Vancouver ILXors

ok i've only lived here a week and granted it is mid-August but, this city is real nice imo... at least second best city in canada

welcome flopson :)

thx Ross :)

hello flopson :)

hi jim :)

went to nine dishes (new location in richmond near bridgeport skytrain station). they've put the price of tsingtao up to $3.50 from $2 and the premises is a completely different vibe to the old hole in the wall on kingsway - kind of looks like a cross between an earls and a nightclub, with a huge chandelier dangling from the ceiling - but it's still great.

also have been getting outdoors more lately (yesterday was amazing weather), going to the north shore and exploring creeks and going to whytecliff park and seeing some seals. trying my best to stave off hating vancouver as the winter descends upon us.

fwiw i'm still lovin' vancouver

have u been to Chef Hung Taiwanese Beef Noodle in aberdeen centre? the only place i've eaten in richmond so far but it's soooo good

I've heard good things about that place but i don't eat meat and I've been told that, somewhat unsurprisingly, id be SOL if i tried to eat there. I'm going to try and get out to the burbs more often for food tho for sure.

oh ya don't go, in that case

green party wants to ban foreign real estate ownership

http://theprovince.com/news/bc-politics/mike-smyth-ban-foreign-real-estate-purchases-weaver-says

gregor's not running for mayor in october

Not surprising. What a terrible failure this last decade has been for Vancouver. Who knows what's next but more of this is not what's needed.

id imagine, especially if vision don't field a strong candidate, it will be NPA sadly

i.e. vision without the antiperspirant and disinterested in cycling infrastructure

Can't see NPA finding more than three or four candidates that anyone would vote for. I think council will resemble the school board - three Greens, two or three from each of NPA and Vision and one or two independents. Which would be perfectly healthy and better than now. I know for sure Jean Swanson is running as an independent and she's a shoo-in. Adriane Carr for Mayor.

i really don't see more greens than NPA or Vision

Well it just happened with the school board. Wouldn't be surprised to see Janet Frazer move from school board to council. And then they have Pete Fry and Cleta Brown who are both popular candidates. And Adriane Carr, the most popular councilor of all, who could quite easily win mayor right now.

school board trustees were voted for at the by-election which had a dismally low turnout.

jean swanson got more votes than pete fry in that same by-election, he's hardly the most robust candidate.

really don't imagine greens will gain any extra seats on the council to be honest.

if, similarly to the by-election, there is vision, a copesque independent like jean swanson - maybe actually just Jean Swanson - one city morons, some weed buffoons, and greens then the "progressive" vote will be split to hell again

Doesn't matter though because we get 9 votes and they all count. What is needed is some co-operation between Greens, independents, One City and COPE to not swamp the progressive side with too many candidates. Like, we only need 9 or 10 candidates in total from that side. Let Vision and NPA split the right wing. COPE are notorious for fucking this up but they are so weak now they may be sensible for a change.

Vision Vancouver have closed their offices and have no employees anymore. They'll blow their war-chest on this last election, scrape a few candidates and that'll be it for them.

but adrianne carr is actually bad and hates the poor, is the thing

i'm praying for libby davies to run

but adrianne carr is actually bad and hates the poor, is the thing
Aye but compared to the disingenuous mendacity of her peers she's like fucking Gandhi

Seeing this gif on the top 77 tracks thread

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/MarriedCooperativeGalapagossealion-size_restricted.gif

and then watching the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2hlQkVJZhE

was a surreal experience because almost all the locations are within a few blocks of where I worked for nine years (the border between downtown and gastown) or in a neighbourhood close to my home where I wander once or twice a week (Steveston, Richmond). I'm pretty sure I saw them filming the scene in the gif, but I had no idea what it was at the time.

Anyone know these locations?:

https://i.imgur.com/vc1O8cL.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/mnC2Wzz.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/zRystG7.jpg

first one is white rock pier. that is a lot of van in that video.

haven't seen that music video yet but looking forward to it

couldn't care less about the song

there is a kpop music video i'll post later that was filmed basically at every single place i walked by like every other day

i think i had recently moved to los angeles so i got so nostalgic i ended up liking the song

also i think i've only been to white rock once in my entire life

i had a really uncharacteristically easy vancouver housing search a couple weeks back. decided to start looking. looked at craigslist. emailed the guy who wrote the ad for the only place that allows cats, was in a neighborhood i would live in (literally a block from where i currently live), and was in my price range that was on craigslist. viewed it the next day. was told i had it 2 days later.

oh and on the vancouver on film news i was watching riverdale the other day and recognized archie's house as being in strathcona

that's nice jim

uncool conservative opinion: i like vancouver weather

You grow to love the mouldy city

Believe it or not I actually miss the rain

But i do stay a chunk of my time in a city with completely different weather

i don't love the rain but i love the clothing the temperature range permits. wearing a sweater and light jacket in january!

white rock fucking rules and crescent beach is dope

Saw Archie smoking a cig on Alberni today. That was fun.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/investigations/real-estate-money-laundering-and-drugs/article38004840/

feeling hopeful, like people have woken up to the cesspit that this city and province are.

so obviously the the NPA will win the next election ;_;

ha

that'll be the day

I'm almost a perfect jonah when it comes to politics, especially the last 4/5 years

our next mayor: http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/former-vancouver-mp-wai-young-looks-set-to-run-for-mayor

Meh. Rookies. Either Libby Davies or Adriane Carr would crush any NPA or Vision candidate. Both are weighing options. If both ran it could be more competitive though.

I would be so pumped to volunteer for Libby

I would sadly predict the left-green split will be enough to give the NPA the victory, like in the city council special election

That was totally different. One vote for one candidate. Progressive candIdates got twice as many votes as vision and NPA combined. This year Lefties and greens will vote for a slate of independent/left/green candidates - in greater numbers than the centre right can muster.

Also Vision is not left-green. They are centre right same as NPA.

And Libby is a distinct possibility right now.

libby will be our next mayor fellas

u heard it here first

:)

I'm a total optimist when it comes to elections. And always wrong.

the jean swanson-pete fry was the split I meant, they were 2nd and 3rd right? and the vote for mayor is popular vote. I doubt NPA could get a majority on council (even tho the at-large council system does lead to ridiculous and undemocratic majorities) but the split could def be enough for the npa to win the mayoral seat. anyway I am praying you are both right.

Libby and Adriane Carr won't both stand. Libby the best for mayor and Carr likes being a councillor (says so every chance she gets).

The party thing may be somewhat diminished because of new funding rules. Better chance for independents and smaller parties. COPE could be the spoilers by running a decent candidate for mayor or a big squad of hopefuls for council (seems unlikely though - I don't think they have anyone particularly electable).

Gossip I've heard: Swanson's team want to run at least one more candidate. Swanson herself is not 100% in, for a personal reason. Libby's being subjected to a campaign to get her to stand (I got asked to email her so this is in some way true). CUPE is going to endorse One City.

COPE or CUPE? I doubt Cope would run a mayor against Libby, she's the perfect unity candidate. Really hope you are right about Carr, I think a lot of dummies would vote for a Green mayor candidate, and this year feels like their best opportunity to actually win. I wonder what will happen to Vision, they seem totally depleted.

I really wish our elections used proportional representation. I also wish that about BC and Canada, but here most of all.

CUPE (the largest union I believe) will endorse One City. Probably because they are going to run a candidate or two connected to the union.

COPE I got no good info about, except they look very weak.