot spots for bee sex. When a virgin queen appears she's mobbed by a cloud of drones. While she might mate with up to a dozen drones competition is intense and a drone that successfully copulates with her must transfer a life-time supply of sperm instantaneously. The orgasm is explosive. Literally. The penis is blown apart along with part of the drone's lower abdomen. The dying drone then spirals to earth, yelling "gently caress YOU, GOT MINE!" as he joins the 0.1% of drones who successfully mate. During the fall cleanup workers toss garbage and any remaining drones out of the hive as part of their preparations for austere times.
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 01:08 |
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Pixelante posted:I'm a social justice activist in an area thoroughly locked down by the Green Party, where I live in a converted garage. I study health policy and advocate for community inclusion for folks with disabilities. My father was an immigrant, and my mother was a sociologist. This has to be Golf Islands. Edit: Turns out I guessed wrong. The 'rental' part threw me off. Rentals? In MY oak bay? Well I never...
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 01:27 |
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Hexigrammus posted:Drones are male honey bees. Produced in limited numbers their only purpose in life is to mate with a virgin queen during her sole mating flight. When they aren't sunning themselves on the hive's front porch (while being fed and groomed by the workers) they loiter with thousands of other drones in local "mating yards", hot spots for bee sex. When a virgin queen appears she's mobbed by a cloud of drones. While she might mate with up to a dozen drones competition is intense and a drone that successfully copulates with her must transfer a life-time supply of sperm instantaneously. The orgasm is explosive. Literally. The penis is blown apart along with part of the drone's lower abdomen. The dying drone then spirals to earth, yelling "gently caress YOU, GOT MINE!" as he joins the 0.1% of drones who successfully mate. Still cooler than anyone in this thread. Bee Jocks.
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 11:20 |
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Great. Now I'm imagining an rear end in a top hat drone sailing toward the ground, shouting "Make America Great Again" before expiring. (Byn Rand?)
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 17:37 |
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What is our hivemind position on Rosie Barton
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 19:24 |
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Not enough to save the CBC. Give her a job at npr. Abolish the loving cbc
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 19:44 |
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Baronjutter posted:Oak Bay's greatest collective shame is that they ever allowed for any rentals to be zoned. If they pretend the renters just aren't there it's easier. This is one of the reasons they chased the residential care facility there out to Quadra Village; all those stroke victims and dementia patients don't own their hospital rooms, they're just paying month to month. The other reason was that inexplicably, there were a lot more people who needed residential care bads in Oak Bay and they made the mistake of trying to build a slightly taller building to house them all. Having to let all those kids go to that new high school was bad enough.
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 21:10 |
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Also all the gas stations, they made it a policy to never allow a new gas station in the entire "city" and to force out existing ones the moment they had the chance. Oak bay is a temporarily embarrassed gated community.
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 21:12 |
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Good.
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 21:13 |
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Baronjutter posted:Oak bay is a temporarily embarrassed gated community. Problem will solve itself in like 20 years tops.
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 21:16 |
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namaste faggots posted:Holy poo poo what would it take to make you loving white people shut up about treaties I dunno, maybe if or when treaties are irrelevant to how First Nations people interact with Ottawa. Look, I know you're being the contrarian shithead of this thread, but you're being less of a Devil's advocate and more of a trolling skidmark. Maybe think a little before mashing the keyboard there champ.
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 23:39 |
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They wanted to limit Oak Bay Lodge (old folks home) to local residents only. Fortunately, that ain't how funding works. My ex ran for council so I snored through a lot of community meetings... at which we would be the youngest in the room by a couple decades. Haida leader tells Christy Clark she's not invited to royal visit. Christy says I wasn't gonna come anyway, jeeze you guys.
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 23:40 |
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Lars Blitzer posted:I dunno, maybe if or when treaties are irrelevant to how First Nations people interact with Ottawa. Look, I know you're being the contrarian shithead of this thread, but you're being less of a Devil's advocate and more of a trolling skidmark. Maybe think a little before mashing the keyboard there champ. Haha you actually replied, you lost
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 23:43 |
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Professor Shark posted:Haha you actually replied, you lost I know! I normally lurk so it's pretty rare that CI gets under my skin, but that kinda pissed me off something fierce. At least HAL hasn't been around for a while, or I just blocked him and forgot about it.
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 23:47 |
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It's okay
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 01:22 |
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On topic: Something that really tells you about the state of Canadian infrastructure and repair these days. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/electronic-sign-shows-vulgar-message-of-relief-about-anthony-henday-1.3788310 Sometimes, I'm proud I'm Edmontonian.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 01:59 |
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Lars Blitzer posted:On topic: Something that really tells you about the state of Canadian infrastructure and repair these days. Wow, everything spelled correctly and everything. Powershift fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Oct 3, 2016 |
# ? Oct 3, 2016 02:26 |
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Now you can get from Fort Saskatchewan to Leduc in less time between B&Es in Beverly.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 04:42 |
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Lars Blitzer posted:On topic: Something that really tells you about the state of Canadian infrastructure and repair these days. It only took 40+ years and 1.8 billion dollars.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 15:51 |
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/angus-reid-cbc-poll-anxious-albertans-1.3784374quote:"Alberta has always been the strong province that has helped the other provinces," Diaz said. Maybe you should have loving saved your money rather than blowing it on cocaine and truck nuts, you dumb hicks.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 16:14 |
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Oh yeah, Alberta was always super excited to help other provinces.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 16:16 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 03:23 |
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Where's that motherfucker who lost his oil job and had to move to Victoria
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 16:25 |