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[Animator]

What ? The vfx industry is bigger than ever here right now. Digital Domain Vancouver officially opened up last week and Pixar Canada is opening up soon too. Other Vancouver studios are also very busy with work. Our CG industry in a much better shape than Montreal or Toronto right now.

Bigger yes, hiring no.

 

[NetMapel]

Actually pretty much every olympic venue is used in the city these days. Every single one. It's just that, well, they're not making much money, so unless you have a very strong plan for how to actually make a ton of money with these venues, it'll be hemorraging money like every single Olympic city in the past 40 years.

We built very little extra venues for the Olympics because we got a lot of existing facilities that can be used. I think the biggest new facility built would be the Richmond Oval, which will be converted to a sporting and community centre afterward. All the other major facilities such as BC Place, GM Place, Thunderbird Arena are existing facilities that will continue to be heavily used by the locals.

Bigger yes, hiring no.

How can we got bigger and not hire ? I just took a quick scan and DD and MPC are both hiring modelers and texture artists. Since your name is Animator, I assume you're an animator ? Rockstar Vancouver is hiring animators and you may have just missed a huge hiring of animators at Rainmaker recently ? Pixar Canada will be hiring animators soon too.

Oh hey I've got a novel fucking idea: Spend it on shit that actually matters - like schools or health care? No catalyst? How about the 600 (or is it 800, can't remember now) teacher's jobs that are on the line right now.

The only reason I even give a shit is because I've got this certain feeling that BC is gonna go begging to the Feds for some money for this. "Yeah, it was only supposed to cost like 600mill and then ended up costing $6bill, but THE INTANGIBLES!!!"

Could you provide a link so I can take a look at it as well ?

Also, what is your opinion about the recent study by the Conference Board of Canada that Vancouver Expected To Post Best Economic Growth Of Any Canadian City In 2010 ?

 

[Maximus.]

Vancouver is communist province! Communist, I tells ya! We Ontarians need to conquer them Canucks!

:lol We will consider this a threat when your province can fix up both your hockey teams

Ill admit ICBC is pretty communist though hahaha

Spoiler

jk....kinda

edit: to all the people hating and complaining about all the money being spent on the Olympics, well all of it is useless now because guess what the money has already been spent and whining about it now and protesting is pretty pointless.

 

[Ra\/en]

Could you provide a link so I can take a look at it as well ?

http://www.straight.com/article-281...ool-board-warns-800-teachers-possible-layoffs