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If so, may the best team win @Squeak

Those many voters willing to vote against their own/their countries best interests, because they don't like the puppet that's the face of the sitting minority (requiring consensus from other parties to actually do anything) government is the pinnacle of short sighted stupidity. Party policy, action and history is far, FAR more important than whichever schmo happens to be in the face of a party at the time. And let's not try to pretend that PP is any better of an option, as sick of the current liberal puppet as any of us may be, even if that (party leadership) criteria meant as much as you seem to think it does (it doesn't). You're willing to vote for just as big/bigger of a jag off, with far more damaging policy, to get rid of a different, less damaging jag off. To be frank, that's completely asinine "logic". Like getting bent over in a prison shower and asking the next guy in line if he could please use even less lube. Both are beholden to their corporate overlords. The Liberals at least give us pleebs back some crumbs of our tax dollars in to social safety nets for our poorest, and aren't hell bent on deregulating and privatizing everything while ignoring the real and vast economic issues caused by climate change. Nevermind these archaic human rights nonsense.

Axe the tax!

Everything? No, that would be stupid. Just like it's stupid when the right blames Trudeau for everything right now. Do the Conservatives cause more problems for average and lower income Canadians when they're in power? Absolutely. Every time they're in power, there's a steady erosion of social safety nets, military spending, and we lose another Canadian resource to foreigners to "balance" the budget. Add in a touch of trickle down economic nonsense, a pinch of climate change denial, and a dash of religious based attacks on women's/gay/trans (human) rights and there will be plenty to complain about. No idea how people vote for that.

Yeah, they're all some level/version of bad with their varying good/bad points. So maybe "same" isn't the right word. Let's go with "equivalently bad in differing ways".

Or just switch providers. They're all the same anyway

We'd like to activate Raanta, Lyubushkin and Maroon from IR Colorado Playoff Roster: Robertson, Zibanejad, Guentzel Bennett, Pavelski, Nichushkin Moore, Cirelli, Jarvis Lomberg, Domi, Maroon Glendening Orlov, McAvoy Miller, Pesce Cole, Carrier DeHaan, Raddysh Talbot, Raanta Black Aces: F- Comtois, Bains, Mclaughlin, Karlsson D- Lyubushkin, Hirose, Scanlin, Seeley G- Jones, DiPietro

I'm just as/more worried about what the Cons will self off/privatize next to "balance the budget". We've already lost PetroCan, the Wheat Board, privatized medical creeping in... EVERY time they're in power it's just a steady erosion of Canadian assets to foreign interests and degraded social safety nets. How does anyone vote for that?

Strangely I got the exact same cricket impressions when I asked for specific examples of how "far left" the Liberals have gone. It's all anger/fear fed vaporware. Yup, wife and I are also paying about $5-$10 less per phone with about 10X the data vs a few years ago. Anecdotally it sure seems like more value/$. Though I wouldn't complain about more competition there either. I'm sure @Miss Korea could probably also find some hard data on wireless costs over the last ~5 years as well

The biggest reasons for housing prices is municipal zoning, NIMBY'ism and foreign/investment companies buying up housing stock (and developers happy to see increasing profit margins). A side of not building public housing for ~30 years (multiple liberal and con governments and also the responsibility of the provinces) and *poof* out of control housing. Cheap interest rates made it "affordable" for more people to be in the market, but the prices and the conditions for those prices have been coming for a LONNNNNNG time before Jr won any elections and most of which have little to nothing to do with federal jurisdiction.

Hot take: Parksville is overrated. A couple FANTASTIC beaches and then it's just (sub)urban sprawl, a complete void of any culture, almost no good restaurants and old people (largely of the white, wealthy, me-first variety).

I have the next best thing to acreage, never to be developed green space behind me Otherwise get along fine with my two elderly neighbours on either side.

Yup. How is the league doing financially? Because that's all that matters to Gary keeping his job.

First in line for your flogging Bob?

All the people that kept trying to trade him the last couple years should be publicly flogged at the Roger Nielsen statue. You know who you are...

Anecdotally, there's a TONNE of new listings on the market in my neck of the woods. Something like a 300 listing jump in just Nanaimo, in just this past month. I know there's still a LOT more people than homes, but that availability is at least a partly positive sign in our otherwise bleak housing market. May even create a small bit of pressure on prices.

Our system is GREAT with critical care for the most part. I had similar experiences with both cancer 15+ years ago and premature twins. Triage exists for a reason. Yeah it sucks when you need stitches in a finger or something and they're treating people with heart attacks, cancer and premature twins first and you're left waiting hours but that's how the system works. It's not first come, first serve. Does the system have flaws? Abso-f'ing-lutely. Not the least of which is people overcrowding it unnecessarily with crap like the common cold. As @Alflives would say, rest and fluids you moran.

And there's a lot that aren't exempt. Again, People should be allowed to use their own, personal, individual vacation properties as they see fit. A property that they plan to live in part of the year is not going to increase long term rental stock.

I wonder if Tofino is going to regret that decision once the tourism dollars dry up a bunch due to a lack of short term rentals to bring in, you know... tourists? It's also a whopping two communities in the province. They aren't the two only places people vacation in BC.

It is. I still have issues with their heavy handed rules on many people's vacation properties. If I've worked hard and managed to buy a vacation property somewhere, that I plan to use/live in part of the year, I should be able to rent out that property when I'm not using it. It was never going to be long term rental property. By all means regulations against (frequently foreign) investment groups buying up swaths of properties is a MAJOR issue that needed to be tackled. But exemptions should be made for individual owners IMO. It may yet also restrict the money a lot of smaller "vacation" towns rely on as well. People will have less options to stay in those towns now. That means less money coming to those communities.

Most of those problems also aren't made better by a Con government either. Air quality improvements from the axe the tax crowd? Better healthcare access through privatization, I guess maybe for the wealthy?

I've got a "garden claw" that's great for loosening them out of the gravel, but it's still a fair bit of work picking them all up, knocking the gravel off the roots etc. And no tool is designed to get them from growing between patio bricks. It's just too small of a space for tools.

Trying not to use chemicals even "just" vinegar, as they have their own issues (especially to nearby plants/lawn). Our lot is also in riparian area. Everything I'm seeing is that steam (penetrates) works far better than fire (surface). Nevermind the fire risks, especially with our low snow pack this year (it's going to get DRY). But Google seems to largely be giving me search results for discontinued products, stuff from Australia, or commercial stuff that apparently starts at $18k