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infernal machines posted:tbh, i don't know anything about winnipeg, so i assumed that's who was sponsoring whatever it is you're all talking about OV = Osborne Village, middle of Winnipeg The thread locals seem to have it right, was pretty cool and chill until gentrification started hitting hard and looks more preoccupied with building condos and no parking signs.
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It's not so much the condos it's one scummy landlord seeing dollar signs buying up a shitload of real estate and jacking up rents on all his commercial tennants. That combined with crime in the area skyrocketing because of huge homeless encampments and indifference in all levels of government and now a lot of people including myself tend to avoid the area more often than not.
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lmao https://twitter.com/Tim_Bousquet/status/1539305811251453957?s=20&t=GHTmWHaow_YJ0ZQjfOWKgw
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Jun 21, 2022 18:58
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Noblesse Obliged posted:my childhood is littered with those beer caps same. something about OV seemed to lend itself to drinking in parks, parking lots, and small wooded areas in the 80s/90s
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Vintersorg posted:All this OV talk My dad drank OV in the 80s and I can't believe I never knew or even thought about what OV stood for until this very moment.
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DariusLikewise posted:lmao this thread... https://twitter.com/Tim_Bousquet/status/1539286659476475912?s=20&t=z7fMIXN2n19Wt31fSovxkA jesus christ
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Jordan7hm posted:this thread... rcmp aren’t good with identifying where dead children are
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Jordan7hm posted:this thread... Mass Residential Cat Gravesites
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infernal machines posted:tbh, i don't know anything about winnipeg, so i assumed that's who was sponsoring whatever it is you're all talking about The village is entirely restaurants, local small retail shops, and bars/clubs. How they can't make money on a day where a quarter of the city stops by is pretty baffling. Maybe they are getting screwed by the city somehow probably pretty likely actually.
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DariusLikewise posted:lmao I get the part where she wanted them to specify types of weapons to help push gun control but I don't understand why they refused to give the number of victims out? Only talking about a mountie getting killed then slowly revealing an increasing body count seems counterintuitive to the goal of pushing for gun control. e: on re-read it seems like the two are unrelated and the hosed up victim numbers were more an incompetence/pissing match issue between NS rcmp and the rcmp heads ghosthorse has issued a correction as of 23:31 on Jun 21, 2022 |
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Jun 21, 2022 23:26
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yeah I think they're unrelated (other than both being under the umbrella of rcmp ineptitude) also seems a bit unhinged to be all "gently caress your investigation, we've got irrelevant legislation to not pass!". unless you're saying you see the logic as a craven federal politician, in which case yep
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we’re just being lazy e: lz
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Math You posted:Is there a primer on how "giving the land back" is supposed to work? I hear it a lot and never an explanation of which land and how that looks. It honestly sounds pretty stupid to me and I'm 100 percent behind actually putting $$ to reconciliation. I will happily admit that I'm not particularly steeped in knowledge on this subject, and my ignorance is my own, but if generally well meaning individuals are in the dark on this subject it doesn't speak well for the messaging. Fortunately there are legal documents known as "treaties" that spell out exactly how this works should the government ever decide to obey the law.
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Jun 22, 2022 06:16
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Futanari Damacy posted:Longtime resident and have never heard this abbreviation used in conversation (or online), ever I just looked it up, made sense to me but there could be other things abbreviated OV to do with Winnipeg I could have missed.
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https://twitter.com/bkives/status/1539407901823062016?s=20&t=tpeDhd5F0n3zq30lvW7Mww murray isnt perfect but hes probably more competent than the current clown car full of candidates
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Murray doesn’t want to make another bid for the Green Party job?
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That Shaun Loney guy sounds okay? but I haven't followed too closely.
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pokeyman posted:also seems a bit unhinged to be all "gently caress your investigation, we've got irrelevant legislation to not pass!". unless you're saying you see the logic as a craven federal politician, in which case yep Yeah I meant I could follow the path of "specify guns used->our law targets those->liberals look good" as a horrible political win kind of move from someone in that position. All the rest of the article seemed counterintuitive to that goal, but that's probably the rcmp being bad at their jobs instead of being purposefully bad at their jobs for political reasons.
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Jun 22, 2022 23:11
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what ever happened to the testicle breathing guy?
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Jun 22, 2022 23:46
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That's future PM testicle breathing guy for you eh
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Jun 23, 2022 00:34
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if the queen of canada is cool with it then so am i
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Jun 23, 2022 01:47
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LOL at everyone referring to Osborne Village as OV 
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Jun 23, 2022 04:31
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I've been calling it "the OV"
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Normy posted:I've been calling it "the OV" don't call it that
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i will call it "the OV" now that i know that's the preferred nomenclature
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ColdBlooded posted:LOL at everyone referring to Osborne Village as OV yeah I've never heard of this and I lived there for several years.
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If anything it's just "The Village" to anyone here. Not many people really say Osborne at all. But then again no one I know goes anymore compared to like... a decade or so ago? We'd go after work to G-Martini for some overpriced drinks, get some sushi maybe and then go from there. Or other nights at the Toad. Lunch times spent at Spicy Noodle House. But hosed if I'll even contemplate going compared to everywhere else in the city with better offerings.
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it's kind of lovely nowadays. for me it all went downhill when they demolished Vi-Ann and Movie Village to build that pointless shopper's drug mart. and lol at just having a massive hole in the ground where the hotel was for ages. it used to be a cool place to live, and was quite affordable for students. my partner and I had a 2 bedroom for like $700 a month that was pretty decent. at night you could look out your window and watch people drag couches into the alley and light them on fire. or you could just sit back and enjoy the literal dumpster fires. did anybody ever go to that singles night thing they did at the safeway? that was pretty amusing.
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is there any place on earth that has ever been improved with the addition of a shoppers drug mart?
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Karach posted:it all went downhill when they build that pointless shopper's drug mart. Many such stories
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infernal machines posted:is there any place on earth that has ever been improved with the addition of a shoppers drug mart? Galen Weston is the light that shines on all, brother
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infernal machines posted:is there any place on earth that has ever been improved with the addition of a shoppers drug mart? the giant hole in the ground just down the street provided more community services than the shoppers does found the article about safeway singles night. the best part was the catering staff circulating with trays of deli meat and cheese cubes. and what a headline. quote:Safeway singles night turns Winnipeg store into meet market
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Jun 23, 2022 14:57
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loving brutal own by the man's own children.
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Shoppers drug Mart is a decent gentrification bellwether
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skewetoo posted:Shoppers drug Mart is a decent gentrification bellwether Really? I've lived in some of the more lovely parts of Toronto and Hamilton (Dawes and Danforth in Toronto and Main and Wentworthish in Hamilton) and we had nearby Shoppers at both. I think they're just omnipresent.
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enki42 posted:Really? I've lived in some of the more lovely parts of Toronto and Hamilton (Dawes and Danforth in Toronto and Main and Wentworthish in Hamilton) and we had nearby Shoppers at both. I think they're just omnipresent. I was just thinking of a specific out of place location in parkdale but you’re right. they’re ubiquitous. the real gentrification bellwether is the closure of galaxy donuts
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Karach posted:the giant hole in the ground just down the street provided more community services than the shoppers does Any day that hole will be the much talked about water park. Just needs 10-15 more years of being a hole
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Karach posted:found the article about safeway singles night. the best part was the catering staff circulating with trays of deli meat and cheese cubes. and what a headline. honestly this kinda owns, gently caress yeah its an attempt in an increasingly hostile world to finding people except via apps, less so about the sponsored by safeway part but whatever roam the aisles with your green flag
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skewetoo posted:I was just thinking of a specific out of place location in parkdale but you’re right. they’re ubiquitous. the real gentrification bellwether is the closure of galaxy donuts  isn't it a little caribbean place now though?
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