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That lifetime bans from driving aren't handed out more often in this country / society is pretty pathetic. It took my own father nearly 35 years worth of annual DUI suspensions, multiple totaled vehicles on stationary objects, and a woman jumping out of his car while high as a kite, before they finally took it away for good. That he never killed someone is a miracle, and it should have been blindingly obvious to the justice system much earlier that continuing to return his license would never have a positive outcome. But we view driving the same way Americans view gun ownership, so good luck pushing driving ban legislation on the retards we have to call our countrymen. 
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I have to buy a car to get to work, as the alternative is riding a motorcycle in January and it really sucks. Almost made it to 26 car-free.  Since my primary passtime most of the year is climbing very remote mountains, putting all that gear on a motorcycle was also starting to really suck.
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I haven't a bloody clue, I believe minor criminal records weren't readily shared between provinces pre-digitization in the 2000s, which probably contributed to him evading prison for so long. That and they truly don't care in rural BC, law enforcement was a joke up until like the turn of this century.
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Dec 21, 2015 19:18
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Meat Recital posted:The debt bubble megathread is horrible and depressing. Things aren't that bad, are they? Probably worse, way worse tbqh, since that thread only has public media data to work with.
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Dec 23, 2015 08:55
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Helsing posted:Are we allowed to empty quote in D&D? Apparently we get 3 day probations for minor euphemisms in D&D now, once your post is a few pages back so that nobody notices of course. So best to play it safe, or the mods will come knocking. 
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Dec 25, 2015 01:27
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Happy Holidays you glorious assholes, may the mead flow freely and your truck equity increase forevermore.
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Dec 25, 2015 19:48
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Ikantski posted:The conservatives are trying a new strategy, targeting Rime and other lifelong Holiday Hustlers. Jokes on them, I stopped celebrating this poo poo holiday years ago. 
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Dec 27, 2015 01:18
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Which is the one that thought Enver "Bunkers" Hoxha was the man to emulate? CPC-ML. They also became a pseudo-cult idolizing the founder, Hardial Banes.
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Dec 29, 2015 18:05
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Failing to find traction in a post-con world, and with the collapse of Sun News and being fired from HuffPo, JJ McCullough comes out as retiring on his FB:JJ McCullough posted:2015 was a pretty anti-climactic year for me. Good Riddance.
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Jan 2, 2016 02:04
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Canadians have a strong history of narrow-minded, selfish, kneejerk reactionism to economic downturns which will breed brand bitterness for multiple generations however. One need only look at how the NDP is blamed to this day in BC for "creating" what was a national economic struggle through the 1990's, rather than lauded for weathering the storm and trying desperate measures (fast ferries) to keep key industries from ceasing to exist. If their first term is as bad as (or worse than) the Debt Bubble Thread foresees for the country then I expect the Liberals will probably be eradicated as a federal party permanently, despite the causes being mostly out of their control as a mixture of prior government failures and global market circumstances. Not to mention the large amount of personal culpability from average individuals when their situations become dire, which will never be admitted by anyone. As I quipped to a friend "Try getting your average Canadian to understand the preschool simple concept of Saudi Arabian control over oil prices".
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Jan 2, 2016 21:08
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Cultural Imperial posted:I have HIGH hopes for Canada A radio ad for Kwantlen came on yesterday, it featured a guy expressing an interest in "learning about the marijuana industry".
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Jan 3, 2016 00:04
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Dreylad posted:It also emphasizes the importance of how things are framed. Most Canadians support state socialism! Great! But no one will vote for a NDP that promotes that (not recently, of course). That seems to be the messy part of politics and policy work. I've noticed the same contrast, and honestly can't tell if it's the rampant corruption which feeds increasing amounts of time and money into unnecessary pockets or just that city halls are held captive by a populace which threatens to depose them if they move a manhole cover five feet in any direction.
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Jan 3, 2016 03:23
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THC posted:The noble white man's oh so important opinions are being silenced! and shamed!!!111 Last time I checked, Ujjal Dosanjh wasn't white.
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Jan 4, 2016 09:54
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Politicians are "paralyzed" by racial sensitivities, money and votes certainly have nothing to do with their behaviour no sir
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PT6A posted:I think we should not sell weapons to Saudi Arabia because they are a lovely, garbage country filled with retards who think it's acceptable to execute people for witchcraft and sorcery. gently caress the House of Saud; they make me hope there's such a thing as Hell so they can rot in it for all eternity. Unfortunately when the country collapses the worst of the House of Saud will escape to their many vast estates in countries such as the UK and America, where they will live a decadent lifestyle for several generations, happily harbored by the very countries they sought for decades to bring down via terrorist activities. There is no justice for the rich, only ambrosia.
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Jan 6, 2016 05:24
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I hope this is Canadian Oils softwood dispute moment. 
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Jan 6, 2016 23:40
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This has been the best four pages of canpol in ages. Nonstop hilarity, thank you for making my boring rear end day less boring. I knew the thread would come around on this eventually. PT6A, if seriously organized domestic terrorists wanted to off some politicians, they would go about it in a much more thorough fashion than indiscriminately killing innocents in a public space. If you think the joke of the RCMP could stop such an event, remember that they couldn't even stop a heroin junkie from running into Parliament Hill with a rifle. That they've failed to catch every major serial killer in Canadian history, letting them roam free for decades. The "problem"  is that the people intelligent enough to pull off such an operation unhindered are also smart enough to weigh the cost / benefit of doing so, and realize that an assassination spree currently does not pay out in their favor. So all we've seen in 21st century North America are the attempts of drug addicts and lunatics, backed by the state itself.First you are legitimately shocked that class warfare still exists for white people, and now all this tomfoolery today? For shame, man, you're smarter than this.
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Jan 7, 2016 21:43
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Franks Happy Place posted:Provincial The liquor store thing is pretty funny. One moment the BC Liberals are doing their level best to privatize the retail assets of the BCLCB to the lowest bidder, the next they're scrambling to try and insist that weed gets sold at BCLCB retail. Color me shocked as a rock if in ten years they've succeeded at both and we're back to a healthy weed black market; because nobody wants to buy the overpriced and resoundingly lovely molson-weed being peddled by whatever multinational conglomerate the Libs have succeeded in selling out to.
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Jan 9, 2016 02:09
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Liberal backed PPP's: once again proving to be inept highway robbery that fails to match the construction quality from loving 1937. Seriously, you're trying to tell me that in TYOOL 2016 we can't build a bridge that lasts longer than a year without crippling issues, despite a construction budget roughly 20 times that of the bridge we're replacing? loving hell.
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Jan 11, 2016 06:08
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They only spent $140 million on it? Well, there's the problem right there. If they'd spent $1 Billion like the BC Liberals do on bridges, it clearly would have been indestructible by anything short of the sun exploding. Ontario libs need to step up their cronyism and graft game, clearly.
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Jan 11, 2016 12:25
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An LNG scheme still going ahead, it seems, despite the product being worth about the same as soda pop right now. They just approved a new terminal up north.
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Jan 12, 2016 05:15
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Ikantski posted:We fixed the bridge. It's just such a perfect analogy for Ontario right now, I love it. Building Ontario Up. 5 concrete barriers at a time until we get the bridge unheaved. Infrastructure! That's so beautiful. A hundred million dollars in cutting-edge engineering breaks, and they fix it by dropping a pile of rocks that cost maybe $10k on one end.
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Jan 12, 2016 06:23
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Cultural Imperial posted:There's nothing in that area on padmapper right now (that's livable) for less than 2k. That's loving insane. 5 years ago the average rent for a 1 br was probably around 1000. Less, I had a friend renting a 1 br suite around Balsam in a really nice purpose-built apartment block. Hardwood floors, lots of sunlight, the works. $700. But hey, what's to be done? There are no loving jobs anywhere else in BC, and it's a long cold drive to Toronto in the hopes it's any better back east. So Vancouver will continue to crunch the youth like granola for a long, long time.
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Jan 13, 2016 06:39
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Provincial student loans now replaced with non-repayable grants in N.L. Holy moly!
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Jan 13, 2016 22:57
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I'm headed back to school in the fall for Forestry, for realsies this time. I've accepted I'm not going to hack it as a code monkey, I'm tired of tech hustling in Vancouver and barely breaking $40k, and there are no other jobs which realistically allow me to hike for $$$ and live in Haida Gwaii. Field is wide open right now, the age and skill gap is larger than any other skilled trade except machinist. The CAD sucking balls for who knows how long is only going to pump it. 
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Cultural Imperial posted:Can you go back and do a geology program somewhere? Specifically hydrogeology. Geology is pretty dead brah, the few geologists I know hate life and are barely scraping by. I don't wanna waste four years and $50k at UBC to be like them. Also I'm missing about 4 required HS courses just for basic admission. 
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Jan 14, 2016 00:11
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Cultural Imperial posted:Please don't tell me you hustled your way to graduation from high school. Who the gently caress leaves high school without at least math 12. I had two scholarships for outstanding performance in History & Geography, out of pity my math teacher fudged my final exam in Essentials Math 11 by 5% so I could graduate. After already failing principles of math 11 twice and essentials once. Moral of the story: don't homeschool your kids and let them study history & literature for three years while neglecting mathematics, else they'll hit highschool and be unable to comprehend basic fractions or algebra.  Also, highschool curriculums in rural British Columbia might as well be stuck in the 1960's. Our education budget is a loving joke. Rime fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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Jan 14, 2016 01:11
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HookShot posted:The curriculum is the same in all of BC, rural or urban. Rural BC highschools do not have modern computer labs, 3D printers in the tech labs (several in the lower mainland do, now, industrial grade no less!  ), or any language courses on offer besides french. Often electives such as Law or Geography are not available. Additionally, only mediocre teachers are attracted to these small towns at best. For example, kids who take Tech Ed in rural BC learn how to install junk parts on 40 year old wrecked cars, kids taking the same course in Surrey are learning to 3D print replacement components out of metal and precision-fit them. There are zero programming or adequately advanced courses on offer in Rural BC, so even at the 12th grade level you'll be learning how to use Microsoft Word and doing typing speed tests on Core2-era machines. Which one of these student groups is being prepared for the 21st century should be obvious.The bare minimum curriculum is the same. Unfortunately that curriculum is worthless as preparation for the modern era and perpetuates the mandatory post-secondary mindset for any students unable or unwilling to study additional subjects on their own time. We have a highly educated population in this country in spite of our atrociously inadequate education system, not thanks to it. Rime fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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Moinkmaster posted:I have to admit, the fact I can see a headline like this about Alberta and not be filled with dread over it being awful, and then find I haven't been tricked and it is indeed not terrible, is... Strange. Is this what having a decent government is like? I've started seeing this movement as the last blow against lingering Victorian puritanism in society. Here's hoping we can stop freaking out over naked tits and dongs in a generation or three. Either that or we'll burn as our society loses all cohesion, and implodes like someone kicked the rafters out.
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ChairMaster posted:It's funnier to me that there are people who think Canadian Manufacturing will ever be a real thing ever again than I can really even believe. Dude I work in plastics right now, the last industry that should be profitable or even exist in Canada in TYOOL 2016, and we have bought 4 machines in two months because of the number of new clients flooding into us. One has moved 100% of their production from California to us, and another has ceased purchasing from China and made us their sole supplier. Why? Because not everything is an iPhone, and many supply chains require a faster turnaround time than the month it takes to slowboat an order from Shenzhen. Especially when we're talking low volume orders which wouldn't fill a full cargo container, and would thus need to wait to split it with someone else headed to the same port. This can be a huge headache and lead to quite an impressive storage bill. When you're not involved in an industry, or lack any industrial perspective at all, it's easy to just not grasp how many minor players there are in this country which are making bank. Sure, the days of multi-acre assembly lines are in the grave and never returning in Canada, but the small shops? The factories with less than 50 employees bringing in $10m or less net a year? That sector just tossed back an entire box of Viagra thanks to the CAD making GBS threads itself.
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There are two ways to look at the ongoing decline of "smart people": - Rage that the education system is rigged to push as many bodies through as possible. A system graduating students who can barely read english at a 3rd grade level, let alone comprehend the deeper themes and concepts of what they are reading, let alone express that comprehension in legible writing of their own. Surely this is only a systemic failure which can be cured with more money and resources. - Accept, as the education system quietly has (so as not to inflame the left) that the bulk of the population is inherently lacking in an as-yet unlocated "spark of intelligence", one which will set them apart in life and instead redirect resources towards those students who do display such qualities. Acknowledge that, no, every child is not a special snowflake destined for greatness and that such an attitude does a disservice to those few who actually are such. The majority of humanity is made up of animals who have little care for anything beyond when they will next eat, drink, and gently caress. They display no desire to better themselves or seek anything beyond their own pleasures. They are never going to be great philosophers, artists, or destined for anything except serving until they die in the labor grinder which keeps our capitalist system afloat. The internet should have given rise to a generation of unbelievably well educated youth, minds brighter than any who have come before, instead we got endless reposts from loving Buzzfeed. It's not a failure of our education system, it's a failure of our society. We cherish and idolize the crass and idiotic, we crave the most easily digestible entertainment and despise challenges, and we raise children like cattle. Don't blame the education system, blame parenting, and accept that true intelligence is the rarest of human traits.
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There's an appreciable difference between people who are smart, but follow a boring career in order to survive, and people who are just plain idiots. The difference being that the former will do things in their own time to broaden their horizons, lacking any profit motive, they'll study history or philosophy or take up a novel hobby. The latter go to work, watch netflix, pump out a kid annually and get high. This is fine, because it's the latter group which lives paycheque to paycheque and keeps our economy functioning through rampant consumerism. Our civilization relies on a healthy base of people too dumb to realize there is anything better to strive for in life. You can't fix this poo poo short of some horrific gattaca-esque debacle (yes, I'm aware of the irony of this comparison given the plot), it's human nature, it has been since we swung out of the trees.
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Jan 15, 2016 01:32
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THC posted:GSA is just a generic term for "the queer club". The policy is clearly not designed or intended to exclude trans people. Calm down. You don't get it, THC, if every little personality quirk doesn't have a support group specifically for it how will they feel special.  Thankfully a lot of trans people are fed up with this divisive bullshit and trying to distance themselves from the vocal wackjobs.
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Jan 15, 2016 23:50
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Majuju posted:Hopefully those guys are trying to determine the source of the weird-rear end ozone smell that is persistently present at the Dunsmuir Street entrance, it's really strange and bothers me every morning when I walk past. The AC system vents right around there.
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Jan 16, 2016 00:54
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RedFlag posted:Apparently never the intention - there was an internal leak to media that forced their hands. Link. I sincerely hope that internal investigations comes down hard on the retard that leaked this. Driving home at 6am yesterday and all the radio stations were acting like there was a major terror strike about to go down. Fuckin' 96.9 made a joke about staying away from the mall this weekend. It's absurd.
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So, on Friday, a hydro-cracker in Ft. Mac owned by CPC-majority-held oil firm Nexen http://www.mymcmurray.com/nexen-ceo-senior-vice-president-apologize-for-death-and-injury-in-explosion-at-long-lake/ blew up and killed some people.
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Jan 17, 2016 13:33
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flakeloaf posted:It's free for the children of low-income Ontarians too. This is also the case in BC, but it only covers a cleaning every year. Need braces? Mouthguard? Etc? Better hope your parents are still young enough to work the streetcorner, because otherwise you'll be waiting till you can pay for it yourself as an adult.
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Femtosecond posted:Albertans made the political choice to barely tax themselves and barely set aside any oil revenue. Why should the rest of Canada bail them out from the results of their terrible decisions? We either bail them out with the hope they stay in Mordor, or they will spill forth from the black gates to pillage job markets across our nation. 
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sliderule posted:What, to prevent ourselves from detecting the texture of the government? It's easier to vote if we can't feel the slime.
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This is a horrifying event, but notice how loving nothing is being released about it. No victims names, no mugshots, no theories on the killer. How the RCMP aren't leaking to the press like a sieve. What a stark contrast to the immediate dramatization and milking of American shootings.
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