Optimist Prime

Before my time but I presume Punch Imlach?

yeah this is a huge difference. 1 in 5 people over a ten year period was the original claim... 20% would be captured by the increase over 10 years...safe to assume roughly 2% a year then... ...and NOW they walk that very small annual number back to an even smaller un-specified number, likely in the 0.1% range as I tried to point out when this particular argument was raging here at the time of the increase. Frankly, if you are in the 0.1% of Canadians who will be captured by this new capital gains tax 'bracket' then congrats, You are already filthy stinking rich and won't miss the 180 thousand it will cost you on your 3.5million dollar sale. What a joke all the poorish people (relative to a person making 3.5milliion in a given year in capital gains) supporting Pierre Poilievre over this schooled and well acted outrage are. "i might sell something one day for 3.5 million, and by god when I do, i am dead against another 180k in taxes...." says every Rage Farmer believer in Canada. Good luck with that unless of course you are in the 0.1% bracket, in which case, congrats, you are good, you won life. Take er easy and relax.

Whoaaa!!!

Win da turd! Let's GO!

Been playing real good so far, imo, we got this!

Whew, I couldn't log in for the longest time! Go Dakota Joshua!!!!

FIRE IT UP!!! 2 hour warning... WOOOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo!

More long winded and irrelevant info perhaps, but not more honest. I am honest in all my dealings. Good day.

To be perfectly honest, I have voted for the BCUP's when they were BC Libs, the provincial green party, the provincial NDP, federal Conservatives when they were the PC party, and the federal Greens before they had a seat, and the federal Liberal Party. I might actually vote for the federal NDP in my new riding in the next few elections, a distinct possibility. (edit: almost forgot the conservative Social Credit party in BC was one of my first ever votes) However as far as PP is concerned, he will never have my vote. His candidate won't win in my riding anyways, but what is on offer in the current federal Conservative Party does not interest me as a veteran, as a guy from a farming and logging family, as a college educated white man, as a disabled canadian or as a retired dude. I tick a lot of boxes, and in running down the chart of what Peter Poutine offers, and what his party offers Canada, I find it sadly lacking in details and high on abuse of powers, low on helping the most in need among us and high on giving to the richest 1% of Canada. In short there is nothing there to vote for when it comes to the career politician and rage farmer Pierre Poilievre. You are correct.

Wait a tick: the guy who is brilliant campaign strategy is to say over and over these past few weeks that he has no problem using the Notwithstanding Clause as Prime Minister to get around our civil and human rights ...and some of you think Gay marriage and Abortion rights are safe in his party's hands? With him at the helm?> and Religious whackos in his cabinet??????? I was born on a tuesday, but it wasn't last tuesday, NO WAY am i voting for a guy who is openly saying he will curtail our rights with the notwithstanding clause anytime he feels like it.

Just no where else to put this, but I wanted to share as I am uber-proud of our Canadian Royal Military College team this year as they have captured FIRST PLACE in the "international team' division at SANDHURST Military Skills Competition, and 2nd place overall among 45 teams and 15 nations!!! After the cool intro video you can jump to the 10 minute mark to see "the most lethal squad award" ~ Canada Next up in this long video is at the 24 minute mark, where you will see the "International Trophy" award to first place from any nation not called the USA. ~Canada Finally you can jump to 35:30 to see them get their 2nd overall awards, losing only to the USM Academy, from what I can tell only due to the USMA folks winning the top physical fitness award. It must have been close! GO CANADA!!!!! Truth Duty Valour

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/violent-anti-gender-threats-to-continue-over-coming-year-canadas-spy-agency-warns/article_30ef3600-0ca2-11ef-aa0e-97f166354079.html?source=newsletter&utm_source=ts_nl&utm_medium=email&utm_email=82ACB64E8561B014C56542FC0E36A695&utm_campaign=frst_213430 Violent ‘anti-gender’ threats to continue over coming year, Canada’s spy agency warns Canada’s intelligence agency predicts violence fuelled by “anti-gender” ideology is expected to continue over the next year, potentially driven by recent attacks and religion-motivated extremism.

Found your pump song...used to play it on my college radio show in teh before time at UVIC's CFUV Radio. hahaha

I am so glad we got the weinermobile as a like button out of the whole Kessel affair. lol.

and they should. I was involved in removing some foreign bad actors from prostests around the first ROTO going to afghanistan, at a prostest in Sherbrook Quebec, a hand full of them were similarly self sufficient financially, from unknown sources to us at the time, and not from here, or planning on staying here, just in town long enough to stir up a few hundred protestors and burn some things. Unfortunately this columbia middle aged rich dad isn't a new story to me. Seen it myself a handful of times and heard about it dozens of times. That is why I am skeptical of any large scale protest where generally newer adults and the naive are showing up in droves to support something that on the surface sounds worth supporting, till you dig deeper. ANyways..i am rambling now. Night all. Didn't mean to stumble back in here.

You wanna know what is weird? The guy who started out leading the protest against the Logging near Fairy Lake by a First Nation group and their partners ignited a huge protest with dozens arrested over the last couple years, and cost the Nation a lot of money in policing, protecting their loggers and in costly delays.... that asshole is an american middle aged son of a logging empire billionaire south of the BC border. Go figure eh? Follow the money indeed.

It was pointed out to me after I posted this that the phase 1 shuffle is only for the purposes of the draft lotto tomorrow... above my pay grade, but yeah, I think only 2 winners, and they cant move up more than ten spots.

Off topic, do you gave Swedish Flower Chickens?

Don't elect CON MEN to lead the country and we should steer clear of that tarpit. https://breachmedia.ca/pierre-poilievre-conservatives-stack-council-corporate-lobbyists/ this article adds some insight into why the CONs are voting against todays pharmacare bill. Canadians supporting CON MEN against their own best interests always confuses me.

lol, enjoy listening to the rhetoric of the boy who would be king then. I got nothin for ya.

I do have some insight into the negotiations going on between the government and some pharma companies: the idea of a federal payer is that we would then as a nation be buying in bulk and that will reduce the costs of every medication that would fall under the National Pharmacare Plan... We are still about 4 to 6 years away from being able to scale and add more things to the basket because those negotiations and also existing contracts need to run their course. I have spoken directly to two health ministers about this over the last 4 or 5 years, so while I may be behind in the info for 2024, I am rather up to date on it up to 2023, when i last had a beer with a Minister.

heres hoping they can walk talk and chew gum all at the same time..why not do both? edit: of course health care is a provincial matter when the feds want to do something to enhance it and i guess it is a Trudeau matter when its considered borked. lol

2.5 dozen eggs at costco are 13 bucks, it is hard for any ma and pa farmer to sell a dozen eggs for more than 5 or 6 bucks because the average consumer wants the cheapest egg not the best treated chickens local free range non gmo egg. That has nothing to do with trudeau though. My family has two farms, one on either side of a river, three blocks from where I retired to. My sister asks for 7 bucks a dozen and sells out in an hour, but she only sells maybe 5 dozen a week when she has extras and none in the summer when she is feeding full hay crews. I have mental health issues and simply prefer costco eggs to fresh from teh chickenbutt eggs. I can't explain it, it just is what it is in my mind, even though my conscious self is aware how ridiculous it is. I suspect a lot of folks are like that. We just built a coop, fenced in a run and then reinforced it with half inch wire mesh throughout in February for our first try with chickens. I don't want them and will be rid of them in an hour if my wife loses interest or leaves. hahaha... but her wish was to have 8 chickens as pets. We are into "fortress chickenburgh" for 5 thousand dollars now, complete with all the chickens and equipment to feed/water/heat. I will continue to eat costco eggs though cuz I am nuts.