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Originally Posted by westopher  Here’s the crazy thing, it doesn’t matter what happens, people like yourself will just bitch and bitch and bitch.
They solve the problem? “ShUD HaVE DOnE it SoonER”
People that complain the most always seem to bring the least to the table. | Oh so you mean it should have happened before we have thousands of homeless, civil unrest, and general degradation of society due to addiction and mental illness?
Frequent random assaults, drug paraphernalia everywhere and piles of human shit in our streets?
Nah.. it’s ok.. it can happen down the road
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06-18-2025, 11:15 AM
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Speculation is Gregor owns 10+ million in investment properties.
That’s completely normal. Great choice for housing minister.
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06-18-2025, 11:18 AM
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I think Gregor might be one of the first ministers to shuffle in the cabinet.
Optics just aren't good with him, at the same time he's a successful business owner, to own a few vacation properties (1 in Squamish, 1 in Tofino) isn't exactly outlandish, but still, bad optics.
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06-18-2025, 11:23 AM
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^^^ we should put some homeless drug addicts in and see how they run the government.
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06-18-2025, 11:23 AM
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It’s just another do as I say, not as I do liberal hire. If you ever called out PP for owning what, like 2 units? lol and now it’s perfectly fine the minister of housing who probably has a 50+ million dollar net worth and owns 10’s of millions of dollars in investment properties is “ok” you’re a hypocrite.
This is a another great story: 
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06-18-2025, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by mikemhg I think Gregor might be one of the first ministers to shuffle in the cabinet.
Optics just aren't good with him, at the same time he's a successful business owner, to own a few vacation properties (1 in Squamish, 1 in Tofino) isn't exactly outlandish, but still, bad optics. | Yes optics aren't good but I think this kind of gotcha politics is silly though - he's a 60 year old successful businessman, it'd be a scandal if he didn't have a lot of money. From the follow up I've seen it sounds like he only has a $2.4M condo + $2.85M Tofino cabin + 1/4 $5.6M Squamish cabin = $6.65M
That's an entirely reasonable amount of real estate to own for personal use considering his age and success - shit, my house is worth nearly $3m and I rent out a suite - does that make me unqualified to be a housing minister?
He has definitely gotten off to a rough start as housing minister - at least his first week - but few actually understand the problem as well as he does or have lived experience with what works and what doesn't on the housing market. He might still get shuffled out though b/c solving housing isn't a 1 or 2 year problem, it's a decades problem and the market is offering really bad conditions for building housing right now (high rates, high costs, dropping prices).
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06-18-2025, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer It’s just another do as I say, not as I do liberal hire. If you ever called out PP for owning what, like 2 units? lol and now it’s perfectly fine the minister of housing who probably has a 50+ million dollar net worth and owns 10’s of millions of dollars in investment properties is “ok” you’re a hypocrite.
This is a another great story: | PP never got rich running a business though - the question that swirled around him was how he managed to (allegedly) become so rich on an MPs salary. I'm not sure anyone has been able to verify how much wealth PP has - if a lifelong MP is worth 8 figures then I would like to understand how that happens but if it's 7 figures I don't really care.
Buying real estate when you're worth high 7 figures is pretty much expected.
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06-18-2025, 12:55 PM
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PP also has lived for free with a staff on taxpayer dollars for what, 4 years now? Is he still currently doing that even though he isn’t an elected member of parliament?
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06-19-2025, 09:23 AM
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This is so infuriating ... makes no common sense at all. Don't even have to be Hondaracer to get upset at this !! Get the laws changed now !! B.C. man acquitted of attack that ‘terrorized’ woman on basis of drug-induced ‘automatism’ https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/art...s-court-finds/
A B.C. man who admitted to attacking and sexually assaulting a woman before stabbing himself in the chest was acquitted of all charges, with the court ruling he “acted involuntarily” after taking magic mushrooms.
Leon-Jamal Barrett was charged with sexual assault and other offences in an attack that left a woman he had never met before “horrified and traumatized” in the early hours of March 9, 2019, according to a decision finding the accused not guilty on the grounds of non-mental disorder automatism.
“Mr. Barrett will not face a conviction in this matter, but he will live with the knowledge that he made a choice that resulted in temporarily losing his mind and committing an appalling series of acts against a stranger. The scar that he bears will be a constant reminder of these actions,” Judge Timothy Hinkson wrote in his decision.
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06-19-2025, 09:29 AM
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#12335 | | Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated
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Originally Posted by whitev70r B.C. man acquitted of attack that ‘terrorized’ woman on basis of drug-induced ‘automatism’ | I already posted this in the Canadian politics thread...
But this is par for the course. We live in a LiveLeak country with Sesame Street laws.
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06-19-2025, 09:52 AM
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#12336 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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lol like.. this is every occurrence.
You don’t have to be angry about this one, they are -ALL- like this.
The “scars that he bears”
HES A FUCKING CRACK HEAD!
Gotta say though, I love that this shit liberal society playing out exactly as expected.
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06-19-2025, 10:10 AM
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Apparently crime is down and Cov passed bylaw to build two new crack houses in Van  | |
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06-19-2025, 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by JDMDreams Apparently crime is down and Cov passed bylaw to build two new crack houses in Van | I feel like things were really safe between like 2007-2013 and things started to get real bad around 2015 when I decided to move out of the 'hood.
...after some crackhead took a handful of his own shit and smashed it into my ex gf's hair at Crab Park. We called the cops but because the guy was covered in his own shit, they just told him to move on and suggested we leave the park because the homeless guy just stood outside of the park yelling at everyone. My ex gf was extremely disgusted and it took hours for her to get the smell out of her hair. Fucking brutal!
A park full of witnesses and the guy actively yelling and screaming and the cops wouldn't arrest him. I guess I wouldn't want to wrestle someone covered in shit either.
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06-19-2025, 10:33 AM
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^I'm walking back to my car and blasting that guy with a holy hell of bear mace to the face.
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06-19-2025, 10:40 AM
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#12340 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Originally Posted by JDMDreams Apparently crime is down and Cov passed bylaw to build two new crack houses in Van | Yea wild. The strong arm approach of actually enforcing law in the DTES drove down crime, who would have thought?
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06-19-2025, 10:44 AM
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Power move ... BC Cons leader Rustad claims blackmail. NDP asks RCMP to investigate ... OK, let's see your dirty secrets! https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/0...-blackmailers/ | |
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06-19-2025, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by mikemhg ^I'm walking back to my car and blasting that guy with a holy hell of bear mace to the face. | Yeah, then you'd be the one arrested. Imagine the insane hassle of that, just for the pleasure of causing a homeless nutjob some temporary pain.
Over the years I've had a lot of "coulda, woulda, shoulda" thoughts about that day, but, ultimately, it was a crazed street person with god knows what illnesses, covered in their own shit. Like... the smell bro... the only way he snuck up on us like he did was because we weren't down wind of him until after I called the cops. The entire park of people were on my side, like 20+ people, and yelling at the guy to fuck off too... some nice woman helped my ex get some of the shit chunks out of her hair while we waited for the cops who were, to their credit, there within a minute or two. Probably other people had reported the guy.
Without a doubt, it someone had bear maced him, they'd be the ones getting arrested, for sure. I just put this one on the "funny Vancouver memories" shelf and that's that.
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06-22-2025, 05:23 PM
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Rustad in trouble with his party. Might be on his way out. https://x.com/jasjohalbc/status/1936...0MRO2h9jSXrF7A
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06-22-2025, 05:46 PM
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Well isn't it the same thing with pp, loser
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06-22-2025, 05:58 PM
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My question is why the fuck are you guys in crab park ?!? You know that’s a shithole place but you still wanna be edgy.
The port had a cleanup the community day recently and one of the parks we could have volunteered to clean up was crab park. Hahhahahah !!! Not a single soul went to that park to clean it up. People instead went to new Brighton where there is literally nothing to clean up and everyone left after 10 minutes. Got a photo and boom, so called community service done.
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06-22-2025, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Jason00S2000 A park full of witnesses and the guy actively yelling and screaming and the cops wouldn't arrest him. I guess I wouldn't want to wrestle someone covered in shit either. | Cops probably took one look at your CPIC page and said fook this guy not doing him any solids lol
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06-22-2025, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Badhobz My question is why the fuck are you guys in crab park ?!? | It had been a nice park up until 2014-2015 when cracktown really took over Gastown and Crab Park. It had been a super chill place until about then. In the last 3-4 years it was taken over by a tent city and really unsafe for anyone to chill at.
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06-24-2025, 12:02 AM
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Parliament is now on summer break until September 15th.
During the “greatest crisis the nation has ever faced”
With no budget, and no deal with the US on tariffs 
“Elbows up”
I’m in Norway right now, consistently considered to be one of the most expensive countries in Europe. In a small town. I bought groceries the other night and it was cheaper than I’d buy in Vancouver
Bought about $120 worth and covered condiments, veggies, fruit, essentially 6-8 full meals with everything I needed. Our shit is fucking insane man lol..
But I guess we can wait till fall hehe
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OMG YOU CLOWN!!! POST PICTURES OF DEM NORWEGIAN WOMEN !!!!!!!!!! AND SCENARY!!! who gives a shit about their shitty food
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Stockholm was the 10/10’s
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