Yup, support from management would have been nice. Better pay, new protections against the physical abuse. The management is too busy thinking of profits. The nursing union is the same way, they only care about profit and prestige. The BC union is a farcical pariah-union who needed to poach members from other unions. Fuck you BCNU!
Kitsault keeps appearing on lists of ghost towns. I pretty much guessed from the title. There are some YouTube tours of Kitsault.
It’s a great ghost town because it went from fully occupied to empty pretty much overnight. The mine announced it was closing, and pretty much everyone left. It was pretty effectively mothballed against the day the mine reopened, but here we are 40 years later looking at remarkably well preserved eighties vintage houses.
It’s also remote enough you aren’t going to get random vandals trashing the place. Plus, it was never technically abandoned. It’s owned by somebody, and there are periodically plans around the mines, tourism, resorts, etc. So some maintenance is done.
Capacity planning isn’t a housing problem, directly. This is just one more symptom of the mind-numbingly-stupid “run to fail” operating mode currently used by Translink, BCFerries, and other P/P/P businesses.
How did 2022 Provincial Bill 7 die and why? As the very first step toward better management of BC Ferry Authority, it would have put us in a better position to demand, as residents, better service.
And then we can fix translink for the same comically-bad management at the smaller scale.
I have a lot or respect for Ed, but he was much more suited for opposition than governing. I suspect he'd have pulled a Bob Rae. try to do too much, and flame out in the ensuing backlash.
On the list of "greatest never-was" I'd likely put Robert Stanfield high on the list. Sort of a Joe Clark like character, very down to earth and related to people on a personal level. He was conservative in the "think twice and act cautiously" vein, not the "burn everything down" types we're stuck with today. His subdued style and the lingering aftertaste of the Diefenbaker days combined with Trudeaumania left him as an also-ran.
I don’t think Bob Rae fizzled out, ever since he left the NDP he’s been a high ranking member of the Federal Liberals and even served as interim leader
I was referring only to Rae's one term government. The backlash resulted in the election of the Mike Harris PCs with the resultant looting, corruption and devastating tax and service cuts.
In the last ~20 years Rae's carved out a pretty solid track record.
The crisis, like most of the other crisis’ we are seeing right now, is housing costs.
People don’t want to work for BC ferries(or in healthcare, or many other occupations) at the current wages because they can’t afford to live on them due to high housing costs.
We could fix that by paying more or we could fix it by reducing housing costs. The first one is simpler, but doesn’t fix the root of the issue which is value extraction by land owners.
Probably the only reason he never made it as prime minister was that if he ever achieved the position, he would have conveniently or suddenly died.
I’m a lifelong NDPer and I love Broadbent and he would have made an unbelievable Prime Minister as his vision for the people would have saved so many from poverty or struggle. At the same time, his leadership would have directly threatened and most probably ended the power, control and influence of the wealthiest most powerful people and corporations that are driving our country right now.
Broadbent was the last true left-wing leader of the NDP. Too bad so many decided decades ago that NDP would never be federally elected because supposedly they are “fiscally irresponsible”.
We are a nation of losers who have been scammed by PCs and Liberals to think that no one but them can rule properly.
This might have actually been true at the time. Not sure if it’s still true today. Someone with plausible labor credentials replacing Jagmeet might be what’s needed.
That’s incredibly negligent. She should resign or be charged.
Someone in the comments on there made a good point of how this is likely systematic due to every department of government wanting to be on our below budget at the expense of human life and care. We are in late stage neo-liberalism, any party of you vote for will do this same shit. (Though voting is still important)
It’s time for a completely new uprising of parties that care about the human condition, not just Economics.
Spoilers: It was because of anti-communist sentiments and policies.
Canada’s Immigration Department after the war determinedly and successfully prevented communists and other leftists from immigrating to Canada or even visiting the country.
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My interpretation of the immigration files, along with cabinet discussions, is that the same anti-communist obsession that dominated immigration policies before the war and resulted in indifference, if not actual support, regarding fascists and Nazis who might be entering Canada, quickly re-established itself after the war.
Right-wing extremists, rather than being viewed as a security threat, were viewed as potential docile workers who would be on the “right side” as Canada made the fight against communism internally and worldwide the centre of its foreign policy. They would be bulwarks against Marxism and Marxists in Canada.
The government actively chose Nazis over communists, Jews, and people of colour, because Nazis would oppose communists, Jews, and people of colour.
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