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Franks Happy Place posted:The difference is that you could expect Wab Kinew or whomever to be slightly less rear end. Notley was better than Kenney, right? This is reminding me of that book written by the finance minister of the Nova Scotia NDP government a little while back, which I think was passed around the Alberta NDP too. Graham Steele. He wrote a lil postmortem that was basically "when in power we had to be indistinguishable from the other parties oops lol". Probably won't help you any but that seems to be the playbook.
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Nov 16, 2021 02:47
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ChickenDoodle posted:BC: Hey some seriously hosed upped weather is happening, please advise? Update: Mike Farnsworth doubling down on “gently caress you, save yourselves”: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-flooding-analysis-farnworth-local-1.6250193 quote:To the question of why a border community in the United States issued a warning and started sandbagging properties well before communities in B.C., he said: "At the local level, they're observing the conditions in the local area … every community is required to have a local emergency plan and deal with local emergency events." Look at all these tools we have! Use them? gently caress that, it costs money. Give the municipalities a the ability to alert their constituents to an emergency? gently caress them, that’s the provinces tool. I hate the BC libs with a passion of a thousand suns but can’t justify support of this NDP government any more. No accurate pandemic info, terrible response to the heat dome, lovely response to the fires, and a lovely response to a rain so extreme that it destroyed every major Highway in southern BC. gently caress Horgan, gently caress Mike Farnsworth, gently caress Bonnie Henry, and gently caress everyone else. ChickenDoodle fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Nov 16, 2021 |
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Nov 16, 2021 19:07
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In some good news: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/blood-ban-canada-changes-1.6250434 Sounds like it's being replaced with a blanket question on it you've had multiple sexual partners in the last few months, regardless of gender or sexual orientation.
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Nov 16, 2021 20:00
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If we ever get the true covid numbers out of BC I wonder how it will actually stack up against places like Manitoba that just let the virus rampage through the populace or Ontario that just continually ended preventative measures early sparking new waves to happen (like right now holy poo poo Simcoe County schools are getting wrecked).
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Nov 16, 2021 20:02
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Furnaceface posted:If we ever get the true covid numbers out of BC I wonder how it will actually stack up against places like Manitoba that just let the virus rampage through the populace or Ontario that just continually ended preventative measures early sparking new waves to happen (like right now holy poo poo Simcoe County schools are getting wrecked). unsure—tough to say without comically lovely officials and bad data really. I personally am the only BCer I know that got it, and that was because I got unbelievably unlucky right at the start of the whole thing. I'm sure there was loads of spread and way worse than was getting reported (lmao @ the "hospitalization" definition loving numbers until two months ago), but at least from anecdotes the really scary spreads were in LTCs and the interior Mr. Mercury fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Nov 16, 2021 |
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Nov 16, 2021 20:56
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Ontario, in a staggeringly dumb COVID move, decides to let symptomatic potential COVID cases get tested at pharmacies (previously they had to go to dedicated testing centres: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-19-ontario-nov-16-2021-case-counts-climb-slowing-1.6250585 It's going to be just the bee's knees picking up my immunosuppressants while a COVID case is coughing on me in line.
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Nov 16, 2021 21:15
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Look, the race for the dumbest province in Canada is really competitive right now, we're doing what we can to take the lead.
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Nov 16, 2021 21:43
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enki42 posted:Ontario, in a staggeringly dumb COVID move, decides to let symptomatic potential COVID cases get tested at pharmacies (previously they had to go to dedicated testing centres: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-19-ontario-nov-16-2021-case-counts-climb-slowing-1.6250585 Boy am I ever glad I left IT to go become a pharm tech!  I can with 100% certainly say that Loblaws was one of the driving forces behind this decision because the Ontario PCs made them immune to liability while also letting them pick up a giant percentage of testing (for a fee of course, not a single penny of which the pharmacy staff see).
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Nov 16, 2021 21:50
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Lololol cool so now I can get tested at a nofrills or a Costco? Maybe pickup a hotdog on my way out.. what a world
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Nov 17, 2021 00:21
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That hotdog has history behind it!
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Nov 17, 2021 00:36
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Well, that was fast https://twitter.com/CBCKatie/status/1460764842382475265
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Nov 17, 2021 01:33
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lol imagine being a canadian senator and actually thinking you have any kind of political power
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Nov 17, 2021 01:47
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RBC posted:lol imagine being a canadian senator and actually thinking you have any kind of political power
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Nov 17, 2021 01:58
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How can you stay quiet when you're forced to eat ice cold Camembert and broken crackers?
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Nov 17, 2021 02:38
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Unfortunately there’s not actual mechanism to get rid of senate parasites. Just means they are independent parasites now. Isn’t the Duffster still consuming public money there?
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Nov 17, 2021 02:46
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Just get the rest of the senate to bully the assholes until they leave of their own accord. Hire a few grade 8 student consultants to determine the most effective ways.
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Nov 17, 2021 02:54
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Noblesse Obliged posted:Isn’t the Duffster still consuming public money there?
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Nov 17, 2021 03:27
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Anyone in or with family in Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford get the gently caress out right now. (Immediate evacuation orders with significant risk to life)
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Nov 17, 2021 05:32
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ARACHTION posted:Anyone in or with family in Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford get the gently caress out right now. (Immediate evacuation orders with significant risk to life) And for the love of God don't wait
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Nov 17, 2021 05:32
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ARACHTION posted:Anyone in or with family in Sumas Lake in Abbotsford get the gently caress out right now. (Immediate evacuation orders with significant risk to life) FTFY
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Nov 17, 2021 05:45
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Mr. Mercury posted:And for the love of God don't wait Don’t wait for the poo poo rear end province to continue “thinking” about a state of emergency I’m so glad that all my friends and family are safe, even though I can get nowhere near them right now.
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Nov 17, 2021 05:49
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ChickenDoodle posted:Don’t wait for the poo poo rear end province to continue “thinking” about a state of emergency it is seriously un-loving-believable how absent the provincial government has been here. no emergency alerts, no planning, no state of emergency. utterly gobsmacked at this dereliction of duty. gently caress horgan, gently caress the ndp. glad i turned in my party membership months ago
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Nov 17, 2021 05:57
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Bowinn Ma seems to be the only one sharing the emergency alerts lol
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Nov 17, 2021 06:01
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ChickenDoodle posted:No accurate pandemic info Furnaceface posted:If we ever get the true covid numbers out of BC I wonder how it will actually stack up against places like Manitoba that just let the virus rampage through the populace or Ontario that just continually ended preventative measures early sparking new waves to happen (like right now holy poo poo Simcoe County schools are getting wrecked). Wait, what's wrong with the BC COVID stats? I tried Googling for a story and came up with nothing.
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Nov 17, 2021 06:04
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Wait, what's wrong with the BC COVID stats? I tried Googling for a story and came up with nothing. https://twitter.com/jheighton3/status/1460833265242181634?s=21
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Nov 17, 2021 06:07
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When it was being talked about a six or eight months ago people were pointing out that BC has a lotttt of unexplained excess deaths too.
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Nov 17, 2021 06:13
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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BC doesn't win "worst covid response by a province" because of the stiff competition to its east, but it handily wins "most bullshit covid response".
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Nov 17, 2021 06:13
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I think that's just saying kids weren't getting tested as much? Edit: I mean, I know there's been a lot of tension around protection of teachers through COVID, but I don't think that what that teacher advocate is saying exactly reflects what the data is saying. Lead out in cuffs fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Nov 17, 2021 |
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Nov 17, 2021 06:15
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PittTheElder posted:When it was being talked about a six or eight months ago people were pointing out that BC has a lotttt of unexplained excess deaths too. Do you have a link for that? I was glancing at these stats and they didn't look much different to other provinces: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl...0629%2C20210731
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Nov 17, 2021 06:20
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I do not, I'm going 100% on rumors from this very thread
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Nov 17, 2021 06:27
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thehoodie posted:it is seriously un-loving-believable how absent the provincial government has been here. no emergency alerts, no planning, no state of emergency. utterly gobsmacked at this dereliction of duty. gently caress horgan, gently caress the ndp. glad i turned in my party membership months ago https://twitter.com/PennyDaflos/status/1460840863655874560?t=cbomVt3ac0Iu--I7A3PHlg&s=19 https://twitter.com/RobShaw_BC/status/1460835681475837954?t=W_NXullHjzOcBZ5nZrQTSg&s=19
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Nov 17, 2021 06:44
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PittTheElder posted:I do not, I'm going 100% on rumors from this very thread I'm not in here that often, but the last few pages don't give a lot of confidence in the thread's ability to parse truth from rumour.
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Nov 17, 2021 07:06
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I think a lot of what can be inferred from the discourse is that a lot of us have 0 faith in our government to do anything without catastrophically loving it up, ever since 500+ people died in a freak heat dome and the leader of said government brushed it off as a “fact of life”. The communication from the government has been piss poor since they got their majority, and people are getting really, really mad about it. And if we can’t trust this government to actually declare an emergency when all roads to a major population centre are cut off due to an admitted ‘natural disaster’, how exactly are we going to deal with a tornado, or tsunami, or The Big One?
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Nov 17, 2021 08:12
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The BCNDP can't do anything because if they do something and it doesn't turn out perfectly they will be shut out for decades. "Fast ferries" is a killing word. Surprised they didn't declare a state of emergency when Sumas Prairie is about to become Sumas Lake once again though.
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Nov 17, 2021 13:52
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McGavin posted:The BCNDP can't do anything because if they do something and it doesn't turn out perfectly they will be shut out for decades. "Fast ferries" is a killing word. I would venture that letting a fairly large city sink into a lake and the major metro centre being cut off by land without saying much of anything is significantly worse than fast ferries, which in the end was a pretty small cost. Let's not give them leeway for excuses. I'm not in BC anymore but I did vote for this Horgan government, and it has been far worse than I could have possibly believed.
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Nov 17, 2021 14:48
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The BC government is basically an anti-vaxxer in their thought problems. If there's any risk to them doing something, they will not do it even if the risk of doing nothing at all is much, much higher. If the risks of doing nothing come through, then at least it's not their fault. It's a profoundly stupid worldview but it does appear to be depressingly common!
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Nov 17, 2021 15:09
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https://twitter.com/fabulavancouver/status/1460995137060814851?s=20
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Nov 17, 2021 16:55
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These dumb BC NDP mother fuckers. The BC libs would have been sure to evacuate to then buy land and resell it as waterfront property.
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Nov 17, 2021 17:07
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ARACHTION posted:These dumb BC NDP mother fuckers. The BC libs would have been sure to evacuate to then buy land and resell it as waterfront property. Do you want
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Nov 17, 2021 18:26
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ARACHTION posted:These dumb BC NDP mother fuckers. The BC libs would have been sure to evacuate to then buy land and resell it as waterfront property. This is 100% accurate Also in more cheerful news, Canada may actually make the world cup for the first time in like 30 years! Super stoked (even though the event itself is going to be an unbelievable shitshow this time around) edit: also this has already been mentioned upthread but the current BCNDP gov is actually 'ok' overall*, while failing in a number of spectacularly lovely ways they've put through a large number of actually good policies as well (although a lot of those are stapling the province back together after years of basically being run by an organised money laundering ring), you can't really compare them to AB, MN or ONs current governments *does not apply to anything to do with resource extraction in which they are awful Alctel fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Nov 17, 2021 |
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