This week in Canada.

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right ^^where he took Patrick Brazeau ( conservative senator/ wife beater/ drug addict ) in 3 rounds for charity

I kind of doubt he had to fight anybody at the Savage Beagle but at the extremely Toney West Pointgrey academey he would have been fighting off the hot kilt wearing teen girls

[riser4]

right ^^where he took Patrick Brazeau ( conservative senator/ wife beater/ drug addict ) in 3 rounds for charity

I kind of doubt he had to fight anybody at the Savage Beagle but at the extremely Toney West Pointgrey academey he would have been fighting off the hot kilt wearing teen girls

That's the one. He put a pretty good hurt on Brazeau. No idea how he'd stand up in a brawl.

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JT said in some interview he has been dealing with being the PM's kid all of his life it must be kind of like being the preacher's kid only different

localy I am the local MP's sign guy ( I will put up some signs but I aint gona knock on doors) so I was talking to the MP's wife formerly the major's wife so she talked about oldest daughter going off to uni back east, kid is looking forward to not being the MP's kid or the major's kid and so if anyone asks her dad just has some kind of government job

so we might as well watch the fight eh ?

[Kenny Satch]

This one is much better. That look on his face is gold Jerry....gold.

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Arent we 2nd among g7 nations in gdp growth and inflation containment after covid? 2nd behing the US i think. The hillbillies i know talk of justins resemblance to castro and how he's a dictator etc. No mention of policies, despite supporting the cons that have policies to make their life worse. It seems similar to Joe's situation. Although i think Jagmeet's policies have helped the liberal success a fair bit during and after covid, bouying the middle class

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[Kenny Satch]

I think this article and the 1st paragraph tells what's really going on. Our Government is spending out of control with little accountability. Long term effect will cause more destitution and extreme poverty. People renewing mortgages in he next few years that have a fixed mortgage will not be able to afford them. I hope I'm very wrong.


Two statistics illustrate Canada’s disastrous economic outcomes in recent years and the bleak outlook. First, as Fraser Institute senior fellow and former Statistics Canada chief economic analyst Philip Cross observes in a recent study, Canada’s 10-year average real GDP growth per capita was its lowest since the Great Depression. And it’s not a problem we’ve imported: from the fourth quarter of 2015 to the fourth quarter of last year cumulative growth was about two per cent in Canada versus 12 per cent in the United States - Matthew Lau, a Toronto writer, is an adjunct scholar with the Fraser Institute.


It's not all bright and shiny. If you think so then you live in a bubble...boy

[grinch]

I dont think i was claiming bright and shiny and i posed it as a question but your outrage is telling.
Im sure cons trickle down economics will be bright and sunny. Tax increases for the rich/corporations are whats needed. Industries are so monopolized now. Who will tax the ultra rich?

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[BCMtnHound]

People who have mortgages they can’t afford at 5% shouldn’t have gotten the loan in the first place. When I bought in early 2008, my rate was 5.3%, I stress tested to 8%. Current rate is 2.3% and good for another 2yrs, and I will shed not a tear if I have to pay 6% for my last renewal.

Low rates just benefit spenders, savers like me suffer. I am happy with the rates going up for my short term savings deposits. Sucks if you’ve been borrowing like a fool the past 6yrs though. It does put local govt in a quandary - borrow at high rates or raise the mill rate to generate revenue to complete infrastructure upgrades.

Govt expenditure can be quick, it can be efficient, or it can be accountable. Pick two. Govt spending is designed to stimulate the economy - it should raise the GDP, not lower it. TMX has injected $35billion into the economy, mostly to Alberta companies and workers. Talk about a ‘equalization payment’ ….

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Interest rates were dbl digits for years. Id think that wage increases should soak up a fair bit of the increase in a few yrs. Housing inflation has made it hard to get into the market for a lot of young fams. The increase was needed to contain runaway inflation. Its a fine balance. If they could break up some of these monopolies itd go a long way. Groceries and vehicles(new and used) are insane. Big corps making a conscious decision not to flood the market

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[Kenny Satch]

I dont think i was claiming bright and shiny and i posed it as a question but your outrage is telling.
Im sure cons trickle down economics will be bright and sunny. Tax increases for the rich/corporations are whats needed. Industries are so monopolized now. Who will tax the ultra rich?

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I don't think the Cons would do any better. If you watch the great Canadian Tax Dodge you would be outraged as I was on how little big companies pay. Usually it's ZERO.

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I don't think the Cons would do any better. If you watch the great Canadian Tax Dodge you would be outraged as I was on how little big companies pay. Usually it's ZERO.

Ya for sure. I live in new brunswick now. Quite tge culture shock aftrer BC. Irving owns this province. Health care and infastructure in total collapse. Poor education system, very low tourism economy support. We're kentucky of the north basically. Lots of meth and very little treatment. All the while Irving refineries pay 1/5 the taxes of an average US refinery. If they paid a relative canadian rate they should be paying 10x as much. All the while our conservative wing nut premier has stockpiled a billion $ surplus. Just burying it until he can give some more corp tax breaks like a typical con/repub does. He may be the canadian king of culture wars as well. What a fkd up place. Low pay, high tax and zero social support system. Ive seen both sides of the coin up close. Im anything but con and hope that jagmeet can increase his team strength

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[Kenny Satch]

Grinch that's sucks. When so few industries control most of the wealth it breeds stagnation. I always say and said "jobs and dignity" Without the two a society suffers. When a person can't house or feed they family it's the biggest kick the gut and some never recover. Breaks my heart knowing this country has so much wealth yet each decade the people end up with less and big corporations end up wth more. I could go on but am not going to start ranting about our political system.

[riser4]

Ya for sure. I live in new brunswick now. Quite tge culture shock aftrer BC. Irving owns this province. Health care and infastructure in total collapse. Poor education system, very low tourism economy support. We're kentucky of the north basically. Lots of meth and very little treatment. All the while Irving refineries pay 1/5 the taxes of an average US refinery. If they paid a relative canadian rate they should be paying 10x as much. All the while our conservative wing nut premier has stockpiled a billion $ surplus. Just burying it until he can give some more corp tax breaks like a typical con/repub does. He may be the canadian king of culture wars as well. What a fkd up place. Low pay, high tax and zero social support system. Ive seen both sides of the coin up close. Im anything but con and hope that jagmeet can increase his team strength

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My kid had planned to stay in NB after Uni. He said no fucking way. He's not from NB. Loved UNB and Fredericton. Did not enjoy San Juan.

[bennymac]

The Irving patriarch had a clause in his will that the children needed to continue his tax dodging ways - not that they needed the motivation. Houses and companies in the Caribbean. A church on the property of their mansion so it’s a religious site etc etc.

Between them and the McCains family having more money than the province there’s no hope a politician could get elected with any mandate to tax them any more.

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Its a shame. Its not a bad place otherwise and some good people. It could be so much more. There's not a lot happening

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[riser4]

Its a shame. Its not a bad place otherwise and some good people. It could be so much more. There's not a lot happening

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A nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there...

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Ya pretty much. No one can pay more than Irving seems like an unwritten rule and he pays less than other provinces for similar work. Then deduct the obscene amount of taxes of your cheque along with your shopping taxes on overpriced goods because they need to be trucked in from montreal and weeeehaw let the good times roll. I cant believe everyone doesnt move west. BC is the best for so many reasons

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[Kenny Satch]

BC has it all. Waking up and seeing mountains or the ocean is like medicine for the soul. I would love to spend winters there mostly for skiing. Never fished there and it's on my wish list$

My short stay in Banff wasn't half bad albeit it was spring to fall. Almost every morning I'd drive up Mount Norquay and park along one of the stone walls. I would sit on said wall and light up a pinner while watching the sun illuminate the town. Hang out for a while and sometimes an hour just taking it in knowing this wasn't going to last. Going to work was a breeze as I never felt tired regardless of some nights not sleeping at all. It was like my batteries got a full charge. How I miss that. It was the closest I got to experiencing a Zen like state of mind for an extended period of time.

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I consider banff/canmore part of BC. I miss living there too. Our place we had in the old notorious motel (pinewoods) was a double attached motel rooms so we had 2 bathrooms and one motel room had a kitchenette. The kitchenette became our living room/kitchen. One bathroom that didnt work i built a platformjust above the vanity encompassing the entire bathroom. The platform fit a queen size mattress. The backroom i built 2 walls making it 2 bedrooms. I had one room , buddy and gf had the other and a nother buddy had the converted bathroom. It made our $350 rent 87.50 each. That didnt take a lot of work to pay that. Good times in the mountains. That stone wall above the green spot was the center of our focus. We "had" so many great trails around there

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[ex-powderbroker]

Do you guys have Casse Croute in New Brunswick?

I think I'm travelling through the Havelock border crossing exclusively from now on to hit this: https://www.lefatshack.com/

Never have so many Harley guys been right about anything!

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Do you guys have Casse Croute in New Brunswick?

I think I'm travelling through the Havelock border crossing exclusively from now on to hit this: https://www.lefatshack.com/

Never have so many Harley guys been right about anything!

Looks like theres one in duguayville. Thats one thing i really liked about quebec. The rest areas were clean and had different locally owned food trucks as opposed to ontario that had fast food restaurants like tims , wendys, mc d's etc. I have no experience with the casse croute chain though. I hadnt heard of them. The definition of that term suggests local operated food truck though. NB doesnt have a ton of rest areas. Truck stops are gas station rest areas. Highways arent that busy. BC should follow the quebec thing. Lots of widespot/rest areas that could use food trucks and the added revenue that would bring to have running water washrooms

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[riser4]

I don't to wash, I want to urinate and defecate. Where's the room for that? Flush toilet are always nice.

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For years i used the mega gatorade bottle p jug and morning coffee shop dump after joe along w day old restock. No problem here

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[Ted Striker]

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Haaa, is that a trucker bomb or did someone drop a full bottle of apple juice?

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