Anyone thinking Vancouver RE needs to READ THIS!

Congratulations Tacoman to find this!

CHEERS

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What did they axe him?

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And as a side note for those who think that chinese RE “investors” will save our local market, please read the article in the link below. It may be sooner than later when the chinese will have bigger fish to fry than spending for the absurdly overpriced RE properties here (hey, I am a renter, I can tell it’s absurdly overpriced, LOL)

China – Economic Catastrophe Unfolding

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It’s funny how people put more time and research into buying a car than they do with property. That guy and many of the others who are buying fearing prices rise back to ‘par’ pre-slump will be in for a big surprise.

It doesn’t help when they interview a industry person saying that the lower mainland’s inventory is dwindling and prices are creeping back up.

I gotta stop watching the news

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#46, RO, you just have to read the papers dude. Everything I included is right out of the national editions. Go stick your head in someone elses sandbox. The truth will set you free.

The cops are getting a well deserved ‘outing’.

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all, and ALL police forces around the world have a SMALL percentage of overzealous/corrupt/problematic employees. unless you can create a perfect world, live with it.

“The public perception of the police force is that they are all liars and thugs with no compunction against murdering citizens.”
– bullshit. YOUR perception is this. Not “the public’s”.

“They planned to blast Djikanski no matter what the situation they found ” – bullshit. speculative. evidence please?

“every other moral and ethical citizen who has a concious is sickened” – bullshit. EVERY? No, YOU. once again.

“here is a very public uproar” – yes, just look at the protests and blood in the streets. ….. or not.

bored now.

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#41 DB, The Braidwood Inquiry has plainly disclosed the fact that the RCMP thugs and bullies who killed Djikanski lied on the stand, conspired to lie, created false and misleading evidence, had conspired to enter false evidence to commit perjury and misle the public officers of the court and Her Majesties representatives. Provided false and contradictory testimony. Mr. Braidwood has said so himself on the public record and remarked that some of these officers have displayed illegal and offensive behaviour on several occasions outside this courtroom. The native Indian cop, for example, killed a young boy in Tsawassen while driving drunk with his kids in the car and then fled the scene. Oh yeah, he pulled his badge out and told the witnesses he had a right to do his offensive and illeagal runner because he was an RCMP officer. What fucking louse!!!!

The fact came up that he had to be removed from his post at Merrit because he was an asshole beyond the public appetite for assholes in Merrit , which is substantial. That would make ‘R’ a super asshole I guess. Transferring him to Richmond was reminiscent of what the Catholic church did with child molesting priests. Cops and child molestors. It would almost lead me to think that there is a link between the mindset of the two sub species.

The crime and conspiricy was exposed by the defending lawyers and the examination of the videotape evidence. The RCMP has shown contempt for the laws of Canada and contempt for the citizens of this country. They have acted like a goon squad from the very beginning. These are all publicly available facts that anyone can read in the newspaper. It has NOTHING to do with my (thank you) intellect.

The latest email evidence has proven that the RCMP brass were in fact complicit in a cover up and hid the evidence from justice ( Guy Moran case anyone?). The email also shows that the officers were not only lying to the judge and the public but considered it a public relations game to keep the truth from the public.

They planned to blast Djikanski no matter what the situation they found at the airport like it was a sick bully game. Djikanski ends up dead and the officers got to smirk and pansy in their dress suits. I also found it strange that the RCMP brass wanted the officers to be dressed down ie: not in uniform . My contention is that they are trying to misle the public by disassociating the image of a uniformed officer to the less offensive regalia of a buisneess suit to alter the focus of opinion. Cheesy tactics, but look who we’re talking about.Shameless AND stupid.

The Governments own lawyer could no longer hide her shame or disgust at RCMP tactics and broke down crying at the inquest. The Canadian government is obviously not going to stoop to lying for a psycho pack of killers. That part of the lawyers presentation made me proud to be a Canadian.

You may think blustery PR man Dale Carr and the other RCMP spokesmen can obfuscate the facts forever but every other moral and ethical citizen who has a concious is sickened by the Machiavellian word play that is so obviously untrue and cynical. The RCMP is proving itself to be much more concerned about keeping it’s secrets than it is about discovering the truth publicly about the death of an innocent citizen at the hands of a pack of jackals.

What part of the whole truth are you so uncomfortable with? The police have a history of lies and decieving the public. If you haven’t noticed there is a very public uproar against the fact that the RCMP is operating like a rogue institution that has a habit of murdering citizens and getting away with due to the cover ups of the ADMINISTRATION. tHIS IS all PUBLIC INFORMATION . The RCMP has enjoyed their days of skulking behind shadows. It’s high time that every officer who murders a citizen does life behind bars.

If you are a police officer as you say , you should be railing against these neanderthal thugs who are dragging the reputation of all civil servants through the mud, not supporting them. Hiding the facts has got the RCMP in the pickle they find themselves in today. The public perception of the police force is that they are all liars and thugs with no compunction against murdering citizens. Which by the way is a statistic which has ballooned in the past ten years with many cases of dead citizens being murdered in custody. Ian Bush , for example, ended up with a bullet in the back of his head. That was proven to be an impossibilty by independant police ballistic experts.

The police force is painting itself into a corner with their hiding the truth about killers in their midst the same way that the vatican tried to whitewash child molestors in the priest hood. The walls of deception are falling and the RCMP and other notrious police forces will be exposed and it will end up a very messy affair with LOTS of officer/criminals going to jail. Its just a matter of time.

It is after all Friday Freeee for all.

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Though buyers are rushing in, rising interest rates, growing unemployment and a likely new wave of foreclosures signal that problems in the sector are far from over

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Some people seem to think the Canadian housing collapse is over, but we enthusiastically took part in the credit boom and still have a lot of debt hanging around.

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What has the YVR incident have to do with anything? And as police officer I find your comments offensive – I very much doubt that police in Canada and senior brass are involved in a campaign of death and destruction. You seem to posture as though you are some type of intellect yet you fall blindly in with the ranks and spout the same diatribe ….. can we get back to re?

You need a life buddy -

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My Komrad!! I am from komunist skool bord – you must not reveal our sekret dumbing dumb of the school distrikts on public blog sites. I am suspecting you are produkt of such institvtion, no? is why you are write so good, yes?

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#32 SR, This is classic. Whenever you win an argument with a socialist they start throwing weeds in the air and chest thumping like chimpanzees.

The Provincial exams provide proof positive that the BCTF was dumbing dumb the school districts which they could control while other districts scored much higher. The introduction of a fair and balanced assesment turned the BCTF on its head and they started trying to lynch the messenger. Just like the responses you have recieved to your posting of the dumbing down article. Obvious socialist response to non liberal arguments.

” If you’re not a socialist, then you must be a fascist and a rascist and a child molester and a generally bad person…..ya right.

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1) working in an epicentre of world capitalism a.k.a. the square mile in London

2) Working in the BC education system

Now let me think, who would be in a better position to make a comparison – you or me?

There are multiple reasons for a perceived lack of spelling and writing skills in high-school graduates, but i don’t want to bore YOU with the issues. Keep up your joe six pack commentary.

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The task of education properly is difficult enough without ideologically-spun drivel passing as expertise.

From the first page, the author explains that the reason kids are dumber in the USA–not Canada–these days (are they really dumber? I’d argue that the answer is much more complicated than the author seems to suggest.) is because of a fundamental change in the philosophy of education. She argues that today’s educators define education consistent with this view:

“learning is the result of modifiability in the paths of neural conduction. Explanations of even such forms of learning as abstraction and generalization demand of the neurones only growth, excitability, conductivity, and modifiability. The mind is the connection-system of man; and learning is the process of connecting. The situation-response formula is adequate to cover learning of any sort, and the really influential factors in learning are readiness of the neurones, sequence in time, belongingness, and satisfying consequences.

Do you know any educator who subscribes to this view? I sure as hell don’t.

On the first page of the book, the author y

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