The Vancouver Police must not have much to do, every day this week they’ve been out at Ontario and Broadway busting the guys who wait there for stray employment. Ontario street has always been the place to go if you need work under the table.
One step below Labour Ready on the Blue Collar Hierarchy, people go there to hire someone to move some boxes, or load their car, or any other basic labor job, negotiated on the spot, usually for very cheap.
It’s good to see that Vancouver’s infrastructure is in tip top shape with large swaths of downtown totally without power due to a power substation fire. The cause, the suspicious and yet unexplained failure of a power cable. Not only are parts of downtown having to shut down (including luxury hotels and high-rises) but the Harbor Center and the many major internet service providers inside are also out of luck, affecting service not only in the city but in the states as well.
The money men have always had their voices raised in a chorus of whinny indignation at how regulations, public ownership and sensible policy interfere with their God given right to make more money. They always will too, but unfortunately right now Canada and many other countries have in place governments that are receptive to their self involved bellyaching. So in order that obsolete commercial systems can squeeze more money out of a marketplace they have mercilessly milked for centuries, our governments are ready to sell out the privacy and civil rights of their citizens.
Fuck Water!
We as a nation known in some circles as Canada face a dire threat. This threat, a threat from within, is more dire and threatening then any dire threat we have been direly threatened with before.
This is not the massing of highly trained Taliban troops around the Canadian mission in Kandahar. This is not the drowning of our economy in Tar Money nor the endless scandal’s and shady deals that glom to my government on a weekly basis. No, the direness of this threat is greater then all these combined.
Vancouver just jumped once again in its lame factor as one of its few decent pieces of public art is shipped off to Alberta. Unfortunately its not one of the endless and tacky orcas or bears or any number of the contraptionous shit art that lines the north shore of false creeks sea wall. Instead of liberating our city of these embaressments we are ditching “Object For Rooting Out Evil.”
We are told that the controversy behind the move isn’t religious as would be ones first guess. No, the reason Vancouver is losing this strange little structure is because people were complaining it was blocking their view of the harbour.
Who thought that it would be an 83 year old heart patient that would be the latest victim of our cowardly cops. Yes he had a knife, a pocket knife, but apparently our cops no longer even bother to try and talk people down, like the unfortunate Robert Dziekanski who RCMP killed by continually zapping and then piling on.
What the fuck is going on with employers in this country? Aside from their increasingly crazy lingo and unreasonable qualifications requests (as if every job requires a bachelors Degree AND at least five years experience,) or conversely your over qualified and you have to take your masters degree off your resume just to get lower paying work because the rents due and your credit card is maxed from buying food. We get low-ball wages ($12.50 an hour is far to frequent a figure,) surprise phone interviews, never being contacted (or even having phone calls returned) after interviews, people strung along for weeks at a time, stress interviews (even being told that you CAN”T LEAVE the interview,) open mockery at interviews and telling people they have a job and then changing their minds.
Wow, the Hipster Wankers have screwed up again. The new uniforms for our athletes going to Beijing are an embarrassing mess that reek of the Wanker Elite and their atrocious tastes. The worst of all the outfits is the track suits covered in the eye tangling montage of red and white shit that I can’t make out other then the occasional piece of maple leaf. The shorts and singlet isn’t so bad though, has a bit of a sixties cut. They won’t be waring that in the opening ceremonies though. Imagine, all our athletes marching out in a crowd waring those track suits. I wouldn’t recommend viewing by epileptics.
The Homemadesimplesquad and Kim Woodburn truly drive me crazy. They are a frustrating distraction from the frustrations of day to day life in Vancouver. Really are these things so hard to do? Did you really need to put out a TV commercial to tell me to crush the shittickets so they dont roll off the wheel? Dont you think kids have figured a way around that?
So now all of the commercials can be found at the Best Dressed Chicken in Town. We were far too tired from all the carpal tunnel inspiring blogging to say much on them but we will. believe me we will. So until then comment away
Oh no, Vancouver isn’t ranked #1 place to live in the world anymore. Those with their smug little illusions of paradise on earth all seem to squirm when they hear that Vancouver has just been ranked #10 in Canada (not the world) by MoneySense Magazine. The rich newsmen and the downtown seawall joggers all dismiss the ranking, looking to the scenery with glazed over eyes extolling that how could anyplace with this view not be heaven? They dismiss with a shrug the MoneySense Criteria such as Jobs, housing costs, access to doctors, cost of living and other such trivial concerns.
Harper’s Conservatives have always, with loud voices, trumpeted that they represent Canada, that they have strong and wide spread grass roots support, that Canada gave them a mandate to do whatever they want because what they want and what Canada wants are inseperable.
Yet, all this talk seems somewhat hallow and overblown. It makes one want to look a little closer at who they are representing.
Is it Canadians?
I can’t believe I just saw Dr. Phil tell his audience that they should all immediately call the authorities about anyone they suspect might maybe possibly be a pedophile. Luckily Dr. Phil’s power has been in sharp decline since he was outed as a fraud. Still, what remains of his audience I’m sure will count it as their duty to keep up the witch hunt and flood the police with baseless accusations, thus diverting them from finding the actual sexual predators. Good job.
Maybe it’s just me but did the frequency of the Home Made Simple Squad decrease in recent days? I mean all of the regulars are still there: Grey Power, Brand Power, Direct Buy, The freakin Chip reverse mortgage but Ms Woodburn and her cronies seem to have decreased in frequency. Not that Im complaining as I was just getting pissed off with having to hear that sexist tripe paraded out like the 1950’s were the latest thing in vogue.
Perfect.
Frubes huh? Almost as bad as the “we’d all eat cookies all the time if we knew they were good for us” Would we really? How about a cookie salad? or a cookie steak?
… make me part of the Homemade Simple Squad? This is one ad campaign that has really gotten under my skin. “Ladies, you can do dishes and laundry so it’s obvious that is why you were chosen for a crack squad of cleaners”
Puuuulease, not only does this pathetic campaign really get under my skin for the role that it relegates women to but it also belittles men. Jeez I lived alone for years and I did my own dishes and laundry. Mind you my place didnt smell like lavender/vanilla but neither did I feel the need to spray my stuff with chemicals. Maybe it’s just me but any time Ive ever wanted things to smell fresh Ive just opened the window. As for lavender well the stuff is easy to grow and smells a lot better so why the hell would I want to spray my place with chemicals?
The problem here, other then the economic reality that this bill will destroy Canada’s film and television industries, is exactly its stated purpose. McVety wants to stop the tax funding of the “grossly offensive.” Guess what bucko, Art is offensive, otherwise it isn’t Art. Art challenges perceptions, notions, taste, reality. This is its function, this is what it does and if something as vanilla as the representation of sex on screen and the use of the word fuck in the title is the lightening rod example to justify this moronic bill then Canadian Art on screen is fucking doomed.
What goes around comes around…
source | Vancouver Sadomasochist Denied Chauffeurs Job | The News is NowPublic.com
| Panel may rule if Sex Practices Protected
What is the world coming to? When a decent sadomasochist cant get a chauffeur’s job
What will it take to silence this idiot McVety. He’s got a petition of 750000 names? Big fucking deal Chuck you live in a country of 32 million. I think we as Canadians need to tell Rev McVety to shut up and let Canadians decide what Canadians want. Not some half educated populist nutbar.
I am 100% removing all tax free status from religious organizations. Check out his lame ass answers.
What is dirty and offensive McVety? You definitely are to me
Wandering Coyote: Let Me Show You Where to Shove Your Swiffer, Mr. Clean
Its great to know that I’m not alone in disliking the HMSS. I had forgotten about the Grey Power ads (you know the ones where the guy pulls up to the intersection and stops correctly at the lines, cheers about his music then drives away reasonably followed by the line”You dont drive like this guy” Of course you dont you drive like you’re 80) but even they arent even near as bad as the HMSS.
I have far too much time on my hands and one of the problems with having too much time on your hands is minor things become major annoyances. Take the Home Made Simple Squad. Lead by the terrifying Kim Woodburn, the HMSS is hell bent on pulling the status of women back to the fifties whilst portraying men as incapable of wiping their own ass without the help of their wives and most likely a sheet of Bounce to keep things smelling fresh.
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Canadian Louise Arbour, former Justice of the Supreme court of Canada, a former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and most recently the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights retires and the entire World thanks her for her long and dedicated service.
Except Canada apparently. We were the ONLY ONES without something to say, and she’s a citizen of our country! Apparently its all under direct orders from Mr Harper that not even a thank you, not even a courtesy wave recognizing that she even existed be issued.
So, it has only to pass the senate and then the government of Canada will be able to retroactively remove tax credits from movies it finds “offensive.” In their statement to the press they said that they want to make sure our money isn’t going to hate propaganda, porno or violence. I know Canada has recently been producing a glut of federally funded violent hate porn, but do we really want a bunch of uncultured hick MPs from Alberta to tell us what films Canada can make?
Dear Global Morning News
Global news is an embarrassing display of Vancouver shitiness. Moronic banter, unlikable personalities and general idiocy being what my poor flu soaked brain was subjected too. Worst of all being the lame duck style matron who had absolutely trite and useless Valentines day advice that scored at about a twelve year old’s level of comprehension. Her frumpy shirt and godawful ugly feather hair thing was an ill composed outfit that made me want to puke on sight. After her bitchy undertone drilled her asinine comments into my brain, she was then mocked by the anchor causing her barely contained bitterness at being a lonely bitch start to come to the surface. Thanks for making my morning news worse then the flu virus currently ravaging my body.
Hipsters and wankers and ponces and a disturbing number of the general population have taken to the newest and yet lamest form of conversation. Yes, even more shallow so then the much maligned, yet ever useful topic of weather.
This new form of communication has send us back to the verbal equivalent of the tickertape. It is list based, it is brief, and it is incapable of depth. This is codification of cool, canonized by the yuppie demagogue’s of the city’s “creative” professionals and imposed upon a desperate and clamoring throng of those daring to seek social and economic mobility . It is competitive, stagnant and stupid.
So I’m installing a lawn at this big ass house by the drive and this young man with quite swarthy skin and dark curly hair comes walking by. He starts asking about the house, asking if “a Chinese” owned it. I said no, it was an Albertan woman who had bought the thing.
The young man then says “Isn’t it good to have white people buying houses again.”
First of all, who are these “white people” you want to be buying houses? And because I am ‘white’ this for some reason means I should be happy that an obnoxious Albertan with alabaster skin bought a house?
Have you ever found yourself in this situation: You’re at work or somewhere you cannot leave. A person plugs their iPod into speakers and then you have free music for the time you’re there. Sounds great huh? Well it depends doesnt it. For the past two days I have been sitting by such a person and heard the U2 catelogue for the entire time.
Not being a Bono fan to begin with this is annoying to begin with but that damn “It’s a Beautiful Day” song has been creeping into my ears over 10 times !