His future replacement stood with some during that convoy, so things aren’t looking great for the future of the country, lol

Between Math, English, and an Accounting elective I took, I think I learned at least as much as most students will be learning with this.

English teaches you to read the contracts…with a deep reading. It teaches you to infer the intentions of the writer based on the word they use. It generally teaches you to look at multiple sources, or at the same source from multiple perspectives, too. Don’t sign anything you haven’t made an effort to read.

Even Grade 9 math makes you over qualified to calculate the vast majority of what you’d need in most of your life. After Grade 9, you’re just getting more experience turning situations into math and practicing how to solve different problems with different tools. A Statistics module would help frame a lot of the more “complex” problems we see in our daily lives…but we already have the math skills to solve most of them by Grade 9.

They’ve been putting the tools we need into our toolboxes for at least decades by now. I don’t blame the education system for people who miss basic mathematical/reading principles (unless they’re really old or something).

• Credit card debt and the cardholder agreements
• Getting screwed by banks (except where banks do weird things like messing with transaction orders)
• Interest rates and financing things, especially choosing a low monthly rate and thinking you’re saving money rather than paying upfront
• Gambling

It’d be nice if this class would help students get out of those kinds of problems. Unless it’s a damn good curriculum though, I think it’ll end up like English and Math…kids don’t pay attention because they don’t know how to use the skills they’re being taught. (Which is a problem itself, but I don’t think a new class is necessarily the answer)

I hate this practice. I also hate them sending out 3D printed versions of the Flipp app flyers.

Whenever I see a flyer highlighting savings and obscuring the actual price, I close the flyer and start looking at another store for whatever I need.

Ah, that’s fair. I didn’t consider assisted living!

I don’t get what the point is except for investors.

People using it as a “retirement holdings” might try to sell and then find they can’t afford to live anywhere in retirement.

People saving property to leave an inheritance have kids waiting for their parents to die so they can afford a home to own.

I’m is glad minimum wage has gone up 32% since then too! /s

Is drunk driving really the issue that needs to be tackled at the expense of other driving issues?

How about more enforcement of distracted driving?

How about just watching any major intersection (undercover) and seeing how many drivers run a red light while tailgating the person in front of them because they want to be the last one to get the advanced left turn?

Or doing the same and watching how many drivers are making rights on red unsafely by looking left while making a right turn in front of pedestrians?

If this catches people drunk driving or the campaign itself reduces accidents, that’s great. But this is something that will “punish” all drivers (due to being held up longer), rather than something that will just punish the law-breakers.

Ads are convincing people to buy something they hadn’t considered.

If I’m making a recommendation, it’s because I’m sharing it with people who are either asking for a solution, or have the same problem I solved with the product. And not because I own a bunch of their data and inferred what “solutions” I could sell them.

There’s a big difference that the thought hadn’t ever crossed my mind.

Made us the most locked down place in the Western world during the pandemic, illegally cut nurse wages during the pandemic, paying nursing agencies 3x what nurses actually cost to no benefit of anyone except the agencies, and made us pay for attack ads against the federal government for not closing the border during the pandemic (when the only reason it was open is because Ford wanted more international students during the pandemic).

It’s embarrassing that we re-elected them. You’re preaching to the choir here.

$320,000 is the legal fees. The post/article mentions the damages they’re seeking too, which is $200,000,000.

I didn’t read the article though, so I don’t know if they are/n’t getting it (or if it hasn’t been decided yet).

Is it just the legal fees being paid? Or is it $80/person for the damages?

Good that they’re getting compensation, but shitty that Ford cancelled this in the first place.

Ontario seems to like shooting itself in the foot.

Has the Beaverton written their “Ontario to count tents as housing towards reaching targets” article yet?

I like this mouse. Got used to the form factor pretty quickly, and it’s a lot more comfortable for extended use!

Ontario: Open for Business*

• Excluding small businesses during covid. Large corporations only!

I’m pretty sure Ontario’s budget won’t fix anything that’ll benefit the average person in Ontario.

It won’t even fix the financial situation in the province.

People talk about the housing crisis, not the rooming crisis. As well, aren’t shared homes under different laws already? So all of those room renting examples aren’t in the same boat as homes.

I know that in Ontario, we count LTC beds as homes…but we can be a little bit more honest here.

If people are buying properties to hold them vacant for 5-10 years, then we have other problems. And like I said, we could tax that vacant home. And if it’s a big enough problem, we could pull in all that tax money and use it to build more housing.

And I know that some people buy housing to rent it out, but some people buy housing to live in. And some of those people are buying brand new houses or condos…to live in. So there’s still a market for buying new housing, and even if we can’t build it with tax dollars, there would be someone who’d be interested in building units to sell to that market, even if it’s not all investors.

If people aren’t going to lease, won’t they sell anything they’re not living in?

They’d either rent it out, sell, or sit on an empty home.

If they’d be content sitting on an empty home, then we just need to tax empty homes. (Which would be great for those landlords who have 20 “homes” in their townhouse for international students…)

Actually, if no one is leasing, maybe that could be the ticket we need to give us the “housing bubble burst” people have been hoping for for decades. Everyone sells their extra homes simultaneously… sounds great! Lol

To be long enough to offer stability, contract length should be up to the tenant, extendable by the tenant as many times and for as long as they should want.

Stability should be for the tenant, not for the landlord.