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YeOldeButchere posted:Yeah, like I'd trust anything produced by the Canadian "tech sector" with my life. At best I'd trust them to be able to remember when my appointment is, assuming it's a routine checkup and not something important. I'm sure they'd get the prostate exam right.
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vyelkin posted:L I guess this is why Gretzky was stumping for HarperCo during the election. Not that he's been relevant to anything other than being rich for years.
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Oct 31, 2015 02:36
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cowofwar posted:He was stumping for Harper because he is Ukranian. The Ethnic Vote (and money) - not just a Quebec Thing.
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Oct 31, 2015 06:24
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flakeloaf posted:You and about 30 million other people. My mind is boggled. Seems like only yesterday a friend of mine was threatened by a back bencher he was about to share a stage with that there would be no mention of that "global warming nonsense".
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Nov 4, 2015 18:40
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flakeloaf posted:One would think that a person paranoid about Muslims would welcome a Sikh to the top. Well, Guru Nanek's best friend was Muslim, so the founder of the religion was a fellow traveller. Pity Sohi doesn't wear a turban. The meltdown from those on the wrong side of the 1980s "no turbans in the mess" nonsense would be delicious. Listening to the Minister of Justice's CV my first reaction was "I had no idea someone like her existed!"
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Nov 4, 2015 21:39
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Jordan7hm posted:She was in that tight Vancouver race where leadnow endorsed the NDP candidate (a friend of the leadnow founder). And I'm confused about who's who - the new Minister of Defense is Harjit Sajjan and he is a turban wearer. Today is a very good day.
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Where is your Canadian Jesus now, Liberals? [/quote] A G&M writer used the term "tar sands"? What strange times we live in.
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Normy posted:I work in the taxi industry and I agree it is hosed, but do you think Uber would maintain its standards if they successfully wiped out the taxi industry? What intrigues me about Uber and the rest of the "sharing" economy is that it is the same model as the coal mines in the late 1800s - a rich gate-keeper providing access to a resource for individual "contractors" who have to send their product to market through the gatekeeper and his infrastructure. Less chance of getting crushed in a cave-in and the gas exposure is nauseating rather than fatal, but still.
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jm20 posted:Sorry to interrupt fascinating food chat, xPost from F-35 Excuse me if I'm a little cautious about taking advice from an expert who was in charge at some point during the last few decades of CF acquisition clusterfucks. Let's just flush that toilet and move on. And drat you guys for shawarma chat. There is only one restaurant in Nanaimo advertising shawarma, but it also sells poutine. Maybe I'll get lucky and they know how to do both. My last poutine was from Costco, so anything will be an improvement. Weed shops and shawarma. TWO reasons to visit downtown Nanaimo!
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pointers posted:i too wish i had never been born Yeah, I have a feeling my parents might not have been acceptable either. Poor, uneducated, and wanting to have 10 kids. Thank Christ biology intervened.
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Nov 21, 2015 17:32
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Baronjutter posted:Police responded to a report of a break in near one of my old neighbour's house and while checking out the area they hopped the low fence into his very visible field of pot and tomatoes. They gave a quick search looking for anything the prowler might have dropped and left, no fucks given to the backyard pot plantation. I'm trying to remember when the last time was that I saw the annual Gulf Islands Gardens Helicopter Tour go overhead. Must be several years now, but it used to be a very obvious thing every fall. Just the fuel costs alone could be a shot in the budget for a cash-strapped division.
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Nov 23, 2015 00:22
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For a lot of us item #1 on the job description was: "Not Stephen Harper", and yes, he's doing a drat fine job of that. Get back to me in 3.5 years on whether I might consider voting Liberal (again - God it's been a long time). It's not that mistakes will be made, those are inevitable. It's how this government will deal with them when they come to light. And we haven't yet seen how the Bay Street boy running Finance is going to balance off the interests of Canadians versus the interests of his colleagues.
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Nov 29, 2015 18:16
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PT6A posted:Wow, it really sounds like you're going into this with a totally open mind! What, admitting that I voted Liberal back in the dim, dark past, or that I might actually consider voting for them again if they can establish a record other than "Putting Things Back the Way They Were"? (Despite the time and money I've thrown at the NDP over the last couple of years.) Or is it that I fundamentally distrust the 1%, after years of watching the interlocking directorships of the CD Howe & Fraser Institutes, CFIB, and CTF banging the neoliberal mythology austerity drums very effectively? According to one story junkers are more likely to stop at occupied crosswalks than luxury cars. We'll see if our new Finance minister brakes for commoners or not. Don't get me wrong - I'm thoroughly enjoying this government's performance so far. My elderly aunt was a Conservative party worker and the  about "I know they wanted change but this is too much!" is delicious. I am a bad person.
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Nov 30, 2015 17:42
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Albino Squirrel posted:I deal with FNIHB (First Nations and Inuit Health Branch) on the regular. It is The Worst. They seem to make decisions on medication coverage based on cost and not on medical necessity. They send multiple requests for information for the same drug before covering it, the patient getting sicker all the while. They claim to be concerned about opioid abuse on reserves, but won't cover topical antiinflammatories which are one of the most effective (and cheapest) ways to treat pain with non-addictive substances. They are an utterly opaque bureaucracy that essentially has no way for a physician to call and advocate for a patient's care. Is the FNIHB an actual federal agency or is it one of those sleight of hand things the Cons set up to transfer staff off Federal ledgers and onto the province/territory/First Nations/Someone Else? Some of my nurse friends got caught up in that poo poo but I don't I don't recall the details.
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Nov 30, 2015 19:53
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Ikantski posted:Everything you need to know about Liberal's climate change strategy is concisely summed up at the end of this article. Yep, that's some inspiring leadership there, Kathleen. I hate to think what my posting would look like if I had to live in your province.  B.C.'s Whatsername is easier to ignore.
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Dec 1, 2015 01:39
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CLAM DOWN posted:Dude don't engage CI, he's ethnic han Ethnic drunk, I think. Ran into a really good Taiwanese liqueur this summer. Fortunately i don't know its name and apparently it was really expensive so I won't be getting to know it better. My drunk posting will continue to be restricted to Guinness level. 
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Dec 1, 2015 06:50
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Constant Hamprince posted:There's an almost complete absence of academic studies on the issue, but anecdotes of corruption on reserves are so widespread that it's difficult to dismiss as just a racist myth. But what the hell, might as well throw some more anecdotes on the pile... I have friends, family, and colleagues on coastal reservations but my knowledge doesn't extend inland past Hope. I'm not convinced that most of the corruption stories aren't the result of village political infighting and individuals taking advantage of situations to enrich themselves, similar to what you see with a small town mayor focusing on tourism aka driving business to his lodge. This is known as being a sharp businessman in some circles or a corrupt oligarch in others. I do know of one case that was your typical developer -> kickback-to-politicians scenario; people went to jail and a new band counsel was elected. Tracking federal program money has been a big problem. The programs are a treaty obligation but band members might not be arsed to take care of the mountain of paperwork that goes along with it. There can also be pushback from those taking the position that as a sovereign nation they have the right to tell federal bureaucrats to pound sand when they come asking for receipts. Doesn't mean the program isn't being delivered, but who knows? Internal politics can be quite vicious in these groups. Typical rural situation - there's drat few to fight with so you have to fight with your neighbours/cousins. Couple that with the hereditary power hierarchy coastal groups had and some of the historical disruptions over the last couple of centuries and you have a prime opportunity for sociopaths to blossom. Like our late, unlamented PM though they aren't necessarily corrupt, just complete bullying arseholes. The opposition though is going to scream corruption at every opportunity, along with other grievances. Some of these internal divisions go back to the smallpox plagues and the colonial powers abolishing slavery. In Haida Gwaii the nobles stayed in one village and the slaves moved north, and God help us if one of those northerners has an opinion now. Decimated is the wrong word for what happened during the plagues. Villages would have been doing well if they'd only lost every tenth person. Some lost up to 90% and the survivors ended up moving in with related villages but there's still a problem with "that person isn't the right flavour of _____". I think some members of Jody Wilson's family might have run into this since they were originally in Kynoc Inlet and moved down to Bella Bella. Older than that are the bad feelings still hanging around from the days of murder, rape, pillage, and slavery, all of which were very much a Thing on this coast. You can't trust that group because a hundred years ago they ambushed a boatload of our people in that channel and murdered them all. That intense distrust is still there, although intermarriage and economic development is reducing this somewhat. I have hope that eventually the fact that the Heiltsuk's ancestors murdered 400 distant relatives on a small island off Ladysmith will be no more relevant that what the Macdonalds did to some of my Scottish ancestors. tl;dr: Humans suck. Get back to me when the Fords, all of Quebec's construction industry, and 95% of their municipal politicians are in jail.
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Vintersorg posted:
I dunno, sounds like job creation for two people to me. Should have had this during the Harper regime so we could have avoided the national embarrassment of under-age alcohol poisoning at 24 Sussex.
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Dec 1, 2015 23:18
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vyelkin posted:StatsCan says that in 2011 there were over 600 First Nations bands and 3,100 reserves across Canada. I wonder how much of that is accounted for by SNC-Lavalin and the Canadian mining industry. See also: Angry Old White Conservative Dude yelling about reporters cheating on their taxes.
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Ikantski posted:So apparently Justin Trudeau is stereotyping natives with the ol' noble savage trope, lovely. Could this fuckin' guy be any more sheltered? So which group of Haida adopted Justin and his old man; Skidegate or the ones that thought it was a good idea to send a freighter load of iron powder out for an incompetent and inadequately monitored ocean fertilization experiment? JFC
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Do it ironically posted:does it shock you I'm a chemical engineer with a decade plus in my industry? Yeah, well you gears are always the edge case. Above a certain point, once they're comfortable and don't need to worry about bills other scientifically trained professionals tend to keep doing what they were doing - studying, researching, and being driven by their curiousity. Granted, that probably doesn't include sitting in a cube writing yet another report on new and improved ways to poison Indian peasants. For every J.K. Rowling who can abuse welfare by sitting at home on her arse writing for two years there's probably a bunch who would only want to improve their lot to the extent they can afford two monitors so they can run World of Warcraft and porn simultaneously. Whatever. I suspect there's a lot of creativity buried at the moment but it might take some time to manifest itself once everyone gets bored leveling yet another night elf.
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No chiropractors. Definitely an improvement. Too many MBAs and Bill Blairs (none is too many, especially that close to Justice). I should probably give Blair a break. Anyone that Rob Ford hates so vehemently can't be all bad.
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Drunk Canuck posted:https://twitter.com/CanadianPM/status/672876862419378177 Bill C-420: The Better Living Through Botany Act. gently caress it. Bury it in an omnibus bill and invoke closure. I'm willing to make an exception for this one.
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vyelkin posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/cbc-indigenous-staff-read-real-comments-1.3351635?cmp=abfb Even worse than lunch time in the Tim Hortons "Did you hear about that shooting in California?" "And now they're going to let 25,000 more of them into Canada." "I'm so frightened!" Bonus points for the party member with a thick middle European accent and the frightened crone being the daughter of immigrants. Seriously, just dust off and nuke Parksville from orbit. Take out whatever region is responsible for that "prairie friend of the family" term while you're at it. That disturbance you feel in the Force will be the median Canadian IQ rising 10 points. Wisdom of the Elders my arse.
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Whiskey Sours posted:On the other hand she's probably unelectable federally. Uhh... that was once believed to be the situation in B.C. as well.
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On thing that is different here compared to Finland is the physical size of our country, the small size of our labour force, and our rip-and-ship economy. The changes from UI (Unemployment Insurance) to EI were to a greater or lesser extent to encourage people to move to where the jobs were. This was a particular concern in areas of seasonal work like Newfoundland. You have to be able to starve the lazy fuckers out of their ancestral homes otherwise no one will go scrape tar out of Alberta's arsehole. I suspect if the Koch brothers had a financial interest in Finland they wouldn't be getting Mincome.
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Dec 7, 2015 16:33
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PT6A posted:Say what? People my age were dropping out of high school to go chase six-figure rig pig salaries all along even as everyone was screaming at them that it was a terrible, terrible idea. No "starving out" was necessary. Well before your time, my son. It wasn't the entire discussion during the 80s, but it was definitely a consideration the (second to) last time the Conservatives were in power. And then the Northern Cod stock got crashed and offshore oil became a Thing. All very complicated. CanCon from 1981ish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS4HDMSOwH4
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God drat, this is almost as enjoyable as the pissing and moaning we'd have had if the NDP swept to power. Can't argue that we are indeed lame as hell.
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Slightly Toasted posted:Excellent so she knows exactly how to make us more American Well, the height of her daddy's pre-office career was being a VP for the Canadian branch plant of a large American corporation. The Cons should keep looking though. We want a Canadian version of Sarah Palin. A Harvard student won't cut it.
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bunnyofdoom posted:We already have Cheryl Gallant. Oh gently caress, I'd forgotten about her. I think my happy little bubble of denial is getting a little too effective these days.
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The Butcher posted:Feb 2015 The Munchkins have been busy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQLQ1Rc_Js
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Stretch Marx posted:Pretty sure it amounts to the same thing. Though Cruz suddenly realising that there is no such thing as precision carpet bombing was definitely a thing. I'm glad we dodged that bullet. Imagine him leading the Wild Rose? The longer these guys talk the more I think their wall on the border is a drat good idea.
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JohnnyCanuck posted:Ugh bunny (and whoever in thread works for the NDP) you probably got one of my uncle's emails today. He copied me on it because ??? ParksvilleQualicum.txt gently caress this town.
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Dec 18, 2015 17:42
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infernal machines posted:Hey, since you're back, do you feel like addressing any of the bill 6 rebuttals? Interesting discussion on this week's Spark about political social media bots. Don't hold your breath waiting for a coherent reply.
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Merry Christmas, all! Stanley Park's "Ice Breaker" winter ale tastes vaguely like cream soda (back when cream soda didn't taste like arse).
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David Corbett posted:Merry Christmas, you filthy animals. Please, the correct terms at this most sacred time of the year are heathens, pagans, or hairy barbarians. Now, I'm going back to my traditional roots (before Christians co-opted the holiday): getting drunk and setting fire to things.
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The only thing missing is the pervasive smell of cow poo poo. At least there`s hope that large parts of Chilliwack will eventually be cleansed by the purifying waters of the mighty Fraser.
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Baronjutter posted:Police are searching for this suspect *blurry 12x15 pixel face shot* I worked in a lab with a professionally installed commercial-grade system covering between 10 and 20 acres. You could read license plate numbers with it. As long as the vehicle was parked for a period of time. If a vehicle rolled through the parking lot directly under a camera and stopped just long enough for two guys to jump out and steal their target vehicle you got nothing. This expensive system could not read moving plates. Keeps the economy going, I guess. Also, gently caress the Vancouver Island guy that just called the CBC noon show to rant about how these drug users dying of fentanyl ODs should just be buried alive or shoved in a furnace because tax payers can`t afford to fund programs for people whose only concern is getting high while ma tax dollars and user fees  The arsehole is giving me flashbacks about the last election. At least Parksville-Qualicum doesn`t smell like cow poo poo. (Just old people.)This is why political party databases are dangerous. If I knew what this guy did for a living I`d do everything I could to strangle his business.
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less than three posted:RCMP doesn't have jurisdiction in Vancouver, and VPD has pretty much openly stated they don't care. Ah, that`s the difference in Nanaimo. The RCMP raided some shops and put others on notice. On the one hand, I don`t think their hearts are in it; on the other hand things were getting out of hand. Pot shops were springing up like mushrooms after a fall rain, and it rains constantly in the fall here. No naturopaths needed, you just had to be over 19. A local rag (probably owned by Lord Jailbird of Fraud Harbour) reported that one shop had a barker outside to drum up business. 
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Entropic posted:I grew up listening to CBC1 and I'll not have anyone speak ill of it. I think it's important that we have John from Airdrie as a baseline for drooling idiocy.
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