CanPol 2024: the religious experience of pissing on dolphins

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sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

Mad Hamish posted:

Well hooray hooray, I got my first shot. I'm honestly shocked. As a millennial essential worker I sort of assumed I wouldn't have it until, you know, October or something. They've got the clinic set up in the basement of Jackson Square in the bowels of Copps Colosseum and it's very quick. I'm quite impressed!

Oh my God I have full bars on my phone even though I'm in the basement of the mall, my crazy Qultist co-worker was right!!

Congrats first covid shot buddy! I had my shot today at Canada Place in Vancouver. I could have gotten it earlier, but I wanted the drama of doing it with hundreds of other people.

Super well organized and easy. Felt like I was in the ending of a pandemic movie.

# ¿ May 30, 2021 01:28

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 08:11

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

You should see the wailing and gnashing of teeth this proposed parking policy is causing at r/Vancouver

Actually, don't. It's super depressing.

gently caress cars.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2021 21:10

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

bunnyofdoom posted:

https://twitter.com/Puglaas/status/1413128438592933898?s=19

tl;dr version: the usual pap about toxic politics

Just once I would like to see a politician with convictions diagnose the cause of these symptoms rather than bleat the banal refrain of "dysfunction!" Maybe it's also too much to hope that they also propose some loving solutions.

I'm sure Jody Wilson-Raybould is a nice, intelligent person. But this whole thing reeks of self congratulatory triteness. Good job. You've shown that you can correctly identify the most obvious problems we are facing, and that the Canadian political system is unable to respond. Have a gold star.

This type of elementary school analysis is so frustrating. What's worse is that it will be paraded around as if she's a martyr for our times. Unless and until she has the guts to actually propose something, this whole thing just seems like a publicity stunt.

Then again, maybe I am being too critical. Perhaps it's just another example of the lack of any kind of creative ideation or critical analysis that always seems to exemplify a particular class of people who earn a living by huffing each other's farts as they congratulate one another for tinkering at the margins of the homicidal and genocidal policies of neoliberalism.

Sorry for the rant.

sitchensis fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Jul 8, 2021

# ¿ Jul 8, 2021 16:15

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

I just want to bask in the fact that Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system is just so loving popular and beloved that politicians of every stripe are publicly tripping over themselves to fund more of it.

Seriously. It's really quite wonderful to see.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2021 00:20

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

As a young person, all these wildfires have given me a lot of anxiety about the future calamitous horrors climate change will wreak upon our lives.

Oh, the article isn't about that? And their advice is to just keep busy?

Ok then.

sitchensis fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Jul 19, 2021

# ¿ Jul 19, 2021 04:58

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

B.C.'s south coast is under another heat warning, and with no rain since June 15th (!) things are starting to look grim for local ecosystems.

CBC News posted:

With no rain in parts of southern B.C. since June, salmon, crops struggle to survive

What was once a steady stream of cool, clear water had become a patch of shallow, muddy puddles.

Inside these remaining pools not far from the town of Squamish, B.C., three-month-old salmon the size of small french fries were struggling to survive. Its name — Swift Creek — belies its current state, with large sections having dried up due to drought.

Luckily, two members of the conservation group Squamish Streamkeepers Society came to the rescue.

At one end of a puddle only a few centimetres deep, Jack Cooley deployed a fine mesh net about two metres across. Another volunteer, Patrick MacNamara, started at the other, splashing the water to scare the fry into the net.

"There's some wee tiny ones," MacNamara said, as the coho salmon darted out of his way.

Soon they were scooped up and placed into a bucket with clean water, complete with a battery-powered pump to keep it aerated.

Within a couple of weeks, and no rain expected, he said, this area would be completely dry.

"I think it's crucial, I do, otherwise they would just die," MacNamara said of the effort to capture the fish and move them somewhere safer.

Cooley used to be an avid recreational salmon fisher, but he now spends his time trying to keep wild fish alive in streams like this one.

"We got 1,000 today and 1,000 yesterday. We'll probably get 5,000 fish before we're finished."

The lack of rain since mid-June in the Vancouver region is breaking records and has led to steadily decreasing water levels in many parts of the province.

Spawning salmon are also at risk because warm water, coupled with low stream flows, can stress out the fish, leading to high mortality at a time when low numbers of salmon are expected to return to B.C.'s rivers.

The province's largest salmon river, the Fraser, is warmer than usual and has 27 per cent less water than normal, according to the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

On the other side of the province, in the West Kootenay region, the dust is flying at Matthew Carr's normally lush organic farm. It, too, is in a Level 4 drought, the second-highest danger level on B.C.'s drought scale.

"Our soil has become hydrophobic; it's very dusty, airy and light. It's very difficult to walk or pull carts through the field," he said.

Carr grows a mix of vegetables and small fruits in Krestova, in B.C.'s southeast. Even with irrigation, some crops have been scorched and discarded.

"It would be 15 to 20 per cent crop loss so far this year, especially in our lettuce — like we're up to one-third of our lettuce crop we've lost, and it's a big part of our income and cash flow."

Carr said other, heat-loving crops have been doing better, such as melons.

It's not unusual to have hot summers, he said, but this year has been unique because of the early start of the dry spell.

"We typically would see temperatures and conditions like this in August, but to see them in late June all the way through July was really unexpected. And I know a lot of other farmers had to go into triage mode just like we did."

Interviewed in an unusually dry Vancouver bog that's home to a diverse range of rare plants, Hans Schreier, a professor emeritus of land and water systems at the University of British Columbia, said the drought is just one of many unusual weather patterns around the world being driven by climate change.

"It's getting precarious, no question about it."

Schreier rattled off a recent list of climate disasters, including fires in western North America, floods in China and Europe, and water shortages in Iran that have sparked riots.

He said it's becoming increasingly difficult to predict weather because old, reliable patterns are breaking down.

"That's going to be the norm, and the thing is it's not going to be continuously increasing, it's going to be continuous variability — and it's those extremes which are really worrying."

Schreier said governments around the world have been very slow to adapt and prepare for those extremes.

Back in the woods near Squamish, streamkeeper Patrick MacNamara worked at completing the rescue of the salmon fry. They've been safely transported in a bucket to a new location on the Cheakamus River just a few minutes away, but with much deeper water and shade.

"There's food, it's clean water and lots of places to hide," MacNamara said as he waded into the water, where he slowly dumped out the bucket holding the fish.

"Here they come!" he exclaimed, before wishing them "bon voyage" as the fish darted out into their new home, safe for now from the ongoing drought.

I can't imagine that relocating salmon fry by hand is even remotely sustainable.

There is no rain in the two week forecast. Unfortunately I think things are only going to get worse.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2021 17:12

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

The conspiracy mind in me thinks that this election might have been a set up by insiders to turf Trudeau and bring in a new leader. I have heard a rumor that Mark Carney is being groomed as a replacement.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2021 19:13

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

mom and dad fight a lot posted:

~~The Royal BC Museum is a cool place that I really liked bringing the kids to. I'm sorry to hear we'll be without it for 8 years.~~ Edit: uhh, don't know how I missed $789M. I think this is part of the "decolonization" of the museum, but jesus christ.

I've never been to that Malahat Skywalk thing they built a couple years back, but like hell am I paying $100 to walk around.

Just FYI skip the skywalk it�s pretty bad and the views aren�t great. The top of Mt. Douglas in Victoria has much, much better views and is free!

# ¿ May 14, 2022 07:16

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

City of Vancouver council continues to agonize over the Broadway plan which will guide development of a �second downtown� along an urban corridor that will soon have subway like SkyTrain service. This plan has been in development since 2017. It currently has 42 amendments. They will hold another vote to approve it in two weeks � it was supposed to be last night, but unsurprisingly it went into overtime.

One GREAT thing though is that council approved an amendment to add AAA bike lanes to Broadway, effectively making it a major cycling route. While it remains to be seen how this will be done, it is likely to result in some lane space taken away from cars. This is incredibly forward looking and honestly I�m shocked it went through. Broadway is already a giant traffic sewer, so I�m impressed that council had the guts to forcefully overrule city staff recommendations and add in the bike infrastructure.

Now to get the whole damned thing approved in two weeks!

# ¿ Jun 11, 2022 04:44

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

DrBox posted:

If you're not starting every post by acknowledging you are posting from traditionally indigenous lands how can you even call yourself an ally?

I read a response to the land acknowledgement where the person said that �after a while, it starts to sound like boasting� and I think about that a lot.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2022 06:37

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

infernal machines posted:

Yes, but there also usually some weird crossovers with Christian mythology re: "the mark of the beast" being required to do business.

I will never not post this banger of a song in response to this conspiracy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47TZ9MHI1qg

# ¿ Sep 19, 2022 02:26

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

Looks like Vancouver City Council has been swept by ABC. Will be interesting to see what they do with carte blanche power.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2022 06:37

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

Entropic posted:

how time flies.

https://twitter.com/MikeBeauvais/status/1592206109947105280?s=20&t=BIfTJq1fF6hBRLG7vMauig

I'm almost certain there was a thread title related to this once.

The only thread title that is burned into my memory is �Flames 1; Oilers 0� after the Ft. McMurray wildfires and it still makes me chuckle to this day.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2022 03:34

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

Anytime a Canadian bloviates about �free speech� you just know that they have been poisoned with discourse from the United States since Canada explicitly does not have that.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2023 03:59

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

COPE 27 posted:

???

2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:

(a) freedom of conscience and religion;

(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;

(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and

(d) freedom of association

Yes, exactly? We have freedom of expression. America has freedom of speech.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2023 04:19

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

COPE 27 posted:

Please elaborate

Think about how ridiculous it would be if I was an American getting into debates with fellow Americans about the American legal concept of free speech and I only used the term for the Canadian legal concept of freedom of expression instead of free speech.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2023 04:24

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

COPE 27 posted:

Not very?

You think an American debating the concept of �free speech� with other Americans, and using a term from the Canadian legal system to refer to it, wouldn�t reflect on how badly they understand the American concept of free speech if they can�t even use the correct legal term for it in their own country?

# ¿ Mar 5, 2023 04:27

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

Can�t wait to see how climate change adds spice to this whole mix!

# ¿ Mar 28, 2023 06:11

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

Fornax Disaster posted:

We have an example of a country that stopped subsidizing its auto industry - Australia. The industry completely died.

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/11977482

Good. If there is one industry that is at the root of our climate apocalypse, it�s the car industry. It cannot die fast enough.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2023 19:00

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

apatheticman posted:

Now i've been kicking around this economic model where it's basically socialism, but everyone gets MDMA every second week.

Basically what you�re saying is we need to add lithium to all the water supplies to get socialism

# ¿ Apr 22, 2023 19:28

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

No public inquiry into foreign interference. Can�t wait to be bashed over the head with this inane yellow scare talking point forever until the next Federal election.

# ¿ May 23, 2023 23:42

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

YSK that I just disappointed myself by discovering that Saskatoon�s airport code is YXE and not YSK

# ¿ Jun 5, 2023 06:20

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

We won�t be driving our way out of the climate crisis. Less cars, the better.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2023 04:41

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

Lol the feds paid for a study that advocates for ripping out the literal free railway that runs up and down Vancouver Island through the middle of every major community and replacing it with a bike trail for tourists

we are never going to invest in anything but cars

# ¿ Jun 13, 2023 23:56

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

Fornax Disaster posted:

The majority of households in Toronto have at least one car. Excluding a majority of the people in a city from making decisions about the city�s transportation is a deeply unserious idea, and completely undemocratic.

More than car owners, the vast majority of households in Toronto have at least one person with legs that they use to walk. Excluding a majority of the people in a city from making decisions about the city�s transportation is a deeply unserious idea, and completely in democratic.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2023 17:49

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

infernal machines posted:

Because of this?

Do you really, truly think that as a country, at this moment in time, this won�t lead to political fallout?

Then again, if Bill Clinton could get away with personal scandal mostly unscathed, maybe Trudeau can, too. Then again, Hillary never left him.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2023 17:52

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

Mad Hamish posted:

I mean no disrespect with this, but you should probably log off and go outside.

Er, what? It�s suddenly weird to speculate on the political fallout of a major event in a political leader�s life in the thread on Canadian politics?

# ¿ Aug 2, 2023 18:36

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

I�m shocked that CBC left the comments open on the article about this. Don�t venture in there if you value your sanity.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2023 18:43

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

CanPol 2023: going their sunny ways

# ¿ Aug 2, 2023 19:04

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

Good god it�s so loving frustrating to hear people bitch and moan about Trudeau and poo poo like the WEF but for the entirely wrong reasons

Like, I hate the Liberals and Trudeau, too! I very much dislike the Davos/Laurentian elite and the WEF as well! I think that the wealthy have total control over our political and economic systems! I also agree that our collective response to COVID was awful!

But my rationale, evidence and justification for these things are on a completely different plane of existence than yours. How do you even begin to address the gulf that exists between the path I took to reach these conclusions, and the paths that others have taken that now allow scum bags like PP to make hay out of them.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2023 19:43

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

CanPol 2023: Hot [�] in your area.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2023 18:54

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

ARACHTION posted:

I care more about the disinformation coming from the Food Professor, The Fraser Institute , the Canadian Federation of Independent Business than I do any Russian as they actually have an impact on my life.

don�t forget the Canadian Taxpayers Federation who always get front loving billing with any stupid press release that they put out when there is no evidence that it consists of more than a half dozen people

# ¿ Sep 4, 2023 06:23

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

Or the fact that every university student has to take the same Econ 101 and 102 class that uses a textbook written by a ghoul from the Bush administration

funny enough, the content of those courses is completely discredited as having any basis in reality if you take any elective econ course at a higher level than that

but nope, the everlasting message we impart on all university students is �minimum wage and unions are bad, actually�

gently caress you mankiw

# ¿ Sep 4, 2023 06:27

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

Saalkin posted:

If you put all the stupid people in one place and let them self govern, this is the result.

For additional examples please refer to:

Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria

[�]

Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

# ¿ Nov 28, 2023 22:01

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

Merry Christmas to the one internet place where I feel like I am not a crazy person for the political views I have (let�s be nice to one another and eat the rich)

# ¿ Dec 25, 2023 20:06

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

Slotducks posted:

twitter and reddit have been astroturfed by right-wing groups for the last 5-10 years. anyone without brain damage on the left has already moved on from those sites and don't get sucked into the arguments

It�s really disheartening to see this garbage float to the front page of Reddit. Canadahousing2 and Canada_sub are regular features there now.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2024 23:27

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

Precambrian Video Games posted:

So the National Post is alternative media now?

It�s full of insufferable opinions and never makes a profit? Sounds like every alt-weekly I�ve ever read.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2024 18:34

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

Entropic posted:

Demand better FROM WHO, Justin? FROM WHO? Isn't that your job?

# ¿ Feb 10, 2024 08:45

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 08:11

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

McGavin posted:

I can not wait for a Carbon Tax Election�.

Can�t wait to relitigate (again) whether climate change is happening as the country burns to a crisp around us

# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 00:07

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