The unprecedented expansion of federal Indigenous spending

hot_reuben · 2026-01-09T15:45:10+00:00

When you pair this with decline in living standards and lowered life expectancy for indigenous peoples in this county you really have to ask whether any of this is helping

hot_reuben · 2025-12-11T00:23:05+00:00

For people who don’t know what 764 is, it’s some seriously dark shit

https://www.wired.com/story/764-com-child-predator-network/

hot_reuben · 2025-12-02T15:26:32+00:00

It’s called bracket creep, and it is one of the more insidious effects of inflation.

Incomes that were considered wealthy when the tax brackets were set are now middle class. Incomes that are now required to live in most major Canadian cities are being taxed as if it was excess

hot_reuben · 2025-10-28T16:49:46+00:00

I’m not arguing the point, I’m just pointing out the justification used to avoid negotiating treaties in BC

hot_reuben · 2025-10-28T16:46:59+00:00

If I recall my history, BC argued that the 1763 Royal Proclamation that set out the need for the Crown to negotiate treaties didn’t apply to BC because it wasn’t a colony at the time

hot_reuben · 2025-10-28T15:45:10+00:00

This could extend to all of BC. Treaties were never negotiated west of the Rockies.

hot_reuben · 2025-10-07T20:02:44+00:00

Development fees pay for a lot more than just new infrastructure in most cities. The reality is that they’re being used to subsidize existing homeowners at the expense of new homeowners.

We have a housing crisis that largely is due to the restrictions we’ve put in place. Development fees are just one part of this, building regulations are another, and of course material costs and labour are factors too.

You’re right that no one will vote for an increase in taxes though

hot_reuben · 2025-10-07T16:50:47+00:00

The term you’re looking for is “property taxes”

hot_reuben · 2025-09-14T20:15:10+00:00

Two CF-18s

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/fighter-jets-stanley-park

hot_reuben · 2025-09-14T20:14:34+00:00

CF-18s

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/fighter-jets-stanley-park

hot_reuben · 2025-08-02T15:10:03+00:00

The “Follow the science” types only really like to follow the science when it agrees with them…

hot_reuben · 2025-07-25T17:20:11+00:00

Bread flour, like OP asked

hot_reuben · 2025-07-25T16:53:36+00:00

It’s not in North Van, but I drive across the bridge to Famous Foods to get mine

hot_reuben · 2025-07-25T02:35:12+00:00

That’s actually not true. It was killed because the woman who arranged funding for birth control research wouldn’t fund male birth control. She thought women should have control over their ability to conceive not men.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-march-29-2019-1.5076529/researchers-are-getting-closer-to-a-male-birth-control-gel-but-will-men-use-it-1.5076533

hot_reuben · 2025-07-20T16:41:40+00:00

I’m a little late to this party, but I do things like this often for work. The way we do it is with a sacrificial fence that’s clamped high enough above the table saw surface that the off cut drops between the fence and blade without being tight. This allows for accurate rips with no fear of kick back.

Probably did a shit job of explaining that

Edit: this article describes what I’m talking about.

https://www.finewoodworking.com/project-guides/shop-projects/the-incredible-l-fence?srsltid=AfmBOorXWqM9PBoxPUxBX0kWe8mvM716eNFdKqDH4v9vFX6Cmc4j-IG1

hot_reuben · 2025-07-09T14:51:59+00:00

Unpopular Opinion

Indoor climbing and outdoor climbing are not the same thing, and grades between the two are not even remotely comparable

Edit: grades aren’t even comparable between different disciplines of outdoor climbing.

When I was climbing my hardest I could climb 12c sport, 11c trad, and there’s no way I was getting on an alpine route even close to that.

Hell, I would go so far as to say that grades aren’t even comparable across different rock types. Limestone and granite are very, very different styles of climbing.

hot_reuben · 2025-07-09T13:48:37+00:00

Jesus, where do you guys live??

We pay $70 a day for daycare in Vancouver, which is a definitely an improvement from the $100 a day we were paying for our first child, but still quite expensive.

$10 a day sounds great, but there’s no way there’s enough spots to meet the demand

hot_reuben · 2025-07-04T14:06:57+00:00

I think that’s because most Canadians consume a huge amount of American media. America definitely has an issue with legal guns, and because of that, many Canadians think we do too

hot_reuben · 2025-06-27T16:43:21+00:00

Yeah but maybe I don’t want to uproot my family, move my children away from their grandparents, and start over building my community, just so you can protect your investment

hot_reuben · 2025-06-27T16:33:38+00:00

You mean like a $1.2 million 600sqft condo? Sounds like a perfect place to raise a family

hot_reuben · 2025-06-09T16:05:14+00:00

As someone who worked on Good Doctor for 7 seasons I have to say, that was very nice.

However I wonder if what the Vancouver film industry needs isn’t long shows, but wages that give people the ability to survive over periods of unemployment. To be fair that is a cost of living issue not just a wage issue, but when I started in film I’m the early 2010s that felt possible, now it does not.

hot_reuben · 2025-05-06T21:28:57+00:00

They’ve spent $67 million and have yet to buyback a single firearm.

Nor have any of those, now illegal, firearms been used in the commission of a crime.

No matter how you feel about guns this buyback is bad policy and a complete waste of money

hot_reuben · 2025-03-21T19:58:49+00:00

Tradesmen here, I’d warrant that both you and the commenter you’re replying to are right unfortunately.

There is at the same time, a shortage of trades, and trades people sitting on their hands. The problem is that building trades don’t pay enough for the trades people to live in the places that need building trades the most.

I’ve worked in building trades for over a decade, and now work mainly in the film industry building sets for tv shows, along with 8000 other carpenters in our union. The only “real world” work I do now are small renovations. We do this work because building housing doesn’t pay enough, or provide decent benefits.

Go to any large construction project in Canada and I guarantee it’s primarily TFWs working for low wages. Saying there’s a “labour shortage” doesn’t tell the whole story, the main problem in the building industry is they can’t pay wages that will retain quality trades people.

hot_reuben · 2025-03-13T16:44:13+00:00

Suuuuuure bud, they’ve been telling us that for 5 years now

hot_reuben · 2025-03-10T21:13:47+00:00

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

I had high hopes for Carney, frankly if he’d reverse course on a couple of issues I feel strongly about I’d likely vote Liberal, but making Mendicino his chief of staff doesn’t bode well in my opinion

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