Actually, up here in BC we pretty much have to get our insurance through the government/ "Crown corporation" called Insurance Corporation of British Columbia. I mean, you can get additional insurance, but it only really saves you when you have like, a Lamborghini or a Prevost RV. Typical drivers won't see any sav...

...oh wait, you were making a joke. Sorry.

Something like this happened in BC not too long ago. Unfortunately the outcome wasn't the same.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-hang-glider-pilot-pleads-guilty-in-womans-death/article16749684/

@Mordhaus

This is the West Vancouver Police Department in the province of British Columbia, Canada. This is not New Zealand.

https://wvpd.ca/

Hints of *canada
1. Lillooet, British Columbia
2. kilometres
3. that accent

I'm amazed is was actually cheaper and easier to build and film with three actual working full sized trebuchets than to just use mock ups and CGI. They're probably going to have to do a lot of that anyways to fill the area in with soldiers and cavalry and stuff. I approve of this. I also approve of filming on location in China instead of just pretending British Columbia or California is China.

Here's the news story from CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/youtube-video-shows-motorcyclist-chased-through-guildford-mall-1.2994303

It doesn't explicitly say what happened at the end, but seems like maybe he was caught?

Insurance Corporation of British Columbia

ICBC is British Columbia's only seller of car insurance. They have the Monopoly, and you can't drive a car in BC without their insurance, so they are the only authority that can give you a driver's license.

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He saves himself at the end by saying that not all beaches are made of the same sand.

I was itching to write a comment, similar to the concrete one --- about sand used to make sandcastle competitions. The competitions truck in special sand (one source is the bottom of a lake in British Columbia). The preferable sand is more jagged, so the grains grab at each other more and therefore are more "sticky."

Now I am off to look at A Grain of Sand...

Right?!...one false move on this toboggan!
Lions Bay, British Columbia-YT

British Columbia is a province in Canada. I'll attach a map of Canada provinces in case you're interested in seeing where BC is as well as some of the other provinces that make up Canada.

http://gocanada.about.com/od/canadatravelplanner/ig/Canada-Maps.--0v/Canada-Map.--2h.htm

I thought British Columbia was British Columbia and Canada was Canada, not the same country?

This is a false or misleading statement. The reasons for some Canadians having to wait or not being able to have a doctor are different. Canada has had a terrible drain on it's medical system with doctors and nurses going down to the US, because they make more money there. This has lead to new programs to entice them to stay in Canada. It looks like they have been working, but it's a 10 year study and we need to see the numbers.

As a Canadian who has been though the healthcare system in Ontario, and had family members who've had been through health care in Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia, Halifax and Newfoundland.Labradour, I can tell you the parts that work and the parts that don't.

I'm a type I diabetic and I've had cancer twice. I've had a sarcoma in my saliva gland and as a result of radiation therapy, I've had melanoma skin cancer crop up on my body as well. I've had four major surgeries on my body. Two of them were serious complicated nervous system surgeries or lymphatic resecctions. I've been through my fair share of Canadian health care.

First things first. It's not a national healthcare. Anyone saying national healthcare doesn't know what they're talking about. The provinces and territories have their own health care. Granted, the territories get a lot more help from the Federal Gov't, but the health needs of people in Ontario are different from those in Manitoba.

Let's get into the brass taxes. I've had the nerve surgery and radiation therapy that was done on my face evaluated at a hospital in West Virgina as part of a study to compare American HC vs. Canadian HC. For my first surgery, I got to choose my doctor, I was given a list. They recommended one doctor, who was an expert in North America for nerve surgery, but he was recovering from a surgery of his own. They suggested I wait for him to be ready, but if I wanted to proceed, I could wait if I wanted.

I waited and surprise, no facial paralysis. I then had to do 30 days of intense radiation therapy in my parotid bed, to make sure they got it all.

I paid a total of $300 dollars in parking. I also have private health insurance for diabetic supplies, which means any medication I had to get to deal with the after effects of radiation had an 85% payback.

Years later when the effects of radiation had settled and I had a tumour form from the radiation, I had gone to my family doctor, saw a specialist the next day and then within the week I had an excision done. It came back positive and within a week of that, I was given a sentinel node biopsy to see if it had spread.

It had.

Within a month of the first examination, I had a full lymphatic ressection of my left leg and groin done. This wasn't as complicated as the facial nerve surgery, so I got a list and a suggestion of who to do the surgery.

That came back clean, but I now deal with a lot of complications from that.

That surgery cost me nothing.

In West Virgina at a hospital (they didn't tell me which one they used.) The total for all the exams (CT, MRI, etc.) the surgery and the radiation therapy came out to $275,000. Give or take.

This is why it drives me nuts when I see people get things wrong about Canada. We have problems, oh yes we do. For example, don't be over the age of 65 in BC or Quebec. The diagnostics training in Nova Scotia or Newfoundland if pretty terrible. But, I got to choose my doctor, and I saw everyone really quick. Why? Because you don't fuck with melanoma.

So, I'm sorry Trancecoach, I saw that video you linked. The guy lost a lot of credibility at "Communist State of Canada." You're already skewing your message to say something. You are just plain wrong about health care in Canada, the way you talk about. I am living proof of how well it works.

I'm a self employed photographer and the most I've ever had to pay was for parking at the hospital. That was the $300 dollars. I paid my taxes and that paid for my health care. If I didn't, and if other Canadians didn't, I would not be here, as with many other Canadians.

Critique us for the things we do shitty, but I have yet to see anyone do that. I see talking points and misinformation from people just spreading false info.

Get your facts straight. I know how it works in Ontario the best. But, I also know for a vast majority of the other country. I can tell you Saskatchewan has had an exodus of nurses, but that's not bad health care system. That's a gov't system that can't keep nurses in the province. If we can keep doctors and nurses, the system works great.

The guy you linked to, most of his sources for data are absolute crap and he misleads a lot of his talking points. This stupid lottery doctor that happened was because it was an isolated town in the wilderness and there was only one doctor left after the other passed away. So yes, he had to do a lottery for people so he wouldn't get swamped, unless it was an emergency. It was a town, I believe about 10,000 people, but I'm not sure on that.

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Amanda Todd's mother joins call for provincewide effort to end online bullying
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Amanda+Todd+case+Youth+advocate+calls+wide+effort/7391116/story.html

Amanda Todd's mother speaks out about her daughter, bullying (with video)
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Amanda+Todd+speaks+about+daughter+death/7384521/story.html

Amanda Todd tragedy draws impassioned response
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/amanda-todd-tragedy-draws-impassioned-response/article4612470/