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cougar cub posted:I think commercial real estate in downtown Calgary is still something like 25% vacant. Businesses made plans to move into Quarry Park down in the SE, that is until it turns out it would be just as much just to stay downtown. Which is just as well because it's a huge pain to get down there.
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Mods can we just embed ever rolling Stan Rogers into the background of this thread somehow, TIA.
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Last I read there is more vacant office space in downtown Calgary than there is in total office space in downtown Vancouver. It’s really rough down there.
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https://twitter.com/pressprogress/status/1069683639569440768quote:During a telephone town hall last week, one caller asked Wilkinson if he’s going to be an “advocate of throwing (the referendum outcome) in the garbage” if “turnout” for the referendum doesn’t meet his satisfaction. 39% turnout as of Monday morning. Looking at the riding-by-riding numbers, it does appear that the poorer areas of Burnaby, Surrey, and Vancouver had among the worst turnouts. This is to be expected since people rent and they are less likely to be registered to vote at their current address. Most people do not know this is going on unless they received a ballot. However, a lot of the highest turnout ridings are Green or NDP held, or had a strong Green showing.
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Gorau posted:Last I read there is more vacant office space in downtown Calgary than there is in total office space in downtown Vancouver. It’s really rough down there. Jokes on you Jeff Bezos. Enjoy paying overpriced rent in NYC and Virginia.
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what happened posted:Jokes on you Jeff Bezos. Enjoy paying overpriced rent in NYC and Virginia. lol if you think he's paying rent
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Concern trolling on behalf of schoolchildren is a new technique for the BC Libs, lol https://pressprogress.ca/bc-liberal-mla-lgbtq-anti-bullying-program-could-cause-mental-health-issues-for-school-children/
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cougar cub posted:I think commercial real estate in downtown Calgary is still something like 25% vacant. Don’t worry, the builders who control council are getting massive handouts to begin converting them to residential space. So you can live closer to the job you don’t have.
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https://twitter.com/MariekeWalsh/status/1069958017070841856 I'm trying to think of a framework for taking bets on just how far into baldfaced corruption we can slide during this term.
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Arivia posted:Concern trolling on behalf of schoolchildren is a new technique for the BC Libs, lol https://pressprogress.ca/bc-liberal-mla-lgbtq-anti-bullying-program-could-cause-mental-health-issues-for-school-children/ Not that I needed more proof that the B.C. Libs were just Conservatives in disguise but there’s some more anyways.
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Kibayasu posted:Not that I needed more proof that the B.C. Libs were just Conservatives in disguise but there’s some more anyways. There should never be any doubt, historically or policy-wise. What we call Conservative in B.C. is just some weird fringe rump.
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cougar cub posted:I think commercial real estate in downtown Calgary is still something like 25% vacant. That's an optimistic number too as it doesn't actually take into consideration whether leased space is actually occupied.
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infernal machines posted:https://twitter.com/MariekeWalsh/status/1069958017070841856 Honestly it feels like they dont even bother to hide it because they know nothing will be done about it now or after theyre out of office because the general public just doesnt know or care. 
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Kibayasu posted:Not that I needed more proof that the B.C. Libs were just Conservatives in disguise but there’s some more anyways. I've got some bad news for you about the Federal Libs.
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Haha oops. https://twitter.com/calxandr/status/1070068766640353281
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Yinlock posted:much like everything the UN does, it's both entirely toothless and gets the right super-mad yeah but you gotta be real stupid for chris alexander to turn around on you
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https://twitter.com/CBCQueensPark/status/1070064720244326405 what a shock
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Remember how agenda 21 resulted in blue-helmeted UN city planners coming in and burning all our cars and forcing everyone to live in skyscrapers?
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This just in from the Chudsphere: A woman goes viral with her viscious takedown of Trudeau blatantly calling construction workers "oilfield low lives" and not bowing to the glory of the petro proletariat
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I was just at the d1 of AFN Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa, and whoa wee Justin Trudeau is a good public speaker! AFN is a pretty interesting organization. That's what I learned today!
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Testikles posted:This just in from the Chudsphere: Yeah, her post was shared on Twitter by Jason Kenney and Michelle Rempel to the people she hasn't blocked yet. NatPo has a sort of fact check and also a transcript that starts well before the outrage clips that provides a bit more context. https://nationalpost.com/news/canad...ruction-workers Trudeau isn't good at ad-libbing, I find, and the PMO has some spin on what he "really meant" but he wasn't wrong about the fact that bringing groups of young men into a rural area and lining their pockets with cash will have some impact on the immediate surroundings. Trudeau should have called them "fighting-aged males." That'd shut 'em up.
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Toalpaz posted:I was just at the d1 of AFN Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa, and whoa wee Justin Trudeau is a good public speaker! Trudeau is a good public speaker when he's relaxed or when he's reading from a prepared speech. Obviously, anyone who gets caught off guard isn't going to speak as well, but Trudeau can really slip and tumble if he's surprised.
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Trudeau hasn't been in politics long enough to lose his soul entirely so he occasionally lets slip what he really thinks(know your place, peons, all hail petrol) instead of just endlessly repeating the same message
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Leofish posted:Yeah, her post was shared on Twitter by Jason Kenney and Michelle Rempel to the people she hasn't blocked yet. Still kind of a hosed up thing to say, even though young men might be more likely to commit crimes (or otherwise negatively effect an area). That wide-casting stereotyping isn't exactly progressive. You wouldn't make that kind of distinction saying "watch out for gypsy's coming into your area" because that is hosed up.
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See if you can figure out the difference between "Gypsies" and construction workers. I'll wait. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Dec 5, 2018 |
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CBC News posted:My brother's a 'monster,' man says of Niagara policeman shot by fellow officer. 
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infernal machines posted:See if you can figure out the difference between "Gypsies" and construction workers. I dunno I'd think each group shouldnt be stereotyped by the government?
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I get your whole "stereotypes are bad" thing, but there is a difference between a historically oppressed minority group and a profession, and that context is actually important.
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infernal machines posted:I get your whole "broadly applied stereotypes are bad" thing, but there is a difference between a historically oppressed minority group and a profession, and that context is actually important. Okay, how about if i said "Dentists" in my stupid example. Either way its a hosed up thing to say a specific group is a loving danger to communities. Thats loving 1930s loving poo poo. Like, how would you react if he said "watch your back in windsor, all those unemployeds are dangerous". Even if unemployed people are slightly more likely to be criminals, its hosed up to say watch out for that group. Same thing with this supposed danger from construction workers. vincentpricesboner fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Dec 5, 2018 |
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If you said dentists I wouldn't have said anything since that would be entirely comparable. Generally speaking the construction worker and dentist comminuities are not at risk of discrimination and violence in the same way that an ethnic group like Roma are. Maybe just make less stupid comparisons rather than getting bent out of shape, IDK.
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Saskatchewan was grim as gently caress and made me realize how good we have it in BC. Province-wide power outage all day, they just killed transportation to remote towns, and I don't think they've put money into the Trans-Can since the 1990's. Road was more patches than pavement. Straight up took me back to the ex-USSR.
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infernal machines posted:If you said dentists I wouldn't have said anything since that would be entirely comparable. Generally speaking the construction worker and dentist comminuities are not at risk of discrimination and violence in the same way that an ethnic group like Roma are. Well it was stupid to say gypsys then. They just came to mind because in Europe you have politicians making the same bigoted statements about that group. vincentpricesboner fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Dec 5, 2018 |
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Rime posted:Saskatchewan was grim as gently caress and made me realize how good we have it in BC. Province-wide power outage all day, they just killed transportation to remote towns, and I don't think they've put money into the Trans-Can since the 1990's. Road was more patches than pavement. Straight up took me back to the ex-USSR. I've been told that Saskatoon is actually a nice place.
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zapplez posted:Well it was stupid to say gypsys then. They just came to mind because in Europe you have politicians making the same bigoted statements about that group. I get your meaning, and I'm definitely not saying Trudeau's choice of wording was good, my point was just that it was a bad comparison because of the major differences between a historically oppressed minority group, and construction workers. It's probably a good idea to avoid because it's the sort of thing that lends itself to bullshit like "blue lives matter" and other nonsense that trivializes the very real threat of discrimination and violence people in minority groups face.
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Traffic law / justice for victims of motor vehicle collisions is a joke in Canada https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mandel-uber-driver-in-crash-that-killed-passenger-gets-1000-fine-driving-ban
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zapplez posted:Okay, how about if i said "Dentists" in my stupid example. They actively choose to spend time in people's mouths all day while causing pain and discomfort pretty much constantly. Seems pretty ominous to me.
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The Butcher posted:They actively choose to spend time in people's mouths all day while causing pain and discomfort pretty much constantly. And let's not forget the Dalhousie sex assault thingy!
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Trudeau last year explaining why an MMP voting system was a mistake:Globe and Mail posted:Trudeau, travelling through the Arctic on a so-called "listening tour" of town hall meetings and photo-ops, has been confronted repeatedly by people who want to discuss why he's no longer committed to electoral reform. During a recent sloppy journalistic blowjob that the National Post gave to Bernier we get this interesting little tidbit: National Post posted:Meanwhile, the PPC is expecting tacit support from the Liberals, the thought being that if Bernier succeeds even a little bit, that success will come at the expense of the Conservatives, potentially helping Liberal candidates to victory in some battleground ridings. Even two or three points in the polls could make a difference. Nice to see the Prime Minister sticking by his guns regardless of expediency.
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