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cougar cub posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/greyhound-northern-bc-faq-1.4545999 Keep in mind that most of these routes are on the "Trail of Tears", which Greyhound has desperately wanted to ditch for ages, but was forced to keep because they were the only game in town. It was so expensive and inconvenient that they started running a bus once a day up to take hospital patients to the regional hospital in Prince George (since everything not in PG got "centralized" years ago), so Greyhound had the excuse they needed to ditch their northern routes. It's gross but not unexpected, more people are just going to hitchhike along the highway is all. What could go wrong? edit: the Nanaimo-Vancouver one isn't a surprise, since BC Transit runs a bus between the cities (I think you have to transfer in Duncan). I didn't know Greyhound was even allowed to run Vancouver-Victoria, because Wilson's has exclusive rights to run buses on the ferry. Anyway, sucks to be you if you wanted travel options on the Island or in the North, buy a car losers. MikeSevigny fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Feb 23, 2018 |
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I would still love to see the newly sovereign Republic of Alberta trying to negotiate with/invade British Columbia to get their oil to port. Jason Kenney in a Napoleon getup, loading a homemade artillery gun in the back of an F350. Alternately, I guess now Alberta is offering to invest in the pipeline for Kinder-Morgan, which some people on Twitter are aghast at because that would be GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP, so I guess they'll have to just buy KM their pipeline and let KM keep it for free.
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The anti-pipeline half of B.C. will be furious, the pro-pipeline half and Alberta will never give them credit anyway, and I imagine everyone else will just be pissed we wasted so much money. Sounds like a winner. And that’s before everyone finds out gas prices aren’t going down! Anyway, I spent most of last spring having an extended media-fuelled BC election panic attack, and I’ve intentionally been avoiding this thread and the papers in general lately for that reason, so good luck to everyone in Ontario and take care. The NDP is never going to get their poo poo together on their own but at least we can sort of kick them in the right direction. Sometimes.
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Typo posted:oh yes CANADA the greatest source of danger to the american economy with our well-regulated environment and $15 min wage I think it’s more likely that the whole China thing didn’t go so well and Mexico told him to gently caress off with the wall so what’s an easy win? Let’s go after the Canadians, they’re totally dependent on us. I hope the Ontario Proud guys are busy networking because there’s going to be a market down south on anti-Trudeau memes, assuming that coward Trudeau doesn’t slap a tariff on them.
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James Baud posted:Really an argument that we should fund the system more to reduce wait times because private surgeries cost around 5-20x what a public one would, but the people who pretend MRI and surgery wait times aren't a big deal for things that aren't life threatening are out to lunch. In BC we’ve been slowly chipping away at wait times one type of surgery at a time and it’s been working well as far as one-time projects go. It’s pretty clear to me if the health authorities would prioritize wait times instead or prioritizing more management and opportunities for outsourcing labour/further enriching surgeons, we could easily improve wait times dramatically across the board. As it stands Royal Columbia’s Hospital (for instance) has about eight different employers and nobody can explain how that benefits anybody except the extra management required.
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"I don't recall this National Post columnist ever criticizing Kathleen Wynne before" is certainly a take.
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Lisa Helps cruised to re-election tonight and the council actually seems to have moved farther left, somehow. The whole city's going to be bike lanes by 2022. Saanich has a new mayor as well so everyone in greater Victoria is looking forward to what goofy bullshit he gets up to. edit: they're literally adding one poll at a time to the Vancouver count, media/campaign people at the HQs must be losing it. MikeSevigny fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Oct 21, 2018 |
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The Butcher posted:"GOOD!" I say, as I press the front wheel of my twee fixie down on your neck, while cackling maniacally. As a pedestrian i look forward to a future of being hit by cyclists instead of by elderly motorists in the Fort & Foul Bay Save On parking lot. Long live the War On Parking.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Bear in mind that this scenario if they do go through with the blackmail anyway it ends with you having to show your penis in court as testimony. Please don’t kink shame
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Good news in BC, the NDP is finally repealing bills 29 and 94, the ones the BC Libs used in 2004 to gently caress up health care workers by privatizing housekeeping (and creating multiple serious disease outbreaks), flipping contracts in res care homes (effectively firing all the workers rather than negotiating a contract), rolling back wages 15% and much more. They were awful laws and I’m glad they’re about to be dead.HookShot posted:You have no idea how much I wish Tony Clement had been on that cover. Same, but he’s completely nude
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I still think it’s dumb that the PR debate has literally just become an NDP vs. Liberals debate. Hey, the BC Liberals are against government schemes that serve their own interests now, cool, I’m changing the channel now (I’m actually not because I’m brain damaged and I can’t look away)
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Wilkinson’s argument is basically that he (and therefore everyone else) too dumb to understand PR and also that there should have been 16 choices instead of 3. Horgan is trying to resist just yelling over him, and it’s not working out great.
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This is an especially bad debate because the moderators appear afraid of both guys. Don’t be afraid of Andrew Wilkinson! He’s a nerd!
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THC posted:Horgan: "If you were woke, you'd know pro rep is lit." I’m moving to Langford to recall John Horgan.
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Baronjutter posted:Don't even joke about moving to Langford. It’s too late, I’m already feeling a powerful urge to tell people how bad downtown Victoria is. I smelled pee once!
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John Horgan and pals are at the HEU convention today to get their asses kissed for repealing Bill 29. He said the lit thing again, and attempted to floss. I did not get a picture of that, but in the spirit of this week’s discussion, here is an unsolicited Dix pic (co-starring everyone’s favourite MLA)
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THC posted:image is broke pls fix I apologize for withholding TW for cultural imperial btw, in case he’s still reading somewhere
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I don’t know if the exact reason was known before now, but apparently BC’s big money laundering case fell apart because the Crown leaked one of their own informants’ names. That was over a billion a year running through the casinos under Christy, and law enforcement blew the entire thing before the trial even started. Another sterling performance by BC slaw enforcement.
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So now that the byelection is called and I can breathe again... how the hell did Mainstreet get the Liberals by THIRTEEN? In Nanaimo! Even they didn’t seem to believe their own poll. I also would like to give a shout out to the Green voters, who appear to have gone hard for the NDP as green support collapsed. Thanks Greens, for making Andrew Wilkinson eat poo poo. Edit: also the Georgia Strait called it for the Liberals, lol
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Apparently Kenney wants to drop mortgage stress tests to make it easier for Albertans to get into debt. The Kenney government is going to be AMAZING.Baronjutter posted:I can't believe how close the Nanaimo election was. I was having such anxiety over the whole thing, can't imagine the BC Liberals getting back in after how much of their blatant criminal government has been exposed. Then again, "fast ferries". God BC electors are dumb as poo poo. It turned out about the same margin as you’d expect for the riding, with the green support evaporating towards the other parties. I think everyone was just on edge because it’s BC and... you know.
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THC posted:hoping to see the BC Liberal party in full collapse mode by 2020 I feel like mass turnover in the Liberal party actually helps them, especially if the turnover is mostly veteran MLAs who were around for all of their last reign. Christy lost a lot of people in 2013 (like Kevin Falcon, or that guy who mysteriously got his old managerial job back at ICBC whose name I don't remember but he was a dipshit) and it seemed to freshen the party up a little, put the new leader's stamp on it. Now in this case, Andrew Wilkinson IS one of those old MLAs, so that's a problem. But combine a bunch of new, younger candidates with his current "we're going to be incredibly transparent about everything we do starting... right now" push might work for him, especially if the media decides to agree that all the Liberal scandals aren't the fault of this sexy new BC Liberal party that probably doesn't talk to Rich Coleman much anymore, as far as you know.
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PittTheElder posted:The worst possible ones are the private courier services, who both only deliver during regular business hours, and don't have pickup depots. I don't understand why Amazon uses that poo poo for residential delivery and I wish I could force them not to. A private courier service tried delivering a package to me a few weeks ago while I was walking home from work. The delivery guy asked if he could just hide the package in the bushes next to our apartment entrance and I was so glad he wasn't just driving back to the depot 45 minutes away like Purolator or Fedex would that I just said sure, whatever, just toss it in the bushes. It was sunny out, it was fine.
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Helsing posted:I was robo-polled by Ekos today. They asked me about who I voted for and who I might vote for next time etc., then get to the real questions. How do I feel about the direction of the country? What economic class do I identify with? How do I feel about inequality? Do I think serious inequality in Canada could lead to violent class conflict in the future? Is the rise of populism mostly motivated by inequality, xenophobia, or both? I got that one too, they actually provided "working class" as an option for your economic class so I want to see the results there.
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Good news everyone, noted ethics expert... uh, Christy Clark has cleared the prime minister. https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/politics/2019/2/15/1_4299629.html?__twitter_impression=true As I was racing through the thread to make sure nobody posted this, I saw the thing about Gordo being a rapist. So congrats Gordo on making Christy look good by comparison yet again. Edit: beaten. Also yet again, trying to actually read this thread has failed to pay off
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Arabian Jesus posted:CTV reporting Nathan Cullen isn't seeking re-election Awful news for the NDP, because BC is their base of support now and Skeena isn't a guaranteed hold if Cullen's not running there. Murray Rankin's not running in Victoria either, and that's an easier seat to hold (unless the Greens run hard and the NDP puts up a weak candidate). It's not encouraging if the five or six safe MPs Jagmeet has left don't want to run anymore.
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THC posted:BC liberals are NOTHING like the federal liberal party. They are fake Liberals, more Conservative than Liberal. their love of snc-lavalin was real though, wasn't Gwyn Morgan an SNC guy?
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Well it’s good to see SOMEONE at the National Post isn’t talking about SNC-Lavalin!
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I feel like it’s not quite close enough to the election, like ICP could dump Kenney and still be fine in the actual election without a leader. Maybe that’s just pessimistic. edit: I meant UCP. I apologize to any juggalos I may have offended. Baronjutter posted:There's a skin-head looking dude wandering around city hall in Victoria with a yellow vest painted to say "Make JUSTINE a teacher again!" Shouldn’t he be asking Lisa Helpless to give him his parking spaces back MikeSevigny fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Mar 19, 2019 |
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