I mean, tax all the churches. End public funding for Catholic education. What the fuck is that shit anyhow?
― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 25 June 2021 00:49 (two years ago) link
all of this is otfm.and abolish the senate while we’re at it. is beyak still a senator?
― scanner darkly, Friday, 25 June 2021 02:01 (two years ago) link
― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, June 24, 2021 8:49 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah while we are at it, 100%.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 25 June 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
co-sign
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Saturday, 26 June 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
Yay, accelerated second dose bookings just opened for all Ontario adults today and I managed to book for later this afternoon. That definitely beats waiting another three months.
― jmm, Monday, 28 June 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
Tomorrow morning for me
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 28 June 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
ontario seems to be quite ahead of BC
― scanner darkly, Monday, 28 June 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
i feel like i'm the only one not rushing and waiting until 10 weeks is up before getting shot #2 (AZ was my first jab)
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 28 June 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
NEW - BC is lifting the requirement to wear a mask in public places on July 1. #bcpoli— Richard Zussman (@richardzussman) June 29, 2021
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
:|got my second today (moderna). feelin' fine so far.
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
nice one!
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
I'm sure I won't stop masking up indoors anytime soon
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 22:52 (two years ago) link
Not really sure what to make of this story: https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/commons-speaker-intends-to-ask-court-to-strike-down-government-lawsuit-challenging-parliaments-right-to-know
On the one hand, Parliament should probably maintain its supremacy. Otoh, it seems like the reasons for the firing are clear enough - is the Opposition actually disputing this?
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
“Fatalities are a part of life.” - Premier John Horgan when asked if his government should have done more to warn the public about dangers of the heat wave. #bcpoli— Mike Smyth (@MikeSmythNews) June 29, 2021
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link
I really was fine with waiting (until late August), but it felt like there was a very vocal push to get you to reschedule, so between that and this Delta variant--of which I've now heard one end of the should-I-be-worried? spectrum to the other--I got it moved up to mid-July.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
I realize that's not the most sensitive thing for a Premier to say but, in practical terms, what sorts of things could the provincial government have done about a heat wave?
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
funding cooling centres, communicating the possible dangers earlier...the deaths seem to be a result of underfunded and overexerted emergency reporting services, which is a failing of government. not something that could have been fixed in a week of course.
I think calling for an inquiry into what went wrong would be appropriate right now. Not downplaying a death count that is in the still being tallied.
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 00:07 (two years ago) link
I rushed to get my second AZ shot, bcz why not
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 00:09 (two years ago) link
That makes sense, sym.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 00:13 (two years ago) link
I got my second shot (the Dolly one) at a pop-up clinic on Friday. No real rush on my part—my in-person job doesn’t start until the fall—but I’m kind of over worrying about all this.
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 00:59 (two years ago) link
I got my second shot moved up from mid-August to this Friday.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
Three minutes later I rebooked an appointment on behalf of my brother, and so many time slots had been taken in that short time, that his appointment is 15 days later than mine.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 02:53 (two years ago) link
182 unmarked graves found at location of former residential school in Cranbrook, BC. Lower Kootenay Band says graves detected using ground penetrating radar at former St. Eugene's Mission School, which closed in 1970. (24-hour crisis line for anyone who needs it: 1-866-925-4419)— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) June 30, 2021
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sudden-deaths-heat-wave-b-c-1.6086770
― symsymsym, Thursday, 1 July 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
https://www.citynews1130.com/2021/06/30/b-c-paramedic-dispatcher-heatwave-emergency/
― symsymsym, Thursday, 1 July 2021 01:35 (two years ago) link
“I didn’t see any managers at any of the hospitals, I mean it was truly an emergency situation. So I don’t know whether they prepared,” Alex said. “The ambulance services is running pretty much at capacity, I mean, on a regular day we’re stretched… So when you add an emergency on top of regular operations, the system isn’t capable of handling it… It was a complete collapse.”
Many other first responder agencies activated their Emergency Operations Centres, according to Luca, but BCEHS refused to do so, despite pleas from several frontline managers and medical officers. He says doing so would have opened additional resources for setting up things like cooling stations and coordinating with partner agencies and hospitals, but the centre wasn’t activated until well into the next morning.
To make matters worse, Luca says the air conditioning in the Vancouver dispatch centre apparently cut out.
“They had to end up trying to find fans and stuff like that just to keep the centre cool. Yeah, no. No preparation of scenes whatsoever.”
Everyone remember when Joe Oliver said climate change would be good for Canada?: https://www.google.com/amp/s/financialpost.com/opinion/joe-oliver-heres-a-truth-few-dare-to-utter-canada-will-benefit-from-climate-change/wcm/190315ec-083d-489e-928f-ff742a7179b4/amp/
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 1 July 2021 03:04 (two years ago) link
The story about emergency services is grim.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 1 July 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
joe oliver is a fucking moron
― symsymsym, Thursday, 1 July 2021 04:28 (two years ago) link
Oh god, I remember that column. The absolute cynicism.
― jmm, Thursday, 1 July 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/02/queen-victoria-statue-toppled-in-canada-amid-anger-at-deaths-of-indigenous-children
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 July 2021 09:21 (two years ago) link
The ongoing campaign on the right to somehow tar Pierre Trudeau, and by extension his son, because he was PM while residential schools never ceases to amaze; it's like if the GOP kept trying to argue that statues of FDR should be taken down because segregationist laws were in place while he was President. In this instalment, the National Post's Kelly McParland opines that PET should be condemned just as much as John A. McDonald because his government ... published a paper that was withdrawn a year later.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 2 July 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/kelly-mcparland-turning-a-blind-eye-to-pierre-trudeaus-unseemly-indigenous-assimilation-plan
republicans never tire of saying things like "dEmOcRaTs sTaRtEd the KKK" while loudly protesting the removal of confederate statues, so I wouldn't look to the GOP for a model of coherence here
― rob, Friday, 2 July 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
Haha, true enough. "Liberals interned the Japanese" or "PET sent troops to Quebec" would at least make sense. Not saying PET was a hero on this issue but not only did he not begin the programme, his government took it out of the hands of the Catholic Church and began phasing out the schools. The Kamloops school was closed in 78 when he was PM, for instance. It's p obvious that he's only being singled out vs every other pre-1996 PM because he was the father of the current PM.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 2 July 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
yeah that headline should be about chretien
― symsymsym, Friday, 2 July 2021 14:55 (two years ago) link
has anyone talked abt the bottlemen podcast itt? it's kind of the canadian politics podcast that ive been craving
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Saturday, 3 July 2021 03:36 (two years ago) link
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/mary-simon-named-as-canada-s-first-indigenous-governor-general-1.5498146
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 16:37 (two years ago) link
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqvkw/qanons-are-harassing-people-at-the-whim-of-a-woman-they-say-is-canadas-queen-romana-didulo
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 09:07 (two years ago) link
Many of Didulo’s followers seem to believe she’s holding tribunals behind the scenes, which are resulting in the executions they’re thirsting for. These followers use extremely tenuous scraps of evidence to prove Didulo is actually in power—including the fact that Romana Didulo is an anagram for “I Am Our Donald.”
Sounds legit.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 09:08 (two years ago) link
And the kicker: 'Didulo has said that if the people who received the cease and desist orders from her followers break them, they will be executed.'
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 09:10 (two years ago) link
Happening in Montreal now too:https://old.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/oj2ooa/maskless_karens_appear_to_be_dropping_off_bizarre/
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
Heh, that's precisely where I got wind of it.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
grammar isn't Qanon's strong point
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
Jmm (anyone else in Ottawa Centre?), have you been keeping up with the federal NDP nomination race in this riding? The virtual meeting is Saturday and votes are being taken in electronically for 24h. We have two candidates to choose from. I just started looking into them today. Right now, I'm strongly leaning towards Lyra Evans (http://www.lyraevans.ca), for whom I previously voted for school board, over Angella MacEwan (https://www.angellaforottawa.ca). I'm not sure I agree with all of her stances (she would definitely be on the left of the party) but some are good and she seems to at least have clear stances and priorities.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 15 July 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
I mean, she might just be better at making a website, so I'll keep reading.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 15 July 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
I haven't been following it at all! Thanks for the links.
― jmm, Friday, 16 July 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
Evans impressed us a lot more at the nomination meeting too, although it looks like my own membership had lapsed. Anyway, MacEwan won; I might actually vote for the federal Liberals for the first time.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Sunday, 18 July 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
Acc to two anonymous sources, the Greens are cancelling the confidence vote on Annamie Paul's leadership: https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2021/07/18/green-party-to-cancel-vote-to-oust-leader-annamie-paul-sources.html
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 19 July 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
yeah that vote didn't make any sense, what would they do if she lost right before an election was called
― symsymsym, Monday, 19 July 2021 02:23 (two years ago) link