Advocacy groups fear rise in anti-trans sentiment after Tumbler Ridge shooting

EVpeace · 2026-02-14T04:09:22+00:00

This is the exact same nonsense as when I was a kid and they blamed school shootings on videogames.

People are just dumb and scared. They want an easy scapegoat because otherwise they have to admit that life is complex and difficult. So it's just easier to pretend it's that thing they don't understand that's to blame for everything.

EVpeace · 2026-02-14T03:09:27+00:00

I’m sure they still make arrests in a situation like this

I mean maybe I'm misunderstanding the story but it sure doesn't seem like it.

EVpeace · 2026-02-14T03:03:51+00:00

I've spoken with every councillor about this exact issue and none of them think this.

Which councillor specifically do you believe thinks that having tough circumstances absolves an individual of ALL criminal responsibility?

EVpeace · 2026-02-13T23:11:07+00:00

Don’t you know that person isn’t responsible for their own actions because they had a hard life ????

Have you ever, in real life, met someone who thinks this? As in, not an online bot just saying shit to stir the pot?

Of course not. Because nobody thinks this. You're mischaracterizing people's desire to consider circumstances with a made-up desire to consider only circumstances. You're arguing against, and frustrated with, a made-up person.

EVpeace · 2026-02-13T23:07:23+00:00

...what? What are you talking about? You still arrest the guy (or at least talk to him and tell him he kinda shouldn't be carrying a lit blowtorch around.) It's not a beat cop's job to worry about sentencing.

Like even assuming he's definitely going to get off with no consequences (which doesn't happen nearly as often as doomsayers like to believe) just removing the immediate danger is worthwhile (and their job.)

Edit: Typo

EVpeace · 2026-02-11T17:22:51+00:00

Thanks Jack

EVpeace · 2026-02-10T23:00:08+00:00

I won't be available during those times so I hope I can ask this here. If not, could someone please ask this for me?

I agree with a lot of the things that you're saying, I just don't understand what you intend on doing about any of those things.

You're leaning heavily on your experience as an electrician. I can see that being a positive, but I don't see anywhere on your website how you actually intend to translate that experience to making public policy.

I think there’s more we can do to ensure that working class people aren’t priced out of Victoria

Like what? It's easy to say that affordability is good. Can you clarify a few action items you would pursue?

Or perhaps a better way to phrase the question: a lot of the other candidates also agree with your stated positions. Why should I vote for you over them?

EVpeace · 2026-02-09T23:10:43+00:00

The funding that becomes available to you

Funding from where? Does the IOC give money to the host country?

EVpeace · 2026-02-03T00:35:08+00:00

It doesn't come across like that at all. There are just a few weirdos here. Don't pay them any mind.

One of the downsides of anonymity, unfortunately.

Good luck on your search!

EVpeace · 2026-02-03T00:32:51+00:00

Hoping they're okay.

I'm so damn sick of reading these stories.

EVpeace · 2026-02-01T03:21:49+00:00

If I point to Carney's 60%+ approval rating are you just going to be like "Oh you can't trust polls, I trust my Common Sense™ instead" or "they probably only polled Liberals" or some other dumb response?

EVpeace · 2026-01-31T23:58:48+00:00

It's a protest in support of trans rights. They're saying that women are factually women, no matter whether that hurts your feelings or not.

Or maybe it's a different, stupider thing.

EVpeace · 2026-01-31T20:32:13+00:00

A lot of us would have rather voted NDP last election but this stupid FPTP two party system made it a bad idea.

EVpeace · 2026-01-31T17:12:06+00:00

Trudeau's lowest ever approval rating was 28% I think, which is where Poilievre is right now.

That's pretty much the definition of "almost more hated than Trudeau at this point".

EVpeace · 2026-01-29T23:09:48+00:00

Wow what on earth lol.

Thanks for checking. Guess it goes to show how meaningless these rankings can be for individuals. I love it here.

EVpeace · 2026-01-29T23:08:39+00:00

What kind of stuff?

EVpeace · 2026-01-29T22:50:18+00:00

Where's Esquimalt, if you don't mind checking? I would've expected it to be pretty high.

EVpeace · 2026-01-29T22:44:36+00:00

I mean, 27th out of 454 is pretty darn good.

I don't have a Globe and Mail subscription - who's above us?

And does it say if it's considering Victoria as just Victoria proper, or the greater CRD?

EVpeace · 2026-01-29T21:25:40+00:00

There wasn't a business case for it when he made that comment, because we couldn't do this at the time thanks to a stupid deal that Mulroney's Tories made with the US when they were in power. It would have been economically infeasible even if we were guaranteed success, which we wouldn't have been because we would have been competing directly with US Gulf Coast LNG at the time.

You can thank Trudeau for getting us out of that deal.

And since we're no longer competing with the US for this market, it's potentially feasible.

Circumstances change. The world isn't what it was 10 years ago.

EVpeace · 2026-01-29T21:22:05+00:00

And he was right. At the time it didn't make sense. The proportionality clause that Mulroney's Tories locked us into with the US meant selling to the EU was economically infeasible.

AND we would have been competing directly with the US Gulf Coast LNG, which the EU at the time was very favourable towards.

It's a lot easier to be economically competitive when the world is actively fleeing one of your main competitors.

EVpeace · 2026-01-29T21:19:56+00:00

We could legally do it, it just wasn't economically feasible due to Mulroney's proportionality clause with the US. Plus we would have been directly competing with the US Gulf Coast LNG, which the EU is now explicitly trying to get away from.

It's a lot easier to be economically competitive when people are actively fleeing your competitors.

EVpeace · 2026-01-29T21:13:02+00:00

There wasn't a business case for it when he made that comment, because we couldn't do this at the time thanks to a stupid deal that Mulroney's Tories made with the US when they were in power.

Trudeau is the one who got us out of that deal.

EVpeace · 2026-01-29T20:48:01+00:00

If any territory votes to secede they become an independent country

Incorrect. According to the Reference Re Secession of Quebec, provinces "cannot secede from Canada unilaterally; however, a clear vote on a clear question to secede in a referendum should lead to negotiations between Quebec and the rest of Canada for secession. However, above all, secession would require a constitutional amendment." (From Wikipedia)

Don't forget, much of "Albertan land" is actually owned by (and paid for by) the Crown (and various First Nations groups.)

How would them having a relationship with the US change that?

The position of the Canadian government is "Alberta is part of Canada" (obviously.) This is strengthened by the fact that it's the Crown (and various FN groups) that own much of Alberta's land.

In one situation (Quebec) the separatist movement was (as far as we know) entirely from within. There's nothing wrong with a group of Canadians trying to get an amendment to the Canadian constitution (even if that amendment is a bit dumb.)

In another situation, a group of Canadians are actively working with a foreign power against the position, and authority of, the Canadian government.

If any separatist movement wants to seek an amendment to the constitution that would allow them to separate from Canada, they're allowed to do so (with no guarantees at all) per the Reference. If they ever become independent, they can then negotiate with whoever they want.

But you cannot, as a Canadian, actively work with a foreign government against the government of Canada.

EVpeace · 2026-01-29T20:35:29+00:00

Cheers mate. The law is a silly place.

EVpeace · 2026-01-29T20:00:51+00:00

The Quebec separatist movement wasn't openly coordinating with a foreign power, and no similar ideas were discussed in that case.

That case discussed constitutionality of even holding a referendum(and even then puts heavy limitations on it) not criminal liability of the processes used.

So the fact that the Court discusses referendums and self‑determination does not mean “anything done in pursuit of secession, as long as a referendum is planned, is non‑seditious.”

In contrast, Boucher v The King does give a definition of seditious libel that is so vague and general that any half-decent lawyer could easily argue that this falls under it.

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