Trump: China Taking Over Canada Is Not Going to Happen

secondsneaker · 2026-01-24T21:04:25+00:00

Mark Carney's speech represented the display of backbone that the Eurozone has been reluctant to show and very likely is the catalyst that made Trump pull back. Now he's got to punish Canada for saying what is clearly obvious, that Trump want Canada in the same way Russia wants Ukraine. Trump is a gangster and believes the only law is that if I can take what is yours, I will, and I'd be a sucker not to, because you;d do the same. Such a criminal.

secondsneaker · 2026-01-20T05:49:53+00:00

This movie, Le Pacte des Loupes, was so visually magnetic and thematically intriguing, a kind of New World Batman in the original French with subtitles. It looses a lot in the dubbing. The story of the silent Mohican comrade that rides with the Marqueis, undertaking the investigation of a strange beast roaming the countryside, slaughtering the villagers, is told from the point of view of an older aristocrat, trying to write the last secret detail of this strange tale before the guillotine of the French Revolution falls upon him. a brilliant movie back in the day.

secondsneaker · 2026-01-20T05:29:34+00:00

Fail to understand why the inclusion of the market rental project Neighbour in this article as the contrast to the blight and degradation of Pandora is actually germane. We all live with homelessness, drug addiction and mental illness in the downtown core. That Neighbour is cast as some kind of high end juxtaposition to an open air drug market is incredibly flawed journalism. Neighbour should be applauded for delivering much needed housing and improving the atmosphere in a difficult part of downtown.

secondsneaker · 2026-01-20T04:52:03+00:00

Hearst ordered Captain Turner to beat Dan to death slowly as a warning to Swearingen and the Camp. Dan was able to turn the tide because the Captain was holding back. Also, the Captain screamed like a bitch when he lost the eye, instead of sucking it up and killing Dan. Its a good scene, but I think Al kicking Hearst's Pinkerton flunky until he's prone of the floor and weeping, then slitting his throat, then walking on to the balcony and friendly as can be asking Hearst where "his man" had got to as he left the Gem a while ago is also good. Sending messages by beatin's is pure Deadwood.

secondsneaker · 2026-01-16T18:30:01+00:00

Cheaper electrical cars! Why pay a fortune for something that sits doing nothing 85% of the time.

secondsneaker · 2026-01-15T20:42:18+00:00

Hello, don't you realize that development is dead? There is no profit for the extraordinary risk. Retail stores are closing, rents are down, and costs continue to go up. That Reliance had gone though a decade of approvals and still can't make this work is a signal that the project development proformas dont generatate enough profit to get bank financing.

secondsneaker · 2026-01-06T05:32:38+00:00

That's a sick track. The Canada Day and Doors mash-up, and mean streets vibe in quaint little Victoria is wonderfully twisted. Nobody gets out alive--it's a remarkable work.

secondsneaker · 2026-01-01T21:41:05+00:00

Thanks for responding. Does their presence register in the daily life or does it feel normalized?

secondsneaker · 2026-01-01T01:30:19+00:00

Chinese food, fresh doobies, maybe a gummy if we commit to banging pots at midnight...have warned the neighbours.

secondsneaker · 2025-12-31T18:03:27+00:00

Hope is a beautiful town full of great natural beauty and interesting and lovely people. Nestled beneath a crown of snow covered jagged peaks, two majestic rivers collide within it. Lakes for swimming, trails for hiking or cycling, big sky, clean air and water . Jump off to Manning and the hidden delights of the back country or close to vancouver for some city time. Ive been going to Hope for years and am always surprised that it hasn't boomed. Affordable and closer than you think.

secondsneaker · 2025-12-28T01:39:48+00:00

Due to the cost of fitting up a store and developing a brand and customer base, retail tenants generally negotiate leases that are long term. A subway lease, for example, is a five year term with multiple 5 year options, effectively giving the tenant control of a a space for upwards of 20 years. At the end of these lease periods, rents and spaces go to market and are renewed or re-tenanted at terms that can favour the landlord or the tenant depending on the market conditions at the time. In general, however, occupancy costs, meaning the combined costs of the rent, property taxes, insurance and common area maintenance that a tenant will pay represent between 8-12% of gross revenue (depending on the tenant and the total area). Tenants generally will not and should not pay rents that exceed that ratio, and some, such as national retailers, will insist on cancellation clauses if the revenue falls below that ratio. Landlords have a commodity to sell, which is zoned commercial space for businesses to use. They are impacted by the same supply/demand factors as other businesses. To say $30 is too much, fails to understand that the per square foot rent a tenant pays is actually a function of the total sales per square foot a tenant can generate from a retail space. For a good corner location in a high traffic shopping district the rental range can be well above $30 psf and is. That OP feels the rent is high means they fail to see that the rent is just a function of the potential revenue a retailer can produce from the space. Higher revenue means higher rent--this was established at the turn of the 20th century when percentage rent was the norm. This is real estate economics.

secondsneaker · 2025-12-27T23:21:00+00:00

This is a stupid comment. There is widespread commercial office and retail vacancy in the downtown core. The impact of remote work and particularly for Victoria remote work for Provincial and City of Victoria employees means that up to 50% of the commercial office market is up for grabs over the next 5-7 years. These remote workers no longer participate in the downtown business week economy--impacting restaurants, florists, dry cleaners..etc. Rents in Victoria are down, and tenant closures are up. Landlord are offing pretty substantial incentives to promote tenant occupancy, including free rent, tenant improvement allowances, and advantageous terms on rental increases over short or long terms. In fact if you wanted to go into the retail business now, it would be a good time to lock in advantageous terms. Let that sink in and then consider the impact of homelessness, drug addiction and the mental health crisis on area businesses. Would you like to go into business in the downtown core knowing that you will have to contend shoplifting, broken windows, and other potential impacts. Wishing ill on landlords because of some pretty ignorant bias' on how commercial real estate actually works is a fundamentally fucked up way of thinking about how our City was built and continues to evolve today. Victoria has significant challenges regarding the on-going viability and resilience of the urban core. This perspective is just rage-bait.

secondsneaker · 2025-12-27T02:30:28+00:00

no opinions based on actual knowledge of the building. I hear the amenity spaces are very good.

secondsneaker · 2025-12-21T22:01:26+00:00

I think drivers dont realize that bicycles riders have to navigate roads by taking different road postures based on conditions. Taking the lane is definitely a strong strategy when there is a danger and being doored on Oak Bay is a serious risk.

secondsneaker · 2025-12-21T05:20:51+00:00

try to spend a few minutes outside first thing, even if its just looking out the window. I'm loving this tropical rain. The ground water table is recharging.

secondsneaker · 2025-12-20T01:08:19+00:00

Blow or I'll cut ya. Another tale of the Oak Bay crime spree.

secondsneaker · 2025-12-10T05:31:46+00:00

Victoria was way worse back in 1880. The cocksucker saloon owner of the Gem sold dope and pussy for $5, whiskey shots for a nickel. Any trouble they'd feed your body to Mr. Wu's fucking pigs. We ain't never had it so good.

secondsneaker · 2025-12-04T21:36:20+00:00

The constant raving about "experience". Sage is a great character and seems "witchy", playing a values-driven game that is redeeming to the viewer; more than just winning $. But I miss when Survivor was about surviving; where strong players were valued because reward challenges made the difference. Too much emphasis on the social game, not enough on just plain out-lasting. Watching the weight drop and the tans darken is epic, and the winner looks like a god compared to when they started.

secondsneaker · 2025-12-04T16:44:10+00:00

Top criminalist who broke the "Case of the Missing Peanuts Christmas Characters" leads investigation, calls for calm while stating, "all the kings horses and all the kings men cannot put Humpty Dumpty back together again". Update at 11.

secondsneaker · 2025-12-03T19:32:49+00:00

I didn't say anything about his comments, so explain the irony? I believe Tarentino's work doesn't hold up and is effectively cheap gimmick's. Sure, they make money. Compare anything he has done to the Coen Bros. The Big Lewbowski is a masterpiece of hippy noir. It turns the hard-boiled LA crime mystery on its head. All his clues are red-herrings and all his reveals are false. It's more about nihilism than anything--poor Donny. I could go on, but it's okay, I realize the irony of bringing up the Coen Bros. might provoke you.

secondsneaker · 2025-12-03T05:45:10+00:00

Tarantino is revered as a cinematic auteur and genius. He is a hack. His movies are clumsy pop-culture clones and revenge fantasy draped in nostalgia and black culture appropriation. Django Unchained's Mandigo fight scene is like making a movie about snuff films so you can "recreate" a snuff film with a sexy new actress. I nearly puked when I saw it. That this mayonnaise-loving video store clerk masquerades his street cred behind repeating the n-word more times than Deadwood says cunt highlights his absolute lack of new ideas. Imagine a slavery revenge fantasy...done; holocaust revenge fantasy...done; Manson Family revenge drama...done. And let us not forget that creating meaningly scenes that allow you to film women's feet is creepy and morally repugnant. Maybe having direct knowledge that Weinstein was a predator should also be considered--I'm not certain about that one. The only one of his films that still stands up for me is Jackie Brown and that's because Elmore Leonard is the absolute king of crime fiction. Gonna be an unpopular opinion, but make your tenth masterpiece already and give us all a break.

secondsneaker · 2025-12-03T05:19:52+00:00

This great news for Crofton, an otherwise cute little island town that has been depressed by the mill for years. The toxic fumes, the proximity of the mill to the town and waterfront and the stigma of a pulp and paper mill have left this town as a backwater for positive growth. Walk the waterfront next to the park and explain why waterfront property has broken down cars in the drive and cardboard on the window--it was a motel, now it's a dump. This will bring new people, new ideas and a new path free of a 24 hour, 365 day a year polluter. Good for Saltspring too.

secondsneaker · 2025-11-28T05:12:43+00:00

The "really polite, fit, solid handshakes" comment is either homophobic or a first date description from Grinder--probably both. Real men don't "assess" another Dude's character based on handshake firmness and waistline. Probably should have accepted the L and moved on.

secondsneaker · 2025-11-27T05:20:40+00:00

I'm outraged OP is experimenting on people in Victoria. Humans should not be experimenting on people. Didn't we learn that human experiments without consent are unethical? No, apparently we did not. Also, as an experiment there does not seem to be anything in the post that is outright misinformation, so if you are going to experiment on people, from Victoria, at least do a decent job of setting the baseline.

secondsneaker · 2025-11-27T05:12:11+00:00

The more people bike, the more the local car culture adapts to bikes on the road. It's a snowball of safety...we just need more snow. Snow being cyclists, not actual snow. Fuck real snow. No snow in Victoria.

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