Besides babysitting, my first paying job, at 13, was as a counsellor at a Y day camp for a few summers. After turning 16, I became a lifeguard and swimming instructor at outdoor freshwater beach areas.
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Besides babysitting, my first paying job, at 13, was as a counsellor at a Y day camp for a few summers. After turning 16, I became a lifeguard and swimming instructor at outdoor freshwater beach areas.
I love the CBC: radio, podcasts, national news, all of it.
It’s not just geopolitics where his nostalgia is a problem, but the desire to hold on to neoliberal economic policy. It’s time for that to die a horrible death.
Didn’t Alberta put US liquor back on their shelves?
Can’t we have both biopics? It is unfortunate Springsteen has lived and worked in an era of relative peace, yet he has done a lot of good. He donates to community services and striking workers wherever he tours, and has put his weight behind many good causes (e.g. No Nukes and human rights).
When you have think you’re part of the “in group” and thus do not fear persecution, sure! But the convoy people have no knowledge of history, and don’t realize how quickly they could be on the outs with the regime.
We can all endeavour to live up to her rules.
The soundtrack of my childhood: Jazz standards, Broadway musicals, and a couple of Christmas albums from the 50’s and 60’s.
Continuing to strike after being ordered back, even with an imposed contract. There’s a contract now, so you have to work. BCTF stayed out an extra 2 weeks in 2005 before the threats to their finances became too much. Eventually they won at the SCOC in 2016, and had the old contract restored.
And they’ll lose at the SCOC which sided with the BCTF in 2016 over an imposed contract from 2005, setting a precedent nationwide. Freedom to collectively bargain is a right.
This is so worth it. I did it with the BCTF for two weeks. We stayed out after being ordered back in 2005 with an imposed deal. It took until 2016 to have that contract voided by the SCOC, but we were vindicated. The Carney government @mark-carney.bsky.social is offside with this one.
We used to visit that area every couple of years, from 🇨🇦. We’d toodle down the OR coast and spend time and $$ in CA wine country. We may never go back.
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.
Historically bred by poachers in the UK to be silent hunters, and companions. Not a “breed” per se, but a mix of sight hounds. I’m sorry yours was abused before you got him.
Cartoon by Guy Richards Smit.
Lurcher? Famous for being silent?
Notification about the Kennedy Center Honors:
Compassion is free. Support for the unhoused and street-involved is not very costly. In my community, we can call a hotline to report people on the streets whose behaviour is concerning. A team then checks on them, and delivers them to or calls for an appropriate service, if necessary.
Surprised the numbers aren’t even higher. 💪🏼💪🏼🇨🇦
No kidding.
The new lower-pitched, less whiny voice is also creepy. “If I speak like this, people will take me seriously.” Yeah, we take it seriously, like we would a contagion. 😷 🙅♀️🚫
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It’s the hubris. 🤬
My original set was not that much, but it’s stoneware, not fine china. I also add to my collection regularly at thrift shops and antique/junk stores.
On Blue Willow no less … ❤️
Liberté yoghurt, made in Montreal since 1936. It’s the best yoghurt!
This is bringing “Let them eat cake” vibes. The next step is up to our US neighbours. 🔥
Agreed.
In the US, is it not also illegal to transport people in the back of a truck… for any purpose? I know it’s popular with neo-Nasty types and human smugglers, but now law enforcement is doing it? Can local 🚨 authorities charge them?
Don’t be that guy. You can camp without a fire.
Canadians are making choices to travel at home. 💪🏼💪🏼🇨🇦.
I love they use a Keynes quote as an example. The Neoliberal era has immiserated many, and its death throes are going to immiserate many more.
Sure. Create another generation of people who won’t use transit. When it’s cheaper and less hassle to drive the kids, that’s what parents will do.
Read the story again. This was not the parents. This was caused by a child welfare worker — the person helping the parents.
Yes. It’s logical.
Good point.
Kept the bears away … better than “dinner bells”. 🤣
Be bear aware 😜
Good! He is being prevented from spewing his hatred in public, community spaces. As for the MLA’s argument that his rights are being violated, he is free to book an indoor private space for his show.
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Today I was reminded of the the mantra from CBC’s “Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour”: Stay calm! Be brave! Wait for the signs! Perfect for this crazy, distressing era we’re living in. Thanks @todmaffin.com
Yes! DDC was my favourite radio show! I had forgotten the mantra. Now I’m reimplementing it in my life.
Thank you @ndp.ca for negotiating with the minority Liberals for this program, getting it passed in Parliament, and implemented by the federal government.
Sorry it’s actually 300:1. Ferry fares in the maritimes are federally subsidized $300 for every $1 the users of BC ferries receive.
“Privately owned” by the provincial government. 🙄 Commercial and personal travel between many communities in coastal BC is exclusively by ferry. Premier Eby pointed out recently that the eastern ferries are already subsidized by the federal government $100:1 compared to BC ferries.
And there’s the rub.
Be careful on the St. Lawrence River, the Great Lakes and smaller lakes that cross the border (Lake Osoyoos and Lake Champlain come to mind).
No matter how many credit cards you have, the most priceless card you will ever possess in your wallet or purse is your library card.
Total projection. I encourage you to listen to this excellent podcast about the flocked up family from which EM is descended. It starts in the US Midwest and the Canadian prairies. Batsh*t doesn’t begin to describe it. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
Plus … yum!!
Exactly the topic of Winners Take All, by Anand Giridhardadas @anandwrites.bsky.social They not only get richer and richer, while everyone else gets poorer, but they choose the charities that win or lose.
Ravens are such smart birds! It looked like he smiled and celebrated after winning the game... 😊
Renewals today are complicated by the 40 years of neoliberalism: decreasing the size of government, lowering taxes, privatization, and an abhorrence of government debt.
“I’m sorry for what I said when we were parking the camper.”
Pretty much.
I misunderstood. I thought the housing is for those living with mental illness, who could have the means to own a personal car and the wherewithal to operate it. But this information implies it’s only for mentally ill people with low incomes.
Agreed. Collecting ethnicity info for anything other than census data is 🐄 💩
Is it on a bus line? Close to SkyTrain?As planned, +/-16% of occupants (11 households) could park personal vehicles due to designated guest parking (there will be staff, too). That seems low. But 74 is ridiculously high.
Ever notice people on TV and in movies talk on the phone WAY more than real people? Texting is not good visual? 🤷♀️And they rarely say, “Goodbye” at the end of said calls, they just hang up.
Agreed. Capitulating on the DST will not be perceived as a sign of good faith negotiations, but of weakness. We must stand, strong and united, to remain free from tyranny. 💪🏼💪🏼🇨🇦
Not all skin cancers grow in areas of the body exposed to the sun. But exposure to sun is a risk factor for most skin cancers.
Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
This, despite clear “Selection and Acquisition” policies in place in each school district. 🙄 And how does this interference into local government square with the “small government” crowd … oh right, it doesn’t.
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Hug it out!! 😀
One of our favourites, full of classic scenes. The cast is stellar, and they all play it way down. No scene crunching. The scene in the bar where they make up stories about people. 😂
Remember when people moved into the small units in towers on the old Expo ‘86 lands and eventually started having kids? There were no schools.
We have amazing BC wines available in our local grocery store, so my consumption of California wines has dropped significantly in recent years. But now it’s 0. Too bad, because there are some excellent Zinfandels from CA.
A review for those who may need it.
Is it because in some people’s minds South Asian people are the “good kind” of immigrants, and Africans are … not? And they don’t understand how someone can be both? 🤯 Ghandi was both
Commuters make choices (lower housing cost is one) but the commute is rough on them! I live in the car-dependent suburb where I worked, which meant a short drive to work (4km), plus there’s all the green space, leafy streets, etc. Not everyone has that option.
Plans for severe weather have to start way before the storms inevitably hit. Officials must reconsider allowing camping, roads, and homes along rivers that can flood. Likewise, in areas prone to wildfires, officials have to rethink development and infrastructure decisions.
They were then flown to South Sudan.
*Canadian universities.
Canadian cherries are in season right now anyway.
Don’t most universities have on-campus daycares? I know Carleton University has had one for 45+ years.
They’re not of Sudanese descent? They just want to ship them off to a “shithole country”? WTAF
Not in the purpose-built car-dependent suburbs like where I live. It’s getting better, but … trying to get around using transit within Maple Ridge sucks (unless you are an out-bound commuter or going to/from a local high school).
Like Evo (a car share) this will only be available in dense urban areas, leaving car-dependent suburbs… um … dependent on cars/delivery vehicles.
The exact opposite decision was made by SCOC 🇨🇦 in 2002 in Chamberlain vs. Surrey SD.
Except we didn’t just “back down”. Carney dumped an important piece of legislation and source of income for the government.
Very. Very. Disappointing decision.
Proudly democratic socialist.
Not surprised at this, given the source 🙄
There won’t be new private RV parks anytime soon. Land costs are high, and they’re expensive to build (sewage and water infrastructure, electricity). Just like home sharing apps, RV parks make more money from short-term guests than long-term. Long-stay is cheaper in the winter and more available.
Permitting land or home owners to have someone live in an RV on a private lot, with appropriate infrastructure, is probably the way to go. Like a laneway house, but on wheels.
The hubris, the narcissism.
Here in Canada, by regulation, appliance replacement parts need only be available for 7 years after manufacture. If the appliance needs a new part after that, you’re SOL.
Blumenthal should have replied, “I’ll take that as a yes,” both times.
No one is surprised a banker is a neoliberal. Agreed that the alternative was worse. But my head is spinning at the speed with which governments (federal and provincial) are passing legislation to give themselves “freedom” to move quickly on major, controversial projects in response to new US policy
Beautiful, bubbly, buttery baking
They don’t emphasize it in this story, but hassles at the border are real — who needs that at the beginning of a holiday?
Plus, our PM, Mark Carney, shone brightly — as a leader, chair, and diplomat. Your POTUS looked like a schmo
*Undocumented or an asylum claimant
Question from 🇨🇦: how long does it take to sort out if one is not an undocumented immigrant, just a brown American?
Oh, but “we value our customers” 🤣 says a f**king chatbot that can’t actually help me.
Like Drumpf, when PP is quiet his popularity grows.
“Kim Don None” would work, too.