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ZeeBoi posted:Greatest use of a photo. Remember the good old days when the chances of Quebec separation were high which meant it was likely the eastern provinces could be ceded to the Americans?
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Good. gently caress that paper and their loving paywall and margaret wente and leah mclaren.
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Jun 1, 2013 02:50
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aw man they sacked Michael Kesterton.
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Jun 1, 2013 02:52
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I'm utterly bewildered as to why anyone in Canada would or should give a poo poo about Israel.
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Jun 11, 2013 02:27
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I'd love it if somehow all the smart hardworking immigrants came to Vancouver instead of the spoiled rich kids and extended family members/indentured cranberry pickers.
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Jun 28, 2013 00:02
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Y'all ready for some CLASS WAR?  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/a-nation-of-100000-firefighters/article13647608/#dashboard/follows/
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Aug 8, 2013 18:50
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How much do you think Wente is paid?
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Aug 8, 2013 19:13
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I lived in London for years and I think Compass can't come into effect soon enough. On the other hand, I think it's ridiculous that discounts are being eliminated when the Oyster system in London provides the very same discounts to students, seniors and disadvantaged. As a student, I was issued a special Oyster card which identified me as such. There must be some information missing here because Translink's story, or whatever is being reported in the news, is madness.
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Aug 14, 2013 20:25
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Mostly convenience. My Oyster card was tied to my debit/credit card and would automatically fill up whenever I ran out of credit. Oyster is also great for tourists because it would stop charging you after something like 7 GBP in transit charges. I could also use it for multiple modes of transport, from DLR to underground to bus to overground. And indirectly, I know that Oyster data is valuable in helping Transport for London plan for resource usage to a relatively high degree. All the swiping in and out gives transit planners better information on what routes are being used the most.
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Aug 14, 2013 20:52
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Fine-able Offense posted:That seems like a very good reason to waste $170 million dollars on a system that will not work and will result in horrific lineups, as well as eliminating several popular fare alternatives. gently caress this. I thought I'd try and answer you points but it's really not worth it since you seem to get off on being dick.
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Aug 14, 2013 21:03
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Leofish posted:I propose a ban on Rob Ford crack video stories that do not include the video. Can we just see this drat thing already? It's not like it's going to matter. I bet his approval rating will actually go up. I used to think the dumbest fucks lived in vancouver and bc had the dumbest population in canada. Thank you for dispelling that myth onterrible.
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Aug 15, 2013 17:40
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Y'all On the other hand, here's why you don't do it: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/opinion/krugman-stranded-by-sprawl.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_civil_unrest_in_France Obviously congestion charging has nothing to do with riots in Parisian suburbs. The greater point is that you don't want keep your underclasses segregated to the geographical and thus economic fringes. namaste friends fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Aug 15, 2013 |
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Aug 15, 2013 22:49
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Neither of these cunts is anywhere nearly as bad as Barbara Amiel.
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Aug 20, 2013 15:47
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This is what happens when you are born unto parents who think self-esteem is the most important element in raising children. All of a sudden, no matter how dumb or ignorant you are, you're an expert on everything and no possible expert with lofty titles or degrees could ever know more than you.
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Aug 23, 2013 19:52
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ocrumsprug posted:Counterpoint: All the experts the media presents to the public to tell us about real estate. Touche sir.
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Aug 23, 2013 20:15
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Anyone who tool 2nd year stats could tell you angus reid et al polls are nonsense.
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Aug 23, 2013 20:44
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EAT poo poo YOU POORS  
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Aug 26, 2013 18:09
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You know what I miss about Europe? No one cares about Israel or Palestine. No one has the temerity to make stupid claims like criticism of Israel is tantamount to anti-semitism.
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Are there any canadian polling companies that carry one ounce of credibility? Given their records on predicting election outcomes, I'm surprised any of them are still in business.
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Sep 10, 2013 21:49
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Guys, shut the gently caress up about quebec. They're a national treasure as long as i can get trashed on st ambroise and eat my face out at au pied du cochon. Let's start complainging about fracking or something
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Sep 11, 2013 02:41
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I think you guys are too hard on RIM. The problems started way before the iphone introduction. Everyone knew that BBOS loving sucked, including Jim 'who needs apps?' Balsillie. It was hard to develop for and RIM had no road map for fixing it until it was too late. Seriously, does anyone else remember when Jim Balsillie told the world that 'apps' were the wrong approach? Dumb gently caress.
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Sep 24, 2013 16:44
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Does anyone else do a smartphone with actual buttons, though? I'll have to run my BB Bold into the ground until no network supports it if not. swiftkey. I dumped my z10 because I discovered the magic of swiftkey. I miss the flick keyboard and gesture based UI but gently caress the z10 app 'ecosystem'. I'm perfectly willing to tolerate the absolutely poo poo-assed battery life of the Nexus 4 to be able to use apps.
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Sep 24, 2013 16:46
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All you bleeding heart patriots need to live in other countries, preferrably in major metropolitan centers, before you decide you're gonna die for Canada. Parochialism is so pathetic.
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Oct 2, 2013 03:05
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BGrifter posted:I remember seeing those during Almost Live before SNL came on. Almost Live was amazing but only my Vancouver friends remember it. I loved Almost Live. Nancy Guppy now has her own arts show. The John Report. I'm John, this is my report.
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Oct 3, 2013 00:22
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gently caress paying for poo poo like Slice
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Oct 15, 2013 13:02
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I'm totally fine with poo poo like national geographic channel wiped off the face of the earth
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Oct 15, 2013 16:33
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Too dumb for the army, join the RCMP. 
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Oct 19, 2013 07:07
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Is it a prerequisite that all mayoral candidates be loving worthless? This iveson guy is a goddamn joke.
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Oct 22, 2013 08:43
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Forget it. It's impossible to discuss transit with Calgarians. This town doesn't even have HOV lanes for christ's sake. I have a colleague based in Calgary who refuses to take the sky train even though his client is located right at a station. He'd rather get a hotel in loving Burnaby and drive to the client's office.
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Oct 23, 2013 23:19
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One of the few things I miss about living in Europe is that barely anyone gives a poo poo about i/p. It's reported in the news but you don't see nearly the same amount of activism.
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I bet if you sold off BC Liquor it would get replaced by a one or two distributors that will sell booze at even higher prices than we currently pay, because they will be more than willing to abuse their market dominance. If anything, I'm willing to bet that liquor prices are priced artificially low in BC.
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Oct 30, 2013 20:37
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well i guess that explains why he's so dumb. he must have gone diving in a well of arsenic water
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Oct 30, 2013 23:49
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Like everything Canadian, I regard this Rob Ford saga the same way I regard the tory senate scandal, the mel lastman paen, the sponsorship fables, jean chretien's bullshit, justin trudeau's ignorance and lack of intelligence: thank god I have dual citizenship because gently caress this poo poo. But on a lark I decided to google voter turnout for the elections of 2010 that got Ford voted in. 52.3% of Torontonians voted. I don't give a poo poo about toronto and for that matter, canadians in general. But holy gently caress, you loving people are loving stupid. You deserve Rob Ford for his entire term so shut the gently caress up and take it like the dumb bitches you are. No more excuses about how no one on toronto proper actually voted for him. On half of you dumb asses actually bothered to show up and vote.
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Nov 2, 2013 22:34
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This Toronto saga is boring me to death. Is anything else happening? What's enbridge doing to destroy Alberta and bc these days? What's this I hear about prescription heroin?
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Nov 14, 2013 02:34
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I'm dismayed that unions are going to take a thrashing however I would argue that they brought it upon themselves. This is just the pendulum swinging really loving hard, the other way.
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Panas posted:Elaborate for the rest of us please, why do you think they brought it upon themselves? I can't cite specific examples because you guys wouldn't believe me anyway, so let me bring up the perspective of a Swedish co-worker who was working in the same public sector union. When I asked her to compare unions in Sweden with Canadian unions, she told me she couldn't understand how Canadian unions became so militant. Today I was talking to a mainland Chinese immigrant and she was appalled that union membership is mandatory, depending on the job role and organization.
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Nov 21, 2013 03:00
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vyelkin posted:You're right, we should take all our cues on how to better represent workers' interests in the economy from China. I'm not saying that at all. On the other hand, if you're going to bitch and moan about the demise of unions in Canada, their fate in America should also help inspire a few moments of socialist introspection. I'm not against unions. I think they're a perfectly rational response to the rapacious greed of companies that abuse workers in the interest of 'maximizing value for the shareholder'. On the other hand, the poo poo that goes on in public sector unions to protect the worthless and incompetent is on a whole other plane of space and time.
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Drunk Canuck posted:Now this is just unfair to us, if you want to seem credible then list your reasons please. I have seen the following: People who have kept their unionized job after being proven to have: 1) hacked and accessed email during a strike 2) stolen money 3) bully coworkers to the point they have had to take a leave of absence People who have had unions actively defend their employment after they have proven to: 4) access porn at work 5) access child porn 6) maintain a repository of porn With respect to computer related offences listed above, the defence has always been "there is no explicit policy stating the prohibition of said activity". edit: This example is sort of a grey area and I don't have a strong opinion about this practice. I worked in an organization that experienced a massive exodus of baby boomers in the '00s. Many of these employees had months, even years of sick time banked. Near the magic number of their years of employment, nearly all of these employees would go on extended sick leave to use up this bank of time. How does this relate to my earlier pendulum statement? Well if you were the employer and you had a significant portion of your active workforce take sick leave when they were obviously not sick, how would you explain your organization's performance (or lack thereof) to the taxpayer? namaste friends fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Nov 21, 2013 |
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Odddzy posted:So you prefer not giving them back the time they are owed back? How is the UK at this time of year? I already told you I don't have a strong opinion on this practice. Frankly, the people who should be taken to task (if it's deemed necessary) are the managers who negotiated this practice. Personally I think they should take this time off if the organization has a policy that permits it. I don't know what the UK is like this time of year but I'm freezing my rear end off in this poo poo Hole otherwise known as Calgary. Sorry to have offended your patriotic zeal, Captain Canada.
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OSI bean dip posted:Not that I excuse the behaviour, but when civil servants are always looked at first for cuts, what do you expect from them? They cannot do a good enough job because they know that no matter what they do, they'll just get poo poo on. They only stick around to get a pension that the private sector did a good job getting rid of. I absolutely agree with you on this particular issue. On the other hand, can you expect the electorate to impart the same empathy upon your loyal hardworking government employee? Especially someone who isn't part of a public sector union whose salary has stagnated for over a decade? This is why the tories are emboldened to destroy unions. edit: If said public sector unions weren't run by idiots, they'd recognize that the tide of public opinion would eventually turn against them. But now it's too late isn't it?
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