herbie

Nice circular argument again. Right back to the 'It must be back to what didn't work for a century because after one year part of PlanB didn't work, therefore all of PlanB is no good'. There's 1,000 issues involved so let's leave it to the experts, doctors and social workers etc. and tell the loudmouth politicians who feed solely on gut issue publicity and don't actually give a damn about who or what they rail about to STFU.

While you're at it, help us put the arseholes suggesting Inheritance Taxea heads on those pikes too. You boomer folks saved that dough for you not the govt.

Seriously? Because it never was and would be political suicide to even suggest. You'd need a leader with the stubbornness and willing to fall on his sword like Brian Mulroney to sneak it in out of the blue. When the vast majority of Tory supporters are owners and the majority of Liberal supporters are all homeowners, and even us Dipper homeowners would put your head on a pike for even suggesting the only actually valuable asset that's theirs should be taxed, just forget about even thinking it. It's not 1917 Czarist Russia the evil landowners are your Mum & Dad, friends and neighbours.

And you're free to call the obvious a lie and live in a dreamworld of trickle down magic. Move. Ya wouldn't even be here to gripe if your Grampa didn't have the guts to.

Like we know you sure aren't an alimni being bothered in the least.

Police say 'no crime is being committed' So they can't arrest people and they're the only ones who can arrest people. I see another inflammatory headline here, that's all. WE have our own Yellow Journal, the Nazional Post for those.

Vancouver Police just arrested a woman for shouting "long Live Oct 7th" through a loudspeaker at a Pro Palestine rally. Charges as a Hate Crime are being investigated. So where's the outrage over someone you hate's Free Speech being violated? (sound of crickets) The sick thing is a number of people can be heard shouting it back. Round them up too please.

I could just repost what ArmyGuy did. Been posting the same thing myself for years. You can build more homes in Van/TO but they're never gonna be affordable. Easier to find or make a job where it can be affordable.

The hard approach did not work for a damn. Just makes them feel more unwanted - something the addictive mind reinforces as a truth. That's why this legal hardline BS never worked. In spite of your insistence that the BC led approach 'didn't work', I say otherwise. The only failure was to predict the public annoyance aspect, I too would not have thought of it at the time. Nor have predicted the position of the BC Court on the first attempt at regulating it. Do you know how many times my kid walked away from rehab? They can't and won't make you stay, they know that's useless. I'm only ragging you as you keep using alarmist invalid stereotypes for your criticism of treatment methods and reverting to criminal solutions that as I repeat 'defintitely have not worked for 100 years'. Good God, this brain chemistry is so f*cked up, so frustrating that I walked away a semester short of a Psych degree in 1974 and went back to electronics. Like they say "Good computers are like good women, they do exactly what you want if you ask them the right way"

Do you comprehend that in order for free market prices to go down, supply must exceed demand? And the market being discussed is housing, not widgets or potatoes? They are trying to build millions of homes, but the time period is over years, not for the next Christmas sales season. If you release 100 new homes on the market in Vancouver tomorrow morning, that's barely going to affect the cost of housing in Vancouver. The next handful may be ready months or even years later. Build all the houses you want, if people can't afford to buy or rent them the problem isn't solved, is it? You do know we could bild millions of $100K manufactured homes and have millions and millions of hectares of land that could be given out free if we wanted to, don't you? Bu we won't. Just like we could build $15,000 EVs, there's just no financial incentive for anyone to do so. The real incentive is for everyone to make as much as the can. Even if they do as some imagine dump 1,000,000 new homes on the market all at once, if the average house price drops to $750,000- you still can't afford that can you?

That's where you're 100% incorrect. Firstly the Feds did go along with BC, otherwise the RCMP would've had to continue arresting for possession. Functionally the laws as they are federally over simple possession are as stupid and wasteful of police and courts as busting people for two joints was a decade ago. F*cking admit it. You don't want to double the cops, jails and court workers to collect $50 fines and 3 day jail sentences. Go after the dealers and importers. Decriminalizing possession of small amounts did not increase the number of users in barely one year no matter how much you'd like to believe it did. Look at actual stats. I don't want to reply with a big essay, but FFS the problem is addiction. Addiction destroys what used to be called superego, these people will rip off Granies jewels to buy drugs, steal their best friend's car, rent their own girlfriend out. For more drugs. No damn law is gonna fix that. So if you're simply unable or unwilling to see addiction as a health issue, then you are as big a problem as the addicts are for seeing them only as criminals. As for you're other question, yes I do have LOTS of personal experience with this issue. I did all the shit there was in the 60s and 70s but do little of that now other than a beer when I go for fish & chips and a gummie when my arthritis acts up. Both I and my daughter realized after 21 you can't be good at computer programming, accounting or social interaction if you're buzzed outa your nut. F-I-L lost to alcohol, ex to alcohol & chemical dependency, friend since 8 yrs old blew his liver from booze and injection drugs, first girl I even crushed on OD'd on junk in 1969, couple school buddies wired on MMDA and coke, buddy's nephew & wife lost to fentanyl while their kids slept in the next room. Saw the crackhead down the block chase someone down the street swinging an axe, his gf walk into the house and ask for drugs or money, she OD'd later and he's now locked up for murder. PLUS I know functional users on this very block who use coke, meth recreationally and are not addicts, they work raise families and hide in their car or shop to smoke up away from their kids & neighbours. There are 2 kinds of people. So here's the kicker: my son was a junkie and did other shit. 25 years of 'helping' with work clothes, driving all the way to Vancouver to be with him court, getting calls from social workers only trying to dodge doing their jobs and sending him to me, out of their jurisdiction. I get a call one January from a junkie friend of his that he'd died of Covid before Christmas. Call the coroners office to see if it was true -yes he died. He'd removed my name as his contact and added his junkie friend. The Coroner had that file right there on his desk as it was under investigation - it wasn't Covid. He was incapacitated in the hospital for a stroke and died weeks later. Meth and fentanyl in his blood. Someone brought the drugs into the hospital, more than a YEAR before this decriminalization came into being. So don't give me this BS that you're all more knowledgeable about the subject than my multiple decades of experience with it. It's a sickness, and only ever was a crime cuz our great grandaddies succumbed to the populist rage of a century ago, not knowing any better

Kind of similar to past gas boycotts. you can't boycott them all because you can't do without food or gas, so pick one. Loblaws happens to be the biggest. We used to shop there more, the kids preferred Peasant's Choice brand over the Welfare Family brand at SaveOn. Groan!!! How budget, Dad. We want real Old Dutch chips!

Oh I can but I won't as it has sweet f*ck all to do with the subject.

Yeah when the prices drop so low I'll buy up a couple and register Borg Inc. Rent ya one for $5000 a month too! Or you can line up to bid on buying it. Don't forget Rule #2: you only gotta underprice the guy enough to win the customer. Look how they line up across the street to save 2¢ a litre. Switch to Bell and save $1 a month: switch to Rogers get an extra 1GB "SAVE NOW" - $998,999 studio apartments.

awrootie toot toot, awrootie toot toot. he's posting from inside the ins-toot-toot

That you can't even keep track of what thread you're in? I'll bet you can even round up a bunch of fellow MAGAs to argue shooting a puppy because it's slow to learn is a good thing to do. That's why 'deplorable' was about the politest term one can use

Mentioned as they are considering similar policies and PP bellowed specifically against Ottawa approving it. Bullshit. Niehter the govt, the professionals involved or the RCMP are. They wanted tweaks, the usual loudmouths want drugs criminalized again. Because? Can they say even why? Typical dinosaur response. You'd be unlucky as hell to get 'a few years' for dealing. And forced rehab, eh? You showed yourself as one of the very 1diots I keep pointing to, smashing your face into it didn't break down the wall in 100 years so your solution is that you're not smashing your face into it hard enough. Beat the crew harder until morale improves and all that. But of course you can't understand simple analogy.

Because they're busy portraying them as ProHamas rallies like the OP to fit their political agenda. Which is 100% against reasoning and sane thought. Even though I think protesting at a N American university against a war between people who aren't N American is futile, and the extremists are demanding disinvestment in companies 'that do business with Israel' is disingenuine. Divest in Lockheed because Israel buys F35s same as us? Invest in terrorists that rape, murder and take hostages instead?

Just another example of how Trump is rapidly losing his mind in the public eye,

I said that too. That issue has been addressed, not much point rehashing what was. I take issue at the Polievres yelping and demanding Toronto can't implement policies even though Feds will have addressed that particular issue, This part was a problem so the whole concept is no good.

That is exactly what the RCMP said they will do in public places. And if they do, who's gonna stop them? They seize liquor and pour it all the time.

There is ZERO indication 'the problem' will get worse because of treating addiction as a health issue. There is one hundred years of evidence that punishing users instead of addressing the underlying causes did. So returning to a punishment model is the definition of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, which is one definition of insanity.

A simpleton's interpretation of everything free market, eh?

You really believe in stereotypes, don't you? Bubba,,,, Country folk shoot a dog because it's old and dying, if it's hopelessly injured or goes after livestock. Not for being a slow learner. Sadistic a$$holes do that. Animal cruelty -she confessed to a crime. Makes her adorable to Trumpoids.

That "the left" hates Jews or is antisemetic is the most pathetic attempt at right wing propaganda, sadder as so many of them actually believe it.