BC Lags Behind Other Provinces in Life Satisfaction

[Locke]

Originally Posted by SebC

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...ve-earthquakes .

If Japan can do it so can we.

Think down...not up! Decommissioned Cruise Ships...maybe even an Aircraft Carrier or two.

I'm telling you...they can house a lot of people and...they're cheap like borscht!

Plus you can set them adrift in the middle of the night with very few people noticing.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by SebC

Neoliberal and market capitalist is a gross misrepresentation of our NIMBY-driven housing approach. A truly free market would build a lot more supply where there is demand.

Vancouver has an extreme degree of red tape. It's also a bit of an oligopoly, with a few players getting all the big contracts.

[Winsor_Pilates]

More Than Half of BC Small Businesses Report Surge in Crime

A report on Thursday from the Canadian Federation of Small Business says a majority of Canadian small businesses reported a surge in crime over the last year, with the highest jump in B.C.

The report says B.C. experienced a 27-per-cent increase in crime at small businesses over the past year — higher than the national average of 21 per cent.

“There’s no fear with these people,” she said. “And the police don’t come. There’s no government intervention. Why isn’t anything done about this?”

McSherry’s shop, the Gourmet Warehouse, is at Hastings and Clark streets. She had to hire security guards last year and install anti-theft shutters. But that hasn’t stopped the constant destruction and theft, she added. Insurance claims only go so far, and each time she questions how much longer she can stay in business.

“It’s a war zone down there. They steal from me every day,” she said. “We are victims every day … and the victims are left to clean up the mess every day, and I’m so tired of it.”

[opendoor]

I guess once the votes were cast, the BC Conservatives could really let their true feelings come out (not that there wasn't a long history of insanity before the election):

Marina Sapozhnikov, who finished only 23 votes behind the NDP’s Dana Lajeunesse in Juan de Fuca-Malahat, said that before Europeans came to North America, First Nations Peoples “didn’t have any sophisticated laws. They were savages. They fought each other all the time.”

When the Vancouver Island University student interviewing Sapozhnikov challenged the candidate, she replied: “Not 100 per cent savages, maybe 90 per cent savages.”

During the hour-long interview, a recording of which was given to Postmedia News late Thursday, Sapozhnikov spoke about her concerns with Indigenous history courses being taught in B.C. universities, her view that B.C.’s adoption of the UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act renders every non-Indigenous British Columbian a “second-rate citizen,” and she said that “90 per cent of Indigenous people use drugs.”

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-...genous-peoples

However, since she's one of the Conservatives' only shots of winning enough seats after mail-in ballots are counted, there will be no consequences from the Conservative party.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by opendoor

I guess once the votes were cast, the BC Conservatives could really let their true feelings come out (not that there wasn't a long history of insanity before the election):







https://vancouversun.com/news/local-...genous-peoples



However, since she's one of the Conservatives' only shots of winning enough seats after mail-in ballots are counted, there will be no consequences from the Conservative party.

That's legitimately awful. Like, there's no conceivable excuse here

[opendoor]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

That's legitimately awful. Like, there's no conceivable excuse here

And she's currently within 23 votes of being an MLA. Hopefully past mail-in vote trends continue this year. In prior elections, the NDP's absentee/mail-in vote share was about 2-4 points higher than their in-person share, while the Liberals were 3-5 points lower than in-person. If that happens with the remaining votes, she'll lose and the seat count will remain at 46-45-2.

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Given Vancouver's inevitable destruction by a massive quake, I dunno how wise this is.

Vancouver has had a lot of problems with Cranes at high rise sites lately. Three projects that the company I work at was involved in had some sort of crane issue. The one that I'm on they stacked pallets of bricks on a canopy on the 9th floor. Get a panic call about these canopies collapsing and falling off the building. Turns out after tack welding these up they closed up the exterior forgetting to finish the welding.

Given these stories...building up in Vancouver is terrifying to me.

[Brendone]

Originally Posted by Locke

Think down...not up! Decommissioned Cruise Ships...maybe even an Aircraft Carrier or two.

I'm telling you...they can house a lot of people and...they're cheap like borscht!

Plus you can set them adrift in the middle of the night with very few people noticing.

You could set up a lot of tents on the deck of an aircraft carrier

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by Brendone

You could set up a lot of tents on the deck of an aircraft carrier

And if anyone gets out of line you latch them and their tent to the catapult

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Brendone

You could set up a lot of tents on the deck of an aircraft carrier

Yeah. And they can get blown away into the Pacific.

Its amazing what you can accomplish when just dont give a #### about a certain group of people.

And I doubt they can swim.

The added bonus is after they're swept into the Ocean to their inevitable demise...you could potentially re-use that Aircraft Carrier to do it again...

Its like the old 'Greek Tragedy' strategy. If there were unwanted people or children they'd just abandon them in the woods.

"Well we didn't kill them...the Gods just didnt save them. Not our problem. Blame the Gods." And its all shoulder shrugs, togas and shawarma after that. Problem. Solved.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by btimbit

And if anyone gets out of line you latch them and their tent to the catapult

Sir! I said sir! On this cruise we use a Trebuchet!

[Winsor_Pilates]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/globaln...ent-grows/amp/

NDP lead looks a bit stronger heading into the recounts, particularly in the riding with the racist Conservative Sapozhnikhov.
Final results will be known tomorrow.

[opendoor]

I'd like to say I'm surprised, but some chuds on the right are using the fact that the NDP is significantly outperforming the Conservatives in mail-in votes to sow distrust in the election process and basically start a poor man's "stop the steal" PR campaign in BC.

So far, the party itself isn't doing that to the same degree, but there's lots of "just asking questions" going on among supporters and some right wing media figures. And I don't think it'll take much to tip that right into full blown conspiracy theories about rigged elections if the NDP ends up with a majority.

It's funny, it's basically the exact same thing that happened in 2017 where it took a week or two to sort out the exact seat count and who held the balance of power. But there was little issue then because extremists had a lot less influence on the right than they do now.

[activeStick]

I've noticed recently that it seems to be a bit of a thing on the right where they're now pushing the argument that the indigenous people were brutalizing each other before the white colonizers arrived, as some sort of excuse for what they did to the indigenous. Not sure where it started but I didn't hear this argument before.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by activeStick

I've noticed recently that it seems to be a bit of a thing on the right where they're now pushing the argument that the indigenous people were brutalizing each other before the white colonizers arrived, as some sort of excuse for what they did to the indigenous. Not sure where it started but I didn't hear this argument before.

Yes because us white folks were so effing peaceful throughout our history, like saints we were

[CliffFletcher]

Up until that quite recently, the default state of humanity in every corner of the planet was the powerful invading and enslaving the weak in endless waves of predatory brutality. The historical evidence is pretty clear on this, right back to our earliest origins.

However, in a reaction to the Enlightenment and industrialization, some thinkers in the West romanticized pre-modern societies and fostered the myth of the noble savage - people who lived in peace and harmony with one another and the natural world. As history, this is fanciful nonsense. But as a narrative, it has a powerful emotional draw.

[Winsor_Pilates]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7365413

Conservative lead in Surrey Guilford only 12 votes after recount and 226 absentee ballots to be counted there today.
That could move this into an NDP majority government if that riding shifts and the others stay as they are.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

Yes because us white folks were so effing peaceful throughout our history, like saints we were

Yeah. I mean...take the whitest of the whites...and you're probably talking about blond haired and blue eyed white dudes.

Yeah. They were probably Vikings. Notorious Pacifists those guys. Coming in boats to spread cheer and good news!!

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Up until that quite recently, the default state of humanity in every corner of the planet was the powerful invading and enslaving the weak in endless waves of predatory brutality. The historical evidence is pretty clear on this, right back to our earliest origins.

However, in a reaction to the Enlightenment and industrialization, some thinkers in the West romanticized pre-modern societies and fostered the myth of the noble savage - people who lived in peace and harmony with one another and the natural world. As history, this is fanciful nonsense. But as a narrative, it has a powerful emotional draw.

This is spot on, Cliff.

I wonder how this lady came to start rallying against the "Noble Savage" archetype in an election day speech?

A nice intellectual debate in its own right, but a terrible stump speech.

She also went heavy on the "savages" portion of that debate as well. Quite telling.

[afc wimbledon]

Sapozhnikov is a Russian surname; I mean if you were going to label any race as currently nothing but a bunch of drunken savages I'd put Russians way higher on the effed up scale

Pot meet kettle methinks