Justin McElroy 🇨🇦

All of the theme park mascots roaming around to take photos with the children would be absolutely terrifying

you can say that there are many people who have pointed out the steam clock is fake and that journalists rarely influence the public but just until hudson’s next interview when he proactively talks about how vancouver is a complex patchwork of 21 municipalities

you know what, i’m taking credit

oh so now i have to go through a whole day?

Just come out of the locker room 5x5 and dare the IOC to stop you

it could only be this way

I DONT HATE THIS

DONT LIKE THIS

me: sports are a fun diversion and everyone is trying their best

also me: the refs are fascist

entirely too much happening

at the “screaming alone in my house to nobody” stage of things

Intense Game
Richard Brodeur
n.d.

HOW

FINALLY

it’s amazing how good this hockey and infuriating that we didn’t get to have it for 12 years

would have to check but it was a lien that was due if you changed ownership title, so it was more casual arbitrage on a massive scale then anything truly bizarre, but still very unique!

B.C. was the only place in Canada that let people 55-65 not pay property taxes.

It was the only place where not paying them wasn’t means tested.

It was the only place where not paying them was balanced against loans *below* prime rate.

If that’s your baseline, cancellation feels very mean.

Geller is expressing confusion to the backlash of B.C. reforming a program of letting people not pay property taxes which was without precedent in Canada in terms of scope and generosity.

But it’s a reminder that most people’s sense of “fairness” is relative to their own baseline experience.

Canadian Tire store in Ottawa. giant red triangles everywhere

in Canada we have a store called "Canadian Tire" and you're probably thinking "a store named after a tire definitely has a circle for a logo" but no, you're wrong. they chose a colossal red triangle

Ehhh from my recollections a decade ago (oh god I’ve done this for too long) it was a mix — there wasn’t regional support AND local politicians decided not to fight to the hilt in part because it wasn’t a political slam dunk

UBC not bringing anything meaningful to the table also didn’t help

As The Vancouver Left Turns: OneCity has backed off their conditions to COPE and Greens of “you can’t sign up any new members” and “you have to agree this week” (probably because it went over like a led balloon), and say negotiations are back on

THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP TOUR IS OVER: CANADA'S TEAM BRAD JACOBS WIN OLYMPIC CURLING GOLD

comments are good again

Sean Orr is all but certain to run for council instead of mayor, but him getting thousands more views for his announcement than Azaroff’s ultimatum post is an affirmation to COPE supporters that they have their own leverage in these conversations

the Laurentian Elite secretly control the Olympics to conspire against western canada

OUR COUNTRY’S FAVOURITE WEIRDLY INTENSE AND JOYLESS SON

one of the great things about taking harbour air is seeing the stark urban geography of metro vancouver from such a unique view

important fact checking

No, the government is not going to turn the Pattullo Bridge into a pedestrian walkway

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