Also, they assume that employers will be happy to reduce the hours worked while keeping the same wages. That'd be wonderful but unrealistic.

It does, however it goes up in smoke sometimes as well.

Why are you complaining? They are building much needed housing in Canada, aren't they?? /s

Call it a plan, call it common sense, I don't care as long as it's actually being done. So far, there have been lots of talks about this emergency but no real action on the housing front.

Checking - Tangerine

Savings - Tangerine or EQbank

Credit cards - Tangerine, Brim, Amex

Investing - Questrade

I also use a credit union's services for all the same services.

I've mostly kept with free online or cheap accounts. Was with a big bank before but didn't like the fees, and generally big banks have old and clunky web interfaces.

I do feel like managing this many accounts is a pain, and sometimes I do think about a one big bank solution. But, I can't justify the fees.

No way he waits another year without a trophy, aging to 31, just for a free move to United to have a chance to win something. And Tottenham letting him go for free??

At least with Bayern, that's a free league cup and competition in Champions league.

I'm sure there's quite a few politicians that are "concerned" about this situation...

Either I'm reading more about shootings and killings or it seems like violence has significantly increased post COVID. Sounds like we'll be breaking records by the end of the year at this pace.

"But, I hate the federal interference into my affairs and so do other premiers. Can that jerk in Ottawa stop interfering?"

Fucking comical...

Let's be real, BoC has OCD and wants to bring to a nice round number of 5%.

It's gonna be hard for him to come down from that 350k/week salary, so maybe he's gonna go to Saudi Arabia like others have?

I don't think I've ever seen rumors of other clubs wanting him while he was at United. So not sure if there is a line at all.

I've heard about this before, this is unbelivebly uncompetitive! Sounds like something the Consumer Affairs should look at.

Can't build wealth when half or more of the income goes towards rent or that 6% 1million mortgage.

Wealth disparity increasing, cost of housing increasing, GDP/capita decreasing, productivity decreasing. This is not the "The Great Reset" that I was envisioning after COVID19. I was dubious of course, but I really thought there's a chance of more progressive policies. But instead we just have the feds subsidizing electric vehicles tech.

From the report:

"There are currently more than 1.25 million potential homes in Ontario’s municipal development pipeline, slightly the Province’s target of building 1.5 million homes by 2031. However, the CMHC estimates an additional 1.85 million units (2022) would be needed in Ontario beyond what is already being built or in the pipeline to restore housing affordability."

Happy to see the community of those concerned growing. Also surprised to see Remax support the 15-min city, that's suspicious of them, but nonetheless good to see.

Sounds like you need to write for The Beaverton.

There was plenty of money invested into wars and oil extraction. C'mon!

Anybody excited about the new simulator?

Gotta say that when Mike says modern UI, I'm not that impressed. Feels like us electrical guys always get some of the worst CAD/sim UI designs compared to mech, civil etc. With few exceptions like Altium which imo has a great modern UI.

The federal government manded in their recent budget that banks do whatever they can to keep people from defaulting.

Feels like there's a lot of stations that are sad and in need of repair. Even downtown there's stations missing tiles, construction areas that have been sitting for a while. TTC in general is struggling.

Even the "nice" stations have windows that look like they haven't been washed in years...

I want what they're smoking

Well, more like "guys, we need to increase taxes to make this work" and "we can't promise things will be like in the good old days".

We need more blunt honesty from our elected leaders. There's too much pampering and excessive optimism about how easy is to fix things.

"Deep state"??... must we copy every aspect of American culture, even their conspiracy theories?

Always boggles my mind how these people have the time to be crazy. Don't they have jobs to go to? How do they pay for groceries and stuff?

I fully agree with you and it's encouraging to see things like "Alberta Is calling" campaign. But, I wish the federal goverment would be more involved in spreading the immigrants around our vast land. It feels like all they do is set targets and "job done"...

I'd bet on US having a much more robust and faster recovery than Canada. Their unemployment while slowly increasing, historically is still very low, and I'd guess if you're in a specialized field immigration to US as a Canadian would be easy. I'm personally contemplating it.

And with bommers retiring I think the labour shortages will be with us for a while.

Land ain't cheap where most of the immigrants end up going. Canada still offers a better quality of life but that will dimminish over time if housing issue is not addressed.

Shocked Pikachu... Tiff is out there trying to cause a recession and unemployment meanwhile Freeland is boasting about the strong GDP and employment numbers. Makes me wonder if the "soft landing" they've been talking about is a multi-year process. Imagine a 3-4% inflation economy for the next 2-3 years.

The sheep must be from Boston

Woah, cherry season already, I'm gonna need to get some. What tech books are you reading?

The highlight of the weekend was having a Timmies Iced Capp for the first time in 5 years. Looking forward to another one in 5 years lol

Boring weekend other than that. Being a couch potato is good sometimes, helps avoid the bad quality air out there...

I remember how outraged some 905 people were about the idea of DVP and Gardiner becoming toll roads. I hope Olivia is brave enough to make it so if Doug doesn't play nice.

What's more concerning is that the goverment fails to realize that expensive housing is killing the economy.

Forget about the fact a huge chunk of money is going into an unproductive asset. Young people and immigrants who can't afford housing are gonna start looking elsewhere (US for example).

Who's gonna pay taxes to sustain the older folks in their empty million dollars SFH??

So what now? Does Justin asking a new rapporteur or does he cave and we get the public inquiry? Feels like he has exhausted all his options and there's nothing else left.

Sometimes showing up is half the battle. But a blank or spoiled ballot is still a form of a vote, a protest vote but still a vote.

I have no idea how make voters more informed however. Maybe they'll start paying more attention now that everything is going to shit? Outrage is a good motivator.

We do have more serious candidates this election cycle. In the last election Tory winning was a given so perhaps it wasn't as interesting or entertaining news. I still feel like there's going to be a low turn out vote 😔

There should be a tax credit if you vote. Too many people dismiss the importance of local elections.

They look like legit reddit posts too. Makes me all confused and then spend too much of my attention span on them.

Meanwhile the federal government is worried about population demographics and spurring immigration in response.

A nice game of tug of war. Inflation will be with us for a while...