I mean, did any of those dealers manage those sorts of sales in any month?

I don’t know that much about dealerships, but I find it hard to believe that any but the exceedingly most exceptional manage four digit sales in an entire month in general, let alone in three days for a single brand that’s been hemorrhaging popularity over the last two years or so.

It sucks that grocery stores make these labels based on where the company that sells these products come from. I mean, CocaCola and Red Bull both have a maple leaf tag at my usual grocery store because they have subsidiaries that are Canada based, though I last I heard the syrup as well as the bottles come from the US for Coke, and is only bottled in Canada.

At the very least, outside of the produce isle, it is pretty easy to buy mostly local. We produce so much base foodstuffs that a general guideline will mostly work. Anything that’s grains, fruits, meats, and diary are probably Canadian, aside from tropical fruit at least. Nuts are hit or miss, but a lot of them come from California. Unfortunately a lot of rice is also from California. Oranges are almost all from Florida, so the first thing most people should do is cut oranges from their diets, preferably permanently and find a new favourite fruit like blueberries or apples.

The unfortunate truth though when it comes to groceries, is that it’s nearly impossible to give at least a little bit to the US with your purchases. Less than a half dozen companies own more than 80% of the products stocked at most grocery stores in Canada, all of which I believe are American. The maple leaf tag just means that there is a Canadian company in between the owners and the product.

While true, I think if the population they derive their income from isn’t merely of that of their riding, but the average of their region instead (entire city/province, not just the riding), then it will seriously minimize the impact.

But even without that, this would strengthen the vote of low income areas as there will be less competition, making those that represent high income areas worth less since they tend to be outnumbered by low income areas. You either get a high wage, or have an easier time not only getting voted in, but having more peers representing people in similar situations.

Still think spreading the average is better, but overall I think it can work better than it currently is either way.

The best first step I think is to get a virtual drone simulator. There are free ones online that will give you a taste of how it’s like to fly drones and will let you get a taste of what it’s like. This alone will take you a long way towards being able to use them practically at virtually zero cost, or maybe at most the cost of purchasing a controller to more closely simulate a drone’s controller.

Just look up FPV simulator, racer, or anything similar. There are free ones even on Steam.

There’s no way that guy’s got that sort of self control…or long term memory.

If you live in Alberta, sure. But I think the rest of Canada is out of luck despite the damage she’s doing to the entire country.

Maybe as a rent-to-own scheme, but frankly it’s not the heat pump that’s expensive, it’s installing it that is. Especially if it has a ground loop rather than an air transfer.

Exactly. His excuses are weak and easily disproven for why he won’t get clearance, so it’s more looking like he has something to hide, like maybe he won’t clear the required background check.

Besides, becoming a PM means you automatically get clearance without a background check (Carney didn’t need to, but getting a background check was just being cheeky, and frankly fun), so trying to get the job entirely goes against his own words.

As much as I wish she’d be investigated for treason, I don’t think there’s even a snowball’s chance she’d get a conviction. Instead, I hope she’d get a proper investigation on corruption. There’s plenty of evidence of that already, and tons of it is hard written into the policies she’s tried to put into law.

This guy needs to shut up and just do the electricity surcharge he threatened to do weeks ago but became too spineless to actually implement. Hell, if he does that, I’ll personally go and cheer for him, despite being a Ford hater for the better part of two decades.

Put his words into actions for once and stop being such a traitorous wuss.

This is by far the most important thing to remember. Don’t forget to vote. Hell, since you’re reading this, you’ve probably already decided who you’re voting for (Not PP, but for the only guy who stands a chance to beating him). Go vote early so you don’t forget. Or register for mail-in votes.

And don’t forget to encourage those you know to vote. Hell, go together to vote as a group. The more people vote, the more likely PP will lose, because almost all the seats he has a decent chance of winning come from the rural prairies, and they live so far apart, it’s impossible for them to coordinate in person.

I wonder if there’s a way for many of these auto factories to pivot towards a different product. For example, getting a license to produce parts for Leopard 2s or something. Some parts of the EU are already doing that, especially Germany.

The entire auto sector has been stagnating and parts of it has been shrinking lately, so the best way to save the jobs in the industry is for the factories to pivot to a different product within a similar industry, something the government can invest in that they themselves will know how much demand there will be, since basically all of Canada’s tanks and IFVs are so out of date and unmaintained that we have to replace them all in the next decade or two anyways.

I’ve heard that one of the reasons airBNB was successful wasn’t due to costs (outside of the initial burst) but because the sheer lack of hotels in many major cities. I do know that there is almost no hotels in downtown Toronto despite the sheer number of convention centres and tourist attractions. No way a tourist or business person is going to book a hotel on the edge of the city when everything they’re doing is in the downtown area.

This is another area that the NIMBYs have been screwing over people and certain groups have been discreetly taking advantage of people.

Either way, both problems would be solved quite easily if supply was simply greater. Hotels shouldn’t be blocked from being built where they’re needed the most, nor should any group have the power to block housing development unless if it’s actually unsafe to do so for some reason. This is why it’s actually cheaper to buy a house in downtown Tokyo than it is within 100km of Toronto. And I’m talking about a detached house in Tokyo, not a condo.

Another part for really hoping that the government won’t let this chance go, since the US automakers are already isolated only selling domestically built vehicles in the US, further isolating them by making them impossible to import into Canada would help crush their industries while Canada’s becomes more internationally competitive by adopting EU regulations.

Hell, since EU regulations are tighter than US regulations, we’ll still meet US regulations for the most part, so once the changeover is done, we can still sell over there while they can’t sell over here after the tariff situation is over. A flat-out win-win for Canada and lose-lose for the US.

If the government is going to get more involved, they should build more, not force owners to fix their prices in a volatile economy.

Instead, the rent should be managed by the markets, which will be beneficial to all renters if government built supply can beat the demand. We shouldn’t stop building until we reach such a point.

Honestly, EU regulations for vehicles are far safer for all involved. Adopting them in whole, even if it’ll take time to implement them, would help greatly as well as opening new markets. Not to mention it’ll block American cars from our market without having to rely on tariffs in the future.

This is exactly the perfect time to implement such regulations, and I hope the government will introduce laws about it once the election is over.

It’s probably not an issue of balls, but that her supporters just don’t pay attention. The same happened in Ontario. When reporters interviewed Ford supporters during the election, they just said “he seems to have done well enough” despite all the lawsuits and fraud and other serious issues that his opposition kept yelling about.

This is nothing new. Charities and related tax write-offs are one of the favoured techniques of the rich to avoid paying their taxes for over a thousand years. The fact that such an obvious and well used loop-hole hasn’t been closed is simply proof that those with the power to close such loop-holes have zero intent in doing so because they are likely personally benefiting from them.

A collective problem that crosses all levels of government and for every side, not an issue of any specific government.

“Offensive and false” when we have a publicly available recording of her doing exactly that on her province’s dime while representing her province in a field she has nothing to do with. Premiers hold zero power outside of their provinces, and anything related to international relations is the responsibility of the federal government, not the provincial one.

She not only overstepped her bounds going to the US, did it on her people’s tax dollars, only to do an act of both treason and election interference on the meantime. This, along with the countless illegal and corrupt activities she’s been inacting within her own province, she should be investigated by the RCMP and CSIS and be crushed under the full weight of the book.