08-20-2023, 10:51 PM
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#1041
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Vernon, BC
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Originally Posted by bigrangy
Yeah, I moved to BC a couple months ago and I have absolutely 0 idea what the BC gov is actually spending its money on. I mean of course infrastructure is harder to build when you need to knock down a mountain to do it each time but like come on.
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Hopefully you have a thick skin if you moved here from AB, haha. Just casually point out that B.C's largest export is coal, with natural gas a distant but respectable second.
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08-21-2023, 09:33 AM
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#1042
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2016
Location: ATCO Field, Section 201
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bigrangy
Yeah, I moved to BC a couple months ago and I have absolutely 0 idea what the BC gov is actually spending its money on. I mean of course infrastructure is harder to build when you need to knock down a mountain to do it each time but like come on.
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You're going to need to build up your tolerance to smug. I would recommend starting a routine a month before you move or cupping and smelling your own farts to prepare yourself.
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08-21-2023, 10:02 AM
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#1043
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Delthefunky
Hopefully you have a thick skin if you moved here from AB, haha. Just casually point out that B.C's largest export is coal, with natural gas a distant but respectable second.
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Metallurgical coal to be fair.
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08-21-2023, 10:30 AM
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#1045
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
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It's American coal. The Elk Valley mines only produce steel-making coal. But point taken.
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The majority of the coal moved through the coal port arrives by train from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana, home to the largest coal mines in the U.S. Wyoming is the top coal-producing state – the heart of “coal country.”
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08-21-2023, 10:42 AM
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#1046
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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With proposals for new coal export terminals in Washington State and Oregon having been rejected due to environmental concerns and assertions of Indigenous rights, B.C.’s southern coal port is basically the only way out through the Pacific Northwest to Asian markets. And thanks to a loophole that calculates emissions partly on distance travelled from the site of extraction to port, these U.S. thermal coal exports barely pay any carbon tax in B.C.
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Seems like a big loophole, and BC's regulations are basically enabling the export of a product that would have been trapped in the US. I guess their environmentalists and indigenous have better lobbyists?
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08-21-2023, 10:55 AM
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#1047
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Seems like a big loophole, and BC's regulations are basically enabling the export of a product that would have been trapped in the US. I guess their environmentalists and indigenous have better lobbyists?
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I was on the Robert Banks 2 assessment for years and I can firmly say our environmentalists and Indigenous nations are lobbying just fine.
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09-22-2023, 02:36 PM
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#1048
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Toronto
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We were just talking the other day in our group chat about how this last summer was very quiet in terms of shootings in Van compared to summers in the past.
https://www.tricitynews.com/local-ne...urhood-7586286
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An RCMP officer is dead and another Mountie is wounded after a shooting in the Coquitlam City Centre neighbourhood this morning, Sept. 22, the Tri-City News has confirmed.
The incident happened at around 11 a.m. in a building at Pinetree Way and Glen Drive while a search warrant was being executed.
Police are advising the public to avoid the area as it is an "active crime scene."
And traffic is partially closed along the two streets.
Passersby told media on site that they heard a number of shots fired and saw someone bleeding being carried out on a stretcher.
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09-22-2023, 02:45 PM
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#1049
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by activeStick
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My kid is home today on a pro-d day, but I received an email from her after school daycare just a little while ago saying the whole area was closed off to traffic and pedestrians. Glad she isn't there today.
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09-23-2023, 01:00 AM
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#1050
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Here is a more detailed story of the shooting today in Coquitlam. The RCMP officer killed was a father of 6 and two other officers are seriously injured. Sounds like the suspect was taken into custody alive.
https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/...rive-coquitlam
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09-25-2023, 06:01 AM
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#1053
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by activeStick
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What? That cant be real. Not in the Paradise that is BC!!
But seriously...is that even legal? 'Only white kids can play here!'
Frankly, I think kids of all races and ethnicities should mix and meet as early as possible.
People are people. Discrimination based on colour is learned.
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09-25-2023, 07:49 AM
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#1054
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wins 10 internets
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: slightly to the left
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If they really want to be surrounded by white people then they just need to move a few hours away to any number of small towns in BC
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09-25-2023, 07:50 AM
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#1055
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by activeStick
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WTF? As a white supremicist father of a tot I find this highly offensive. I just wish these Karens could stop for a moment and consider how it makes me feel, being excluded because of giant bald head and tiny little dick.
I'm also considered they aren't doing enough to keep the Jews out.
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09-25-2023, 07:51 AM
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#1056
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Posted the 6 millionth post!
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Man, BC seems like it's falling apart. I'm probably wrong, but I literally see no good news coming out of that province.
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09-25-2023, 08:11 AM
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#1058
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: the middle
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Hopefully they aren't letting in those "white" Catholics like the Italians and the Greeks. What's next, the Irish?!
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09-25-2023, 08:17 AM
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#1059
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Toronto
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Hey guys, any takes on the Nazi parents group? Any issues? No?
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Go on...
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09-25-2023, 10:21 AM
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#1060
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Ate 100 Treadmills
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
If they really want to be surrounded by white people then they just need to move a few hours away to any number of small towns in BC
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You don't even have to go that far...the true paradise that is Pitt Meadows/Maple Ridge is only about a 5 minute drive from PoCo.
But yes, as soon as you leave Vancouver and Victoria, BC can be pretty racist pretty quick. Much worse than anything I've seen in Alberta. This sign in PoCo doesn't surprise me at all. Neither does it surprise me that people would move to one of the most racially diverse cities in the world and demand that it be less racially diverse.
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