Black and white TV was fine 60 years ago and it’s fine now

Universities make money hand over fist, not sure they need any more public funding. They tend to have more administrators than professors and teachers and it just seems super wasteful.

Technically most of the fires in Canada happen up in the north where it’s dense spruce and pine conifer stands which don’t turn into your typical “old growth” type forest that you picture from the movies. Stands that are hundreds of years old will burn almost just as easily as a decades old stand. Forest fires are a natural part of their life cycle.

The typical “old growth” forests that are fairly fire resistant are found in the coastal rainforests which don’t typically see much fires as it’s pretty rare in the damp and humid environment.

I view phoning someone like popping over to their house and knocking on the door to chat with no prior warning. No one likes that.

Where do votes from abroad get counted? Last state you lived in? State you were born in?

Why allow rental rate hikes instead of allowing the tenants to purchase the building dirt cheap?

They would if they paid more.

If you aren’t finding employees, offer more money, don’t look abroad for people.

If you need to increase your prices to afford it, then increase your prices

If your restaurant doesn’t survive because people think it’s too expensive, that’s the free market.

Because that’s where they trick you. They sell you something as if it’s a good deal when really it’s not, and they make a ton of money by selling the same thing to 50 other people.

You need to book it because you are not the only person who “owns” it. Many people do, and usually you can only book like 1-2 weeks a year or something.

Despite paying the full price of an apartment you’re only really buying 1/52 of an apartment

Plus they have you pay a bunch of maintenance fees which can be a few hundred to thousands a year.

Hot dogs and Burgers

Of course if the right situation were to arise, if it’s either conscription or Russia somehow takes over Canada who would choose the latter?

Personally I don’t care for it is or isn’t a native name, but I do dislike British Columbia. I can live with it but if it were out up to a vote to change it I would say go for it.

I hate that it’s:

• So long
• Two words
• Refers to other geographical places

I would much prefer a simpler name like Alberta or Manitoba. Fuck Saskatchewan though I need to pull out the dictionary for that one half the time.

Beautiful Beesee

The Liberals rebranded themselves the BC United (BCU) which you can see in the red pretty much at the bottom of the graph there.

It was a little confusing before too because they weren’t really “liberal” and were closer to conservatives anyway. No relation to the federal liberal party which the current prime minister is part of.

And now there’s an actual conservative party which apparently is polling pretty close to the top. Which is what’s baffling me and many others. We basically had two decades of conservative leadership which led to the corruption, different party but basically the same ideals.

NDP has done great the past few years and now they look close to equal with the conservative party.

Depends where you live. In BC you would probably report it to the BCCDC.

Corvids like Crows, ravens, and magpies/jays are very susceptible to West Nile virus and are often indicators that the virus may be spreading in an area. If you find a dead Corvid you should report it so that the corpse can be tested to see if it died due to the virus.

There’s not much you can do personally other than avoiding mosquito-prone areas and wearing proper clothing.

Municipalities and other governing bodies can implement mosquito control programs though if residents feel they would benefit from reducing the mosquito populations. WNv isn’t a huge threat in Canada yet, it’s much more prevalent in the United states, so most mosquito programs up here are to control them for nuisance for more enjoyable summers, tourism and business, outdoor labourers and farmworkers, etc.

I work in mosquito control and it’s a pretty safe product that’s used, no aerial spraying of chemicals in our area it’s just targeting the larval stage of mosquitos by applying a bacteria which kills pretty much only mosquitos or black flies. Leaves everything else untouched.

Places like roadside catch basins can produce a lot of the mosquitos that transmit WNv, just sampled a townhome complex the other week and found that pretty much every one of their 30 catch basins were producing over 1000 mosquitos, likely on a weekly basis for months.

If you feel a mosquito control program is needed residents need to contact their municipal or regional representatives to get the process started. You may already have one going as well, where you may be able to get any stagnant water on your property treated for free (depending on the program). A lot of people don’t even know their city has a mosquito control program, even ones which have been going for 20+ years.

I don’t have anything for scale but something about this man makes me want to say 5’8" and overcompensating.

People need to stop feeding them and keep their garbage locked up.

I was told the “effectiveness” as toilet paper was as a prank by foresters to newbies and purportedly causes an itchy butt hole when all the little fibres from the leaves which make them soft then break off and coat your crack.

I do hate them, though, as they totally take over disturbed areas and are difficult to remove.