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littleorv
Jan 29, 2011

No matter who wins I lose.

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Argas
Jan 13, 2008
SRW Fanatic




littleorv posted:

No matter who wins I lose.

Democracy.txt

Normy
Jul 1, 2004

Do I Krushchev?


Triple O's is better anywhere but the ferry. Go to the buffet and bask in luxury.

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005
When I was a kid my parents were too poor for us to afford to buy food on the ferry every time we took it, so I really only know it as Triple Os.

That feeling of getting a few quarters to play arcade games though, that was the good stuff.

Femtosecond
Aug 2, 2003

Jenny Kwan sighting up on stage for Jagmeet

The Butcher
Apr 20, 2005

Well, at least we tried.
Nap Ghost

HookShot posted:

That feeling of getting a few quarters to play arcade games though, that was the good stuff.

Ok I'll stop geeking out about this after this, but if anyone enjoyed the Medieval Madness pinball machine, it's been literally recreated 1-1 (as in like copying the sound files, programming and scanning the physical graphics) in the Steam game Pinball Arcade.

It's super dope and you can play with any game controller using the triggers as the side buttons.

The Butcher fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Sep 17, 2017

less than three
Aug 9, 2007



Fallen Rib

Arabian Jesus posted:

But goddamn do I ever hope Charlie Angus wins this leadership race

I'm going to vote for Eat The Rich Ashton, Angus 2nd ballot.

Reince Penis
Nov 15, 2007

by R. Guyovich

Femtosecond posted:

Jenny Kwan sighting up on stage for Jagmeet

Stop stop CI can only get so erect

JawKnee
Mar 24, 2007





You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line

Lars Blitzer posted:

Growing up on Vancouver Island and being on the Wrestling team meant semi-regular trips to SFU for meets. That meant cafeteria burgers for me as well. My vice was the Rastan Saga machine though. I'm feeling old as well.

HYDROOOOOOO THUNDERRRRRRR

JawKnee
Mar 24, 2007





You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line

Normy posted:

Triple O's is better anywhere but the ferry. Go to the buffet and bask in reheated dogfood

namaste friends
Sep 18, 2004

by Smythe
you loving white people

DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?

littleorv posted:

I should stop reading r/Winnipeg because everytime I read someone saying that racism towards Aboriginal people is not that big of an issue anymore and that Macleans article was wrong I get just a little bit more irritated than I was previously.

It owns how badly that article mind hosed people though. Still complaining about it years later.

That was the only sub I read on Reddit and I deleted my account after a discussion on Gladue factors

I love that article because somehow it made everyone in Winnipeg say "We are racist but not the MOST racist" like there's some loving trophy for that or something

large hands
Jan 24, 2006

namaste faggots posted:

you loving white people

I'll take a crispy ginger fried beef, breaded almond chicken with extra gravy and a couple of molsons there champ.

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




CI I'm gonna go to bao bei

namaste friends
Sep 18, 2004

by Smythe
why don't you just eat out of a dumpster it's cheaper

namaste friends
Sep 18, 2004

by Smythe
oh right money isn't worth anything anymore

namaste friends
Sep 18, 2004

by Smythe
in before james baud defends these distinguished people for having the requisite life experience

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-diploma-mills-degrees-professor-1.4291437

:qq: credentialism

namaste friends
Sep 18, 2004

by Smythe
https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/ne....com&cmpid=rss1

quote:

The new NDP government is looking at whether to continue a controversial program aimed at transferring hundreds of millions of dollars worth of social-housing assets from the province to non-profits.

Housing Minister Selina Robinson said the non-profit asset transfer program, initiated by the Liberal government in 2014, is due to expire in April and staff are examining whether to continue the program.

"We want to make sure it's the right program and is it delivering what it's intended to deliver."

The program has been criticized almost from the beginning by some housing advocates, NDP MLAs, several local mayors and some people who live in social housing, fearing that it would result in a severe erosion in the quantity of subsidized housing available in B.C.

One local politician who noted the concerns and wrote about them sympathetically in a blog post was former city councillor Geoff Meggs, now chief of staff to NDP Premier John Horgan.

In March, Auditor-General Carol Bellringer also strongly criticized the program in a report, saying the housing ministry hadn't provided enough evidence that the program would ultimately benefit social housing or the people who depend on it.

The ministry initiated the program by saying it could raise $500-million as non-profits bought some or all of the 350 potential sites around the province, most of which they run housing projects on, and that that money could be used to pay for 4,000 new units as well as to increase the funds available for rent supplements.

But Ms. Bellringer noted that the program entails the province paying $30-million a year for 35 years to cover the mortgage payments for those non-profits.

"We also concluded that BC Housing has transferred social housing assets to achieve short-term financial targets and enable investments in social housing, but has not demonstrated that it transferred assets based on the ability of non-profit recipients to renew and increase the social housing stock in the province," she wrote.

As of June, 2017, BC Housing had transferred 155 sites to non-profits, almost all of them properties where those non-profits were already operating housing. That number also included four large buildings that had previously been government-run public housing. The transfers generated $455-million.

The BC Non-Profit Housing Association has been generally supportive of the transfer program, saying that, since senior levels of government aren't putting new money into housing, the program allows the non-profits to do that.

By being able to own the land and gets loans against it, "non-profit owners will be able to refinance in order to fund necessary capital upgrades," said one of the group's early position papers. "Refinancing will also facilitate redevelopment of an aging infrastructure where it's beneficial, and allow for the leveraging of the investment to develop new affordable housing projects that can operate independently of government."

However, some tenants in some buildings continue to express concerns about the possibility that, as non-profits are cut loose from provincial oversight and protections, they will end up raising rents and reducing subsidies as they get squeezed to pay for maintenance or redevelopment.

Ms. Robinson said staff will be looking at "those parts that worked and the parts that didn't."

The NDP government has appointed a new chair of the BC Housing board, Cassie Doyle, to replace the previous chair, former Vancouver city manager Judy Rogers.

Ms. Robinson said that her ministry is looking at a variety of other changes and reviews to the province's housing policy.

She said one of her priorities has been directing staff to look at options to close a loophole that currently exists in rental agreements.

That loophole, called a fixed-term lease, has come in for considerable scrutiny and criticism in recent years as landlords have used it to demand rent increases from tenants that wouldn't be legal if they had a standard month-to-month agreement.

"That is high on my radar," the housing minister said.


you dumb loving oval office you loving bitch you loving worthless sack of poo poo just end it now you eequivocating loving oval office

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005
LOL it took CI less than a day with the bad with money thread to get probated.

Risky Bisquick
Jan 18, 2008

PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.



Buglord
Splash that cash CI, splash it :homebrew:

Postess with the Mostest
Apr 4, 2007

Arabian nights
'neath Arabian moons
A fool off his guard
could fall and fall hard
out there on the dunes
Ew Carolyn Bennet is on my flight

Postess with the Mostest fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Sep 18, 2017

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

Postess with the Mostest posted:

Ew Carolyn Bennet is on my flight

Ask her to donate her complimentary water to First Nations going without

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

Nah if they're thirsty they can trade their status cards for a boarding pass

Vintersorg
Mar 3, 2004

President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club



Manitoba is going to get uglier after the election of Wab.

I just came back from Calgary (nice downtown..? it was cool and clean. first time there) and caught up. PC comments everywhere on how he was charged and was a rapper, how is he fit, etc. It's just nasty poo poo and while I don't dismiss the things coming up I believe people can change. Are any of us the same people from 5, 10 or more years ago? Doubt it.

I don't know if he's owned up to anything and the charges were stayed, whatever that means. But he's not denying anything, is he? I guess we'll just have to wait to hear what he says on it. I doubt it will do any good but gently caress me - we can't do any worse than Pallister.

lidnsya
Nov 14, 2007
<img src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-lidnsya.jpg"><br>All aboard the sleepy train!
Wab's dirty laundry has been out since he ran for MLA, it's not really anything new. He's owned up to most of it, though I do think he has work to do on gaining trust and credibility on women's issues. He easily took his MLA seat and now has fairly sweeping support from a party that was broken in the last election. It's no wonder to me the PCs launched that attack site so quickly. The fence sitters I know are all pissed at how they are trashing healthcare, and now they have a (hopefully) rejuvenating NDP with a very popular leader, promising to fix the PC damage, to contend with.

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

I hope that Manitoba has as much success with their CBC Radio host turned Premier as BC did.

littleorv
Jan 29, 2011

I bet Pallister is a bigger criminal than Wab could ever hope to be

DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?

Vintersorg posted:

Manitoba is going to get uglier after the election of Wab.

I just came back from Calgary (nice downtown..? it was cool and clean. first time there) and caught up. PC comments everywhere on how he was charged and was a rapper, how is he fit, etc. It's just nasty poo poo and while I don't dismiss the things coming up I believe people can change. Are any of us the same people from 5, 10 or more years ago? Doubt it.

I don't know if he's owned up to anything and the charges were stayed, whatever that means. But he's not denying anything, is he? I guess we'll just have to wait to hear what he says on it. I doubt it will do any good but gently caress me - we can't do any worse than Pallister.

The crown stays charges when they know they don't have enough evidence for conviction, but want to keep the case open in case something new comes up. If they don't re-up within a year the charges get dropped and they can't drag the case up again.

Honestly the most hypocritical part about this all is the PCs don't give two fucks about Women or the LGBT community, nor do most of the people harping on Wab at the moment. It's all for political gain and it's loving sickening to be quite honest.

DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?
Manitoba PCs: "Look everyone the leader of the NDP hit his girlfriend 14 years ago!"
*Cuts all provincial funding for women's shelters and closes 3 maternity wards*

Postess with the Mostest
Apr 4, 2007

Arabian nights
'neath Arabian moons
A fool off his guard
could fall and fall hard
out there on the dunes

Arivia posted:

Ask her to donate her complimentary water to First Nations going without

Came up with "Hope this flight goes smoother than the mmiw inquiry, of course it will, these guys are professionals" but she disappeared into ultra first class.

I was surprised she travels in usual nice mp clothes, like she was ready for a photo shoot at 630 am boarding an 8 hour flight.

Postess with the Mostest fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Sep 18, 2017

Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




DariusLikewise posted:

Manitoba PCs: "Look everyone the leader of the NDP hit his girlfriend 14 years ago!"
*Cuts all provincial funding for women's shelters and closes 3 maternity wards*

Isnt that how every PC government works though? I know the Ontario PCs literally ran on that platform with Hudak.

Yellow Ant
Feb 28, 2016
Huh I didn't know there was another professor who is very upset about pronouns. He is giving a talk today at the University of Regina.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/university-of-regina-1.4294044

DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?

Furnaceface posted:

Isnt that how every PC government works though? I know the Ontario PCs literally ran on that platform with Hudak.

Pretty much, doesn't stop it from being any less disgusting, Brian Pallister to me is one of the slimiest assholes in this country. This is all compounded by the fact that the PCs tried to recruit Wab Kinew into their party after he announced he was entering politics.



Yellow Ant posted:

Huh I didn't know there was another professor who is very upset about pronouns. He is giving a talk today at the University of Regina.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/university-of-regina-1.4294044

Another idiot using "free speech" to make $3000 a month on Patreon

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




Yellow Ant posted:

Huh I didn't know there was another professor who is very upset about pronouns. He is giving a talk today at the University of Regina.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/university-of-regina-1.4294044

I like how easy it is to just translate "anti political correctness person" to "worthless hateful rear end in a top hat who should just shut up".

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

DariusLikewise posted:

Another idiot using "free speech" to make $3000 a month on Patreon

It's >$65,000 USD per month. Peterson's making nearly $1.5 million CAD per year from taking a principled stand against pronouns.

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

I don't know what price I'd put on my own self-respect but to pull in a career's worth of money in a year...

I mean, Jimmy Swaggart didn't literally believe the truth of half the poo poo he said on TV, right?

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Yellow Ant posted:

Huh I didn't know there was another professor who is very upset about pronouns. He is giving a talk today at the University of Regina.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/university-of-regina-1.4294044

He's OG, pre-Peterson, and I'm surprised he hasn't had a meltdown about Peterson doing much better than he has. He's a business marketing prof masquerading as a scientist.

Reince Penis
Nov 15, 2007

by R. Guyovich
I was discussing all these characters and their grifts last week with a friend.

He pointed out that they're not only grifters, but are also trying out for the bourgeoisie to be their next mouthpiece. Kind of an interesting take, the more I think about it the deeper it goes.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Postess with the Mostest posted:

Ew Carolyn Bennet is on my flight

That's like Peter McKay came through my work Saturday. As transplanted Nova Soctians I was friendly. Though the woman who was also working is from Afghanistan so that was kinda odd juxtaposition.

I liked during the last election A pollster for the PCs tryed to convince me that "war on the car' was real and the TTC was being funded by money that should be going to making more roads. The fact I rely on the TTC to get around was alien to her. LIke, lady you're literally right next to Queen Street, people are going to want the TTC to have more money.


DariusLikewise posted:

Another idiot using "free speech" to make $3000 a month on Patreon

I rarely see "Free Speech" to mean anything other than "being a big of an rear end in a top hat bigot all the time to everyone"

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Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
A lot of these guys hate post-modernism but use the same argument tactics the worst post-modern academics were deploying decades ago. You basically spit out wild, difficult to defend positions like "women have never faced historical oppression" or "studies show chin size means you're more successful" or "calling people xe will lead to Actual Soviet Russia Gulags" and then retreat to easily defendable territory like the fundamentals of psychology and some peer-reviewed study that points to a correlation but never a causation. Motte and Bailey.

I mean for gently caress's sake, after all that nonsense about Bill C-16 and the broader impact on Canadian free speech, Peterson's legal beliefs stemmed from US case law. Maybe there's more to it than that, but I'll leave that to one of the thread's lawyers to explain how much impact US case law has on issues like this.

Meanwhile their other business is repackaging psych 101 into another "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" remix that just switches up the maxims to stuff like "make your bed." Nothing particularly wrong with that, lots of people do it and make bank, but it's amazing how many times cognitive-behavioural therapy can be repackaged to sell to people as a cure for what ails em.

Dreylad fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Sep 18, 2017

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