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That must make Putin so sad, he was trying so hard.

Maybe they're just getting people to pre pay for their own detention/deportation.

⅔ of their plan sounds excellent, but any plan where "the" makes up a third of the words is missing some real substance.

This is so stupid. Regardless of whether you're for or against oil exports in general, Prince Rupert doesn't make sense for tankers. It would be like building a depot for semi tankers at the end of a long winding road through a remote park when you have a perfectly good depot at the end of a freeway an insignificant distance away.

No they're too big, instantly doubling the population wouldn't go well. At most a Euro style partnership if a few more western states broke off.

Exactly, this isn't helping the lowest paid workers anyways as tipped workers are inherently making above minimum wage (except possibly in Quebec). Why should for example a construction labourer making $25/hr pay more in taxes than a server bringing in $100/day in tips (~$30/hr)? If we really want to help the lowest wage workers (and to a lesser extent, all working class) the personal exemption should be much closer to the annual income from full-time minimum wage work.

To me the Bay kinda feels like a spread out Winners but with way more clearance signs and a perfume section you have to walk through to exit the mall.

Anecdotally it doesn't seem to be a significant drop, at least not everywhere. The ferries to Vancouver Island were crammed full of Americans on their memorial weekend.

If you were paying the average rent on a studio of $1456 (from CMHC, Oct 2024) and your landlord increased rent in January by the legal maximum of 3% you'd be spending an extra $524.16 in 2025 right there. And with this wage increase only coming into effect in June that $900 is only an extra $525 for 2025. Enjoy that extra 7¢/month, best of luck finding something you can actually buy with that. Are 5¢ candies still a thing?

Did some quick and rough math: assuming they had 2000 stores (tried to average out the years I had data for) and that they only overcharged by $1.50, they would've made $500 million by each store selling just 22 loaves per day. And that's not considering the fact they also sold their bread wholesale to restaurants (and I'm pretty sure other non-loblaws owned stores).

I don't mean to discredit the point you were trying to make, but isn't £80-100 worth almost double $80-100? A 1L carton at my local store is about $3 or £1.60 (equivalent of £1.80 for 2 pints). Seems pretty similar.

I don't know how it was in the rest of Canada, but in BC it won't make a huge difference either way. People in Vancouver and Victoria probably are slightly worse off, people everywhere else are probably saving money now. Last year my family netted maybe $3-400 from the rebate, but only because it was based on income data from the previous year when we both didn't work as much as usual (parental leave). If it wasn't removed this year, it would've cost us at least $200 (more if the rate went up as it was scheduled to).

That was all based on just gas for commuting to work for ease of math. I also didn't factor in natural gas heating as being a renter in a shared house I'm not sure exactly how much the tax contributed there.