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Sucks for the people who got pretty much no warning their jobs were gone.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/huf...sing-1.5942533

HuffPost Canada is no more, Buzzfeed shut them down today.

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Nice to have a brand new hospital, but the old St Paul's will then be no more ........... parts of it demolished, other "heritage buildings or frontages kept, and redeveloped in to more high rise condos and apartment buildings.

Thus leaving what is already home to thousands and thousands of people without medical care close-by. It is not long ago that the West End was described as more populous than Manhattan in New York, not sure what the comparison is like now.

The West End is also home to lots of senior citizens and HIV patients, though I believe the Dr Peter Clinic will remain.

It remains to be seen how public transit will be increased to make easy access to the site ...... at present it is not good. As well as once again destroying low income housing, and gentrifying the local area.

The site is right next to the Pacific Central Train Station, terminus for The Canadian to Toronto which currently runs twice a week, Amtrak trains/coaches to the US with several departures a day, and coaches serving the US, BC and Canada, on the old Greyhound routes. Not to mention the homeless who populate the area around there, sleeping in the park outside the station.

Parts of the new hospital could be quite noisy!

Some things good, but often leave difficult things behind.

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The density for Manhattan is 71,341 people per sq mile vs West End at 61,741/sq m.

I just wish they would have made the new hospital bigger so it would more easily meet population growth, while its an increase in overall beds, I fear by the time it opens it will already be too small, similiar thing happened in Abbotsford, while the new hospital was bigger, by the time it opened it was already too small really.

City whole vs city whole for NYC and Vancouver, NYC is way more dense, but west end and Manhattan are not as far off. I quite like the West End, there is some BC Housing there, but nobody leaves unless they die...

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Bad news from home. My sisters husband has cancer, stage 3 the doctor thinks, waiting on a body scan to see if it has spread and get confirmation of the stage.

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This is what I call a cool job.

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DHL are taking their sweet time delivery my passport from HM passport - not even in Canada yet!

I don’t know understand why the tracking is telling me it went to Ohio (it’s been back and forth between NYC and Ohio over the last day or so) - shouldn’t have needed to have gone to the USA.

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Chances are that DHL use their US hubs much like UPS & Fedex for freight to North America. Ever noticed that the vaccines coming from Europe destined for Canada come via the USA.

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This. DHL North American hub is in Ohio, not surprising it went to Ohio first.

Then depending on service level it may go straight to the destination by flight, or travel around on a truck through other sorting facilities on it's way.

The most direct route is not always the most efficient for these companies.


Have they missed the delivery deadline given? That is all that matters at the end.



Impressive they will ship via private courier. I still need to renew my now expired US passport and private couriers are not allowed either direction, has to go by mail and returned no tracking of course.

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Not been keeping on track with the news about vaccines so no. When I sent the passport via FedEx, it went via Nashville but moved within the day on to the UK. DHL seemed to sit on it for almost 2 days. It’s finally at a sorting facility in BC (I’m guessing Vancouver) so I feel happier.

No it’s due delivery by end of the day. One thing I did like was that I could forward the delivery to a DHL pick up point before the package has even arrived. I can collect from there.

It’s an effort trying to deliver it to the apartment building and even as a Amazon Prime member, I get everything delivered to a local CP office that I order.

Even a Canadian Passport is delivered via track and trace with Canada Post.

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Mine went from Durham to somewhere near Heathrow to Cincinati to Montreal and then by truck/van etc to Ottawa.

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While the drive to Ottawa from Montreal isn't that bad. We did it on weekends when going to visit the in-laws who lived in Kanawake outside of Montreal and Jim lived in Gloucester just outside of Ottawa.

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If your living in the US, you can get quicker delivery and tracking of passport if you pay extra. But when living in Canada the only option for return is regular mail which doesn't include tracking, but I suppose I am lucky they those of us in Canada apply by mail, if living in most other countries a trip to the nearest US Embassy or US Consulate is required, the hardest part is paying the fee, have to make sure the payment is in US$ drawn on a US account.

Would be nice if they accepted credit card payment online though, would be so much easier.

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A reddit post mentioned the store being closed, not like Wal-Mart to close a store for a week without warning.

Maybe COVID related?

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...5b6315fbfe.png
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/c...almart_closed/

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Thanks for that

So glad I checked this thread. I was going to go there tomorrow.

Hope it’s not closing for good and it’s just temporary

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Skip to the end to see the finished project. It's pretty cool, and unique, not everyday you see a home saltwater aquarium with a view from the outside. Oh the things money can do...:lol:

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Sasktel moved the time on my cell phone ahead one hour this morning, and I had to change it back manually in settings. I can't recall them ever doing this before. I got a new phone last week, but that shouldn't make any difference.
(in Saskatchewan we don't do daylight savings time)

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Americans!

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How strange! :thumbdown:

:confused:

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This is pretty cool. A380 RC Model.


Concorde too

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https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...9597ab04c1.jpg

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Archie comic from 1997:
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...73051bbd45.jpg

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The date of birth selections on my doctors booking site goes back to 1900.

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well, until pretty recently, the oldest person in the world was 123 when she died!

I think it's now someone around 118 or so.

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Pretty brazen of this guy. Followed this woman for 40 minutes through part of Vancouver.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/woma...home-vancouver

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Horrible creep. I hope he gets a knock on the door from police very soon.

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https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...3022359751.jpg

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Downside to the pandemic, too many jobs my wife usually does have gone work from home, but our living situation isn't conducive to working from home really.

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Damn the Australians have good plans. Best Freedom can do is 35gb for $110 per month if you bring your own phone.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...8773dc0470.png

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Australia seems fun, and interesting, I love the outback areas.

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And very dangerous according to statistics. https://uk.yahoo.com/news/victorian-...031954953.html

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When I went to Australia I based myself out of Alice Springs for the first half, and can't remember all where I went now as its been 20 some years, however I have yet to replicate that trip anywhere in US or Canada, even away from city's in isolated places here in BC, I run into people, same in the US, but I went an entire day there driving in the middle of nowhere not seeing another human or even a car passing me on the road, it was crazy, and the sky looked different, a different shade of blue.

I've always had a liking for the place, sometimes feel I was born on the wrong continent. ha ha





Vancouver has a small Dysentery outbreak in the DTES (downtown east side)

https://www.citynews1130.com/2021/03...town-eastside/

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Apparently so is Canada :D

https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/missing-persons

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And BC will probably never get above 3rd place...


Similar one for the US although just the top 20 1790 onwards, and projection to 2050. California's growth was quite quickly, never visualized how fast California climbed to the top.

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I hope not, the further down the list the better as far as I am concerned.

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Canada appears to becoming less happy, and falling behind the US.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7710821/w...=GlobalCalgary

"Canada ranked 15th on this year’s list, down five spots from 2017-2019, according to the report. Canada also officially fell behind the United States after ranking ahead of its southern neighbour for several years in a row. The U.S. placed just ahead of Canada at No. 14 on this year’s list."

Top 10 are

1. Finland
2. Iceland
3. Denmark
4. Switzerland
5. The Netherlands
6. Sweden
7. Germany
8. Norway
9. New Zealand
10. Austria

Zimbabwe comes in last place.

"The results are based on 2020 data examining income, freedom, trust in government, life expectancy, social support and generosity."

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I can't speak the language in 9 of those top 10 countries, I'll settle for Canada :lol:

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I'd not mind New Zealand, they seem like a happy lot...

My wife can speak Swiss German and does have Swiss Citizenship.

For me just English and a useless tiny amount of Spanish.

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looks like democratic socialism makes people happy