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SENSUAL DAD KISS posted:Someone in this thread may or may not have been one of the first people to vandalize his office That hypothetical person deserves a high five and a pint.
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infernal machines posted:That hypothetical person deserves a high five and a pint. Agreed, though first rule of crime club is “Don’t post about crimes.”
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Jun 25, 2018 20:00
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What if they’re cool crimes?
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Also capitalism is a crime.
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ocrumsprug posted:Agreed, though first rule of crime club is “Don’t post about crimes.” High fives aren't a crime
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Jun 26, 2018 00:11
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_o> <o_ HIGH FIVE _o/ \o_
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SENSUAL DAD KISS posted:Someone in this thread may or may not have been one of the first people to vandalize his office this hypothetical person loving rules ocrumsprug posted:Agreed, though first rule of crime club is “Don’t post about crimes.” says you, i always admit my crimes immediately to anyone who asks
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Defense Watch Watch Davie Shipyard gets contract for three commercial icebreakers for Canadian Coast Guard. Considering how far behind everything is, this is good, though I suspect at least a big a consideration was cushioning economic damage to certain ridings from Trump's Tarriffs. As long as these are ordered off the shelf, they should be fine; Irving shipyard workers ratify new contract, avoiding work stoppage. The pay increases sound consummate with inflation; Vice Admiral Norman has been officially removed from his position. Norman was trying to access a federal civil service lawsuit fund to, er, fund his lawsuit against the federal government, which was likely the reason. The Canadian Army has a C6 shortage. Known in America as the M240, known in Belgium as FN...something, the C6 shortage was caused by Canada donating the machine guns to the Ukraine. Canada had already planned to replace its C6s with a modern update from FN they were calling the C6 FLEX, but they are due to arrive in 2019. This is not the first time a shortage has cropped up, with the CF issuing an appeal in the Ottawa area for spare rucksacks and sleeping bags. This was because Canada has donated quite a bit of equipment to the Ukraine (good!) and - guess what guys - is being really slow at replacing it. (not good!) quote:In 2014 the Conservative government removed 735 sleeping bags from the Canadian Forces stock and donated them to Ukraine’s military. Canada's peacekeeper force at all time low. This is somewhat conspicuous, as lots of our Allies, rightly or wrongly, want Canada in on the Saharan mission. This one is messy: NEB is sadly not a program for the construction of Canadian Airships, but the National Energy Board. NEB regulates inter-provincial and international energy production (so pipelines, electrical transmission lines etc.) It was supposed to be independent from politics, with a mandate to develop energy production to the "benefit of all Canadians" but since the Harper admin has fallen into disrepute. [footnotes: a shitload of messy politics where nobody looks good.] Anyway, the Canadian Army General who once had David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen reporter on the defense beat investigated by the secret squirrel squad of the RCMP for a month over the disclosure of "secret documents" (that Pugliese googled and got off a government website, and Pugliese told the RCMP that) has...done it again. This General, now VP in charge of NEB's “transparency and strategic engagement” (because if you are a Fed who lashes out at reporters when they discover embarrassing poo poo OF COURSE you would give them that job) has had to resign. He's once again had a reporter "investigated for state secrets nonsense", this time reporter Dan De Souza: quote:De Souza had revealed that NEB management hired private investigators – on your tax dollar – to find out who leaked to him information that one of the top NEB officials joked about giving NEB staff Tasers so they could deal with oil pipeline protesters. quote:That prompted the NEB to spend $24,150 of your tax dollars to hire Presidia, an Ottawa security firm, to try to hunt down De Souza’s sources. (Presidia, which has a number of former military police officer on staff, ultimately failed to find the journalist’s source). The civil servants behind this clown show were of course rewarded: quote:Later, Bedard took an extended leave of absence but the NEB would not provide an explanation for that. NEB spokeswoman Kiley declined to say whether taxpayers were paying Bedard’s salary (estimated to be around $150,000 annually) during that leave period. She told Defence Watch that is considered personal information under the Privacy Act. Clearly if you are willing to do any dirty deed for your political masters regardless of how ill-advised or dumb, you are the best kind of person by the lights of the Federal civil service.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Canada's peacekeeper force at all time low. this would be nice, imo
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we need more peacekeepers .... LGM-118s....
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we could have a really good peacekeeping force by not selling weapons to the saudis 
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SENSUAL DAD KISS posted:we could have a really good peacekeeping force by not selling weapons to the saudis Also by not giving all our army's guns away to the anti-Russian, sort of Nazis but only for heritage reasons Ukrainian soldiers.
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Conrad black writes for Postmedia??????????
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dumping a bunch of guns into a country, with a side-benefit that it might go warzone, just so you can buy a different gun with fins or something fuckin' shady.
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Dinosaurtrain posted:Conrad black writes for Postmedia?????????? Started as soon as he got out of prison. He's real bad!
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jfood posted:dumping a bunch of guns into a country, with a side-benefit that it might go warzone, just so you can buy a different gun with fins or something gotta get rid of those guns somehow
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what do you mean "reuse the materials to make the new guns or for non-murder purposes" it's like you know nothing about economics
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do guns recycle effectively? I’d never really thought about the mechanics of the plowshares thing
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On the topic of the folks in Ottawa grabbing asses, my favorite remains this one:https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/report-flyers-captain-claude-giroux-arrested-in-ottawa/ posted:Philadelphia Flyers captain Claude Giroux spent the night in an Ottawa jail according to a report from the Ottawa Sun. The alleged incident that reportedly landed the Flyers forward in handcuffs involved a police officer. Rich white guy = no charges!
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James Baud posted:Rich white guy = no charges! see also: former ontario ag michael bryant
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Greyhound has just announced they're pulling out of Western Canada completely (BC through Northern Ontario) with the exception of a Seattle-Vancouver route operated from the US. Decapitations seem bad for business. (Apparently 350k Canadians board airplanes every day now, per some other article I skimmed this morning.)
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So there's just no inter-city bus service anywhere west of Sault Ste. Marie now?
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infernal machines posted:So there's just no inter-city bus service anywhere west of Thunder Bay now? I know BC's provincial government (well, BC Transit) has started running a few lines with once-a-day service around the interior because of Greyhound's previous cuts, but basically screw you poor/old people, especially if you have the nerve to want to go from one spoke to another, instead of just to nearest hub. Unclear whether Greyhound's non-passenger service remains intact after this latest announcement. (I've never actually ridden a greyhound bus, but tons of people use them if they can't catch a seat sale since $40 one way sure beats $250 when it hardly takes any longer to travel once airport waits are included.) Can't speak to other provinces.
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I'd emphasize that the BC Transit routes are always "tiny towns to nearest city with a hospital worth a drat", no long haul.
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Buses are the only cost-effective way for people to travel across all the western provinces and this will gently caress up a lot of low-income people
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The routes I know of here in Ontario (many of which aren't cancelled it seems) are mostly milk-runs from town to town along the highways, with a terminus in whatever "city" is closest at either end. Basically, without them there's no way of getting to or out of these places without a car. GO (provincial transit) has a tiny little footprint that barely extends past the edges of the GTHA.
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It's almost as if relying on the profit motive of a private corporation was a bad way to subsidize rural living. It's perfectly rational for Greyhound to stop running these unprofitable routes, but it is very likely in the public interest to have unprofitable transportation service these small communities.
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hmm if only there were some kind of political ideology that describes the distribution of resources from those who are most fortunate and lucky to those who are less so. oh well I guess they have no choice and should keep voting for the bcliberals
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vyelkin posted:It's almost as if relying on the profit motive of a private corporation was a bad way to subsidize rural living. It's perfectly rational for Greyhound to stop running these unprofitable routes, but it is very likely in the public interest to have unprofitable transportation service these small communities. just empty quote this forever.
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Dinosaurtrain posted:hmm if only there were some kind of political ideology that describes the distribution of resources from those who are most fortunate and lucky to those who are less so. oh well I guess they have no choice and should keep voting for the bcliberals The old reverse lottery
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James Baud posted:Greyhound has just announced they're pulling out of Western Canada completely (BC through Northern Ontario) with the exception of a Seattle-Vancouver route operated from the US. loving lol. The Sask Party (Con-lib joint party) just sold the crown bus company here last year, leaving the elderly, poor, and anyone in small towns no way to get anywhere. They went on about how the private companies would fill the void, but now they're even more hosed. Tiberius Thyben has issued a correction as of 22:42 on Jul 9, 2018 |
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I came to Vancouver from Montreal on a greyhound so rip I guess. Highlight was some stoned old biker going from Toronto to Vancouver who had bought new luggage but forgot what it looked like by the time he arrived.
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Reality Loser posted:I came to Vancouver from Montreal on a greyhound so rip I guess. Highlight was some stoned old biker going from Toronto to Vancouver who had bought new luggage but forgot what it looked like by the time he arrived. Yup. We had it until last year, and it was really good. I was actually on the second to last bus from Regina to Saskatoon. Everyone there was pissed off.
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Tiberius Thyben posted:Yup. We had it until last year, and it was really good. I was actually on the second to last bus from Regina to Saskatoon. Everyone there was pissed off. Uhh why don't they just get together and start their own bus company? It's called the free market dumbasses!
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vyelkin posted:It's almost as if relying on the profit motive of a private corporation was a bad way to subsidize rural living. It's perfectly rational for Greyhound to stop running these unprofitable routes, but it is very likely in the public interest to have unprofitable transportation service these small communities. i wonder if anyone has ever stopped and thought why rural communities have phone line access at all
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