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May 28, 2021 18:54
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I think it's been mentioned before but the BC Health Gateway is loving excellent Literally all your past doctor visits, prescriptions, vaccinations (and soon apparently) test results all in one place.
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May 31, 2021 00:09
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ChickenDoodle posted:Now if the BC Services card worked on my iPhone and not only on my iPad that’d be amazing. But apparently it’s not been working for iOS phone users for months. Android Supremacy (I also love the BC services card as I can use it to log into the CRA site just using my fingerprint)
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May 31, 2021 01:36
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Madkal posted:I have an Android and have been having an annoying time trying to get it set up. I had to enter a password from a verification email but when I tried to access said email it closed down the app and because the app was closed down it started from the beginning again so I had to request another verification email that I could access on another device so not to close to the BC service card app. Then I had to send a video claiming who I was to get verification which took a few a hours and of course within those few hours the app closed down again meaning I had to request a new verification code via email and take a new video to prove I was who I said I was I think i just had to do a live video chat which took around 2 minutes
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May 31, 2021 07:06
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My girlfriend's (white) dad went to a residential school as a child and some of the stories I've got second-hand are horrifying. I also work for the BC gov and they've made a huge push on first nation stuff recently - everyone has an hour session biweekly to learn about the history/culture/genocide of the local first nations, and it's also getting inserted into things like hunting license - history and why first nations don't need a hunting license. There is also a ton of first nations stuff being inserted into the school curriculum, the justice system is being overhauled re: first nations, all kinds of stuff. It's baby steps obviously, but better than before.
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May 31, 2021 23:34
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flakeloaf posted:I think I've found your problem Yeah Canada is racist but newspaper comment sections are inhabited strictly by exceedingly racist old boomers
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Jun 1, 2021 15:13
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The only CFL fans I've ever met in the wild were roughriders fans, there seems to be a few of them around
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Jun 1, 2021 18:22
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Also speaking of the CFL, if you have enough time to read 40,000 words of just.... I don't even know, here is an, uh, essay about Tebows record-breaking stint in the CFL. I'm not going to spoil it. https://www.sbnation.com/2014/8/18/5998715/the-tim-tebow-cfl-chronicles Don't read it on mobile, it has a lot of animations on that will only really work on a screen edit: read it even if you don't care about football Alctel fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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Jun 1, 2021 18:28
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mediaphage posted:agree I'm not saying Canada is ~beyond racism~ but people who get angry enough to comment on articles on Facebook or (even more so) newspaper articles tend to be just the worst. Likewise for reddit (mostly) Everyone I know in my town is really nice and progressive but oh boy, look at the subreddit for it and you'd think we were rural alberta
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Jun 2, 2021 16:51
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mediaphage posted:lol i bet some of those nice progressive people you know make some of those comments and you don’t know it. Yeah you are right, my friends spend their time making racist comments on online newspaper articles, ya got me. I said multiple times Canada is a pretty racist country - I'm saying that thinking that comment sections of newspaper articles and reddit is a decent representative sample of the population is incorrect. 'Never read the comments' has been an internet rule for like 25 years Alctel fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Jun 2, 2021 |
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Jun 2, 2021 19:04
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Bleck posted:white people say this about the intensely racist town I live in as well Ok I give up. Everyone I know is actually secretly intensely racist and online comments are an excellent way to get a representation of how everyone actually thinks Alctel fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Jun 2, 2021 |
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Jun 2, 2021 19:41
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DariusLikewise posted:Ahhhhh gently caress you gently caress you gently caress you gently caress you gently caress you Did the press push back on this at all?
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Jun 3, 2021 17:47
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RBC posted:Governing party leaders are for all intents and purposes, all powerful within their party and impossible to remove and to my knowledge, this has never happened in canadian history. That's weird cos it happens pretty often in the UK
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Jun 7, 2021 04:36
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why the gently caress would anyone be in favour of selling off provincial parks 'yes I hate having areas I can go and visit for free, i'd far rather pay for it'
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Jun 8, 2021 02:57
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Noblesse Obliged posted:I wonder if we can use this to gently caress the fed conservatives when they advertise against Trudeau as Ford and the Ontario conservatives have shown they are aligned with this message and that makes the federal conservatives a third party message in the province of Ontario That kinda happened before, Ford totally hosed the federal tories in Ontario
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Jun 10, 2021 00:40
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Victoria has cancelled their Canada Day celebrations due to the residential schools. Not looking forward to the weeks of complaining op-eds, ugghhhhh
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Jun 11, 2021 00:27
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Looking at the Delta variant stats I hope we all get our second shot really loving soon
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Jun 17, 2021 17:08
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boo boo bear posted:I think black culture, if that's the appropriate term, transcends petty bullshit like nationality. Sorry, are you saying all black people share a culture due to their skin colour cos that's really not true
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Jun 20, 2021 22:00
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Only 45 cases in BC yesterday. gently caress yeah.
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Jun 22, 2021 16:45
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Wow I outperformed AIMco lmao
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Jun 27, 2021 04:57
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I was in a tiny apartment with no AC and no fans (sold out everywhere in Victoria) and it was loving brutal Got through it by just showering constantly, although the water wasn't really cold it def took the edge off. Haven't slept properly for a few days though gently caress this
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Jun 30, 2021 01:46
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I get my second shot tomorrow thank fuuuuuuuuuck Delta come at me bro
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Jul 10, 2021 20:53
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I got Pfizer again which I was glad as people with Modena as their 2nd seemed to have worse side effects It's the next day and I'm feeling a bit like I'm coming down with a cold or flu, but confident I'll be fine tomorrow!
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Jul 12, 2021 17:19
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Buildings like that aren't designed for people to actually live in, they are investment vehicles
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Jul 17, 2021 13:09
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RuBisCO posted:I've always wondered about how to get started about this, admittedly not yet taking the steps to find out. Do you have any tips? Get involved with your local riding association for your choice of party (NDP is a pretty good bet, their grass roots are pretty strong - in theory). Especially if you can bring some friends with you - it's kind of amazing how much influence you can have and how little people tend to be involved at that level. At selection time, join the campaign of the candidate you want selected and volunteer - or run yourself.
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Jul 19, 2021 18:49
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Honestly it depends how strictly they are gonna police the 'must be vaccinated' part. Does the US even have a vaccine card or something similar?
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Jul 20, 2021 02:48
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Another Bill posted:Oh yeah for sure. The neoliberal goal has long been free trade for goods but restricted immigration for people. In other words, let the poors stay where they are and be cheap labour so we can be rich. COVID gives that ideology a shot in the arm. I actually don't fully agree with that - neo-liberal parties tend to actually increase immigration, even if they make noises about doing the opposite (because you can pay immigrants way way less, no-one gives a poo poo about their working conditions and you can take well-educated/trained people out of other countries which is way cheaper for businesses than doing it yourself)
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Jul 20, 2021 20:30
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EngineerJoe posted:I like the governor general as a head of state because it's better than having an elected President. A million times this And you can't just abolish the position because having a head of state and the head of government combined into one person is a fast track to a dictatorship (seriously look at the list of countries that tried it, I think the US is the only one that didn't turn into a dictatorship and uh, it's been a fairly narrow escape a few times). You need that seperation.
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Jul 21, 2021 04:11
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Also for perspective there are around 1000 complaints a year re: french not being properly represented in the public service so 400 is actually lower than I would have thought tbh, some people will complain about Literally Anything
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Jul 21, 2021 04:17
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Another Bill posted:Literally got in a fight with a relative over that Harper proroguement and we still don't talk to this day. It was Bullshit, OP
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Jul 21, 2021 17:18
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Slotducks posted:/r/toronto is overwhelmingly pro police doing this it seems from the couple threads I saw That's just reddit generally though for some reason
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Jul 21, 2021 21:53
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In Victoria they cleared out the park camping but only after they had managed to secure shelter for everyone homeless (this did not go down well with the usual brigade of 'mah taxes!') Unfortunately a lot of these people are severely mentally ill / have massive substance abuse issues, so you can't just give them a place and call it good, you need to give them 24/7 support It looks like work is being done on that too however https://www.saanichnews.com/news/more-supportive-housing-on-the-horizon-for-victoria/ EvilJoven posted:We see camp's burn here all the time. They also very quickly fill with trash and hazards. The bigger the camp's get the more thefts assaults and arsons happen in the area. The homeless population includes a lot of vulnerable people, and that attracts predators as well.
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Jul 22, 2021 17:56
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BC is probably going to be ok as we have a really good vaccine uptake and eventually it's gonna burn through all the idiot anti-vaxxers, I dunno if AB Vax numbers are as good I got to scream at an anti vax parade today, that was carthatic.
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Jul 25, 2021 00:10
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Smallbusinesses.txt [  At last the comments is everyone clowning on them
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Jul 25, 2021 00:16
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PT6A posted:Rachel Notley also seems to have a better political sense than Singh. Maybe it's just because I'm relatively more exposed to the ANDP, but they seem to have an uncanny way of keeping their focus on the things people are pissed off about, whereas the federal NDP just... doesn't. Granted the UCP does make that easy because there's a great deal more to be pissed off about. Yeah the UCP just keeps running into rakes
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Jul 26, 2021 03:31
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Argas posted:Same. My sister is a teacher too and we've been really pissed at the BCNDP since before covid but the pandemic just took that to new heights. The problem with the BCNDP is that they are kind of lovely but the BCLiberals are maybe the shittiest provincial party to ever exist (or at least the most corrupt). Like you can be pretty lovely and still not as bad as lying and saying researchers who disagreed with you were under RCMP investigation (completely untrue but one of them killed themselves over the stress), or just happening to disband the corruption task force right after they started investigating the jaw-dropping amount of money being laundered through real estate/casinos, or lying about the deficit by half a billion, or using public funds to collect data to run their campaign on, or or or (seriously it just goes on and on) Also some parts of what the BCNDP have done is actually really pretty good, but anything relating to resources/environment they are loving terrible (although the fish farms are finally, FINALLY loving off), and Horgan is basically Boomers Personified
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Jul 27, 2021 17:50
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Goosed it. posted:What are the good things? Genuinely curious. Just off the top of my head: Banned corporate donations to parties and capped individual donations New Mental Health and Addictions ministry combined with a bunch of funding for mental health for kids and teens Unfucked a bunch of crown corps High-speed internet project to a bunch of rural communities and reserves Here in Victoria the province keeps buying up buildings to turn them into supportive housing for homeless people, not sure if that's province-wide MSP premiums are gone BC Child Opportunity Benefit Speculation and Vacancy tax Froze rates on BC ferries Cancelled interest on all past, present and future BC student loans Managed to run a surplus even with all the new poo poo they put out in the first year (admittedly this is more a statement on how mismanaged the budget was under the BC Liberals) There is actually a bunch more, though a lot of them are kinda technical and small and are more about making the province actually functional again rather than a money laundering operation (I cannot stress how bad the BC Libs were) Alctel fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Jul 27, 2021 |
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Jul 27, 2021 20:52
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ARACHTION posted: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 work for the BC gov and there is actually a big effort towards reconciliation* with Indigenous people and a bunch of programs, a ton of resources put into mental health targeting youth and Indigenous people, a big push for decent connections to reserves, the justice system is basically trying not to imprison any Indigenous people at all and a bunch of other completely random stuff (for example the hunting license course/exam, CORE, now includes an entire chapter on First Nations and their rights) In my ministry they started having a weekly workshop where everyone gathered and listened to an Indigenous elder talk about residential schools and discussed their experience with first nations and the stereotypes they had growing up (they had to pause it for a few weeks as it was traumatising the poo poo outta people but points for trying I guess) The greens are an extremely riding by riding party, I actually voted for the Green candidate in Victoria last year as they were a self-described eco-socialist and seemed switched on but a ton of the candidates are either actual crazy people, rich people with Telsas or a both. The fact that Andrew Weaver was basically Horgan but More So didn't really help, Firstenau is way better. *of course the massive, MASSIVE asterisk is that all that is forgotten as soon as it conflicts with any kind of resource development, then indigenous people can get hosed and as you said, they are just generally loving appalling on the environment generally Alctel fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Jul 28, 2021 |
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Jul 28, 2021 01:42
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Oxyclean posted:lmao if your dog doesn't do that too It's not even comparable Outdoor cats are complete ruthless murder machines and should be banned in all municipalities tbh I think the average outdoor cat kills on average 10 small animals/birds a day or something ridiculous
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Jul 31, 2021 22:35
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Horwath sucks and should have been booted out after managing to lose to loving Doug Ford That election was basically the best chance to win the provincial election for at least a generation and she totally stuffed it
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Aug 5, 2021 18:43
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