So Im eyeballs deep in one of the worst things about living in Vancouver; the job hunt. See, unlike the rest of the world, employers here seem to have no urgency in getting a position filled. Allow me to use an example (albeit anonymous) of what I am talking to. In January I was interviewed by a local tech group in which I was basically told a) I got the position and b) they would be contacting me shortly to finalize the position.
One annoying thing about looking for a job in Vancouver is something called the stress interview. A fad of the 80’s, it seems that some Vancouver businesses can’t get enough of this interview. Here’s the deal: if the interview starts out real well, almost too well - just wait and the switch will happen. Ive had interviews where all the windows in the room were open allowing the street traffic to drown out questions, having the interviewer read other resumes or not listen to the questions, argue that your answers arent complete even though they are. I know that this has been claimed as a good way to find out how a candidate behaves under pressure but to be honest its a shite way to make a first impression.
So Mr. Flaherty, got your shoes fixed huh. Wish I could afford to do the same. Unfortunatly for me your government FUCKED OUR ECONOMY SO HARD UP THE ASS SHE MIGHT NEVER WALK RIGHT AGAIN!!! Next time you decide to sneak up on an unsuspecting nation and ram her hard through the back door at the very least use some lube. You’d think you’d have a ready supply being as you’re a crony of the oil industry. They’ll send you some, just ask.
What the fuck! We went through years of heavy Liberal budget slashing to undue the damage caused by the last Tory disaster machine. It was brutal but admittedly it worked. Now the Tories are back and they’ve already spend the massive multi year surplus gifted to them by the liberals. That’s what I call a major fuck up. It was time for reinvestment in our country Mr. “it wasn’t me ma it was the liberals” Harper. Yeah, it was the liberals who cleaned up the mess of your sleazy fuck nut predecessor.
So Canada has now allowed the forty year mortgage, which is lovely. Now the bank owns not half of your productive life as it did at the previous 25 year level, but all of your productive life. Yes all of it. And probably some of your children’s. And god forbid that at any point in the next forty years something should happen be it job loss, sickness, family problems, etc etc. Then all the money you’ve spent you’re entire life pouring into that money pit, including upgrades, repairs and maintenance, will be gone as the bank swoops in and forecloses. Maybe you’ll get lucky and the real estate market will just drop and you will spend those forty years paying off that massive mortgage in order to continue to own you’re now moderatly priced house. But none of those things will happen, it’s only forty years and its obviously clear sailing the whole way. Can’t you tell? Just squint. There you go.
So the Fraser Institute has launched it’s latest assault on our public institutions, this time a ranking of BC hospitals. The part they and the news media, who are very receptive to any Fraser report, are in a tizzy about is that the Provence will not give them the information to allow them to identify individual hospitals. Their argument: that we are consumers who should have this information to choose which hospital we go to, treating hospitals as hotels, as they put it.
Remember the Vancouver of not so long ago? It was a place of promise and of possibility, a place where things were happening. Now it is an empty chromey shell of tiny condos and yuppie wankers.
We used to have a place called The Blinding Light, a small cinema cafe that went beyond art house straight into the fringe. It was the epicenter of experimental cinema, of a thriving super 8 movement, it was a venue for real film artists to congregate, to show their work, to try their experiments, to feed off each others creative energy.
Watch as Susan Bonner deftly cuts Prentice’s answers to threads. It was the people of Canada who paid off the debt not the Liberal budgets? Really? I dont remember working on the budget or making any payments personally to the debt. Oh wait it was my tax dollars under the Liberal budget. I love the fact that he tries to claim facts as points of debate.
http://caiti-online.blogspot.com/2008/02/jim-prentice-we-believe-you-just-like_20.html
and apparently neither is the National Post:
It’s not very often you hear words of praise or preference about anything Dion from the Post but I like many other Canadians have come to the same conclusion: Im just not dumb enough to buy that argument.
Hey Gents, she’s single! (I wonder why)
” This is to the bald guy who kicked my cellphone onto the tracks at the Broadway SkyTrain station. I’m sorry if my conversation was bothering you. I’m a fun person and like to laugh. I guess you’re just not a morning person. I could tell you were an ass when you got on at Metrotown. You were sitting behind me with some dumb book. I could feel your eyes burning through the back of my head while I got the 911 (sic) from my friend. When I dropped my phone at Broadway station, instead of being a gentleman and picking it up for me, you kicked it onto the tracks! How was I supposed to get it back? Oh, and I heard you mutter that I was a “braying c—” and then you walked away. One question: What the hell’s wrong with you? And why didn’t anybody else go onto the tracks and try to get the phone back for me? Aren’t there any real men left in Vancouver?”
To the boomer generation, please just get on with it and die. You’ve already fucked up the environment, the social safety net, politics, the economy, our social infrastructure and just about everything else you’ve touched. You have now oppressed two subsiquent generations, and these are you’re children mind you you have the job of cleaning up the soul crushing mess you’ve left in you’re wake. You refuse to retire and let your heirs have their turn at the wheel because your heads are so far up you’re asses you think only of yourselves and can’t comprehend that maybe other people might have a better idea of what’s going on.
Ladies, when your on a first date at a coffee shop and the dude offers to buy you a coffee, do not clutch your wallet to your chest and state boldly that you can buy your own coffee, thank you very much. Any self respecting man is walking out right then and there. Its a $2 coffee for god’s sake, acting like I’m trying to buy your virtue ends any attraction right then and there.
What’s with y0u hipster dudes? You’re style’s can be summed up as sleazy retro cornball. You guys who dressed up in your ruffled suits with grease-ball hair (and often mustache) walking around like your some genius of fashion, a complete original dressed just like all your other friends. Get a clue.
So apparently the city and provence will pay its employees to “volunteer” for the Olympics. Not only this, it will reimburse private companies to pay its employees to “volunteer.” So now the tax payer has to pay even more to have the Olympics.
At last the writers strike is coming to an end, now all the idling wankers polluting our city can go back to their jobs making shitty American production. At least it keeps them out of the way. For the most part anyway.
“I think there’s been constructive engagement with Alberta and I think the difference is they’re the only ones regulating. No other province is regulating large final emitters . . . So the national numbers stand, and I think we’ve been working constructively with them.” - John Baird 1/2/08
Horseshit I say! Im sorry Rusty but Im not that dumb. Intensity based targets are horseshit and Im not eating what you are feeding.
Source:
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=0f41a4a5-b43f-4425-a6b8-e7308cc0c6fc&k=79028
Mobiles, Blackberries, Hair, Clothes - when does a vancouverite find the time to operate their vehicle?
We’ve got a guest star here. He doesnt seem to realize that his minivan has a blind spot the size of an orca. Oh well that’s what car insurance is for
Its good to see that Im not the only one disturbed by Canada’s Totalitarian Government’s behaviour. 900ft Jesus puts it very nicely here.
Liberal, Conservative or NDPer this is a disturbing trend. The PM is centralizing power around himself. No single individual should wield such power over others in Canada and especially not our PM. What the hell is wrong with us if we sit and accept this.
This is bullshit fake freedom and maybe for once we can get off our asses and do something about this. Either that or we’re going to see our country redefined without our input or consent.
As Politiblogo says this has a bad whiff of Amerika
http://politblogo.typepad.com/politblogo/2008/01/the-scientist-a.html
Ill-considered response to an ethics issue undermines Harper’s own integrity
- Vancouver Sun Feb 01/08
Any proof that Harper actually has integrity or ever did can be emailed to info@meancouver.com
From The Vancouver Sun Feb 01/08
“Environment Canada has “muzzled” its scientists, ordering them to refer all media queries to Ottawa where communications officers will help them respond with “approved lines.”
So where is the transparency and clarity there?
“designed to control the department’s media message and ensure there are no “surprises” for Environment Minister John Baird and senior management when they open the newspaper or turn on the television”
So does that mean that PMSH and Big Ass Baird think that we are as dumb as them and actually believe their party lines?
Some mornings when I really have nothing better to read, I pick up a copy of the free newspaper 24hours. Most of the time it just humours me with it’s tabloid nature and its sources like SFGate for “news”. Though reading the column yesterday got me thinking
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/Columnists/RightOn/
Now apparently everything is falling off the rails right away according to Ms Airton but really, it feels more like its a published figment. Right On was a great delusional view of the Vancouver Garbage Strike last year where Ms Airton portrayed the union members as nothing better than orcs whilst the mighty and noble mayor Sam Sullivan graciously saved the masses of Vancouver from those evil garbage orcs. Yeah right - maybe I should buy my stuff from your dealer.
This morning on the way to work I decided to try something different. I was in line for the b-line bus at Broadway and Commercial where the lines are long and the patience is short. I’m about 10 feet from the bus when this person with fluffy poodle hair and double bubble pink leg warmers and a coat walks up to the door and starts fluffing her hair more in a poorly masked attempt to jump the queue.
