In the case reported by the Vancouver Sun, I am not surprised the staff initially interpreted the mom to be someone offering private lessons to the kid bcos the child obviously looks to be of a different ethnicity (brown / black) than mommy is (white). So it might appear at first glance to the on-duty life guard that it was a case of someone offering private lessons to a child, which would violate Parks Board's rule.

From the news article, it is not obvious to me whether the mom had indicated to the life guard that she is the mother of the child. IMO, it wouldn't make any sense for her to not try telling that to the life guard. Whether the life guard believed her is another thing. Suffice to say, it seems likely that the life guard had doubled down on his decision that private lessons were being given, so he had threatened to kick the mommy out.

I'd say it is some sort of a blend between poor training and poor awareness of ethnicity and family dynamics. At any rate, the incident is unfortunate and shouldn't have happened.

The problem is that many young people don’t have common sense and have trouble interpreting the rules.

Bahaha... I just keep seeing lefties defending their elbows.

Of course, I don't know what goes into Carney's negotiation tactics, but so far, it seems that US just keeps getting its way.

It wouldn't shock me one bit that one day Carney just come out with an announcement of us agreeing most of US demands while still imposing some tariffs like EU had agreed to.

It’s funny I was talking someone outside RS the other day and they literally said “and then there’s hehe who just comes in ‘hahaha lefties’ on every post”

Lol

Multiple shipping companies in Europe have stopped shipments to the US. The US is a shit show right now.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/europea...pment-tariffs/

The de minimis rule essentially undermined US trade policy. When the stupid Liberal government in Canada increased the maximum value, it made Canadian retailers less competitive.

Er... did you even read the article beyond the headline?

The fact still remains, everyone and their dog are trying to sell to US, because there isn't another economy large enough with the necessary consumption power on a per capita basis.

China was expected to replace US to become that world consumption superpower. But its economy is trash now. I was just in Shanghai a few weeks ago, and even though it's still as populous as ever, people just aren't spending money like they used to.

My usual go-to spot to host clients, a michellin starred resto in Shanghai used to need reservation a month in advance. Now I just called a night before and had window seat.

People are worried how their shit is going to get to the US, not they are refusing to sell to the US like you are trying to imply.

I'm not sure what you think I'm defending here - I just laid out how things are different than they were at the beginning, was any of it not factual?

As for the outcome, what exactly are the US demands? It seems a given that we'll end up with some sort of agreement that looks like what everyone else is agreeing to but if that's the case then it makes sense to continue to drag things out as anything above our current effective rate (in the mid single digits due to zero tariffs on CUSMA goods) would have more impact than it does now.

What I also noticed is that the same 2-3 users keep talking about "elbows". So damn annoying, because they have nothing new to say...

Isn't this kind of 'people not spending money as they used to' a global world wide phenomenon? Probably due to uncertainly created by the US admin over random % o tariffs. I mean I see it in practically every sector from housing, to groceries, to cars, to tech toys.

In the US, who do you think are the ones spending big bucks right now?

Rich people like Badhobz :concentrate:

It’s cuz the right wing feed on X is absolutely non-stop chock full of “Are your elbows still up, bitches?” and other such memes… minus the proper punctuation and grammar. It’s so low brow.

Same with the Sydney Sweeney thing, 2 people on my entire feed of 600+ were taking about it, both hardcore right wingers. TWO. Nobody else gave a fuck either way except all the 40-60 year old right wing dudes who think she needs a saviour cuz some weirdos on the hardcore left were crying about nazis. It’s absolutely mental.

These people create problems in their own lives because they have no personality or interests. Their whole existence has become “owning the libs” because they are miserable and are too arrogant, or too dumb to take any responsibility for their own happiness. The fundamental belief of right wing politics currently is that if the world isn’t working for you is that others lives getting better by comparison makes your life worse, so the only option is to make things worse for those that you blame for it.

My message is that I feel sad you liberal supporters just keep justifying Carney's decisions. Of course... I understand it. You need to continue to justify your own decision. Admitting being wrong, however little, is hard by nature.

But look realistically, if today it was PP who is in power and this happens, would you still say the same thing? Will you give the same tolerance?

And I say continues tolerance because it is what it is. Here I quote your comment before, which I also commented on:

Read what you said and think everything that Carney has done since then. Is Carney really just moving slow? Or really... just have no skill to do whatever he said he wanted to do to get elected.

Because other than doing 180 on things that he said he's going to do and giving in to US demands to even get US to the table, I dunno what the fuck Carney & co has done in the last month.

Hey! even i had to cut down. i only bought 1 hermes bag for my wife while in LA (south center in OC was downright dead this time around... pretty bad economy). I usually end up with 2 luggage full of trash. :badpokerface:

I'm pretty sure you were the one saying arts degrees are useless. Yet you are ok with some one who has an arts degree to lead the country.

Your argument is just the pot calling the kettle back and cherry picking the parts that fit your narrative.

Did I lay out anything that's factually incorrect about the current state of play? And did I say I support Carney's call on this? I understand why he did what he did but I have concerns about where it's all going. He recently said that he won't accept a "bad deal for Canadians" and I'm not sure he should be saying that as every deal being made is a bad deal right now, it's a matter of degrees.

No I wouldn't because PP has not demonstrated any evidence in his entire political career of getting anything done. Nor has he shown that any of his values or beliefs align with mine. The Conservatives are unserious about governing today - why should I provide them any tolerance? Give me a credible alternative (Erin O'Toole would have made a perfectly good PM - I might have even voted for him) and we can have actual discussions on the direction of the country. (Like what have you and the other loud mouth Conservatives here ever offered in terms of actually talking policy? All you do is whine about the state of the country and tell us how we're losers)

I didn't like Stephen Harper much at all but I can say that he generally ran the country reasonably well - I don't agree with things like the GST cut or his opposition to good science but things were fine, he was often a better than whatever the Liberals were offering. PP provides me zero evidence that he could govern as effectively as Harper so why should I give him any tolerance?

I don't know what it is that makes you think that Carney has a blank cheque from me, for example, I've pointed out my concern about his spending plans as I don't see how the math will add up, I've pointed out that he's making big bets that I'm not sure will pay off, and I've said he's not using his team enough.

None of this has really changed much since what I said a couple months ago but it doesn't mean he doesn't have my broad support b/c he's doing a lot of other things right - in the past couple months he's still showing that he's better at politics than expected (witness his stellar approval ratings) and slightly worse at governing than I expected.

You make that very clear on a regular basis.

^That was one of the biggest pot calling the kettle black I've seen in a minute here :lol

https://globalnews.ca/news/11347976/...ukraine-2/amp/

Remember when everyone said the billions and billions donated would actually prevent this? In fact, the most per capita in the G7?

:lol :lol

Fucking Mr.backtrack right here, jfc..

Everyone knew we were getting Trudeau 2.0 but it’s amazing how quickly it’s materialized.

Ehh, this goes both ways. Anyone focusing too much time on politics needs to focus on themselves more. They need to stop blaming the government for everything when we live in a first world country

I agree with that for the most part. The thing is being a Hispanic person in the US is actually being openly targeted by untrained, plain clothes law enforcement, so they can’t really just focus on themselves. That also makes non Hispanic people that give a shit about humanity angry. You can’t just focus on yourself when it comes to a problem like that making life objectively worse if you are affected or have a shred of empathy.

JasonS2k gets banned and hehe comes out of the woodwork right on cue :whistle:

^ very sus

Doesn’t matter who our leader is when our country has the population of one state and a loose cannon is at the helm down south.