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New way to get school kids to feel better about cops: Make them watch a cop smack an old man around and put him in handcuffs for having the temerity to protect them from fuckheads who don't stop for crossing guards. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/crossing-guard-manhandled-arrested-for-challenging-police-officer-he-says-failed-to-stop-1.4129501 quote:York Regional Police are investigating after an off-duty Toronto officer was involved in an altercation with a crossing guard north of Toronto.
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Cops are some of the worst "war on cars!" poo poo heads around. Most live in the suburbs and drive into the city to work (which generally involves more driving around and ignoring all traffic laws while playing on their phones/computers) and tend to always take (white) driver's sides in any altercation between them and bikes or peds. They absolutely love to purposefully park to block bike lanes and crosswalks when there's ample space to do otherwise. Of course they're going to flip the gently caress out when some pedestrian dares to challenge their right to roll through crosswalks full of children. If those children wanted to get to school safely they should have gotten cars, otherwise know your place.
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Baronjutter posted:Cops are some of the worst "war on cars!" poo poo heads around. Most live in the suburbs and drive into the city to work (which generally involves more driving around and ignoring all traffic laws while playing on their phones/computers) and tend to always take (white) driver's sides in any altercation between them and bikes or peds. They absolutely love to purposefully park to block bike lanes and crosswalks when there's ample space to do otherwise. Of course they're going to flip the gently caress out when some pedestrian dares to challenge their right to roll through crosswalks full of children. If those children wanted to get to school safely they should have gotten cars, otherwise know your place. Funny that, I saw a cyclist making a left on yellow get creamed by an oncoming car who entered after the light went red, right in front of me. Everyone stopped, dude was concussed, police and ambulance, yadda yadda. Waited to give my contact info and witness statement, mentioned to the cop I definitely clearly saw the driver blow the red and would attest to that, he said "well, yeah, but the guy on the bike wasn't wearing a helmet, so I could give him a ticket for that too." Uhh, ok? Like that was some sort of clever "gotcha" thing while this dude was still lying on the street getting attended by paramedics. If that was me I'd be happy to pay the $30 for not having a helmet and having the driver get the $170. Proportional risk and all. Not that he shouldn't have had a helmet by the way, probably would have helped, but still, they were like instantly dismissive of running the red because of it, like the dude had it coming and all was even. The Butcher fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Oct 11, 2018 |
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Oct 11, 2018 20:09
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Vintersorg posted:I don't think you said anything. It was aimed at the sad sack lamenting living in Winnipeg/Manitoba their entire life. I’m a First Nations dude who lives in the spot between Winnipeg and Brandon. I’d say my circumstances are a little different than yours  gently caress this place it’s so goddamn racist
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Oct 11, 2018 20:20
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The Butcher posted:Funny that, I saw a cyclist making a left on yellow get creamed by an oncoming car who entered after the light went red, right in front of me. Yeah, it's a generalization but this is the attitude of most cops towards peds and specially cyclists. I've had a lot of friends hit by cars and a few involved police/ambulance and this about sums up their interactions with the police. One friend got rear-ended at a red light because he was correctly "taking the lane" in order to turn left and a guy, most likely on his phone, totally ignored that he was there and ramming into him. Police had a real "eh, just an accident" attitude about it to the driver but my friend was absolutely grilled about why he was in the middle of the lane, why wasn't he at the extreme left or right of the lane? Why didn't he have a light on (middle of the day) ? Are you sure you were wearing your helmet? (he was, but it came off him in the crash) Are you totally sure you were wearing your helmet and it wasn't just dangling off your handlebars? Did you know you HAVE to wear a helmet? Why were you blocking traffic for people trying to turn left ? Why didn't you use the expensive bike lanes a block over? A good solution though is putting more cops on bikes. We have more of them in Victoria now and around the world it's shown to really help with the anti-bike bias most cops have. When you take cops out of their huge armoured sports cars and put them on bikes it actually changes their perceptions if you can imagine that.
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CanPol Megathread: littleorv posted:gently caress this place it’s so goddamn racist
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Baronjutter posted:A good solution though is putting more cops on bikes. We have more of them in Victoria now and around the world it's shown to really help with the anti-bike bias most cops have. When you take cops out of their huge armoured sports cars and put them on bikes it actually changes their perceptions if you can imagine that. Yeah, the CPS may have its problems, but I see a lot of foot-patrol and bike officers, and I also like their mental-health-response unit where they have actual, trained medical professionals in the van to help them respond to calls.
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littleorv posted:I’m a First Nations dude who lives in the spot between Winnipeg and Brandon. I’d say my circumstances are a little different than yours I'll consult my can_pol.xlsx next time. Sorry to hear about your situation though if you're out there.
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Vintersorg posted:I'll consult my can_pol.xlsx next time. It’s all good man  I was going to give some examples of some of the messed things I’ve seen around here but I don’t want it to seem like I’m starting a pity party. I’ll just say it’s messed up. I did enjoy my time living in Winnipeg and I hope to move back one day
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littleorv posted:I was going to give some examples of some of the messed things I’ve seen around here but I don’t want it to seem like I’m starting a pity party. I’ll just say it’s messed up. I did enjoy my time living in Winnipeg and I hope to move back one day TBH I'd be pretty interested to hear how things are on the ground out your way if you ever feel like sharing. It's a big country and most of the city dwellers like me don't see 99% of it, especially West Coasters.
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littleorv posted:It’s all good man If it makes you feel better your town has a bigger meth problem than Brandon or Winnipeg and absolutely no one wants to acknowledge it.
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The Butcher posted:TBH I'd be pretty interested to hear how things are on the ground out your way if you ever feel like sharing. Like Darius said there is a huge drug, gang, and crime problem that has been steadily rising here for the past couple of years. Just this summer there were multiple shootings around here in the North end. We are small enough that this being a recurring thing is really loving alarming. There was also a dude that was macheted right in front of the police station which is uh, pretty bold. If I remember the details right a bunch of gang members from Winnipeg and Brandon have been moving into town and have been feuding with each other. Just in a general sense it's not safe here anymore. You also have a bunch of the FIrst Nation Communities sending the people they can't deal with on their reserves into housing that they are building on the outskirts of town right next to an elementary school. This housing has stoked racial sentiments into being more prominent than they usually are. A lot of poo poo like "those Indians are ruining my property values, this used to be such a nice neighbourhood." "Those drunken Indians should go back to their reserves.". Don't get me wrong, that stuff has always been there. I remember within the first week of moving into a traditionally white neighbourhood 10 years ago an old woman said to her husband "I can't believe they are letting those people into this area now" after seeing my Dad and I working in the front yard. So really nothing overtly egregious and its gotten to the point that I don't even bother taking note of it. The thing that sticks out most to me was the time I was in a Wal-Mart and I saw this ugly middle aged white woman run over an elderly indian woman with her shopping cart and she just started loving laughing. The evilest cackle I have ever heard in my life and no one batted a loving eye. The man the elderly woman was with asked her what her problem was and she said, and I quote, "That Indian was in my way" and nothing happened to her. Oh and there was also that time a business owner said that Indians were bad for business about 5 or so years ago when the Idle No More stuff was going on. Nothing happened to them either. Edit: Apologies for my rambling self littleorv fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Oct 11, 2018 |
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littleorv posted:Edit: Apologies for my rambling self Uh... Yikes. Thanks for sharing and no apologies needed. Racism out on the coast is basically white people whispering to other white people about the "drat Asians driving up housing prices and driving like poo poo". Also (talking to the teachers again) the Indian kids apparently parrot a lot of their parents/grandparents caste poo poo and bully each other about it, which is pretty sad. You'd think they'd dump that pretty quick growing up here. THC posted:WOULD YOU LOOK AT ALL THAT CONGESTION JESUS CHRIST  that's the good poo poo.
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THC posted:
I too am pro-Breathing Exhaust Fumes.
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THC posted:
It looks like Mike's policies are to introduce more vehicle congestions, no more street parking, no pullout etc.
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The Butcher posted:Racism out on the coast is basically white people whispering to other white people about the "drat Asians driving up housing prices and driving like poo poo". I've been in BC for the last two months and heard people from every ethnicity I can think of saying those things. Change "white people" to "working class people" and you'd be right.
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SHAQ4PREZ posted:Change "white people" to "working class people" and you'd be right. You are being too kind to our rich people here. Racism unites us all, no matter the colour of your skin, or the digits in your bank account.
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mojo1701a posted:I'll be worried when he goes around asking constituents, "What do you want?" I got this reference 
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The Butcher posted:Uh... Yikes. Thanks for sharing and no apologies needed. Confirming that the eventual Great Vancouver "Race" Riot will have it's roots in the housing bubble and will be a very weird thing that academics will study for some time. quote:Also (talking to the teachers again) the Indian kids apparently parrot a lot of their parents/grandparents caste poo poo and bully each other about it, which is pretty sad. You'd think they'd dump that pretty quick growing up here. The people that didn't leave their caste nonsense in the motherland don't even have the shame to keep it on the down-low here. I even saw a guy I worked with trying to pull it which was especially funny since he was the only Indian in the department, and no one had any idea that he was trying to tell us our place.
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ocrumsprug posted:The people that didn't leave their caste nonsense in the motherland don't even have the shame to keep it on the down-low here. I even saw a guy I worked with trying to pull it which was especially funny since he was the only Indian in the department, and no one had any idea that he was trying to tell us our place. I'm going to ask you for details on this, because this story sounds kind of amusing
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Hahaha so the incoming government of Quebec does not consider the crucifix a religious symbol Just when I thought that Ontario took the title of Provincial idiot king, Quebec steps up to the plate and hits a dinger. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-francois-legault-crucifix-religious-symbols-1.4858757
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Oct 12, 2018 13:26
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When it's our symbol it's heritage. Only your symbols are creepy foreigner nonsense.
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Is the national post getting lax with who they allow to write articles or are they just moving so far right that they consider Stephen Harper to be a weak willed influencer who is no longer relevant to conservative ideology?
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flakeloaf posted:I'm going to ask you for details on this, because this story sounds kind of amusing Seconded. I love the idea of a high-caste person trying to explain why everyone else has to bow to his authority in a room full of non-Hindus. There's probably a sit-com episode based on this, somewhere.
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MA-Horus posted:Hahaha so the incoming government of Quebec does not consider the crucifix a religious symbol I love the argument that Maurice Duplessis slapped that thing up there to represent the Protestant and Catholic heritage of Quebec.
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MA-Horus posted:Hahaha so the incoming government of Quebec does not consider the crucifix a religious symbol Ya, it's been the stupid position for all those calling for the religious symbols ban. They've been called out for their hypocrisy by the media from the start. Ugh. Caste story: about 10 years ago I befriended this postdoc student from another lab. He came to Canada to experience autonomy and accomplish things by himself. He was Brahmin. He had 'help' to do the manual labor for his PhD. The first thing he ever did himself was pick up his luggage at the airport. "They're heavy" +100% optimism It was so wholesome 
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https://globalnews.ca/news/4539972/manitoba-businesses-job-preparedness-high-school/amp/ CFIB: High schools aren't doing enough to make workers that will gladly be treated like poo poo and get paid pennies for it! Lmao at their main barriers for hiring youth are "motivation, attitude and minimum-wage increases."
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flakeloaf posted:I'm going to ask you for details on this, because this story sounds kind of amusing It was a relatively small software group I was working with, and this Hindu guy was the junior dev on the team. He was pretty sure he knew the correct answer for everything but being the junior didn’t get taken too seriously (appropriately as he was not as clever as he thought he was.) This was pretty frustrating to him but most of us were used to his oddness by that point. One day he showed up to the scrum stand up with a black shawl. It was not winter and guys wearing shawls is a bit strange, but whatever our office is pretty multicultural. I did notice he did ‘stuff’ with the shawl whenever he was speaking (like tossing it over his shoulder at the start of his scrum update.) Again, he was a weirdo so  One day, this Punjabi dude at lunch told me (he walked past our standup) that the black shawl is a high caste thing. Him throwing it over his shoulder while talking was signifying that we should be listening to him and doing what he was telling us. It actually made his shawl dance in the morning more entertaining after we knew. We did not start listening to him though.
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Coxswain Balls posted:Lmao at their main barriers for hiring youth are "motivation, attitude and minimum-wage increases." Cut the minimum wage and I'm sure you'll have the depressed, demoralized workforce you've always wanted.
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ocrumsprug posted:It was a relatively small software group I was working with, and this Hindu guy was the junior dev on the team. He was pretty sure he knew the correct answer for everything but being the junior didn’t get taken too seriously (appropriately as he was not as clever as he thought he was.) This was pretty frustrating to him but most of us were used to his oddness by that point. That's entertaining and I can definitely see ways I'd get myself in trouble with my own scarf at some future meeting.
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flakeloaf posted:That's entertaining and I can definitely see ways I'd get myself in trouble with my own scarf at some future meeting. It was pretty benign in this case as I think he was trying to make himself comfortable and none of us “knew” what he was doing. My spouse works with a lot of temp and permanent immigrants from India and they have self segregated dev teams because of caste poo poo. This team won’t talk to anyone from that team, and there will be issues if you put the wrong person in charge. It is dumb af.
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https://twitter.com/Brent_Neill/status/1050589391679307776 Winnipeg's Mayor job: attracting nothing but the best applicants
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I'm just going to wait for Bike Winnipeg to endorse a candidate.
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EvilJoven posted:I'm just going to wait for Bike Winnipeg to endorse a candidate. I think only 2 candidates said they would keep expanding active transportation, Bowman and football guy(Don Woodstock) Seat Safety Switch posted:I want to hear more from Football Guy. His answer to everything was to help the youth by building more community centers. I liked when this man said we need to bring back the one dollar bill but make it out of weed so you can smoke it
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