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Merry Christmas to all. May your new year be full of joy, excitement, good health and wonderful adventures. I note as an aside that our swan diving down bound society has moved beyond the lame “Happy Holidays”. The Old Navy ads shout out “Happy ALL-idays while displaying a pride version of their logo. Im not a regular church goer but I’ll stick with Merry Christmas - the reason for the season.

Merry Christmas to you all and may 2022 give us contentment. It is time, regardless of faith, to count our blessings and not to worry about the small stuff.

The 'War on Christmas' has been won ! ? JK - may the peace of Christ's message set your hearts aglow with the communal spirit of a BLM bonfire ❤️

Happy holidays, to everyone, I hope you and yours have a much better new year than what we have had in the last couple of years.

In hindsight public health policy should have been recommending masks, distancing and other simple measures along with vaccines decades ago. I suspect deaf ears will prevail and dominate but note I said recommend and not dictate.

Merry Christmas everybody, even Bubber.

Would all my property taxes be refunded with interest?

Well put WCM. It's the Democrats and largely the left that have changed dramatically, as in moving wayyyyyy further left. Roosevelt, Truman or JFK would not recognize the modern Democratic party of today. Biden appoints Bernie Sanders( USSR honeymoon) as an economic advisor!! The powerful, influential, and hateful squad are growing inside the Democratic party. What does that tell us?? Best wishes for everyone, old members and new alike!

Exactly the differences between wokes versus the Civil Rights Movement and the mainstream Left as a larger spectrum in general. The wokes look for equality of outcome, and a difference of outcome is always synonymous with unfairness while it doesn't have to be proven. It is guaranteed that any discrepancy, is unfairness, unjust. The Civil Rights Movement and the mainstream Left want equality of opportunity, which is desirable and actually is a levelled playing ground for everyone to be included.

But, this is what the judge is saying. The judge observes that minorities fail the test more than others. The judge does not consider that the minorities are capable to cover the gap. Therefore, the outcome places the minorities into what he call, discrimination. His observations place a color on those minorities and there you go, the tests are out of sudden, racists. It is a very narrowed point of view. Now let's see it from another angle. If we put our observations further, we would probably notice that the minorities often coming from a background of community living in poverty and an environment of lower quality education in their sector. Therefore, if we address that problem from that angle, we would come to the conclusion that those schools need a better improvement of their teaching quality. If money is an issue, we could take measures to make sure those students have the same chances as the "white" ones do. Once we know every one starts on the basis and same chances, we would expect that the ratio of success is mostly the same for every one else. The judge and you, prefer to avoid the test. Other people like me, prefer to make sure every one gets the same conditions to succeed the test. It's two opposite approaches. Yours is based on the race. You conclude that few races are inferiors, so the tests must be avoided because those people just cannot make it. Mine is rather a problem of education context and should be address as is. Stating that the test is unconstitutional, is one of the biggest insult to intelligence one could make. It is super extra woke.

I saved a Vancouver Sun issue from the mid 1960's. 3 bedroom houses were selling for $16,900.00. I agree the empty condo speculators are a problem. If people keep moving into the interior of BC, the wilderness will disappear forever. It is already being ruined by logging.