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rebusrankin · October 2, 2020

Not sure if this is true or not but I read somewhere that for the Bay building, some of the interior features have to be kept too.

JCon · October 2, 2020

2 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

Not sure if this is true or not but I read somewhere that for the Bay building, some of the interior features have to be kept too.

True.

The only thing they need to gut are some interior, non load-bearing walls. Pretty simple stuff.

The actual structure is remarkable. For the purposes we were exploring, it would have had some heavy duty requirements and this structure would have met them.

FrostyWinnipeg · October 2, 2020

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/massive-mural-from-bay-downtown-destined-for-manitoba-museum-1.2783028

Did not know they already removed it.

Edited October 2, 2020 by FrostyWinnipeg

FrostyWinnipeg · October 4, 2020

17-foot white shark caught off Nova Scotia

FrostyWinnipeg · October 9, 2020

https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/07/britney-spears-lawyer-mental-capacity-patient-comatose/

blue_gold_84 · October 14, 2020

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-amazon-returns-1.5753714

Sounds like online shopping/e-commerce is wasteful across the board, not just with Amazon. That's pretty disgraceful.

Brandon · October 14, 2020

48 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-amazon-returns-1.5753714

Sounds like online shopping/e-commerce is wasteful across the board, not just with Amazon. That's pretty disgraceful.

This is normal across the board... I watched the CBC program and was surprised that they didn't bring up that everyone does this. It reminded me of the car graveyards where they have perfectly working vehicles just sitting and rotting away rather then selling them off at a cheaper price in fear of diminishing the brand value.

FrostyWinnipeg · October 19, 2020

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/scientists-clock-fastest-interval-time-zeptoseconds-n1243903

FrostyWinnipeg · October 20, 2020

Mr Dee · October 21, 2020

This fallout should be fascinating..

Wanna-B-Fanboy · October 21, 2020

Good news here. Much too late, but still welcomed anyways:

Mr Dee · October 22, 2020

Tough footage to get a hold of..

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FrostyWinnipeg · October 23, 2020

Edited October 23, 2020 by FrostyWinnipeg

FrostyWinnipeg · October 24, 2020

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/connecticut-town-renames-sewage-plant-after-john-oliver-n1243912

blue_gold_84 · October 26, 2020

https://readpassage.com/media-attacked-the-wetsuweten-but-ignore-white-fisher-violence/

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Earlier this year, protests were organized across Canada in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders fighting against the construction of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline through their unceded territory. These protests were met with an onslaught of demonization from a significant chunk of corporate Canadian media commentators.

I recently read through these articles published in the National Post, Globe and Mail, Toronto Sun and Toronto Star. I found that writers, and entire editorial boards, condemned the protests for a wide variety of reasons, but a few came up in almost every article on the topic: they ‘turned violent’; they were illegal; they inconvenienced people and impacted their ability to feed their families.

Most writers either explicitly or implicitly made the point that their opposition wasn’t primarily because of the particular cause at hand but rather was due to a violation of “law and order.” These columnists often wrote that they’d be strongly opposed to anyone protesting this way regardless of their cause, because the law applies to all.

It’s been several months since most of these articles were published, and there’s cause to question if concern for “rule of law” was really what motivated these writers.

In mid-September, the Sipekne’katik First Nation set up a lobster fishery in Nova Scotia, a right upheld by the Supreme Court in 1999. They were almost immediately met with a sabotage campaign from settler fishermen, which ramped up earlier this month.

However, the characteristics media commentators portrayed the Wet’suwet’en protests as being defined by (violent, illegal, detrimental to people trying to provide for their families) are genuinely applicable to the lobster mobs. And so, if commentators were being honest about what motivated their decision to write so harshly about the Wet’suwet’en protests, we’d see a similar condemnation of the white lobster fishers from these same writers, right?

Well, that’s not what has happened.

Interesting - and sickening - double standard. Not surprising, however, considering Postmedia owns 3/4 of those "newspapers" listed in the article.

FrostyWinnipeg · October 26, 2020

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bulldozer-thief-drove-through-florida-town-digging-biden-harris-campaign-n1244750

"Blight told police that he had been drinking whiskey all day and did not remember most of the day," Ferguson wrote. "He said that he couldn’t help but hit the Joe Biden signs and acknowledged to taking down a fence in the process. Blight said he did not know how to operate the equipment."

FrostyWinnipeg · October 27, 2020

FrostyWinnipeg · October 29, 2020

A Texas man who was seen in a Facebook Live video saying he drives better when he drinks while sipping a beer faces charges after he crashed, killing three of his passengers and seriously injuring another person.

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