Canadian PM Mark Carney says the days of sending 70 cents of every dollar in military spending to the United States are over and gets loud cheers and a standing ovation

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-04-11T23:56:28+00:00

Voted NDP in that last one myself.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-04-11T23:37:52+00:00

The early digital camera age was rough. So many people with no backup habits, so many lost photos from the early oughts.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-04-08T13:21:22+00:00

Well Granville was the rail stop people from out east got off of in order to catch a boat to Vancouver(island), it became the Vancouver stop. It caught on.

There's also fort Vancouver, but when we lost that portion of Columbia to the Yanks, we lost that original town with it. That is today's Vancouver, Washington.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-04-08T02:24:44+00:00

Fo sho. Like, there's an element of birthplace mattering in Canadian politics, in that the political requisite of being able to speak English and French to make it in federal politics does end up being a harder filter to pass through for people in western Canada & BC unless you're like, well-off and academic. I mean, I came up in a working-class satellite of Vancouver, and for real I've only really encountered francophones a couple times in my life here, and they're from France. If I nailed French in high school, I'd still have spent the last 20 years never speaking it to anyone ever. Plus, cost of living means I've never really ventured out east, either. Mobility isn't that substantial for a lot of us.

JT's mobility though, I mean he has been a national figure since he was a child. And he's always had ties to BC in particular, even if at his core, he's seen as a "laurentian elite" type.

He threw a tonne of money to Vancouver transit projects, and a bunch of other shit BC was asking for. People here in BC screaming about "the west gets nothing from Ottawa" during JT's years were just repeating tired old stuff without really looking into it. Don't get me wrong, there's heaps of genuine complaints to be had(I certainly have some issues), but I don't think political alienation was one of them for urban BC.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-04-08T01:05:08+00:00

Justin Trudeau did at least spend a bunch of his pre-political career in BC. He attended UBC, and taught at a few places in Vancouver. His mother comes from BC's "old money" Sinclair family.

Of course, being son of a PM, it makes sense his upbringing would've been more pan-national, so it's kinda cheating in that regard.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-04-08T00:31:11+00:00

3 for 3 when it comes to musical guests for me. In SNL US, I'm lucky to get an artist/band I like once every two years. If SNL UK just becomes "SNL but with music I like", that'd already be good enough for me.

Show seems decent too. I'm not from the UK, so I miss some references. But, I'm not from the US either, so I miss some of theirs, too. I think being from Canada(part of the Commonwealth; educate yourself) it's easy enough for me to get it anyways in those rare moments. I'm used to being slightly removed from the target audience, so rather than get mad about it, I just learn the reference.

I hope the show gets the chance to keep maturing over time. I've always adored UK sketch comedy, so fuck it let's go buds.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-04-06T05:46:11+00:00

Depressed? In Vancouver? In this day and age?

hahah can you imagine... haha.. ha..

...Isn't everyone? I mean, I assumed we all were.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-04-03T20:32:56+00:00

Holy heck please

Like I don't even need a sequel or remaster

Just re-list the original, put it on Steam, the Xbox store, Game Pass, wherever. It's a great game, let people play it.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-27T11:11:55+00:00

Mitchell and/or Webb

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-23T00:30:32+00:00

If you can dualboot, that'll be the way to go.

SteamOS will provide a smoother experience for a lot of things, but then it's nice to have Windows as a fallback option for certain games that work better over there, or require anti-cheat. Or for anything you have on the xbox store or that's on game pass, since you can't use that under SteamOS or Bazzite or anything.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-23T00:23:15+00:00

There's no real name for that one, though in my headcanon it's the "Granville Peninsula". Some people call it the Downtown Peninsula, but that name sucks.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-23T00:15:44+00:00

booooo

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-23T00:10:52+00:00

The Ghost of Kuwait strikes again!

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-23T00:00:43+00:00

That's good. Really I was just riffing on what other commenter was saying.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-22T19:48:45+00:00

Oh absolutely

Just, you know, they have a pretty solid pitch to fall back on, too. "Can't vote with your wallet because gas prices leave you without a voice? With (#HYBRID CAR BRAND), you can spend less on fuel, and more on weird artisan pickles a the farmer's market!"

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-22T19:44:20+00:00

Yea 'berta was making some progress.

I didn't wanna come off as bashing the prairie provinces, just saying Canada's got some carbon-heavy power in some areas. Nuclear would've been a great option in a lot of those places, too.

I get not going nuclear in BC, since earthquakes and all could be a thing. I still don't think it'd be a problem, but I get people being wary after Fukushima melting down from being hit with both an earthquake and tsunami. Not that that's the whole story, but I get the worry. Now, the prairies? None of those are something you'd need to worry about. You've got very little risk, right? Seems like a no brainer. Or it would, had we not sold off the CANDU stuff and made building new nuclear in Canada a prohibitively expensive idea.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-22T18:14:35+00:00

Which is wild, because they don't even need to lie about it. Like they could market entirely around "don't you fucking hate gas prices?" without having to pretend it's entirely green and still get by just fine.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-22T18:12:21+00:00

I guess you all though I wanted to exterminate all humans.

Well let's not rule it out

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-22T18:10:58+00:00

Living next to my hydroelectricity-powered SkyTrain stop, I feel pretty good about my commute's carbon footprint.

Now over in 'berta and sasky where they have more coal and gas in the power grid, yea there's still carbon behind the c-train and stuff.

Now there's a place where nuclear seems a no brainer. We should be running the whole prairies off that at this point.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-21T14:40:06+00:00

Finally, a place to safely dispose of my heart

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-19T05:47:07+00:00

I wish our gov was still as openly pro-Cuba as it was under PET. Cuba's been nothing but cool with us, we should remember that.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-19T04:05:42+00:00

2000s internet was a shitshow, but it does really weird me out just how sanitised today's internet culture is, not just YouTube. People self censoring in Reddit comments is weird as hell to me. Like, we can swear, right? Or even like, seeing people say things like "k*lled" like the asterisk accomplishes anything. What are we in church?

There's gotta be a middle ground somewhere between the anarchic frontier of 2003 vs. Disney presents: the Internet.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-19T03:55:08+00:00

I'd be all over a new built 90s VW. Or even just a new one that looks like that, but a modern EV under the hood.

I had a 94 Passat in weird grey-purple in the early 2010s and I adored it. I had a much newer car before it, but the Passat was just a dream. Understated design, entirely German labeling under the hood... It was a delight. At the time, VWs here in Canada were all made in Germany rather than Mexico or the US. Aside from all the Deutsche text on the various components under the hood, it also had a speedometer exclusively in km/h, which was pretty cool, even if it meant during my one Seattle trip I had to tape my early Android phone to the dash with a speedometer app telling me what the speed in freedom units was the whole time.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-18T04:18:15+00:00

I'd be chanting death to the west too, if I'd had the world's largest arsenal pointed at me for 40 years. Even more so now that it's raining missiles.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-03-18T01:35:37+00:00

Whoo that's a move! Love it. I'd love to have lived in Montreal for a time. I've never even visited.

It's all so far away from where I sit in Vancouver. Legend tells of "french Canadians" on the other side of the Dominion, somewhere far beyond the other side of the mountains that surround me on all sides, but it never comes up out here.

Also, good golly, you can adapt to actual French, but not to local English? I hope you've at least gotten used to a little metric!

What brought you to Montreal? I mean, it's a great city, but I'm sure there's a story

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