Morning Brew: February 11th

Posted by Sean
Filed in News
February 11, 2008

10 Things I Hate About Vancouver: By: Michael Kwan. #7. Wha? No English? Because Vancouver is such a multicultural city, there are many immigrants that can get along just fine without speaking a single word of English". Oh come on! I said much less and there was an all out flame war!

Meanwhile Berner Blames aboriginals for their own predicament: Until aboriginal families abandon their "traditional" "non-judgmental" ways, these nightmares will continue. "Indians are extinct because they're dumb". -David Cross

And apparently the Tsawwassen Treaty is Racially Discriminatory. Aww, did you guys want a land deal too? Oh wait, you already got one, it was called colonialism you stupid fucks.

Trevor Linden for Mayor? That would be awesome, unless of course he's a total fascist. Has anyone ever asked him his political beliefs?

De Genova wants 'right' debate . Oh Vancouver politics, you're a journalists wet dream.

Pay hikes for TransLink board. I don't really think I can sum up the rage that is boiling inside me in one little pithy quip. Suffice to say, @#$@#$@$%%$!!!!!

Palmer: The auditor-general was out this week with a critical report on Premier Gordon Campbell's four-year-old vow to make B.C. "the most literate" place on the continent. Unfortunately no one could read the report so we don't know how the Premier is doing.

Superbug threat growing in Vancouver: study Injection-drug users in Downtown Eastside may be 'canaries in the coal mine'. Cool, maybe we can test some radical new treatments on them too, I mean, they're not really human right?

Cocaine Central. No, they are not talking about The Royal Unicorn.

The state of Vancouver Blogging: Sell Drugs for Fun and Profit. Desperate much?

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Apparently Trevor is quite keen on environmental issues... he's also clutch in the playoffs. Sure, that doesn't necessarily make him the ideal mayor, but it would be an upgrade on what we have.

Posted by: Quinn at February 11, 2008 10:11 AM | Quote Comment

RE: "10 Things I Hate About Vancouver: By: Michael Kwan. #7. Wha? No English? Because Vancouver is such a multicultural city, there are many immigrants that can get along just fine without speaking a single word of English". Oh come on! I said much less and there was an all out flame war!"

Im not sure what you meant by "much less" Sean but i do feel that not enough effort is made by some immigrant communities to learn English. My gripes are along the same lines as the blogger you posted who mentions that communication can be difficult at times and i find that the native english speakers can often be quite patient but that some immigrants can often be curt with you when you cant understand what they are saying even when its due to their lack of grasp on the language which is pretty dam insulting considering some immigrants come to the country at an age where picking up a second language should be fine but they only stick in their enclaves. Ive met tons of people who've been here since their young teens and plus ten years and you would think that they just got year last year.

I dont think "when in Rome" rules apply enough sometimes. Personally, i love to learn bits of other languages but dont think the onus should be on native Canadian speakers to learn the languages of immigrants to help general conversation around town but sometimes it doesnt seem to be acknowleged that immigrants should try and learn the language of the country they are immigrating to.

Sad thing is that if you say this and you're white, you get written off as a redneck right away. Well, i'm not white myself......

Posted by: boon at February 11, 2008 1:32 PM | Quote Comment

The ironing is especially delicious when people such as yourself, boon, complain about others' command of the English language when said snark's writing is on par with a ten-year-old. Can I offer you an apostrophe or comma? Or perhaps a brace for all those fragments? Good God, man.

Posted by: Ford_Maddox_Ford at February 12, 2008 10:16 AM | Quote Comment