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The BC vaccine booking system is well designed. Earlier appointments opened up for my 2nd dose, and I was able to book it with an automatic cancellation of my previous appointment. Does anyone know if all large clinics have the doses to give Pfizer to Pfizer and Moderna to Moderna?
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Jun 17, 2021 18:56
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Yo if you’re in BC and booked a 2nd vaccine appointment that was quite far out, click the “cancel my appointment” link you got sent after confirming that appointment to rebook one sooner. Many spots opened up, and I got mine two weeks earlier.
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Jun 19, 2021 00:50
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I’m calling it: O’Toole gets wiped for being too much of a Qanon chud this election, gets booted and replace by Harper back to prove once and for all he won’t lose to a drama teacher who is son of NEB bastard Trudeau. Harper knows how to play the game and after Libs get another majority when basically anyone who wants it is fully vaxxed, CPC will be looking for anyone who offers a credible chance to unseat Trudeau instead of passing chud-purity tests. Can I do that thing where if I’m wrong I get banned?
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Jul 5, 2021 21:07
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The only people I’ve seen in BC participate in the Dr. Henry technocrat hero worship were universally work from homers with no children, or retired people whose children worked from home. These same people seemed to have an extremely limited understanding of how BC was making GBS threads the bed with contact tracing, how data was shaped to show no transmission in schools, how BC is the least transparent with its data, how no asymptomatic testing was occurring and the absolutely inexcusable reluctance to impose a mask mandate. They even seemed surprised to learn this summer that school was in fact not online and we were teaching 100% in person to students who for the majority of the year I was not allowed to ask to wear a mask in class, but instead only to “create a classroom culture of mask wearing “ (gently caress that I told the parents at the beginning of the year they would be wearing them at all times and to reach out if they had concerns and all were actually relieved).
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Jul 26, 2021 22:22
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Honestly, the BCNDP are competent and seemingly non-corrupt neoliberal managers. If people were expecting a revolutionary outcome, they were going to be disappointed. I for one can no longer stand how they treat Indigenous people and the environment. But shamefully for me, the nail in the coffin for Horgan was when he blamed the youth for Covid with no proof. I’m not a green fan, but Firstenau seems like a good protest vote and if the local candidate isn’t an anti-wifi nimby Tesla homeopathic loser, they get my vote. Does anyone know why the Ecosocialists didn’t field a single candidate? Did their poo poo implode?
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Jul 28, 2021 01:05
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Drunk Canuck posted:burned books dead soldiers no environment lol
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Aug 21, 2021 05:53
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JawKnee posted:if you log into health gateway it has a card you can print that shows your vaccine info. Not certain that'll help if they demand the app, but I seriously doubt there'll be anything but lax enforcement going on As has been the case through the entire pandemic, basically zero enforcement has been the name of the game. I feel bad for the poor 17 year old hosts at White Spot who will be given the task of denying entry to the unvaccinated. Not to mention that the cops have been treating anti maskers flagrantly violating rules with kid gloves the entire time. But hey, I’m sure there is a few percentage points of people who will be motivated now to book their appointments and be done with it.
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Aug 24, 2021 08:11
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Baronjutter posted:Bonnie just hates masks. After following this poo poo intently since it started its my only take away for BC's policies. She constantly gets extremely concerned that in places with mask mandates people with "valid reasons" for not wearing a mask might feel shamed or bullied and that's a price too high. She also thinks masks make people overconfident. She's an idiot. This. She is a buffoon who has given credence to all the anti maskers all along. My colleagues teaching grades 4 and under have found it manageable to have children wear it, and for the most part they do without issue. There are some kids who legit can’t do to extreme behavioural or medical issues, but Henry just goes “it’s just too hard”. When these cases are 1ish students per class at my school. It seems the anti vaxxer line of argument in BC is now “the immunocompromised are 2nd class citizens!” with the vaccine passport when they previously opposed all public health measures. So very very happy to have these assholes eat poo poo and (not) die.
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Aug 24, 2021 21:41
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There really needs to be a movement for workers coops. No one knows about them, and it would be so wonderful to have an alternative to working in a capitalist enterprise. If NDP was both pro small business and actually pro coop, like proposing laws that would favour their creation and even hire coop formation specialists to train workers how to do it I would run to the polls to vote for them. Apparently in Italy, they have a law where if you and 9 laid off workers get together, you can choose to have your entire unemployment benefits paid off in one lump sum if you use it to start a cooperative business. Everyone I talk to is in favour of this idea, including conservatives if you don’t mention it’s actually Marxist principle.
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Aug 28, 2021 19:27
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Coxswain Balls posted:MEC was a consumer cooperative, not a workers co-op. Presumably that kind of thing would be less likely when workers have more control over how the business is run rather than customers who are primarily concerned with getting stuff cheaply and have no experience with the day-to-day operations and working conditions, if they even care at all. Thanks for this, I was thinking this was the case. Most people’s understanding of a co-op is like MEC or a grocery store where you need to pay a fee to have a membership and then get to vote on business decisions as a customer. A worker’s coop is quite different and most structures ask that people work as employees for several years before being allowed to buy in as an owner. Richard Wolff’s podcast Economic Update will often talk about worker’s coops, people should that out, as well as Democracy At Work’s YouTube channel if you’re interested.
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Aug 28, 2021 22:45
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heehee posted:
canadianpolitics.jpg A government by and for the realtors
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Aug 29, 2021 00:53
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The edm anti vaxx venn diagram is pretty close to a circle.
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Aug 29, 2021 04:16
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Alberta delenda est.
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Aug 30, 2021 01:07
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Femtosecond posted:
I’m in the exact same boat as you, and agree that the Granville riding has a fighting chance. Any east van goons who are thinking of volunteering or donating, that’s the riding to push for. I would also take a newbie politician whose heart is in the right place over an “experienced” lawyer or whatever every time. Politics is a fight for distributing resources and if all your connections come are in the elite, be it business or corporate, you will be influenced in the wrong direction. The biggest myth is that you need to be a genius to deliver things to the people. Doing good is not intellectually difficult, it’s pretty clear what the average person needs for their lives to improve. It’s being a neolib who tries to balance business needs with legitimate needs of everyday people and the need to then sell austerity that takes some heavy thinking and mental gymnastics because that poo poo doesn’t make sense to begin with.
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Sep 2, 2021 19:04
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Kraftwerk posted:A very good post Very true. Any sincere leftist approach will be severely punished and sabotaged by capital who have the capacity to create crisis, blame leftist policy for it and outlast the consequences to play another round. This kind of thinking though puts me into the nihilistic frame of mind that derailed either this thread or the other for days and I refuse to believe that I cannot create positive change around me in our system. On a personal level, it really helps alleviate feelings of doom to participate in activism that you feel can have a measurable difference. For me it used to be volunteering for the NDP, until I realized how truly disconnected they are from the working class and how tightly the elites of the party control all that goes on within it. Therefore my stance to electoral politics is vote the least bad option. Otherwise, I think effective activism would be to get involved on a riding level when party nominations occur by vote. Otherwise, union activism has actually delivered in creating workplace solidarity and improving real working conditions for my coworkers and I would encourage anyone working in a union to get involved if they can, after reading a healthy dose of Jane MacAlevey  .As for system-wide nihilism, The Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson has helped me most with seeing a potential future where everything we love is perhaps not destroyed by capital and its effect on the environment.
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Sep 2, 2021 21:13
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Another Bill posted:I really feel for health workers right now, it's complete bullshit that the cops are defending them. The far right used the anti vaxx and anti lockdown sentiment and went turbo on organizing and recruiting. Too bad no leftist institutions did the same, but when they block hospital access, facilitated by the cops (if they did not make arrests, they facilitated it), then when is the time to take to the streets against them?
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Sep 2, 2021 23:22
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I just voted in Vancouver East and wrote in the ball breathing guy all over the ballot.
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Sep 12, 2021 20:58
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To me, the video of the CPC dude who didn’t want to answer the question seemed to be for fear of offending the PPC vote and highlights the potential of the PPC taking over the party in a couple of election cycles if CPC eats poo poo and PPC makes gains. This is a temporarily fractured electorate and the lols from right vote splitting is not worth those lunatics taking over the asylum.
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Sep 16, 2021 03:21
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Holy poo poo wtf is happening in Alberta, I mean Alberts delenda est and all that but this is ridiculous.
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Sep 16, 2021 03:31
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Oh I get it now, the Conservative premieres are just acolytes to Nurgle. All makes sense now.
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Sep 19, 2021 17:28
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Arc Hammer posted:Nurgle is about spreading love. That's beyond Conservative comprehension. Nurgle radlib spotted
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Sep 19, 2021 18:02
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Randalor posted:Hey. Hey. Hey. No. They're the crusty remnant leftovers of whatever vile poxes Grandfather Nurgle brew up in his vat in his garden of rot. The poo poo that got burnt onto the bottom and sides of the vat that not even Nurgle loves. Honestly never got too into Nurgle lore it was too gross
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Sep 19, 2021 18:03
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Lol one poll turned In in Nunavik/Abitibi and it’s 40% ndp, 30% ppc
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Sep 21, 2021 02:39
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It would be so nice if next election, national CBC coverage shifted west as the night goes on instead of a bunch of Toronto people complaining about how late it is and not what is currently still happening in the 3rd most populous province in the country.
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Sep 23, 2021 03:34
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I for one can’t read a pluralized Michael without laughing.
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Sep 25, 2021 21:58
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A page late, but if Canadian officials don’t like the Chinese government bringing up our historical and continued atrocities, they could actually fix things.
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Sep 28, 2021 00:42
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Until I see O’Toole chug a whole Stella pint glass of milk, I know that he’s not my guy
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Oct 6, 2021 15:55
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Canadian politics it’s that all the major parties including the NDP are so entirely dedicated to housing values increasing that they will leverage all state resources to keep the game rolling as long as possible. I imagine this will continue until the point of it even becoming the state’s major purpose. It’s almost as if our society is less working/upper class and more renter/homeowner.
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Oct 8, 2021 00:25
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Yeeeeeaaaahh, mixed vaccine people are now accepted into the US yeeehaaaw . (Well, next month)
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Oct 16, 2021 01:55
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Yo who’s gonna be the two michaels with me at Halloween
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Oct 17, 2021 06:55
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Good strat to never get bothered for speaking English in Quebec: open with a horribly pronounced bonjour, and almost 100% people (at least in Montreal) will gladly switch mostly to not waste anyone’s time. The woman with the tweet should just move one neighborhood over, instead of a whole province it sounds like they have an insane neighbor.
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Oct 18, 2021 16:09
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Another Bill posted:Every Parisien man sounds like Fraser or Niles Crane to my francocanadien ears. Word
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Oct 19, 2021 07:47
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My major gap in being able to speak the French of young montrealers was that I only had ever really spoken French in school and at home in BC so never knew all the English words they do use. It’s like they use some a lot as French verbs but if you use the wrong English word as. French verb they look at you funny. My franco friends were always telling me “hey you don’t have to be so formal around me” because it sounds weird to them if you make an effort to not use any English at all. Also one time I was at a bbq with a bunch of Parisian friends visiting Vancouver and when they asked me to pass the brioches (hot dog buns) I just smiled and laughed inside and passed the buns.
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Oct 19, 2021 16:09
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pokeyman posted:How does someone come up with an estimate like "seven years"? The article just leaves it there and moves along. Maybe that’s how long he estimates the prison sentence of sexual assaulters will last and they’ll re-enlist once they get out of the clink?
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Oct 26, 2021 15:44
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So tired of suburban slugs who can’t fathom walking more than 1 block whenever they dare emerge from their car hellscapes. Why do suburbanites feel entitled to dictate how urban cores operate?
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Oct 30, 2021 20:45
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No one got my 2 Michaels costume smdh…
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Oct 31, 2021 23:44
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A friend of mine who got vaxx-pilled was telling me about how Trudeau was just steps away from installing communism. I asked him to define communism and he was not able other than to give me the synonym “tyranny”. These people are so dumb. I guess imagining yourself as the protagonist of a dystopian movie you like is a way to feel special if you’re alienated and live in the suburbs?
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Nov 7, 2021 20:04
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It’s also very possible that he, like the rest of the 20% of society who have gone off the deep end was also further radicalized in the last couple years. That and the grift giveth and had made it a viable career path for him where he has extreme popularity and respect within a small segment of society. Why go to the mainstream where people treat you with contempt when you can be comfortable in your own insane little safe space?
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Nov 7, 2021 22:54
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I mean he is surely both influenced by the mainstream cons booting him and the slickedback blonde totally not Nazi dweebs loving him. Also I woke up so much easier today due to it not being dark and will have a safer bike ride into work for the same reason. Why am I supposed to hate daylight savings again?
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Nov 8, 2021 16:47
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Nov 13, 2021 00:45
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