I like the idea that politicians are held to a higher standard, but I can’t imagine it would be easy to enforce. If it was a financial penalty, it would encourage corruption. If the penalty was an exclusion from running in the next election, the group that makes that determination could be weaponized. It would be difficult to structure.
Modern heat pumps work down to -30C, at which point the furnace supplements with electric heat which is built into the unit.
My electricity costs dropped 50% over my builder-grade piece-of-shit electric furnace & AC unit – and I even increased from a 2 ton to a 2.5 ton system. The initial cost was about $12k, and it will take 8 to 10 years to break even, less if the cost electricity keeps increasing the way it has over the last 10 years.
Also, you may not want A/C now, but you will shortly – heat waves are getting more severe each year.
Heh… I like the idea of a ‘blue line’ ‘centre ice’ party… Every Canuck should know what it means, and it’s a nod to our Hockey heritage, but I can totally see it getting mixed up with the nazi police ‘thin blue line’ bullshit.
Then what’s the spin you want to hear from a politician that would make you vote for them? (That is, spin that isn’t full of racism and rhetoric about the other side.)
I think it’s a false division, which is stoked by far-right leaning politicians. I’d like to believe that even people who lean right politically are still for functioning public education and health care. The issue is that people aren’t doing as well as they remember doing 20 years ago for a variety of very solvable issues.
Nope, there’s a mad rush to get as many cargo ships through as possible before the Seaway freezes in January. The timing is perfect.
I clearly need to get better weed then… I don’t see, feel, hear, taste, or smell anything that’s not there when I’ve had some gummies. All I get it a good night’s sleep.
Par for the fucking course. Remember how his crackhead brother cost Toronto nearly $100M in cancellation fees, wasted work, and then probably hundreds of millions more in lost productivity by writing a one page memo on mayoral letterhead cancelling Transit City?
It infuriates me that people think conservatives are good with money. They burn through hundreds of millions in utter and complete bullshit while championing ‘efficiencies’ and burning the system down from the inside.
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Its advantage, strictly speaking, is that it is not correlated very much with stocks, bonds, real estate and other things people owe.
Not that the bot made a mistake, but this is wrong…
Gold drops like a rock when markets take a shit. It usually bounces back quickly – often before stocks recover, giving you a chance to buy cheap on the dip, and sell at a profit three months later, and pick up some of the stocks that haven’t recovered yet… But it VERY MUCH moves in sync with the market during times of crisis.
Tax the fuck out of these ghouls.
He wasn’t afraid of fucking around in downtown Ottawa for 3 weeks… but the finding out… THAT part he’s afraid of.
Can we just sentence him to get a university-level education? It will effectively keep him out of society for the rest of his life.
So… 175,000 square kilometers of Canada was on fire this summer… Eclipsing all recorded records… Most of it in the west… And they’re STILL pushing to extract more oil & gas.
I’d ask how fucking stupid they are, but I’m pretty sure this summarizes it sufficiently…
Voter suppression is why the turnout was so low. For WEEKS prior to the election, all you saw in newspapers, TV, and internet was how dominating DoFo’s lead was.
A HELoC doesn’t have strict repayment terms, and usually has a capped borrowing limit. My original mortgage was $200k. I paid it down to $100k over 10 years. I switched to a HELoC (the rate was about the same) and ended up with a $100k line of credit. I paid it down some more, and then received an inheritance, wiping out the balance completely. I lived mortgage free for a few months, then borrowed to invest in my non-registered savings, writing off the interest expense.
Go check AirBnB for your nearest large city. Every one of those could be a home for someone.
Let me throw this out… My GF’s aunts and uncles want to have a “first time” party where they all try pot for the first time. I’ve made cookies and brownies in the past, with varying degrees of success, I guess depending on the quality of the effective ingredients.
Do you have any tips on what products would best be used for cooking/baking edibles like cookies or brownies? We’re just looking to have a laugh, get the munchies, and fall asleep. :)
We upgraded our furnace ahead of schedule because we kept having problems with the A/C. Our heating/cooling costs dropped by 55% over the following year. Moving the heat around is 4x more efficient than resistive heating.
If your mortgage balance is low, it might make more sense to switch the whole thing to a HELoC. I switched when my mortgage fell below 50% of my original balance. It worked out for me because interest rates were low, and when I was down to about 30% of my original mortgage amount, I received an inheritance that mostly wiped it out, leaving me with a super-cheap line of credit that I used to borrow against so that I could invest.
The very definition of genocide.
You’d think that Israelis would be more self-aware, but there’s plenty of videos of them cheering the seige of Gaza and the bombing of children. I don’t want to paint them all with the same brush, but there’s a metric fuckload of people in those crowds.