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[dasmo]

"An open letter from the Vancouver District Labour Council says this weekend’s events use the guise of COVID-19 to “coalesce formerly disparate fringe groups.”
“We are particularly alarmed to find out that an alliance of conspiracy believers, anti-vaxxers, white supremacists and neo-Nazis is planning a major two-day event in Vancouver October 17 and 18 which will include the arrival of a convoy of such extremists coming from Saskatchewan and Alberta,” it reads.
The letter goes on to point out that organizing a counter-protest is not currently a safe option.
“In other times and places, it might be appropriate to mobilize the community in non-violent opposition to their bigotry and hate,” it continues.

 

http://www.vdlc.ca/o...g_freedom_rally

[Nparker]

Orwellian doesn't even begin to describe that letter

War is Peace

Freedom Is Slavery

Ignorance Is Strength

 

Add "hate is love" and you have the progressive mantra of 2020.
 

[dasmo]

Can someone find any speeches at this rally that are preaching bigotry and hate like that letter is? 

[Nparker]

An open letter from the Vancouver District Labour Council says this weekend’s events use the guise of COVID-19 to “coalesce formerly disparate fringe groups.

I can't even begin to imagine a group that would use the guise of COVID-19 to coalesce its power. 

[On the Level]

Er...where are you getting 'communism' out of that?

Socializing some services like Fire and Police makes sense......but not for private companies.  Why are the Liberals so keen on taking $100 million from taxpayers for what is going to amount to equipment owned by Telus and Bell?  Once again we have the same playbook that Alberta has used over the years where public funds are funneled to multi nationals.  

[Mike K.]

The equipment would come with stipulations relating to competition, so Telus/Bell would not be allowed to hoard the capacity but would be required to open it up to competition. That rule also exists when they install their own towers but a loophole allows the company that installed it to claim future expansion slots and essentially push out competition. That can't happen in every instance but it does happen.

[dasmo]

OPEN LETTER RE: COVID-19 – Mental Health Effects on Isolated Seniors and Issues with Current Interventions and Media Reporting.

Dear Dr. Henry,

 

First, I would like to thank you for all that you have done over the last 8 months. No single person should ever be put into the position of being the face of a public health emergency on an almost daily basis for this long. I imagine this has taken a huge personal toll on yourself and your loved ones.

I would like to share some background about myself before I continue. I am a software engineer and have an extensive background in pandemic simulations and modeling as well as a strong background in data science and analytics. I personally wrote, from scratch, algorithms to simulate pandemic spread based on CDC modeling documentation. I modeled the effect that interventions had on disease spread and tested hundreds, if not thousands of scenarios. The software was used in several large scale training exercises prior to H1N1. I do not have a medical background or deep knowledge of viruses from a medical perspective, however I do have knowledge on the statistics of disease spread.

I have been concerned since the beginning of the pandemic at the lack of open sharing of data in detail at the community level. While it is being reported on now, the frequency should be higher. There are those that can analyze the data differently and more effectively than a government organization can. We have a right to know the details of what is happening in our community. Other jurisdictions, such as Alberta, report on serology estimates, testing by age category, and have been reporting at the community level since the beginning. We have a very unique province in BC where the bulk of the population is in the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island with the remaining 20% of BC’s population spread out over a vast area....

....Sincerely,

Keith MacIntyre, P. Eng.

Business Owner, Father, Community Leader and BC Libertarian Candidate in Penticton

https://libertarian....er-to-dr-henry/

[RFS]

https://www.alberniv...ary-if-elected/

BC liberal candidate for mid island-pacific rim Helen Poon says she will donate her MLA salary if elected.

Cant imagine any of our socialist friends down here doing the same

[tanker]

We must all think the same things, believe all of the same things and always agree with each other, and that’s how we will usher in a society that respects all points of view and celebrates diversity.

Democracy with one party to vote for. That is the only form of true democracy and it's only practiced in communist countries.

[G-Man]

https://www.alberniv...ary-if-elected/

BC liberal candidate for mid island-pacific rim Helen Poon says she will donate her MLA salary if elected.

Cant imagine any of our socialist friends down here doing the same

Personally I would find it better if a politician gets remunerated by the state rather than having means from who knows where outside of the system.

[On the Level]

I see our friend Ben is at it again.....

 

Not sure if his endorsement to destroy a neighbourhood near you is a good one for the Greens...

 

https://twitter.com/...237679138471937

 

He is also out looking for you to pay for his Pension.....

 

https://twitter.com/...348602880610304

[Nparker]

I see our friend Ben is at it again...Not sure if his endorsement to destroy a neighbourhood near you is a good one for the Greens...

Sounds like someone doesn't like what the Premier has been saying about him. What an ass-hat he is.

[rmpeers]

I see our friend Ben is at it again.....

Not sure if his endorsement to destroy a neighbourhood near you is a good one for the Greens...

https://twitter.com/...237679138471937

He is also out looking for you to pay for his Pension.....

https://twitter.com/...348602880610304

Hoping maybe the Greens will be his ticket into provincial politics after the rumored NDP nomination didn't pan out?

[Nparker]

Hoping maybe the Greens will be his ticket into provincial politics after the rumored NDP nomination didn't pan out?

Not an unreasonable assumption. Ben never does anything that doesn't in some way benefit Ben.

[Kapten Kapsell]

The NDP is a centre-left party and Ben Isitt’s positions are much more left leaning than the NDP’s.

For example, this proposal from the NDP platform would likely be attacked by Isitt:

Reducing construction costs to make homes more affordable: By bringing down costs for developers, we can bring down the cost of housing for people. We’ll streamline and modernize housing construction by eliminating outdated parking minimums in projects close to public transit, develop a single-window provincial permitting process, and work with communities to streamline approval processes at the local level.

[Nparker]

The NDP is a centre-left party and Ben Isitt’s positions are much more left leaning than the NDP’s...

Many of Comrade Ben's positions would be too far left for Vladimir Putin.

[On the Level]

Well the greens without Weaver might be a good fit......with Furstenau and her housing first narrative. 

[On the Level]

^ Actually....what the CoV council and the Greens represent is housing first and nothing second.   Uneducated simpletons.  

[FogPub]

the state plans to control or at least decide or influence where some private services (cell, internet) will go.

That's just it - utilities (and one can very much argue the internet is these days every bit as much a utility as hydro, water, and phone) should be public-owned...and yes, I know public ownership of anything might not be a popular view around here, but still... 

 

Privatizing what used to be BC Tel was a mistake; allowing cable-TV to be privately run was and remains a mistake (particularly seeing as over-the-air TV pretty much no longer exists as an alternative), ditto wireless phone service.  Selling off publicly-owned bandwidth (a.k.a. airwave frequencies) to private corporations was and is a mistake; at the very least it should be renewably leased rather than outright sold, because once these things are sold off it's nigh impossible to get them back.

[Victoria Watcher]

That's just it - utilities (and one can very much argue the internet is these days every bit as much a utility as hydro, water, and phone) should be public-owned...and yes, I know public ownership of anything might not be a popular view around here, but still... 

 

Privatizing what used to be BC Tel was a mistake; allowing cable-TV to be privately run was and remains a mistake (particularly seeing as over-the-air TV pretty much no longer exists as an alternative), ditto wireless phone service.  Selling off publicly-owned bandwidth (a.k.a. airwave frequencies) to private corporations was and is a mistake; at the very least it should be renewably leased rather than outright sold, because once these things are sold off it's nigh impossible to get them back.

 

if i take all of this at face value (i don't) can you point to the global jurisdictions where all of this is public and show us how its superior?

 

public ownership does not spur innovation and lack of competition often means prices are set high.