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I hate "working class" for the same reason. It sounds like a bunch of good ol hardworking blue collar boys, but is usually deployed to include every rich person who's not literally living off a trust fund and exclude the poorest who are a step below working class (evidently because they don't work hard enough)
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infernal machines posted:that's the thing, those terminal interfaces are actually pretty streamlined and it takes a lot of thought and consideration to build a GUI equivalent without just making GBS threads check boxes and form fields all over the place, and absolutely no enterprise software ever does this Those ugly terminal interfaces have a steeper learning curve but are very efficient once you've gotten the hang of them and remember which key codes do the few things that you need to do 200 times a day, out of a few hundred available functions. If someone's full-time job is working with this software, that's what you want, even if they have to bumble around for a few weeks as they get used to it. Juul-Whip posted:Mayor Pete's campaign has now admitted the grocery chain he advised was Loblaws Fitting that white bread would be Pete's undoing.
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priznat posted:Just waiting for ICBC to collapse altogether, it has been described as a "dumpster fire" by our attorney general I thought ICBC stopped insuring cars valued over 150k like 10 years ago. also speaking of, a chance to repost one of my favorite vancouver photos  The temp plate is the cherry on top
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infernal machines posted:welp. y'all are hosed remember the good ol days before the canada line when a little bit of snow would strand people downtown because the buses couldn't get up the hill
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Cold on a Cob posted:Same but the 90s, but I think a large part of that was because I had a social studies teacher all through high school that was great at talking about the horrors of war without denigrating or venerating the soldiers that were pressured or forced to fight. He introduced me to Dulce et Decorum est and it's a far better poem than In Flanders Fields. My 90s/00s education was similar. We were taught that war was unimaginably horrible and veterans were poor souls made to suffer through it. We also had a few WWII veterans tell us about how terrible it was and that we should be grateful if we never have to share that experience. They were very careful not to imply that war was in any way heroic. I blame Don Cherry.
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flakeloaf posted:Am I the only one who reads "people who didn't file tax returns" as "people who are poor, or indigent, or just turned eighteen"? No, that's the correct reading. There's also people who don't file because they distrust the government, either because they're conspiracy kooks or because they or their family were placed in residential schools. Generally, people who don't file aren't dodging taxes, they're actually paying more by losing out on entitlements. The 800,000 people mentioned probably needed it!
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a primate posted:This Is probably a profoundly stupid question, but what exactly is or has been the government stance on immigration? We’ve been slowly increasing numbers for a couple decades now (~300,000 in 2016), so it’s clear several governments are pro-, but what is the reason? As someone trying to sponsor my wife, I don't get the impression that Canada is particularly pro-immigration at all. As mentioned, the temporary worker program is mostly exploitation. As for skilled entry, the requirements are high, and measured on a curve such that a fixed number of applicants are accepted each year. Family sponsorship is very prohibitive. Even in normal times, processing takes more than one year. That's at least 12 months a family would need to be separated (for outland applications), or in my case (inland application), 12 months of living in a foreign country with hardly any personal freedoms. Like, my wife can't even get a driver's license because she doesn't have proof of status. She doesn't have proof of status because we're applying for status. But she also can't drive on her IDL because she's a long-term resident. She can't work until her work permit is approved, which is probably going to take 7-8 months by current estimates. Thank goodness we could at least get her on healthcare in BC, some provinces don't even have that. I did have to pay for an ER visit out of pocket during the 2 month waiting period though. $500 for her to wait in a waiting room alone without her cell phone for two hours, after which a nurse told her she was fine and dismissed her. We had to pay $160 to a doctor she never met. Oh right. My wife is on "implied status". Because we're applying for status (in our case, as a worker -- no, the PR application doesn't count as applying for status, that's why you must submit a OWP), her current status doesn't expire until a decision is made on her application. But if we made a mistake on the 100+-page application form, such as forgetting a signature, the application will be returned incomplete and she'll have retroactively overstayed. That would make her ineligible to apply for status. So we'd have to submit an application to forgive the overstay, and wait for that to be approved before we would be allowed to apply for a work permit again. Meanwhile, when we move back to Korea, my temporary visa application will take one or two weeks. I would apply for a long-term visa after landing and within one week have all the privilege of a permanent resident. It doesn't have to be this hard. fisting by many has issued a correction as of 20:17 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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Philman posted:Canada is pro skilled immigrant express entry visa. People seem to get that in half the time. canadavisa forums were essential, I wouldn't have been able to complete my application without them. I also wouldn't have known that your PR fee receipt allows you to apply for BC MSP since the official application doesn't even have an option to submit that. I'll have to resume the fight with ICBC someday, I've just been busy to keep escalating 
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BC extended the ban on gatherings with non-household members to Jan 8, which means Christmas is canceled. Good, but I'm sure this is going to be widely ignored.
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vyelkin posted:lol this owns quote:Cohen said it is important for the government to find a balance so that rents are reasonable for both tenants and property owners. What are they going to do, pick up their condos and go home?
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linoleum floors posted:Remember when Horgan called an election and shitload of people couldn't loving wait to vote for him and thought it was fine to have an unnecessary election in a pandemic cause I do I voted by going down to the foyer of my apartment building and dropping my ballot in the outgoing mail slot because we can do that here.
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Powershift posted:Icing on the cake: 4 cops were injured. Then the EPS twitter account went out of their way to side with their fellow racists. Are there not laws or fines in AB? BC has at least been hitting the organizers of parties and covid-denial gatherings
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Danaru posted:Wait what's a TFSA I wrote it off as some rich people acronym I dont need to know Income invested is taxed normally but gains and withdrawals aren't. Kind of like the inverse of a RRSP. If you have money to invest there's no reason not to do it with a TFSA, you save taxes you'd otherwise owe on gains. But the net gain from it is peanuts if you can't afford to max it out every year. If you've got $1000 a year to save, and you put it in an index fund making 5% YOY, after the first year a TFSA would save you about ten dollars. It's just another tax complications that primarily benefits rich people.
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It is funny that O'Toole is apparently trying to court new voters and the party fumbled the absolute minimum of progressive concessions.
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Starks posted:it’s good how they don’t actually say why they are doing this and everyone just has to guess. Didn't they say it might not have been safe for 65+ before? Now it's mysteriously bad for <55? I'm really curious what the reason might be.
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Went to pick up takeout from a Victoria restaurant and they had a "patio" set up in an enclosed plastic gazebo with 20 people all packed in. Next to that, they had another six tables of people who were for all intents and purposes inside a walled building, but I guess because it was an extension with a corrugated aluminum roof it didn't count as "inside". We're going to get hosed in a week.
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I need two hands to count the number of times someone's tried to follow us into an elevator, stared confused at me when I stood blocking the entrance, and then muttered "oh right the covid thing"
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Went to service canada to get an official letter explaining why my wife can't get a SIN (it's because IRCC is slow as molasses, we've been waiting 9 months for PR/work permit) so we can go ahead and file taxes. Representative told her "you don't need it, if you didn't work you don't need to file"  Anyway, we did get the letter, but yeah no wonder so many people miss out on benefits they're entitled to if that's the kind of advice given. Our public services are hard enough to figure out for me who grew up here, can't imagine an immigrant trying to navigate this crap.
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this organization murders the elderly to make money, but some of that money goes to public workers' pensions, so, it;s impossible to say if it's bad or not,
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I'm trying my hand at the pharmacy astrazeneca lottery. Registration with Shoppers drug mart was super easy, the other pharmacies are a big pain in the button and you have to register through each company separately. Would be nice if there was just one centralized public program for this. I mean, besides the one that's so slow I'm doing this instead.
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Normy posted:This will get you all the Sobeys pharmacies Thanks for this.
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Great, BC has prioritized vaccines for pregnant women!quote:To book a vaccine, people who are pregnant can: Oh quote:I'm pregnant and need to book my vaccine appointment Oh As far as I can tell the only difference is that if you are 16-29 and pregnant you can maybe get a shot in 3 months instead of 4.
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Sassafras posted:This r/vancouver/ thread and this one would have us believe pregnant people who call in can book appointments only a few days out and, if shot down, call back and get a more immediate result. Believe one of the daily cases threads last week had anecdotes to that effect too. I will try this tomorrow. Weird that they explicitly say not to phone in if you've already registered. update: She is booked for the 12th  Phone registration was very smooth, didn't even wait in a queue.
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Went to a fitness supply store to pick up a bench and the staff all had the valved exhaust masks. Dude who helped me seemed... irritable? Roided up maybe? While waiting for them to get it from the back I noticed they had the blue masks on sale for $14.88 a case. Then a few other items for $14.88 or $1488.00. Very cool, will never return! This happens at a lot of stores. It's a combination of the last two digits often being used as a sale code and the fact that there are a lot of nazis everywhere.
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Trudeau is many things, and he may even be a pedophile, but I don't believe he was ever convicted.
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why haven't they brought back carbonated brisk yet for god's sake they gave dnL a rerun
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Kazinsal posted:I think good ol school hockey fighting probably prevented some of these insane life altering injuries by letting roided out 20somethings just punch each other futilely on the ice while unintentionally dancing around in circles for 15 seconds which gets all the testosterone poisoning abated for a bit except the part where the punchmen who got punched in the head repeatedly also ended up with life-altering conditions and/or died see: derek boogaard, rick rypien
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i'm somewhat sympathetic to pro athletes because they're among the few millionaires who have arguably earned it training your whole life to be among the best in the world at a thing? sure, go get that bread (ignore the part where the cost of entry is mid/upper six figgies and only children of rich families have a shot of making it big) also they're still exploited by billionaire owners
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Even though that's not at all the case, "33% protection" is huge if that's the difference between a z-score above 1 and below 1. That's the whole deal with herd immunity, no we can't eliminate viruses with a vaccine but we can stop them spreading enough that they die out. anyway I still think health authorities that go completely hog wild while vaccination is still in progress are dumb as hell and it's pretty lovely for countries that are getting ravaged by the disease but don't have vaccines yet because they all went to whiny boomers who said wearing a mask was hard and compared not being able to go to a restaurant to the Holocaust. I'm still going to take precautions until this poo poo is dead dead.
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Now this is the sort of multi-tenant accomodation I can get behind private ownership of.
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anyway I've hosed off to korea because our cost of living is about 1/3rd of what it would be in Canada, and don't get me wrong I'm very happy to be here and it's a wonderful country even if I can hardly speak Korean, but it does leave a sour taste in my mouth that I basically wasted ten years of my life out of high school because I couldn't find a path to independence in our hosed up housing and job markets and now I've been chased from my home country by these very same bloodsuckers. and I'm very lucky! My parents took care of me in my 20s and now I have a decent job and an affordable home! I can't imagine how hard it must be for people who are stuck in this hellscape without any kind of safety net! A guillotine is too kind.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:He's also a piece of poo poo that won't do anything about our mold problem, so I guess I wasn't totally surprised. My landlord told me that every home gets mold  He also said that the mold is because everyone built a bunch of cheap lovely apartments in the late 80s/early 90s and they're all hosed so what do you want me to do about it
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Kazinsal posted:I live about an hour from Vancouver and my previous landlords two were: If you're lucky, you'll have a kind and empathetic super who genuinely cares about your problems (who will be powerless to actually do anything about them.) pokeyman posted:this is why I'm not really following the outrage about big company buying houses to rent. landlord shittiness is not predicated on corporate structure or size. feels like people are imagining their personal rental situation will somehow change for the worse and that seems as likely as it ever was? if there is profit to be made in buying real estate it's because money is being extracted from the people who need a house to live in. if there is profit to be made in buying real estate after prices have tripled and people can't afford rent as is, it's because there is more money yet to be sucked out of regular people. It sucks that it's been going on for so long, it sucks that it's still happening, and it sucks worse that getting raked by domestic megacorps isn't enough and you have more rich assholes coming from all around the world to plunder from Canadians.
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Also yeah the constant puff pieces about landlords in all the major rags make me vomit When the pandemic hit it was all stuff about "the evil banks are repossessing this poor woman's house!" (the subject had taken out multiple mortgages to stream rentals on airbnb and defaulted immediately)
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Kazinsal posted:drat can't believe we got owned for genocide by a country actively perpetrating a genocide agreed, canada should stop owning itself
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Noblesse Obliged posted:and recognizing Palestine is anti Semitic. I think it started with the american right wing media suddenly going hard against China for mostly the same old nationalist reasons (they're gonna take our jobs/take over the economy/rule the world) but also mentioning Hong Kong and the Uyghur genocide as bad things the "bad guys" did. For some reason there's a pervasive belief that it's absolutely impossible for a chud to say even a single correct thing, and thus they can bend reality by stating the opposite. So because Fox News hates China, the CCP is good. I guess.
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Rockstar Massacre posted:you don't want to penalize apartment complexes too hard or else we're going to continue getting forever stretches of suburbs for realestate development, exclusively. In korea apartment buildings aren't owned by giant management companies. usually one complex has a ton of landlords who own a couple to several units each. then the residents vote on which landlord should be the manager. I'm not sure why that is. I guess there's taxes if you own too many properties, so development companies just dump all the units as soon as they're built rather than renting them out themselves. Housing here is completely hosed up, in the sense that the rental system is crazy and doesn't make any sense at all, not in the sense that prices are high. My new place is $550/mo. Just over 1/3rd of what my rent was in Canada. I'm going to have savings! Imagine that.
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