![]() Why detached home prices in Greater Vancouver have been rising, while condo prices have stayed static. So why do we say it when they live in a tent? If the criminal had been found in an apartment, would we be saying “apartments create and harbour criminals”? Probably not. As long as we continue to police the symptoms instead of the causes, this will keep happening. Weird what happens when you constantly criminalize the homeless, offer them no place to go, and chase them around the city from camp to camp without offering a shred of social support. Search in Vancouver senior’s killing leads to confrontation between police, residents of homeless camp. Reckless, selfish indifference: Out-of-bounds snowboarder not very grateful for help, North Shore Rescue says. Why doesn’t our public health officer understand least harm? Un4u3Dk9nRīringing COVID home to kill your grandma is also known to cause devastating effects Please feel free to respond publicly or DM me if you wish to contribute useful and accurate information. This thread will explore the endless errors, evasions, obfuscations, insincerity and incompetence of Bonnie Henry. The Sun spelled “fucking incompetence spliced with sociopathic indifference” wrong. We are a gutless, paternalistic, neoliberal outpost that relies on some antique notion of bootstrap personal responsibility to absolve the government of having to actually make decisions: Pandemic fatigue cuts support for Dr. ![]() You can overhaul the Police Act now.īut that’s how we roll. Horgan, cities can make their own decisions. What is the point of pretending to have local representation when we have this outdated, bureaucratic, glorified “farm team” of a system? Believe it or not, Mr. Not that it matters, but the one place that dared to freeze a police budget just gets completely ignored: New West council backs down on proposal to freeze police budget after police board disapproves. Wait, they couldn’t be using the pandemic to blackmail us into increasing their budget, could they? The VPD have enough resources to constantly harass poor people but they can’t bust a fucking house party? They seemed to have no problem doing that a decade ago when their budget was half what it is now. This is a province where people are on the verge of eviction everyday and you have the nerve to demand special treatment for luxuriating in the warmth of a country riddled with COVID19?īut what else do you expect? We are a shining city on a hill of wanton entitlement, the poster child of banal self indulgence: 100 cheeseburgers, mood lights and exotic dancers: Search warrant details alleged pandemic penthouse party. You want an exemption? You’re lucky we don’t just throw you in the gulags to live out your miserable selfish existences. The entitlement here is wretched and stinking. snowbirds ‘trapped’ in Arizona want exemption from $2,000 quarantine. This is a country that takes vaccines from a fund that helps developing countries and where boomers are complaining about being trapped for wintering in the States: B.C. One where we use restart funds to cover the pay cut of Translink’s CEO, and another where small businesses and music venues continue to drop like flies. Because the genocidal colonial project is vicious and never ending. One Canada where a board member of local civic party can brag about going to the Superbowl, and the other where we not only deny vaccines to a remote indigenous community because they were two minutes late to confirm but we frame it as “a gift”: Officials apologize after more than 200 vaccine doses pulled from remote B.C. Tea & Two Slices is a long-running local news round-up by NEEDS frontman and veteran dishwasher Sean Orr, who lives and works in Gastown, deeply aware of his privilege.
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