Kraftwerk posted:

Not if you wanna work as a lawyer, banker or IBM employee.

Pinterest Mom posted:

Kraftwerk posted:

Not if you wanna work as a lawyer, banker or IBM employee.

Arcsquad12 posted:

What exactly do the liberals expect to gain from a spite vote at this point?

THC posted:

People are allowed to look the way they want to look, gently caress is wrong with you man

Typo posted:

saving their core core seats

Arcsquad12 posted:

Staving off annihilation?

Arcsquad12 posted:

Gonna start burning Canadian tire bills now?

yellowcar posted:

When I bought a new pair of wipers yesterday, the cashier asks if I wanted Crappy Tire money now rather than just handing it over automatically.

Powershift posted:

They're trying to push people towards their stupid card thing so you can't just walk in with a fat stack of bills and be like "i believe i'll be getting $3.65 off this purchase, friendo " and watch some high school kid try to count out a big pile of 5 cent bills.

Wirth1000 posted:

Can't think of a better place to post this than CanPol: gently caress Canadian Tire forever.

RBC posted:

their entire business plan is based around marking everything up 4x then having stupid sales every weekend where they cut their prices by 3x and make it look like you're getting an amazing deal

Furnaceface posted:

Normal looking people tend to be the ones you want to avoid anyway since theyre always hiding something sinister. Especially in politics.

Coxswain Balls posted:

The main reason I go to Canadian Tire is because they're the only retailer with a decent website where I can check their in-store inventory online before going there for any little houseware odds and ends. I have no idea why nobody else is capable of doing that.

Coxswain Balls posted:

The main reason I go to Canadian Tire is because they're the only retailer with a decent website where I can check their in-store inventory online before going there for any little houseware odds and ends. I have no idea why nobody else is capable of doing that.

EvilJoven posted:

The fact that they can tell you down to the isle where to find poo poo is awesome and ya it's why CT maybe doesn't deserve to die.

Yet.

Wirth1000 posted:

Home Depot's website owns cause it even nails down exactly which aisle and bay # the tiny rear end faucet or whatever the gently caress you're looking for is in.

NZAmoeba posted:

As someone new to the country who had to buy a lot of essentials all at once, Canadian Tire is the loving poo poo man.

Wirth1000 posted:

Home Depot's website owns cause it even nails down exactly which aisle and bay # the tiny rear end faucet or whatever the gently caress you're looking for is in.

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Results of NPA mayoral nomination vote could change course of Vancouver’s election

VANCOUVER—On Sunday, members of Vancouver’s oldest political party will choose between two middle-of-the-road mayoral candidates — and an outsider with a deep suspicion of real estate developers and their ties to city hall.

The results of the June 3 vote for the centre-right Non-Partisan Association’s mayoral nomination could drastically change the tone of Vancouver’s upcoming election campaign.

“I think it’s going to be very, very close on Sunday,” predicted John Coupar, a two-term NPA park board commissioner who is running for the nomination and has the support of many party veterans.

Coupar and one of his opponents, Ken Sim, both have deep ties to Vancouver’s business community and are emphasizing their business and political experience. When it comes to fixing Vancouver’s housing problems, the single biggest issue of the campaign so far, they have similar views on the need to shorten building permit times and allow gentle density in some neighbourhoods after community consultation.

The third candidate, Glen Chernen, works nearly full time trying to prove wrongdoing in city land deals — an attempt that at times involves lengthy court battles. He has not had a conventional job in 20 years but makes his living managing his own investments, he told StarMetro in a May 17 interview.

He appeals to voters who believe developers have too much influence over city hall and are calling for more measures to slow demand for housing, especially from offshore buyers. To make housing more affordable, Chernen has said he would allow extra density only when developers agree to put a covenant on the new homes, to ensure they’ll be sold to people who live and work in Vancouver.

Missing from the upcoming contest are the views of Hector Bremner, a sitting NPA city councillor who was rejected for the mayoral nomination by the party’s board. Bremner supports the idea that many of Vancouver’s single-family neighbourhoods should be opened up to denser development.

But Bremner was not chosen as a nomination candidate because of conflict-of-interest concerns raised by two of Chernen’s supporters — allegations that have not yet been proven and that Bremner characterizes as politically motivated.

Bremner is now contemplating starting his own party.

Coupar believes the vote will be close because Chernen got a head start signing up new NPA members, before Coupar announced his candidacy on March 21 and Sim announced on April 16.

“He had a head start and I think we’ve been catching up quickly,” Coupar said. “I just don’t know whether we’ve had a chance to catch up fully, but I feel pretty good from what I’m hearing.”

Coupar has the support of many current and former NPA city councillors, school board trustees and park board commissioners, as well as the endorsement of former mayor Philip Owen.

Sim said he’s been relying on a large network of friends, family and volunteers to secure votes as the nomination meeting nears.

Chernen declined an interview request, but he said in an email that his team has “been letting people know there is a clear choice in this nomination meeting; voting for myself who is free from outside influence, who only wants to work for the communities of this great city and has been hot on the heels of the current administration for nearly six years.

“Or they have a choice for the two other candidates who have been reluctant to take a strong stance on any of the issues. The fact of the matter is that the provincial government has finally moved to ban big money from civic politics, so we need to get with the times and operate with total transparency and accountability.”

Sim is new to politics, but he said his experience as an accountant and the founder of two businesses — Nurse Next Door and Rosemary Rocksalt — will allow him to take a fresh look at city hall. He believes he can use his experience studying business operations to improve the city’s building permit process, which can take years.

“I understand financials,” Sim said. “Being able to look at a city’s finances from a difference perspective and understanding how things work will be incredibly valuable.”

Coupar, the president of Novex Courier, also wants to tackle building permit times. He thinks the way to help is to look at putting city permit approval storefronts in Vancouver neighbourhoods, so they’re easier to access.

Coupar is also passionate about the need for more community centres and other recreational amenities, in a growing city where families are increasingly living in small apartments.

“I don’t like to walk by problems and not see them solved,” Coupar said. “When I go around the city, I see little things sometimes that I think, ‘Why can’t we fix that?’”

Vision Vancouver, the centre-left party that has held power in Vancouver for a decade, will hold its mayoral nomination meeting on June 24. Only one candidate is running for that nomination, Ian Campbell, a hereditary chief of the Squamish Nation. Taleeb Noormohamed, a technology executive, recently announced he would bow out of that race because of health concerns.

In addition, several candidates are running as independent mayoral candidates, hoping to gain support from Vancouver’s various left-wing parties. Those candidates include Kennedy Stewart, NDP MP for Burnaby South, and Shauna Sylvester, executive director of Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue.

Coxswain Balls posted:

The main reason I go to Canadian Tire is because they're the only retailer with a decent website where I can check their in-store inventory online before going there for any little houseware odds and ends. I have no idea why nobody else is capable of doing that.

RBC posted:

their entire business plan is based around marking everything up 4x then having stupid sales every weekend where they cut their prices by 3x and make it look like you're getting an amazing deal

DariusLikewise posted:

I feel bad that none of you have ever stepped foot into a Peavy Mart

DariusLikewise posted:

I feel bad that none of you have ever stepped foot into a Peavy Mart