Optimist Prime

15 hours ago, Captain Kirk said:

Was thinking we had a chance with a full lineup now not so much.......Sigh. I'm getting old and don't know how many more years i have guys, been cheering for them almost 40 years and still no cup, i'm starting to think it just wasn't meant to be in my lifetime?

hang in there Cap'n, this year is just the start of a brilliant age of Canucks. 

Originally, my forum name when the original fan forum became CDC and a bunch of us piled into CDC from the original forum, was 'vain0'. Vaino was my grandfathers pet name. My grandmother would call him this as a term of endearment. In Finn it means 'persecuted one'. I added the zero instead of an 'o' at the end in reference to a 'vain little zero', which was an historical quote around atheism. Something about the difference between 'good' and 'god' is just a vain little zero. 
Shortly after that people were teasing me that I am always an optimist, and I said something like being the primal optimist or what not.. and its been Optimist Prime or Primal Optimist ever since. 

HUGE shout out to anyone here that remembers the forums before they were hosted by CDC, and cheers for coming over to the new Canucks Fan Forum, a third home for a handful of long time online supporters.

P.O>

Win or lose, we fans have been treated to an amazing season, and some thriller playoff games, a series win and at the very least, a home game 7 in the 2nd round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Now don't burn any cop cars after the game, one way or the other. 

I get that at the end of the day there is people who just never will like Justin Trudeau. 

What I don't get is why they are lined up behind Pierre Poilievre, who has had one job in his entire adult life: loudest most life long gator in the mud sucking swamp. 

Most of what people don't like about our Prime Minister is what P.P. has told them not to like for the last decade or so. 

it is mind boggling.  Almost as ridiculous as trying to demand the duly elected Prime Minister resign because the leader of the Opposition doesn't like him. 

On 5/17/2024 at 8:37 AM, Satchmo said:

I'm not going to comment on the guy's musicality but it sounds like he's been involved with this kind of stuff for years.

 

Environment and ecology rap[edit]

Brinkman was commissioned by the WILD Foundation to produce The Rap Guide to Wilderness in 2014. The album was critically acclaimed and features songs about biodiversity, extinction, conservation, habitat loss and trophic cascade.[47][48][49][50][51]

In 2015 Brinkman's play Rap Guide to Climate Chaos premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe,[52][53][54] followed by performances at the COP21 United Nations Climate Change Conference.[55] "Climate Chaos" went on to play-off-Broadway for six months in 2016, and featured Michael E. Mann, Gavin Schmidt, Naomi Oreskes and Bill Nye as talkback speakers.[56][57] Bill Nye also features on the album version of "Climate Chaos", rapping the chorus of the track "What's Beef", which remixes a Notorious B.I.G. song to discuss climate change denial.[58] Rap Guide to Climate Chaos summarizes the science, politics, and economics of climate change and advocates for a global carbon tax as part of the solution.[59]

In 2016, after the election of Donald Trump, Brinkman worked with Gary Yohe at Wesleyan University, a senior contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and co-recipient along with Al Gore of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, to produce a new song and video titled "Erosion", summarizing data from the National Climate Assessment on the U.S.-based physical impacts of climate change.[60][61]

 

Instead of focusing on his mom's job, how about his dads?

 

Dirk Brinkman, Sr., who is notable for having founded the world's only private company responsible for planting more than one billion trees.

Brinkman spent his early summers in remote tree planting camps, and began planting trees himself at the age of 15.^[5] He worked for his parents' business, Brinkman & Associates Reforestation, for twelve seasons in British Columbia and Alberta, personally planting more than one million trees.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Brinkman

 

 

 

 

Slow down now son, if they are parroting Pepi Le Pew, they can't read that fast. They only memorize sound bites, like a parakeet, to use later when they want to whistle in the dog. 

15 minutes ago, bolt said:

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2024/05/20/2003818139

 

Canadians can't afford to live or die after 9 years of Liberals; time for a change...

the Poutineers don't even have any reading comprehension skills now? the cost, according to this article went up 25% over 25 years, or 1% per year, half the rise in cost of living on average over the same span. I don't know what to say anymore: penny candy hasn't been a penny since the 90s. I am voting out this penny candy unfriendly government: nonesense. 

19 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said:

The numbers show outflow was significantly higher under Trudeau than under Harper. If you don’t believe the opinion piece than try posting some numbers that refute what was posted. $25 billion is triple what it was under Harper in his last years. 

19 billion last year, so it is coming down, but I fail to see how it is a bad thing in any regard.

again: if i have money as a Canadian and I invest that money in say an American Bio Lab and it makes me more money, how is that bad for Canada?

20 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said:

Ummm, that was another poster who said that. Not me. So chill out brother and stop calling me a liar. 
 

I simply quoted the FDI numbers from the financial post to show that it obviously wasn’t that high but at $225 billion it was significantly higher than under Harper. 

I will edit my post, sorry. I scrolled back and found it was in fact Boudrias. I get you Peter Poutineers confused from time to time.

booo.

3 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said:

 

It may not be $100 billion per year, but it is quite significant since the Trudeau government took over…

 

https://financialpost.com/opinion/canada-lost-225-billion-foreign-investment-since-2016

 

That balance has been growing more negative over the years. Even during the Harper years of 2010-15, though our resource sector was strong, our FDI balance was negative US$7.4 billion, meaning we were a net capital exporter. But during the Trudeau years of 2016-2022, FDI inflows fell 15 per cent while outflows rose 16 per cent. The negative FDI balance was -US$23.9 billion per year, three times higher than in Harper’s final five years. From 2016 through 2022 close to $225 billion in capital was lost as more direct investment left the country than came here.

That is a substantial difference, and not quite in the way the spin makes it sound. If I invest in Skye Biosciences, which I did, an american company, I am happy to report the penny stock is up around 12 dollars a share now. The money I bought in with 'fled the country' but the money I will spend on a new kitchen cabinets/countertops project when I sell those shares is right back in our 'Canadian' pockets. It isn't an 'end of the world' scenario, and by your own admission in the post I am quoting, it isn't specific to the Trudeau Liberals. Happy to see you back down from the two trillion number though and come in at a more scientifically backed 225 billion. 

In fact, come to think of it, if Foreign Direct Investment flowing into Canada is dwarfed by Foreign Direct Investment flowing out of Canada: doesn't that really mean to show that Canadians are getting richer to the point of being able to invest outside our borders? If my brother in law makes 250 a year and invests 100k of that outside of Canada, 'buying up the world', how is that bad for Canada? Foreign Capital Gains is even higher taxed.... lol 

lastly, the most recent numbers from the article you are quoting say less than 20 billion in 2023..so it is trending lower year over year since you said the average is 25 billion. It is funny that one can manipulate the narrative by selective choices in which sentence to quote. 

Bag, humbug, Fine. We will close it out at home.

7 hours ago, Boudrias said:

My question would be why do the 'tax loopholes' exist in the first place? Usually tax breaks are used to encourage private investment. If they are not doing that job well enough then remove them from the tax code. I don't think citizens can condemn people or corporations for utilizing tax incentives. I would certainly agree with a better explanation by government on why they exist and a accurate measurement of the effectiveness. Perhaps another question to address is why capital is leaving Canada to the tune of + $100 billion a year? Been happening for decades. If it is to invest in American operations I would question the effectiveness of NAFTA. IMHO Canada has to have an industrial strategy that both the Liberals and CPC agree to pursue over multiple administrations. The Americans are far more consistent in their priorities than we are. 

 

On what basis do you determine gouging? Levi has jeans made in 3rd world countries and sell them for $100's in Canada. Is that gouging? People love to say the grocery stores are gouging us. There is no doubt that their pricing has gone up. What is the fair return for this industry? All are public companies and their profits are available to view. I won't buy their stock as their growth is poor and their ROI is poor, their dividends are not particularly good. Maybe the telcos are. They charge a lot. I was surprised that the Rogers purchase of Shaw was allowed. Bottom line was that Shaw was in financial trouble. Just reading the other day that Telus is investing $100's of billions into their infrastructure across the country. I think Corporations are gouging us requires more detail.

Good post, three things I wanted to mention.

I bought and sold Loblaws shares all day for a few days this week and made hundreds a day, I will hold em now till dividend day in June and then seesaw them for a few weeks on their way down a bit. 

Tax loopholes exist because conservatives love their CEO buddies and generally control the house for half the years, and when the Liberals take over, they are generally well off people too, so why change it? 

The final one though, 100 billion a year of capital has fled Canada for decades? Nope. Just isn't rue. You are talking trillions in your rhetoric.

1 minute ago, Wing said:

Is this one of those where they don't show up until there's 7 minutes left?

Lulling Skinner to sleep.

Now you are the ones who will be the ball lickers! ~Jay and silent Bob.

Vancouver is playing like they know there is another game, better wipe that mindset out and giver.

Ol man Cole has seen the last of his foot speed disappear.

1 minute ago, Dr. Crossbar said:

Meh ...

 

We'll get it back!

 

Dig deep!

For true, weather the second, win da turd!

The 2nd could be rough for the road team, try not to tear out your hair folks. We will win da turd.

Let's Golf, Oilers!

I just dont believe for one second the best player in the world "accidentally" hits our players in the face with his stick blade every day.

Check out the Hog on that guy now! WoooOOOoooo

I would live a Petey Hattie tonight!

Let's Go! 

Make em pay!!!

Just now, OldFaithfulcap said:

 

Yes, so is talking about dallas. Sort of thing that gets a team a 7-2 pounding.

I don't believe anything I say or do today will affect the outcome of this game at all. Shutout Shutout Shutout. Yeah I said it. 

Go Canucks Go!! We are deeper, better, hungrier, more balanced, and we have three capable goalies to Edmontons none. 

LETS GET IT!!!