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#1361 aastra

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Posted 16 March 2023 - 01:27 PM

 

“The 1990 policy does not take into consideration important societal shifts such as reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, addressing issues of equity, diversity and inclusion or the ongoing digital transformation,” wrote the department. “As a trusted source of information, museums can help educate the public and encourage debate on issues such as climate change, equity, diversity and inclusion. Museums must also consider these issues in their behind-the-scenes operations.”

 

Can anyone remember all the way back to (gasp) 1990, when many of those supposed concerns were front and center already, and had been front and center already for some time? If you can remember, please proceed to the nearest internment camp ASAP. Remembering stuff is a thought crime.

 

Insincere buzzwords, endless re-definitions and shifting of the goalposts, etc. It's politics. It's all fake.


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#1362 Barrrister

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Posted 16 March 2023 - 01:29 PM

It is actually evil.


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#1363 aastra

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Posted 16 March 2023 - 01:30 PM

Politics is one of many manifestations of falsehood and evil, no argument.



#1364 Mike K.

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Posted 16 March 2023 - 01:35 PM

“The 1990 policy does not take into consideration important societal shifts such as reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, addressing issues of equity, diversity and inclusion or the ongoing digital transformation,” wrote the department. “As a trusted source of information, museums can help educate the public and encourage debate on issues such as climate change, equity, diversity and inclusion. Museums must also consider these issues in their behind-the-scenes operations.”

 

 

Encourage debate?


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#1365 Nparker

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Posted 16 March 2023 - 01:36 PM

...Insincere buzzwords, endless re-definitions and shifting of the goalposts, etc. It's politics. It's all fake.

Politics is one of many manifestations of falsehood and evil, no argument.

While politics may be fake, political decisions have real and often negative consequences.


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#1366 aastra

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Posted 16 March 2023 - 01:38 PM

 

Encourage debate?

 

Sure, as long as you debate in the officially approved manner and within the narrow confines established by your intellectual/emotional/spiritual overlords.


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#1367 aastra

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Posted 16 March 2023 - 01:46 PM

 

political decisions have real and often negative consequences.

 

In the history of politics has any political figure at any level ever made an independent decision of any kind? Has there ever been a political figure who was even capable of making an independent decision? Politics is theatre and politicians are actors. They play their parts in exchange for fleeting and ultimately meaningless material rewards.

 

Or maybe it's all just a wild coincidence that every level of politics in every jurisdiction in the world has the exact same cast of characters saying and doing the exact same ridiculous things?


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#1368 Mike K.

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Posted 16 March 2023 - 01:52 PM

If science is settled, what is there to debate?


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#1369 Nparker

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Posted 16 March 2023 - 02:39 PM

Politics is theatre and politicians are actors. They play their parts in exchange for fleeting and ultimately meaningless material rewards...

I am not suggesting that political theatre doesn't exist, just that it's a tragedy and we, its audience, are left worse off for its endless performances.



#1370 dasmo

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Posted 16 March 2023 - 03:01 PM

If science is settled, what is there to debate?

How settled it is…

#1371 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 22 March 2023 - 04:19 PM

Popular Victoria historic site closes citing lack of provincial funding

Point Ellice House and Gardens is operated by a non-profit on behalf of the province




The biggest problem is that it’s not that “popular”. Visitor numbers are dismal. And colonialism etc. might be sealing its fate.



https://www.vicnews....incial-funding/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 March 2023 - 04:20 PM.


#1372 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 22 March 2023 - 04:23 PM

I believe it receives less than 5,000 visitors per year.

#1373 Nparker

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Posted 22 March 2023 - 04:26 PM

Popular Victoria historic site closes citing lack of provincial funding...Point Ellice House and Gardens is operated by a non-profit on behalf of the province...

...director Kelly Black said “I did everything I could – letters from community groups/businesses, news stories, meetings with ministers/MLAs. It didn’t change the trajectory the government has set for its heritage sites...

Let's face it, if a provincial heritage site can't prove its woke value, the NDP want nothing to do with it. Worst. Provincial. Government. Ever.

ps: the location of Point Ellice House also kind of sucked



#1374 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 22 March 2023 - 04:29 PM

Time to raze it! And Emily Carr House too, she was too white. And a settler.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 March 2023 - 04:29 PM.

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#1375 Nparker

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Posted 22 March 2023 - 04:31 PM

I imagine Emily Carr House won't be far behind. Her connection to First Nations peoples and to a lesser extent being a woman, is all that keeps her from being denigrated.



#1376 Blair M.

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Posted 22 March 2023 - 07:59 PM

Over the years the city of victoria has zoned the properties bordering point ellice house into an industrial wasteland.

 

It's actually pretty impressive that they managed to hold on this long, the house has been on the cusp of closing for years now.



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Posted 22 March 2023 - 10:12 PM

Coming soon, Point Ellice House safe injection and inhalation site.
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#1378 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 23 March 2023 - 03:00 AM

Maybe the entire thing should be volunteer-run?

 

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...luffing-6744230

 

Wednesday’s sudden closing of the Point Ellice House Museum and Gardens was not, in fact, sudden.

 

The operators of the Victoria heritage gem had warned for years that they would have to pull the plug if the province didn’t provide sustainable funding.

 

The big question now is: Will other publicly owned historical properties follow?

 

“We’re the first to close. There are likely to be others,” says Kelly Black, the executive director of the latest non-profit group to try, and fail, to keep Point Ellice House going.

 

Just look at what is happening around us, Black says. The third floor of the Royal B.C. Museum remains closed. The Bateman Gallery just pulled the plug on its Inner Harbour location. Barkerville, the jewel of the Cariboo, has struggled. “It’s not looking good for B.C.’s museums and heritage sites right now.”

 

The government, though, argues that it has made ­significant investments in Point Ellice House. It also says heritage-site operators’ requests for more money “must be considered in light of other heritage sites that British Columbians would like the province to also fund and protect.”

 

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Running the place sustainably would cost $325,000 a year, he says. The government budgeted $110,000 for operations for the coming year. The gift shop and admission fees don’t come close to narrowing the gap. “The costs are way more than we are able to bring in, in revenue.”

 

The Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport says it has paid a lot since 2019: a total of $425,000 for site operations, $338,000 for site maintenance and a one-time $226,000 grant through the B.C. 150 Time Immemorial program.

 

It says it has not yet been ­officially notified by the society that it is stepping away from its contract, which runs until 2024.

 

“If the province receives official notice that Point Ellice’s operator would like to leave the contract, we will follow a process to find a new operator, which will take an estimated two to three months. During that time, we would look for options to maintain public access and maintain security of the site.”


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 23 March 2023 - 03:02 AM.


#1379 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 09 May 2023 - 11:39 AM

The last holdout in the province’s abandoned plan to replace the Royal BC Museum will be re-opening at the end of next month.

Old Town will be reopening on July 29, though there will be some changes to the exhibit museum patrons remember from before it closed on Dec. 31, 2021.

The garage, train station, hotel, saloon, parlour, kitchen, print shop and Chinatown will reopen as they were, and some other spaces, like the drapery shop, have been emptied to “create opportunities for visitors to reimagine the storefront with a new perspective.”


https://www.cheknews...uly-29-1151767/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 May 2023 - 11:40 AM.


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Posted 09 May 2023 - 12:07 PM

Almost became a bigger dumpster fire than ICBC... 


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