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Forum: Current Events Topic: Speed limits on some B.C. highways to hit 120 km/h |
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 5:21 pm
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Replies: 40
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| Marine Drive is still 50 kph, Marine Way varies between 50 and 90kph. I would nominate that stretch for dumbest speed restriction in North America. The other one is the stretch from Chilliwack to Cache Creek. Hope they're adjusting that one. I doubt it though. The speed traps along that stretch are... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Topless pro-choice protesters interrupt anti-abortion rally |
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 1:01 pm
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Replies: 135
Views: 2751
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Forum: Current Events Topic: White House opens door to tolls on interstate highways, remo |
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 12:35 pm
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Replies: 36
Views: 432
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| I've always bin of the opinion that all our license plates should have a scalable RFID-type chip (not like GPS tracable, but the same technology like if you cross over a tolled bridge, and it reads that sticker on top of your rearview mirror), and that the government should just install scanners on ... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: White House opens door to tolls on interstate highways, remo |
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 12:25 pm
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Replies: 36
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| Tolls piss people off for sure. But gas taxes are no longer effective. Car models are much more energy efficient. I don't know why we just can't do away with the fuel excise taxes and just add it as a general licensing surcharge. You need to visit Albeta - every third person still drives a pick-up ... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: White House opens door to tolls on interstate highways, remo |
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:31 am
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Replies: 36
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| How would that be? That gas tax is charged at the pumps, no? So even if you drive off of public roads, you still need to fill up at a gas station... |
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Forum: General Jibber Jabber Topic: Mennonite ties to Mexican drug cartels |
| westmanguy |
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:10 am
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Replies: 28
Views: 353
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| Didn't even read the article. Mexican Mennonites running drugs has been going on for decades and is hardly news and is hardly shocking. What people need to realize is being Mennonite is as much a culture based on historical roots but no longer necessarily means one is religious. Mexican Mennonite g... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: White House opens door to tolls on interstate highways, remo |
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:07 am
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Replies: 36
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| Tolls piss people off for sure. But gas taxes are no longer effective. Car models are much more energy efficient. I don't know why we just can't do away with the fuel excise taxes and just add it as a general licensing surcharge. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Redford ordered personal penthouse suite in Federal Building |
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:55 pm
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Replies: 90
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| I've bin through Flagstaff as well. Drove through there on the way to the Grand Canyon to do a hike with my dad when I was 12. I remember stopping on the outskirts there for this Navajo "dinosaur" tracks exhibit. It was so funny and believable at the time as a 12-year-old lol. Cool landsca... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Calgary stabbings: 4 male youths, 1 female dead |
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 4:45 pm
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Replies: 54
Views: 1515
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Free Wi-Fi in Vancouver Parks gets board support |
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 2:35 pm
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Replies: 19
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| Yah, I'm with the minority on this one. This is definitely a generational issue. NEWSFLASH, anyone with a smart phone or internet stick in their laptop can get internet through the cellular networks! I can easily make my iPhone 5S a "hot spot" and then use my laptop off that as WiFi as lon... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Longboarding is banned in West Vancouver. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 6:54 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 251
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| Also, a side story to this is the utter dysfunction of the West Vancouver Police Department (WVPD) over the last decade: Revelations of an after-hours social gathering at the police station, and the subsequent impaired driving arrest of a West Vancouver police constable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Longboarding is banned in West Vancouver. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 5:37 pm
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Replies: 15
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| Oh the entitlement of West Vancouverites. The richest postal code in the country. The wealth there is obscene. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Former finance minister Jim Flaherty dead at 64 |
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 11:25 am
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Replies: 28
Views: 642
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| RIP Jim. Really sad news. That guy devoted so much of his life to his province and country. And he never got a chance to really enjoy a retirement. |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Opinion: N + 1: What Happened to Canada |
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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:37 pm
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Replies: 63
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| You honestly think that the left/right spectrum is age based? I hardly buy that anymore. All the idealist "compassionate" welfare statists WERE the baby boombers who lived in the heyday era of Pierre Trudeau in the 70s. They never dreamed of having to deal with unpaid internships or barely... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Sheila Fraser: changes would 'infringe' on Elections Canada |
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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 2:47 pm
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Replies: 77
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| How bloody difficult is it to meet the requirements? Not much. Even as a student when my permanent address was back in Manitoba, I used my cell phone bill and university residence contract and was all set to vote in BC (more competitive riding). Poor folks can get a note from a soup kitchen, or a pr... |
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