If they won’t listen to you, they sure as hell won’t listen to me.

I considered not telling you this is not an article about Canada Post. :)

Well, our country’s spending money on AI so…

It’s more like neither progressivism nor socialism likes me. You’re just redefining what the classes are. You’ll still be on the bottom either way.

You say he isn’t pro worker until I show he is, then you hand wave and say its all performance so doesn’t count.

Nationalization in and of itself is not pro-worker. Paying people properly, with proper benefits and protections, is pro-worker. We have no evidence the federal NDP under Lewis would do that. We have plenty of evidence that the Manitoba and BC NDP did not do that. The Alberta NDP wasn’t long enough in power to count, nor was the Rae NDP not to mention being 30 years ago. How much is the UK paying its steelworkers with the company it nationalized? How does that compare to the private sector in the UK? That’s what determines how pro-worker it is.

As for saying saying to another company is better than nationalization, I would say that really depends on a lot of things. We just sold to these guys and they turned out to be anti trust.

And yet the guys who sold Stelco to these guys were not, and the guys who run Algoma Steel are not. This guy’s an asshole, I agree. This guy also signed a contract. We agree what he’s doing should hurt him. Where we disagree is what hurting him should look like.

Or, alternatively, you’ve scheduled an appointment with your doctor and he said he can see you in two weeks. Hopefully it doesn’t get worse before then. And if you don’t have a doctor, sucks to be you I guess.

If you’re not dying in the next 2 hours, don’t go to the ER. And even if you are that’s not a guarantee. I’m sorry that this part doesn’t matter what side of the border you’re on.

You just described Canada today. My mother’s immune system is compromised. She needs one. She also has private insurance. That’s still not guaranteed.

We fired Trudeau. Now if someone could just do that with Ford and the PC’s, since this province refuses to vote NDP and the OLP are a joke.

AFAIK, variable interest rate mortgages only require payment increases if rates rise high enough to no longer cover interest payments.

You’re close. You’re thinking Fixed-Rate variable. And the flip side of that is if you hit your trigger rate and your payments increase, they won’t decrease again until you renew. So when interest rates go up, you’re watching the BoC to see by how much and then doing the math - either that, or you’re surprised when your mortgage payment increases. But when interest rates go down, you’re basically on a fixed mortgage.

The other one is Adjustable-Rate variable, and that one follows the interest rate up and down more closely. BoC raises, your payments rise. BoC drops, your payments drop.

Neither is long-term better than a fixed mortgage, which is why that’s what 60-70% of mortgages in Canada are.

Yes, I read that. And I pointed to a few things (trust me, there’s a laundry list of them) we could be doing before we reach that point.

Also, I feel it necessary to point out that there are a lot more billionaires in California alone than all of Canada, nevermind the rest of the US. Taxing your rich would have a whole lot more of an effect than taxing ours.

Did the BoC governor also say “the only tool the BoC has is a hammer”?

No, that was me. And it was a fact, not a criticism. The only thing the BoC can do is tweak the interest rate. You want more than that, that’s gonna have to come from the other BoC governor. You know, the one we elected.

Like I said, I admire your optimism.

And signing a 5-year fixed is almost always a good idea. Remember when Tif said rates would be low for a long time? I’d have absolutely signed fixed then. The odds are greater my financial situation improves in 5 years than in 1. I like knowing what I’ll be paying in October of next year. Variable means I don’t even know what I’m paying in January of next year.

I mean, Lewis would nationalize Canadian Tire if he could. That’s what activists do. They perform. And Lewis is performing. “capitalism is the problem,” he says, while wildly benefiting from capitalism.

Nationalizing Stelco wouldn’t save jobs any more than forcing Cleveland Cliffs to sell the company to a responsible owner would. What nationalizing Stelco would absolutely do is make it a political football. Of course Lewis wants to nationalize Stelco. He’ll never have to deal with the consequences. Activists don’t get elected.

Obligatory reminder that the EU has private health care and is not the USA.

I don’t think his high school education is the problem. I’ve known some pretty smart people who only had a high school education.

Now, I’ll point you to where the problem is. He says he wants to run the government like a business. Okay, valid. Now look at how he ran the last business he owned.

I experience less time waiting at a walk-in clinic than I do at the ER. But only because the walk-in clinic eventually closes.

I won’t go to a hospital unless I’m literally dying. Because unless you’re literally dying, every hospital I’ve been to as a patient makes you wait at least 6 hours. Fortunately I was personally very rarely a patient there, but being there for 6 hours while the person you’re with is trying to keep themselves upright isn’t fun either.

We could probably also get the money by:

• Demanding the feds pay what they used to pay (50% of funding for this stuff used to come from the feds unti lthe 90’s)

• Not wasting the money on stupid shit, like a highway we don’t need, a tunnel we don’t need under an existing highway, or cancelling contracts early and resulting in penalties… just to name a few.

Not buying a private jet for the Premier probably wouldn’t hurt either.

Well, that’ll accomplish things for sure. No guarantees they’ll be things you want, but like I said… you’re gonna do what you’re gonna do. It’s a free country.

You’re not doing nothing, though. You’re making your own life better, which is the only thing you can control. Otherwise what you’re actually doing is making your arm tired for no damn good reason.