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xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

prom candy posted:

I'm gonna smoke the vaccine instead of injecting it so I don't get addicted

I wrapped my vaccine in bread and ate it

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infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
put some peanut butter on it

BGrifter
Mar 16, 2007

Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!
i vape my vaccine because the rules around edible vaccines are still insane

StealthArcher
Jan 10, 2010




Another Bill posted:

DON'T be a contrarian poo poo. DO get the vaccine if for no other reason than to protect people who medically cannot.

Yeah itsthis for me, that and worst case scenario the covid vaccine will do to me what covid did.

Nothing.

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
E: bad post

xtal has issued a correction as of 07:28 on Mar 15, 2021

StealthArcher
Jan 10, 2010




xtal posted:

E: bad post

Cocaine OD is a vaccine against boredom, sure

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


For fucks sake, Rogers is buying Shaw

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-rogers-seeks-to-buy-shaw-for-204-billion-in-deal-that-would-transform/

Might as well let them merge with Bell and Telus too at this point.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Juul-Whip posted:

well over 100M people have had the vaccine now. its fine.

and mostly old people. if you have a more frail constitution than a 90 year old maybe dont get the vaccine, but otherwise stop whining baby!

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Kazinsal posted:

posting right-wing vaccine trutherism in c-spam should be a ban+30

no gently caress off with this i don't want idea police enforcing the "status quo expert opinion". this isn't a propaganda platform its a discussion forum

Squibbles
Aug 24, 2000

Mwaha ha HA ha!

Powershift posted:

For fucks sake, Rogers is buying Shaw

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-rogers-seeks-to-buy-shaw-for-204-billion-in-deal-that-would-transform/

Might as well let them merge with Bell and Telus too at this point.

Still pending government approval so hopefully it gets nixed but who knows

CocoaNuts
Jun 12, 2020

Powershift posted:

For fucks sake, Rogers is buying Shaw

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-rogers-seeks-to-buy-shaw-for-204-billion-in-deal-that-would-transform/

Might as well let them merge with Bell and Telus too at this point.

That's lovely. When my wife and I lived in B.C., we had a Shaw cable/internet bundle for $89 a month! And that was only three years ago. Service was good too. Doubt any such deals will be available under Rogers.

Another Bill
Sep 27, 2018

Born on the bayou
died in a cave
bbq and posting
is all I crave

Rutibex posted:

no gently caress off with this i don't want idea police enforcing the "status quo expert opinion". this isn't a propaganda platform its a discussion forum

lol :qq:

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the truthers

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m
Apr 16, 2017

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Powershift posted:

For fucks sake, Rogers is buying Shaw

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-rogers-seeks-to-buy-shaw-for-204-billion-in-deal-that-would-transform/

Might as well let them merge with Bell and Telus too at this point.

Oh good, I love it when there are less brands!

DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?

Powershift posted:

For fucks sake, Rogers is buying Shaw

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-rogers-seeks-to-buy-shaw-for-204-billion-in-deal-that-would-transform/

Might as well let them merge with Bell and Telus too at this point.

saw this coming from a mile away when they switched to both using comcast poo poo at the same time and bell bought mts. they dont directly compete with each other either

Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you





But its phone service that costs $150/month

Coxswain Balls
Jun 4, 2001

I wonder if they also made this deal over a steak dinner and I hate that I still remember that from my new hire training. When I started excerpts from this book that all managers got were part of the curriculum and I'm glad I never had to waste time with that bullshit once I became a trainer.

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
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Harold Stassen has issued a correction as of 17:00 on Jun 28, 2021

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
:keke:

Harold Stassen has issued a correction as of 17:00 on Jun 28, 2021

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
lol the ontario vaccine booking site is interesting. are you aged 65-79? get hosed!

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m
Apr 16, 2017

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Rutibex posted:

lol the ontario vaccine booking site is interesting. are you aged 65-79? get hosed!



BC doesn't have a website, just an understaffed phone line.

Noblesse Obliged
Apr 7, 2012

need to get a mass No shot, no work! campaign going on to get fords ulcer to open up

BGrifter
Mar 16, 2007

Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!

Noblesse Obliged posted:

need to get a mass “No shot, no work!” campaign going on to get fords ulcer to open up

directions unclear: Ford now calling on the RCMP to shoot (more) people.

Noblesse Obliged
Apr 7, 2012

at least theyd be doing it with orders for a change

BGrifter
Mar 16, 2007

Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!
News: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdnaz/the-albertan-government-is-very-upset-about-a-netflix-film-about-bigfoot

Views: lol

Slotducks
Oct 16, 2008

Nobody puts Phil in a corner.


Rutibex posted:

lol the ontario vaccine booking site is interesting. are you aged 65-79? get hosed!



It's horrible communications.

They're prioritizing the other two vaxxes for 80+

the Astro Zenica one hasn't been tested for 65+ so that's where the gap is.

You just have to go to the next page and expand a bunch of text boxes to actually get told that - it's HORRIBLE communications... Which is par for Ontario govt.

Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you




The first time i saw this event, I legit thought it was a Beaverton article and kept scrolling. Then a local NDP politician talked about it and my mind was blown.

UCP is spending $30 million a loving year on their "war room" to have a slap fight with a cartoon.

BGrifter
Mar 16, 2007

Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!

Fashionable Jorts posted:

The first time i saw this event, I legit thought it was a Beaverton article and kept scrolling. Then a local NDP politician talked about it and my mind was blown.

UCP is spending $30 million a loving year on their "war room" to have a slap fight with a cartoon.

my favourite part was the movie is about an Alaskan oil company. so Alberta is white knighting oil companies around the world over insufficiently deferent childrens cartoons.

Another Bill
Sep 27, 2018

Born on the bayou
died in a cave
bbq and posting
is all I crave

The entire North American reactionary mediasphere is having a 3 week meltdown over Dr. Seuss and Pepe le Pew.

So no, I'm not surprised Premier Jason Kenney is going after a cartoon character. It's going to resonate like hell with his base.

Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you



Reminds me about how its very interesting that all of the "what about the debt" people have gotten extremely quiet, now that the UCP has created more in two years than the NDP did in 4.

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016

Noblesse Obliged posted:

need to get a mass No shot, no work! campaign going on to get fords ulcer to open up

OPEN ER UP! :haw:

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
:keke:

Harold Stassen has issued a correction as of 17:00 on Jun 28, 2021

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
:keke:

Harold Stassen has issued a correction as of 17:00 on Jun 28, 2021

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
we do, believe me

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
https://twitter.com/gccaedits/status/1371126882926796804

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

Extended rental freeze a tipping point for smaller landlords

Frank O'Brien, Western Investor


Demonizing landlords, extending a rental increase freeze for a full year, capping rent increases at the rate of inflation and restricting renovations in a market where most apartment buildings are more than 50 years old are all now the policy of the B.C. provincial government, based its recent legislation and statements.

This marks a tipping point for some landlords, said Robert Greer, a principal and multi-family specialist with Avison Young in Vancouver. Some will throw in the towel.

"The changes mean no more tenants will face eviction notices for phoney renovations that were never going to happen," said Spencer Chandra Herbert, MLA for Vancouver West-End, on behalf of David Eby, Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Housing, in announcing the most restrictive rental rules in Canada.

The legislative changes, announced March 1, will stop illegal renovictions and make changes to the tenant/landlord resolution process, tilting the process to favour tenants.

All this will have the unintended consequences of reducing the amount of rental housing available, said Zac Killam, CEO of the Landlord Credit Bureau, who said hundreds of small landlords offering the least expensive rentals basement suites, for example are bailing out of the rental business. The [government] has essentially taken the financial impact that tenants are facing and placed it on the back of small landlords.

The math appears brutal, whether one is trying to rent a single suite or an entire apartment building.

Mark Goodman, managing partner of Goodman Commercial Inc., which deals almost exclusively in Metro Vancouver multi-family buildings, provided an actual example of the expense increases paid by the owner of a 20-unit rental apartment building in Vancouver between 2019 and 2020:

Property taxes: up 24 per cent;

Insurance costs: up 36 per cent;

Hydro costs (heat/electricity): up 16 per cent;

Water and sewer costs: up 10 per cent; and

Cleaning and sanitation: a 6 per cent increase.

The landlord, however, remains under an 18-month long rental freeze and can only increase rents in 2022 by 2 per cent.

As of July 1, 2021, B.C. legislation will require property owners to apply to the Residential Tenancy Branch before they can terminate a tenancy agreement for a renovation, but landlords will likely have a hard time getting substantial work done, based on official government statements.

By putting an end to this kind of bullying behaviour, meant to drive out long-term tenants and jack up the rent, we're protecting renters and supporting rental housing providers who do proactive maintenance of their rental homes, said Spencer Chandra Herbert

Buyers still bullish

Despite the governments anti-landlord hyperbole and the rental and renovation restrictions, hardy investors still appear willing to buy B.C. apartment buildings.

Metro Vancouver saw a total of 78 multi-family rental properties sell in 2020, just one less than in 2019, according to Goodman Commercial. The dollar volume increased by 2.7 per cent year-to-year to $1.13 billion and the average per-door price rose 8 per cent to $403,000.

The January CBRE-brokered sale of a 15-building Vancouver portfolio for $292 million, to a Toronto-based real estate investment trust (REIT), shows the appetite for B.C. rentals remains keen.

In March, Greers Avison Young team sold a $45.5 million four-building rental portfolio in New Westminster and Burnaby. The sale was split into three parcels with local investors outbidding institutional players.

We had an even number of what I would call institutional purchasers and private purchaser looking at them so REITs, pension funds, groups like that were interested, as well as a lot of interest from private individual investors, Greer told RENX.

Long-horizon, deep-pocket buyers, Greer said, are confident in the post-pandemic rental market, and are able to finance at the lowest mortgage rates ever seen.

Bob Dhillon, CEO of Calgary-based Mainstreet Equities Inc., a publicly-traded company and one of the largest landlords in Western Canada with 14,000 rental units - told Western Investor he will launch an acquisition binge in the eastern Fraser Valley and Vancouver Island this year. Dhillon brushes off the current angst about the pandemic-chilled economy. Real estate is a long-term play; you cant make decisions based on a quarter-to-quarter basis, he said.

James Blair, senior vice-president, investment with the Vancouver multi-family team at Marcus & Millichap, said his purchasing clients appear willing to deal with short-term pain for long-term gain.

The policies introduced by various levels of government have a way of tempering the market, but it will not dictate demand, Blair said The multi-family market is off to a strong start in 2021 larger portfolios have sold and others are coming to market and there are suitors for them all. We expect a strong [first quarter 2021] in B.C., and for this to continue through the year.

BGrifter
Mar 16, 2007

Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!
Zac Killam, CEO of the Landlord Credit Bureau

lol

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
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Harold Stassen has issued a correction as of 17:00 on Jun 28, 2021

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m
Apr 16, 2017

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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

I wonder if the real estate insanity in Vancouver will collapse. Just kidding, it's now exported to the whole country! :newlol:

It would be cool if it did tho

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Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

I wonder if the real estate insanity in Vancouver will collapse. Just kidding, it's now exported to the whole country! :newlol:

its going to collapse one way or another. the boomers are all going to retire at the same time and none of their kids are able to buy the family house. that means when the boomers try to sell their house and cash out their retirement money the market will be flooded and prices will crash

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