Random stuff - the anything else thread
Apr 23rd 2018 | 4:04 am
#4021
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Sport is played every day. Apparently some people have more than a passing interest in a bunch of very rich people kicking/hitting stuff. People are interested in inconsequential things.
Last edited by Teaandtoday5; Apr 23rd 2018 at 4:05 am. Reason: Too much stuff
Apr 23rd 2018 | 4:14 am
#4023
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I didn't pursue this further. Typical Graun typo I thought.
Apr 23rd 2018 | 5:17 am
#4024
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Apr 23rd 2018 | 5:50 am
#4025
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I heard on CBC radio this morning of Vancouver's apology for discrimination against the Chinese.
Included as an example was Chinese Permanent Residents being denied the right to vote. They specifically said PRs. Of course, PRs don't get to vote.
I understand that the apology concerns some time in the past, even back to the 1800s. So was there a time in the past PRs could vote or did they just get it wrong on the radio?
CBC news website talks about Chinese immigrants being denied the vote so presumably that was about Citizens. Or was there no such distinction back then?
Included as an example was Chinese Permanent Residents being denied the right to vote. They specifically said PRs. Of course, PRs don't get to vote.
I understand that the apology concerns some time in the past, even back to the 1800s. So was there a time in the past PRs could vote or did they just get it wrong on the radio?
CBC news website talks about Chinese immigrants being denied the vote so presumably that was about Citizens. Or was there no such distinction back then?
The history of voting in Canada | Canadian Immigrant
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c...cle/franchise/
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Apr 23rd 2018 | 6:35 am
#4026
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Thanks...
So loosely speaking, originally it was land owning males, gradually extending to include others and exclusions within those who ordinarily were otherwise eligible. Like no Catholics.
And each province had the say so, with the right to vote federally only going to those eligible to vote in their province.
So when it all changed and became a citizen thing, people who until then had the right vote must have lost it. I wonder if there was a protest?
So loosely speaking, originally it was land owning males, gradually extending to include others and exclusions within those who ordinarily were otherwise eligible. Like no Catholics.
And each province had the say so, with the right to vote federally only going to those eligible to vote in their province.
So when it all changed and became a citizen thing, people who until then had the right vote must have lost it. I wonder if there was a protest?
Apr 23rd 2018 | 8:30 am
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43864933 Does anyone actually say 'thrice'...wouldn't 'triple' be more applicable
Apr 23rd 2018 | 9:36 am
#4029
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I found this interesting and am still digging...
The history of voting in Canada | Canadian Immigrant
Right to Vote in Canada - The Canadian Encyclopedia
The history of voting in Canada | Canadian Immigrant
Right to Vote in Canada - The Canadian Encyclopedia
Apr 23rd 2018 | 12:20 pm
#4030
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Yep..forgot that.
I'm not a big fan of the royal family having a role even ceremonial here in Canada. I find it all very mawkish. When I buy stamps at the post office I usually request 'any stamp but the one with the Queen on it'. I know what a rebel I am.
I get it, they seem like a nice young family..they've had a third child who will likely never be the monarch..but they haven't discovered a cure for cancer or figured out the meaning of life....and babies are born every day.
I'm not a big fan of the royal family having a role even ceremonial here in Canada. I find it all very mawkish. When I buy stamps at the post office I usually request 'any stamp but the one with the Queen on it'. I know what a rebel I am.
I get it, they seem like a nice young family..they've had a third child who will likely never be the monarch..but they haven't discovered a cure for cancer or figured out the meaning of life....and babies are born every day.
Apr 23rd 2018 | 12:21 pm
#4031
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
That's surprising given the amount of time you've been around Vancouver. There were even riots reminiscent of the pogroms in Europe where their dwellings and businesses were burned. Our relationship with the Chinese was strictly self serving; getting the maximum out of them and then treating them like dirt. In 1974 some friends cleaned out a barn north of Regina that had been a dormitory for Chinese labourers building the CPR tracks in about 1910. When screening out the straw they found an octagonal brass opium pipe and a black diamond ring.
Apr 23rd 2018 | 1:33 pm
#4032
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I have not done much reading/studying of Canadian history, and Canadian history was not taught in my So. California schools so I have very limited knowledge of the history of Canada and BC.
That's surprising given the amount of time you've been around Vancouver. There were even riots reminiscent of the pogroms in Europe where their dwellings and businesses were burned. Our relationship with the Chinese was strictly self serving; getting the maximum out of them and then treating them like dirt. In 1974 some friends cleaned out a barn north of Regina that had been a dormitory for Chinese labourers building the CPR tracks in about 1910. When screening out the straw they found an octagonal brass opium pipe and a black diamond ring.
Apr 23rd 2018 | 11:05 pm
#4033
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
You'd think that soldiers machine-gunning people in Quebec City at Easter in 1918 would be in the history books. It ain't. You have to dig bloody hard to find any sort of reference to it. My wife and son had never heard of it. My neighbour, who is an amateur historian, had never heard of it.
Apr 23rd 2018 | 11:11 pm
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
That is not unusual.
You'd think that soldiers machine-gunning people in Quebec City at Easter in 1918 would be in the history books. It ain't. You have to dig bloody hard to find any sort of reference to it. My wife and son had never heard of it. My neighbour, who is an amateur historian, had never heard of it.
You'd think that soldiers machine-gunning people in Quebec City at Easter in 1918 would be in the history books. It ain't. You have to dig bloody hard to find any sort of reference to it. My wife and son had never heard of it. My neighbour, who is an amateur historian, had never heard of it.
Apr 23rd 2018 | 11:16 pm
#4035
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Canadian history was not taught in my So. California schools
That is not unusual.
You'd think that soldiers machine-gunning people in Quebec City at Easter in 1918 would be in the history books. It ain't. You have to dig bloody hard to find any sort of reference to it. My wife and son had never heard of it. My neighbour, who is an amateur historian, had never heard of it.
You'd think that soldiers machine-gunning people in Quebec City at Easter in 1918 would be in the history books. It ain't. You have to dig bloody hard to find any sort of reference to it. My wife and son had never heard of it. My neighbour, who is an amateur historian, had never heard of it.
My wife, who I always considered intelligent and well educated, would often surprise me at things she'd not heard of or thought she knew as one thing but was something else. Stepdaughter is very similar too.
Yet both were "experts" on medical conditions (my wife fancied herself as a doctor and criminologist
) and SD seems to know every animal in the universe. 
