Both your cities look like they were laid out by the ancient Romans, and it's weird and unnatural dammit!
Grids and numbered roads... it's just not right!
The Super Dooper Canadian Thread (now with 47% more Canadian Bacon)
Grids and numbered roads... it's just not right!
Then you would LOVE San Antonio. It is said the town was laid out by 3 drunks riding a blind mule.
That's more like it!
I grew up in a town that rarely had a road run straight for more than a km, and many of the main roads changed names multiple times along their route.
Oh god, it's contagious!
Was that Kelowna? It is strange for me as well living in the Vancouver area with their straight roads and numbers.
You only look down on us Colonials because you're jealous your empire never amounted to anything.Any proper place lived in by actual people has roads that run any which way except straight ahead. Silly colonials and their pre-made cities
I mean, other than giving Conrad (an Englishg-language writer, even) a setting to explore the savagery lurking under our thin sheen of civilization.
On April 20th (yes, 4-20) the government announces that they will introduce legislation to legalize (not decriminalize) pot... next spring: http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/marijuana-legislation-coming-next-spring-feds-1.2867004
What do they need that time for? They already made it an election promise. It's been 6-ish months. They need another year? For what? To accept enough bribes from companies to ensure that only 5-6 companies can legally produce it? Or are they stacking up the bribes to see if anybody can put together enough cash to the right people in the Liberal Party of Canada to become a legal monopoly on the stuff? Yes I consider LPC to be the "we're corrupt! Pay us enough and we'll do what you want!" party for Canada. Not that the others are much better (if better at all) but they're notorious for that crap.
Quote this post to me next year. If they actually allow cottage-industry for recreational stuff, I'll probably die of shock. Mark my words: it will be a near-monopoly of overpriced crap, BEFORE taxes, because we have to tightly control it "for the children."
What do they need that time for? They already made it an election promise. It's been 6-ish months. They need another year? For what? To accept enough bribes from companies to ensure that only 5-6 companies can legally produce it? Or are they stacking up the bribes to see if anybody can put together enough cash to the right people in the Liberal Party of Canada to become a legal monopoly on the stuff? Yes I consider LPC to be the "we're corrupt! Pay us enough and we'll do what you want!" party for Canada. Not that the others are much better (if better at all) but they're notorious for that crap.
Quote this post to me next year. If they actually allow cottage-industry for recreational stuff, I'll probably die of shock. Mark my words: it will be a near-monopoly of overpriced crap, BEFORE taxes, because we have to tightly control it "for the children."
I feel like the article you posted has your answer right near the top. It suggests the bill hasn't been written, yet. So the corruption is likely just lawyers and politicians taking their sweet time doing as little work as possible, sitting on committees and expense accounting dinners in fancy Ottawa restaurants.
But I do expect that there will essentially be a monopoly on pot, too.
It's more that "assuming somewhat competent people" (that's probably wrong right there, considering government, not just the Liberal Party) they had this stance PRE-ELECTION. Which means hopefully they had an idea how they were going to do it, even if not 100% fleshed out, the basics (who can grow, where can be sold from, who can buy (easy, not minors, done), and how to deal with past convictions) should all have been already decided. I would at least hope that if a party has it as a major plank of their platform, the basics have been sussed out. Thus drafting, etc, is in the 6-month timeframe (maybe). Thus they should have TABLED the bill this week, and had a nice long (and public) 1st, 2nd, and 3rd readings with lots of committees in-between, making it PASS sometime near this time next year, or (preferably) this fall.
That essentially nothing is done NOW, means they've done nothing so far. Which is gross incompetence, and as others in the media have said, "What about all the people getting criminal records THIS year?" All signs of "who the fuck is actually controlling the party?" Which is (at least one reason) why I didn't vote for them. Maybe this year we'll find out who with the big purse is really in control of the party, because it certainly isn't Mr. Trudeau Jr. It never has been.
I'm so happy!! I was worried for them.
Which is Beans and which is Squiggles? I must know!
Squiggles is so named because of the squiggley fur on the ribs, so they are on the right.
Anyone near the fire in Alberta?
I don't think so. I think our Albertans are in the big cities, which are quite far away from the Northern city of Fort McMurray.
Thanks! I saw in the news that they were evacuating 60000 people due to the wildfire. It made me wonder if any of our forumites were affected.
I wonder if that was @Frank visiting someone. That kinda rings a bell to me.[DOUBLEPOST=1462393553,1462393402][/DOUBLEPOST]It was his brother
No wait. I was skimming. He was talking about his police stuff with his brother up there.
The entire city was evacuated with no deaths, and (as of the information I have) only two minor injuries.
Fort Mac is an oil town, and with the fall in oil prices, some of the work camps were at low or no capacity, so people were able to evacuate to them. "Camp" in this case means buildings with power, internet, food, refrigeration, etc. So that's quite fortunate. Approximately 18 000 people have headed toward my city (Edmonton), while others are stopping at other nearby areas. Many gas stations along the route have offered discounted or free gas to evacuees.
Meanwhile, another town, Lac Ste Anne has been notified that they may have to evacuate.
My province is on fire.
Unnecessary political bitchy remark spoilered for those who don't care to hear about that nonsense:
Fort Mac is an oil town, and with the fall in oil prices, some of the work camps were at low or no capacity, so people were able to evacuate to them. "Camp" in this case means buildings with power, internet, food, refrigeration, etc. So that's quite fortunate. Approximately 18 000 people have headed toward my city (Edmonton), while others are stopping at other nearby areas. Many gas stations along the route have offered discounted or free gas to evacuees.
Meanwhile, another town, Lac Ste Anne has been notified that they may have to evacuate.
My province is on fire.
Unnecessary political bitchy remark spoilered for those who don't care to hear about that nonsense:
Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, truther-enabler, and general useless sac of shit, has used this opportunity to explain that Canada isn't doing enough to fight climate change.
I have a buddy in Fort Mac, another who has family up that way... my buddy has lost his home in this. Managed to salvage possessions during the evac though, and he has a trailer to live in for the meantime... but still.
Fort McMurray Wildfire Relief Includes Free Lap Dances for Escapees
Well, that's one way to raise money.
Among other things.
Well, that's one way to raise money.
Among other things.