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Bubble has not popped.

When people are handing the house keys back to bank and saying fuck it, then you will know it has popped.

A good indication of that is when you start seeing for sale signs popping up everywhere and those signs stay there.

Seen it before elsewhere. Canada has done an amazing job with smoke and mirrors to keep the bubble inflated but Canadians have run out of money to prop it up.

When it pops, the government will have already run through all the ink in the money printing machines to do anything about it. Rough times ahead. Hopefully it doesn't come to that, but it seems the writing is on the wall.

Remember this expert said it was transiatory inflation. Nothing to be worried about. 3.5 bump later and likely more to come.

No idea how he gets to keep his job. I would be sent out the fucking door if I got something so wrong.

Not sure how to feel about this story. A relief for the family, but yeah, depending on what his status is when found maybe he didn't want to be found?

It's trying hard to be a feel good news story, but doesn't give any info on his status. If he was homeless and suffering from mental illness in the states, then of course it would be a good ending.

However, if he left to completely cut ties with family for whatever reason, then it certainly wouldn't be a good news story for him.

They will be reunited, wonder if that will be the case or if he will disappear again before that can happen.

Oh no!!!

Anyway.

I think a lot of Canadians would be on board (except those elected). Would be awesome to see more people getting on board with this and suggest it while there is a call out for listening from customers of airlines. To be fair, our government play the fool constantly with this. They can borrow the EU standards for airlines and apply them here or take portions of it and apply it. They really are acting like airlines are a square wheel when other countries have the circle.

The first time I experienced an airline lying was around 2000. Halifax to Toronto, with a stop over in Montreal. Flight was delayed due to bad weather in Montreal, and you could assume it might be because it was march. However, when they kept extending the delay, I decided to use a payphone to call my friend in Montreal. He said the weather was sunny and clear, no sign of snow. After a few more hours, I said f it. I'm just going to drive. A few other passengers heard my change of plans while I was on the payphone, and asked dif they paid for gas if they could join.

Car full, we took turns doing the drive, getting to Toronto without a single snowfall encountered.

The airline eventually cancelled the flight, and tried their hardest to deny refunds saying it was due to bad weather in Montreal. I pushed for a refund but it was a pain in the ass and involved writing to them saying I drove instead and weather wasn't an issue.

What always pissed me off the most about it was there was an elderly woman who was counting on that flight to celebrate her 90th(?) Birthday with her twin sister in Hamilton the following day.

Airlines in Canada have been fucking us passengers around for far too long.

Edit: I wonder how more efficient they would be if the government sent them a bill for having to process a legitimate complaint, that was deemed valid and the airline had to pay back the passenger. Something like a contingency fee but directed at the airline for each valid complaint/resolution.

As much as I would like any of this to change their behaviour, the fact is that when they lose money the government will top them up each and every time, using our money.

Sadly true.

Seems like a lot of the daily recycling items get put into shipping containers and offloaded to some other countries that don't have the same environmental laws. Just another process that is all smoke and mirrors.

It's actually in the membership agreement. If you refuse to show, they can ban you. However, the fact you would have a Costco membership indicates that you signed an agreement that allows them to have you show the receipt.

In my experiences, it has always been something flagged by the receipt checker at Costco confirming that I got something I paid for and had to collect for the secure area, or provided to me at check out like movie tickets.

I feel bad for any displaced Ukrainians who bought the lines that Canada would welcome them and be their home away from home.

There was never any infrastructure or policies put in place to facilitate the costs associated with providing housing, food, living affordability.

It's one thing to use smoke and mirrors against Canadians. It's another thing entirely shameful to virtue signal to the world we will take the refugees and treat them well, all the while knowing once they get here, they are fucked. Not all but many of them. It's embarrassing as a Canadian. The federal government should be doing much much more, and do better for incoming Ukrainians as a whole.

I'm don't want to be that Debbie Downer, but this shit isn't getting solved any time soon. Even if more housing was built, the levels of immigration being thrown into the mix skews the numbers of available affordable housing.

There are many things that all levels of government could look at for examples outside of Canada, that could help fix the issues but they have 0 incentive to do anything.

I hate saying it, but if I were young, I would be doing whatever I could to get a work permit in a different country that understands how important housing is and start a life there.

Ever seen people going through security at an airport?

People are fucking dumb.

And she didn't. And mostly men around america make it a massive political issue. I'm not condoning the length of time it took her to decide.

But I'm also not conding your response saying she had x amount of time, avoiding my inquiry about the ability to not be a good parent. What's worse? A small amount of time for a fetus, or a lifetime when the kid boils to death in the car cause mommy wanted to go shopping?

Quit wishing misery on birthed children all in the name of a life. It doesn't work that way.

If it was her body her choice, and she had education about it, or possibly free access to birth control, this might not have been a story. Sadly, it seems America is walking backwards with women's reproductive rights.

I'm not going to get worked up about a woman aborting her fetus for whatever reason. Make all other options more attainable and then it's a conversation to have, but not really. If I found out my wife would have a higher than average statistical chance of dying while giving birth, she could make her choice. My preference would be, let's just try for another and hope it doesn't put her life at more risk.

This isn't the case here, but how about we throw pitchforks at the penis that impregnated this young woman? It does take 2.