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Poutinetown Mod ,

Might look good, but with price of mobo and ram it's not worth it (i.e. might as well spend more to get a better CPU).

Poutinetown ,

Opening up the tools for becoming competitive in the market would be a good start. Crazy that it's harder to start your own farm or restaurant than to build your own web service company or open your own online clothing brand.

Poutinetown ,

The fundamental issue with housing as an investment is that it is a monolithic and non-fluid vehicle, which makes it worse when leverage comes into play. Whereas stocks can be purchased/sold at any time in an instant and have fractional costs (sometimes as cheap as 10$ per stock), houses are not, and fast fluctuations in prices could heavily impact your ability to realize your gains. So it is, on that aspect, a terrible investment.

For large companies owning thousands of units, this is not an issue since they are spreading the risks across the units (by buying diversely located units of all types). They can also quickly execute purchases and sales since they are in that exact business.

So the argument that houses are ways to pass down wealth is misguided: they are terrible ways to pass down wealth, and parents should leave a trust fund or safe investments rather than a house if their goal is to build generational wealth - housing should be passed down for personal reasons.

Poutinetown ,

I think a rent cap could be a good way. It could be raised wrt to inflation. Then, government housing, better loan systems for non profit and maximize density to allow building taller rather than wider (making land cost minimal), but not tall enough that would create increased cost (elevators are expensive to maintain for example). A lot of initiatives need to be put in place, but one that could be effective is to lower costs of construction and find ways to increase productivity by improving resource management

Poutinetown ,

Yeah problematic tenants are an issue, especially when the landlords are elderly folks whose alternative would be to seek professional management or sell it to REITs, both of which exacerbate the issue of rent price.

Poutinetown Mod ,

Take the recommendation from reddit with a grain of salt: if you are looking for a Mac alternative, you should look into the battery life before deciding. This also has a touch screen and pen, so I'd say its much more an iPad/yoga/surface alternative with better keyboard than an alternative for Mac.

Poutinetown ,

33 victims! Wow can't believe this has been happening in 21st century.

Poutinetown ,

Crazy we never heard about him in history classes then.

Convoy leader Pat King heads to trial ( www.cbc.ca )

One of the most polarizing figures to gain notoriety during what became known as the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa more than two years ago will stand trial Monday, signalling the tail end of criminal proceedings that have dogged hundreds of individuals who participated in the historic protest....

Poutinetown ,

As much as I disagree with the convoy movement, it seems that the charges are more politically motivated (anti-far right) than bringing justice. A lot of those charges could be applied to anyone partaking in a protest: mischief, obstructing police, and intimidation are all charges that could potentially be applied to both the convoy and the current ceasefire protesters at various North American campuses; given a literal reading of the criminal code.

Intimidation:

besets or watches the place where that person resides, works, carries on business or happens to be;

Mischief:

(b) renders property dangerous, useless, inoperative or ineffective;

Offenses related to public officers:

(a) resists or wilfully obstructs a public officer or peace officer in the execution of his duty or any person lawfully acting in aid of such an officer,

Obviously there's a double standard where such charges would not even be brought up unless it's extreme cases. But shall pat King be charged and given a lengthy prison sentence (5 years for example), that'd probably set a precedence for the justice system to be used to deter politically motivated protests; this time it's the freedom convoy, the next could be Gaza-related protests shall it persist.

Poutinetown ,

Crown corp would be great but letting them monopolize the entire process might not be the optimal thing to do. In some cases it worked well (e.g. hydro-quebec prices are very competitive) but in others it gives them unlimited power to set the prices as they want in order to achieve a target profit, with potentially murky decisions like automatic bonuses and millions in severance payments.

Oth crown corps competing in the market allows it to be more efficient since other players cannot push crown corps out of the market through acquisition, yet crown corps have to adapt their practice to be competitive and lean; good example is CDPQ infra participating in a competitive market when building light rail systems across Canada/UK.

Could nurse practitioners fill the primary care gap? ( www.theglobeandmail.com )

Nurse practitioners could help fill the void, advocates for the profession say, if more provinces would adopt policies to integrate them into primary care and pay them fairly for their work. Some physicians’ organizations have pushed back against that approach, arguing that NPs don’t have as much training or education as...

Poutinetown ,

Oh there's so many people who want to be doctors! No shortage of that.

What ends up is the extremely difficult admission process, poor mentorship/training structure, long work hours, and low salary; at the end you are rewarded with high salary and prestige, but very few makes it that far.

Poutinetown ,

That's the case for every industry tbh

Poutinetown ,

From the blogto article linked by op:

He says that "After a couple of sips, it became soggy and started to stain. Thereafter, I could taste a few small lid pieces in the drink, which was like 'yuck.'"

Yep sounds like terrible design and Tim's cheapen out in the material. I've had non plastic caps that were much better than that.

You know what would bring us back to the good old days? A real ceramic mug you can use to sit down, drink it slowly and enjoy. But I haven't been to a Tim's in a while where the server would ask if I wanted a mug or to go. Maybe the lady would call that woke too?

Poutinetown ,

Honestly I'm really not surprised. Tim is known for choosing the lowest bidder.

Poutinetown ,

In other news: "federal govt sparks outrage for giving seniors free access to Canada's dentists"

Social media user: "why are we even paying taxes? Canada cares about anyone but the taxpayers"

Poutinetown ,

If you go on social media and ask why Canada cares about disabled and veterans, it's not gonna go well. But the "darn immigrants" is a popular trope and people will get behind you

Poutinetown ,

What's the tldr? Just read the entire article and couldn't grasp the main point of this article

Poutinetown ,

Honestly iced v60 is so much simpler.

Poutinetown ,

They should get fined for any food thrown away.

Loblaw reports $13.58B in Q1 revenue, as Reddit group's boycott kicks off ( www.cbc.ca )

Loblaw Companies reported $13.58 billion in first-quarter revenue — a 4.5 per cent increase from a year earlier — on Wednesday morning, the same day that a group of frustrated shoppers said they would begin a month-long boycott of the grocery retailer....

Poutinetown ,

Yeah this is the real news. Doesn't matter how much revenue they are making, but artificially inflating the margin is literally greed and should be used as a proof of oligopolistic move by antitrust orgs to break them up.

Poutinetown ,

Is there any country that has fully free transit?

Also a lot of people are using drugs, sleeping on the stairs path, and using chairs as bathrooms. Making it free would likely make it much easier to disrupt daily commuters.

Poutinetown ,

Wow getting downvoted heavily. Looks like a lot of people either never took the subway in a big city or think that making it free would somehow not make access to the subway easier for disrupters?

Honestly the budget would be better used to subsidize transport for disabled people, increase budget for food banks, or build more shelters. I don't feel our taxes should subsidize Ms. 100k/yr living in downtown Toronto or Mr. 800k home living in kitsilano to give them free transportation, unless all of the above are being properly addressed.

Poutinetown ,

Probably means workers will have to take lower salary, since growth initiatives are lower (partly due to interest rates but also companies losing a lot of the optimism of post-pandemic growth projections).

What we urgently need is low-interest loans for small low-risk businesses to ensure the workers can find work. We don't need to lend billions to large corporations or millions to SME that will employ 5 more workers.

Instead, giving out loans of 10k-100k with near zero interest rate to kickstart, preserve or grow low overhead businesses (hairdressers, plumbers, carpenters, home electricians, physiotherapists, private chefs).

Poutinetown ,

Reality in Canada.

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