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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Springtime@lemmy.ca to c/vancouver@lemmy.ca

I've tried to delete my earlier post, but for the folks of you who might have seen it:

It's all good! The little guy went on a stroll by itself and knows his way home!

He is known to the West Vancouver Bylaw Division and they confirmed that he's all good.

Thank you!

[-] Springtime@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

Done! I've contacted them as well. At least via an online form that I had been linked to.

[-] Springtime@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Thank you!

I've sent them an email to inquire about the purpose of these speedbumps and why there are so many of them.

This really seems to be ridiculous.

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submitted 8 months ago by Springtime@lemmy.ca to c/vancouver@lemmy.ca

I saw these installed on the Arbutus Greenway today. This doesn't look in any form wheelchair, stroller, one wheel, skate board or bike friendly to me at all.

Is there any practical reason to build those barriers to justify making life harder for above mentioned groups?

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submitted 1 year ago by Springtime@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Kleenex, the brand that became the generic term for facial tissues, is pulling out of Canada.

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Harrison Fleming served Alberta premier Jason Kenney by barraging critics with hard-right insults and attacks.

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submitted 1 year ago by Springtime@lemmy.ca to c/quebec@lemmy.ca

In an ideal world, Stéphanie Alain would already be in Calgary and part of an experimental treatment she's hoping will save her life.

Instead, the 31-year-old from Rouyn-Noranda, Que., is stuck at home with her four-year-old son, having to commute to Montreal for cancer treatment that her doctors say isn't working.

Last year, she was diagnosed with alveolar soft part sarcoma, a rare cancer that has since spread to her lungs.

Alain's only hope for a recovery lies in the clinical trial in Calgary. The doctors running the trial in Alberta say their funding will cover the cost of her treatment, but RAMQ, Quebec's health insurance board, won't cover any of the other expenses — standard procedures like scans and blood tests as well as possible adverse reactions associated with the experimental trial.

"It's the only treatment in the world that exists that could cure me," said Alain.

[-] Springtime@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I hate to direct traffic to them, but here is the Twitter link to what seems to be the video.

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submitted 1 year ago by Springtime@lemmy.ca to c/women@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3413638

New signs emphasize strength and hope of Indigenous women and communities.

Families of missing and murdered Indigenous women in northern B.C. and an Indigenous social service agency have unveiled four new billboards to honour and remember the women and girls who've died or disappeared along a notorious highway that's been dubbed the Highway of Tears.

The route has been called the Highway of Tears because more than 40 women and girls, mostly Indigenous, have gone missing or been murdered along the 700-kilometre stretch of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert in northern B.C. since 1969.

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New signs emphasize strength and hope of Indigenous women and communities.

Families of missing and murdered Indigenous women in northern B.C. and an Indigenous social service agency have unveiled four new billboards to honour and remember the women and girls who've died or disappeared along a notorious highway that's been dubbed the Highway of Tears.

The route has been called the Highway of Tears because more than 40 women and girls, mostly Indigenous, have gone missing or been murdered along the 700-kilometre stretch of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert in northern B.C. since 1969.

[-] Springtime@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can cross post to different communities via the two double/overlapping squares that appear under the headline of your original post.

  1. Create and post original post in community A
  2. Go to your posting and click on the two overlapping squares under the headline of your original post. Title, text, body. will be automatically filled in.
  3. Choose community B in the drop down menu you want to cross post to and publish it.
  4. Repeat steps 1-3 for additional cross postings to other communities.

There will be a remark and link to all cross posted posts/communities the same URL has been posted to.

Hope, this helps :)

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Springtime@lemmy.ca to c/vancouver@lemmy.ca

There is relief tonight that two children missing for weeks have been found safe and sound. For 11 days, an Amber Alert was issued, looking for any sign of them, and it was finally lifted last night when Surrey RCMP say the kids were located in Alberta. Grace Ke reports. (...)

(...) Abduction charges have been laid against the mother and her boyfriend in relation to the incident.

[-] Springtime@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love this tree. It's so beautiful. Seeing it from a boat at the cliffs of a coastline makes for such a gorgeous and unusual view.

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The project was previously rejected by the city in 2017 amid community concern about the tall building’s architectural disconnect with historic Chinatown and the lack of social housing, which has continued to motivate opposition. Proponents, on the other hand, believe the project will economically revitalize the area.

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submitted 1 year ago by Springtime@lemmy.ca to c/vancouver@lemmy.ca

It is now officially termed as “being held,” with further spread unlikely.

That has allowed the reopening of the southbound lanes of Highway 99, although northbound traffic to Squamish, Whistler and beyond was still being detoured through the morning rush hour.

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[-] Springtime@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, it makes me worry about future expansions of bike lanes.

Over the last decade or so the city has expanded a network of new bike lanes, making biking saver and more attractive. I'm wondering, if this roll-back and the celebration of it shoes a new trend away from new bikelanes.

It's an absolute shame they're removing the bike lane in Stanley Park. Such an unnecessary move.

[-] Springtime@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally I think, it should be generally ok to rip content of Reddit, but it should happen manually rather than via a bot.

  • Not everything that makes it to the top of a subreddit is quality content.
  • By manually picking and choosing what to repost here, it would give more control to the users of c/Vancouver on how to mold and grow their own community instead of just replicating what's over there.

We have the chance to create something new and distinct here in its vibe. A bot might hinder that.

[-] Springtime@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

My heart goes out to you, your parents and all other residential school survivors. No child, no parent, no people should have had to endure such trauma.

I hope, one day families who still suffer from this generational trauma can break through the horror of their and their ancestor's experience and are able to stop their suffering and thrive instead.

[-] Springtime@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your explanation. This makes it much clearer for me :)

[-] Springtime@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

On a separate note, because, I just notice this in my comment:

Are there plans by you and lemmy.world to increase synchronization?

I've noticed just typing lemmy.ca and lemmy.ml turn into an automatic link, while typing lemmy.world doesn't.

I've also noticed, the sync between these two instances (lemmy.ca and lemmy.world) is lagging or problematic when looking for communities on the other instance or trying to post from within one one instance to the other. Sometimes my lemmy.ca account doesn't let me post or comment to lemmy.world and vice versa and I have to switch accounts.

[-] Springtime@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Hi smorks, Thank you for lemmy.ca

I'm still a bit confused by your above comment.

To clarify:

So, if I'm logged into my lemmy.ca account and would create a post with a picture on a different instance, e.g. lemmy.ml or Lemmy.world , it would be against the rules of lemmy.ca?

And vice versa, if someone with an account on an instance that is known for banning criticism of certain governments, if they were to post such a post on lemmy.ca or lemmy.world , would still break the rules of their home instance and risk being banned there for something they've posted on a different instance that doesn't have that rule?

Does that mean, I would need a second account on a different instance that doesn't have this/these particular rules when posting such content?

Thank you 🙂

[-] Springtime@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Hi There,

Yet another reddit refugee from Canada's West Coast. I've been in reddit for 15 years, mostly as a lurker with intermittent contributions (mostly comments in discussion threads). I used to use old.reddit, so would not have been affected (yet) by the announced API changes directly, but I am disappointed in the most recent behaviour of the admins over there and their disregard for the communities at large and the countless contributions of volunteer moderators, developers and content contributors that helped reddit to grow to what it is today.

I'm looking forward to explore Lemmy and Tildes and enjoy the reddit feel of the earlier days.

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